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Report shows Ethiopian civil war more lethal than Ukraine war

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Duh. I keep hearing about a war in Ethiopia since I was born, approaching 4 decades.

In the meantime, the war in Ukraine is just 5 hours from my home city.

So of course I will be interested in a war between a nation that tried (and succeeded in a way) to conquer my country previously, a conflict that is so close that I could easily drive to the warzone in less than a day, than in an eternal conflict in Ethiopia.

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We Don’t Have to Live Like This

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It's a bit more nuanced

That is not more nuanced those are plain facts. OP is plainly lying.

She is accused and jailed for voluntarily being a part of a smuggling operation, even when she was explicitly told not to do so by the Italian government.

Compared to completely normal rescue efforts when a boat or plane capsize, when workers are trapped in a mine, when someone is lost in the mountains, or when a bunch of nobodies are taken hostage by a criminal organisation, be it local or abroad.

Again, this is not nuance, those are commonly known facts that OP is lying about.

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Would anyone else find a "Local" filter useful?

I would like to add to this request:

  1. I would like to know where certain thread that I can see is from. I can see it if I look on the link, but not otherwise. In fact, plenty of threads say that they are on kbin.social, while being on lemmy. Especially if they present a link that leads somewhere.

  2. I would like if I can have not one, but several customizable main pages/views. Like on Reddit or Twitter, one for subscribed, so I can see content just for me, one for all, so I can see active threads in community, and the suggested local is also great. This doesn't have to be baked-in, but something where I can customize multiple views would be great. This could be added to the "hot, new, active".

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Building a digital army: UN peacekeepers fight deadly disinformation

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My concern is more the possibility of defining disinformation in some politically conveniemt manner.

Its already happening. In fact, looking at it from a wider perspective than nowadays teenagers are often able to, the modern "fight against disinformation" is just fighting propaganda with one's own propaganda. And if you read the Hittite and Egyptian descriptions of Battle of Khadesh, it isn't really a new thing either.

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How do you think about Snap?

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It's the Canonical way, just as with Mir, Upstart, Unity, and a bunch of other NIH Canonical projects.

A commonly repeated lie.

Mir, Upstart, and Unity all precede or are parallel to the other project. While Wayland technically existed when Mir was created, Wayland wasn't very active at that time. Upstart was replacing init, systemd was created later and draw inspiration from Upstart. Unity was replacing Gnome 2, Gnome 3 was released a year after Unity and was a mess. Finally, Snap and Flatpack are more or less parallel, both solving a different issue, with Snap being a more system-level solution such as for drivers, IoT, while up until recently, Flatpack couldn't handle command-line apps at all, concentrating solely on GUI apps installed through GUI appstore.

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Lemmy.ml is blocking all requests from /kbin Instances

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suppression of the opposition != genocide, same with racism.

If you don’t want to do your own research and information gathering that’s fine, but I suggest doing so in the future. Knowing exact terms and their meanings in a political conversation is incredibly important.

Not only you provide a definition, that doesn't prove anything, but you are also smugly passively aggressive. This is not the way discussion should be led.

If you don't want to discuss, do not get into conversations that do not relate you in any way.