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There exists a "relationship of forces" in all human endeavors, as my sociology professor said in my college classroom. If we, the middle class, think we can escape the consequences of Trump's spending bill that steals from the poor to further enrich the wealthy then we are deceiving ourselves. We will pay later with higher crime, diminished state services, and widespread disease. We must help the poor to elevate their lives, not sell them out for the crumbs Republicans toss our way.
Unfortunately, I still use DuckDucko too often. But the results there are just as manipulated as with Goo... Just one example: When I search for information about the climate hoax in the search engine, DuckDuckgo only shows me pages that show that the climate hoax is a lie and that the climate must be protected. In contrast, moyeek shows me really critical pages. Try using English or French terms.
I have just checked it, with the search query ‘Klimaschindel’ which means that climate change is deliberately hyped, again only pages are displayed that show that all doubts about climate fraud are fake. These are so-called fact-checks, i.e. the Ministry of Truth, there are no other sites.
@walterkirn This is a hallway deep inside the Hoover Dam, which I toured recently. Even the insides of this great structure are epic. (Note the rad mosaic.)
The first time I went on the tour they brought us down into one of the tunnels and other places, the next time I went was post 9/11 and they only brought us down to the generator room my to my chargrin and also making me look like a liar to my friend.
Summer scored a new cow toy last night. She is perplexed because she loves it so much but it keeps rolling away from her. We played ball on the stairs too. Her orange football is finally falling apart. Time to retire it and get out a new one. We might just play all day. Summer says she's game. #Summer #DogsOfMastodon
"Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem announcing Wednesday evening that the group will not agree to give up its weapons, its land, or its right to resist" "Since Israel is actively occupying parts of southern Lebanon, launching airstrikes nearly daily, and launching ground raids against the south, it is unsurprising that Hezbollah isn’t willing to unilaterally disarm"
Efforts to try to get Hezbollah to agree to disarm appear to have failed, with Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem announcing Wednesday evening that the group will not agree to give up its weapons, its land, or its right to resist.
My FICO score will increase and decrease randomly despite me being extremely financially responsible and supposedly doing "everything right", and I am never told why my FICO score increases or decreases or what I'm doing directly to change the score's increases or decreases. I hate it.
I have 3 cards. I do not utilize more than 30% of my credit limit. I pay all my debts on time, often before the statement dates.
My "score ingredients" has remained essentially unchanged for a couple years now, which is broken down saying:
- Payment History: Exceptional - Amount of Debt: Very Good - Length of Credit History: Fair - Amount of New Debt: Good - Credit Mix: Very Good
I mention that these "metrics" have remained unchanged for a long while now because, for example, "Length of Credit History" remains "fair" despite having years of credit history now at this point. When does it move from "fair" to "good", etc..? "Amount of Debt" is only "very good" despite never utilizing more than 30% of what's available to me? I just don't really get it. And, I don't understand why the score would continually fluctuate vs. just steadily increase.
Ah. Do you have a mortgage? That will help you get over 800. I could never get over 800 without one lol. Maybe you need another card? Highly recommend Amex Gold or Green.
I travel to/from the USA and PRC every 2 weeks. The 5x points on airfare purchases alone pays for round-trip airfare like every 4th or 5th trip, especially since I can like "double dip"---get both Delta SkyMiles on the ticket purchases + 5x AmEx points, and the AmEx points 1:1 convert to SkyMiles. Then, the airport lounge access is super nice too, especially as I'm a corporate pilot and frequently commute to/from aircraft around North America when I'm here "state-side" for work (I'm often in commercial airport terminals). So, yes, the Platinum card is great, especially paired with the Gold card where I get the the 4x points on restaurant purchases. All those points inevitably just go to airfare purchases to help supplement my travel expenses.
@verita84 It's because the statement balance on your cards is varying at the time they get reported. $0 reported as statement balance is worse slightly than $1 but otherwise going higher will lower scores.
Both AmEx and my bank allow me to view my scores and they're never aligned; They're always reporting different from one another. Which, also doesn't really make sense to me since I thought the score was kind of the agreement between the 3 major credit reporting agencies? I don't know. I don't know enough about this stuff to make educated statements on the matter. @Zettour
if anyone checks your credit score it also goes down by about 40 points. Youre also not allowed to know the formula or functions that determine your score.
25 years of Hollywood telling you that "America" it's at war against the "big bad Muslim people" and at the end it all goes down to #USrael at war with ...#ICE #ThisIsUSrael
Chester: Same-sex penguin couple hatch rare chick at zoo.
Scampi and Flounder, a pair of male penguins, "stepped in to help raise one of two eggs laid by another penguin pair, Wotsit and Peach", the zoo said.
The chicks are said to now be days away from taking to the water for the first time.
Bird experts at the zoo carefully shared the eggs between the two nests to help give both chicks the best possible start and to help improve the chances of successful fledging. #News #GoodNews #FeelGoodFriday #Penguins #LGBTQ
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@verita84 @dj @Zergling_man i like genshin impact but its a one trick pony that loses all its fun prettyquick. I also didnt understand the events so i just never played them and instead roamed around just getting killed lol
Despite United Nations experts urging British lawmakers to rethink plans to use terrorism laws against the protest group Palestine Action, the punishment of the group is in full swing.
Sur le front de l’Ukraine, c’est pas plus reluisant qu’un frigidaire vide un lendemain de party. Trump voulait régler ça en quelques jours, genre “Salut, c’est moi, on signe où ?”. Résultat ? Il a fait des câlins à Poutine, il a menacé l’Ukraine comme un ado qui menace de bouder, il a rêvé d’un cessez-le-feu… et six mois plus tard, on retient juste une chose : Poutine s’en balance et fait ce qu’il veut.
On dirait même qu’il entend pas Trump parler. Peut-être qu’il capte juste les aigus, comme un chien ? Hier, Trump a jappé au téléphone avec Poutine… et le Russe a répondu en lâchant une attaque massive de drones, comme pour dire : “Ouais ouais, continue de jaser, moi j’ai des trucs sérieux à faire.”
Quand Trump s’impatiente, Poutine lui lance une balle de laine, comme à un chat obèse pour qu’il se fatigue. Un coup Trump grogne et joue au dur, un coup il veut inviter Poutine au G7 pour recréer le G8, comme s’ils allaient faire un BBQ entre potes. Pendant ce temps-là, Vlad s’amuse comme un gamin qui a trouvé le bouton “Reset” d’une console.
Trump has very little understanding of what the Ukraine conflict is about let alone the intellect to solve it. He just wanted a property deal. Our media lies to us yet we believe that the problem would be solved if we simply allowed the coup government to get back to the ethnic cleansing of Ukraine and allow them to join NATO and increase our ability to threaten Russia. The Russian media tells them that they are saving the people of Ukraine from the Nazis that threaten everyone. The problem cannot be solved with a mining contract. The EU should have categorically stated that Nazis are not welcome in the EU and helped support revising the Minsk agreement into something that would work. Everyone would have been better off. But the US wanted a war with Russia and now we have that. No one is going to admit how this started so we cannot even get the discussion to where we are let alone how to solve it. Most of the weapons supplied have been sold on to other conflict zones but not all and the Nazi battalions of Azov, Sich etc. will not stop if an agreement is reached but we say it is Russia that we cannot trust. In this conflict Russia is probably the most trustworthy although I tend to see Putin as 100% the same as Trump, just more articulate.
My final point was that there is no difference between any of them. I am not on a side because I do not see them as different. They are all happy to murder people without a second thought. People die for someone else's ideology. We are 100% as barbaric as the Spanish invading South America. Nothing has changed. I can be in Russia, China, the US, Iran, France - it does not matter. You sit in the town and meet lots of great people whose leaders are animals that kill without a care.
On Monday, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu will meet to discuss the next steps in their plan to reshape the Middle East. Their vision includes expanding normalization, disarming adversaries, and ending any Palestinian aspirations for freedom.
Trump, la paix, il l’a tellement faite avancer… qu’elle a reculé. Entre ses phrases en mode “plus grand, plus fort, plus beau” et la réalité sur le terrain, y’a comme un léger bug dans le logiciel. Et son image de mec “craint et respecté” ? Une blague XXL. Si ça, c’est de l’autorité, moi je suis Pape.
The High Court in London has rejected an attempt to temporarily block the UK government's move to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, following an appeal by the group's co-founder.
No, in Germany they are social-capitalistic, Bevor there was national-social. Next step probably national-capitalistic. But they still look for what this idea could be standing for...
They do put value on things in form of monetizing items, and that's how trouble starts for all of us ... because we;re then forced to play the same dumb game.
No, they are all Dictatorships although most regularly change their dictator (i.e. every 4th year in the US) whereas North Korea, Azerbaijan etc. are Monarchies where the Dictator is hereditary.
Many Americans think that Hawaiians lived in huts prior to colonization. The US didn't liberate, but in fact de-industrialized Hawai'i. Before 1898, Hawai'i already had mass transit, railroads. The city of Honolulu was lit by nationalized, renewable hydropower before the White House had electricity. #July4 #IndependenceDay
Hawaii also had a higher literacy rate than the US, and Europe before colonization, the banning of our culture and language, erasure of our history, and ghettoization. Hawai'ians were also often bi- or trilingual, and world-renowned diplomats. cechambers.com/hawaii-highest-…
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Kalakaua, one of our leaders, had invented a sub-aquatic vehicle when Jules Verne was dreaming up 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. He was also the first head of a country to circumnavigate the globe.
The sovereign country of Hawaii had Black citizens before the US Civil War. In fact, US slaves that stepped onto Hawaiian soil were considered free. Asians were full citizens in Hawaii as US chained them up to build railroads & West Coast, under threat of mass-lynchings.
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Well, Cook arrived in Hawaii in 1778, so I'm not sure about when "prior to colonization" was meant to be. For sure their technology was limited, as they had very little metal. It's was all technology transfer from the mainland that got them electricity.
"Israel’s Channel 14 reported on Wednesday that the current proposal includes a side letter from Trump" "The document would give Israel the green light to "renew the fire if our demands with regards to the disarmament of Hamas and the exile of its leaders are not met"" "Israel would be able to interpret, define and make a judgment call on these terms" Like I said in a thread, this is no ceasefire. It's just theatre.
Israel is reportedly seeking written assurances from US President Donald Trump that it will be allowed to resume military operations in Gaza if its demands are not met, even as talks over a 60-day ceasefire continue.
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Really frustrated with #Windows 11 not wanting to install the pending update it keeps reminding me I need to install. Evidently this particular #cumulative #update is problematic (v. 24H2 - KB5060829) given the proliferation of YouTube video 'fixes' that abound (which haven't fixed anything). How about Microsoft pushes an update instead? Nope. It's the user's burden. I hate Windows. Unfortunately it's whats running my wife's laptop and I need to keep that machine updated and secure (as I type this on my #Linux machine.)
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi reportedly told the EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas on July 3 that the country cannot afford for Russia to lose the war in Ukraine amid fears the U.S.
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The alleged spy, arrested during a special operation in Lviv Oblast, was reportedly recruited through his ex-wife, a former military officer now cooperating with Russian forces in occupied Melitopol.
indians already have a country. go home and clean up yours first, then come here to visit if you want. if your own country is a shithole this doesn't bode well for you moving here
...we need to see things from the vantage point of the 1580s, when we find the first recorded attempts in England to develop the smokeless coal. There were at least two main ways to go about it. One was to try to remove its soot-inducing, sulphurous impurities, which we’ll come back to another time when I set out the story of coke. But the other, much older, and more tried-and-tested method was to add a material to counteract them. At Europe’s greatest coal-mining region in the sixteenth century, near Liège in present-day Belgium, the locals there had long crushed the coal into a dust and mixed it with some wettened loamy soil or mud, working it into balls or briquettes before leaving them to dry, creating a fuel that burned more regularly and completely, releasing far less soot.
What follows is, effectively, the untold story of the coal briquette — and a solution to the centuries-old mystery of why it failed to catch on.
Es difícil quedarse solo con una frase de Mariano Rajoy, pero han optado por ofrecer como estampación el clásico "muy españoles y mucho españoles"
Es difícil quedarse solo con una frase de Mariano Rajoy, pero han optado por ofrecer como estampación el clásico "muy españoles y mucho españoles" Feijóo anuncia la incorporación futura de Alberto Nadal a la dirección económica del PP mientras quita competencias a Elías Bendodo
El PP ha inaugurado este viernes su XXI Congreso Nacional que se celebrará este fin de semana en Madrid, un encuentro en el que los 'populares' reelegirán a Alberto Núñez Feijóo como presidente. Como en otros cónclaves, los 'populares' venden 'menchandising' como camisetas o sudaderas, en este caso con frases de Pedro Sánchez como “fachosfera” o “son las cinco y todavía no he comido”, pero también algunas expresiones de expresidentes del PP como el “muy españoles y mucho españoles” de Rajoy.
El recinto en el que tendrá lugar la cumbre de los 'populares', ubicado en las instalaciones de la Feria de Madrid, está divido en cuatro grandes estancias, la primera de ellas, un espacio amplio que recibe a todos los participantes con múltiples 'stands' informativos colocados bajo señales de diferentes plazas temáticas: las ideas, el encuentro, la libertad o la juventud, son alguna de ellas.En esos puestos, los asistentes pueden encontrar desde información hasta 'merchandising' del propio Congreso pero también de la fundación que preside José María Aznar, Faes, las Nuevas Generaciones del PP o el Partido Popular Europeo, entre otros.
Stand de venta de camisetas en el XXI congreso nacional del Partido Popular.
Los recuerdos disponibles para los asistentes van desde botellas y pulseras hasta camisetas y sudaderas personalizadas con palabras como “Fachosfera” o “Cambio”. Es difícil quedarse solo con una frase de Mariano Rajoy, pero han optado por ofrecer como estampación el clásico “muy españoles y mucho españoles”.
También está “son las cinco y no he comido”, en referencia a la frase utilizada por el presidente Pedro Sánchez el día que dio la rueda de prensa tras el informe de la UCO que apuntaba a su ex 'número tres' Santos Cerdán. También hay un atrevido “muchas cosas buenas empiezan por F”.
Naja, der Unterschied ist, dass die Geräte in der Fiktion an der Wand hingen - hier trägt man die durch die Gegend und selbst am Badesee sind die Wanzen nicht weg...
PBS is suing Donald Trump, and in their lawsuit they remind the American people that Trump is violating the Constitution and is not the sole arbiter of government funding.
Trop souvent, Microsoft Office s’impose dans nos administrations comme une fatalité. Une fatalité qui coûte cher : des millions d’euros en licences et maintenance.
En 2017, le ministère de la Culture engageait 2 M€ pour imposer Office à ses agents. Ce choix a été présenté comme une harmonisation nécessaire, mais à quel prix ?
Le ministère de la Défense avait signé dès 2009 un contrat “Open Bar” couvrant 200 000 machines. Ce contrat a été critiqué : sans appel d’offres, sans alternative. Il a été renouvelé jusqu’en 2017 : 8 ans d’emprise totale de Microsoft puis reconduit de 2017 à 2021. Depuis 2021 : plus de contrat “open bar” direct, mais licences via l’UGAP
Dans l’Éducation nationale , c’est le grand écart. Certaines académies bannissent Microsoft 365, citant RGPD et souveraineté. D’autres signent des deals faramineux (74–152 M€) pour l’achat d’Office 365. Résultat ? Un patchwork incohérent, selon la région ou l’académie d’un établissement.
À Polytechnique, malgré la circulare Dinum, Office 365 est encore en place.
Économie & Finances : LibreOffice règne, mais MS Office survit dans les postes critiques.
Intérieur/Gendarmerie font figure de pionniers open source : Linux + LibreOffice. Bravo à eux pour leur courage et leur prévoyance.
À force de répéter que « tout le monde l’utilise », on oublie de poser la vraie question : qui contrôle les outils, et donc les données ? À chaque licence renouvelée, c’est un peu plus de souveraineté qui s’évapore au profit d’un géant américain. Mais apparemment, tant que le tableau Excel s’ouvre et que le ruban est familier, l’indépendance numérique peut bien crever la bouche ouverte.
Avec des enjeux RGPD forts et des lois comme Schrems II , la prudence est de mise. Or, MS 365 n’est pas conforme à la doctrine “Cloud au Centre” de la Dinum depuis 2021. De nombreux services publics restent pourtant abonnés à l’écosystème proprietaire US.
Cette situation brouille la cohérence d’une politique publique claire. Résultat : coût élevé, souveraineté amoindrie, interopérabilité incertaine. À l’inverse, les solutions libres offrent maîtrise, économies, résilience.
Le groupe MIMO (Mutualisation Interministérielle pour un environnement ouvert) préconise ODF, LibreOffice, Thunderbird… Mais sans impulsion politique forte, les migrations restent opportunistes et incomplètes. Il est urgent de décider : souveraineté numérique ou confort à court terme ?
Alors, à quand une vraie liberté numérique dans le monde universitaire et administratif ? On attend toujours, mais chaque jour qui passe sous la tyrannie du .doc/.docx est un pas de plus vers l’enfermement numérique.
"Avec des si, on mettrait Paris en bouteille", dit-on. Mais il n'en demeure pas moins que la France a eu en main tous les atouts pour favoriser l'essor de
We’re now in a fascinating, and probably unprecedented, situation where the world’s two greatest superpowers - China and the U.S. - are actively building two entirely different visions of what the world's energy future should look like.
This was fantastically illustrated by this recent comparison chart in the NYT which might prove to be the most important geopolitical visualization of the 21st century 👇
The mainstream press continues to ignore all of the red flags that are pointing at Trump's decline as they are continuing into the 4th of July holiday.
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