huppakee

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How the Netherlands engineered its asylum crisis — and turned it into a business in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

They sure could if they want to.

The "Freedom of Russia" resistance movement destroyed dozens of locomotives across Russia, targeting their control systems to disrupt the transport of military supplies to the front. in c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 6 points 5 months ago

I 100% agree!

How the Netherlands engineered its asylum crisis — and turned it into a business in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't believe the government intended to create a business from the migrant crisis though, it just happens to be where their choices brought them.

The "Freedom of Russia" resistance movement destroyed dozens of locomotives across Russia, targeting their control systems to disrupt the transport of military supplies to the front. in c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I sincerely hope that after Ukraine wins the war, the parties that now support Ukraine will go on and support the people in Russia and Belarus instead of going back to doing business with the likes of Putin and Lucashenko. The people there risking their lives deserve it.

USA: Shoplifting Has Increased 93% Since 2019; 45 % of Shoplifters are Stealing Food in c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 8 points 5 months ago

Thanks, I continued looking further into it as well and found another article on it, which states:

Retailers reported a 93% increase in annual shoplifting incidents in 2023 compared to 2019.

So I believe you are right. Guess op proves that often you can have either interesting text with poorly supported numbers, or boring text with well supported facts. Too bad though, cause i did actually enjoy reading the article (so extra shout-out to op for sharing).

USA: Shoplifting Has Increased 93% Since 2019; 45 % of Shoplifters are Stealing Food in c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

Shoplifting happens 93% more often now or is the statistic that the value of stolen goods increased by 93% in total? I feel like that matters a lot.

Edit: the article quite well written if you ask me, but lacks sources. There is a graph, but that doesn't show the numbers mentioned. It shows losses of 31.1B in 2019 and an estimated 47.8B in 2025, which is a rise of ~54% not 93%. It presents itself as investigative journalism, but feels more like a op-ed instead.

UK to criminalise protests outside homes of public officials under new law in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago

This is how it should be in a just world, but we do not live in one

I agree, but if we as people do whatever the fuck we want the politicians won't have a good example of how they're supposed to treat people.

and the only reason we even have basic human rights at all is because they were violently protested for, and 99% of the violence came from the state.

We the people do have allies within the state, although there are plenty of places were those allies are kicked out as soon as they do some good, not all states are an enemy of the people. Again, i too believe we should uphold politicians to high standards and we should praise them without good reason, but the least we can do is treat them as decently as we'd like to be treated ourselves. But i guess if i was living in a place where national politics was a mess like the UK or US, i'd be less willing to defend the basterds that are breaking 'my' democracy too. Not judging anyone in that regard.

UK to criminalise protests outside homes of public officials under new law in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Though i'm against criminalizing protesters, i do think people who do bad things on their job also deserve a private life. If they break the law they should be brought to court obviously, but if they act within the bounds of the rule of law protest should be against the movement or the system that allows this bad individual that does the bad thing. I'll get some downvotes for saying this, but i believe we should not only be decent to people who do things we like, but to literally everyone.

"How do you pronounce Mary/merry/marry?" in c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago

Even more unpopular opinion: British royals should hire Americans to relearn those unfashionable words lol

"How do you pronounce Mary/merry/marry?" in c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 0 points 5 months ago

Sure it did, I'm saying it remained regular.

"How do you pronounce Mary/merry/marry?" in c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
[–] huppakee@feddit.nl -3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Unpopular opinion 1: the us should invite some Brits and learn to speak regular English again.

Unpopular opinion 2: the us should split up and adopt their local version of English as their official language.

Italy to raise tax on super-rich foreigners by 50pc in blow to wealthy non-doms in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can be a foreigner, no problem. You can be super-rich, that's fine. But both? Unacceptable.

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Ambulance carrying a crash victim crashes in L.A., drawing a crash investigator — who also crashes (www.latimes.com)
 

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Student-led protesters in Belgrade call for snap elections in Serbia (www.euronews.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/37287092

Tens of thousands of student-led demonstrators gathered in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on Saturday, calling for early parliamentary elections after nearly eight months of protests.

The students have been a key force in driving anti-corruption protests across the nation following the deadly collapse of a newly renovated train station canopy in the city of Novi Sad in November 2024, which killed 16 people.

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Student-led protesters in Belgrade call for snap elections in Serbia (www.euronews.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/37287092

Tens of thousands of student-led demonstrators gathered in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on Saturday, calling for early parliamentary elections after nearly eight months of protests.

The students have been a key force in driving anti-corruption protests across the nation following the deadly collapse of a newly renovated train station canopy in the city of Novi Sad in November 2024, which killed 16 people.

Many Serbians blamed the collapse on alleged government corruption and negligence in state infrastructure projects, leading to recurring mass protests.

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Student-led protesters in Belgrade call for snap elections in Serbia (www.euronews.com)
 

Tens of thousands of student-led demonstrators gathered in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on Saturday, calling for early parliamentary elections after nearly eight months of protests.

The students have been a key force in driving anti-corruption protests across the nation following the deadly collapse of a newly renovated train station canopy in the city of Novi Sad in November 2024, which killed 16 people.

Many Serbians blamed the collapse on alleged government corruption and negligence in state infrastructure projects, leading to recurring mass protests.

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Ukraine and the Council of Europe sign Agreement on establishing a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (www.coe.int)
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/37085803

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, have signed an agreement on the establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, including the Statute of the Special Tribunal.

Yesterday, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, composed of representatives of its 46 member states, authorised Secretary General Berset to sign the agreement

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Ukraine and the Council of Europe sign Agreement on establishing a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (www.coe.int)
 

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Israel blasts EU report claiming Gaza human rights breaches (www.euronews.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/36871400

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