🇮🇷🇮🇷 General Discussion Thread Iranian Solidarity Edition - Juche 114, Week 26 🇮🇷🇮🇷
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Damn they have drip. Giving me outfit inspo
I had a dream that I was on vacation in the DPRK
You have better dreams than me. Last night I dreamt that Mike from Breaking Bad was showing me porn on his phone.
The Israeli ambassador came to visit Belgian parliament today for some reason and one of our MPs went off on her saying they are a genocidale state and that their lies to everyone will not prevent a Free Palestine and that their leaders will end up where they belong: in jail
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Beautiful!
Currently having a sticker war with some nazi shit in my hood. They keep placing stickers that say stuff like: hand in hand back to your own land. The weird thing is that these are Dutch org stickers for some reason.
Anyway they are very unfortunate that I have probably a thousand commie and antifascist stickers that I can keep placing on top of it. I just hope to catch the person in the act one day.
That is also just a really odd slogan, the hand in hand is anthetical in message to the second part
1 in 4 Dutch people are now afraid to wear sun screen because they think it gives them cancer. Instead they just bake in the giant ball of radiation in the sky without protection.
I guess this is Darwinism but the stupidity of so many people is frightening.
Tell me Dutchman, is it true that Dutch people are among the least likely in all of Europe to wash their hands after they use the bathroom?
Yes I think that is correct unfortunately. I wouldn't even be surprised if that was somehow rooted in white supremacy or something.
Many, if not most, sunscreens use certain ingredients that breakdown in UV light and produce carcinogens that can be absorbed by the skin. It was a relatively large exposé a few years ago. My doctor has equally told me that the sun isn't the primary factor in whether you get cancer and people without the genetic predisposition for skin cancer aren't going to get it from sun exposure.
Not that I don't wear sunscreen, but I select my sunscreen very very carefully and review the latest consumer research on cancer-causing ingredients.
Lots of world leaders currently in The Hague
a meeting to discuss how they are going to do absolutely nothing.
I wouldn't call giving 5 percent of the GDP of 34 countries to the US nothing
Be born in a country known for its English adaption, become head of NATO eventually, a world leading org
'It's not to slime with you'
My brother in Christ
From inside the former US embassy in Tehran, Iran.
Pictures of international revolutionary leaders.
Very conspicuously no Soviets though
No Mao either. Makes me sad...
Good morning! Death to “israel”
“Death to the IDF”
“Free Palestine”
“From the river to the sea”
Beautiful video!
Guy's name is Bob Vylan and he puts out some bangers.
"White folks love quoting Martin Luther / 'Cause he held hands and prayed while they bombed his building / Good for him but the times have changed / And don't forget, white folks still killed him"
(Song is "Pretty Songs")
Maybe the only upside of this NATO meeting is that the world is now able to see the walking clown show that is Mark Rutte
He is the walking example of a career politician being a glorified ass kisser. It should be an eye opener to NATO countries citizens on who is the real boss.
I am going to take a guess that it is the country who's leader he called daddy?
I often wonder what life in the DPRK is like and today I figured: someone must have uploaded some google maps pictures. And there are indeed some photos from ground level DPRK and it's really cool to see.
I am shocked google allowes decent photos from the DPRK to be honest
it's so clean, even the countryside looks clean.
libs will look at pictures of the DPRK with its clean streets, people riding bicycles, no ugly ads plastered all over, etc. and think "this is hell"
I checked and now I wonder how does google access data about the weather in each city in there...
Probably not too difficult from satellite. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a delay between reported weather and actual weather if it's just satellite with no ground telemetry.
I wouldn't be surprised if NK offered weather data publicly either. That kind of thing is important for shipping/trade.
So Jeff Bezos can rent out the entire city of Venice for his wedding and all the media are so quirky about it like it's not a fucking bizarre thing to do
Its funny that he is going to be divorced in like 2-3 years tops anyways.
Depending on the prenup Jeff Bezos might enter history known as the man that is responsible for one of the richest woman on earth, twice.
That image is AI
I do not know what to tell you, I got the immage from CGTN. https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-06-14/On-the-ground-Iran-released-photos-of-Israeli-fighter-jet-wreckage-1Ec4QSrlOVy/p.html
I said we were in a post truth society, then post irony society (when reality became more absurd than the onion), now we are in a post reality society, when there's practically no way for anyone to know what's going on, as photos, and videos can be believable faked. we will quickly jump to a postpast society, where the past itself can be believably faked.
was the holocaust real? here is a documentary from 1945 about it made when it was liberated, but here is another documentary that claims to be from 1945 showing it with "prisoners" happy, with a dance hall, and partying with the guards, and how they sang while working... all claim to be real, all with articles about them how theybare real, all with articles about the other one being fake.
There will be no past, objective reality will be an unreachable goal.
based on echo bubbles your neighbour will live in a very different reality than you.
things like this have been going on for a while, but it'll be so common it'll be the new normal to not have reality.
Chilling prediction but likely.
The answer to that most likely is physical media and carbon dating. Back to the roots. Physical pictures with a carbon date certificate in a vacuum chamber in a museum, etc.
You could build cameras that crypto-graphically sign photos individually. And that capture a lightfield at least partially (maybe possible with autofocus pixels already), then you know someone isn't just capturing a monitor. This could be implemented into reputable smartphones too. If someone cracks (physically) the camera sensor/chip assembly, the certificate can be revoked after it's been found out.
Then you could design an image format where any editing step (like cropping, color mapping) is reversible and signed too.
Most of this is because we don't have a free press anymore. There are only 3 international newspapers and they have all been infiltrated or captured.
Sightengine disagrees with you, what makes you think so?
The fact that the afterburner is on after the crash, the wing is actually backwards, and also how this was shown wherever some news said "F35 down" despite not having anything in common with an actual F35. Even if it was an F16 the first points still stand.
Same with the "Soroka Hospital map" that was clearly AI generated going by the letters alone, and it didn't have anything to do with the actual Soroka Hospital that you can find on any map service (seriously, it's like Google Maps or OSM don't exist).
I don't really care whether they downed F35s, I just wish people stopped posting AI slop and passing it as proof, it really damages any kind of credibility they have.
And what about this one?
So today I will join the national strike in Brussels against the government reforms, against the militarisation, for our workers rights. 7th strike in a row (for me at least) this year. Many more to come it seems. But we will not give up.
Idk if any of y'all know of Lexi Alexander, but she was banned on Bluesky two days ago. She's a leftist, Palestinian-American filmmaker (she directed Punisher Warzone and some other, more niche movies) who's been outspoken against the genocide in Palestine. Doubt anyone here has any illusions about Bluesky being any better than Twitter, since they've been banning Palestinians & leftists without warning & making space for TERFs and white supremacists for ages now, but...
Update: Lexi was unbanned. First thing she reposted was a video of Bob Vylan's "death, death to the IDF" chant. Queen.
Contemplating going back to my home town Tuesday to form an anti racist protest as a reaction of Geert Wilders and his anti immigrant protest over there. But it's at 6 and I have a job and it's over an hour drive so probably won't make it. Just hope others are able to then.
Another stabbing in the city. This time a guy got stabbed by a woman after allegedly harrassing her friend. Which, if true, based of course.
Why do I feel like there will be a prade of people saying the harrasment is bad but it should not be a death sentence... and that he should have gone without consiquinces starting now
Thought I had about liberal individualism: It's well-illustrated by the scene from the movie Office Space, where the boss is chastising the employee about her flair and people who do the "bare minimum." Because of policy, he can't just tell her to wear more flair than the minimum, but he still very much wants her to do so, so rather than getting the policy changed (which would be "restrictive" and go against the concept of "being yourself"), he tries to convince her through repeated shaming and browbeating and talking around it. The whole thing centers around him trying to convince her that she wants to be someone who wears more flair and comes off very passive-aggressive because it has no real understanding or respect for her as a person, only this sort of facade of respect that is grudgingly given.
I think it also fits well with the notion about "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds." Because it helps show how underneath liberal individualism, there is this aggressive desire for conformity and adherence to a strict way of being. But the norms of liberalism say you're not supposed to directly pursue that, lest you become "authoritarian", so people find passive-aggressive ways to pursue it instead. End result being you get this confused cocktail of mixed messages, where you're simultaneously being told you should live your life how you want to live it, while also being told you better only live it within a very narrow framework.
Breathtaking 😮
I hope you all have a nice week :D
You too! (Got so caught up in the war mega that I forgot to drop in here yesterday)
you too comrade! 🫂
You too oppo, heck nice weeks all round for my comrades.
Nice week too, comrade!
UGGGGGG can I give up?
Our party has a yearly festival and on this edition one of the government officials of the neolib party responsible for retirement reform, an enormously sensitive topic, will do a debate with one of our party members.
Kudos to him for daring to do this but he might seriously be attacked lol
Zios on Twitter aren't even hiding that they hate Zohran entirely because he's a muslim
I'm really toying with the idea of moving to Utrecht. I fell in love with the city, and would like to live there. Although I'm not in close contact with people who live there and the official housing site only lets me seek housing in my own area. Gotta love the housing crisis. I don't mind staying in Amsterdam but want to leave Utrecht open as an option.
Utrecht is very nice but ridiculously expensive (like Amsterdam). Used to hang out there a lot. Are you still a student? Because then renting a single room might be easier.
Yeah Utrecht is expensive sadly. If I could find a place which isn't ridiculously expensive, I would probably have to move quite far away.
And yeah I'm a student, so student housing is an option but it would be nice to have something for after school
Spanish should be the Lingua Franca of the Americas, seeing as it's the most spoken language there. An Argentinian or Ecuadorian should be able to go to Milwaukee or Saskatoon and talk to the people there in Spanish. I hate English language imperialism.
Lingua Franca? More like Lengua Hispana am I right
Oddly enough the only place that seems to be fighting English impearialism at all is Qubec in (Mostly) English speaking Canada
But they are trying to make people speak FRENCH, which is arguably worse and a war crime.
As a native spanish speaker, hell yea it should.
Well, another week.
I will join the strike in Brussels this Wednesday against the new government plans. It's the 7th consecutive monthly strike now and I'm curious to see what the turnout will be.
There something so funny about ChatGPT Lol.
I prompt an anti israel Prompt always hit with the 'I'm sorry, but I can't help with that request.'
But fine when anti china request Lol
This is why I use Deepseek
What do you use it for, genuinely?
I fail to see any use for these programs in my own research or for organizing data. Every time I've tried using these bots the information and specific context I am seeking is either regurgitated half-correct or showed in relevance to completely different topics (example being me asking GPT if "Marx ever write about "fake currency"" trying to see if it would bring up his writings on fictitious credit and it straight up told me "nah, he didn't" and then proceeded to give me instructions on improving my credit rating.
Deepseek is better, but still has some quirks of it's own. I just fail to see any use with them outside of coding.
If anyone ever wants to know something about the cluster fuck that is Belgian politics:
Belgium is devided into a Dutch speaking part and a French speaking part. As a result, most parties have grown into a Dutch side or a French side. This can lead to either one being elected for government. This is now the case with the socdems. The Dutch part of Vooruit is elected to rule with the neolibs while their French part PS is not. Vooruit is going along with the budget cuts while PS is fighting against it. Literally fighting against their own party.
They even share the same building in Brussels. Can you imagine having to work on finding ways to do opposition while possibly sitting next to your coworker working on government plans?
This just leads to the question, of why would you opt to split your party like this. All it does is puts you at a disadvantage, your on the hook for all the terrible things that are done AND you still opposed any good thing your party was able to force through
I don't understand either. Out party doesn't do it and remains one party throughout the country. Much easier.
Innokids英之子乐队原创歌曲《以色列上空的火焰》 【Fireworks Over Israel】 我们并非为战争喝彩，我们只是在感慨，多行不义必自食其果。 太炸裂了，太精彩了，如果你看完听完了，那么你会收藏，转发的。
Good song 😁👍🏼
Despicable Me playing in a DPRK taxi 😂🇰🇵
lel, that photograph reminds me of the downed Me 262 that I shared last August.
There's this absolutely brain dead tv show in The Netherlands on the most stupid tv channel there is but one of the people in it is called El Che. That's his first name and I'm only slightly jealous.
funny fact, "El Che" literally means "a dude"
"I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing."
I looked it up. According to him, Che is because there was a character in "Goede tijden, slechte tijden" with that name and El is because of Elvis Presley.
f35 in the header image?
All the article said was war plane, some sorces say F-35 I ak not going to make that claim, not sure it looks quite right