"Shore wars: #Greeks battle to save beaches from invasion of #commercial sunbeds - #Protesters demand end to the illegal spread of loungers and say sands must be free for all
From its inception, the protest movement has had a single aim: to reclaim #beaches from #private rental outfits hogging prime #coastal areas with exorbitantly-priced sun loungers and shadings. The takeover, which has seen enterprises charge as much as €120 (£102) for sunbeds on #Paros, has been described as unconstitutional in a country where the protection of the natural and cultural environment is enshrined in law as “a duty of the state and a right of every person”.
...
"Recently, Stephanou, 70, used his skills as a web designer to prove his point, superimposing the coordinates of assigned areas “contracted out” over aerial images taken by drones. The infractions were as alarming as they were blatant. While more than 7,000 square metres were legally licensed to concession holders, sunbeds and umbrellas occupied an area of 18,800 square metres.

“It was shocking,” he says. “In almost every case there was illegal expansion beyond leased zones. One company, which has leased 16 metres of beach space, had spread sunbeds over 1,000 metres.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/20/shore-wars-greeks-battle-to-save-beaches-from-invasion-of-commercial-sunbeds

#Greece #Capitalism #Elitism #Rights #EU

The Supreme Court Bans Affirmative Action in Colleges, But Does it Really Matter? https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/the-supreme-court-bans-affirmative-action-in-colleges-but-does-it-really-matter/ #Racism #affirmative_action #american_civil_war #american_imperialism #civil_rights #colonialism #elitism #founding_fathers #harvard #higher_education #income_inequality #ivy_league #Joe_Biden #race #race_based_admissions #School_to_Prison_Pipeline #supreme_court #trump #White_Supremacy #White_Supremacy

#Good #morning dear beings living in the southern hemisphere or wherever you live.
I was always surprised that in #America or in #India the sun rises in the west, but physics is an amazing #science and it has many settings for users.
What settings do you use? Probably something with gravity, #gender selection, healthy eating and so on.
ps
An experimental post to determine the level of intellectual #elitism.

I've published an article in DEV: "Exploring Genetic Algorithms with Ruby". I hope you enjoy it and found it useful! https://dev.to/rpaweb/exploring-genetic-algorithms-with-ruby-4lae

#ruby #rails #rubylang #rubyonrails #algorithms #genetics #geneticalgorithms #gen #crossover #mutation #elitism #development #webdev 🧬

https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2023/07/22/michael-pascoe-missing-housing-australia/?lr_hash=ae264fd1651868c383c500d64a5e4458

#Capitalism #Greed #Elitism

BREAKING DEUS EX MACHINA

The Biggest Illusion In History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtTYSempWPE&ab_channel=SamSinha

Popular books on history often focus on "great personalities", "great inventions". But, these "great men" often have a background that seals their place in history. That background is not merely made of "ideas", but something more tangible - the material conditions of their time. This video views the "Great Men" theory from a historical materialist perspective.

Note: the oldest and most prolific means of control is through a very specific dis-empowering type of manipulative storytelling designed to manufacture consent for domination called:

The Myth of Redemptive Violence

#MythOfRedemptiveVionence #illusion #statism #domination #manufacturingconsent #marginalizingsociety #elitism #powerover

Having access to green spaces is a basic human right, even if rich land owners don't want the public to access their large estates - land that years of crony capitalism has privatised for the privileged rich minority.

Minister ‘gave Parliament false answer’ about landowner lobbying

Exclusive: Defra minister Richard Benyon lies.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/lord-richard-benyon-false-answer-parliament-landowner-lobbying-rights-of-way/

#CronyCapitalism #elitism #corruption

#CommonGood #land #health #RightToRoam #UK #footpath #walking #nature #wildlife

Having access to green spaces is a basic human right, even if rich land owners don't want the publics access to access their large estates - land that years of crony capitalism has privatised for the privileged rich minority.

Minister ‘gave Parliament false answer’ about landowner lobbying

Exclusive: Defra minister Richard Benyon lies.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/lord-richard-benyon-false-answer-parliament-landowner-lobbying-rights-of-way/

#CronyCapitalism #elitism #corruption

#CommonGood #land #health #RightToRoam #UK #footpath #walking #nature #wildlife

We need non-elitist education institutions. I'm not sure how to get there, but our current universities can't live up to their stated missions when their main social function is to credential the elite.
#education #admissions #college #elitism

Tip for the academically-inclined who don't want to be accused of elitism:

Just because you say something is a 'fallacy' or a 'tautology' doesn't mean you've won the argument.

On the contrary, you might be trying to hide behind big words because you're scared of losing the argument.

#academia
#science
#elitism
#debate
#PlainEnglish

An opinion worth understanding...

" Hollywood Is Demoralizing Americans, One Story at a Time:
The propaganda machine of the Iranian mullahs pales in comparison to the attempts of the cultural elites. "

https://spectator.org/hollywood-is-demoralizing-americans-one-story-at-a-time/

#CultureWar #America #Hollywood #coupdétat #Elitism #Fascism #Authoritarianism #GOP #Republicans #Democrats #Politics

@leftylabourtech @gemelliz

I agree with you that that modern #liberal/#progressive politics, #infected with this #toxic #elitism, bears a large share of responsibility for our present condition, where politics can't be discussed #rationally. Those towards one side of the spectrum decided the rest were "#deplorables", and that was that.

But regarding the #SK #NDP [...]

@gemelliz

I'm not expressing an opinion on Poilievre one way or the other, but the implication that Trudeau is good and Poilievre is bad because smart people allegedly like one and not the other is positively #toxic.

It's #elitism at its worst. "Pfft, what do we care what *dumb* people think?"

Canada, we're #better than this. Please do better. This kind of crap can #destroy a #democracy.

@taco I neither endorse nor refute your criticism of The Sun.

However, this attitude of looking down one's nose at anyone who "doesn't have any post-secondary education" is bullshit, elitist, exclusionary crap.

If someone is willfully ignorant, go ahead and call them out on it. But not having had an opportunity to go to post-secondary school does *not* make someone automatically a moron, unworthy of consideration as your fellow human.

#elitist #elitism #PostSecondary #education #bullshit

#elonmusk is paying for #friends because he has none. He also needs to make #TwitterBlue look important; it's not. Glad he got rid of the #elitism.

The Rust language 🦀 is not meant for kids! The draft trademark policy is a way to sue the kids who uses it.

They are fucking doing a stress test. What I perceive is that the goal of the Rust foundation is to make it a tool which only a few elitist could use.

#rustlang #rust #rustacean #trademark #policy

#humanetech #elitism

Amazing that people who are harassed and discriminated against, will do the same within their own groups as well.

#romani #roma #romanipeople #travellers #elitism #romanitravellers

https://khunkai.org/2021/12/21/elitism-among-todays-romani-travelers/

@flexghost Slave owners were paid by the federal government for the loss of their “property”, I believe. The enslaved people got nothing.

#emancipation ? #CivilWar #slavery #ados #elitism #racism

"Any lingering sense of national duty has evaporated among the elite, replaced by the thin, two-faced facade of nationalist populism."

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinesupplement/p/bullingdon-club-britain-the-ransacking?r=1v09mb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#elitism #ukpolitics #selfishness #libertarian

#BBC accused of ‘hiding’ #Oxbridge bias on University Challenge in deepening #elitism row
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/27/bbc-accused-of-hiding-oxbridge-bias-on-university-challenge-in-deepening-elitism-row?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other