Whats up with all the AI videos?

Infowar in full swing from all sides. At this point people are dead when their own side admits they are. Just like I didn’t believe Khamenei was dead until Iran said so, I won’t believe Bubi is dead until Israel says so.

Well the German Democratic Republic is unique among the former USSR countries in that it was unified with the Federal Republic of Germany. The latter already had a strong focus on privacy laws resulting from the Nazi time (meaning there was strong mistrust towards the state, but Nazis trying to hide in plain sight was obviously also relevant). But when the sheer amount of information the communist intelligence services were storing on their citizens became known after reunification this pre-existing privacy bias was put into overdrive, it confirmed all the worst fears west Germans already had about the state becoming too powerful.

Der Merz hat lächelnd daneben gesessen als Trump offen die Souveränität Spaniens in Frage gestellt hat, indem er sagte die USA können einfach Spanische Flughäfen benutzen wann und wie sie wollen, egal ob Spanien zustimmt. Glaube nicht das Merkel das kommentarlos hätte stehen lassen. Scholz schon eher, aber glaub auch nicht.

I believe the cited Kurdish groups immediately disclaimed this. Also this is over 4 days old. There was no ground invasion.

Anfangsverdachts der „üblen Nachrede und Verleumdung gegen Personen des politischen Lebens“

Klingt wie ein unvollständiges Zitat des §188 StGB “Gegen Personen des politischen Lebens gerichtete Beleidigung, üble Nachrede und Verleumdung”. Die zielen also wahrscheinlich auf die Beleidigung, aber selbst wenn nicht, wie sie nachweisen wollen das “die Tat geeignet [ist], sein [Merz] öffentliches Wirken erheblich zu erschweren” bleibt sowieso fraglich. Da überhaupt auch nur einen Anfangsverdacht zu behaupten ist halt schon… gewagt.

Some Fediverse frontends don’t set the self-upvote by default (kbin for example), but since lemmings.world is a Lemmy instance it was probably removed by the author (maybe accidentally double-click on posting?).

Das sind Magengeschwüre ausgelöst von einer langlebigen Helicobacter wirtschafti Infektion.

Trump launched this war to have a pretense to give money to the weapons industry

Lol, like any US president needs justification for that ever. I mean it’s a geopolitical event and the military-industrial complex certainly is one of the major lobby groups pushing for this (or any) confrontation, not disputing that.

But the immediate reason for Trump seems to be the (seemingly working) distraction from the escalating Epstein scandal. He already learned that war and the resulting market volatility is a great way to “flood the zone with shit” when he attacked Iran last year, and that being his primary objective also neatly accounts for the apparent lack of an exit strategy and clearly defined war goals.

Again, not saying it’s the only reason why this war is happening in general, but probably the main one to Trump anyway. Which Warren seems to be confirming with her testimony here, saying there is simply no coherent reason presented for it even under secrecy.

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Jo also wer sich mal ganz hart fremdschämen möchte, hier ist der Besuch im Weißen Haus (auf Englisch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocFJL5jRLXM

Es ist so hart peinlich, vor allem wie er Spanien da einfach mal hart in den Rücken fällt. Sitzt einfach lächelnd daneben während Trump wild rumlügt, mit Handelskrieg und Embargos droht, und sogar wo er behauptet er könne einfach die Souveränität Spaniens ignorieren und deren Basen trotz deren Weigerung benutzen. Und das einzige was er dann zu sagen hat ist das Spanien ja tatsächlich nicht das Natobudgetziel erfüllt hat. Einfach ehrlos.

Weiß jetzt nicht ob dein “darf man” im Titel eher sozial gemeint war oder rechtlich, aber bei Letzterem ist die Antwort klar nein. Das war, ähnlich wie das Zeigen eines Hitlergrußes, ziemlich sicher Volksverhetzung (§130 StGB):

(4) Mit Freiheitsstrafe bis zu drei Jahren oder mit Geldstrafe wird bestraft, wer öffentlich oder in einer Versammlung den öffentlichen Frieden in einer die Würde der Opfer verletzenden Weise dadurch stört, dass er die nationalsozialistische Gewalt- und Willkürherrschaft billigt, verherrlicht oder rechtfertigt.

Die Frage ist halt ob du dir den Stress antun willst das zur Anzeige zu bringen… Aber hättest du theoretisch machen können.

Explosions reported in Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE now. They are certainly not holding back this time.

Yeah at least two waves have been launched so far:

https://iran.liveuamap.com/en/2026/28-february-08-israeli-military-a-barrage-of-rockets-was
https://iran.liveuamap.com/en/2026/28-february-08-the-israeli-army-says-it-has-detected-another

Missile alerts in northern Israel and Tel Aviv area. Explosions reported near Haifa.

Edit: Explosions reported near Jerusalem as well just a few minutes ago.

Nah, the article just names a handful of cities, but it’s all over the country. Verdi is one of the biggest unions here, they have members practically everywhere, so the strike is country-wide for the full 48h, affecting all companies that have employees represented by Verdi. But it’s just a “warning strike”, so local buses and trams are operating but on drastically reduced schedules. Most regional and long distance trains are not affected however as they have different unions.

The guys who did the yearly news review for the German hacker congress had a whole category for articles/headlines like this called “da war wohl der Zensor pinkeln”, roughly translated “the censor must have been taking a leak” (leak as in urinating, not whistleblowing, that pun doesn’t work in German sadly).

But… like… past experience only changes behaviour if it constitutes new information. If your past experience confirms your priors you won’t change behaviour.

How did people take this so seriously, especially on a meme community?

“Poe’s law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.”

(Gore?)

There is an urban legend saying he claimed to have invented the internet. What actually happened was that he was asked in a 1999 interview how he was different from other candidates and replied: “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. […]”. He was probably referring to legislative efforts.

Your spoiler is broken (at least on the Lemmy website), it’s missing 2 newlines and a display text. Format is like this:

::: spoiler Displayed text here
Hidden text here
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Turns to this:

Without the newlines its just plain text. Note that the “spoiler” behind the opening colons is also needed and not part of the displayed text. I.e. if you want the displayed text to be “spoiler” your first line needs to be ::: spoiler spoiler.

Curiously that’s the same sentiment the Zionist German left espouses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Germans_(political_current)

Ja geil ey. Die AfD freut sich schon auf ihre Machtergreifung, müssen nicht mal mehr die Unterdrückungsgesetze selber schreiben. *gesichtspalme*