Why is this considered a ‘a hopeful moment’ for some?
What is “racial profiling”? Racial profiling is when police conduct targeted checks on people solely because of their skin colour.
With the European Court of Human Rights condemnation, it is the first time that the court has categorised a specific police check as discriminatory.
The case before the court dealt with an incident which occurred nine years ago. A Swiss librarian with roots in Kenya was stopped by the police at the Zurich train station. He refused to show his ID because the two police officers singled him out in a crowd without reason for doing so. The librarian was penalised for this. Feeling discriminated against, the librarian fought back as far as the European Court, and has now won.
Read the full background, why Switzerland’s federalism stands in the way of change and how two UN working group experts view this judgement 👉 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/democracy/racial-profiling-urteil-gegen-die-schweiz-ein-hoffnungsvoller-moment/73084816

TIL Eddie Van Halen agreed to play the Guitar Solo for Michael Jackson's Beat It under 2 conditions. That he not get credit and that he wouldn't tell his band. [source, comments]

✊🏽 vs. 💩

Swiss Song of the Day 🇨🇭🤴: Probably the best of the many bands that started at my high school in the early 2000s. After one Single, EP and Album, the latter was reviewed by music magazine Visions, and a small European tour, the trio Lird Van Goles sadly no longer dropped new music.
https://song.link/d/1418522

At least Björn Magnusson is still active:
https://youtu.be/KQIResSNETg

Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban UBI Experiments
Article, Comments

TIL that the song "Rap God" by Eminem has the world record for highest amount of words in one song, at 4.28 words per second. [source, comments]

«Ein populärer Kommentator sagte mir rundheraus: wenn du versuchst, einen Gesetzesvorschlag einzubringen, der die Krise an der Grenze löst, werde ich alles tun, um dich zu zerstören. Weil ich nicht will, dass du das während des Wahljahres löst!»
https://www.srf.ch/news/international/us-praesidentschaftswahlen-2024-zwischen-trump-und-biden-kommt-es-an-der-grenze-zum-showdown

Song of the day 💔🍷: https://song.link/d/71330064

Sea surface temperatures reach new record of 21.13c
https://redd.it/1b3saa0
@failures_of_capitalism