Maeve
@Maeve@kbin.earth
- Comment on No Enforcement ⚖️ 36 minutes ago:
Well UN "peacekeepers" wear blue, iirc, so I thought maybe you were speaking about that. I was just commenting on the White Helmets from Syria, who recently showed up in Venezuela. Neither group are loved where they go, but their masters love them, as long as they support the masters' agendas. Noticing the difference between mission and ostensible mission.
- Comment on No Enforcement ⚖️ 4 hours ago:
White helmets even?
- Comment on Tried to login to the arch wiki but was given a 3 minute crypto challenge. 1 day ago:
You're welcome! I wasn't sure if it was a typo, autocorrect, or language misunderstanding, but the correction was in good faith. I deeply appreciate a good faith reply!
- Comment on Tried to login to the arch wiki but was given a 3 minute crypto challenge. 1 day ago:
Vain*
- Comment on Birmingham man fined over £140 for stealing sandwich and cookies from Greggs 3 days ago:
If you see someone take food, no you didn't.
- Comment on Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister 4 days ago:
Fair.
- Comment on Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister 4 days ago:
This is so wildly general, I can't comment in good faith. As it stands, the whole legal system does seem to be worthless, unless one has plenty of money for legal fees and social status, and even then, as long as they are arguing the "preferred" view.
- Comment on Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister 4 days ago:
As much as I wish that were true, it isn't. People have families and lawyers, prosecution and defense, often make enemies with potential safety consequences, plus the financial considerations you mentioned, which include legal fees, student loans, , mortgages, children to keep fed, clothed, and in school. People with regular jobs don't want to take a weekday off work for peaceful protest in designated "free speech zones" and the like (dependent on country, obviously), for fear they'll lose their jobs, face arrest and legal fees, lose their homes, much less anything like France's Yellow Vest protests or Germany's anti-nuclear waste on rails protests. But even with those instances, things I mentioned are still real risks. Britain was arresting elderly people and the United States has a long history of arresting clergy.
- Comment on Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister 5 days ago:
That's the point, isn't it?
- Comment on Iran strikes on CIA facilities prompt questions about possible Russian role 1 week ago:
"They share an interest in trying to reduce or eliminate U.S. influence altogether in their self-designated spheres of influence," he said.
- Comment on Iran strikes on CIA facilities prompt questions about possible Russian role 1 week ago:
"They share an interest in trying to reduce or eliminate U.S. influence altogether in their self-designated spheres of influence," he said.
- Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this? 1 week ago:
Acknowledge
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The problem with external validation without internal validation is we become dependent on it, so that if that source becomes unavailable, we're despondent until the next supplier. I'm not saying it's not righteous and good, but that the purest supply is homemade. Like food.
- Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this? 1 week ago:
I agree up until "can't deposit a picture of a check." Mobile banking does exactly that.
- Comment on Our Bacteria Are Talking. We’ve Just Begun to Understand What They’re Saying. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Just Stop Oil supporter not guilty after spraying orange paint on MI5 2 weeks ago:
Also, one is actively damaging the economy, the other may possibly hurt the false image of freedom, peace, and justice.
- Comment on Just Stop Oil supporter not guilty after spraying orange paint on MI5 2 weeks ago:
And saying "Free Palestine" is terrorism.
- Comment on Gen Z is increasingly turning to trade schools in hopes of future-proofing their careers against A.I. But getting their parents and peers on board can be a challenge. 2 weeks ago:
I know.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but middle-class workers will get left behind 2 weeks ago:
That was his and all the other surveillance state bros' plan.
- Comment on Gen Z is increasingly turning to trade schools in hopes of future-proofing their careers against A.I. But getting their parents and peers on board can be a challenge. 2 weeks ago:
It'll ruin your body, but millwrights, engineers are things.
- Comment on How did you guys deal with the death of a parent? 2 weeks ago:
I'm sorry, friend. Take the time to sit with it. Remember the good times. Tell him how you feel.
- Comment on What happens when you just refuse to pay and go ... ? 2 weeks ago:
You'll likely be declared as
drug traffickersblockade runners and bombed. - Comment on Urine Luck 2 weeks ago:
Hmm. _hemo_dialysis...
- Comment on Last woman to be hanged in the UK pardoned 70 years on— Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in United Kingdom, has been granted a conditional pardon following the Deputy Prime Minister’s advice 3 weeks ago:
Not necessarily. Some give up and die, by their own hand or their abusers'. I've heard some say, "I'm glad and proud my man corrects me."
- Comment on Last woman to be hanged in the UK pardoned 70 years on— Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in United Kingdom, has been granted a conditional pardon following the Deputy Prime Minister’s advice 3 weeks ago:
This pardon does not undo what happened 71 years ago. It does not restore the lives that were broken - the children left behind, the years lost. But it says, formally and finally, that Ruth should not have been executed; that the justice system failed her. That acknowledgement matters profoundly to our family.
Ruth was a victim of sustained and brutal abuse. Her children - our mother and uncle - never recovered. My uncle took his own life; my mother’s trauma left her unable to be the parent we needed. The shadow of Ruth’s execution has fallen across two generations. We have carried shame that was never ours to bear.
We are deeply grateful to the Justice Secretary for having the courage to act. We hope Ruth’s story serves as a lasting reminder that the justice system must reckon with the abuse that drives women to the edge - and must never be afraid to acknowledge when it has got things wrong.”
- Comment on Fifa investigating alleged racist abuse of IShowSpeed 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why do you never talk about what you're reading? Me: 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why do you never talk about what you're reading? Me: 3 weeks ago:
I can't remember.
- Comment on Why do you never talk about what you're reading? Me: 3 weeks ago:
It's not either/or.
- Comment on Why do you never talk about what you're reading? Me: 3 weeks ago:
I'd like to find a translation of that Arabian manuscript, forget the name atm.