Canada has good universities, and you won’t end up in a concentration camp.

Yair Golan, a left-wing politician and former deputy commander of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), sparked outrage on Monday when he said: "Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country.

“A sane state does not wage war against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not set itself the goal of depopulating the population,” he told Israeli public radio’s popular morning news programme.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back, describing the comments as “blood libel”.

Fuck Netanyahu and his cynical exploitation of “antisemitism” accusations for his own murderous ends. The thing that made the blood libel libellous, and the accusation antisemitic, was that the people accused weren’t killing babies, and they were accused because they were Jews. It’s not blood libel to point out the fact that the IDF, under Netanyahu, kills children without a second thought every day.

Under Biden the USA wasn’t just letting the genocide happen. It was providing the weaponry to enable it. Harris didn’t distance herself from any of Biden’s policies, so both candidates were active supporters of the genocide. That’s not to say they were equally bad. The USA would still have been better off without gloves-off fascism at home and alienating all its allies through aggressive, nonsensical and incompetent foreign and economic policy.

Knowing how Israel operates, they probably just missed.

Just to be clear, this “white genocide” in South Africa is entirely fictitious. It’s not even an exaggeration of some small trend. The rate at which white people are killed in South Africa is no higher than for other population groups.

And yet, on the basis of this racist fiction, Trump’s regime is giving “asylum” to white South Africans.

I suspect Trudeau winning the handshake-wrestle is one reason Trump wants to crush Canada now.

That sounds good, but when you start thinking about how to implement this practically, it seems like it would either be unfeasible or would fail to really address the problem.

Maybe the rule would be: Unicode is allowed only in resource files. It would make code comments awkward for many non-English-speaking programmers. But suppose you did it, then since URLs can include Unicode, it would become normal to put URLs in resource files. If the VCS flagged up Unicode commits in source code, it would have to give resource files a pass. So in any case where you’re not hardcoding a URL it wouldn’t flag up Unicode URL abuses like the one illustrated here. You wouldn’t really have fixed the problem, just hidden it in a different way. You’d still need to flag up ambiguous Unicode characters in resource files.

Can’t take off either, so Poland is really doing them a favour.

https://archive.is/1VTjj

Stories of young women being taken to Al Fayed’s office circulated in the company at the time. But it was only after the billionaire’s death in 2023 at the age of 94 that the full scale of his abuse of women came to light. He is alleged to have sexually assaulted hundreds of women.

The UK is good at this. Somehow it’s impossible to investigate what everyone knows about a powerful person until just after they die, when the evidence suddenly turns up.

The masts were too tall for the bridge so it seems they didn’t intend to go towards the bridge, but the ship apparently lost power and drifted backwards under it.

And threatening to invade, crush and/or annex all your neighbours.

They don’t care.

And who suggested blaming every murder of a woman on misogyny?

Why so much fighting over a word for women being killed of misogyny? Odd thing to be defensive about. It feels like some people here think even giving women a word for being killed by misogynists is giving them too much.

It was a good newspaper once. It drifted from left to center left over the decades but I feel like it became more reactionary since the intelligence services crushed their hard drives for reporting on Edward Snowden’s leaks and Alan Rusbridger resigned as editor.

Maybe these right-wingers miss the time when they could just kidnap leftists, students, intellectuals and anyone else they didn’t like, and throw them out of a plane into the sea?

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

How very original of him.

All these far-right governments making their countries great again must be why the world feels so great right now. It’s clearly working very well indeed.

No other nation with self-respect…

As a British person, I’m unclear how your comment relates to the UK.

That’s odd. I’ve been running OpensSUSE Tumbleweed with a Ryzen 9 5950X and RTX 3080 with no issues. I don’t know what would be making yours, with similar hardware, function differently unless it’s the laptop stuff for dynamically switching between onboard graphics and the GPU.