I don’t think that’s what happened?

There is a discussion to be had about why the ICC is better at getting justice in some regions over others, but that also shouldn’t mean that we just give up altogether. Victims in the global south deserve justice too. That includes those in the Central African Republic, many of which are from the same race and ethnic background as him.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/09/23/central-african-republic-icc-verdict-in-seleka-commander-case

(The Hague) – The International Criminal Court (ICC)’s conviction of Mahamat Said Abdel Kani for crimes against humanity in the Central African Republic offers an important measure of long-awaited justice for victims of the abusive Seleka armed group, Human Rights Watch said today.

In 2012, the predominantly Muslim Seleka rebels ousted the Central African Republic president, François Bozizé, and seized power through a campaign of violence and terror. In March 2013, the Seleka took control of Bangui, the capital, attacking civilians and pillaging the city. In late 2013, Christian and animist militias known as anti-balaka, began to organize counterattacks against the Seleka. Both the Seleka and anti-balaka have been implicated in widespread atrocities against civilians.

https://www.dw.com/en/icc-convicts-car-ex-rebel-leader-of-crimes-against-humanity/a-79387178

Prosecutors allege that prisoners at the facility, who were suspected supporters of Bozize, were subjected to various forms of torture, including whippings and body mutilation.

According to the court, inmates were also denied food or water, with some drinking their own urine out of desperation.

One cell, dubbed “the hole,” where prisoners were held in dire conditions, was said by the court to be directly under Said’s office.

Meanwhile the americans are trying to dismantle the court

Said’s verdict comes at a time when the ICC is facing extreme pressure. In February 2025, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order authorizing sanctions on ICC officials and others supporting the court’s work. Since then, the US government has imposed sanctions on ICC officials and staff, a UN expert, and three leading Palestinian human rights organizations. Together with three other human rights groups, Human Rights Watch has sued the Trump administration in a US court over its sanctions targeting the ICC.

They have a well known baby formula scandal too. They used unethical advertising practices to get women in developing countries started on free baby formula, and then the women had to keep buying the formula when the natural lactation stopped.

They would then have trouble sourcing clean water and clean equipment, causing the babies to get sick. They would also try to stretch the formula because of financial limitations, and the babies would be malnourished

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestlé_boycott

Advocacy groups and charities have accused Nestlé of unethical methods of promoting infant formula over breast milk to poor mothers in developing countries.[23][24] For example, IBFAN claims that Nestlé distributes free formula samples to hospitals and maternity wards; after leaving the hospital, the formula is no longer free, but because the supplementation has interfered with lactation, the family must continue to buy the formula. IBFAN also alleges that Nestlé uses “humanitarian aid” to create markets, does not label its products in a language appropriate to the countries where they are sold, and offers gifts and sponsorship to influence health workers to promote its products.[25] The company not only made use of mass media promotion (e.g. billboards and posters) and sample distributions, they also had sales people dressed as so-called “milk nurses” to visit mothers in hospital and at their home to praise formula and its benefits.[26][27][10] Nestlé justified its actions by rejecting the responsibility for e.g. the lack of clean water in many developing countries and further argued with freedom of consumer choice, which in the company’s opinion allows for formula products to be sold in developing markets

Is there more context on what this is or what was happening?

IMO that’s not the issue

The issue is the lack of safeguards. In our rush to call out the dad based on the headline, we shouldn’t let Google and the banks off the hook. The dad should have set limits on the card/account and paid closer attention to the kid’s view/ad activities, but both google and the banks benefitted from the poor design/usability issues that led to this.

EDIT: Since it was the company card, maybe the dad couldn’t have set limits on there. He used the company card on an older purchase, and since it was tied to his account, google offered the card as a payment option when the kid went to boost his ad. While I’m at it, screw the advertising industry that made YouTube into the mess it is now.

As for this bit

why is a 9 year old even allowed to post to YouTube

I remember about 15 years ago, a lot of kids wanted to post gameplay videos and music/art they made to YouTube. Some parents handled that poorly yes, but others took the time to watch the videos and approve them before anything was uploaded.

Kids want to explore their interests and it can be healthy to explore it with them, and teach them things along the way. Telling them no outright might push them to do it anyway, but this time without supervision.

Meanwhile, the presence of lead in gasoline and paint back then, might be the actual reason for 80% of what’s wrong right now.

Many of the lawmakers and elected officials grew up in environments that had that lead exposure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis

The lead–crime hypothesis proposes that the sharp decline in crime rates in the industrialised world in the 1990s and beyond, after decades of increased crime, can be attributed to the reduction of lead poisoning. Lead is widely understood to be toxic to multiple organs of the human body, particularly the human brain. Concerns about even low levels of exposure began in the 1970s; in the decades since, scientists have concluded that no safe threshold for lead exposure exists.[1][2] The major source of lead exposure during the 20th century was leaded gasoline. The hypothesis argues that the removal of lead additives from motor fuel, and the consequent decline in children’s lead exposure, explains the fall in crime rates in the United States beginning in the 1990s.[3] This hypothesis also offers an explanation of the rise in crime in the preceding decades as the result of increased lead exposure throughout the mid-20th century.[4] Other explanations have been proposed, including situational crime prevention and interactions between many other factors with complex, multifactorial causation.[5]

NATO gold is reserved for the united states only, with trump as chief senior executive top general. No one else can attend those meetings

Everyone else gets put in NATO brass, and they need to meet regularly to show that they are on board with this new system.

Are people here worshipping Dolly Parton? Seems like people are pointing out the good things that she has done, because that acknowledgement encourages others to do good too.

It’s fine to point out the bad things she’s done too, but I feel like you’re concerned about an issue that doesn’t really exist here

The thing is

• There are delusional leaders in democratic systems that build a cult of personality and market themselves as having been picked by God to lead, some even going to authoritarian lengths to cement their rule. The united states is currently one of those countries, and I think that is a far more dangerous thing to block from my country than Norway’s monarchy
• many monarchies are hereditary celebrities rather than hereditary leaders, where the position is kept around for the tourism value and they do not have (or claim to have) any right to rule over people

So when you make a comment saying that “they deserved it” about someone whose crime is being born into the spotlight, despite any good they may have done with that position, people are going to think you’re an uninformed jerk.

Which is great, but it’s not always convenient.

For example, this article

It would depend on the specific antibiotic and specific probiotic. Each antibiotic will kill a certain subtype of bacteria (ex. Those that have a certain type of shell). So it’s possible that they will go their separate ways, or you’ll waste both by reenacting osmosis jones.

Now this second part is something I’m not sure about. I used to think that it makes sense to have probiotics after an antibiotic treatment is complete, since you can repopulate your gut with healthy bacteria once the harmful bacteria has been eradicated. However apparently the science isn’t settled on that: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190124-is-it-worth-taking-probiotics-after-antibiotics

That was a very helpful deep dive, thank you for taking the time to write it :)

I’m not sure how this is a Fairphone alternative when “Fair” is the most important part of Fairphone (ethical manufacturing, and not having child/slave labor in the supply chains). This one sounds like it went in the opposite direction, by making it cheap at the cost of questionable supply chains.

edit: they acknowledge it in their report as something they may work on in the future https://www.eqs-news.com/media/document/6de6e559-8027-4035-a697-d84378170ae3/assets/DE0005156004-JA-2022-EQ-E-01.pdf

No one knows what the future will bring. But what we do know is that if we protect our environment, conserve resources and take our fellow human beings into consideration, the years and decades ahead will be better. […] In order to manufacture our products, however, we still have to purchase components such as microchips and storage media from the Far East or from other regions of the world. It is not always possible to fully monitor their manufacturing processes and supply chains. Gigaset therefore strives to make the preliminary stages transparent and to optimize them further.

The admins here? Or do you mean reddit

I was referring to here

The link isn’t loading for me with the additional trackers. Can you replace it with the cleaned link?

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2026/08/19/roblox-argues-child-waived-rights-by-clicking-box-at-age-8/91290604007/

I remember seeing articles that there are/were security vulnerabilities that went unpatched.

Since the american government is already abusing them, there’s less of a conversation about how foreign governments might abuse them

Please report them, this is a clearcut case that admins can take care of.

We don’t have any magic technology here to block all bots, but we do get rid of them when they are found

I found the wording to be confusing, but if it helps anyone else, I think the situation is

• before, they used to be able to get source code from Google with Git tags
• now you need to get it through google drive, after requesting it through google forms
• this is a ridiculous process, and over time they’ve gotten slower and slower at processing it, which is in violation of GPLv2

Some other ideas I forgot to add to the other comment

• Have some mechanism for people to suggest which niches get worked on, and then have one person decide on the schedule. Else it gets disorganized

• Shorten the cycles to a few weeks rather than months. I feel like people will get impatient if they need to wait months to get past a niche they don’t care about. Two weeks might be a nicer starting point, and then you can adjust it up or down?

• Do outreach about the project all over the place, and not just in fedigrow. Fedigrow reaches the involved and active people, but not everyone else that might be interested in the theme. For example:

  • Ask people about their favorite communities for the topic of that cycle on !asklemmy@lemmy.world, !ask@piefed.social, etc
  • Memes in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world (see the beans, corn, and similar trends), which are very low effort
  • post lists of that cycle’s relevant communities in !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

• While you can prioritize one community, don’t restrict it to that one. It will be easier to find people interested in crafts, compared to say crochet specifically. Also people can have strong feelings about which specific community or instance is best, and some users might refuse to post to an instance they don’t agree with. So if you give a list of which communities you want to grow, it might go over better

I think there are a lot of people who might want to help, but don’t have the time/energy/experience to organize it

I’m supportive of this, and happy to help where appropriate :) Please feel free to tag me in future posts about this, in case I miss it

If you can, I would prefer that you use the existing communities for this project because there’s no need to dilute efforts further. Also, see if you can create a Mastodon account where you post those announcements too, because that’s a large userbase that is already familiar with what this place is and can even post from their accounts

I guess that depends on who you assume the worker is in this premise

If the “worker with no boss” is someone that is self employed, or they are the “boss”, then they are closer to OPs example

If they are a lower level worker in a company that has no leadership at all, then it’s closer to the bee example. However, just like with bees, the workers will raise a new bee to be the queen in order to keep the system functional

I think the difference between the hive and a workplace is that when a human boss mismanages a company and overworks the workers, the workers eventually burn out and get replaced, or the boss leaves to do the same thing at a new company. Bee hives can’t do that, and if they mismanage the hive (by sending the wrong pheromones), then the colony dies