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festus, to world in More than 300 Egyptians die from heat during Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, diplomats say

I hadn’t read this exact article but still commented because I’ve read about the same events in other publications.

festus, to world in More than 300 Egyptians die from heat during Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, diplomats say

I read somewhere that people who fork over money for a special visa to Saudis Arabia have access to air conditioned stations along the way. Most likely the Egyptians are doing it unofficially, which is likely easier to get away being in the general region already.

festus, to technology in Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has

I too use Kagi but it’s worth noting that Kagi gets most of its results by paying and using other search engines including Google and Bing, so it’s not 100% independent or immune from say Bing’s outage. Still the best option by far though.

festus, to world in EXCLUSIVE: ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes over October 7 attack and Gaza war | CNN

Only to countries that are part of the ICC. Many countries, including the US, aren’t a part so Netanyahu can safely travel to those places.

festus, to canada in Toronto developers are getting desperate as no one is buying condos anymore

Many condo projects take years to complete. Are you suggesting that years ago, when housing prices reached their peak, condo developers should have stopped development?

festus, to canada in Toronto developers are getting desperate as no one is buying condos anymore

Oh I’m not saying they should be bailed out or anything, just that I wouldn’t call developers ‘parasites’ as they actually are building homes.

festus, to canada in Toronto developers are getting desperate as no one is buying condos anymore

Would you rather that no one builds any condos?

festus, to canada in Toronto developers are getting desperate as no one is buying condos anymore

I’m going to be more sympathetic for the developers which is that they likely spent a ton of money for the land already when prices were high and after expensive building costs they’re struggling to not lose money.

festus, to canada in Loblaw reports 9.8% quarterly profit boost, hikes dividend 15%

I’m not sure that math works? They earned $460M in profit for Q1, so that’s about $1.84B in profit over a year. Divide that by 39 million people in Canada and you have $47 per person, which is nowhere near $300 per person plus $1B.

Still obscene profit margins, but let’s do the math correctly.

festus, to world in UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

I’m referring to the the Charter of Rights and Freedoms from 1982. But yes there is still a lot of unwritten rules too like the UK.

festus, to world in UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

The UK system has the concept that Parliament is the ultimate authority of matters. So courts there interpret laws but are unable to reject them.

Canada on the other hand has a constitution which lists different rights that people have, and Parliament has no authority to take away some of these rights. There is some controversial leeway with some of the rights where Parliament, using the ‘Notwithstanding clause’, is allowed to temporarily ignore some sections of the Constitution, but they have to keep renewing that every several years or else it expires, and it can’t be applied to some rights like voting rights.

Regarding this specific law I’m unsure of whether there’s anything in our constitution that would prevent deporting irregular migrants to a third country.

festus, to world in UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Please be specific about this being the UK’s democracy and not democracy in general. In Canada for example courts are stronger and it would be much more difficult (albeit not impossible) for our Parliament to do something like this.

festus, (edited ) to linux in backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

They also believe we (Arch users) are unaffected because this backdoor targeted Debian and Redhat type packaging specifically and also relied on a certain SSH configuration Arch doesn’t use. To be honest while it’s nice to know we’re unaffected, it’s not at all comforting that had the exploiter targeted Arch they would have succeeded. Just yesterday I was talking to someone about how much I love rolling release distros and now I’m feeling insecure about it.

More details here: gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/…/2

festus, to world in India moves to implement controversial citizenship bill that excludes Muslims

It’s been a while since I’ve read about this but my understanding is that many people in rural areas will lack the documentation showing that they’ve always lived in India and have citizenship. Basically, this would let the government then start questioning people’s citizenship and effectively pretend that many rural Muslims are illegal immigrants while allowing Hindus without documentation to be unaffected.

festus, to lemmyshitpost in There’s one in every friend group

That takes me way back to grade 1 where the way I was taught was to imagine an alligator eating the bigger number. I think all year I even drew teeth on them!

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