#until the United Nations

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

Since Mary Shelburne-Grey connected the spread of the tune across the world with a satellite launched by Bolivia, her plan to put it out of service was blocked by the indecision caused by the post-hypnotic suggestion carried by the tune.

The Inspector: ‘I could authorise you to shoot it down.’

Mary: ‘You may be Supreme Minister of the World, Inspector, but you don’t have that authority until the United Nations Security Council gives you it. Our ambassador vetoed his own proposal because Russia and China indicated they thought he was wrong! We’ll never get the authorisation!’

[violottie]

Finally and we must continue demanding a permanent ceasefire, an immediate lift on the siege and a complete liberation for Palestine.

The United Nations Security Council on Monday passed a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza for the month of Ramadan, breaking a five-month impasse during which the U.S. vetoed several calls for ending the war, even as the humanitarian toll climbed higher.

"The resolution passed with 14 votes in favor. The U.S. abstained, allowing the resolution to pass. The chamber broke into applause after the vote." from The Slow Factory, 25/Mar/2024: alt text included in image

[awkward-teabag]

Love (cannot emphasis how much sarcasm there is in that word) that an official Canadian government response to high cellphone rates is to switch carriers.

Switch it to what? We basically have three companies since one was allowed to eat the forth (with the government saying it wasn't anti-competition and the company eating the other pinky promising they wouldn't jack rates up). Even the smaller companies have to rent infrastructure from the Big Three so there's only so much they can do if that rent costs an arm and a leg.

And that's not touching on how many "small companies" are actually just subsidiaries of the Big Three. You may save $5 but you're still with Telus/Rogers/Bell.

Or that the actual small companies tend to have shit coverage because they don't have the infrastructure available to them and are prevented from getting it. Or their traffic is throttled in favour of the Big Three's customers. Or both.

Or that they're extremely regional thus aren't an option for a huge chunk of Canada's population.

We have no true options and the government has shown time and again that they're fine with monopolies, in multiple industries, and don't care when said monopolies jack up prices to make shareholders and the c-suite more money at the expense of everyone else. At most there will be a verbal slap on the wrist and a giftcard for $25 that people have to register for, for a decade and a half of price gouging.

It's not talked a whole lot about outside the country from what I've seen and heard but Canada is a country of monopolies. A handful of companies own nearly everything, every province has a family or two that owns a hell of a lot (Nova Scotia is basically owned by one family at this point), and our government ignores it. Even the branch that is supposed to be against monopolies is fine with mergers and takeovers in most cases.

Because, you know, the company said it totally wouldn't use consumers' lack of options to increase prices.

[wannabeyakuza]

So.....Devyat Rodya huh? Before I say anything else I gotta say that death 2 line is genuinely the most harrowing and unironically disturbing thing in this game, the 100 percent honest fear and panic in Rodya's voice is enough to make me never wanna stack courier trunks ever. Out of all the death lines in game this is the realest reaction to getting pasted so far.

As for the ID story I definitely am placing this ID at the number 2 spot for saddest Rodya ID with the obvious number 1 being T-corp, not alot of her lines show it(obviously) but she's clearly very afraid of Polu and it's history doesn't help much being essentially a bad omen case. Stack on top of that no pun intended, that the Devyat basically have her walking through the arctic with a time limit? Wallahi she is not having a good time. Free her man.

The ID itself? It's something alright, making a unit so heavily reliant on the chain battle system this early is certainly a choice but she applies good rupture count and her damage whens she's not running away is nice. In the future when chain battles are more frequent and more devyat units drop she'll probably be better but right now? Uh well uh...Sheeesh uh.... Anyway all is forgiven it's like Kanye said "Prettiest people do the ugliest things" and right now her ugly crime is being released to early. I forgive her though. After all she can do no wrong.

[vyorei]

Ya boi has no fuckin spoons left, I'll be throwing these up in batches for the last hour as it's heavily UN-focused rn anyway

[north-wilkesboro-moonshine-cave]

I Am Once Again Begging Y'all To Be Fucking Normal About People From Other Countries

[orcelito]

1 more day here and then I'm gonna be heading back up to my apartment for the first time in over 2 weeks. Haven't stayed there since this all began. I've grown a bit of a routine here, and I'll be right back to my apartment, but without the prior norms of it.

It's home though. It's home.

I'll have to do a ton of cleaning and rearranging tho to try to fit as much of my father's furniture within my apartment. My apartment is so small and the furnitures so many. I'm determined tho. I'm gonna fit as much as I can. Took measurements today even of all the things I wanna take, so I can puzzle it out as I go.

I. Also. Need to bring June to the vet. Bc she's got worms. Lol. Lmao even. I am trying to not think about it rn.

[arcmonkeys]

OH IT'S SO OVER FOR ME .... got a bird book with recorded bird calls ... i'm not passing this semester

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

nah but listen.

i love ashnard.

THIS is what makes him such a great villain.

no excuses. no bullshit. no sad backstory.

sometimes it’s nice to have an antagonist who isn’t evil, but nowadays it’s so rare. sometimes it’s nice to have a true villain who doesn’t want to be pitied or seen as a “hero”, and won’t mince words when he’s confronted about his actions.

[primordialcore]

they made unlocking kultiran and zandalari easier but this still sucks, bruh

[eatember]

This is how it felt when I found out y'all have medical rights. I still want to leave the country over that.

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

[reasonsforhope]

No paywall version here.

"Two and a half years ago, when I was asked to help write the most authoritative report on climate change in the United States, I hesitated...

In the end, I said yes, but reluctantly. Frankly, I was sick of admonishing people about how bad things could get. Scientists have raised the alarm over and over again, and still the temperature rises. Extreme events like heat waves, floods and droughts are becoming more severe and frequent, exactly as we predicted they would. We were proved right. It didn’t seem to matter.

Our report, which was released on Tuesday, contains more dire warnings. There are plenty of new reasons for despair. Thanks to recent scientific advances, we can now link climate change to specific extreme weather disasters, and we have a better understanding of how the feedback loops in the climate system can make warming even worse. We can also now more confidently forecast catastrophic outcomes if global emissions continue on their current trajectory.

But to me, the most surprising new finding in the Fifth National Climate Assessment is this: There has been genuine progress, too.

I’m used to mind-boggling numbers, and there are many of them in this report. Human beings have put about 1.6 trillion tons of carbon in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution — more than the weight of every living thing on Earth combined. But as we wrote the report, I learned other, even more mind-boggling numbers. In the last decade, the cost of wind energy has declined by 70 percent and solar has declined 90 percent. Renewables now make up 80 percent of new electricity generation capacity. Our country’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling, even as our G.D.P. and population grow.

In the report, we were tasked with projecting future climate change. We showed what the United States would look like if the world warms by 2 degrees Celsius. It wasn’t a pretty picture: more heat waves, more uncomfortably hot nights, more downpours, more droughts. If greenhouse emissions continue to rise, we could reach that point in the next couple of decades. If they fall a little, maybe we can stave it off until the middle of the century. But our findings also offered a glimmer of hope: If emissions fall dramatically, as the report suggested they could, we may never reach 2 degrees Celsius at all.

For the first time in my career, I felt something strange: optimism.

And that simple realization was enough to convince me that releasing yet another climate report was worthwhile.

Something has changed in the United States, and not just the climate. State, local and tribal governments all around the country have begun to take action. Some politicians now actually campaign on climate change, instead of ignoring or lying about it. Congress passed federal climate legislation — something I’d long regarded as impossible — in 2022 as we turned in the first draft.

[Note: She's talking about the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Act, which despite the names were the two biggest climate packages passed in US history. And their passage in mid 2022 was a big turning point: that's when, for the first time in decades, a lot of scientists started looking at the numbers - esp the ones that would come from the IRA's funding - and said "Wait, holy shit, we have an actual chance."]

And while the report stresses the urgency of limiting warming to prevent terrible risks, it has a new message, too: We can do this. We now know how to make the dramatic emissions cuts we’d need to limit warming, and it’s very possible to do this in a way that’s sustainable, healthy and fair.

The conversation has moved on, and the role of scientists has changed. We’re not just warning of danger anymore. We’re showing the way to safety.

I was wrong about those previous reports: They did matter, after all. While climate scientists were warning the world of disaster, a small army of scientists, engineers, policymakers and others were getting to work. These first responders have helped move us toward our climate goals. Our warnings did their job.

To limit global warming, we need many more people to get on board... We need to reach those who haven’t yet been moved by our warnings. I’m not talking about the fossil fuel industry here; nor do I particularly care about winning over the small but noisy group of committed climate deniers. But I believe we can reach the many people whose eyes glaze over when they hear yet another dire warning or see another report like the one we just published.

The reason is that now, we have a better story to tell. The evidence is clear: Responding to climate change will not only create a better world for our children and grandchildren, but it will also make the world better for us right now.

Eliminating the sources of greenhouse gas emissions will make our air and water cleaner, our economy stronger and our quality of life better. It could save hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives across the country through air quality benefits alone. Using land more wisely can both limit climate change and protect biodiversity. Climate change most strongly affects communities that get a raw deal in our society: people with low incomes, people of color, children and the elderly. And climate action can be an opportunity to redress legacies of racism, neglect and injustice.

I could still tell you scary stories about a future ravaged by climate change, and they’d be true, at least on the trajectory we’re currently on. But it’s also true that we have a once-in-human-history chance not only to prevent the worst effects but also to make the world better right now. It would be a shame to squander this opportunity. So I don’t just want to talk about the problems anymore. I want to talk about the solutions. Consider this your last warning from me."

-via New York Times. Opinion essay by leading climate scientist Kate Marvel. November 18, 2023.

[madcatlon]

I wanna play Kenshi again...

[alinedreams]

Being man, being woman, I don't understand any of this, but I do understand we need to stop that separatist nonsense, realize The Big Boot is going to stomp on is all the same regardless of our theories and opinions and we need to stay united to make it so we don't get squished like bugs. This sort of gatekeepy, "suffering olympics" train of thought is never going to help. It is good to be empathetic and compassionate, but oppression is both an individual experience (for no two individuals are the same) and a collective suffering (for most of us are still oppressed in a way or another).

Trans men aren't women, they may not understand for sure female experiences, but that's because a trans man doesn't have female experiences, he has trans man experiences. He suffers from misogyny much like women do, but the brand of misogyny he gets is deeply intertwined with transphobia; it's not the exact same suffering, and trans men and women, be they cis or trans, will never get to experience the same experiences precisely due to intersectional suffering. Heck, not even cis women and trans women face the same type of oppression! Not even a white cis woman or a black cis woman, or a white cis able bodied woman or a white cis disabled woman! Or a poor cis white able bodied woman and a rich cis white able bodied woman! Or a rich cis white able bodied straight woman and a rich cis white able bodied lesbian-- Okay, I got a bit too long-winded, but I think I got my point across.

That is to say, the more you dissect the experiences of those who aren't privileged, the more you realize no one experiences life the same; and the closer to "rich cis white able bodied neurotypical straight man from a developed country" (and etc etc etc that I may have forgotten) the person gets, the least they'll relate to the experiences of people who get more and more diverse (and oppressed) as the intersections intertwine.

And, in the end, once we dissect enough, we realize that, at the core, no one is truly 100% privileged (even more so because, mind you, people AGE and ageism towards the elderly IS A DAMN THING) and our fight to end oppression should, maybe, focus on the fact oppression will eventually HURT EVERYONE TO AN EXTENT instead of on the minutia of the Oppression Olympics y'all keep doing, without realizing this is dividing rather than uniting us.

So, to repeat the previous poster...

WE ARE MORE ALIKE THAN WE ARE DIFFERENT.

Maybe focus on that.

i think im going to lose my fucking mind actually.

this little make believe game that yall are playing where ur all pretending that we have always been passing as cis men is honestly just really sickening to read. as if trans men have never been sexually harassed or abused because society perceives us as women. im genuinely of the opinion that u all just do not believe trans men face misogyny and thats so unbelievably fucked up and just not based in reality. its actually disgusting and vile.

[erinmcsave]

And whatis your biased list??

i mean my jerseys to get list includes Harder, jflem, kadiesha. DVD and quinny

[papasmoke]

This evening, Israeli residents set fire twice to the perimeter of the UNRWA Headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem.

This took place while UNRWA and other UN Agencies’ staff were on the compound.

While there were no casualties among our staff, the fire caused extensive damage to the outdoor areas. The UNRWA headquarters has on its grounds a petrol and diesel station for the Agency’s fleet of cars.

Our director with the help of other staff had to put out the fire themselves as it took the Israeli fire extinguishers and police a while before they turned up.

A crowd accompanied by armed men were witnessed outside the compound chanting “Burn down the United Nations” (see video below 👇 from Israeli media).

This is an outrageous development. Once again, the lives of UN staff were at a serious risk.

In light of this second appalling incident in less than a week, I have taken the decision to close down our coumpound until proper security is restored.

Over the past two months, Israeli extremists have been staging protests outside the UNRWA compound in Jerusalem, called by an elected member of the Jerusalem municipality.

This week, the protest became violent when demonstrators threw stones at UN staff and at the buildings of the compound.

Over the past months, UN staff have regularly been subjected to harassment and intimidation. Our compound has been seriously vandalized and damaged.

On several occasions, Israeli extremists threatened our staff with guns.

It is the responsibility of the State of Israel as an occupying power to ensure that United Nations personnel and facilities are protected at all times.

UN staff, premises and operations should be protected at all times in line with international law.

I call on all those who have influence to put an end to these attacks and hold all those responsible accountable.

The perpetrators of these attacks must be investigated and those responsible must be held accountable.

Anything less will set a new dangerous standard.

-Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of UNRWA