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French Ambassador to Niger Itte and other diplomatic staff being held "hostage" and forced to eat military rations at French Embassy (English translation) in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] kurogane@lm.helilot.com 1 points 1 year ago

Scratch my previous summary. Yours wins the cake.

French Ambassador to Niger Itte and other diplomatic staff being held "hostage" and forced to eat military rations at French Embassy (English translation) in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] kurogane@lm.helilot.com 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The article is a little weird. This is my interpretation, need to look for other sources.

President says that the ambassador is "taken hostage, literally".
Military in Niger wants him out of the country, but French government says that his work is too valuable, he must stay.
Military says " OK, but he can't leave the embassy, Persona Non Grata".

Technically the ambassador has either choice of leaving the country or staying inside the embassy. Food is not delivered anymore, leaving him with military rations to eat.

French Ambassador to Niger Itte and other diplomatic staff being held "hostage" and forced to eat military rations at French Embassy (English translation) in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] kurogane@lm.helilot.com 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The French variant of the article says that there is only military rations left to eat at the embassy.
But your post kind of implies that the French embassador is "force fed" military rations? This is a very weird way to translate it.

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What platform/api could I use to split donations across multiple benefactors? (lm.helilot.com)
 

I've been looking across the internet, up, down, front, and back. No clue.

Let say two artists put their work together and want to add a donation banner on the webpage of their collaboration. For example, a singer shares their music with a video maker.
First, they agree on an arbitrary share for future donations. Like 50%/50% or 75%/25%, etc.
They may not know each other well, they may live in two separate continents.

Is there any platform or api allowing this?

  • Once the share is agreed upon, an artist can not change it without the approval of both.
  • The platform shouldn't be bound to a country (for example Stripe cannot accept international donations, unless the artists are in the US).
  • I may be wishing for Santa Claus, but a privacy-friendly solution would be awesome.

Any idea appreciated, I've been drying my a$$ off for weeks on this one.

How would be the feeling of putting your hand inside a liquid that's 100% incapable of transferring heat? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] kurogane@lm.helilot.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, this is my undocumented, your average Joe type of guess, but here goes: as there is no heat exchange with its environment, I assume your hand would burn from its own heat.