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Cake day: July 17th, 2024

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  • The declaration was the culmination of seven months of work to renew long-stalled talks that began in October when Ankara offered Ocalan an unexpected olive branch.

    The news won a cautious welcome on the streets of Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, where locals have seen repeated efforts to end the violence come to nothing.

    “We want this process to move forward and not be left unfinished. They shouldn’t deceive the Kurds as they did before. We really want peace,” 60-year-old worker Fahri Savas told AFP.

    There was a similar sentiment in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Erbil, where Khaled Mohammed, 55, warned: “We only support the peace process if it is serious and accompanied by international guarantees.”

    Remains to be seen how genuine Erdogan is (probably not very much).




  • It’s seriously so bad. I have a friend who’se family earns a lot of money. Like both his parents work in academia.

    And none of the banks would even let them take out a morgtage to buy a modest appartment. It’s ridiculous.

    Rentierism is theft.

    Rentierism definition

    an economic system in which a large share of wealth and income is generated not by producing goods or services, but by owning assets and charging others to use them. These assets might include:

    • Land (collected via rent),
    • Financial capital (collected via interest or dividends),
    • Intellectual property (collected via royalties or licensing),
    • Infrastructure (collected via usage fees or tolls),
    • Housing (collected via real estate speculation).






  • this is exactly what talking to basically anyone about your struggles as a disabled person feels like;

    “oh but havent you tried yoga” “I think I know some essential oils that could help you” “You need to workout more to make your body strong” (Me who has a mitochondrial/energy production disease 😭) “Trust me if you eat quinoa and supplements vitamins youll be back to health in no time”

    Can’t people, just… offer sympathy. Why are they so entrenched with the idea they will know the magical solution to an illness 80 years of research hasn’t found a useful treatment or management strategy for yet. As if I hadn’t spent months in denial trying out bullshit treatments when I first became ill and lost much of my body’s functioning.





  • The way i distinguish:

    property in that you have a piece of paper saying something is yours and you can prevent people from using that thing or extract value from it, while not using it yourself. That’s theft.

    But possession, ie. having things that you use, a house you live in etc. that’s not theft unless other circumstances that lead to the possession are theft.