Am 1. November 1954 begann die Algerische Revolution, die das Land vom französischen Imperialismus erlösen und auf einen sozialistischen Kurs führen sollte. Heute weitgehend vergessen, war sie eines der Schlüsselereignisse des 20. Jahrhunderts.

https://jacobin.de/artikel/algerien-dekolonial-imperialismus-afrika-frankreich-algiers-fln-panafrikanismus-panarabismus-befreiungsbewegung

Good idea: quicker and easier penalties for pollution

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gz7xyr2g7o

Fining English water companies for spilling raw sewage will soon become quicker and easier, the government has said.
New proposals would see automatic fines of up to £20,000 issued for some minor offences and make it simpler to punish more serious ones.

TIL that only 7 people have won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Medal, and the Nobel Peace Prize: Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Elie Wiesel, Martin Luther King Jr., Norman Borlaug, Muhammed Yunus, and Aung San Suu Kyi [source, comments]

TIL one of the earliest and most notorious uses of the "correlation does not imply causation" argument was by R A Fisher, the British polymath and father of modern statistics, who used it in the 1950s to cast doubt on emerging studies linking cigarette smoking to cancer [source, comments]

Sanitation worker watching a robot taking over his Job

https://redd.it/1omhvzc
@r_interestingasfuck

Credits to Alonso

Being stolen from TheLouvre in 1911 is what made Mona Lisa famous

https://redd.it/1omml40
@r_interestingasfuck

Song of the Day ✊🏾📵: https://youtu.be/EC-RmrITkrk

A cool guide to items that are most needed/wanted at food banks.
https://redd.it/1onmpyk
@coolguides

Der Klimawandel trifft die Schweiz stärker als bisher angenommen https://www.watson.ch/!582628802

«Trump ist ein autoritärer Cäsarist» – warum die USA am Scheideweg stehen https://www.watson.ch/!474165862