HellsBelle
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World News@lemmy.world•Greece to ban anonymity on social mediaEnglish
2·12 days agoBack in the early 2000s, when the web was still somewhat safe, I used to post comments on a news site using my real name … my reasoning being that if I was posting my opinion on something I should have the balls to use my rn.
Within about a year it started becoming more dangerous tho. I wasn’t stalked but the responses became more personal and degrading, and the misogynists began showing up in force.
I get why Greece would want to do this, but as of right now it would be better if they made some hard rules for Meta et al to follow - with massive fines attached for being lax.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada Says Its Gold Is Traceable and Clean. So We Traced It. | We ended up in a Colombian mine controlled by a drug cartel.English
4·13 days agoIt’s really in South America tho.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada Says Its Gold Is Traceable and Clean. So We Traced It. | We ended up in a Colombian mine controlled by a drug cartel.English
431·13 days agoBut unlike the Americans, who have gone decades without tracking their gold supplies, the Canadians have known that they were getting it from a country where cocaine trafficking, paramilitary violence and the gold trade are intertwined.
Yet they continued to call it North American gold.
They did so, officials explained, because before the Colombian gold arrives in Canada, a Texas intermediary mixes it with American gold. In the Mint’s eyes, the resulting mix is entirely North American.
This fiction, and the fact that perpetuating it is completely legal, is an example of how even the world’s most credible dealers allow tainted gold into the mainstream market.
Jfc. When did the idea of lying become the government-approved way of things??
Nevermind … I know.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Prediction Markets Are Coming to Canada. Are We Ready to Bet on War? | The WalrusEnglish
2·13 days agoOn par with private equity.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksOPto
Canada@lemmy.ca•When my sons with autism are sent home from school, they've learned the problem is them — not the systemEnglish
94·13 days agoIt is up to the provincial government to properly fund the education of ALL children whether or not there are learning challenges or difficulties.
If the provincial government doesn’t want to do its job properly they should step down from office.
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World News@lemmy.world•China blocks $2bn Meta takeover of AI agent developer ManusEnglish
3·13 days agowink wink Canada
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Edmonton history buffs consider impact of looming dissolution of historical boardEnglish
3·13 days agoThose who forget history are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Toronto man's HIV no longer detectable after bone marrow transplantEnglish
4·14 days agoFrom the article …
If he remains in remission for about two and a half years, the 36-year-old will join 10 people in the world currently considered cured of HIV.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Toronto man's HIV no longer detectable after bone marrow transplantEnglish
5·14 days agoThis is how it works (from the article) …
The search began to find the best bone marrow match. The ideal donor would also have a CCR5 gene mutation resistant to HIV.
CCR5 is a protein on the surface of an immune cell that acts as the door that HIV enters to infect the body, but about one per cent of the population, primarily of northern European descent, are deficient of this gene.
That means there is no door for the virus to enter, “and so the virus can’t get into the cells,” said Dr. Mario Ostrowski, a clinician-scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital who co-led the case with Walmsley. The new donor cells could also attack and eliminate the reservoir of virus-infected cells.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•After autistic child's wandering from school, experts say Ontario's special education needs more supportEnglish
3·14 days agoI have a friend who adopted an FASD child in Ontario. The family tried using the regular school system but the hoops they had to jump through, and the lack of funding for 1-on-1 care, became too much to deal with.
They finally decided to place the child in a religious private school where he had the freedom (and monitoring) that he needed, ie: when he became frustrated he was able to go outside and race around the church.
Maybe Drug Fraud could better fund 1-on-1 care in schools with that $29M he was going to spend on a private fucking jet.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Question for Canadians - do you say "zi" or "zed"?English
81·15 days agoZed.
Dunno who decided zee was a thing, but they were wrong.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Federal court judge grants last-minute delay for driver in Humboldt Broncos bus crash | Globalnews.caEnglish
162·14 days agoHe paid his dues according to our laws.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksto
News@lemmy.world•Judge sanctions law firm that has pursued Leon Black over Epstein tiesEnglish
1·15 days agoSeems the lawyer wasn’t playing nice.
Clarke, a Biden appointee, found that Christensen “repeatedly lied to the Court and to opposing counsel in this litigation” about what was happening in a related case, a class-action lawsuit by Epstein victims against JPMorgan Chase. Clarke also found that Christensen directed the plaintiff, who remains anonymous, to destroy a social-media account that she used to post public messages about her experiences.
And the judge found that the plaintiff “falsified sonogram images in her personal journals,” which she relied on to allege that Epstein and other men who allegedly abused her carried out what she called an “impregnation game” in which she was forced to either bear their children or undergo abortions.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksto
News@lemmy.world•NBC News Drops Bombshell Report on Trump War Battle Damage: ‘Far Worse’ Than Trump Team SaidEnglish
3·15 days agoHere’s another source that isn’t payealled.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksto
News@lemmy.world•Trump fires the entire National Science BoardEnglish
61·15 days agoHe didn’t have the authority to do half the stuff he has. Why should this be any different?
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Experts report a surge in interest among American academics looking to move to CanadaEnglish
1·15 days agoYeah. I’m old now but have moved about a hundred times in my life. I hate it.
The one good thing about moving so often is I don’t have a ton of stuff to pack.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Experts report a surge in interest among American academics looking to move to CanadaEnglish
61·15 days agoHonestly I don’t think a lot of them would go back right away. It’s like that old saying, “Once bit, twice shy.”
If anything I think they’d be holding back moving so they could verify any positive changes in how the USA would operate would be permanent, and not just lip-service.
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News@lemmy.world•Washington, D.C., swaps out Australian flags for British ones before King's arrival after mix-upEnglish
2·16 days agotRump surrounds himself with the absolute best people. 🤣
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Kevin O'Leary pins water licence for $70-billion data centre project on a small Alberta municipalityEnglish
34·16 days agoHey Kev. Who was really driving the boat?











Jfc. :/