Trump is serious about this too, and wants to fire employees who won’t return to working in-person. He absolutely should. if these people don’t need to show up for work, what are taxpayers paying them for?

thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/r…

REPORT: Trump Wants to Fire Federal Employees Who Refuse to Return to Working in Offices | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance

President-elect Trump is taking a hard stance on federal employees who refuse to return to the office, threatening firings and challenging remote work agreements. Discover the implications of his bold move.

^{Mike LaChance (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)}

Dick-head Durbin stated the Electoral College is out dated and defranchised Democrat voters. In the liberal cities. It is only the millions that live in liberal Democrat cities.

“It is time to retire this 18th-century invention that disenfranchises millions of Americans,” Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in a press release.

judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem…

Durbin, Schatz, Welch Introduce Constitutional Amendment To End Undemocratic Electoral College | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee,...

^{www.judiciary.senate.gov}

Happening tomorrow! The App Freedom Index 2024 (AFI) promotes transparency + accountability in the global app ecosystem and this event will interest you if want to:
✅ Understand key trends in app freedom worldwide
✅ Learn more about digital rights + freedoms

RSVP - contact@AppCensorship.org

Corporate #SocialMedia is like the Outrage-Industrial Complex.

The #FediVerse is like a variegated network of independent bespoke hipster outrage joints, where people get mad about the latest underground, avant-garde, anger-inducing phenomena that the plebs who buy their outrage "off the rack" probably haven't even heard of.

I’m a little late to this, but:

Buh-bye, Mozilla.

youtube.com/watch?v=MCJ5emSxK7…

Firefox Maker Rebrands as "Global Crew of Activists"

Mozilla, facing the loss of 80% of their income and mass layoffs, pays for expensive rebranding. And it's even more ridiculous than you'd think.More from Th...

^YouTube

So tired, but the saying "man up" applies even more this month.

The good news, that extra $1200.00 I had to pay this month is PAID!
Even got it paid a little early, now to get all the regular bills paid and get Christmas shopping done.

Unintentionally slept in this morning, should have already been gone, but having a hard time getting around and I hear the wind howling outside so I am stalling lol

Everyone have a great day!

Twenty years ago now, I was discontented with the well-paid but unstable and toxic nature of corporate IT work, so I went to to the library, where I discovered the existence of intentional communities and worker cooperatives, and this book.

archive.org/details/weownitsta…

It's from the 80s, but is a solid description of the Rochdale-style worker co-op which stays small to preserve direct democracy. There are many such guides online now, but this is almost canon.

We own it : starting & managing coops, collectives & employee-owned ventures : Honigsberg, Peter Jan : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

May 1982.

^{Internet Archive}

Fossil fuels are being 'eaten alive' by the solar rush. As the individual cells became more efficient, they also became more economical to produce at scale.

Prices have consistently fallen faster than predictions, passing several thresholds that were once thought impossible. It’s now the cheapest way to generate electricity.

The amount of solar power in the world has been doubling roughly every three years. #China is the main driver of this tech.

abc.net.au/news/2024-12-18/sur…

#cleanenergy #solar

A survey of the world's solar panels shows a global energy boom

Satellite imagery reveals the staggering rise of solar farms around the world in recent years. Can Australia get on board?

^{Julian Fell (ABC News)}

Here we show, based on our analysis of a newly identified genus,
Anadoluvius, from the 8.7 Ma site of Çorakyerler in central Anatolia,
that Mediterranean fossil apes are diverse, and are part of the first
known radiation of early members of the hominines. The members of this
radiation are currently only identified in Europe and Anatolia;
generally accepted hominins are only found in Africa from the late
Miocene until the Pleistocene. Hominines may have originated in Eurasia
during the late Miocene, or they may have dispersed into Eurasia from
an unknown African ancestor. The diversity of hominines in Eurasia
suggests an in situ origin but does not exclude a dispersal hypothesis.

nature.com/articles/s42003-023…

A new ape from Türkiye and the radiation of late Miocene hominines - Communications Biology

An 8.7 million year old ape from Türkiye shows that Mediterranean fossil apes are diverse and part of the first known radiation of hominines (African apes and humans). Our phylogenetic analysis suggests that hominines originate in Europe.

^Nature

Modern people create their own problems.

amerika.org/politics/why-is-li…

Why Is Life on Earth Dying Out?

Post 'Why Is Life on Earth Dying Out?' On Amerika.org realist conservative blog

^{www.amerika.org}

“All About #Jabaliya – Resistance Roundup – Day 438”

by Palestine Chronicle Staff

@palestine
@israel

“Starting on October 5, the Israeli army attempted to fully control northern Gaza through the so-called General’s Plan. The plan, however, continues to fail, due to ongoing Palestinian Resistance.”

palestinechronicle.com/all-abo…

#Press #Gaza #Palestine #Resistance #Israel #Genocide #Terrorism #WarCrimes #Hamas #PermanentCeasefireNoW #SettlerColonial #Zionist #Barbarism #BloodLust

All About Jabaliya - Resistance Roundup - Day 438 - Palestine Chronicle

The Al-Qassam Brigade announced on Tuesday that it had destroyed an Israeli armored personnel carrier using a Shawath explosive device.

^{admin (Palestine Chronicle)}

New obsession unlocked: broken translations in major companies user interfaces.
For example:
- MacOS touchbar settings translates "Spaces" to german as "Leerzeichen" -- literally "Blank space", as in, the thing between two words.

- The Amazon Alexa app, translating "Rate" as "Geschwindigkeit" (-> literally: "Speed")

Over the past 12 months Fight has achieved remarkable milestones in defending digital rights + advocating for a safer Internet. We want to share a bit with you about what we've accomplished with your support!

See our new 2025 web page for the full picture: fightforthefuture.org/2025

How we Fight for the Future in 2025

Billionaire-backed politicians on both sides of the aisle want us passive, hopeless, and divided. We vehemently object. In 2025, we’ll fight the bad stuff and preserve technology that’s joyful, collaborative, protective, and alive. Do it with us.

^{Fight for the Future}

"There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him."

— Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

#Palestine / Israel’s Supreme Court orders demolition of illegal settlement construction on Palestinian land near Nabi Aner, 7 years after the case was filed

The case, filed in December 2017 by the head of Ras Karkar village council, two residents of Deir Amar village, and the human rights organizations Yesh Din and Emek Shaveh, challenged the illegal construction and takeover of the Nabi Aner archaeological site.

The site, partially located on Palestinian-owned land near Ramallah, contains significant cultural heritage including springs, a mosque, and ruins of historical structures. Since the early 2000s, Palestinian landowners have experienced severe violence from Israeli settlers, hindering access to the site. Israeli settlers subsequently transformed the area into a recreational site, illegally constructing pools, pathways, and other structures, even boasting about displacing Palestinians.

Despite repeated appeals to authorities, the illegal construction continued. The Israeli government attempted to delay enforcement by citing the “Regularization Law,” but the Supreme Court rejected this argument in 2020. Finally, on December 17, 2024, the court ruled in favor of the petitioners, ordering the demolition of illegal structures within six months and the restoration of the site to its pre-occupation state.

The court emphasized the state's obligation to protect Palestinian property rights and ensure access to heritage sites. The ruling also criticized the government and prosecution for their handling of the case.

yesh-din.org/en/hcj-petition-r…

Photo: Settlers after they encroached upon the Nabi Aner site, which served to irrigate the lands of the villages of Ras Karkar and Deir Amar. This is part of a widespread phenomenon of “settlement tourism”, which involves taking over Palestinian lands and claiming them to be public goods (while violently denying access to the rightful owners of course).

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelOccupation
#israelWarCrims
#NabiAner
#Nakba #Domicide
#SettelementTourism

Nordids, a.k.a. "Nordics", are strongly depigmented, orthognathic and leptomorphic dolicho-mesocephals of northern Europe. The general Nordid type probably evolved through the blending of gracilized northern European Cro-Magnoids (robust broad-faced Upper Paleolithic types) with various types, including tall leptomorphs associated with the Battle-Axe and Boat-Axe peoples, who entered Europe from the Eurasian steppes (carrying the Corded type with them), penetrating the various Nordid-formative territories in several consecutive waves. The resulting blends were subsequently stabilized, and the resultant types further specialized, to yield the present Nordid varieties. The ancestral Corded type (named after its association with the Corded Ware culture), with its high vault and long head, was skeletally "nordiform" (approaching a Nordid), or perhaps Mediterranid (of a larger, more robust variety).

theapricity.com/snpa/index2.ht…

the harbor freight baxter air powered disc sander is awesome. it seems to extract way more energy from the air than their cheaper sander.

i just knocked out the rest of that weld prep pretty quick with it

I wrote an article about the infantilization of adult children, about ten years ago. But this really is over the top:

nypost.com/2024/12/17/lifestyl…

Gen Z says it's 'empowering' that their parents drive them to work: 'Our safety is top priority'

These parents are driving their adult kids to work — and driving critics crazy.

^{Brooke Kato (New York Post)}