Carthag Tuek posted:

why is the dollar so strong with the current stock poo poo going on? is the ukraine thing overshadowing it? idk poo poo about finances

France bans English gaming tech jargon in push to preserve language purity: Government officials must replace words such as ‘e-sports’ and ‘streaming’ with approved French versions

French officials on Monday continued their centuries-long battle to preserve the purity of the language, overhauling the rules on using English video game jargon.

While some expressions find obvious translations – “pro-gamer” becomes “joueur professionnel” – others seem a more strained, as “streamer” is transformed into “joueur-animateur en direct”.

The culture ministry, which is involved in the process, told AFP the video game sector was rife with anglicisms that could act as “a barrier to understanding” for non-gamers.
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France regularly issues dire warnings of the debasement of its language from across the Channel, or more recently the Atlantic.

Centuries-old language watchdog the Académie Française warned in February of a “degradation that must not be seen as inevitable”. It highlighted terms including train operator SNCF’s brand “Ouigo” (pronounced “we go”) along with straightforward imports such as “big data” and “drive-in”.

However, Monday’s changes were issued in the official journal, making them binding on government workers.

Among several terms to be given official French alternatives were “cloud gaming”, which becomes “jeu video en nuage”, and “eSports”, which will now be translated as “jeu video de competition”.

The ministry said experts had searched video game websites and magazines to see if French terms already existed. The overall idea, said the ministry, was to allow the population to communicate more easily.

Honj Steak posted:

the reason for this is not a superior socialist rail network, but relatively recent investments in Eastern infrastructure since reunification and, most importantly, lower population density meaning less trains on the tracks. The West German rail network is operating way beyond capacity, which means one late train often leads to a shock in the entire network.

United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent posted:

Statement to the media by the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, on the conclusion of its official visit to Switzerland

...the Working Group is concerned about the prevalence of racial discrimination and the human rights situation of people of African descent in Switzerland. Although Switzerland has ratified most international human rights instruments relevant to anti-racism and affirms its treaty obligations, this often appeared unrecognized at the cantonal level, and federal officials cited lack of oversight or authority in matters of cantonal responsibility, including education, health, and policing. The distance between federal responsibility for human rights and cantonal operations was cited as a structural barrier to racial justice efforts, even though matters of State priority, like police training and asylum determinations, are effectively federalized. Human rights can still be fulfilled in a decentralized, federalist system.


• The reaction to and treatment of people of African descent is not necessarily mitigated by Swiss nationality. To the contrary, Swiss born/naturalized people of African descent are presumed to be migrant, alien and/or refugee – the other.
  
  
• There is insufficient of recognition of Switzerland’s ties to colonialism and the trade and trafficking in enslaved Africans, and its relevance to modern manifestations of racial discrimination. Switzerland’s modern day wealth is directly connected to the legacies of enslavement. Swiss banks invested heavily in the slave trade and in the institutions of enslavement, as well as in the apartheid system. The textile industry, the chocolate industry, and the coffee industry, instrumentalized enslavement and colonialism.
  
• Switzerland does not maintain racially disaggregated data. This is a fundamental barrier to recognizing and addressing ongoing and serious racial discrimination and injustice in education, health, employment, housing, detention, the administration of justice, and more.
  
  
• The Working Group heard shocking reports of police brutality and the expectation of impunity for police misconduct, extending over decades. Global demand for policing reform in 2020 appears not to have impacted policing practices, with the important exception of consultations held in Geneva.
  
  
• Policing related to narcotics, including street stops and searches, has disproportionately targeted men of African descent. Racial profiling and police controls of young Black people humiliate, criminalize and stigmatize. People of African descent reported public strip searches and cavity searches conducted with impunity. Police forces in their action to fight drug trafficking have largely targeted Black men, especially young people. The highly publicized police operations include brutal arrests, racial profiling, humiliating and degrading treatment and reinforcing negative racial stereotypes in the public realm.
  
  
• The Working Group spoke with the family of Nzoy Roger Wilhelm, who was killed by police on a train platform in Morges in 2021. It has also followed closely the cases of Mike Ben Peter, Lamin Fatty, Herve Mandundu, Mohammed Wa Baile and Omar Mussa Ali. Some of these cases represent the most tragic outcomes of racial profiling. In each case, troubling barriers in the access to justice for the victims and their families persist. Families have been forced to retain expensive counsel and experts, prove “close relationships” in order to pursue claims, and face the systematic invoking of self-defense by the police.
  
  
• The Working Group’s attention was drawn to the inadvisability of lodging complaints about racism by people of African descent. Reports of reprisals and counter charges from the police and lack of redress were frequent.
  
  
• Although police in Vaud suggested that citizens could film police misconduct and report it, in questioning the validity of racial profiling and police misconduct, the Working Group heard direct reports of arrests and prosecutions for filming police and the imposition of serious fines and probation periods in that canton.
  
  
• The Working Group noted inadequate dialogue on systemic racism or the influence of negative racial stereotypes on decision-making by police, prosecutors, or the courts, leading to a culture of denial, which obstructed accountability and reforms.
  
  
• There is not adequate independence in the investigation and prosecution of police misconduct, brutality, and killings. In practice, the proximity of the police, public prosecution, and the judiciary, and the exercise of prosecutorial discretion, obstructs independent investigation of police conduct and segregation of roles, and impacts the likelihood of a fair hearing and fair treatment. The Canton of Geneva has an internal affairs division where police misconduct is investigated by police themselves, although it reports directly to the head prosecutor of the Canton.
  
  
• The situation of Brian K. is one of a stolen childhood and a superimposed adult identity with stark racial connotations. The Working Group met with Brian K., in person, at Pöschwies Correctional Facility in Zurich. Racial discrimination and injustice is evident at every stage of this case, including the denial of the childhood, access to family, and education fiercely protected for white Swiss children as a matter of law, policy, and values. Enhanced penalties and extreme penalties, including years of solitary confinement, also suggest a strong reliance on negative racial stereotypes and racialized beliefs about Black men, even as children. For these reasons and more, Brian K.’s situation is a stark example of systemic racism in Switzerland. Given the express concerns of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent takes note of the abolition of the cantonal decision in order to guarantee humane conditions of detention.
  
  
• Multiple people in detention reported verbal harassment, violence, and acts of provocation by prison and security personnel, including the use of racial slurs and negative racial stereotypes with impunity.
  

Kassad posted:

Venomous posted:

...how the poo poo did Italy not have the same kind of denazification as Germany after the war?

Trabisnikof posted:

speaking of

https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-arrest-25-suspects-over-plot-to-overthrow-state/a-64011136

Truga posted:

https://twitter.com/melanie_vogel_/status/1647352302171308036

Jon Pod Van Damm posted:

train workers in sweden are doing a wildcat strike today. the strike is planned to last for 3 days.

Peggotty posted:

it's hilarious that that's what aggrevates Americans online rather than the billion other ways the West is destroying the planet.

i say swears online posted:

i met some lithuanians who were super proud that their language is closest to PIE. i thought they were just being weird euros until i looked it up and it's true

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https://twitter.com/proufos/status/1694709469014573448

https://twitter.com/proufos/status/1694710165277466953

https://twitter.com/proufos/status/1694710408693907762

https://twitter.com/proufos/status/1694710564327727609

https://twitter.com/proufos/status/1694711192810660313

https://twitter.com/proufos/status/1694711834174169241

https://twitter.com/proufos/status/1694712538406301925

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-man-smears-dog-feces-on-far-right-afd-politician/a-66638583

Dudes rock

Lostconfused posted:

You can start by paying reparations to Haiti motherfuckers.

quote:

Immigration and the coexistence of different cultures can be enriching. However, this only applies as long as the influx remains limited to a level that does not overwhelm our country and its infrastructure, and as long as integration is actively promoted and succeeds. We know: The price for increased competition for affordable housing, for jobs with low wages and for failed integration is not primarily paid by those on the sunny side of life. Anyone who is politically persecuted in their home country is entitled to asylum. But migration is not the solution to the problem of poverty in our world. Instead, we need fair global economic relations and a policy that strives to create more prospects in our home countries.