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"I could not lead a happy, peaceful life when the working population was so terribly enslaved." - Alexandra Kollontai
unfortunately a lot of the corny self help advice turns out to be true but the thing is you have to come to those conclusions yourself otherwise it just sounds dismissive and dumb
🇵🇸 🚨
PALESTINIAN DOCTOR AND LEGISLATOR SLAMS ISRAEL'S ONGOING GENOCIDE, SHUTS DOWN PIERCE MORGAN
📹 Footage from the appearance of Palestinian physician and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Mustafa Barghouti on Pierce Morgan Uncensored, a show aired on the British broadcaster TalkTV.
Dr. Barghouti shuts down Pierce Morgan's attempts to interrupt and disturb his responses, telling the British "journalist" to "Shut up please!"
"These are children for God's sake. I am against the killing of 30 Israeli children, which happened on the 7th of October because they are children and civilians," Dr. Barghouti says in the interview, adding "But nothing in the world could justify because of the killing of 30 children, the killing of 12'000 other Palestinian children. That is unacceptable."
"30'000 Palestinian civilians have been killed, and 72'000 people have been injured by the Israeli murderous army. This is 4.5% of the population," Barghouti says before being interrupted once again, telling Pierce Morgan, "I didn't interrupt you, so shut up and let me finish!"
"4.5% of the population of Gaza have been killed or injured. If that happened in the United States of America, you would be talking about 12 million people killed or injured in four months of time. Is that acceptable?" Dr. Barghouti asks.
"70% are civilians, more than that. Israel is killing Palestinians not only with this terrible genocide, with their bombardment, they are killing civilians with starvation, this terrible siege," adding that "50'000 pregnant women, Palestinian women, don't find a place to give birth in, 64'000 breastfeeding women cannot help their babies. And more than that, 700'000 people are now starving because Israeli is preventing milk, flour, food to the population of Gaza City and the north of Gaza, and more than that, they shoot the Palestinian hungry people when they are trying to get some food."
"They shoot them and they kill them like they did two days ago. They killed 100 people and 860 others were injured."
"So my response to you, yes, this is a genocide. These are three war crimes happening at the same time: genocide, collective punishment and ethnic cleansing at the same time. 70% of all homes were destroyed. All universities were destroyed. 30 hospitals out of 36 hospitals were destroyed. 347 of my colleagues, medical doctors and nurses were killed."
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The thing is... Israel admitted to this from the very beginning.
They said the confessions were obtained through 'interrogation' in the Shin Bet aka torture (Shin Bet is where they like to torture Palestinian prisoners for intel) so every country that cut funding to the UNRWA knew from the beginning that Israel was using false forced statements.
The famine in Gaza is partly due to this. Never forget that.
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Rich people own patents, meaning that they literally have the government destroy their competition.
This allows them to price gouge, plan obsolescence, or otherwise profit from their government enforced monopoly.
But they believe poor people should be ashamed of themselves for needing any kind of government assistance.
The patent (and IP in general) system is also just super fucked. It costs thousands of dollars to get a patent. You generally need a specialized lawyer to write the application for you. (I'm not sure how true this really is. Given the cost of the application though, I think most people don't want to fuck around and gamble on their ability to follow arcane bureaucratic rules.) Once you get a patent you have to actively search for people violating it and sue them. If you don't, it becomes invalid. (You could also license it to them. I'm not sure if that's an alternative to suing someone who already infringed your patent.) So, a patent only defends you from people who are less wealthy than you. If a wealthy company infringes your patent, you're basically out of luck because they can just stall the lawsuit until you're broke. So, it's kind of worse than you made it sound; the government will only help you if you're rich.
Also, because IP can be bought and sold, the owners usually have absolutely fuck-all to do with the invention of the thing. They usually don't give a shit about progressing technology, making new things, or helping people. It's just another kind of investment. It takes something that's intrinsically not scarce (an idea) and legislates it into being artificially scarce just for the sake of expanding the domain of capitalism.
Also also, the fuckery goes deeper with "patent trolls". These are companies that just buy patents (usually from failed startups) entirely for the right to sue people. They don't make the thing the patent describes or even develop it further. They just wait for someone to reinvent it and sue them, in the hopes they can profit from a settlement/damages. They explicitly hold back technological development.
As an engineer (ya know, someone who actually creates new technologies), I fucking hate this system so much. Not only are my creations held back from their full potential, but I don't get any sort of benefit when I make really good stuff. Like, why should my employer be the only one who's allowed to make this? Why should it be lost to humanity when their company inevitably falls apart? I would much rather see my inventions benefit as many people as possible.
If you told people a century ago that computers would talk in 2023...
they would've said: "What's a computer ?"
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Mutualistic pairs for an “Odd Couples” Valentine’s program at my work. (Why do so many of my big work projects revolve around Valentine’s programs?)
Also, by “sea bugs,” I obviously meant “gnathiid isopod larvae.”
jesus christ. fine. ill say it. im sleepy. im sleepy, okay? do you know what being sleepy does to a person? to their spirit? i should be pitied.
Eyes on Jenin and Nablus both a war zone rn
5 martyrs, again. I lost count of how many times this has happened in the past few weeks. I’m sick of this. This needs to stop ya Allah.
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🚨 The Ministry of Health confirms a fourth and fifth martyr in #Jenin.
Meanwhile, as the IOF commits a massacre in Jenin, the traitorous "Authority" of Mahmoud Abbas comes out with a statement: "Israel chose the path of escalation." The puppet Abbas also begged "America to take immediate action to put pressure on the [zionist] government."
It must be noted that the "Authority" had prior notice for this raid, like all raids, and the PA forces withdrew completely from Jenin minutes before the IOF entered.
6 martyrs