Πόσο κοστίζει η ασφάλειά μας; Δύο χρόνια μετά τον Daniel

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Tο @wearesolomon.bsky.social σε συνεργασία με την ιταλική δημοσιογραφική ομάδα FADA Collective ερευνά τις καθυστερήσεις στις αποζημιώσεις, καθώς και εάν, στον απόηχο των καταστροφών, κάτοικοι και επιχειρήσεις στρέφονται τώρα προς την ιδιωτική ασφάλιση.

Forty-eight percent of Americans said they believe the economy is getting worse while 19 percent said it is getting better. The poll took place on March 9 and 11, and featured 1,699 people and plus or minus 3.2 percentage points as its margin of error.

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#usa #economy

"Yesterday, Kilmar Abrego García filed a brief in his criminal case, and for the first time we have a first-person account of what is going on inside of CECOT, the El Salvadoran prison to which the Trump regime sent hundreds of immigrants, all without any kind of hearing or due process.

What he recounts is horrifying, and it should be on the front page of every paper."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #Republicans #KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
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Overwhelming majority are Nazis

Poll: Overwhelming majority of Jewish "Israelis" share genocidal belief there are ‘no innocent people in #Gaza
A Hebrew University poll shows an overwhelming majority of Jewish "Israelis" agree with the genocidal idea that there are “no innocents in Gaza.”

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I have been using a lot more apps from F-Droid store and oh there is so much to fucking love about #freesoftware. Yes, I understand that sometimes it may lack some flashy stuff and accessibility has a long way to go, judging by what blind folks say here. I wanted to make a thread of appreciation because they make me feel good. Also if you are in the US you may need some feel-good stuff now 🧵
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PSA: Don't install Call of Duty WWII on PC. There's apparently an RCE exploit via game chat people are using to hack each other's PCs.

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I'm surprised this isn't more common. Video game programmers aren't known for their security obsession. There must be tons of vulnerabilities in games.

On macOS this is mitigated by the fact that games don't need very many permissions to run, so the worst any attacker is likely to do to a Mac game is mine crypto until you reboot. But most games run on Windows or Linux, neither of which enforces restrictions like macOS does…

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Russia ‘will not back down’ on Ukraine war goals, Putin tells Trump
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/3/russia-will-not-back-down-on-ukraine-war-goals-putin-tells-trump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into US & Canada News @us-canada-news-AlJazeera

"Kendine sürgün
bir garip kişiyim;
kutsallığı zincir gibi
parmağında çeviren.
umudu depremden,
aşkı külden
bekleyen benim
aranızda
yerim yok zaten.

heybesinde yılan
işaretleri,
baldıran zehiri
yüzüğünün içinde
ve yanında
kav taşıyan ben;
tekinsizim size göre
ibret için
yakılması gereken."

Metin Altıok

#SivasKatliamınıUnutma

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trump's Big Bloated Bill passed the house. it's still not entirely clear how much debt this is going to add, by the time everything gets sorted out. i would definitely prefer single-issue bills.

but as i've said before nothing gets done in govenrment without a bunch of little crony favors and pork to keep everyone happy. so if this is what they claim they need to deport 50 million illegals, we'll see how it turns out. that is a challenge

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OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 61 - "MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE: DO ALL ROADS LEAD TO OBAMA!?!" - PART 1 - EP.437

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Comments below the podcast.

"Let's not forget that Barack Obama is related to the George Bush family."

"Wasn’t Soweto an uprising causing hundreds of children to die in Africa?"

Absolute Storm Ep 51 7/1/2025 9pm EST BBB|ICE|Alligators|MAHA|AOTW

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Scroll to the 1:15:00 point at the link above to listen to BB MaGUIRE (nurse with 30 yrs exp) discuss MAHA & what will help make us healthy. Some medications have ingredients in them that cause the condition the medication is being taken for!

The 911 "controlled demolition" BS is so tiresome...
I took the time to sum up the obvious to debunk this BS: NO EXPLOSIVES means NO EXPLOSIVES!

Absolutely none were required to bring down the WTC, once those jumbo jets hit them!

I have no idea how people think they would have held up. There's a mysterious belief in the infinite resistance of stuff that was excellent 1960s engineering, but not more.

As for WTC 7, it had been burning for hours, with no sprinklers or anything. Then was shaken up by the horrendous shock of the WTC 1 & 2 collapsing, which damaged several buildings in the area so badly that they had to destroy them, in the aftermath. First, the penthouse fell into the inside of the building, showing that the internal structure had collapsed. Then the entire structure fell in on itself. Again, with ZERO evidence of explosives. So yes, logic dictates that it collapsed on its own.

Not that hard to believe.

Once you've eliminated the IMPOSSIBLE, you have to accept what remains, no matter how improbable.

People just WANT to blame it on the US government, even when the accusation is absurd: it didn't make any sense that the government would coordinate with terrorists to let them fly planes into the WTC after rigging the buildings with some magical, undetectable explosives that worked in reverse, i.e. top to bottom, starting exactly where the planes had hit, then exploding floor after floor with those magical explosives to ... do do what? Lower the resistance of each floor, which was already at virtually zero?

So how d the "controlled demolition" nutters think those explosives were installed? At what time? How did they avoid security?

Would have required hundreds of workers. No whistleblowers? A perfect government operation with no screw-ups and no records?

How did they hide the bombs and the cables?

What magic did they use?

The conspiracy idiots keep talking about thermite, which is NOT an explosive! Could NEVER have had the observed effect.

For what reason would they launch the controlled demolition? The airplanes were already entirely enough terrorism. The building collapse was totally not necessary.

It is infinitely much easier to just admit that the building collapsed under its own weight...

The ONLY objection I've seen is "I don't believe that's possible".

But we saw it happen!

There are so many things that seem totally impossible, but are real.

Get a gigantic pile of metal weighing 400 tons off the ground just by pushing a bit of air... that's absolutely impossible! Yet we got used to it.

But gigantic buildings collapsing after a catastrophic attack .. that's where they draw the line for their absolute disbelief and they need some MAGIC FAIRY DUST to destroy the building rather than ... it's own mass 🙄

Another banger from everyone's favorite cringeposter !
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The 911 "controlled demolition" BS is so tiresome...
I took the time to sum up the obvious to debunk this BS: NO EXPLOSIVES means NO EXPLOSIVES!

Absolutely none were required to bring down the WTC, once those jumbo jets hit them!

I have no idea how people think they would have held up. There's a mysterious belief in the infinite resistance of stuff that was excellent 1960s engineering, but not more.

As for WTC 7, it had been burning for hours, with no sprinklers or anything. Then was shaken up by the horrendous shock of the WTC 1 & 2 collapsing, which damaged several buildings in the area so badly that they had to destroy them, in the aftermath. First, the penthouse fell into the inside of the building, showing that the internal structure had collapsed. Then the entire structure fell in on itself. Again, with ZERO evidence of explosives. So yes, logic dictates that it collapsed on its own.

Not that hard to believe.

Once you've eliminated the IMPOSSIBLE, you have to accept what remains, no matter how improbable.

People just WANT to blame it on the US government, even when the accusation is absurd: it didn't make any sense that the government would coordinate with terrorists to let them fly planes into the WTC after rigging the buildings with some magical, undetectable explosives that worked in reverse, i.e. top to bottom, starting exactly where the planes had hit, then exploding floor after floor with those magical explosives to ... do do what? Lower the resistance of each floor, which was already at virtually zero?

So how d the "controlled demolition" nutters think those explosives were installed? At what time? How did they avoid security?

Would have required hundreds of workers. No whistleblowers? A perfect government operation with no screw-ups and no records?

How did they hide the bombs and the cables?

What magic did they use?

The conspiracy idiots keep talking about thermite, which is NOT an explosive! Could NEVER have had the observed effect.

For what reason would they launch the controlled demolition? The airplanes were already entirely enough terrorism. The building collapse was totally not necessary.

It is infinitely much easier to just admit that the building collapsed under its own weight...

The ONLY objection I've seen is "I don't believe that's possible".

But we saw it happen!

There are so many things that seem totally impossible, but are real.

Get a gigantic pile of metal weighing 400 tons off the ground just by pushing a bit of air... that's absolutely impossible! Yet we got used to it.

But gigantic buildings collapsing after a catastrophic attack .. that's where they draw the line for their absolute disbelief and they need some MAGIC FAIRY DUST to destroy the building rather than ... it's own mass 🙄


@ruralgloom Thanks so much for the journey with your spoken word. I missed a chance to say how I wish I could have seen you and my Dearly Departed Dad at a pub one evening, and to take bets as to whether you'd get more than one story per hour as he grilled you for every minute detail of every tale ❤

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“We’re not an island of strangers; we’re an island that’s suffering. We need homes and lives we can actually afford, not rip-off bills we pay every month to a tiny elite bathing in cash. We need our money spent on public services, not forever wars.

“In 2029, the choice will be stark: socialism or barbarism.

“Billionaires already have three parties fighting for them. It’s time the rest of us had one.”

Zarah Sultana

👍

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Weigel and his text-buddy (link below) are both chickenshits, but his text-buddy is right. The "groups" are in fact the party's Achilles' heel.

Keeping the occupants of the "Big Tent" distracted and divided and focused on lobbying instead of organizing is how establishment Dems and their veal pen friends protect capital. That is, roughly speaking, their role in the current political system. When they can no longer accomplish that, capital will abandon them, and they know it.

Broad-based solidarity movements threaten Dems every bit as much as they do the GOP.

That's why they freak out so hard when somebody like Mamdani (or Obama!) comes along.

It's why they let the GOP drive the news cycle with a never-ending stream of wedge issues that keep tearing at their coalition.

It's why they spend so much more time talking about what they're going to say than they spend actually saying anything.

It's why they love to do loopy means-tested triple-bank-shot monstrosities instead of picking a straightfoward way to improve people's lives and then organizing around it.

It's why rotating villains like Manchin and Sinema get offered the occasional carrot, but are never EVER threatened with the stick.

It's why the riggedness of the economy cannot possibly be acknowledged, and more generally why injustices can only ever be vague abstractions to be addressed in some glorious golden future, never today.

Because who knows when a particular injustice might serve as a rallying point.

Sigh...

This isn't useful information anymore, really. The so-called "sixth" duopoly has already failed. The Democratic and Republican Parties as we've known them all these years are both terminal and close to the end. Whatever happens next will be different enough to require a different response.

It's just that the system is so big and ponderous that even at the astonishingly rapid rate thing are going, it will take at another cycle or two to actually collapse.

But it's still worth mentioning, as a reminder that one way and another "the groups" represent most of the country.

Ordinary people could quickly and easily destroy either or both of the parties, if they managed to reach an agreement about how to do it.

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@meowski If you saw the robots of the Boston Dynamics projects or something like that, remember that all of those were terminated.

Simply too costly to manufacture and maintain. Wheels are cheaper than pneumatic muscles. Their "horse-like" replacement for example was terminated because the army found out that mules would be cheaper.

Their humanoid robot was simply too complex.

Would need major advances in artificial muscles before anything like that becomes viable, and even then would also need to be cheaper.

Robotics is not like electronics

Πετάνε GWh ΑΠΕ αλλά κρατάνε τις τιμές στα ύψη ληστεύοντας την κοινωνία.

Σύμφωνα με έκθεση του «Green Tank» που δημοσιεύθηκε χθες, από τις αρχές του έτους έως και την 1 Ιουνίου απορρίφθηκαν συνολικά 975 GWh (γιγαβατώρες) ΑΠΕ ξεπερνώντας τις περικοπές για ολόκληρο το 2024 (899 GWh).

Αθροιστικά το πρώτο πεντάμηνο του 2025, απορρίφθηκε το 8,9% της συνολικής παραγωγής από ανανεώσιμες πηγές.

in reply to Fou

Παράγουμε πολύ περισσότερη ενέργεια απ ότι καταναλώνουμε αλλά οι τιμές βζιιιιιιιιιιιιιν ⬇️

Με σχετικά υψηλούς ρυθμούς συνεχίστηκε το «ψαλίδι» στις ΑΠΕ και τον Ιούνιο σε αντίθεση με προηγούμενα έτη που τα καλοκαίρια, λόγω της αυξημένης ενεργειακής ζήτησης, οι περικοπές μηδενίζονταν.

Αιτία η ολοένα και μεγαλύτερη διείσδυση «πράσινης» ενέργειας, κυρίως ηλιακής, στο ενεργειακό μείγμα.

Αν μάλιστα η υπερπαραγωγή ΑΠΕ συνδυαστεί και με περιορισμένες εξαγωγές τότε ο «κόφτης» είναι δεδομένος.

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Εδώ λοιπόν φαίνεται πόσο άχρηστοι είναι οι άριστοι ή πόσο οσφυοκάμπτες στους ολιγάρχες.

Εγκαθιστούν συνεχώς ΑΠΕ για να φάνε τις επιδοτήσεις και να αδειάζουν τα πορτοφόλια μας, χωρίς σχεδιασμό, χωρίς αποθηκευτικές μονάδες, χωρίς συμφωνίες εξαγωγής ρεύματος.

Μυτιληναίε φίλε, σε έκανε ο Κούλης μάγκα, υποκλίνομαι

Macron's man-wife is like @Owl .... she gotta take some calming tea or something and CHILL!

🤣

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ESA tracks rare interstellar comet


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Artist impression of ‘Oumuamua

Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of a rare celestial visitor: a comet from beyond our Solar System.

Officially named 3I/ATLAS, this newly identified interstellar object is only the third of its kind ever observed, following the famous 1I/ʻOumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Don't remember why I don't like Grimerica, so giving that another chance. Also trying the Millennial Media Offensive. And some random podcasts from a libertarian podcast list.

I'm looking for podcasts
- with good sound quality
- that are entertaining
- that leave me feeling smarter at the end.

Point 1 is the real struggle. A lot of podcasts are poorly recorded, and I have no tolerance for that. Also, I usually listen in the car, so there's a lot going on, aurally.

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BTW Russia is coming up the Southern Pivot -- I know I say it all the time -- but looks like they finished taking the last town that spans the coastal edge of the next to the last defensive line guarding the major Eastern supply route to the South (1/2). Once they get fire control there then they can collapse the last real defensive line. :shrugz:

Ukraine is still scrambling to send men down to defend, but looks like it's going to be too late to hold off a late Summer sweep. Likely why the US halted arms shipments as they will just be in Russia's hands as much as we have no stock left.

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