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If Palestine Action is proscribed, it would make it illegal to be a member of the group, provide material support to the group, or voice public support for the group.
The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, wrote to the head of the IAEA, Director General Rafael Grossi, advising him that he will be taking legal action.
Las 20,30h de la tarde y los vecinos de abajo han decidido que es la mejor hora para sacar la motosierra y cortar una valla. Santa paciencia que hay en esta casa.
I'd only become aware recently that it's become less common for newer cars to have a spare tire. It was a bit of a shock to me.
The norm I'd been accustomed to was that a lot of cars would include a "donut" spare tire; a smaller, lighter, cheaper-to-manufacture thing. It would shave some cost off of the car, probably let the manufacturer increase their MPG rating a bit. However, it was only rated for something like 50 miles (80km) at a limited speed (say, 55mph or 90km/h) before it should be replaced. It was really designed to let a driver reach the closest tire shop and get a regular tire replaced.
What my dad always did, and recommended, and what I'd done, was replacing the thing with a full-size tire. That way, when you have a flat, it's not all that much of a problem. You just swap in the new tire, and next time it happens to be convenient, you get a new full-size tire. In my experience, spare tire wells included the space for a full-size tire; the manufacturer just didn't provide you with one.
However, in 2025, the situation doesn't look like that much anymore.
A number of spare tire wells don't appear to have enough space for a full-size spare tire. This seems, in my quick skim, to be something more common with hybrids or BEVs than ICEs, I assume because the battery is space-constrained and the tire is competition for space (and in the case of BEVs, range).
Some vehicles apparently ship with "run flat" tires. These can be driven for a limited distance, and appear to have about the same capabilities as a "donut" spare tire --- they can go about 50 miles at a reduced speed before they need to be replaced, and I assume are aimed at letting one reach a tire shop.
A number of vehicles don't have a spare tire or storage space for one or a jack at all; for example, the 2025 Corolla Hybrid. The manufacturer provides a pump and a goop kit, and the idea is that if a flat is only a slow leak, one can hopefully nurse the car along well enough with that to reach a tire shop.
As best I can tell, full-size spares are only common today with pickups or off-road oriented vehicles.
I assume that part of this is because cell phone coverage is more widespread now, and the idea is that one should just call for roadside assistance and have them bring and change it. I saw some discussion on Reddit talking about how a lot of younger people don't know how to change a spare tire.
I'm not entirely sanguine about this. While I'll agree that it can save a bit of space, I really prefer knowing that even if I get a flat, the worst that can happen to me, even if I'm outside of cell range, is that I go swap in a new tire. I've only rarely gotten flats, but it's something that I'd certainly rather have.
I guess that one could just put a tire in a trunk or hatchback/crossover/SUV's cargo space as long as one is willing to expend some cargo space, but especially with a hatchback/crossover/SUV, I'm not entirely enthralled about the idea of having something large and unsecured crashing around the cabin in the event of a crash; normally, a spare tire well prevents shifting around and has a system for securing the tire.
Thoughts? Is a spare tire something that you want to have today in your vehicle?
I'll add to this, that I've noticed some modern vehicles don't have a 12 volt 'cigarette lighter' socket, and many of the ones that still do have lowered the amperage of the fuse from 20 amps to 15 amps.
While I get that smoking is frowned on and becoming less common, that's not the only thing those sockets are used for. What about a portable 12 volt air pump? Those are rated for 20 amps, so if you try to use one on a 15 amp circuit, you'll almost instantly blow the fuse...
I have a floor-standing bike pump in the trunk from when I had a slow leak. Electric pumps are often loud enough to wake up the neighborhood, heavier, and more expensive. If you're fit enough to do 20 pushups a high-volume bike pump will work fine.
[…] für die Völkerstrafrechtlerin Julia Geneuss ist die Genozid-Debatte aktuell nicht entscheidend: „Es wäre wichtig, sich weniger um eine juristische Bewertung der Lage zu streiten, sondern erstmal dafür zu sorgen, dass das Leid aufhört.“ Sie meint: ob es sich um einen Genozid handelt oder nicht, darüber kann man auch diskutieren, wenn die Bevölkerung im Gazastreifen nicht mehr hungert und nicht mehr in Schulen Schutz sucht, die dann doch bombardiert werden.
≪ Man darf nie aufhören, sich die Welt vorzustellen, wie sie am vernünftigsten wäre. ≫
~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Namasté und einen guten Morgen für all diejenigen, die schon wach sind, und für die, die es noch werden 🙏
Ich wünsche euch einen friedvollen und achtsamen Tag 😀
_(Bildbeschreibung: Ein Schmetterling sitzt auf einer Distelblüte. Auf dem Bild ein Zitat des Schweizer Schriftstellers, Dramatikers und Malers Friedrich Dürrenmatt.)_
After deadly shootings of Minnesota lawmakers, The New York Times argued Trump bears responsibility for America's surge in political violence through rhetoric and praise for rioters.
Iran’s foreign minister has warned that Israel’s attack on his country is a "historic moment for human civilisation" in which countries must stand up for int...
In Jerusalem, Israelis protesting the genocide and war with Iran face harassment and insults by police and civilians, including explicit calls for genocide
@bazkie 😮 im surprised you know any at all! whats your story? as far as the video goes, lets just say if you want to learn about half the insults the language has to offer, you can start with that kid's masterclass.
@bazkie oooh lol. you had me fooled. hey you never know! the first time i went to visit iran in 1993, i sat next to a white, american dude on the plane to switzerland. this guy wasn't even going to iran but turns out he studied farsi at UofI Champagne-Urbana. At least then they had one of the best Farsi language programs in the u.s. dont know if thats still the case. But anyways, this guy embarrassed me. His farsi was impeccable.
nice! you must have had an interesting talk with him on that flight no doubt 😀 and how about you, what's your connection to iran?
I did have a very nice iranian family living next door once so when they moved out, I wrote a goodbye message in farsi, but I just drew it from screen as best as I could. they did appreciate it 😀
@bazkie aw thats really cute. im born to iranian immigrants. aside from my parents and siblings, everyone in my family is there. at least normally, its "aside from". at this very moment my mother is in iran.
Major right-wing funders gave nearly $222 million to 69 organizations that filed amicus briefs supporting Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s fight against disclosing major donors to California regulators.
The home secretary will move to proscribe Palestine Action group in the coming weeks, effectively branding them as a terrorist organisation, the BBC understands.
Bei dem Streetview-Zeugs weiß ich nicht, aber die Satellitenbilder waren immer einige Jahre alt, hab da immer nach dem Platz vor meiner Werkstatt geguckt, mein Anhänger stand da noch fünf Jahre nachdem er nicht mehr existierte...
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With the recent-ish cock.li situation along with previous events surrounding it and Fedora Mail, I don't think I can trust email services run by a single guy anymore, especially if they target the imageboard crowd and/or use meme domains.
I think I'm going to use Posteo for now on. They same to go out of their way to respect user-privacy despite being for-profit and being payed means that it is less likely to be used for some bomb-threat or something like that (hopefully).
@beardalaxy Cock.li got hacked due to an exploit that was recently found in RoundCube (their webmail software). It's still usable through desktop mail clients though, but that service has gone through so many security breaches and legal trouble (mostly due to VC's incompetence, and the services targeted audience) that I don't think it's trustworthy mail service outside of throw away accounts anymore.
What happened at fedora.mail? I only saw it was always closed, and they may have recently reopened invitations. Aside for it being connected to the post userbase, what gives?
But, in every case, I wouldn't use any of those mails for anything *respectable*. Just find a smaller but privacy conscious provider for general-purpose, and a dedicated service for *Internet friends*, maybe even spin your own for the latter
@vokainen099 Fedora Mail had it's registrations permanently closed for over a year now because someone made a throw away account to send a bomb threat. I think @j could open an account if you ask him though.
>Aside for it being connected to the post userbase [citation needed]
Also skill issue I literally use zerglingman@fedora.email on my resume. If my ISP ever gets off their ass and fixes rdns I will swap it to my own server though.
@Zergling_man @vokainen099 Yeah. I have a firstname-lastname cock.li email with one of the few SFW domains they had. I've applied to jobs with it among other things and nobody ever batted a single eye, except for my Dad who told me to delete it and use Gmail instead.
MAERSK just announced they have halted all container shipping operations in and out of Haifa, the only deepwater port in Israel that’s still functioning. And just like that, Israel’s maritime logistics capabilities have all but collapsed.
With each day of Iran’s missile strikes, Israel is looking more and more like Ukraine – a failed state that only (barely) functions because it’s propped up by money and supplies from the USA. Source: timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent…
I love that Iran uses AI in their propaganda (not using the term in a negative manner here). It is one of the reasons I wanted to learn AI, because I recognized it has some democratizing powers. I recognize it has other uses too but at this time we are focusing on the good uses;
"Who is Major Genersl Seyed Abdolrahim Mousavi, new Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces?"
The first line of her post reads almost exactly like Replika's copy about itself. Here's a quote from a talk by Sherry Turkle:
Consider Replika, at this point a chatbot that offers itself as a friend, confidante, lover, psychotherapist. It’s built to be emotive, supportive, and erotic if that’s what a person wants. There’s a remarkable parallelism between what Replika’s developers promise and what enthusiastic users say they like about Replika. ... In my studies people tell me that they like chatbot friendship because it takes the stress out of relationships. With a chatbot friend there is no friction, there is no second guessing, there is no ambivalence, there is no fear of being left behind.
Technology is the architect of our intimacies. We are human because language makes us so. And yet, we now contemplate a world where from our earliest years w...
@Robert Biloute - on diaspora-fr.org ma femme a froid quand il fait moins de 22 et chaud quand il fait plus de 23. Sans blague. Elle est un thermomètre hyper précis pour 23°.
C'est ce que l'on appelle la "sobriété heureuse". Pour y arriver il faut une "décroissance positive" et apprendre à se reconnecter à notre envirronnement.
I spoke to Doctorow about the big problems with Big Tech today, what we can do to hold them accountable, and how envisioning science-fiction utopias can help us on the way to something better.
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Plasma 6 moved to Qt6 entirely, and it's also the first version with fully complete wayland support, and Wayland is actually the default session. And that Wayland support is pretty flawless in my experience.
And this release also brings a few cool things, courtesy of Wayland: HDR is now supported, provided your display also support it. You can also set a color profile for each display individually, on Wayland as well. And finally, you also get color blindness correction filters in the settings.
First, the theme is now lighter on the eyes. They have removed a bunch of the blue borders that every single panel inside of an app had, so the whole feel of the desktop is similar, but also nicer, you don't have that many lines that draw your eyes. Highlighted items in list views are also different, now with rounded corners and a little bit of spacing.
Another visual change is the floating panel by default.
The defaults have changed drastically First, single click to select is now the default, with double click to open. Tap to click on touchpads is also the default now, and they've disabled scrolling on the desktop to switch workspaces.
It's now way easier to change panel configuration. The previous messy pop-up was replaced by something much more visual, which will absolutely be a better experience. You get visual representations of the settings you're changing, with combo boxes to select what you want, and tou can now auto hide the panel.
Another big change is the combination of the overview and the present windows effect. It feels like the older overview, except, it looks a lot like GNOME's. What has changed is the touchpad gestures, and these are much, much better. You also get the desktop cube back.
Another change is the ability to just click inside of a scrollbar's area to move the content directly to that area. Finally, Krunner got faster, way faster, and now lets you reorder the various elements that it shows when you search for something.
Visually, the settings are less busy. Gone are the double rows of icons at the bottom of a page, they now mostly moved to the toolbar of the settings app, meaning that settings pages now look a bit nicer. They've also reduced the number of pages that were opened by clicking a button inside of another page, so things are easier to find, and the settings were reordered into other categories.
You get a new sound theme preference page, and, easier configuration of which app will open a broad category of file.
Dolphin received changes to its settings as well, reordering a bunch of things, and it gained kjeyboard shortcuts to access the toolbar buttons and the disk space usage bar that lives in the status bar. You can also now right click a folder to open it in split view.
Spectacle, the screen recorder, now shows a tray icon when it's recording your screen, you can click it to end the recording. It also support recording a part of your screen, and has new keyboard shortcuts to handle all of this. Everything will now be saved by default in the pictures screenshots directory, you can change that of course. It also support VP9 to record videos, and can be used using the CLI
Konsole has redesigned settings, and will use less ram. Text selection now works for chinese, korean or japanese, and every tab now uses a separate cgroup, meaning the entire app will no longer be killed if your system needs to kill a process to save somle resources
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Google has lost three separate antitrust cases, and more are on the way. Why does this company still exist in one piece? It shouldn't, but we're still dealing with the hangover of the 1990s.
This vision now has real teeth. If the United States escalates its military campaign against Iran, it risks not only igniting a broader regional war but raising the stakes in the ongoing de facto world war. Indeed, as Tariq Ali noted, Trump’s threats against Iran should be seen as part of a wider plan against China ...
The Ukraine war and the Israel-Iran conflict are not separate crises, but interlinked fronts in a piecemeal world war — one that pits the US against a de facto alliance of of Russia, Iran and China
At $84.99, the Switch 2 Pro Controller is the most affordable premium option compared to the Elite Series 2 and DualSense Edge, which both retail around $199.99
My dude is really saying that the switch 2 pro controller (without even analogic triggers) is a "premium" controller better than the elite and edge gamepads?
Mate, how much did Nintendo pay you to say this? Or are you scared that nintendo might stop sending you review items if you tell the truth?
The way I understood it, he's putting the pro controller in the "premium" category, as the edge and elite controllers. It's the "most affordable premium option" as if it was on the same league than the other two.
Yeah that’s what I’m saying ha, your previous comment made me think you believed they were saying it was better than those premium offerings. I must have misread it
Today, the dollar value of circulating stablecoins is around $250 billion. For that sum to be backed with sufficient reserves, it is estimated that last year issuers purchased $40 billion of US Treasury bills, more than any foreign buyer of Treasuries during 2024. In the same year, the stablecoin issuer Tether alone reported annual pre-tax profits of $13 billion — not bad for an offshore company employing around 100 people.
Hum, isn't this a ploy to keep the dollar afloat against the US' own sanctions ?
A dive down the rabbit hole of what it actually takes to make a seemingly simple supermarket product - and what happens when that product gets embroiled in a trade war
About 80 per cent of American tin cans are made from imported steel. And since that steel can’t easily be substituted, the companies that make those cans will have little choice but to pay the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump.
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot’s first mission to the International Space Station now has a name: εpsilon. The mission name and patch were announced today at the Paris Air Show by ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Sophie Adenot, who joined remotely from the United States, where she is training for her spaceflight.
Sophie Adenot is one of the five astronauts selected from ESA’s most recent astronaut class of 2022. Following the successful completion of their basic training in spring 2024, Josef Aschbacher announced during the Space Council in Brussels that Sophie and fellow graduate Raphaël Liégois had been assigned their first missions to the International Space Station, currently planned for 2026.
The εpsilon name and patch reflect the power of small, yet impactful contributions and how multiple parts unite to create a whole.
In mathematics, “ε” represents something small. In the extensive collaborative effort of space exploration, involving thousands of participants, all roles, including the astronaut's role, stay small yet meaningful.
The hummingbird, central to the patch, embodies this idea; though one of Earth’s smallest birds, it plays a crucial role in the jungle’s ecosystem, pollinating numerous plants.
Encircling the patch is a ring of small dots, symbolising the many small contributions that together make great achievements possible. All these little actions that can be coordinated to form a circle and close the loop. At the top, three of these dots are coloured – blue, white, and red – representing Sophie’s home country, France, and ESA’s exploration destinations: Earth, the Moon, and Mars.
The name εpsilon, being the fifth Greek letter and the fifth brightest star of the Leo constellation, also follows the French tradition to name human spaceflight missions after celestial bodies. It also pays tribute to the five career astronauts of ESA’s 2022 class.
Three lines emerge from the “i” of the εpsilon, shaping the tail of a shooting star, a poetic reminder that dreams keep us alive.
At the base of the patch lies a rounded blue shape, representing Earth’s surface and its natural beauty: mountains, forests and landscapes that Sophie enjoys exploring. It serves as a reminder of our motivation for spaceflight: to explore, learn, and return with this knowledge to benefit life on Earth.
From an emotional perspective, the same message is conveyed. In life's intricate tapestry, small threads contribute to create the most beautiful patterns. A kind word, a gentle smile, a moment of patience - these seemingly insignificant actions can transform lives and shape destinies. This patch invites each of us to embrace the potential of our smallest actions as they ripple outward, touching hearts and inspiring souls.
During her εpsilon mission, Sophie will perform numerous scientific experiments, many of them European, conduct medical research, support Earth observation and contribute to operations and maintenance aboard the International Space Station.
Marking the first public day of this year’s International Paris Air Show, the President of France Emmanuel Macron visited the Paris Space Hub.
ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and Director of Human and Robotic Exploration Daniel Neuenschwander welcomed President Macron, introducing him to the assembled French astronauts and a group of young space professionals in attendance.
French ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot joined by video link from the United States, where she is training for her upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Sophie detailed some of her training, explaining that no two days are alike. Fellow astronauts Thomas Pesquet, Jean-François Clervoy and Claudie Haignéré also addressed Sophie and offered their advice for her time in space. Together President Macron and Sophie announced that her mission will be named εpsilon, and revealed her mission patch.
Speaking about the development of the space industry, President Macron said Europe must increase investment in commercial space, and emphasised the importance of complementarity of public and private investment – particularly with the upcoming ESA Council at Ministerial level and ongoing discussions for the next EU multiannual financial framework. He also mentioned the developing need for dual-use space capacity including surveillance. President Macron highlighted the importance of research and of making Europe a destination for researchers in line with the EU Choose Europe for Science initiative. He also called on Europe to improve its competitiveness in space. Watch a replay of the visit.
A new Letter of Intent between the European Space Agency and Dassault Aviation was also announced, signalling the common interest of the organisations in working on low Earth orbit exploration, in particular orbital vehicles.
Japan, seeing how strongly this “Asians defeating the West” narrative resonated in Asia, made it their main propaganda arc: they decided to frame their own imperialism and colonialism as a fight for justice, positioning themselves not as conquerors but as liberators freeing their Asian brothers from the yoke of white supremacy and coining slogans like “Asia for Asians” and the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.”
Le premier dit : « Le sionisme n’aurait jamais pu gagner sans l’holocauste ». Le second ajoute : « Netanyahou, il a fait un peu exprès de laisser faire pour reconquérir Gaza ». Qui sont-ils ? Où s’expriment-ils ? Combien de temps s’écoulera-t-il avant qu’ils ne soient injuriés dans tous les médias, convoqués par la police et gardés à vue ? Eh bien il s’agit respectivement de Daniel Cohn-Bendit et de Luc Ferry, ça se passe sur LCI et nous sommes le 19 mai 2025. Quant à la réprobation publique et à la convocation au commissariat, nous attendons encore. Ainsi va la tectonique des plaques.
L’ahurissant retournement de veste qui s’opère sous nos yeux, et l’autoblanchiment collectif à sa suite, resteront comme un cas d’école dans l’histoire de la propagande.
Tant que Netanyahu faisait massacrer les palestiniens, le sionisme ne causait aucun problème à personne, bien au contraire, être antisioniste était allègrement assimilable à de l'antisémitisme mais évidemment avec cette petite faute de parcours avec l'attaque de L'Iran... Il y a un doute qui se profil et la réplique est amère.
In the end, Lagarde’s proposal is less about global strategy and more about justifying greater EU centralisation. But what Europe needs is not “more Europe” — it’s a different Europe altogether.
“Pro-Palestinian activists in the UK say they broke into the Royal Air Force (RAF) #BrizeNorton base in Oxfordshire on 20 June and #damaged two #military #aircraft before escaping undetected”
Pro-Palestinian activists breach UK airbase, damage two military aircraft
Pro-Palestinian activists in the UK say they broke into the Royal Air Force (RAF) Brize Norton base in Oxfordshire on 20 June and damaged two military aircraft before escaping…
Jason Kingsley, the modern knight, discusses what a single day might have been like in a remote border castle on the marches of a medieval kingdom. Who did w...
The first guy, a big black snake, I almost stepped on while I was #trailrunning and way too focused on my podcast. We watched each other for a while until he went into the plant cover beside the trail.
The second little guy, a smooth green snake, slithered down the fallen tree and hung out with me and my friends while we were hanging out in the woods. We named him Clyde and watched him come in and out of holes in the bricks around the area.
The next generation of people doing the hard work of advocating for mustangs and burros on public lands, and caring for them when they are removed, hasn’t started showing up
It's currently 27C (80F) in this city, with 41% humidity and a wind speed of only 3mph - and it's forecast to be hotter tommorow, and hotter still towards the end of next week!
I wouldn't mind, only among the persistent symptoms of long Covid is heat intolerance, thought to be due to damage to the hypothalamus. Plus the double-glazed French windows and doors turn this place into a greenhouse in hot weather.
President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on June 20, imposing sanctions on 56 individuals and 55 Russian, Chinese, and Belarusian companies involved in
A #ThankGNU! to Dario Armani and David Klann for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedogm and awareness, visit: u.fsf.org/45m
If you’re interested in how powerful forces of marketing & manipulation make the positive change we badly need MUCH harder, read @grantennis.bsky.social’ great book “Dark PR.” Nice to spend a Paris day (he lives here) walking in Grant’s Canal neighbourhood & talking about how change REALLY happens.
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