They have an entire section of the website dedicated to Palestine. The button is right there at the top. They published two articles about it yesterday. This is the most ridiculous whataboutery I have ever seen

HRW’s job is to investigate human rights abuses. Their job is not to only report on well-documented human rights abuses. They investigate to improve the documentation of those cases.

The restrictions only apply to “sensitive” countries, not all countries with large Muslim populations.

Saudi Arabia is on the list according to HRW https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/09/10/eradicating-ideological-viruses/chinas-campaign-repression-against-xinjiangs

I mean, how could those restrictive laws have passed in the first place if most people in the region were against them?

The answer to this is very obvious, is it not? Xinjiang is part of China, and as such Xinjiangese law is subject to Chinese law

But besides that, Uyghurs are not an outright majority of the population of Xinjiang. The Xinjiang government absolutely could - hypothetically - pass laws that every Uyghur opposes and retain majority support.

Consider that most people in Xinjiang are not affected by the specific travel restrictions

This is very much at odds with the text of the article unless your position is that most people in Xinjiang would never leave Xinjiang anyway, and also most of the diaspora would not travel to Xinjiang. Barring them from travelling to countries with large Muslim populations seems particularly notable given the importance of making a pilgrimage to Mecca within the religion

Are a few Syrian fighters such a threat to one of the world’s most powerful militaries that it justifies blanket travel restrictions on 26,000,000 people? I wouldn’t want to see, for example, the UK banning travel in and out of its areas with high Muslim populations just because some people in Syria called for the overthrow of the UK

The site clearly has an entire section about Palestine. Unfortunately more than one bad thing can happen at once.

Ehhhhh we Scots should probably not argue too hard. Unlike the other two we joined mostly-voluntarily and were doing our own small scale empire thing beforehand as well. We were rubbish at it, but I don’t think there are sympathy points for incompetence. The Welsh and Irish definitely got dragged along wthout a say though

Assuming that I can’t rely on real life’s ubiquitous floppy disk icon, I think something with a bookshelf is probably my best bet. An arrow pointing to the bookshelf for save, away for load. Bookshelves can be recognisable as pretty small icons and a physical book is extremely broadly understood. It may eventually fail if everyone moves to e-readers, but I think that’s a long way off

Constituent countries of the Kingdom of Denmark, 2026: Denmark, Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Greater Vinland

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A week for medical reasons, but I was being given intravenous water and nutrients the whole time. Those don’t stop you from feeling like your stomach is empty, unfortunately. The first slice of toast afterwards was possibly the best thing I have ever eaten

Out of choice, maybe 32-ish hours? A full day plus sleep the night beforehand

They are quoting DeepSeek’s privacy policy. They say this before and after the first quote, and also link the policy at the top of the article.

Some day? Probably. But if it isn’t for now, I’ll take it as an improvement for now

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I’m certainly not about to say they don’t count just because they’re not Tuareg. The riff in Soubour is so god damn cool

Desert blues! In the 90s, a lot of Tuareg musicians living in the western part of the Sahara, especially some that met while serving in the Libyan army or fighting in the 1990 rebellion in Mali, started combining Western blues and rock music with their own folk music. This has turned into a full-fledged genre of its own which I think anyone keen on guitar-based music has a good chance of enjoying. Here’s Tamikrest playing a set https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maXW66vz26g

I do love a bit of post rock. We Lost the Sea are probably my favourite, but a heads up for anyone going into this that it’s about 20 minutes long and you actually need the 20 minutes to get a sense of it

It’s Burns night tomorrow, so I’ll be having haggis and a bunch of whisky! Also, my little brother has never seen the Godfather and his girlfriend won’t watch it with him, so I’m going to go see him for a movie night

Ethiopia is not the only country that has it endemic by any means. Vietnam - which is far wealthier - only got certified as clear of it late last year. Hell even Mexico only got certified in 2017. Ethiopia, meanwhile, is one of the poorest countries in world, has an ongoing civil war, and is only recently out of a second civil war that killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions

The chain of conversation was:

• Original post: “How do you seriously fight fascism and don’t say just vote?”
• Top-level comment by Chivera, removed: “Luigi”
• Your reply: “Did nothing wrong”

There is absolutely no reasonable way to interpret that other than “Luigi Mangione did nothing wrong when he killed Brian Thompson, and that’s how you seriously fight fascism”. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I am saying own your words rather than doing this bullshit dance around them

Sometimes with music. I quite like death and black metal, and I find listening to that loud or playing guitar along with it (also loud) to be quite a cathartic experience. Other times I need more peace, though. I like walking and climbing hills, any nice spot of nature, so I go out and do that at the earliest opportunity. My health and the weather around here can limit the opportunity for that sometimes, but it’s good when circumstances permit