this has haunted me more than anything I've ever read on here

!neolibs

Dipali, a Primary Teacher at Kendriya Vidyalaya, was posted in Bihar, where she repeatedly made derogatory remarks against the state and its people.

Now, she has been suspended from her job 🔥@bihar_police should also take cognizance of the matter and lodge an FIR against her. pic.twitter.com/A8vkwkpK24

— Shashank Shekhar Jha (@shashank_ssj) February 26, 2025

High key r-slurred to do this when you teach at a Kendriya Vidyalaya lmao but go off kween

I had to stay overnight at Gaya station once, worst experience of my life. My parents warned me but I thought eh its a railway station even if its bihar how bad can it be somehow in that one night it showed me how bad it could be(tho tbf at least I didn't get robbed the police didn't look like they'd have cared even if I were).

Seriously jobless journo tho. They broadcast this on TV?

Come to Kolkata after you get fired kweenie we'll go out for a coffee and bond over our shared genocidal hatred of Bihari

Barbara Dunkelman started an OnlyFans a few years ago but she's always fully-clothed and has been clear that she'll never go nude.

Today it was announced that she's on the front page of Penthouse Comics #6 - this is apparently a new Penthouse spin-off that sells in comic book shops. She's also not nude in this.

Not that it's relevant to anything but I don't care for Barbara. She got infected by the Austin woke millennial brain worm and was one of the main reasons that IMO Roosterteeth lost most of its fanbase in the late 2010s. I also don't think she's particularly talented.

The /r/roosterteeth thread is 99% "s*x work is real work" (no dissenting opinions allowed), combined with a few locked comments and a .

/u/Kindly_Wing5152 needs to stop edging and c*m. He's the stereotypical coomer - he posts in /r/PornStarHQ, /r/RWBYNSFW (@RWBY), and other anime rule 34 subs.

Another coomer unironically says that he reads Playboy for the articles:

I'd love to see the deleted comment at the bottom - the jannies did the classic "remove the comment, lock the chain but leave all of the replies up":

These comments might as well be ChatGPT.

!nooticers 6 million

GENEVA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - More than six million people could die from HIV and AIDS in the next four years if U.S. President Donald Trump's administration pulls its global funding for programmes, the United Nations AIDS agency said on Friday.

Although a waiver was placed on HIV/AIDS programmes in last month's U.S. foreign aid funding freeze, many concerns remained about the future of treatment programmes, the deputy executive director of UNAIDS told reporters in Geneva.

"There is a lot of confusion especially on the community level, how the waiver will be implemented. We're seeing a lot of disruption of delivery of treatment services", Christine Stegling said.

Trump put hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of foreign aid donations on hold for 90 days upon taking office on January 20. In the following days, the U.S. State Department issued a waiver on the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) - the world's leading HIV initiative - for life-saving humanitarian assistance.

While welcoming the waiver, Stegling stressed the situation remains chaotic.

Amid a broader decline of funding, Stegling warned there would be a 400% increase in AIDS deaths if PEPFAR financial support is not re-authorized between 2025 and 2029.

"That's 6.3 million people, 6.3 million AIDS-related deaths that will occur in future...Any penny, any cut, any pause, will matter for all of us" she said, urging U.N. member states to step in.

"In Ethiopia, we have 5,000 public health worker contracts that are funded by U.S. assistance. And all of these have been terminated," Stegling said.

She highlighted that community clinics were facing the biggest interruption as they are "entirely dependent" on U.S. government funding.

She expressed concern that some people may not come forward for treatment, which could in turn increase new HIV infections.

U.S. donations account for the majority of global funding for the U.N. programme that operates in 70 countries, leading global efforts to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.

Trump's administration says it is reviewing all foreign-aid programmes to see if they align with his "America First" policy.

!coomers !2dgooners

per Mozilla

Proposed contractual remedies in United States v. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers

Giving people the ability to shape the internet and their experiences on it is at the heart of Mozilla's manifesto. This includes empowering people to choose how they search.

On Nov. 20, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed proposed remedies in the antitrust case against Google. The judgment outlines the behavioral and structural remedies proposed by the government in order to restore search engine competition.

Mozilla is a long-time champion of competition and an advocate for reforms that create a level playing field in digital markets. We recognize the DOJ's efforts to improve search competition for U.S. consumers. It is important to understand, however, that the outcomes of this case will have impacts that go far beyond any one company or market.

As written, the proposed remedies will force smaller and independent browsers like Firef*x to fundamentally reexamine their entire operating model. By jeopardizing the revenue streams of critical browser competitors, these remedies risk unintentionally strengthening the positions of a handful of powerful players, and doing so without delivering meaningful improvements to search competition. And this isn't just about impacting the future of one browser company — it's about the future of the open and interoperable web.

Firef*x and search

Since the launch of Firef*x 1.0 in 2004, we have shipped with a default search engine, thinking deeply about search and how to provide meaningful choice for people. This has always meant refusing any exclusivity; instead we preinstall multiple search options and we make it easy for people to change their search engine — whether setting a general default or customizing it for individual searches.

We have always worked to provide easily accessible search alternatives alongside territory-specific options — an approach we continue today. For example, in 2005, our U.S. search options included Yahoo, eBay, Creative Commons and Amazon, alongside Google.

Today, Firef*x users in the U.S. can choose between Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Amazon, eBay and Wikipedia directly in the address bar. They can easily add other search engines and they can also benefit from Mozilla innovations, like Firef*x Suggest.

For the past seven years, Google search has been the default in Firef*x in the U.S. because it provides the best search experience for our users. We can say this because we have tried other search defaults and supported competitors in search: in 2014, we switched from Google to Yahoo in the U.S. as they sought to reinvigorate their search product. There were certainly business risks, but we felt the risk was worth it to further our mission of promoting a better internet ecosystem. However, that decision proved to be unsuccessful.

Firef*x users — who demonstrated a strong preference for having Google as the default search engine — did not find Yahoo's product up to their expectations. When we renewed our search partnership in 2017, we did so with Google. We again made certain that the agreement was non-exclusive and allowed us to promote a range of search choices to people.

The connection between browsers and search that existed in 2004 is just as important today. Independent browsers like Firef*x remain a place where search engines can compete and users can choose freely between them. And the search revenue Firef*x generates is used to advance our manifesto, through the work of the Mozilla Foundation and via our products — including Gecko, Mozilla's browser engine.

Browsers, browser engines and the open web

Since launching Firef*x in 2004, Mozilla has pioneered groundbreaking technologies, championing open-source principles and setting critical standards in online security and privacy. We also created or contributed to many developments for the wider ecosystem, some (like Rust and Let's Encrypt) have continued to flourish outside of Mozilla. Much of this is made possible by developing and maintaining the Gecko browser engine.

Browser engines (not to be confused with search engines) are little-known but they are the technology powering your web browser. They determine much of the speed and functionality of browsers, including many of the privacy and security properties.

In 2013, there were five major browser engines. In 2024, due to the great expense and expertise needed to run a browser engine, there are only three left: Apple's WebKit, Google's Blink and Mozilla's Gecko — which powers Firef*x.

Apple's WebKit primarily runs on Apple devices, leaving Google and Mozilla as the main cross-platform browser engine developers. Even Microsoft, a company with a three trillion dollar market cap, abandoned its Trident browser engine in 2019. Today, its Edge browser is built on top of Google's Blink engine.

There are only three major browser engines left — Apple's WebKit, Google's Blink and Gecko from Mozilla. Apple's WebKit mainly runs on Apple devices, making Gecko the only cross-platform challenger to Blink.

Remedies in the U.S. v Google search case

So how do browser engines tie into the search litigation? A key concern centers on proposed contractual remedies put forward by the DOJ that could harm the ability of independent browsers to fund their operations. Such remedies risk inadvertently harming browser and browser engine competition without meaningfully advancing search engine competition.

Firef*x and other independent browsers represent a small proportion of U.S. search queries, but they play an outsized role in providing consumers with meaningful choices and protecting user privacy. These browsers are not just alternatives — they are critical champions of consumer interests and technological innovation.

Rather than a world where market share is moved from one trillion dollar tech company to another, we would like to see actions which will truly improve competition — and not sacrifice people's privacy to achieve it. True change requires addressing the barriers to competition and facilitating a marketplace that promotes competition, innovation and consumer choice — in search engines, browsers, browser engines and beyond.

We urge the court to consider remedies that achieve its goals without harming independent browsers, browser engines and ultimately without harming the web.

We'll be sharing updates as this matter proceeds.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461378

Like it's this option.

mine was Just Cause 2. I recall being absolutely pissed that I need to fricking install some shit called Steam with my limited INTERNET DATA cap in addition to the files on my CD.

スイッチ2の情報をリークしてた奴ら／リークに加担してた奴らは全員この先の人生ずっと、家に帰ったら靴の裏に必ずウンコ付いてる呪いにかかれ…

…と、大神の発表でサプライズをユーザーのみんなと一緒に楽しめた今、心底思う…糞リーカーどもは一人残らず呪われろ…

— 神谷英樹🍀 Hideki Kamiya🍀 (@HidekiKamiya_X) January 16, 2025

サムライ戦士、ブラックスのコメントセクションを試してみてください

My 14-year-old asked me yesterday, "Why's the government so obsessed with people's genders?" and I froze like a deer in headlights.

I'm just trying to raise decent humans without losing my faith or my mind.

its not christianity its Decent-Human-Being-ism

Another great example of American education going down the drain

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This is a highly reductive way of putting it but there are multiple factors. 1. City and local governments are elected to move up past that you have to show competency. 2. Switching leaders every 4 years especially like in the US has only lead to both sides blocking each other from getting much done. This is intentional in the US and mostly there to claim blame because there are certain things that the government can easily do like bombing most countries on earth. But god forgive we want healthcare or trains. 3. They don't want to give the US the chance to interfere with their policies or elections as they have with basically every other socialist government in history. 4. Even a Harvard study has concluded that 95% of respondents in 2016 were somewhat or highly satisfied with the central government in Beijing. (46)

In other words: because China is a dictatorship, and the ruling party doesn't want to give up power. Don't act like every democracy is a failure like the one in the US. (-12)

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Has American society been better off as a result of the fact that the United States has done this? (13)

Yes. (-8)

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Can you explain how it is a dictatorship with specific reference to how the Chinese government functions (law, distribution of power)? I see it more like democracy at local government levels and a meritocracy at a higher level, which doesn't really fit with the dictatorship narrative. (8)

lol you are sad (-5)

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Well that's a bit rude, considering I'm not American. If you don't think Xi appointed the members, I got news for you and I question your understanding of the system and its realities. Oh it was the central committee that selected them? Hmmm who's in the central committee? Not all loyalists, right? Hmmm Xi didn't have anti corruption campaigns to weaken the factions, no not at all. No, he never broke existing age limit rules, right? Don't be silly. And again, I'm not even arguing the US system is wrong. The two just have entirely different incentives. (1)

Hearsay and conspiracy theory isn't fact. If you want to prove what you said, please give hard verifiable evidence.Maybe you should speculate how many underaged girls were r*ped by Hunter and what he told his dad about it. Or maybe some other more colorful political gossips. I failed to see the value of your sharing of opinions on reddit.Ok, so just the usual ignorant and arrogant honorary American spreading fake information on behalf of your masters.Why the frick are you even on this sub? (0)

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How are the masses tolerating it (1)

Fear of death, imprisonment, torture....Same as all dictatorships (1)

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And how many terms did Angela Merkel serve? People didn't b-word about it then, why is it a problem now? Besides, it's their country, their system, and their people seem satisfied with their system. Mind your own business. They don't tell you how your system should be run. Manifest destiny died some time ago. (8)

Couldn't care less about Germany. We're talking about China, stay on topic. I only stated the facts. Don't like it? Too bad. Closing your ears, eyes, and mind won't change what you don't like. (1)

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Years ago I ripped the DKD soundtrack off YouTube by searching various things + also took requests from people here and then I renamed the files to basic, ordered numbers because that seemed to make the most sense. You can see this here:

https://fsdfsd.net/MarseyWorld/MarseyWorld/src/branch/master/files/assets/events/DKD/music

However

I want to add the Now Playing to the bottom of the page, a really small footer with a cute lil equalizer graphic or something beside it. This will apply to all holigays. But it's DKD right now so let's tackle that.

Identify the tracks, include a link to the youtube video it came from to prove you're not full of shit. 500 per track identified. Obviously tell me which file the link corresponds to.

Do as many or as few as you want, some are actually really easy like the fricking DKC Funky's Flights theme.

Be first or be broke.

Thank you me because this is all happening as I have had a tab open since yesterday morning with some sort of Kong remix playing and I need to know what it is because it's SO GOOD.

Wait... wasn't the bombing of Dresden a borderline war crime because it almost exclusively targeted civilians? pic.twitter.com/bQFeCswAD3

— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) February 6, 2025

!Nonchuds Mask off moment

"but muh civilians" Nazis deserved all that they got just like Japs deserved to get nuked

!nonchuds !khive Let's kneel to the wikigod

• The "Donald Trump and fascism" Wikipedia page was created on September 21, 2024, the same day The Guardian published a 4,000 word essay titled, "Is Donald Trump a Fascist?" --- and which is cited as a source in the Wikipedia article

• Contributions from just two editors comprise 91.2% of the "Donald Trump and Fascism" article's content, suggesting a tightly coordinated effort to control the narrative

• While the "Trumpism" Wikipedia page argues that Trumpism "has significant authoritarian leanings," describing it as "far-right," "national-populist," and "neo-nationalist," it relies on a source that argues exactly the opposite

• One of the next major citations to the "Trumpism" article that claims that the movement displays "significant authoritarian leaning" is sourced to sociologist Richard Hanmann who was eulogized in 2021 as "a committed leftist, an anti-imperialist, and a true activist-scholar"

The October surprise of this year's election cycle has, at least so far, appeared in the form of a talking point: Donald Trump is a fascist. This idea has been blasted out by Kamala Harris, the DNC --- which recently projected "Trump Praised Hitler" on the wall of Madison Square Garden during the MAGA rally --- and Hillary Clinton.

But for months the idea that Trump is a fascist has been quietly seeded on Wikipedia, lending it credence in the face of deep skepticism from the public. This includes an article on "Trumpism," which mentions some variation of "fascism" 31 times, the article on "Donald Trump and Fascism," an article on "Fascism in North America" that includes a dedicated section on "Donald Trump and Fascism," and an article on the "Racial views of Donald Trump" that includes a comparison to Hitler.

As I've documented in previous reporting for Pirate Wires, radical ideologies are laundered by Wikipedia into the mainstream. The key to this is Google, which boosts Wikipedia articles to the top of search results, and often includes a knowledge panel that gives the appearance they've been vetted by the search giant, even though they aren't.

In this case, if you Google "Trump and fascism," one of the top results will be the article on "Trumpism," which mentions some variation of the term "fascist" 92 times. In its lead summary, the article states: "Trumpism has significant authoritarian leanings, and is strongly associated with the belief that the President is above the rule of law. It has been referred to as an American political variant of the far-right and the national-populist and neo-nationalist sentiment seen in multiple nations worldwide from the late 2010s to the early 2020s."

The first source in the article (for the claim Trumpism is a political movement) is a 2016 article in Scientific American by psychology professors Stephen Reicher and Alexander Haslam. In their article, Reicher and Haslam reference the work of sociologist Theodor Abel, who studied the rise of the Nazis. But what Reicher and Haslam actually wrote in their article makes no comparison between Trump and fascism or Hitler whatsoever. In fact, the source article explicitly states the opposite: "We are not comparing Trump, his supporters or their arguments to the Nazis in any way. Instead, our goal is to expose some problems in the ways that commentators analyze and explain behaviors of which we disapprove."

Reicher and Haslan's critique was not of "Trumpism," but of the media and commentators (and ostensibly, Wikipedia editors) who contort the discourse --- particularly by demonizing constituencies --- to advance political agendas. The authors of the paper cited a Salon.com headline smearing Trump's supporters as "hideous, disgusting racists," as an example of how the media does this, in part by making hyperbolic distortions. The very title of their article --- "The Politics of Hope: Donald Trump as an Entrepreneur of Identity" --- made their position clear. Yet their piece was used by editors of the Wikipedia article to buttress claims that Trumpism is a form of authoritarianism.

One of the next major citations, this one for the claim that the movement displays "significant authoritarian leaning," is sourced to sociologist Richard Hanmann who was eulogized in 2021 (by the "Marxist sociology blog") as "a committed leftist, an anti-imperialist, and a true activist-scholar." This is a pattern across the Wikipedia articles drawing comparisons between Trump and fascism --- the citations are often radical leftist or Marxist academics.

One of the most egregious instances of editors laundering far-left sources comes in the Trumpism article, which attempts to re-position the populism associated with Trump as neo-fascism, claiming, "Some commentators have rejected the populist designation for Trumpism and view it instead as part of a trend towards a new form of fascism or neo-fascism."

The main source for this claim is a 2017 essay by Marxist ecologist John Bellamy Foster --- billed as "one of the world's outstanding radical scholars" (by his own magazine and his personal website) --- in the socialist journal he edits, Monthly Review. To publicize the essay, *Monthly Review *included a blurb by a Marxian economist who argued revealingly that, "By rejecting the term 'populism' that is widely used to describe the Trump phenomenon and other similar ones around the globe at present, and using the term 'neo-fascism' instead, John Bellamy Foster has done a great theoretical service to the Left."

The majority of the content on the "Trumpism" page (50.5%) was contributed by a single editor, J JMesserly, who was the editor responsible for arguing that fascism, not populism, is the correct characterization of the Trump movement. To implement this, J JMesserly removed another editor's contribution that stated, "Some historians have argued that [characterizing Trump as fascist] is an inaccurate use of the term, pointing out that while there are parallels there are also important dissimilarities." In its place, J JMesserly added the very opposite claim, citing radical scholars to make the point: "Some commentators have rejected the populist designation for Trumpism and instead view it as a new form of fascism, such as Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Juan Cole, Henry Giroux, Paul Street, Enzo Traverso, Davide Tarizzo and Cornel West."

The Trumpism article links to a separate article called "Donald Trump and fascism," which extensively compares Trump to Hitler. "Trump's embrace of far-right extremism and several statements and actions have been accused of echoing fascism, Nazi rhetoric, far-right ideology, antisemitism, and white supremacy," one section of the article asserts, citing the Los Angeles Times, Associated Press and Washington Post as sources for these claims. The article prominently features a painting by an otherwise obscure Dutch artist that merges the faces of Trump and Hitler.

The "Donald Trump and Fascism" article was created in last month --- in the thick of the presidential campaign --- by a user called Di (they-them). The contributions of Di (they-them) and another user, BootsED, comprise 91.2% of the article's content. Curiously, the article was created on September 21, 2024, the same day UK leftwing newspaper The Guardian published a 4,000 word essay titled, "Is Donald Trump a Fascist?" --- and which is cited as a source in the "Donald Trump and Fascism" Wikipedia article. The Guardian essay hits many of the same points made in its Wikipedia counterpart, and while ithedged by averring that Trump is not literally a fascist, it concludes that he could be "a cause of 21st-century fascism" who "could yet be one of its enablers."

As the Trump fascism rhetoric continues to rage in advance of the election, it's likely that more voters will turn to Wikipedia to clarify the matter. And while the seemingly dispassionate statements of alleged fact found in the Wikipedia articles might sway them, what voters will not see are the edit wars waged to get these points on the site --- or the radical and Marxist scholarship used to justify them.

this is the realest greentext in existence. i would bet physical AND digital currency that this story 100% actually happened exactly as described. anyway im back hi

!cuteandvalid !cuteandinvalid !neurodivergents

I'm looking to gain followers for my Madoka Magica content.

the bet @CountTournamentFishingula Have fun with that

One suspect in the fatal shooting of a border patrol agent on Monday near the U.S. northern border was a German citizen with an expired H1-B visa, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the incident and an internal report reviewed by Just the News.

The suspect, who fired on two U.S. Border Patrol agents during a vehicle stop in Newport, Vermont, is identified in the incident report as Felix Bauckholt, a German citizen who overstayed an H1-B visa and was thus illegally residing in the country.

The agents were conducting a routine roving patrol when they stopped Bauckholt and a female in the town close to the border. During a records check, the unidentified female occupant was removed from the vehicle for further questioning, broke free, and began shooting at the agents, the incident report shows.

After the female suspect was hit by return fire, Bauckholt emerged from the vehicle and also began firing on the agents. He sustained gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead.

One of the U.S. agents was severely injured and was transported to the hospital where he later died. According to the incident report, the female shooter survived the encounter and is recovering from her injuries.

Bauckholt's H1-B visa was originally issued in 2022 but is expired a law enforcement official with knowledge of the incident told Just the News. He filed to change his status to an F1 student visa in 2024, but appears to have been unsuccessful.

He sounds like an aspie, not a schizo

Amazing this guy was an IOI gold medalist ??? https://t.co/IACAqTovoR pic.twitter.com/OgiRG0zk9d

— I ❤️ Fluorides (@BarneyFlames) January 22, 2025

For non-nerds, the IOI or International Olympiad in Informatics is a computer science geek-off competition of some kind

Drop episodes. Watching s22 ep12 rn