There’s no US military stationed in Taiwan. The closest US bases are in Okinawa and the Philippines.

The only “military” the US has in Taiwan are some training consultants for the taiwan army, there’s no boots on the ground.

What’s so sad about Hong Kong is I know we’re probably all going to watch this go down again in Taiwan.

There is news that’s way more well done than BBC, like the intercept, byline times, propublica etc

Decent News Service? The BBC is at best problematic.

(This literally does happen everywhere)

Some other sources covering this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2025/01/08/russian-schoolchildren-are-learning-to-fight-the-next-drone-war/

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/49543

I don’t think that’s a completely fair comparison. They are both state tools for establishing power through narratives. They are both heavily biased.

But RT is Orwellian in that it just makes shit up and has no respect for even appearing credible. While RFE/RFL tends to be biased towards publishing pro-western stories, but they don’t tend to make shit up from scratch.

Of course, who knows what the fuck is happening there right now, my analysis is pre-Trump 2024.

The United Kingdom government has just published draft legislation seeking to “reform” key disability-related aspects of its complex social security system. While the government claims its moves “will protect the most vulnerable,” in reality its plans to cut £4.5 billion in disability-linked benefits by 2030 will have a devastating impact on people’s rights.

The government’s own analysis shows that up to 800,000 people will no longer be eligible to receive PIP and that the changes could lead to 200,000 more people (50,000 of them children) in poverty by 2030. Organizations working on social security and disability rights, including Citizens Advice, the Disability Charities Consortium, and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, have warned of the poverty the cuts will create.

TIL “damn” is an insult.

I thought it was just an intensifier.

García Soto is the second mayor to be killed in Oaxaca state this year. In May, the mayor of Santiago Amoltepec was shot dead in an ambush along with two other people who were in the car with him at the time of the attack.

*she/her, the mayor was a women.

Edit: Thanks for editing your comment from using “he/him”

Me a FOSS advocate who hates the French police and army trying to choose what emotions to feel:

Luigi is white and they’re trying to send him to the gallows.

I think him being conservative is the factor here.

Although I agree if he weren’t white he would be treated way worse…

For a lot of disabled people it’s remote work or starve to death.

Pretty cool. Shame you have to use their Add and Tracker riddled app for it though.

So much respect for Pussy Riot

Me who has a disability which prevents me from speaking and hearing people and renders me bedridden.

“Okay, guess I’ll die then”

!usernamechecksout@lemmy.zip

I don’t think being poor made me more empathetic. I was always empathetic.

I was just a priviledged fuck that didnt realise how bad it could get. Now that I do, my empathy extends further because I understand how much worse it is than I previously realised.

I don’t think it made me more inherently empathetic though.

Kabul gets about 50 cm of rain a year. That’s low, but well high enough to start to apply water harvesting to collect significant amounts of sustainable drinking water.

I guess the Soviet then US infrastructural inertia doesn’t help. And I’m dubious the Taliban are much use either. Really feel bad for the people of Afghanistan they got fucked over so much.