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after only knowing the musical adaptation for the longest time, the actual War of the Worlds novel had me rolling over laughing with how the Artilleryman not only describes how he's gonna Start All Over Again underground (as in the musical adaptation) but also spends a little bit outlining methods in which the Martians could domesticate humans and why it would work. including "pets of some of them" and "eroticism".
โWe know the tank is us andโฆweโre the ones defending ourselvesโ A dystopian โ and mandatory โ Israeli training video for high school students about to travel abrโฆ
Die EU-Antisemitismus-Koordinatorin lobbyierte laut geleaktem Bericht mit Lรผgen gegen Israel-Sanktionen. Kriegsverbrechen in Gaza seien "Gerรผchte รผber Juden", Spendenaktionen fรผr Gaza "ambienter Antisemitismus". EU-Botschafter widersprachen ihr deutlich: euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worlโฆ
The high-level EU official was lobbying against Israel sanctions using bogus claims on antisemitism, according to a "sensitive" cable from Tel Aviv leaked to EUobserver. ย
Ever more surreal, ever more oppressive. Elderly people in Cardiff holding cardboard signs supporting Palestine Action get their doors stoved in, homes raided and food apparently tested for radioactive materials. Cardboard: the new weapon of mass destruction. ๐งตdocs.google.com/document/d/1...
For immediate release, 14 July 2025 POLICE DIVIDED OVER PALESTINE ACTION PROTESTS Cardiff, 12 July, extended detention and raids Derry, 12 July, no arrests The spectrum of responses on Saturday ranged from a hands-off approach in Kendal and Derrโฆ
"Every single patient I see is in a state of starvation," said a doctor on today's Democracy Now, on #Gaza.
Anyone who works for the #NewYorkTimes should have a deep & indelible sense of shame for working for a publication that enables genocide and completely fails to speak truth to power.
It is fully possible to interview people in Gaza and interrogate Israeli lies, but #NYT intentionally does not.
Remember that #NYT ran "Screams Without Words" fabricating a narrative that the Oct 7 Hamas attack included systematic sexual assaults, even though the journalist struggled to find a *second* source on the claim.
To celebrate our 20th anniversary of AGT, weโre giving you early access to a Golden Buzzer performance.Americaโs Got Talent premieres Tuesday, May 27 at 8/7c...
Usher's official music video for 'More' (RedOne Jimmy Joker Remix). Click to listen to Usher on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/UsherSpotify?IQid=UsherMoreAs fea...
Majorities in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain would support the UK rejoining. As things stand, if Britons overstay the 90-day visa-free limit, you may be banned from entering Schengen countries for up to 3 years.
Jeff Epstein was a touchstone for MAGA to articulate anger at concentrated power. It also powered a business model for the podcasteratti. Trum threatened all of that. Plus, the merger spree starts.
Jeff Epstein was a touchstone for MAGA to articulate anger at concentrated power. It also powered a business model for the podcasteratti. Trum threatened all of that. Plus, the merger spree starts.
Yah and Strange Fruit is about the gold standard? These guys work so hard to pretend... I found a discussion that's not oversimplified to support the "Actually," crowd. billofrightsinstitute.org/essaโฆ
Look at this bloated bag of ugly nazi shit...bet that no-balls slime mold of hate (sorry slime molds) doesn't have the guts to spend 25 weeks in Alligator Auschwitz. No guts.
Trump administration border czar Tom Homan didn't hold back when faced with a heckler during a conservative conference over the weekend, launching into a profanity-laced tirade that included questioning the protester's masculinity.
Jeff Epstein was a touchstone for MAGA to articulate anger at concentrated power. It also powered a business model for the podcasteratti. Trum threatened all of that. Plus, the merger spree starts.
๐ Via Truely Ann Me Peter #Stassen sโest prรฉsentรฉ ร la premiรจre audience au fond du mรฉga-procรจs en cours aux #Pays-Bas contre : - lโรtat nรฉerlandais, - lโancien Premier ministre Mark #Rutte (aujourdโhui secrรฉtaire gรฉnรฉral de lโOtan), - le patron de #Pfizer, Albert #Bourla - et le milliardaire #BillGates.
Son collรจgue lโavocat Arno van #Kessel, arrรชtรฉ il y a un mois pour des raisons peu claires, est toujours en dรฉtention au centre pรฉnitentiaire de trรจs haute sรฉcuritรฉ de Vught, indique le mรฉdia alternatif nรฉerlandais De Andere Krant. Une situation qui รฉvoque celle de lโavocat allemand Reiner #Fuellmich, actuellement dรฉtenu dans la prison de haute sรฉcuritรฉ de Rosdorf en Allemagne. โ Le ยซ plus grand #gรฉnocide contre lโhumanitรฉ qui soit ยป
Interdire une autre vision. Transformer la dissidence en dรฉlit. Dans le meilleur des mondes, grรขce aux dangereux tarรฉs (et assassins) de la #mafia #pipolitique, notre argent sert ร nous censurer. #censure
Quand lโopinion publique รฉchappe ร leur contrรดle, ils sortent les crocs. Enquรชte criminelle contre X. Coalition dโassociations subventionnรฉes pour signaler v...
THE PRIVATE PRISON INDUSTRY LOOKS FORWARD TO SOARING PROFITS THANKS TO TRUMPโS BUDGET The $45 billion for immigration detention in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" represented a long-sought win for private prisons.
The victory was in the works for years. A private prison company handed consulting and lobbying gigs to Trumpโs allies, its political action committee was the first to max out its donation to Trump, and industry executives had already made plans to reopen shuttered prisons โ laying the groundwork for what they promised investors would be an incarceration bonanza.
The collapse of the #German economy. Imagine what would happen if you had a gas station right next door, but you had to drive hundreds Km to fill up with gas at double the price because your puppetmaster sabotaged the pumps near you. But, nevertheless, you knelt down and said "thank you". After all, you vote for your "Masters Voice" every time.
Well... since this is happening to the #EU "locomotive" imagine what will happen in the immediate future to the rest of EU economies
14.7.2025 Gathering after dock workers unions call at #Piraeus port against the docking of Eva Golden ship carrying military grade steel with destination zionist murderers of Israel
@pluralistic I know you don't know me and I am late to this party.... But I am at the halfway point of Chokepoint Capitalism and I am pissed off. I am so ready to read about the remedies proposed! I already have The Internet Con sitting in my stack to read next!
I posted a video about the demise of GM (the American car manufacturer) and the Nice Crew members thought it was about the demise of the Good Morning post.
Die EU-Antisemitismus-Koordinatorin lobbyierte laut geleaktem Bericht mit Lรผgen gegen Israel-Sanktionen. Kriegsverbrechen in Gaza seien "Gerรผchte รผber Juden", Spendenaktionen fรผr Gaza "ambienter Antisemitismus". EU-Botschafter widersprachen ihr deutlich: euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worlโฆ
The high-level EU official was lobbying against Israel sanctions using bogus claims on antisemitism, according to a "sensitive" cable from Tel Aviv leaked to EUobserver. ย
Just about to push back from the gate and the capt. comes on and says DFW has a ground stop. Weโre stuck here on the plane, at the gate, for at least the next 45 mins.
Its easy to be exasperated with the people who appear to have only just figured out that killing 17,000 children is not cool and not self-defence. I have expressed some of that exasperation.
But here is Prof Alison Phipps @alisonphipps with a timely reminder that we need these converts. It's how we win.
Eleanor Duckworth: The more intensely interested a teacher is in a studentโs thinking, the more interested the student becomes in his or her own thinking. Corollary: The more a teacher just wants to see right answers, the less interested students become in their (or any) thinking.
Noted progressive educator Eleanor Duckworth worked with eminent Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget early in her career. "I learned that you can't change what ch...
I'm interested in the idea of building rigid high strength frames, for example for a lathe or milling machine frame, by burning out shapes in plate steel on a CNC plasma cutter, then assembling those plates with 3d printed support jigs holding them together and bolting through them with long bolts. Then pour the interior with concrete and after the concrete sets up, tension the bolts to prestress the concrete...
It's a bit limited in shape, you can't really include the type of features you see in cast iron, but machine bases typically don't need them that much.
When you're attaching a component to the base which needs precise orientation, you attach it to a jig which holds it true, then you bring the bed up to it and you epoxy the mating surfaces so the epoxy acts as a shim. After the epoxy hardens you can tension the hold-down bolts.
I realize that there's a general purpose way to make a high precision surface on something:
1. Lay a piece of surface ground steel, maybe 3-5mm thick, down on a surface plate. This steel must have a smooth finish but it does NOT need to be precise in any way.
2. Tape around the perimeter of the steel with vacuum tape and attach a vacuum hose on one corner.
3. Start the vacuum pump, sucking out all of the air between the steel and the surface plate. At this point, the vacuum will flex the steel, making it conform to the surface plate.
4. Take any old rigid piece of steel, stone, or concrete, paint it with epoxy, and stick it to the exposed surface of the steel.
5. After the epoxy hardens, release the vacuum and cut the tape free.
At this point, you have a high precision surface that has been twinned to the surface plate. The epoxy has hardened in the form of a "perfect shim" between the rigid body of the part, and the strip or plate of steel.
Problem with the above is you don't know how uneven the part is that you're sticking to, too uneven and there's not enough epoxy to fill the gap and you get a void.
A related concern is if too much epoxy is painted in places to fill up the voids, the thick areas will be subject to more shrinkage than the thin areas. Epoxy glues shrink by 0.1 - 3% depending on the type.
Two thoughts come to mind:
1. This process can be done using tinfoil, and then you can hit it with a wire brush to scrape out all of the voids since unbacked tinfoil will tear out instantly. Then the process can be repeated again with a little bit of extra epoxy painted in the void areas. When the entire surface comes up with no voids, then you do the final mating with sheet metal.
2. A related idea is to pour concrete down against the sheet metal on the surface plate. This will have more uniform shrinkage so voids should be less of an issue.
In the flooring business, they use a very liquid cement that is self-leveling, they dam it up and then pour it in, and then it will naturally level to perfectly flat and even.
That could be replicated into something else by just using a very watery epoxy. Something with a very low surface tension.
That'll work for making something like a table, but when we're talking about precision, things get "weird"...
The thickness of a human hair is about 2 thousandths of an inch. Paper is 4 thousandths, a laboratory grade surface plate is guaranteed flat and true to 0.045 thousandths.
When you get to these precision levels, you can put a 1/2 inch piece of steel under a measuring instrument and watch it flex as you push it lightly with your finger. You can hold a part in your hand and see it expand from your body heat in real time. Pouring even the thinnest epoxy and letting it cure in air might get you down to 1 thousandth, but you can get that by purchasing a piece of bar stock and making a simple surface grinder.
Surface plates are made on very high precision surface grinders, those grinders are themselves made using master surface plates. The masters are made in groups of 3, they coat them with a die called Prussian Blue, this die creates an extremely thin and uniform coating of about 0.01 thousandths. They lay one plate down on top of the other and this transfers blue marks from one to the other, then they scrape it using a tool which can take off around 0.001 thousandth per pass. They use 3 because when 1 and 2 match, and 2 and 3 match, and 1 and 3 match, then they know the surfaces are actually flat...
So I would say if you want to build precision machines, the easiest thing to do is buy your surface plate and then make everything else by cloning it.
Off topic: A surface grinder is actually quite easy to make, you clone a surface plate twice, once for the bed and once for the carriage. The carriage slides on a film of oil over the bed and you just use rudimentary chains, tracks and screws to control the right/left and forward/back because these are not precise. Also the angle of the head is not precise, everything can be eyeballed.
A surface grinder is the most rudimentary machine, it requires only 1 flat surface.
A lathe requires 4 flat surfaces: 1. Vertical ways (up-down truing) 2. Horizontal ways (back-forth truing) 3. Vertical cross-slide - parallel to horizontal ways 4. Horizontal cross-slide - square to vertical ways Then the headstock needs to be parallel to horizontal and vertical ways.
The milling machine is the worst, because it has all of the surfaces of the lathe, but it also has a Z surface which needs to be trued on two axes.
Fortunately the lathe and mill are not generally expected to produce work better than +- 1 thousandth, but the cylindrical grinder and the EDM have all of the same problems as the lathe and mill, but are held to a much higher standard...
I've been thinking about this, I have two possible solutions: 1. Air bearings which are obviously self-cleaning 2. Oil bearings with an oil pump which forces a continuous stream of fresh (filtered) oil into the bearings and sweeps away dust
Air bearings have really good precision, but they're expensive to buy commercially and not that easy to make, so I tend to lean toward #2, but I don't know how much oil flow you can push without it beginning to lift the carriage up off of the ways...
I imagine somebody has studied this because it seems weird not to...
I think it goes without saying that you'd like to have grinding in a room with lower air pressure than the machining room, but even grinders have surfaces, so there's still a problem that needs to be addressed...
i dont even know if squeekboard *can* run on sway because as i understand it wayland is held together by one million protocol extensions that no one has bothered to standardize yet. the only alternative is an always-tiled one that 'sucks less,' the worst thing that can ever be said about a piece of software
@goosey Yes, it's still available for free! Paris released As-Easy-As 5.7 for free from his website, by sharing a valid registration code in their forums. The forums are offline now, but there's a link to it (via the Wayback website) in the video description. There's even a free PDF copy of the manual.
It's a great spreadsheet and I still love using it.
who wears their watch on the right wrist? Double layers of shits are a bit overdressed for summer. I think you should alert TSA immediately southpaw shouldnโt be able to fly.
I love flying, of course I havenโt flown since before the towers fell. Seats were wider and there was a barrier in fees to keep most of the unwashed off the plane. You might want to keep a mask dabbed with a bit of mint oil or some other pleasant smell.
@scottdhansen just a final note on the trip from MKE to DFW. The gal next to me was so large, she โspilled overโ, under the armrest onto my seat. I mean WTF?! If I wanted to be in contact with a stranger (who smelled BTW) the entire flight, I would have paid extra for it!
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Happening now: A man dressed in a pig costume is outside the ICE facility in Portland demanding โbig booty Latinasโ not be deported.
Iranโs President Masoud Pezeshkian suffered minor injuries in an Israeli air strike on a meeting of the Supreme National Security Council in Tehran on June 15, a senior Iranian official said.
The assassination attempt targeted the heads of the three branches of government in an effort to overthrow it, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The strike was carried out shortly before noon during a meeting attended by the heads of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government along with other senior officials.
The semiofficial Fars news agency also reported new details on the assassination attempt during Israelโs 12-day war with #Iran, which was first announced by the Iranian president in an interview released on Monday.
The session was taking place in the lower level of a government facility in western #Tehran when the attack started, Fars reported. The buildingโs entrances and exits were hit by six missiles to block escape routes and cut off air flow.
Electricity was severed following the explosions, but Iranian officials managed to escape through a pre-designated emergency hatch, including the president, who is said to have sustained minor leg injuries while evacuating. aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/13/iโฆ #IsraelTerroristState #imperialism #war
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in reply to Aaron • • •Remember that #NYT ran "Screams Without Words" fabricating a narrative that the Oct 7 Hamas attack included systematic sexual assaults, even though the journalist struggled to find a *second* source on the claim.
theintercept.com/2024/02/28/neโฆ
But when it comes to mass starvation, assassinations of medical staff, journalists, children, NTY is silent.
If on 1+ issue, it acts as a propaganda arm for US & Israeli governments, it can't be trusted as a publication on any issue.
The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposรฉ
Jeremy Scahill (The Intercept)