I hace no idea how serious a blow this is. Can anyone provide any sense of magnitude for these 264 000 tons of munitions? Like how big a chunk of total ammunition stockpile woukd this be? How big is it compared to current manufacturing rate?

Black Mesaer?

This. I can’t afford reliable always-on storage now, but I plan to build for SSDs rather than HDDs because I don’t have a separate room to put it into.

Women aren’t a minority, they are half the population. But according to many, they are a minority. This is wrong.

I believe our disagreement partly stems from semantics. English is not my native language, and I have used the term minority as a shortcut for oppressed category.

If only minorities were authoritarian and block communication channels, then nobody would notice it. It would be a rounding error.

Idk how it is elsewhere, but in France, when trans people or black people (which are oppressed categories and numerical minorities) claim they want to have safe spaces that exclude cis or white people, it’s definitely noticed. Almost everytime the majority (oppressive category and numerical majority) go on crying that they are excluded and should not be and try to pry these spaces open.

Okay now… if I were to be a marxist leninist (minority in the western countries) so I create a safe space.
Okay but we have dozens of political ideologies. They all are pretty much a minority then. Definitely because they vary across countries.
Giving each ideology a safe space because they are “a minority” neutralises eachother. They all are.
In reality, just like the way a government gets formed. People need to communicate and compromise.

I know of no minority that exists only in safe spaces. We always have to meet other people, be it family, work, doctors, public events…
About your exemple, being a marxist leninist and having no space where you can meet other marxists leninists to debate theories or future actions and being constantly in interaction with right wingers sounds tiring.

Blocking communication stops growth, and hence I do not like this culture of bubbles/echo chambers on Lemmy.
Got no clue how to alter that, or if there’s social media that doesn’t create echo chambers by blocking those that do not fit in there.

Lemmy being what it is, you’re more than welcome to create a community of like-minded people (people who want to communicate with everyone, not marxists leninists ofc) and advertise it on general channels to make it grow the way you think is best :)

I’m a minority (autism), I don’t need a safe space.

Thank you for sharing your personnal experience. I am glad that your personnality and life experience don’t make you feel the need for a safe space, that’s uplifting.

This being said, other people from minorities seem to have a different viewpoint and consider safe spaces are important/necessary. The fact that some individuals don’t need one doesn’t negate the need (and right) of others individual to create these safe spaces.

I need people to stop being authoritarian and communicate with eachother.

That’s great, but it’s also within peoples’ rights to choose who they want to communicate with and to filter that by interest, values or other factors.
I find it important that depending on my energy levels and my mental health I can choose who I engage with.

If only minorities were authoritarian, then there would be no issue. Since they’d be just a minority. It wouldn’t be noticed.I.
t’s clearly the majority that deal the blow. Logical, right?

I’m not sure I understand what you mean there, could you explain a bit more?

You know you do. And even more, because it’s gonna be a cute kitty!

Because you are usually subjected to a lot less abuse when you’re a ciswhitehetmale in a NW country.
This usually leads to a different need for safe spaces, like-minded communities and blocking people than oppressed groups.

I’m not getting this one, would you like to explain what it’s about?

Remember the first persons to be harassed, assassinated, detained, sent to concentration camps were german citizen.
The first who tried to resist Hitler’s power, sabotage infrastructure, retrieve and send confidential informations to the allies were german citizen.
A lot of germans were the good guys in ww2 (and afterwards for that matter).
Whatever the conflict, let’s not forget that [country X leadership] is not the same as [country x as a whole].

True. And so am I for letting them get awaywith it.

Our current government is openly pro-israel and anti-palestinian, we’re not gonna do squat.
They’ve been calling any criticism towars bibi and any palestinian support antisemitic for the past 2 years - and most of the billionaires-controlled media has happily done the same.
Even if soldiers are killed, it’s gonna be labeled a communication incident or some shit.

I do agree, I’m just not surprised it wasn’t done this way at the start and I’m not bothered enough by it to want a change.

Much more so than having a car-centric infrastructure. If you start cherry-picking you’ll of course find cases where a car would have been more efficient but public transportation needs to be understood as a whole.

AFAIK, arch never pretended to cater to new linux/cli users, I’ve always read it as a recommandation for advanced (or at least comfortable with reading docs and using CLI) users.
My first time using arch required me following the arch wiki for install and when I finally got a working system (I’m as bad at following tutorials as I am at following cooking recipes) the pacman commands were not something I struggled with.
But yeah coming from Debian where I had the gloriously intuitive apt syntax, I get your point.

I still believe there are democracies in America but the US of A aren’t one of them.

Pleasedo, maybe this way the wine lobby in france is gonna have a bit less money and we’ll get some less pesticides.

Adhd?

TIL about article 5, thanks!
I really hope mimitary action won’t happen…

France here, our mainstream media is currently either billionaire-owned and pushing Trump and Musk admiration or publicly owned but influenced by our current government (Macron and co.) which does everything possible to cosy up to billionaires so they haven’t yet (and probably never will) called Trump a fascist or Musk a neo-nazi.

You came and died in France during two world wars in the 20th century but I’m afraid France as a nation isn’t gonna have your back in this timeline - except if we manage to elect a real-left government next time.

Good luck!