this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2024
97 points (100.0% liked)

Interesting Global News

2607 readers
455 users here now

What is global news?

Something that happened or was uncovered recently anywhere in the world. It doesn't have to have global implications. Just has to be informative in some way.


Post guidelines

Title formatPost title should mirror the news source title.
URL formatPost URL should be the original link to the article (even if paywalled) and archived copies left in the body. It allows avoiding duplicate posts when cross-posting.
[Opinion] prefixOpinion (op-ed) articles must use [Opinion] prefix before the title.


Rules

1. English onlyTitle and associated content has to be in English.
2. No social media postsAvoid all social media posts. Try searching for a source that has a written article or transcription on the subject.
3. Respectful communicationAll communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
4. InclusivityEveryone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
5. Ad hominem attacksAny kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.
6. Off-topic tangentsStay on topic. Keep it relevant.
7. Instance rules may applyIf something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.


Companion communities

Icon attribution | Banner attribution

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

The barrage began around midnight and continued beyond daybreak in what appeared to be Russia's biggest attack against Ukraine in weeks.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/qwOaT

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euronews.com%2Fmy-europe%2F2024%2F08%2F26%2Frussian-missiles-hit-energy-infrastructure-in-more-than-half-of-ukraines-regions

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who blew up that Nordstream pipeline?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So I've just gone and done some reading based on this comment to try to understand how it is a rebuttal to anything I've said, and although there were some details I wasn't aware of, I'm still not seeing it. You can reply now to re-emphasize my stupidity whenever you are ready.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was simply making a joke about the idea that the Russian perspective should be thrown out and we should only listen to Western-Aligned sources because the latter were insisting in the wake of the blast that Russia blew up its own pipeline while Russia said that they obviously weren't.

A better example might have been the prison full of Azovites that got rocketed, but I was going for something that I was sure anyone who gave a shit about Ukraine/Russia, even from a superficial culture war perspective, would be familiar with.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My expectation was that it was evidence of a disagreement with my comments sourced with something other than a swipe at my general intellect or capability, but I see my standards were too high. I never made a statement that the Russian perspective should never be listened to, my statements were very specific to this event.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why waste time with a Hexbear account

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Whew, with the number of people who sideswipe at .ml I try not to look at things that way, but in this case...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are some great instances out there if you want to leave .ml

Lemm.ee is great. No weird censorship or propaganda like ml

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a weird thing - I gravitated towards .ml because it doesn't federate with threads (not sure of ee, I will check), had a decent userbase (not sure why I thought that mattered), and I liked the idea that most people on the instance would be to the left of me (again, really doesn't matter in the end I guess, it just felt more comfortable that way than being amongst what I'd perceive as a bunch of conservatives) - since then I've learned of the reputation of .ml, but on the other hand aside from the occasional snark from folks I don't think it impacts me much, unless there are things I'm missing I don't realize. (which is possible)

But I appreciate the suggestion. I've been considering whether I want to move based on the above - I suppose I could create an account elsewhere and see how different the Lemmy experience is or isn't as a result...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah that all makes sense. I dont want anything to do with Threads/Meta either.