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Clint Eastwood:
"I love when people call Trump Stupid..
You mean the multi-billionaire who kicked every Democrats butt, buried 16 career Republican politicians, and continues to make fools out of once reputable news organizations ..
“It would make [Epstein] a story with which we have to be persistent and steady in our demands; but also cautious, and methodical, and discerning.” —Naomi Wolf
On Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for canceling funding for California’s failed high speed train.
URGENT: HELP SAVE 32 AMERICAN ALLIES FROM BEING MURDERED BY TALIBAN TERRORIST REGIME Award-winning journalist Lara Logan is asking for your help to help save American allies from being murdered by the Taliban.
...yer in Sealing EPSTEIN Files!
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NOT more fucked than the USA, not by a long shot. Worth it, but the up-front cost is huge, you have to really commit to putting up with their bureaucracy / taxes / everything-takes-forever / etc.
Taxation is obscene, you lose about 50% of your income.
The good side is nobody wants to kill you, imprison you, and ruin your life. So no cops with quotas, no SWATting (they just don't kick down doors over anonymous phone calls, actually kicking down doors AT ALL is extremely rare), no personal injury lawyers, no toxic food.
The bad side is that nobody wants to do anything, so when you need something done, it can be really painful. Like if you're paying someone and they still don't want to work.
It's not just "lazy" in the sense that an American would think of it, it's a whole culture unto itself.
The French don't grovel. Everybody knows that whatever they're paid half is going out the window, so as a result, customer service is hilarious. But if they can see that you're in a tight spot, they'll help you out, because they do care about you as a human being. It's just that whether or not you're paying them doesn't really have an impact on how much they want to help you out.
The French wear you down, until you become one of them...
Another thing about the French is they are experts at not following rules. The French are absolute masters at implicitly negotiating with one another what is and is not an acceptable thing to be doing, with astonishingly little regard for the letter of the law.
America has nothing comparable to this, America has mostly the German concept of enforcing every stupid little rule to the full extent possible, with no regard for the lives of everyone around, or indeed even the reason the rule was implemented in the first place. America also has the Scotts-Irish Borderer concept of breaking every rule possible, and starting a fight with anyone who suggests otherwise, but there's no analogue to the French concept of gracefully breaking the letter of the law while remaining within the spirit and being a good neighbor.
The hack is you work for Americans but live in France, that way you get paid much better. But making that work with immigration law is tricky. In my case, I have the right to live here because I'm married to an EU national.
may as well move to SEA and work remote for a USA company tbh, france sounds like i'd have to marry a french lady for it to pan out. cheaper living, better women.
More than 100 emails expose the extent to which authorities in southwest Florida were left unaware of plans to build a sprawling immigration detention centre in the Everglades
Reflecting on how knowledgeable I've become on the lore of the Sektur Cinematic Universe has made me consider whether I've given the Marvel and Star Wars soys a little too much shit over the years.
today is the vet appointment i booked when my cat was acting like he was gonna drop dead any minute before he decided he was done with that and went back to acting completely normal
just got back. no vaccines, just a blood sample and we're delivering urine sample tomorrow. blood result was normal. small murmur in heart. we'll be doing more tests
What's at stake? Your photos of your kids. Your bank statements. Your payslips. Your CV. Should you be able to store these important items safely and securely in the cloud or should the Government be able to make us more vulnerable to criminals and h…
There is no such thing as a "loneliness" epidemic. There's neoliberalism, and 10% of Western populations who refuse to catch SARS2 over and over again. These are two different issues, tho interrelated.
The "loneliness" epidemic you've read about is the political class applying pressure to people who refuse to catch their favorite plague.
Individualism, a part of neoliberalism's cultural revolution in the 1980s, purposefully replaced community with "enlightened self-interest."
One would think "enlightened self-interest" would include wearing a mask! I'd say what the neoliberal crapitalist bullshit offers now is "endarkened selfishness."
Most of the COVID competent people I'm aware of are *deeply* involved in community efforts, either online or sometimes in person (in safe environments). They aren't lonely, they're angry and unwilling to comply in advance.
This would vex neoliberals and all the well-meaning people who advance their agendas, like erasing the consequences of getting COVID so people would go back to work and keep making the ruling class their filthy lucre.
After all, what use is someone they can't gaslight?
> Δέκα χρόνια από τον θάνατο του σπουδαίου Γιαννιώτη ζωγράφου, συγγραφέα και μουσικού Νίκου Χουλιαρά (20 Ιουλίου 2015), ένα παράξενο θέατρο σκιών φτιαγμένο από τις φιγούρες των έργων του, ζωντανεύει το μυθιστόρημά του «Ο Λούσιας».
wow even back then, an Old Fashioned was still called “old-fashioned”.
(some research later… started in the early 1800s and was sometimes called a “bitter sling”, went out of fashion a bit, but came back with requests for “give me one of those old-fashioned style cocktails” in the late 1800s)
As someone seeking objective truth, this has been the source of my confusion. We already know about Trump and Epstein. It was released by the Biden administration. So why is the left freaking out over the list? And why is Trump afraid to release it? Neither makes sense given what we already know. abcnews.go.com/US/times-trumps…
That said, as a former member of the Royal Order of Ontario Hydro Garbage Pickers (picking the garbage at a nuclear plant is next-level) this picture makes me sad.
I like that there is entire scene for reusing things like that for some PC games. Desktop PC tinkering is such a cool thing that can recycle and save old machines. Shame to see them going to waste.
Reminds of the pallets we'd pillage at computer-recycler that bought remaindered gear from federal agencies. Was a great way to get old UNIX servers for stupid cheap (five- and six-figure hardware, when new, for just a few tens of dollars as remaindered equipment).
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If you need a pkg from AUR and you build it on your own let us know
We can adopt it or help you set your own in NLM-jur and you can maintain it A ton of things were updated in jobcomm
obcommunity repository is having issues
While rebuilding/updating some jobcomm pkgs freerdp2 was called as a makedependency and it only comes from obcommunity or from extra/ but asks for systemd It appears as some gpg certificate has expired for the obcommunity builder and its packages being signed fail validity check. We built our own version of the pkg without systemd but in case you encounter another problem with obcommunity pkgs let us know and we will try to accomodate the need.
This is an ongoing obarun problem for the past 8 years, and it can only get worse as the packager bots seem to have grown in number and it is always too late they are renewed. We opted not to sign packages, even if the builder is a single entity because we encourage people to build their own and replace binaries.
This weekend more protesters will risk arrest under terror legislation by defying the proscription of Palestine Action. Here’s a run down of what’s happened since the ban.
It's truly disgustingly sinister how the elite of the western world have created the perfect conditions for fascism to exist and thrive amongst the masses. It's been so disheartening to see such a common opinion exist against people from developing countries who've come to my own - judging their culture, their religious practices and their poverty - as if the west isn't to blame for their countries' stagnation.
The west isn't "just looking out for itself". It benefits from keeping them down.
And it's an incredible sight to see the pendulum of morality among the general population. They claim "these immigrants aren't assimilating to our culture. They don't respect women's rights, they're very religious (just not Christian, of course), they hate queer people".
My brother in [bleep], YOU ARE THE EXACT SAME WAY. You can't complain about middle eastern migrants doing these things when you accept and encourage this rhetoric amongst your own people HOOOLY SHIT
"Why can't they just stay in their country and try to improve it?"
Because your ENTIRE economy and luxurious lifestyle depends on terrible living conditions in their countries. And our politicians have been, and keep doing, everything in their power so that it stays that way.
But of course, because they had the misfortune of being born in a country that has been made to serve you, they can never win. They should never win, according to the shits you refuse to give about anyone but yourselves.
The excellent @openrightsgroup 20th birthday conversation between @pluralistic and @mariafarrell started with the #OpenTech panel discussion which led to ORG's founding. It featured Cory, me, Rufus Pollock, and @danny 😎
If You're Still Supporting Israel In 2025, There's Something Wrong With You As A Person
Of course they’d try to silence our speech. Of course they’d try to send our kids off to war with Iran. Of course they’d work to manipulate our government. Of course they’d pollute the information ecosystem with mountains of lies. They support a live-streamed genocide. They’re bad people. caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youre-s…
"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals -- if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a…
"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals -- if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservati…
Daniel Davis Deep Dive Merch: Etsy storehttps://www.etsy.com/shop/DanielDavisDeepDive?ref=seller-platform-mcnav President Trump claimed the recent U.S. bomb...
The very same people who thought WayFair sold children in cabinets some years back are now trying to "educate" us about "media literacy" regarding this new detail 🤦♂️.
Weak sauce, compared to Sen. Wyden's letter to the Senate Finance Committee about their failure to pursue the sources of financing for Epstein's sex trafficking. www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden_doj_treasury_epstein_letter.pdf
so what when it comes to trump's personal scandals, Liberals are like dogs chasing a bird they never do any damage to trump, but they keep thinking, this will be the time !!
"Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance -- these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible."
-- Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, historian Source: 1909, Four Essays on Liberty, Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century
"Oleh: Hein Htet Kyaw. Teks aslinya berjudul “Myanmar: The Accidental Agora”. Diterjemahkan ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia oleh Ameyuri Ringo. Support Ringo by considering becoming his Patron. Selama beberapa dekade, sistem ekonomi dan politik Myanmar sangat dipengaruhi oleh rezim totalitarian dan dominasi militer yang kuat. Sistem koperasi yang dikendalikan negara, yang dimulai pada tahun 1962 melalui."
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity could not have been carried out or sustained “without the active and enthusiastic support of Western powers” A meeting of over 1,000 anti-Zionist [...]
Israel's air force chief has landed in Britain for a conference hosted by the Royal Air Force.
Major General Tomer Bar has been in position throughout Israel's war on Gaza, and from April this year has reportedly personally approved air strikes carr…
The resignation of the United Nation’s commission of inquiry on Palestine is unrelated to fears of sanctions by the US government or any other external pressures, panel members have told Middle East Eye.
Uluslararası politikada müttefiklik ve stratejik işbirliği için doğrudan açık ve görünür bir ilişki içinde olmak her zaman gerekli olmayabilir. Önemli olan, sınıfsal ve politik konumlanışın mevcut yapısal bütünlük içinde ne ifade ettiği, hangi bağlamlara oturduğudur. Bu açıdan bakıldığında, Türkiye ve İsrail’in 2010 yılından bu yana artan gerilime rağmen, Ortadoğu’da stratejik işbirliği içerisinde hareket eden iki devlet olduğu söylenmelidir.
Türkiye devletinin İsrail ile 2009 Davos ve 2010 Mavi Marmara olaylarının ardından zahirde gerilmiş, yer yer kopmuş görünen, ama aslında stratejik bölgesel ortaklık anlamında alttan alta devam eden ilişkisi, “görünürde” yeniden tesis edilmeye çalışılıyor.
Zahir olan ile batın olanın birbirine tekabüliyeti, Hamas ile girilen araçsalcı ilişkileri nihayete erdirme ve Doğu Akdeniz doğalgaz savaşlarında ittifak ilişkisi gibi birtakım maddeler üzerinden yürütülse de gerçekte olan şey, hâlihazırda mevcut bulunan stratejik işbirliğinin tekrar yüzeye çıkmasından, aktüalize edilmesinden başka bir anlama gelmemektedir.
İlişkilerin gerildiği dönemde bile Türkiye, Suriye-İran-Hizbullah’a dönük politikaları ile esasen İsrail ile aynı taraftaydı. Türkiye devletinin AKP özgülünde yürürlüğe koyduğu Hamas politikası bile, Direniş Ekseni’ni parçalayıcı ve zayıflatıcı bir politika olarak NATO güdümlü bir mezhepçilik esasına dayanıyordu. İsrail ile ilişkilerin görünürde yeniden tesis edilmesinin, işbirlikçi-mezhepçi Suud Hanedanı önderliğinde kurulmaya çalışılan “İslam İttifakı”nın ilânı ile aynı günlere denk gelmesi de tesadüften ötesini ifade ediyor.
İsrail ve Türkiye, Ortadoğu diye adlandırılan bu topraklarda, mazlum halkların karşısında iki büyük terör aygıtı, emperyalizmin iki mızrak ucudur. Türkiye devleti, bölgesel rolü ve varoluşu gereği “İsrail’den önceki İsrail”dir.
Bu devletin kuruluşundaki İsrailiyat, etkilerini günümüzde de göstermektedir; Kemalizm, Türklüğü bir tür İsrailiyat’a nasıl ikna ettiyse, AKP de Müslümanlık için aynı ajan faaliyetini uygulamaktadır. Türkiye, kapitalizmin, neoliberalizmin, tüketim ideolojisinin değerlerini Müslüman halklara taşıması bağlamında bu bölgede emperyalizmin ajanı pozisyonundadır.
Kemalist pozitivizm ile AKP muhafazakârlığını, Kemalist laiklik ile “Türk-İslam sentezciliğini”, Soğuk Savaş’ın anti-komünist politikaları ile günümüz yeni-Osmanlıcılığını ortaklaştıran şey, devletin soykütüğü, genetik mirası, sınıfsal refleksleridir. “Fabrika ayarları” emperyalizme karşı mücadeleyi değil, onunla uzlaşmayı, işbirliği yapmayı kodlamıştır. Aradaki fark, esasa değil yönteme dairdir.
Kemalizm, Filistin mücadelesi ve onunla yoldaşlaşan Türk-Kürt devrimcilerine karşı İsrail’le birlikte kontrgerilla talimnamelerini harfiyen uygularken, yeni-Osmanlıcılık, NATO siyasetini mezhepçi bir dile tercüme etmiş, Filistin’de Hamas özgülünde verilen mücadeleyi, akan kanı ve teri mülk edinmeye, araçsallaştırmaya, emperyalizmle işbirliği içinde tüketmeye çabalamıştır.
“Türk-Sünnî” kimlikli olduğu söylenen devlet, aslında Türk ve Sünnî Müslüman fukara halka rağmen kurulmuş; Türklüğü ve Müslümanlığı kendi işlevsel ideolojik cephaneliği hâline getirirken, ezilen Türk-Müslüman halk kesimlerine yalnızca Kürd’e düşman olma özgürlüğü tanımıştır. Böyle bir politikanın teorik etkisi, Türk ve Müslüman kimliğinin içeriğinin taraflı biçimde kurgulanması, sınıfsal ve tarihsel bağlamlarından koparılarak soyut bir özcülüğe indirgenmesidir.
Her özcülük, bir “tamamlanmışlığı”, “olup bitmişliği” kodlar. Bu noktada Türklük, pozitivist Batılılaşma üzerinden bir bölgesel yabancılaşma ve kibir göstergesi olurken Müslümanlık, mezhepçilik ve Osmanlı kurgusu üzerinden bölgeyi mülk edinen bir pozisyonda konumlanır. Böyle bir kibir ve mülk edinme çabasının sonucunda bölge halklarına düşmanlaşan, onlarla kardeşleşme ve yoldaşlaşma yollarını tüketen, âdeta “Siyonistleşen” bir Türk-Müslüman özcülüğün sermaye ve emperyalizm için işlevselliği açık ve nettir. Dinî ve millî olanın efendilerin hizmetine koşulması hususunda İsrail ile Türkiye iki kardeş devlettir.
İsmet Özel, Türklüğe ve Müslümanlığa dair farklı bir tanım getirmeye çalışırken, “kâfirle çatışmayı göze alan Müslümana Türk denir,” biçiminde bir ifade kullanır. Daha net çıkarımlar yapabilmek için birtakım sorunlu yaklaşımlar bir kenara bırakılır ve bu tanım bir an için soyutlanırsa bu sentetik önermeden anlayabileceğimiz şey, teorik-politik bir hamle arayışı olarak Türklük ve Müslümanlığın kâfire karşı mücadele içinde olmak ile rabıtalandırılmasıdır. Bu tanım, yapısı gereği sadece betimleyici değil, aynı zamanda normatif bir içeriğe de sahip olmak durumundadır.
Normatif tanımın oluşturulabilmesi için kâfirden ne anlaşıldığı önem taşır. Kâfir, “milliyetçi-mukaddesatçı” ideolojik üretimle biçimlendirilmiş “Türk ve Müslüman özne” kurgularının düşman kıldığı toplumsal-politik kesimlerin aksine, “kâfirleri dost edinen” [Nisa:144], emperyalizmle, Siyonizm’le ve küresel kapitalizmle işbirliği içinde olan devletin, burjuvazinin kendisidir.
Bugün devletin ve sermayenin kentsel dönüşümlerde, Karadeniz derelerinde, Soma madenlerinde, Suriye, Filistin ve Kürdistan’da taşıyıcılığını yapan, restorasyon ihtiyaçlarını karşılayan AKP, kâfirdir.
O hâlde Türklük ve Müslümanlığın bizim açımızdan hakikati, AKP özelinde devlet ve sermayeye, sömürü ve zulme karşı mücadele pratiği içinde inşa edilecektir. Bu inşa için gerekli olan mücadele, devletin kurguladığı özcülüğü dağıtmayı, Kürd ile yoldaşlaşmayı, Ortadoğu’nun mazlum sınıfları ve fukara halklarıyla kolektif olmayı, sömürü ve zulme karşı sınıfsal-millî-dinî mücadeleleri ortaklaştırmayı ifade eder.
"Di Frank Miroslav. Originale pubblicato il primo maggio 2025 con il titolo We Don’t Agree on Capitalism. Tradotto in italiano da Enrico Sanna. Non un buon secolo per le teorie Un fatto curioso nella storia dell’anarchismo e del marxismo è che, nonostante vecchie rivalità e conflitti, molti anarchici accettano Marx. Dovendo dare una definizione precisa..."
In suspending four MPs this week for 'persistent breaches of party discipline', the Labour government sank to new lows of incompetence and infirmity. In reality, the rebel MPs were guilty of nothing more than being too right, too soon
In suspending four MPs this week for 'persistent breaches of party discipline', the Labour government sank to new lows of incompetence and infirmity. In reality, the rebel MPs were guilty of nothing more than being too right, too soon.
"By Logan Marie Glitterbomb. Original: Taxation is Theft:An Anarchist Guide to Taxation, published on April 23, 2024. Translated into Burmese by Hein Htet Kyaw. လက်ဝဲဝါဒီတော်တော်များများသည် “လူချမ်းသာများကို အခွန်ကောက်ပါ” ဟု ကြွေးကြော်လေ့ရှိကြပြီး လက်ဝဲစည်းလုံးညီညွတ်မှု၏ အကျိုးရလဒ်အဖြစ် အချို့သော မင်းမဲ့ဝါဒီတို့ကပင်လျှင် ပြောဆိုလာကြသည်။ တစ်ဖက်တွင်လည်း “အခွန်အတုတ်သည် ခိုးမှု ” ဟူသော
This afternoon, Michigan Attorney Kevin Kijewski, who is representing Cliff Frost, one of the 15 Republican alternate electors in the 2020 election, announced the filing of a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari with the United States Supreme …
@Tariq has more than 10K posts, and all of them will be lost if he switches to a different instance. Those 10K posts are a significant investment of his time and effort. That he has to lose those to move to a more palatable instance is not a good reflection on Mastodon.
Or look at it this way: the people who report his posts, and the mastodon.social admins themselves, presumably want to suppress his anti-genocide voice. @Tariq moving instances will simply wipe out all his existing posts, including all of his anti-genocide posts. In that sense, those people will get exactly what they want. Is that what we want?
For criticisms of Mastodon along these lines (though not on the topic of suppression of anti-genocide voices), check out these posts by Hacker News user "pxoe".
But there is an even more insidious problem. Say, @Tariq moves to a small palatable instance or even starts his own Mastodon instance. However, if his profile or his anti-genocide posts get hidden/banned by mastodon.social and some of the other big instances, then almost all of the Fediverse will not even be aware of his profile or his posts. So he will simply be screaming into the void. What's the point then? In that case, why should he even stay on the Fediverse and invest him time and effort?
@feralferment nope, posts will not be deleted. In any case, it is a good practice to autodelete your posts (mine are deleted after some months). Microbloging social media are ephemeral. If you want an archive, create a proper blog. There are also settings to keep any of them in your preferences.
nope, posts will not be deleted. In any case, it is a good practice to autodelete your posts (mine are deleted after some months). Microbloging social media are ephemeral. If you want an archive, create a proper blog. There are also settings to keep any of them in your preferences.
This is the kind of preachy and hectoring response that puts people off!
And it does not even address the point of discussion; it is just you feeling smug about your own decision to auto-delete your own posts, and showing contempt for the people who do not.
The point of my posts was to show that moving to a different instance may not solve the problems @{rzeta0@todon.eu} was facing on mastodon.social, and may even create new problems.
Posts not getting transferred when you move accounts is a design flaw of Mastodon, whether or not they are set to auto-delete; and the reluctance of Mastodon evangelists like you to even acknowledge the problem is harmful to Mastodon itself.
And that’s only one of the problems of Mastodon, and of ActivityPub as a whole.
Here are some others:
A profile redirect, that you and many others are tomtoming about, is still at the mercy of the administrator of the current instance. A malicious admin can simply block it.
There is no way out for a user if the current instance shuts down.
In this context, the irony is that Mike Macgirvin’s Nomad protocol existed and was being used in production before ActivityPub was released, and before Mastodon was even born. The Nomad protocol allows each account to have multiple channels, the channel is what participates on the Fediverse. But here’s the feature relevant to our discussion: a user can open an account on another Nomad-protocol-based instance and can clone the channel from the original instance there. You can choose to post from the original channel or the clone channel, the post gets mirrored on the other one. Connections are also identical on both. So essentially a channel and its one or more clones exist simultaneously. If one of the instance shuts down or bans the user, all the posts and connections and blogs and everything else on the channel are still there on the clone, and the channel can continue functioning as it always did.
Those who are so keen to dish out advice about moving to another instance should at least spend some time learning about nomadic identity, and checking out Fedi software that supports nomadic identity [Hubzilla, (streams), Forte].
But even if some of the fedi software has nomadic identity, the entire fediverse has the major problem of search being entirely local. An instance (call it instance 1) becomes aware of a post on another instance only if someone on the instance 1 follows the poster, or boosts or likes the post. This effectively invisiblizes the global south, and also invisiblizes the low-visibility topics even from the global north. In other words, most of the fediverse remains invisible to most of the fediverse, by design.
@baskin :kafeneio:🇵🇸, you have a Palestinian flag in your profile, so I assume the ongoing holocaust of Palestinians enrages you as much as it enrages me and @{rzeta0@todon.eu} and many other people. And I presume you also care about the fediverse. In that case, try to understand the drawbacks of the fedi, accept them, and organize and agitate for it to be better.
At present, the dominant force on the Fediverse is a tiny liberal Western elite virtue-signalling to each other. The Fedi is entirely irrelevant in the larger sociopolitical context. If you care about the fedi, try to make it a catalyst for genuine sociopolitical change in the world out there.
"At present, the dominant force on the Fediverse is a tiny liberal Western elite virtue-signalling to each other."
That's why I keep encouraging people to leave the big instances and especially mastodon.social. People's decision to stick with mastodon.social invalidates the very concept of federation @baskin
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