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If only everyone lining up to clutch their pearls over one dead healthcare CEO got as worked up every time a health insurance company screwed someone over #uspol
In the area right around my college, there was a neighborhood of all Lord Of The Rings streets right beside one of Atlas Shrugged streets, and Isotope Drive went right between them and up to the chemistry/physics building.
Brazilian labor prosecutors charged Volkswagen's, opens new tab local unit with subjecting farm workers to conditions akin to slavery decades ago and are seeking $27.5 million in damages.
Daniel Penny has been exonerated. His trial gave us a terrifying insight into the sickness of the woke. So-called progressives lionised Jordan Neely, despite his criminal past and threatening behaviour. They have abandoned any sense of right and wrong: spiked-online.com/2024/12/09/t…
How can Trumpers justify adding $4 Trillion to the national debt (you know, the one they pretend to care about during Democratic administrations) by extending tax cuts for the corporations and the rich?
"Incoming Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) says that since tax rates are currently low, extending these expiring rates another decade shouldn’t count as costing anything because it wouldn’t “feel” like a change."
...Crapo’s tax-writing counterpart in the House, Rep. Jason T. Smith (R-Missouri), agrees. This is like saying even though your car lease is up this month, leasing another car should count as free because you got used to having a car. Alas, that is not how budgets work."
There's nothing wrong with questioning something and then acknowledging your former ignorance if and when someone else gives you an informed answer. More people ought to try that.
problem: if humans want to visit the moons (not recommending landing on Jupiter as it HAS NO SOLID surface X-D ?)
because magnetic field of Jupiter is so damn strong, it basically creates areas of high radiation, BUT it should also shield the inner moons from radiation right?
Jupiter is 318 times more massive than Earth but it is a gas giant. At the surface of Jupiter, really the cloud tops, a person with something to stand on would weigh only 2.5 times what they weigh on Earth. I'd only weigh 450 lbs.
That would not be the greatest of my problems standing, well, lying down at that location.
Yes I've heard it called a failed star. Just think, we could be part of a binary star system. Well, something around here could be. With those orbital dynamics it might have taken whatever denizens a bit longer to work out that we are not at the center of the universe.
Where every Texas Rep stands on the speaker vote. Contact your Texas Rep & remind them Texans want GOP in charge of committees, not democrats. grassrootspriorities.com/phela…
Ehrung in Oslo: Friedensnobelpreisträger mit klarer Botschaft
Die japanische Anti-Atomwaffen-Organisation Nihon Hidankyo ist mit dem Friedensnobelpreis ausgezeichnet worden. Die Ehrung verbanden die drei Co-Vorsitzenden mit einer eindringlichen Botschaft.
Zu denken das es dieses Jahr seitens Israel heftige Kritik an dieser Organisation gab. Ich finde den Friedensnobelpreis, gerade in dieser Zeit der Aufrüstung, extrem wichtig.
As this month opens, our sky's 2 brightest planets - Venus and Jupiter - appear on opposite sides of the sky. The moon will sweep past Venus on December 3 an...
MNT's line of Reform laptops is promising. Can you help to replace the nonfree code used to initialize the RAM to make it fully compatible with freedom?
Message posté à l'origine sur Mastodon dans le cadre d'un jour, un kif.
Cela faisait longtemps que je voulais en parler mais pour quelque raison, je ne l'avais jamais fait!
Cela fait plus de cinquante ans que je suis un lecteur du journal de Spirou et même si aujourd'hui, le journal a bien changé, il reste un moment de lecture détente chaque semaine.
Ce que j'aime particulièrement, c'est justement la publication en épisodes de bandes dessinées et il faut attendre la semaine suivante pour avoir la suite. Une chose difficile à appréhender par les jeunes générations habituées à "binger" des séries. Pourtant, quel bonheur pour l'esprit d'avoir la possibilité d'imaginer la suite avant de la découvrir la semaine suivante.
Mais Spirou, c'est avant tout le personnage qui a donné son nom au journal.
Le premier numéro est paru le 21 avril 1938 des presses des éditions Dupuis à Marcinelle, près de Charleroi. Dupuis éditait déjà à l'époque "Le Moustique" (qui existe encore aujourd'hui) et "Les Bonnes soirées" (disparu lui mais j'ai encore connu dans les années 1970) qui étaient des magazines pas vraiment pour les enfants. C'est pourquoi Jean Dupuis décida de créer un journal pour la jeunesse. Il paraît donc chaque semaine depuis 1938 avec toutefois deux interruptions : une courte en 1940 (de mai à août) et une plus longue en 1943, victime de la censure nazie (de septembre 1943 à Octobre 1944 mais avec la parution de deux fascicules).
Le personnage n'est pas créé par un dessinateur belge mais par un français : Robert Velter, dit Rob-Vel et les premières aventures de Spirou se passent dans l'hôtel Moustique mais très vite Spirou va parcourir le monde dans des aventures rocambolesques et très vite accompagné de Spip, son inséparable écureuil.
Le personnage même de Spirou est inspiré des grooms qui officiaient sur les bateaux transatlantiques de l'époque.
Au début de la seconde guerre mondiale, Rob-Vel est blessé au conflit et fait prisonnier, c'est son épouse, Blanche Dumoulin qui assure la production des planches mais à un moment donné au milieu d'une histoire et parce que tout devient très compliqué avec l'occupation, c'est Joseph Gillain, dit Jijé, le seul auteur disponible qui reprend au pied levé la série.
Après la libération, c'est Jijé qui assure l'animation de Spirou et lui adjoint le fantasque personnage de Fantasio.
En 1946, un jeune auteur, inconnu à l'époque, reprend, lui aussi en plein milieu d'un récit, le personnage de Spirou : André Franquin.
A partir de 1947, il publie sa première grande aventure : Spirou et l'héritage, suivi de Radar le Robot (tout deux exclus de la série classique mais repris en Hors Série).
Jijé réalisera une dernière histoire en 1950 et ensuite, pendant encore près de vingt ans, c'est Franquin qui va étoffer la galerie de personnages dont le Comte de Champignac, Seccotine et surtout le Marsupilami!
Dans les années 1970, c'est le breton Fournier qui animera la série pendant quelques années et après un intermède avec l'auteur liégeois Nic et le scénariste Raoul Cauvin (il est à l'origine de milliers de scénarii pour divers auteurs du journal jusqu'à son décès en 2021), ce sera la longue période Tome & Janry (également créateurs du Petit Spirou).
Aujourd'hui, il n'y a plus vraiment d'auteur attitré et il y a eu pas mal de "one shots" appelés le Spirou de... Un des plus remarquable est sans conteste celui d'Emile Bravo.
Voilà, en résumé l'histoire du personnage mais savez-vous ce que veut dire Spirou?
En Wallon, séries de dialectes parlés dans la Wallonie de Tournai à Liège et de Namur à Virton, un Spirou est un écureuil. Le terme désigne aussi quelqu'un d'espiègle, de fougueux, ce qui correspond bien au personnage des débuts.
Le club de Basket de Charleroi porte d'ailleurs le nom du célèbre groom.
Pour moi, les meilleures années sont évidemment celles de mon enfance/adolescence à savoir les années 1970-80 même si j'ai encore beaucoup de plaisir à le lire chaque semaine.
J'ai appris à dessiner avec Spirou aussi, en recopiant les cases de mes héros favoris...
Et si Spirou, c'est la bonne humeur, l'espièglerie, son concurrent disparu en 1988, le journal de Tintin était trop austère pour moi à l'époque! 🙂
Pour ceux qui veulent se replonger dans l'histoire du journal en feuilletant les anciens numéros, je ne peux que recommander le site : Site d'archives du journal de Spirou (clic droit pour ouvrir dans un nouvel onglet).
What there seems to be plenty of doubt about is what U.S. personnel are even in Syria and where. The U.S. government hates talking about its military footprint throughout the Middle East. When three U.S. troops were killed in Jordan earlier this year, many Americans were surprised that there was even a base near the Syrian border. The U.S. government had never before officially acknowledged the base, nor the mission. Secrecy over American military deployments is out of control and prevents the American public from meaningfully participating in discussion of our foreign policy.
Am I the only person on earth who finds it hilariously ironic that black guys who want to kill white people are wearing hats celebrating the "Yankees"?
Are we so far gone that this is not humorous? This should be jokes for days, people. It's like Custer in a Redskins hat.
libertytree.ca/quotes/James.Ma… "We hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, that religion, or the duty we owe our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right."
Nicolas HusseinRêverie op. 1 pour alto et piano / for viola and pianoComposée en 2016 / Composed in 2016Nicolas Hussein, alto / violaOlivier Dauriat, pianoEn...
Is there a way to make a local snac2 instance block all images, both remote and local? I would like to run one disabling all image uploads and embeds for a text-only experience.
“Given President Trump’s pro-life record, together with the personnel he has nominated to key positions, we remain hopeful the new administration will take a serious look at these drugs and act accordingly,” Burch said. catholicvote.org/analysis-burc…
Newsflash: Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic concluded its two-year investigation into the COVID-19 pandemicNo worries, the narrative is SAFE! No worries, the government is back in control. Highlights:
It was a lab leak. Definitely a lab leak.
RNA can definitely pandemic. Pandemics are real and the government is only here to help.
It was all China's fault.
Eco Alliance and Peter Daszak are bad.
Fauci is bad.
Trump's travel restriction saved many lives.
Operation Warp Speed was HIGHLY successful and saved millions of lives.
Also, the FDA rushed the approval of the COVID-19 vaccine. Millions of lives were harmed... (umm... no, let's leave that part out)
Trump is good. Biden is bad.
The only concern with NY is Cuomo's order to force nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients. Please don't look too hard at NY...
Did I do a good job summarizing? 🤔 If I didn't know better, I'd say they waited until they knew who was the next boss before they stroked his ego and wrote glowing praises for his actions in the previous administration.
Considering anyone/everyone that "testified" before the multiple committees was spouting this bs.. is anyone really surprised? But I remember spouting some of the same bs myself early on so maybe it's a starting point for everyone that hasn't considered anything other than the official narrative?
I guess that doesn't make sense to me considering the military were forced to take it (as well as everyone else) under the "take it or lose your job" coercion. The military wanted to weaken/sicken itself even more than it already is? I can't make that make sense in my head.. when I was Active Duty the focus was about force protection and force multipliers.. it just doesn't make sense if they knew just how bad the health effects would be.
Fair enough, I hear you...(Smedley Butler articulated those facts well enough a long time ago)...but the SELF destruction still doesn't make sense to me, hard to use a fighting force for corporate enforcement if they've all got autoimmune diseases or die from turbo cancers.. that and the fact that they have no replacements immediately available. Way too many of the military age groups are already too unhealthy to qualify for service.
libertytree.ca/quotes/Everett.… “Morality cannot exist one minute without freedom... Only a free man can possibly be moral. Unless a good deed is voluntary, it has no moral significance.”
~ Everett Dean Martin (1880-1941) American minister, writer, journalist, instructor, lecturer, social psychologist, social philosopher, advocate of adult education Liberty, 1930
"Morality cannot exist one minute without freedom... Only a free man can possibly be moral. Unless a good deed is voluntary, it has no moral significance." ~ Everett Dean Martin
Long before Congress became alarmed over as many as 320,000 unaccompanied minor children from the border crisis, the Department of Homeland Security prepared a briefing memo in summer 2021 starkly warning Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that federal authorities were ill-equipped to deal with a surge of young immigrants or reunite them with their parents, according to a copy of the memo reviewed by Just the News. justthenews.com/government/fed…
Internal warnings about gaps in resources to address unaccompanied migrant children emerged very early in the Biden administration, new documents show.
Good morning campers! It's 24℉ outside here in West #Albuquerque. Cold, but not as cold as tomorrow morning is supposed to be! Need to fill up one of my propane tanks but going to wait until it warms up a bit. #ABQ #RVlife #NMwx #winter
2nd Corinthians 7 2Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. New- Blogger 5 Blogger 6 Blogger 7 …
Journalist Piers Morgan has slammed journalist Taylor Lorenz following comments she made about UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder.Lorenz appeared on ‘Piers Morgan...
The CEO Murder and the Daniel Penny trial are the perfect distillations of the oppressor/oppressed mindset.
If you live your life by that frame, there is nothing the oppressed (black homeless / victim of insurance companies) can do that's a bridge too far, including murder, and there is no punishment too great for the oppressor (murder / conviction of an innocent man).
@DrChris All people only have the filter of experience. It is what defines the value we place on life. I can't know what caviar tastes like if I have never eaten it. In a similar way, I can not value human life if I have not experienced my life being valued. You can not understand being unvalued if you were always valued. That is humanity's greatest conundrum. Chicken or egg, nature or nurture. I have no answer. I only offer my perspective. Both are culpable : neither is innocent.
The PeerTube mobile app is out! A simple way to explore platforms and enjoy #videos. Free from doomscrolling and dark patterns, this app respects your attention. Learn all about behind the scenes and the upcoming updates on our blog: framablog.org/2024/12/10/peert…
Today, at Framasoft (bonjour!), we publish the very first version of the PeerTube Mobile app for android and iOS. A lot of care went into its conception, to help a wider audience watch videos and...
Congratulations! Great work! Any advice to channel owners how to get included in search by default? Even directly searching for “puppet building” doesn’t return anything on puppet.zone/
quick FTUE test, maybe these could be converted to usability enhancements:
- On launch I clicked on "I know where to go" - Typed my instance URL to the search field. Nothing showed up. I expected app to detect it's an instance. - I noticed a button "Add platform by URL". I clicked it, and it showed an empty search field. I expected it to copy the existing search field as the URL. But the best would be if it could automatically probe the search text for a Peertube instance. - I cancelled the process to write this FTUE test report. - Now I'd like to add my own instance again. In "My accounts" view I see only "Sepia" but I can't easily find a way to add a new platform. - After a bit of browsing the UI, I found the way. You need to search for something, press "Show more platforms" button under "Platforms" list. It's difficult to find and I expected it to be in "Platforms" top menu. - Looks like you need to type domain.org/ instead of domain.org. It could be added automatically. - If the URL is invalid, the "Connect" button does nothing, it just blinks. I'd expect an error message.
My instance seems to be down, can't continue further now. I Tried playing videos from explore. Most work fine but some just display "Error: null" in center of screen.
Thanks for the release and I hope this report is productive.
Głównie polskojęzyczna i stworzona dla osób korzystających z Pol.social instancja PeerTube. Stowarzyszona z ActivityPub platforma strumieniowego przesyłania wideo, korzystająca z P2P bezpośrednio w przeglądarce internetowej.
Wonder if there'd be a way to convince the content-creators that mostly left YouTube in favor of Nebula and/or CuriosityStream to publish into PeerTube.
Congratulations, @peertube ! I'm really heartened by the commitment made to understand and plan to avoid the abuses that the online video industry has subjected people. This calls back our humanity and recognises we are people, not biomatter laying in gel-filled pods.
Hello. I translated the app to Polish. Will have to test it in the app later when it releases on f-droid with Polish and context that was missing from the translation page. I hope I did a good enough job for the time being. Cheers.
Was able to find our community instance sfba.video but couldn’t figure out how to login with the app. Is that a feature in the making or is something missing on our instance?
for iOS, have you considered restricting instances on your "explore" tab to local-only view for the whitelisted servers and allowing us to add servers like on android?
I ask because I was able to land on a server that has "naked news" on their "featured" tab through a video on a whitelisted platform, which might explain why the app stores keep pushing back against you guys. Practically zero reviewers will know how to find objectionable content if they have to know a server address.
Things not showing up in the news cycle doesn’t mean they don’t exist. If you want to know what your local elected and tax payer paid officials are doing, go check it out. If the door is slammed in your face, they aren’t protecting or serving you. If they welcome you with open arms, chances are pretty good they are doing their best to serve you well. Either way, unless some event turns the national spotlight on, you’re unlikely to know the facts about which way they are operating via the news.
Despite the hype, past research found no clear link between AI adoption and long-term productivity gains. Now a new report from confirms it: no solid evidence that AI drives short-term productivity growth either. dais.ca/reports/waiting-for-ta…
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Notice how those shouting loudest about protecting people are the ones doing the raping, reeving, and killing, always in the name of fighting some imaginary bogeyman. The ones proclaiming to be for justice are almost always the enemies of any real justice. This is what you get when people reject the kingdom of God and instead try to play god.
I found another [old] article about a protest against these mandates:
"Protesters refused to wear masks or practice social distancing rules despite the police's directives to do so."
Schoolchildren in Germany have been forced to disclose their vaccination status to their class, causing some unvaccinated kids to be scorned by their peers.
Almighty God, help us to look forward to the glory of the birth of Christ our Savior: his coming is proclaimed joyfully to the ends of the earth, for he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.
DETAILS: thecivilrightslawyer.com/2024/… A special agent with the Lake County Narcotics Agency has resigned following an internal investigation into an incident of alleged unlawful detention at a Medina County Township bar in April. Daniel Lajack, 48, submitted his immediate resignation on Dec. 2, just weeks after being notified of potential disciplinary action for his involvement in a controversial encounter with a legal immigrant. Lajack also served as a federal task force officer for the Drug Enforcement Agency, before being removed shortly after the April incident became public.
A special agent with the Lake County Narcotics Agency has resigned following an internal investigation into an incident of alleged unlawful detention at a Medina County Township bar in April.
Very insightful article on the American ‘healthcare’ system and #UnitedDeathCare
#Pluralistic: Predicting the present (09 Dec 2024)
“UHC leads the nation in claims denials, with a denial rate of 32% (!!). If you want to understand how the US can spend 20% of its GDP and get the worst health outcomes in the world, just connect the dots between those two facts: the largest health insurer in human history charges the government a 183,300% markup on covid tests and also denies a third of its claims.”
"the assassination of #BrianThompson is a wake-up call, a warning that if we don't solve this problem politically, we may not have a choice about whether it's solved with violence. As a character in "#Radicalized" says, "They say violence never solves anything, but to quote The Onion: that's only true so long as you ignore all of human history" @pluralistic #luigimangione
The long read: Josiah Elleston-Burrell had done everything to make his dream of studying architecture a reality. But, suddenly, in the summer of 2020, he found his fate was no longer in his hands
"The use of an algorithm to factor in historic school data, rather than a pupil's individual performance, led to accusations of bias and discrimination."
Weakening the right to human review of decisions with life-changing effects will entrench inequality.
Clause 80 of the Government’s Data (Use and Access) Bill could strip away your right to decide whether people or machines make decisions that impact our lives.
The sceptre shall not pass from Judah, nor the mace from between his feet, until the one comes to whom it belongs, to whom the peoples shall render obedience.
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In 1988, #India issued an order forbidding the import of Salman #Rushdie’s novel. A #Delhi #Court has overturned the order, not because of free speech, but because no one could find it.
Democracy at its best. If you can't present your invoices to the tax office, then you can expect heavy penalties but why should we keep our records, we are the government after all so trust us!
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