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Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between.
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indigenous@hexbear.net•Uranium is being mined near the Grand Canyon as prices soarEnglish
12·2 年前You should probably read a book about how uranium mining has historically devastated native communities, especially in the Southwest, but start here. And I don’t know who gave you the authority to give “passes”, I would probably avoid using that kind of language.
“They never told us uranium was dangerous. We washed our faces in it. We drank in it. We ate in it. It was sweet,” explained Cecilia Joe, an 85-year-old Navajo woman, in a recent interview. Joe’s experience illustrates the under-researched but extremely pervasive problem of environmental injustice on Native American reservations.
Due to decades of harmful environmental policy and exploitation by private companies, Native communities have been disproportionately subjected to toxic waste, pollution and other health risks — leading to what some activists describe as “environmental genocide.” Out of all the ethnic groups in the United States, Native Americans are the most at risk of toxic exposure, a fact that reflects broader realities about the continued oppression of Native communities and has galvanized Native activists into seeking justice.
While the word “reservation” may invoke ideas of protection or sanctuary, historically, Native American reservations have systematically been targeted as sites for toxic waste disposal, and the U.S. government has historically been indifferent towards this. Companies “hoping to take advantage of the devastating chronic unemployment, pervasive poverty, and sovereign status of Indian nations” offer millions of dollars to Native American tribes in exchange for the ability to dispose of toxic waste, according to Bradley Angel in a report for the environmental organization Greenpeace.
They still haven’t even cleaned up the past Uranium mines they used and poisoned people and the land with.
more info: https://cleanupthemines.org/
two book options: Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country, Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed
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games@hexbear.net•Yuzu Citra | A Grim Outlook for the All-Digital FutureEnglish
1·2 年前You’re probably right, I definitely could have misunderstood, but making 5 figures a month on patreon adds up, still quite a lot of money for what it was.
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games@hexbear.net•Yuzu Citra | A Grim Outlook for the All-Digital FutureEnglish
4·2 年前It’s wild that they had 2 million+ dollars, like maybe these people were treating it like a job, which is the only way I can rationalize them needing even close to that amount of money, but goes to show even though they were open source devs, they were trusting patreon and discord not to just hand over their personal information, and I’m guessing that’s exactly what ended up happening.
The Ryujinx devs also have a patreon that’s making a fair amount of money per month, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they get got as well. I’m not a big crypto person, but isn’t this the exact use case for it? Why in the world would you use Patreon when you’re doing something tangential to piracy that will put you in a gigantic company’s crosshairs.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•Yuzu & Citra devs fold to Nintendo's demands | Pay $2.3million to settle, take down github, domains, patreon, discord, with immediate effect.English
12·2 年前I do wonder if this is specifically what got them, would probably take a lemmy lawyer to unpack it, but I would have to imagine if they didn’t have a patreon and basically a company, it would have been much harder for Nintendo to do anything about them. And I would also imagine in retrospect whatever money they got was not worth it when it ends like this.
I always assume when people operate services like this, that they host it in a country like Russia that’s less likely to care about takedowns by western corpos and done anonymously as possible. Even though it’s just an emulator, you would think they wouldn’t be so brazen as to have a patreon which I’m sure requires someone’s identity/billing info. They probably still could have been tracked down if they took crypto donations or something like that, but you would think that would be the first choice over putting a giant target on their backs. Patreon is obviously just gonna hand over whatever info they are asked to give when served a warrent, and so is Discord for that matter if they had any personal info on there too.
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Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•In addition to clocks moving forward by 60 minutes in many parts of these 48 states next week
114·2 年前47* states*, most of Arizona has no DST although some of the reservations observe it
Even if it wasn’t
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•GitHub - j-fbriere/squawker: An open-source privacy oriented Twitter/X client
63·2 年前they have not blocked it and they probably won’t block it bc it involves signing in with your twitter and since it’s just an android app it’s not gonna get as big as nitter, I don’t think it’s really helpful to tell people to “just accept it” as an individual you’re not gonna be able to successfully lobby everything you follow to change to bluesky (which I think you can get rss feeds from) or masto (which you can get rss feeds from), like for example your city’s local government/services only posts on facebook and twitter, no rss, this is still useful for things like that
tree@lemmy.zipOPtochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•"Jane Doe" Who Immolated Herself at Israeli Consulate in Atlanta Last Year Is Still AliveEnglish
7·2 年前I think even worse is how the cops assumed they were trying to damage the embassy/ sent the bomb squad to their apartment as if someone doing this is likely to have anything more dangerous than petrol and a lighter.Treating them like a suicide-bomber in both cases.
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Palestine@lemmy.ml•US airman Aaron Bushnell claimed to have classified knowledge of US forces fighting in Gaza tunnels on night before setting himself on fire: palEnglish
6·2 年前I would probably not post articles directly from the nypost, if no other source is reporting on it, odds are it’s fake/stretching the truth, can’t really trust a tabloid with something that’s serious.
tree@lemmy.ziptochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Wendy's already walking back their surge pricing comments. They were testing the waters.English
5·2 年前The only way this would make sense is in the form of a happy hour or a lunch special which I guess are all just reverse surge pricing, but can’t just simply make things cost less in off peak hours in god’s Amerikkka.
tree@lemmy.zipOPtoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Why were Muslim prisoners in the US pepper-sprayed while praying?English
11·2 年前Yeah, scrolling through the RSS feed to find horrible things I didn’t know even happened.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate changeEnglish
521·2 年前IT WAS ALL THOSE DAMN AVOCADOS, WHY DIDN’T WE JUST SIMPLY STOP EATING THOSE AVOCADOS
tree@lemmy.zipOPtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•The growing controversy over Israel’s Eurovision song entryEnglish
3·2 年前IDK nothing indicated they would be booted, they pretty prominently announced they wouldn’t be restricting Israel from competing, to much controversy at that
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Technology@beehaw.org•Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
1·2 年前The obvious difference being my/others mastodon posts aren’t showing up on wordpress and being monetized. One way federation to masto doesn’t matter bc it isn’t data farming / putting ads on masto content.
tree@lemmy.ziptoWorld News@lemmy.ml•China has raided seven American businesses in Beijing and arrested employees on suspicion of espionage, ambassador Nicholas Burns reveals
21·2 年前I don’t disbelieve it, but I’m gonna wait to read about it not in the daily mail and I don’t think other serious sources have reported on it yet, unless google has just ceased working as a search engine which is very possible.
tree@lemmy.zipOPtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•The growing controversy over Israel’s Eurovision song entry
16·2 年前It only has to do with being an ebu/sister org member which many arab states are eligible to compete, but refuse to do so since Israel is in it/ in some cases having laws preventing the broadcasting of anything Israel was involved in making.
tree@lemmy.zipOPtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•The growing controversy over Israel’s Eurovision song entry
131·2 年前To be fair to the euros they tried to both sides it and let arab/north african countries in, but those countries refused for obvious reasons.
tree@lemmy.zipOPtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Saudi Arabia puts seven men to death in largest execution in years
112·2 年前I’m personally against sentencing death regardless of what they did, especially in cases like Saudi Arabia where they have more than enough money to handle imprisoning people for life. Call me a crypto-catholic, but I don’t think killing people is good if it can be avoided, which in this case it definitely could have been.


























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