@markhburton@mstdn.social"The European Court of Human Rights is not a foreign court. It was set up by countries, including the UK, in the aftermath of the Second World War to protect people from tyranny."
6 reasons the UK needs to stay in the #ECHR: Jessica Simor KC
@cdarwin@c.imWe are living in an age of bullies. Those with power are less constrained today than they have been in my lifetime, since the end of the second world war.
The question is: how do we lead moral lives in this era?
Vladimir Putin launches a horrendous war on Ukraine. After Hamas’s atrocity, Benjamin Netanyahu bombs Gaza to smithereens and is now starving to death its remaining occupants.
Trump abducts thousands of hardworking people within the US and puts them into detention c…
@simon_lucy@mastodon.socialProtect existing claimants, punish future ones.
That will guarantee a future Labour Govt.
I can't decide whether the most conservative Civil Service since before the Second World War is passively pushing back on the Labour Govt or whether the Govt is stupid all on its own.
#UKPolitics
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIsrael-Iran air war enters second week as Europe pushes diplomacy (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-iran-air-war-enters-second-week-europe-pushes-diplomacy-2025-06-20/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p54#a250620p54
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioAnother one of the disgruntled OG AI computer scientists was Karl Steinbuch, who made one of the first implementations of a neural network.
He was also an ardent Nazi and directly ordered war crimes in the Second World War.
After his research stalled he wrote many racist, misogynist and xenophobic articles for the rest of his life.
He won many awards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Steinbuch
@ThatHoarder@mastodon.onlineYou might be very afraid of what's going to happen politically, or you might be very afraid of another pandemic, or you might have just been brought up very frugally by parents who lived through the Second World War and rations https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.
@arXiv_mathHO_bot@mastoxiv.pageJourney of Lars Ahlfors' Fields Medal
Frank Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12850 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12850
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe average undergrad tuition fee in the 1974/75 academic year in Canada, across all disciplines, was $547 ($3445 adjusted to 2025)
Fees 50 years later in 2024/25 were $7360 ($7496 adjusted)
That is more than double. 117%.
And I *know* from personal experience this is a low ball average. If I could find a breakdown by discipline or by length of study for today, some would be even more obscene.
What has changed? Any occupation outside a minimum wage paying job demands a 2-4yr undergraduate diploma or degree, if not more.
Think about the 1970s and how common it was for people to get good paying jobs, leading to careers, without even high school education. Our free education stops with high school.
My family is a good example.
Mom and Step Dad: teacher college/degree. One got a Masters mid career.
Dad: didn’t complete HS
Father in law: didn’t complete HS
Mother in law: completed HS mid-career
Leadership positions and full careers demand a Masters or PhD requiring 5-10 years of study after HS!
Add in the cost of food and housing and the massive cuts happening at all colleges and universities because of the loss of international student tuition and I am going to go out on a limb and say our students today are going to pay double the price for a far worse experience than possibly any time since the Second World War.
Public education should be free.
Food and Housing should be controlled.
If the only thing government cares about is the economy, then they are setting us up for failure, and have been for decades.
(Don’t get me started on the kinds of “values” Canadian governments demonstrate when International student tuitions are 5x more than domestic students, let alone the inherent revenue risk in that funding strategy that has now come home to roost)
#canpoli #cdnpoli #education #university #college #canada
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74/75 Source Stats Can: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3710015001&pickMembers[0]=1.1&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=1972 / 1973&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2006 / 2007&referencePeriods=19720101,20060101
24/25 source stats can: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3710004501
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@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
On June 6, 1944, my father was hospitalized in England, recovering from shrapnel wounds inflicted during the Italian campaign, and he joked that he missed all the excitement. That "excitement" included 1074 casualties on D-Day, including 359 killed, as Canadian troops secured Juno Beach to begin the defeat of Nazi Germany. It took another 11 months of bloody battles before Allied military forced surrender.
#CanadaIsAwesome #WWII #CanadianHeroes
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/wars-and-conflicts/second-world-war/d-day-and-the-battle-of-normandy
