tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Wenn wir annehmen, dass es in jedem Leben einen besten Moment gibt, dann kann man das über jeden Moment sagen.

    Und nach drei Tagen zugekokstem und weggesoffenem Festivalbesuch eine Woche Krankenhausaufenthalt zu haben, und ne Woche später festzustellen, dass man sich Genitalherpes eingefangen hat, ist vielleicht auch nicht so der Lebenshöhepunkt, dem man alle anderen unterordnen möchte. Auch dann nicht, wenn während der drei Tage der Dopaminspiegel am höchsten jemals war.


  • I recommend everyone to read up a bit on the Algerian war for independence

    In total the estimates for Algerians killed, mostly murdered by the French opression range from 400.000-1.500.000.

    The French massacred Civilians, used torture and rape, unlawful detentions, food deprivation and other inhumane tactics to supress and murder the people struggling to live in self determination on their own land.

    Meanwhile of course the independance fighters were branded as terrorists and barbarians to delegitimise their political goals and in complete denial about the terror imposed by the French police and army.

    Finally the French lost as their population stopped supporting the murder, torture and rape. It also lead to the collapse of the fourth republic, after which the war was lost soon after.

    The military tried to coup twice. First to bring de Gaulle into power and maintain the brutal opression of Algeria and a second time to coup de Gaulle out, as he was realising the war to be lost and seeking a political resolution.

    For decades after there was no recognition of the French, that a war took place. They refered to it as a police operation and the topic was banned from schools.

    In the muslim and arab world what happens in Gaza and the Westbank is often seen in parallel to the Algerian war of independence. In Europe many countries gloss over or just dont teach about the Algerian war for independence or other independance movements in the former colonies at all.


  • […].
    The polarisation created by the agreement thus has the potential to seep into wider society. Indeed, 2023 was also a year of increased riots and protests in Mauritania due in large part to the police killing of human rights activist al-Soufi Ould al-Chine in February and a young Afro-Mauritanian man, Oumar Diop, in May.

    The latter instance in particular compounded a sense of racialised exclusion felt by many within the Afro-Mauritanian community. Indeed, it is not uncommon for Afro-Mauritanians to be suspected of being “illegal immigrants” by security forces, given the difficulties many face in obtaining civil registry documentation. In such a context, the EU incentivising national security forces to crack down on “irregular migration” carries acute risks for those already on the margins in Mauritania.

    The migration deal, therefore, risks inflaming racial tensions and social polarisation in Mauritania while it is also unlikely to achieve its stated aim of preventing “irregular migration”. Such an outcome would foremost be detrimental to the country itself, and it would also undermine the EU’s own framing of Mauritania as a beacon of stability in a troubled region.
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  • Doppeldenk:

    Doppeldenk (engl. doublethink; in älteren Übersetzungen: Zwiedenken) ist ein Neusprech-Begriff aus dem dystopischen Roman 1984 von George Orwell und beschreibt eine Art widersprüchlichen Denkens, von dem gesagt wird, dass zu seinem Verständnis Doppeldenk selbst die Voraussetzung bilde. Durch dieses propagierte Denken, bei dem zwei widersprüchliche oder sich gegenseitig ausschließende Überzeugungen aufrechtzuerhalten und beide zu akzeptieren sind, setzt die herrschende Kaste die Gesetze der Logik außer Kraft. Dadurch wird das Denken der Parteimitglieder schwammig und in Zweideutigkeit gehalten, wodurch schnelle Kurswechsel des Regimes auf eigentümliche Weise sofort akzeptiert werden können, auch wenn es sich dabei um das genaue Gegenteil der zuvor noch „gültigen Wahrheit“ handelt, etwa bei abrupten Wechseln der Feindbilder oder der politischen Losungen.

    Das schließt mit ein: Absichtlich Lügen zu erzählen und aufrichtig an sie zu glauben; jede beliebige Tatsache zu vergessen, die unbequem geworden ist, und dann, falls es wieder nötig ist, sie aus der Vergessenheit zurückzuholen; so lange wie nötig die Existenz einer objektiven Realität zu leugnen und gleichzeitig die Realität zu akzeptieren, die man verleugnet.

    Sie wissen was sie tun, und sie wissen auch warum sie es tun. Es ist Teil einer autoritären Herrschaftsstrategie.




  • I am not so sure about this. There used to be plenty of space for both. There was no “forced” interaction and the dog population was much smaller. So there was no genetic pressure into the wolf population, even if there were some crossovers. Now the habitation is extremely limited for wolves, getting into contact with human population is inevitable and any influx of dog genes into the wolf population has a realistic chance of forcing itself through, as seen by the hybrids making up most of the wild wolf population in many places.

    In 1800 the Western European populations were at a bout half of what they are today. In Northern and Eastern Europe it was more like a quarter to a fifths of todays population. But back then there were no cars, hardly any trains, and the overall land usage was much much smaller than today.



  • EDIT: The following is only referring to the usage in common used language. The legal distinction is as pointed out by @geissi@feddit.de and freezing in legal terms is different from confiscation.

    The factual control over that property is taken away from the owner. That is confiscation (in the common used language not in legal terms). For any physical property that term is used directly in that sense. The term “freezing” for bank accounts has established in that sector but it remains valid to speak of confiscation as the factual control over that asset is seized from the owner.(in the common used language not in legal terms) For that is is irrespective of whether the recognized ownership has changed. I.e. if a police officer takes all the money out of your wallet and puts it in a safe at the police station it still has been confiscated from you, even if he gives you a letter stating it is still your money. You are denied access to it, until some decision has been reached by someone.

    The only legal distinction here is that the bank is a regulated private or in this case public entity that is legally seperate from the executive, whereas the police is a direct executive organ.