In the age of serial enshittification even the privilege to talk to a human is a premium feature to be paid $200/month.https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/ibm_cloud_basic_support_changes/

People normally think “if pupils are given space to speak another language in the classroom, that would harm their Dutch”. But research shows that is not the case, as long as it is done cleverly. And teachers do not need to master these languages themselves in order to support pupils effectively. Practical examples include giving pupils a book to read at home in their family language after it has been studied in Dutch at school. Reading it with their parents helps children understand the text better and make the translation into Dutch more explicit. Multilingualism can also be encouraged through classroom attitudes. There is no special lesson or method. It is a mindset. You can show that new languages are not scary and that no language is better than another. Ask pupils to teach you a few words in their language. Such an approach helps create an atmosphere where children are not laughed at for unfamiliar sounds or worried that classmates are gossiping in other languages. The council also includes regional languages such as Frisian and Limburgish in its definition of multilingualism. For now, schools decide for themselves whether to allow pupils to use other languages in class, which can lead to different rules between teachers. Children should not be held back from speaking their home language as long as they also have opportunities to learn Dutch. The earlier children encounter other cultures and languages, the more normal it becomes. That is an added value. https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/09/schools-should-embrace-multilingualism-education-council-says/

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@jy4m@matapacos.dog realistically, Israel is just too powerful for any peaceful transition of power, either voluntary or enforced by the international community, to happen. Coexistence will still translate on acts of intolerance on both sides. Extremist fringes of Hamas can still blow things up to make Israel pay for its crimes. Ben Gvir and his friends will still harass Muslims in mosques (and, even if he’s in jail, there’s a very sizeable share of Israel’s population that still agrees with his points). Demographics will be a ticking bomb until it blows up - Palestinians have much higher fertility rates than Israelis, which will be seen by the most conservative Israelis as an existential threat of long-term ethnic displacement against them. The prejudice that many Israelis still hold against non-Jews in their land is still there and alive, and it can translate into large-scale episodes of discrimination that can flare things up. And I’m only scratching the surface of the medium and long term issues here. In a nutshell, if you try and put those two people in the same peace of land, you won’t have political and social stability in that piece of land for decades to come. The two-State solution isn’t easy either (the main question is how to practically connect a State composed of two separate enclaves), but a two-State solution that agrees on the areas assigned by the UN to the respective people in 1967, and confirmed by the Oslo accords, is still the most practical one. Note that any such deal also means that any settlements built by Israel in those areas are illegal and its occupants must vacate them and give them back to Palestinians. Such a condition may not heal all the wounds, but at least it’d give Palestinians the right to build their State in their assigned territory without fears of being evicted overnight by a lunatic Zionist.

@freediverx@mastodon.social @palestine@a.gup.pe quite the opposite. Israel doesn’t have a way out of this. The only thing they see is their plan to build a genocide riviera to please the political representatives elected by the most fanatic squatting terrorists among their people, and they use Hamas as a scapegoat that justifies their own fanatical violence. The West is increasingly divided, many are now recognizing the Palestinian State, but nobody is stepping forward to lay out how that State would look like, what kind of governance it should have, who will pay for rebuilding everything, how coexistance with the State that surrounds them would look like, etc. This is exactly the moment to have these talks. Without concrete plans on how the near future should look like the West will be stuck on symbolic recognitions that don’t change anything on the ground. When we say that the near future of Gaza must be reconstruction and free elections without Hamas we are pulling fuel away from the most brittle and demonizing Zionist rhetoric. If Hamas is really the reason why they’re doing this, then once Hamas is gone they must acknowledge that they have no reason for doing this. If instead the world keeps acting by picking opposing sides in mutually exclusive “from the river to the sea” narratives, while having no vision of what should change for things to change, then there’s no way to end the conflict, no way to take fuel away from Netanyahu’s narratives and let the world see his contradictions, and no way to let Palestinians choose what kind of State they want.