Ah, well, better skip "Strange Days", "12 Monkeys" and "Gattaca" then...
June 12th:
"I am pleased to confirm the 6th round of Iran US talks will be held in Muscat this Sunday the 15th," Bad Albusaidi, the country's foreign minister said on social media.
Israel struck Iran later the same day.
So why should Iran have any reason to believe that "talks" will stop Israel and the US?
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More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds
(www.theguardian.com)
Bundesbeamtengesetz § 63
(1) Beamtinnen und Beamte tragen für die Rechtmäßigkeit ihrer dienstlichen Handlungen die volle persönliche Verantwortung.
(2) Bedenken gegen die Rechtmäßigkeit dienstlicher Anordnungen haben Beamtinnen und Beamte unverzüglich bei der oder dem unmittelbaren Vorgesetzten geltend zu machen. Wird die Anordnung aufrechterhalten, haben sie sich, wenn ihre Bedenken gegen deren Rechtmäßigkeit fortbestehen, an die nächsthöhere Vorgesetzte oder den nächsthöheren Vorgesetzten zu wenden. Wird die Anordnung bestätigt, müssen die Beamtinnen und Beamten sie ausführen und sind von der eigenen Verantwortung befreit. Dies gilt nicht, wenn das aufgetragene Verhalten die Würde des Menschen verletzt oder strafbar oder ordnungswidrig ist und die Strafbarkeit oder Ordnungswidrigkeit für die Beamtinnen und Beamten erkennbar ist. Die Bestätigung hat auf Verlangen schriftlich zu erfolgen.
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Why Do At Least Six Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups Have Special Consultative Status Inside The United Nations?
(www.unclosetedmedia.com)
Kann ich als Tarifbeschäftigter im ÖD Ärger vom meiner Leitung bekommen, wenn ich meine Überstünden bezahlt bekommen möchte, wenn ich mein Dienst pünktlich beginnen möchte und nicht früher?
Um das, was Jagermo schreibt, zu bestätigen: Du solltest wirklich bei einer Gewerkschaft sein, weil die Dir - vor allem auch - Rechtsschutz geben kann.
Die Gewerkschaften haben Anwälte an der Hand, deren einzige Aufgabe es ist Angestellten wir Dir beizustehen und Arbeitgeber wie Deinem die Hölle heiß zu machen. Auf deren Unterstützung zurückgreifen zu können, falls es hart-auf-hart kommt, macht einen großen Unterschied. Davon mal abgesehen, dass Du Dich dort auch beraten lassen kannst und überhaupt Leute findest, mit denen Du über sowas reden kannst.
Ubisoft trial witnesses testify to "being tied to a chair, forced to do handstands, and subjected to constant comments about sex"
A part of the answer is that a lot of gaming companies started out as a bunch of dudes in a basement who put a game together. Fast forward a few years and the same dudes are suddenly heads of big multi-million companies with dozens of employees, while they never had to learn anything about management. It's pretty disillusioning how many upper managers in the gaming industry are just "vibing" their way through it all.
I don't know where I heard this, but it's a lesson I have taken in: Nature does not strive for perfection, all it requires is a "good enough".
And that may very well be one of the reasons why so many people (the worst kind of atheists and christian supremacists among them) are challenged by the existence of queer people: They consider humans to be the pinnacle of creation/evolution and the messy reality of queer people's existence undermines the core of their beliefs. Yet humans are flawed, inherently messy creatures and in that messiness grow strange, often beautiful flowers.
It's not just pride marches in the US. US companies are backing out of pride events all over the globe. And then there are all the non-US companies who laid down and rolled over the moment Trump threatened to block them from making deals with the US government. So even pride events outside of the US are struggling because of Trump and his goons.
[Trans] Woman suffers burns after three children throw suspected acid on her in West Philly, police say
No, I agree with you. The biggest amount of work in regards to fighting climate crisis, fascism and creating resilient social structures is done on the fringes of society and hence rarely mentioned outside equally fringe publications. While people can learn a lot by joining solidarity networks, their work is often (in my experience) scrappy and inconsistent, because even they are lacking knowledge. Besides the need to balance their own interests with the demands of the capitalist society around them.
I see a big potential for art in that space: Spreading knowledge and positives visions of a livable future without being overly dry and preachy. The Solarpunk genre serves this purpose to a certain degree, but - I think - it isn't hard to introduce similar concepts into other genres, if done with respect, conviction and a basic curiosity to learn from others.
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For those who want some context: Theosophy has always been a huge part of the New Age movement and the founder of Theosophy, Madame Blavatsky, was a white supremacist. She taught her followers about a "Great White Brotherhood" (aka The Masters) who were racially superior to others. She was also convinced of the existence of superior "root races" (one of them being the Aryans) and various "sub-races"...
Unsurprisingly Theosophy would (for example) merge with the Völkisch movement in Germany (the precursor of the nazi party).
Theosophy with its belief in a secret underground realms, ancient high cultures, lost continents, superior alien races and so on and so forth, was one of the big influences on the late 20th century New Age movement.