Thanks, this is a great article. It completely tallies with my experience teaching higher ed as well.
Yes, it was quite good. They didn't really cover all his genocide crimes. I guess it would take a book.
Ugh, yours sounds even worse than ours.
We just elected a centre-right party that needed to go into coalition with our most right-wing party, who are libertarians, and our most populist party. They finally formed yesterday and now we have a government that is going to destroy the environment and decimate social services.
In our case it was a city of about 40,000 that only existed for two weeks, so it’s hard to say how it might scale
Keeping order is one thing, but police do a bunch of things no one else has time for.
Endless follow ups, liaising with social workers, taking long statements for inquests, or spending all day protecting someone's right to peacefully protest.
Maybe it's because I live in a country where the police don't carry guns (and sex work is legal), but I found it really hard to put my finger on exactly what they are advocating for here.
They seem to be saying that police only exist to enforce middle class interests? I don't think that's entirely true.
I would like to see more change in how policing is done, but the idea that communities self-police is idealistic. Sure they do in some ways, but it can be just as selective and just as damaging as anything police do.
Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and a member of its board, who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place.
I am so confused.
Yes this was pretty telling:
Instead, an individual’s economic success would be tied directly to the quality of their work and the strength of their ideas. Gesell imagined this would create a Darwinian natural selection in the economy: “Free competition would favor the efficient and lead to their increased propagation.”
I was a bit offended by tourists doing that mmhmm thing until I found out that it's considered polite in the US.
I was interpreting it as "yes I know you are thankful to me, and so you should be! By the way, I'm an oaf."
“c’est moi,” meaning, “it’s me who thanks you.”
Ah so that's what that means. I thought I was mishearing. That's pretty close to what I was brought up with, "it's my pleasure" (meaning it's me who is pleased to be helping).
The informal/vernacular in my country (NZ) is "sweet as" which puzzles most visitors, or sometimes "it's all good".
That sounds hard.
Do you meditate at all?.Sometimes it can help reset the critical inner voice.
That's so cool that you're doing NaNoWriMo! I've always felt too daunted by lack of plot. Let us know how it goes!
I thought they had already done it. I got the notification months ago.
The top result is already out. Obviously the John Oliver fans got their wish and Pūteketeke won. Thousands of them had to be disqualified for cheating, though.
We are all waiting now to see who is in second. Fingers crossed for the Fairy Tern, New Zealand's most endangered bird!
I've never used twitter in my life, still have a vague interest in what Musk is doing to it though.
Another way of looking at it is bottle openers look remarkably similar to beetle genitalia.
I think the beetles were here first.
That tracks.
Pretty sure Elon Musk railed against bots on twitter despite having been proven to have used bots on twitter to manipulate opinion himself.
Bystanders are less likely to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to women than men, particularly if the emergency takes place in a public area, according to research presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress. The study also shows that in private locations older people, especially o...
>Bystanders are less likely to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to women than men, particularly if the emergency takes place in a public area, according to research presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress. The study also shows that in private locations older people, especially older men, are less likely to receive CPR.
The researchers don't know what is causing this but it really troubles me.
I find they make it harder to read and as I'm under data restrictions it would be nice to not load them.
Sorry if this has been asked before. I know the lemmy software has a lot of limitations too so maybe this is one of them.
The Ammiq wetlands are the largest standing wetlands located in Lebanon. Now, as climate change drives blistering heatwaves, severe wildfires and droughts all around the world, these Ammiq wetlands offer a ray of hope for the preservation of bio-diversity in the area.
A large proportion of the kākāpō population have had their genomes sequenced, providing new tools to help the critically endangered bird survive.
For the first time, researchers have estimated the spotted owl population across the entire Sierra Nevada ecosystem. The analysis, which was led by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, suggests th...
Discover how RangerBot is revolutionizing coral reef protection by combating the crown-of-thorns starfish menace.
Engineers developed RangerBot, a compact autonomous underwater vehicle, to combat the coral-devouring crown-of-thorns starfish using targeted lethal injections.
The tiny insect, the scarce yellow sally, is bred in a zoo, raising hopes for saving the species.
Beth O'Sullivan combines science with design to develop fish-friendly 3D-printed materials for coral reef restoration.
Coral reefs around the world are under threat from climate change, and researchers are looking for solutions.
One such researcher is Beth O’Sullivan, an Honours student at the ANU School of Art and Design (SoAD) who is looking for an environmental-friendly solution to coral reef restoration practices which often use concrete.
Beth has researched and developed a new, environmentally friendly, low CO2 emission biomaterial that has the potential to be used as a settlement substrate for small-scale localised, reef restoration and recovery.
Australian researchers find the benefits of genetic mixing between subspecies to improve genetic health and fitness outweigh risks to the Critically Endangered Helmeted Honeyeater
A team of conservation biologists based at Monash University are collaborating with Zoos Victoria to save the Critically Endangered Helmeted Honeyeater, Lichenostomus melanops cassidix (referred to as cassidix here), from extinction. This small black-and-yellow songbird is distinguished by its characteristic ‘helmet’ of golden feathers atop its head, and is one of four living subspecies of the Yellow-Tufted Honeyeater, Lichenostomus melanops. The Helmeted Honeyeater is endemic to Victoria and was formally recognized as its official bird in 1971.
A collaborative project has created
THE SEAHORSE HOTEL — Underneath the Sydney Harbor in Sydney, Australia, a reclamation project is taking place.
Mitchell Brennan is the project manager of the Sydney Seahorse Project, a collaborative effort focused on conserving Australia's endangered White's seahorse.
"We've seen dramatic population losses, which means that we need to act now in order to help these guys persist into the future," Brennan says in this Reuters video.
I am able to subscribe and post but I can only see content I have posted, not the other users.
Gedeon Shikiro nursed his massacred community members as they died in his arms at a United Nations refugee camp in Burundi. Nearly 20 years later, he is still fighting for justice.
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Australia's Banyamulenge community has gathered in Albury-Wodonga to commemorate a 2004 massacre
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An Albury resident survived the massacre but is haunted by a lack of justice for those killed
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The wider Banyamulenge community is frustrated after a criminal investigation was suspended
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