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Just boosted a @leilashami post about HTS and the current fighting happening in the north-west of syria. An interesting article talking about the similarities and difference between previous and current factions fighting Assad in Syria today, but specifically looking at HTS.

Leila shares lots of good content on the struggles in Syria/Levant, Also check out @ayoub who runs a sick podcast called The Fire These Times & who shares perspectives on the middle East.

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TSUNAMI WARNING - MY ASS! More Lies From The State Of California

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Tsunami Warning For NorCal and Oregon Canceled After Officials Cause Panic and Traffic Jam with Evacuation Order Following Massive Earthquake | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

           A tsunami warning was issued after a very powerful earthquake struck Northern California on Thursday.
Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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HO HO NO! 🎅🎅🎅 IT’S BIDEN CLAUS AND HIS BAG OF PARDONS🎄🎄
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Left to right, Biden, Fauci, Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, Eric Swalwell, Bill Barr, Lisa Page..etc..etc

’Tis the season to be jolly, and Christmas has imbued Joe Biden with the spirit of giving. He won’t be giving anything to average American citizens, of course. He takes from them and treats them with contempt. Especially those in the south

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It's out! Our new album, available for streaming, download and CD. Very proud of the result.

...and remember, it's Bancamp Friday. All the benefits go to the musicians!


#improvisation #experimental #freejazz #improvisedmusic #live #occult #psychedelic #spiritualjazz #tribal #voodoo #Belgium #ZAÄAR #improv

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Ovules, by ZAÄAR

7 track album
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Psychiatrie : les gendarmes traquent pendant 5 semaines l’autrice… de tags propalestiniens ! Le sionisme ridiculise la France toujours plus !


Honteux, inqualifiable, stupide et irresponsable, une négation pure et simple de l’état de droit. Voilà où mène le lobby sioniste, à la dérive de l’état et des forces de l’ordre. Mettre en place une filature de 5 semaines très coûteuse sur une jeune femme qui affiche de messages pour que cesse le génocide de Gaza relève de la maladie mentale.

C’est une inversion totale des valeurs avec l’utilisation des moyens de l’état pour réprimer les citoyens normaux qui condamnent les crimes de guerres et contre l’humanité reconnus par la CPI. Au même moment, les ultra sionistes génocidaires multiplient leurs crimes et déclarations folles sans aucune conséquence judiciaire !

  • Au nom de la lutte contre « l’apologie du terrorisme » post-7-Octobre, le parquet de Valence s’est mis en quatre pour surveiller une jeune femme, autorisant notamment la pose d’une balise GPS sous sa voiture. Elle doit finalement être jugée jeudi pour des « dégradations légères ».

Pendant plus de cinq semaines, Emma S., une potière et céramiste âgée de 24 ans, a roulé avec une balise GPS sous sa voiture. Sans qu’elle le sache, les gendarmes de la Drôme ont suivi en temps réel tous ses déplacements. Ils ont aussi planqué devant sa maison, épluché ses comptes bancaires et adressé des réquisitions aux opérateurs téléphoniques pour géolocaliser son numéro et identifier ses principaux contacts…

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Psychiatrie : les gendarmes traquent pendant 5 semaines l’autrice… de tags propalestiniens !

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Corruption : une affaire par jour, mais tout le monde s’en fout


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CORRUPTION - ANALYSE
Corruption : une affaire par jour, mais tout le monde s’en fout
6 décembre 2024 | Par Antton Rouget
Même quand la corruption apparaît en géant dans des sondages dont le monde politico-journalistique est généralement friand, personne ne veut la regarder en face. Mediapart a donc épluché au jour le jour les affaires des dernières semaines. L’inventaire parle de lui-même.

Mediapart n’a pas pour habitude de commenter les sondages. Mais il en est un qui a beaucoup fait parler de lui cette semaine et qui mérite qu’on s’y attarde. Non pas pour ses résultats mais pour la lecture qui en est faite. Car nos prétendues « élites » ne veulent pas voir ce que tout le monde ressent : la France est un pays où la corruption prospère dans l’indifférence générale.

Ce sondage annuel, mené par l’institut Ipsos pour le Cevipof, s’intitule « Fractures françaises ». On y lit que 63 % des 3 000 répondant·es considèrent que « la plupart des hommes et des femmes politiques sont corrompus ». Ils sont 83 % à dire que ces mêmes élu·es « agissent principalement pour leurs intérêts personnels ».

Si les sondeurs et commentateurs croient en leurs études, ils devraient en respecter le sens. Regarder la corruption, l’analyser, réfléchir à ses causes et à ses conséquences. Or sur France Inter, lorsque ces chiffres sont révélés, le directeur général délégué d’Ipsos, Brice Teinturier, le directeur de la Fondation Jean Jaurès, Gilles Finchelstein, et la directrice de recherche au Cevipof, Anne Muxel, parlent de tout, sauf de corruption, ne pouvant ainsi qu’accentuer la fameuse « fracture ».

© Photomontage Armel Baudet / Mediapart avec captures d'écran
Car non seulement la corruption est patente, mais même quand « les Français » la pointent, les commentateurs de la vie politique font comme s’ils parlaient d’autre chose. Le sondeur Brice Teinturier parle bien d’une « gigantesque déflagration » en commentant ces chiffres. Mais pour lui, ils résultent de trois causes : les conséquences des « effets délétères de la dissolution, qui n’a jamais été comprise », « l’explosion du bilan économique du président de la République » et les « divisions [sic] au sein de l’Assemblée nationale ». Plus tard dans l’entretien, le sondeur évoque aussi le « contexte mondial », le « sentiment de vulnérabilité à l’égard de la mondialisation » et la peur du « déclin ».

La corruption ? évaporée. Elle est pourtant omniprésente, et sous nos yeux : il suffit par exemple de recenser les affaires ayant émaillé l’actualité de ces trois dernières semaines, ce que Mediapart s’est proposé de faire dans l’inventaire ci-dessous.

12 novembre : François Fillon enfin prêt à passer à la caisse
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13 novembre : le Parquet national financier requiert un procès contre Rachida Dati

14 novembre : série de perquisitions à Nice et à Montpellier

15 novembre : un ancien ministre socialiste condamné

16 novembre : le déontologue de l’Assemblée saisi du cas Andy Kerbrat

18 novembre : le député macroniste des Yvelines Karl Olive condamné

19 novembre : le député Liot de Guadeloupe Max Mathiasin condamné

20 novembre : des détournements au sein de l’association de l’Inspection des finances

21 novembre : perquisitions dans l’enquête sur la campagne 2022 d’Éric Ciotti

22 novembre : le clan Sarkozy continue de se désagréger

23 novembre : un ancien maire UMP poursuit sa folle cavale

24 novembre : François Bayrou défend Marine Le Pen

25 novembre : deux maires démis en Seine-et-Marne, grand procès à Paris

26 novembre : l’enquête Alexis Kohler validée à Paris, des perquisitions à Lorient

27 novembre : fin du procès du RN, enquête ouverte contre Jean-François Copé
Le procès des assistants parlementaires se termine avec les

28 novembre : Squarcini en procès, l’ex-député Pupponi condamné en appel, scandale à Bobigny

29 novembre : la députée RN Christine Engrand visée par une enquête

2 décembre : l’alerte du ministre Didier Migaud

3 décembre : le président du département de la Somme condamné

4 décembre : de la prison requise contre le président du département des Hautes-Alpes

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@Salinger 3 ils tapent chaque semaine sur Mélenchon avec des conneries genre "il est pro Russe" "il est pro Vénézuela" "les insoumis sont des extrémistes" "les insoumis sont des islamo gauchistes antisémites" ça me turbo casse les couilles.
Et ils tapent un peu sur Macron mais ils sont super atlantistes, super européistes, super convaincus de la supériorité naturelle de l'Occident américanisé, tout ça.

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00:22:04 "nordhalbkugel[..]grüne farbe[..]chlorophyll produktion[..]photosynthese aktivität der pflanzen[..]satellitenaufnahmen[..]nasa[..]zwischen im jahr 2000[..]über diese 13 jahre bis 2013[..]aktivität der pflanzen[..]drastisch zugenommen[..]die netto primärproduktion[..]zugenommen[..]der frühling kommt früher der herbst kommt später die pflanzen haben mehr gelegenheit zu wachsen und wenn es wärmer wird steigen insgesamt die niederschläge"

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Die Klimadebatte – Lokale Ideologie und globale Realität

Montagskonferenz am IÜD der Universität Heidelberg: Energie und Klima – Wende oder Wandel?Vortrag: Die Klimadebatte – Lokale Ideologie und globale RealitätPr...
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The 6809 8-Bit Microcomputer: A Father-Son Odyssey


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Linus Pauling Was Right About Vitamin C for Cancer!

Mainstream medicine has criticized vitamin C for cancer and the common cold. But new research suggests that Linus Pauling was right all along

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Linus Pauling Was Right About Vitamin C for Cancer!

Mainstream medicine has criticized vitamin C for cancer and the common cold. But new research suggests that Linus Pauling was right all along!
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The "news" is beginning to wake up...

“The surge of social media posts praising and glorifying the killing of #UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson is deeply concerning,” said Alex Goldenberg, senior adviser for the institute and fellow at Rutgers.

“We’ve identified highly engaged posts circulating the names of other healthcare CEOs and others celebrating the shooter,” he said. “The framing of this incident as some opening blow in a class war and not a brutal murder is especially alarming.”

NBC News / archive.fo/bI3P1

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#aim #internet #propaganda

Gabriel and McKibben Expose Tim Berners-Lee and the Fake New Web ~ #AIM4Truth


Gabriel and McKibben Expose Tim Berners-Lee and the Fake New Web ~ #AIM4Truth

Gabriel and McKibben Expose Tim Berners-Lee and the Fake New Web ~ #AIM4Truth - Published on October 1, 2018 - Just as I suspected. The Supposed Inventor of the Internet Sir Timothy Berners-Lee's Claim that he is Creating a New Internet FREE of Big …
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My dreams: involve some goths and Suicide Commando; ok, whatever.

I wake up this morning to a gazillion Bandcamp emails (did you know this is the last Bandcamp Friday of the year? z0mg, please stop telling me it is the last Bandcamp Friday of the year!) though apparently Suicide Commando's first album, Stored Images: is being released on vinyl!

OK, cool. I'm down, thanks dreams and email. But the email mentions a box set version to store vinyl releases of other early Suicide Commando albums to be released on vinyl (e.g. Critical Stage) but the Bandcamp page itself, doesn't list the box set?! What the fuck.

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After a lot of additional research (OK, clicking some links from some websites, did you know that suicidecommando.be is "optimized for Internet Explorer"? I mean, I think that website has had that BS since forever, but clearly whoever is the webmin, is behind the curve since Internet Explorer doesn't exist anymore and was replaced by Micro$oft Edge and h.f.s. ever think about how fucking idiotic it is to announce a browser optimization so prominently on a website for a band? Y'know, it's not a tech website. Johan probably programmed more sequencers than the webmin programmed too. sigh) anyway: the box set (which, confusingly, is called “Impressions Of Death”) appears to only be sold via Out Of Line [the music label]. Even Out Of Line's US distributor, which does at least have pre-orders for the Stored Images album on vinyl (for a slightly lower price, since it's USD, not Euros), isn't selling the boxset. At least, not that I could find.

4 websites to even find one website, which is selling the thing mentioned in a Bandcamp email.

I get the feeling: music promotion and physical media sales are as bad as they have ever been.

Thanks Bandcamp Friday! (the last Bandcamp Friday of 2024, just in case you forgot! JFC, thank goodness. I can barely handle this kind of BS on Fridays as it is) /sarcasm

Everything else from Bandcamp Friday that looked remotely interesting (e.g. a signed copy of Rhys Fulber's "Brutal Nature" or some DーStyles release on vinyl)? Sold out before I even clicked the links I guess.

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Apparently the box set (which comes with the Construct Destruct 2LP, which I hadn't ordered even though I saw it available recently) is limited to 200 copies? suicidecommando.bigcartel.com is also selling it, not just Out Of Line directly.

Stored Images (from the US vendor) is a pre-order, not due to ship until late January I guess.

No mention of Critical Stage on vinyl for pre-order anywhere yet.

I did see: Black Flowers on CD! Cheap at $5.99 or whatever too! Came out in 2016? Sold out who knows when. I own the original demo cassette, but it would have been nice to have it on CD (has a bonus track too apparently). The label responsible for the digital re-issue apparently also sold it as AIFFs? Their website no longer exists. I emailed them, I guess I'll find out what their response is. From what I can glean, they still have a presence on discOGs and are still selling sealed copies on CD at least; but maybe the AIFFs are higher bitrate?

Anyway, this Bandcamp Friday I did end up putting too much on my credit card, for one band, from three different retailers! None of them was Bandcamp.

I am OK with that. I am guessing Johan Van Roy will be OK with it too.

s&h postage rates from the EU and UK continue to be absolutely offensively obscenely expensive. I am not sure how it is that I order things from China and Japan for a seeming pittance, but some of these friggin vendors are charging me more for s&h than they charge for the albums?! wtfh. Something seems sketchy a.f.

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@zephyrotv
how long does it take for these trees to grow?

if you like trees, you're probably also pro climate change, right?

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I saw three movies yesterday, but kind of don't even feel like mentioning them by name.

One wasn't bad, but I kept falling asleep during it. Impressive use of Blender I guess? Folks had compared it to Miyazaki and they're just wrong! Studio Ghibli cats, with frequency beyond Miyazaki directing them, talk! There was no talking going on, just meows and other animal noises. It felt as if it could have been and should have been a 5 minute short, but instead it was over 90 minutes long.

The other two? I guess were both trying to be comedic horror or something? But almost none of the jokes landed. One movie had maybe two redeeming qualities, the other? Maybe one.

Do movies that meh deserve to be named?

Meanwhile, Wednesday, I saw Solo Leveling in IMAX, which was basically the first season compressed, with some other stuff at the end (that I guess is in season 2, but season 2 isn't on Crunchyroll yet) so totally not a great movie going experience.

Puspha 2: The Rule? Definitely a lot more visual stuff going on than the first Pushpa. Still violent a.f. In both Pushpa, and Pushpa 2 the best dance numbers have a woman who never appears elsewhere in the movies except during the dance numbers, which is kind of strange, but whatever. Apparently there is going to be a Pushpa 3? I am still not sure the first movie needed a sequel and I am even less sure the second film needs another movie either.

Out of everything I have seen over the past half month or so in theaters? I'm not sure if anything besides 化け猫あんずちゃん「bakeneko anzu chan」"Ghost Cat Anzu" would be worth watching again.

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Sweet heart, you're famous for signing and appearance/acting. Also, born in a country where we have the freedom to say things one may not like. I'm sure you've said things other people disagree with? yahoo.com/entertainment/ariana…

Ariana Grande Chokes Up as She Responds to Criticism on Her Appearance: 'No One Has the Right to Say S---'

The actress compared herself to being “a specimen in a Petri dish” since her teenage years in a new interview
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Syd Arthur : A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Remixes by The Amorphous Androgynous

#sydarthur #remix #amorphousandrogynous #music

haven't listened yet but, amorphous androgynous was great a long time ago and, Syd Arthur's great too.


A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Remixes by The Amorphous Androgynous, by Syd Arthur

7 track album
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UnitedHealthcare assassination, public sentiment analysis

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6/12/24
Plus de 400 jours de massacres quasi quotidiens de femmes de vieux et d'enfants à #Gaza #Palestine, et ailleurs. et le nazi sioniste Netanyahu peut venir en France tranquille. Et continuer.
Et quelque pipolitique peut parler d'honneur dans ce pays de coccounés qui vont bientôt se prendre un plongeon?
Une seule vie française en France, par contre, c'est tellement plein de sens, c'est un drame national tellement horrible. La blague.

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A tutorial for installing Docker on your Android phone with postmarketOS. You can run this phone without a battery, allowing it to run it plugged into a socket.

I find that this is an underappreciated use for old phones. There’s an advantage over using something like RPI having a touchscreen built in, making it easier to troubleshoot without having to plug in a monitor and a keyboard. Meanwhile, the battery acts as a UPS.

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#technology


This tutorial shows how to run docker natively on Android, without VMs and chroot.

This tutorial shows how to run docker natively on Android, without VMs and chroot. - docker.md
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Banan-OS: a hobby operating system in C++

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A hobby operating system as a learning experience, but for once not written in Rust, which in and of itself makes it more unique than you’d think. Despite being mostly a one-person hobby project, it’s ticked quite a few boxes already: SMP, network stack, copy-on-write memory, ELF loading, NVME and ATA support, PS/2 and USB peripheral support, a basic GUI, and a lot more.

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banan-os

Hobby operating system for x86_64
Gitea: Git with a cup of tea

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I really struggle to understand the direction of today's society.

For years, we've been saying we need to reduce emissions and consumption, removing chargers from smartphone boxes "to pollute less," then the "AI" comes along and we reopen fossil fuel power plants, increasing consumption and emissions for... well, who knows why!

We make people feel guilty for not switching to an electric car (or one with high energy efficiency), yet we fly for pure leisure, just to get "a few more likes" on YouTube.

We create increasingly efficient electronic devices, focus on the consumption and emissions of data centers (local or remote), and then stop optimizing code and dependencies because "there’s autoscaling" and "resources are cheap."

To me, these are ideological short circuits.

#Sustainability

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If that thing about insurance claims not being denied today is true?

Well, if you didn't give them socialized health care the diplomatic way, as folks have been striving to in the political system since at least the 20th century, then don't be surprised when more brutal methodologies become preferred.

The lamentable takeaway from that is: the reason CEOs and such are building military bunkers and bug out safe houses, is because presumably, they always saw a more violent future looming where those whom they had oppressed, would finally rebel in the bloodiest way possible. If they finally reap what they have sown, so be it.

It doesn't need to be that way though.

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Seems plausible!

That reminds me, since it's December, I guess I can now legally own a firearm again? After I was arrested in November, 2014 I couldn't own a firearm for 10 years. I never owned a firearm, so this wasn't an issue for me (though I question how such a prohibition is legal given the 2nd Amendment in the US Constitution, in practice I don't care) but the judge during one of my hearings was very insistent on interrogating me as to whether I was complying with that aspect of my plea bargain.

This country (and its so-called "justice" system) to me at least, seem as if they're comprised of knuckle dragging levels of idiots at every level of power.

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This Week in Security: National Backdoors, Web3 Backdoors, and Nearest Neighbor WiFi


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Chawan - a web browser for your terminal
sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/

This is a new terminal-based web browser written in Nim, under active development. It's looking quite promising so far and many sites are rendering nicely. It already has HTML5/CSS/SSL, with many more features planned. It's very lightweight, with minimal dependencies.

I'm not affiliated with the project, just putting it out there, since most people have probably never heard of it.

chawan: TUI Web Browser

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If you haven't read it, I strongly recommend picking up "radicalized" by Cory Doctorow (either the novella or the 4-novellas compilation book under the same name).

It's the story of a bunch of devastated people who have seen their loved ones die after their insurance companies have refused to cover the treatment that decide to start bombing their offices and killing their executives.

Sound familiar uh? Well, it's a great read, 100% recommended.

Now we are seeing a tiny bit of it happening IRL, there is something Doctorow doesn't seem to have foreseen right: in the book, when the killing of insurance companies execs and employees starts, the general public reaction is being shocked by the "atrocities made by these poor people who were made monsters by their grief" (not an exact quote, but that's the spirit). But what I'm seeing online is people cheering. Even journalist posting under their real name.

Good for them.

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'Mind-boggling wealth': Trump said to be assembling 'government of billionaires' - Raw Story

Rule of the wealth hoarders

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'Mind-boggling wealth': Trump said to be assembling 'government of billionaires'

Donald Trump has tapped at least a dozen fellow billionaires for high-level roles in his incoming administration, including the world's wealthiest man.
Travis Gettys (Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism)

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#ceylon #News
uk's criminal immigrant policy exposed, we are all at risk, illegals, khan, health & council corruption?
13.31 illegals sharia law
14.23 illegals with knife
15.57 cops grab bike guy
16.43 khan by trump
18.03 khan shitting it
19.50 khan trump
21.19 question everything government
23.17 us congress israel controlled
26.55 iodine essential
28.18 the iodine crisis
29.17 #tumeric vs #parasites
30.26 #oat #milk
31.25 sugar give it up
32.33 sleep
33.04 restore sight with radium
34.09 oz hospitals ivermectin
35.20 pandemic lies
39.12 slavery never ended
39.19 smoke councils
41.04 soverign project
42.52 council corruption being exposed
45.30 should you stop paying your debts
49.22 protect your biometric data

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Car is still in the shop, but: DMV cashed the check I mailed on November 22nd, even though the car hasn't passed SMOG (one of the myriad car ordeals I have been contending with since April).

Parking fine check, mailed at the same time: still isn't showing up in my credit union transaction history. Remembering that an additional fine/penalty would be added after 21 days (and it is currently 20 days), I decide to check the Marin Parking Authority, which shows all fines paid on November 26th.

So, why doesn't it seem as if the check amount has been deducted!? o.O I am so confused.

Should I end up calling the Marin Parking Authority over this?

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My perspective, having been born here:

The USA is basically Roman Empire 2.0, in the process of collapsing. (Honestly, with over $30 trillion in debt, I don't understand how it hasn't already collapsed, other than the reality that I guess almost all capitalism enterprises operate on debt now and thus, all global economies are in debt or something?)

Slavery is still sanctioned, the military is all mercenaries now, and for "entertainment" people gather in big stadiums to watch grown men be physically violent with each other (American football). There are American legions (uhh, "military bases") in many other countries too for dubious reasons. American architecture (e.g. McDonald's) is visible almost globally too, but redeeming cultural characteristics? Are still difficult to find.

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The shooting of a UnitedHealthcare CEO has united Americans from diverse backgrounds through their shared experiences of being harmed by the insurance industry's predatory practices.

Many have either faced personal hardships or know someone who has been harmed by this exploitative sector, fostering a sense of collective empathy and solidarity in their shared struggles.

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2/ Where better to begin than legendary board game "Risk".

Played on a world map with 42 territories across 6 continents, players deploy armies, conquer territories, and control continents to gain reinforcements and dominate the board.

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Risk’s popularity (who doesn't enjoy invading Irkutsk??) saw spin-off games created, each with beautiful maps. For example the Lord of the Rings version below.

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Board with world map from the original version of Risk
Lord of the Rings version of Risk

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4/ Settlers of Catan is a massively popular resource management game where players build settlements, roads, and cities on a modular hexagonal map, designed randomly at the start of each game. Players gather resources and trade to expand their territory, competing to earn points. Expansions, like Seafarers and Cities & Knights, add new elements such as ships and advanced city-building.

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Settlers of Catan board showing a map of the island

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5/ Moving away from board games, let’s consider casual online games like Seterra and Worldle.

Seterra is an online quiz collection with over 400 games on the flags, mountains, rivers, cities and regions of the world, divided roughly by continent. It is quite the selection, providing hours of educational fun.

seterra.com/#quizzes

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Screenshot of a Seterra quiz

Seterra - The Ultimate Map Quiz Site!

Learn world geography the easy way! Seterra is a map quiz game, available online and as an app for iOS an Android. Using Seterra, you can quickly learn to locate countries, capitals, cities, rivers lakes and much more on a map.
www.seterra.com
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7/ There are many variants of these country guessing games.

Consider Globle. Using “hot or cold” hints familiar to kids worldwide, Globle players have to guess a mystery country. It's hard and fun!

globle-game.com

They have a similar concept for capital cities:
globle-capitals.com/

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Globle: Capitals

Globle: Capitals is a daily guessing game. Use your geography skills to find the Mystery Capital City!
Globle: Capitals
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8/ The most famous geo guessing game on the web though is GeoGuessr, powered by Google Street View.

Players are dropped in random locations and have to quickly guess where they are.

geoguessr.com

Top players are SCHOCKINGLY 🤯 good.

There is a GeoGuessr World Cup

youtube.com/watch?v=M7rKQcoEnO…

Be warned - it can make for compulsive viewing

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Google Street View scene from GeoGuessr

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

GeoGuessr is a geography game which takes you on a journey around the world and challenges your ability to recognize your surroundings.
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9/ Finally, the most complex geo games of all: video games.

We start by reading this fascinating piece on video game cartography, paying particular attention to the bit on the Aegean Sea in Assassin's Creed
canadiangeographic.ca/articles…

Spot the difference between maps in real life and the game in the images below.

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Comparison of maps in reality and the video game Assassin's Creed

Inside the intricate world of video game cartography

Maps have long played a critical role in video games, whether as the main user interface, a reference guide, or both. As games become more sophisticated, so too does the cartography that underpins them. 
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There is also a series of articles from Stamen:

stamen.com/tag/video-games/

And of course my talk from FOSS4G 2023:

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2023 | What in-game maps can teach us - Ilya Zverev

FOSS4G 2023 PrizrenLet's look away from familiar continents and comfortable symbolics. When you are making an entirely new world, how do you map it? When any...
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and the more Euro-centric Diplomacy, for those who hate their friends.
(Pre-Internet, we used to play postal, 1 or 2 turns per month!)

The alternate starting positions for different eras can be enhanced by marking-up a period map from the bargain-bin at a used books & ephemera shop.

(IIRC, there were experimental world maps for Diplomacy rules, so big as Risk but slow and b*ckst*bby as Dip.)

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WARNING! We got #BeBox! It's in France, and if you are in the US the shipping is quite high—maybe buy a plane ticket to pick it up in person instead.

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rare BeBox/Be Box 66 MHz computer (lire descriptif complet pour le transport) | eBay

Un des deux petits caches a un picot cassé, mais cela ne se voit pas quand il est posé à sa place. Cet exemplaire d’une machine désormais de collection a été utilisé pour une partie de la conception des magazines Le Virus Informatique, Les Puces Info…
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Demo for Marisa of Liartop Mountain is out, it's a very interesting little game. Everything's based on dice and minor choices. One of the biggest draws though is definitely RD-Sounds doing the OST.

Marisa of Liartop Mountain Demo on Steam

'Marisa of Liartop Mountain' is an adventure-roleplaying game, where you, the player, will play as Reimu and explore a mountain of books filled with mysteries and lies in search of the whereabouts of the missing Marisa.
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Fairy Friday
Energetic beings they are, they always get excited when holidays roll around. More parties being held to intrude upon, more passersby to prank. Don't let a fairy catch on to loneliness during this time though, she might try to take you for her personal pranks.
inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Dx0jrNW… EVERYBODY SAY OKAY! ARE YOU READY TO GO! READY TO GO! :rumia_dance: Infectious energy Clownpiece track, I love it.

【東方Vocal】 HERE WE GO!! 【C-CLAYS】

◊◊ Circle: C-CLAYS ◊◊ Title: HERE WE GO!! ◊◊ Album: Never End ◊◊ Arrange: あとぐる ◊◊ Vocal: 小峠 舞 ◊◊ Lyrics: 小峠 舞 ◊◊ Source: 東方紺珠伝　～ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom ◊◊ Original: 星条旗のピエロ ◊◊ Original Composer: ZUN ◊◊ Release date: Dec 30, 2015 (C89) ◊◊ Website…
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Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are defects in diamond where a carbon atom is replaced by a nitrogen atom, and there's a missing carbon atom (vacancy) next to it.

They have unique properties that make them useful for quantum sensing, computing, and even biological imaging.

Researchers recently found ways to control the number and location of NV centers in diamonds using irradiation and annealing.

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Unlocking the secrets of diamond: new insights into nitrogen-vacancy center formation

Research teams from Wuhan University and the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) have revealed new insights into the formation mechanism of nitrogen-vacancies (NV) centers in type-Ib diamonds, a phenomenon critical to quantum sensing and computin…
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Sometimes a little variety is needed, and who better for variety than the girl of 66 masks herself. Kokoro is adorable, a girl full of emotions and thoughts that has trouble expressing any of them. She's never intentionally deadpan, she's just too inexperienced to understand how to show others what she feels.
inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=dLx0JW5… A personal favorite of mine from Girl's Logic Observatory. A nice feeling of the long night that was the religious war, and the girl at the center of it who was unaware of what all she caused. :cirno_dance:

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Vor der Wahl tat Trump so, als habe er nichts mit Project 2025 zu tun, die Anleitung zum autoritären Umbau der USA. Jetzt fallen die Fassaden. Die Kritiker haben gewarnt, aber viel zu viele wollten dem notorischen Lügner Trump glauben. volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/wi…

Genau wie gewarnt: Trump beruft “Project 2025” Mitarbeiter - Volksverpetzer

Vor der Wahl tat Trump so, als habe er nichts mit Project 2025 zu tun. Jetzt fallen die Fassaden. Die Kritiker haben gewarnt.
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Alles richtig, aber die verbundene "Medienschelte" (?) kann ich nicht nachvollziehen. Vielleicht liegt es ja an meiner persönlichen Medienauswahl, jedenfalls kann ich mich nicht erinnern, auch nur ein einziges mal von Trumps "Distanzierung" gelesen zu haben ohne zumindest ein paar direkt folgende Sätze zur Einordnung, warum die wenig glaubwürdig ist.

Ja, in die Tiefe geht es dann seltener, aber selbst die Geschichte mit dem Vance-Vorwort zum Streichholz-Buch war mir bekannt, WIMRE aus einem Artikel der FAZ.

Der Kern des Problems ist doch ein ganz anderer: Zumindest soweit man Umfragen trauen kann ist es ohnehin nur eine Minderheit, die Trump jemals seine ganzen Lügen glaubt. Es ist den Leuten egal, und das hat vermutlich mehr als einen Grund. Mangelnde Einordnung durch Journalisten gehört da eher weniger dazu. Schon eher die "flood the zone with shit" Strategie, die durchaus aufgeht. Aber vor allem auch der Elefant im Raum: Das Angebot der Demokraten, das sehr kurzfristig den Tattergreis gegen eine gewisse Inhaltsleere ausgetauscht hat. Gut war allenfalls die Verpackung in positive Botschaften, aber wenn da gar nicht viel verpackt wird fällt das dann eben doch auf. Freie Primaries (durch rechtzeitigen Verzicht des alten Mannes), Aufbau des/der Nominierten und Erarbeitung eines vernünftigen Wahlprogramms, ein paar einfache Inhalte zur "mitreißenden" positiven Botschaft verpackt, so hätte man vermutlich etwas ausrichten können...

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France doesn't have much to laugh about these days, so it can thank Australia for this.

In 2021 Australia stabbed France in the back by cancelling, without prior warning, a $66 billion deal to build submarines in order to buy US submarines instead.

However it's now becoming clearer and clearer that the US will never be able to deliver the AUKUS subs. So there's now - 3 years afterwards - growing calls to cancel the AUKUS submarines contract and go back to the French. 😆

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AUKUS risks are piling up. Australia must prepare to build French SSNs instead | The Strategist

Australia should start planning for acquisition of at least 12 submarines of the French Suffren design. The current AUKUS plan for eight nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) has always been flawed, and now its risks are ...
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@IAmSpartacus @bluevelvet321 for sure, my view is that there's a fundamental misunderstanding of what an economy is in the west.

The whole point is to allocate labor towards productive purposes that make our lives better collectively. Finance capital driven economies in the west are doing the opposite of that. Incidentally, this is a great read on the mechanics of the whole thing americanaffairsjournal.org/202…


The Value of Nothing: Capital versus Growth - American Affairs Journal

Throughout 2021, U.S. stock market valuations have hovered near all‑time highs. In June, the unadjusted price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of the S&P 500 index eclipsed the tech boom record of 2000.
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These #Kroger brand packets of #InstantOatmeal have close to DOUBLE the amount of product per pouch than #QuakerOatmeal (and cost about 40% less too). I'm impressed. I will say, the Quaker Oatmeal is more "tasty" (#AppleCinnamon) or has a stronger taste but still... this is not bad....

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"A man must first govern himself
ere he is fit to govern a family;
and his family ere he be fit to bear
the government of the commonwealth."

-- Sir Walter Raleigh
(1552-1618) British Poet, Courtier and Explorer, executed by King James I

Quotation by Sir Walter Raleigh

"A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth." ~ Sir Walter Raleigh
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I need to gloat: The ammo used was bog standard 115gr 9mm FMJ. Not subsonic, not some ultra special stuff. The man was just using a crappy pistol that malfunctioned a bunch. People argued with me like they are some sort of expert about this, and I feel vindicated because I called this from the start. We’re gonna eventually find out it was some shitty Glock clone or Taurus with a home made suppressor and that the guy just wasn’t familiar with shooting so he kept limp wristing it, causing failures
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