Even the British are becoming more reasonable in their estimates of Russian casualties in the Russo-Ukraine War.

neolib · 2024-09-20T15:18:23+00:00

Because you like it? Not every dead person is mentioned on social networks, besides there are dead people whose bodies weren't retrieved, those are also not counted here.

neolib · 2024-09-20T14:58:54+00:00

That's number of dead with known names, i.e. absolutely minimal number ("but the actual number is believed to be considerably higher. Some families do not share details of their relatives’ deaths publicly - and our analysis does not include names we were unable to check, or the deaths of militia in Russian-occupied Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.")

And "Western media is starting to acknowledge" is bullshit: BBC Russian service and Mediazona are calculating this number for 2 years.

neolib · 2024-09-19T14:29:39+00:00

cc /u/YoMamma

neolib · 2024-09-18T02:06:40+00:00

https://saidit.net/s/all/new/ is all posts, https://saidit.net/new is posts from subs you subscribed to or default ones (not sure).

neolib · 2024-09-18T01:57:53+00:00

I see it now, there's a small delay while slow saidit server processes things.

neolib · 2024-09-18T01:51:43+00:00

I can propose to post things like this to my /s/diary/ sub

A chronicle of the daily lives of saiditors

neolib · 2024-09-16T21:39:51+00:00

Btw did you see these articles on possible Trump's adultery with Loomer?

https://saidit.net/s/whatever/comments/ejgd/it_looks_like_trump_and_laura_loomer_are_a_couple/16skc

neolib · 2024-09-16T21:23:53+00:00

Trump visited a Trump Organization property on 428 (nearly one in three) of the 1,461 days of his presidency and is estimated to have played 261 rounds of golf, one every 5.6 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_golf

neolib · 2024-09-16T02:03:22+00:00

The Guardian's liveblog:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/sep/15/donald-trump-shooting-florida-golf-course

neolib · 2024-09-15T20:08:26+00:00

Updated title:

Trump rushed to safety as Secret Service opens fire on man with AK-47 near golf course

neolib · 2024-09-15T18:21:21+00:00

That's magnora7's problems :)

neolib · 2024-09-15T18:00:23+00:00

The world’s oldest Jewish newspaper, the Jewish Chronicle, has removed a series of sensational articles relating to the Gaza war after claims that the material was fabricated by a “freelance journalist” who had also misrepresented his résumé.

...

The Perry affair comes on top of growing disquiet over the paper’s recent direction. In February, the Sunday Times Whitehall editor, Gabriel Pogrund, aired his misgivings about the paper on social media, including over its murky ownership arrangements that have puzzled observers.

“The coarseness and aggression of the JC’s current leadership is such a pity and does such a disservice to our community,” wrote Pogrund. “It also once again poses the question: who owns it!? How is it that British Jews don’t know who owns ‘their’ paper. Moreover, how can a paper not disclose its ownership? It’s an oxymoron. I hate having to pose the question publicly but I asked privately more than a year ago to no avail.”

cc /u/YoMamma

neolib · 2024-09-15T17:15:42+00:00

See also:

'Where’s Melania?' There's speculation Trump and Loomer are 'cozying up at Mar-a-Lago'

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-loomer/

Laura Loomer and Trump Sitting in a Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G

The far-right provocateur and the former president are spending quite a bit of...together time. Where's Melania?

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/is-trump-having-an-affair-with-laura-loomer-the-far-right-extremist-21281352

neolib · 2024-09-15T15:27:47+00:00

That's a bot account with a predefined set of phrases to post.

neolib · 2024-09-13T16:50:28+00:00

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Caleb_Maupin

neolib · 2024-09-13T16:48:42+00:00

This really makes sense:

Dr Saul Newman at the University of Oxford bagged the demography prize for showing that many claims of people living extraordinarily long lives come from places with short life spans, no birth certificates, and where clerical errors and pension fraud abound. “Extreme old age records are a statistical basket case,” he said. “From the level of individual cases, up to broad population patterns, virtually none of our old-age data makes sense.”

neolib · 2024-09-12T13:21:06+00:00

This is all chat/dm-related drama.

Edward is the guy with a lot of accounts, currently /u/partjd

neolib · 2024-09-11T21:15:48+00:00

“treason” = "transferring 5,000 rubles (€50) to a Ukrainian blogger" in this case

neolib · 2024-09-11T15:31:40+00:00

Swift said in a post on Instagram to her more than 283 million followers

neolib · 2024-09-11T11:19:23+00:00

https://x.com/Stever1552Steve/status/1833556084159909989

His other photos are also good.

neolib · 2024-09-11T09:44:49+00:00

Yeah, looks like this post was deleted after all:

by [deleted]

[deleted]

neolib · 2024-09-10T14:55:44+00:00

Source: https://x.com/AdrienneLaF/status/1833130369945641467

/r/conspiracy/ discussions:

1) https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1fd08h4/symbolism_in_the_atlantics_october_cover/

2) https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1fd6le4/is_the_atlantic_endorsing_trump/

neolib · 2024-09-10T13:27:12+00:00

cc /u/YoMamma

neolib · 2024-09-07T20:30:49+00:00

News story: https://saidit.net/s/WorldNews/comments/ef89/aysenur_ezgi_eygi_an_americanturkish_activist_has/

neolib · 2024-09-07T02:32:43+00:00

Well, it's easy to check - "1,893 users here" right now in /r/funny/ (friday evening in U.S. though?)

neolib · 2024-09-07T02:26:06+00:00

Those "subscriber" numbers for default subreddits are quite inflated - every alt account and bot which was created is counted among them.

neolib · 2024-09-06T20:20:15+00:00

Updated title:

Telegram changes its tone on moderating private chats after CEO’s arrest

neolib · 2024-09-06T01:24:40+00:00

I asked Llama 3.1 70B:

In a Christian worldview who created hell?

In a Christian worldview, hell is often seen as a place of eternal punishment for those who reject God's love and salvation. According to Christian theology, hell was not created by God as a place of punishment, but rather it is a natural consequence of sin and rebellion against God.

The Bible teaches that God is a holy and just God who cannot tolerate sin in His presence. When humanity rebelled against God through sin, it created a separation between God and humanity. Hell is seen as the ultimate expression of this separation, where those who reject God's love and salvation are separated from Him for eternity.

In this sense, hell is not something that God created as a place of punishment, but rather it is a consequence of humanity's choice to reject God. The Bible says, "God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him" (John 3:17). However, those who reject God's offer of salvation through Jesus Christ will ultimately face the consequences of their choice, which is separation from God in hell.

It's worth noting that the concept of hell is not fully developed in the Bible, and different Christian traditions have varying understandings of what hell is and who is sent there. However, the general idea is that hell is a place of eternal separation from God, and it is a consequence of humanity's sin and rebellion against Him.

(I used this term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_worldview)

neolib · 2024-09-04T17:56:49+00:00

Georgia school shooting leaves at least 4 dead and close to 30 others injured: report

https://nypost.com/2024/09/04/us-news/multiple-victims-hospitalized-after-georgia-school-shooting/

neolib · 2024-09-04T17:46:23+00:00

From the article:

It's prompted Brussels to send a second payment request and it's set the stage for an impending head-on clash if Hungary doesn't pay up by the final deadline on 17 September.

If that happens the European Commission, which is compelled to ensure member states abide by ECJ rulings, will launch the so-called "offsetting procedure." It will then deduct the €200 million from Hungary's allocated share of the EU budget, parts of which remain frozen over the country's decline in its observance of the rule-of-law.

neolib · 2024-09-03T16:37:00+00:00

Totally not unhinged: https://tennesseestar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/HALE_octogon-shape-TNS_IMG_003_1000x667.webp

neolib · 2024-09-03T12:33:47+00:00

Regional elections:

Alternative for Germany, or AfD, became the first far-right party to win a state election in post-World War II Germany in Thuringia on Sunday under one of its hardest-right figures, Björn Höcke. In neighboring Saxony, it finished only just behind the mainstream center-right Christian Democratic Union, which leads the national opposition.

https://apnews.com/article/germany-elections-thuringia-saxony-afd-scholz-53cd18674858225d28a55f5fd0e2e211 (link from video description)

neolib · 2024-09-02T17:04:21+00:00

In a proportional system "victory" means they got more votes than other parties, but in this case still less than 50% (33%), so they won't rule without coalition with some other party/parties.

Also to be clear this is regional election in Thuringia (population 2m), which interestingly was a part of Soviet-controlled German Democratic Republic before 1990:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuringia

neolib · 2024-09-01T18:29:55+00:00

"Bangladesh disappeared" = "Bangladesh [men who had allegedly been] disappeared":

They were men who had allegedly been “disappeared” under the increasingly autocratic rule of Sheikh Hasina - largely critics of the government who were there one day, and gone the next.

neolib · 2024-09-01T16:16:19+00:00

They are trying to capture our attention?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy

Though, to be fair, the article says:

Local doctors told Reuters that they have seen 130 suspected mpox cases in the last four weeks, the vast majority in children and teenagers

The headline appears to be not very precise then - "130 cases, vast majority in children and teenagers" not the same as "130 children".

neolib · 2024-09-01T14:52:23+00:00

Opinion

Robert Reich

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His newest book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist.

neolib · 2024-09-01T12:22:44+00:00

cc /u/carn0ld03 in case you want to mirror this in /s/Death/

neolib · 2024-09-01T09:39:52+00:00

One of articles with this illustration: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/new-mpox-strain-infects-at-least-130-children-drc-goma/

Jean Kakuru Biyambo, 48, a father of six from the Muja internally displaced persons camp, at the Goma general hospital where he is being treated for mpox CREDIT: Arlette Bashizi/REUTERS

neolib · 2024-08-31T14:17:46+00:00

France 24 story:

Brazil blocks social media platform X after Supreme Court ruling on disinformation

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20240831-brazil-block-on-social-media-platform-x-comes-into-effect-after-supreme-court-order

neolib · 2024-08-30T04:30:13+00:00

The Guardian story:

‘World’s largest’ piracy ring Fmovies shut down by police in Vietnam

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/29/fmovies-shut-down

neolib · 2024-08-30T03:48:18+00:00

advertisers were refusing to buy adds because of that sub

Looking at recent Musk's troubles with advertisers for X/Twitter that looks plausible, actually.

If it is true why did the advertisers do that instead of making a simpler demand like "keep the adds off that sub and that sub off the front page"?

Who knows? I went looking at which entity owned reddit at the time and found an interesting thing (via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities ):

On September 6, 2011, Reddit became operationally independent of Condé Nast, operating as a separate subsidiary of its parent company, Advance Publications.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160722135119/http://www.redditblog.com/2011/09/independence.html

Reddit shuts down r/jailbait

Posted on Oct 10, 2011

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/reddit-r-jailbait-shutdown-controversy/

Can these two events be connected somehow?

neolib · 2024-08-30T03:09:09+00:00

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