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_'Tis but thy name that is my Enemy: Thou art thy selfe, though not a Mountague, What's Mountague? it is nor hand nor foote, Nor arme, nor face, O be some other name Belonging to a man. What? in a names that which we call a Rose, By any other word would smell as sweete, So Romeo would, were he not Romeo cal'd, Retaine that deare perfection which he owes, Without that title Romeo, doffe thy name, And for thy name which is no part of thee, Take all my selfe.._1
But when it comes to class and class interest, and acts in those interests, Shakespeare's no help.
_The Ladson were large plantation owners and wealthy merchants in Charleston, and owned hundreds of slaves until slavery was abolished in 1865. James Ladson served in the American Revolutionary War and became lieutenant-governor of South Carolina, while his son James H. Ladson was part of the Charleston oligarchy that was influential in launching the American Civil War. The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, who lived under the name Rose Ladson in her 20s, is a descendant of the family through her American great-grandmother._2
And then there's the Bremen branch and the Hanse3..
_son of the wealthy cotton merchant George Alexander Albrecht (1834–1898) and Louise Dorothea Betty Knoop (1844–1889). His father was the owner of the company Johann Lange Sohn's Wwe. & Co.; his mother was the daughter of the major industrialist, Baron Ludwig Knoop, one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the 19th century Russian Empire.... From 1896 to 1901, he lived in London, Moscow and the United States.... In 1902, he married the American Mary Ladson Robertson (1883–1960), who belonged to a prominent planter class and slave owner family from Charleston_4
White Coat Waste (WCW) investigations have documented how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is doubling down on dog and cat testing while it's been eliminated by agencies like the Navy and Dept. Of Veterans Affairs.
Muslims support the perpetrators 😡 A trial is underway of two violent Muslim male suspects in Manchester, England who attacked and injured police in July 2024. They argue it was self-defense.
One unarmed female officer was beaten in the face, having her nose broken. Police body camera footage shows the officer bleeding and screaming as backup arrived.
Left-wing politicians and Muslims expressed support for the Muslim family at the time. Some Muslims even rioted outside a police station in Rochdale. minds.com/newsfeed/17903306801…
Are all #ISO #auditors this fucking dumb or is it an act, to lure you into oversharing, revealing your process dirty laundry?
Srsly this guy (once again, 4/4 new auditor in as many #certification audits/inspections) is asking fundamentally basic questions that make me think "have you... ever... engineered anything in your life before? why are you an auditor."
Like explaining what a jira workflow is... or what a branch/merge strategy is. Fuck's sake.
Before I retired my coworker and I used to love our auditors. Love fucking with them, that is. Seriously, made our day sometimes, and we especially loved fucking with the new greenhorn auditors that just graduated college and got hired by Toilet & Douche (Deloitte & Touche) and we were their first assignment.
We didn't have ISO audits but we did have SOx-404 audits. (Sarbanes-Oxley.)
So many auditors were left crying and questioning their life's choices after we got done with them.
We never had a deficiency in the 17 years I was in my position, even after Deloitte (and their auditors) were told to find deficiencies that it looked bad that we never had any.
Then there was the time Compliance wanted to audit my PKI so they brought in some auditors from E&Y. Supposedly their top PKI people. Brought on a consultant for that since I was confident in my practices and implementation but I didn't have the same air of "authority" as someone who made a living doing PKI audits and PKI consulting.
Still passed with flying colors even after the E&Y auditors tried to claim that everything we were doing was bullshit.
I hate auditors. Love fucking with them, but hate them none the less.
Edit:
AND YOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT THE OVERSHARING. I used to tell new employees when they came into our group: Treat the auditors like you would the Police.
Never divulge ANY information unless specifically asked for.
Never lie, but don't tell them anything.
And never let them take your evidence away with them. They want to see evidence, they can look at it on your screen in your cube. They can take notes. But they can't take anything physical.
I would love messing with our auditors, but save for the one guy we had up to 3 yrs ago when he retired who actually _knew_ shit, it seems like we always get idiots. Or maybe they're experienced in a hardware engineering concern and know what a BOM is, might know what "change control" means, but start talking software development and its like you're speaking martian. And heaven help you if you're an agile shop, it breaks their brains.
For us, most of our important backend systems were UNIX, Linux, and Mainframe. When I retired in 2022 we were well on our way to moving stuff to Windows but we would never be able to get completely off *NIX or the Mainframe and it was fun to see these auditors that had no idea was a Mainframe was, what an LPAR was, JCLs, /etc/sudoers, or *NIX permissions for files and directories, trying to make their square pegs fit into our round holes.
They'd come at us and tell us they've found all these deficiencies and we'd show them how their methodology was flawed and how there weren't any deficiencies, or they were inserting control parameters into our SOX controls where none existed.
Every year we got audited. Sometimes the same auditor would come back for a couple of years but the vast majority were stupid greenhorns who couldn't navigate the command line.
The fact that all of our processes were automated (and auditable) really made things simple for us too.
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BOM? Going to take a wild guess but is that a Bill of Materials?
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And oh doggy did we have change control. Ran the complete gamut where every tiny change had to be documented and approved. Which naturally slowed everything down and made the entire department less productive.
To when I left minor changes still needed to be documented but the approvals were much more streamlined. It was mainly honor system but everyone knew if you implemented a change and marked it as minor and it took something down or caused an outage you were going to have to get in front of the entire change advisory board the following week and explain why your "minor" change caused the outage (with the idea being that maybe it shouldn't have been a minor change to begin with.)
Most Eerie Moment In My Entire Career/Not Career. Is Grok Programmed To Break Reality? It Also Denied Netanyahu Was At The WH On July 8--Evidence Below
"The only way to stop people making dangerous journeys across the channel is to introduce safe and managed routes for people to seek asylum in the UK." - Carla Denyer
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The number of requests and disclosures in this report is average compared to most past reports. In Q4 2024, we got 49 requests and orders, compared to:
45 in Q2 2023 38 in Q3 2023 59 in Q4 2023 39 in Q1 2024 40 in Q2 2024 40 in Q3 2024 2/9
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Requests from federal agencies remains low compared to past years, at 4. From 2020-23, the avg number of federal requests per Q was 25. The provincial number is high, at 44, extending the trend for the past year. We don't know why it's happening; maybe a change in police practices. 3/9
Since our disclosure rate is generally lower for prov than for fed requests, our overall disclosure rate is lower. From 2020-23, we disclosed information for ~91% of federal requests, but only 62% of prov'l. Why? Federal agencies act fast while we have logs, and rarely make informal requests. 4/9
There were 7 emergency requests this quarter, and we identified subscribers in all 7 cases. One of these was a disclosure to a foreign law enforcement agency. That's the first time we have ever disclosed customer information to a foreign agency; we did it this time because we judged it to be extremely serious and urgent. We also informed the customer that we had done so.
7 exigent requests is slightly above average. On average, we've got 6 per quarter. The max was 10 in Q1 of 2024. 5/9
We disclosed info to 1 "Administrative" agency. That's an agency that is not technically "law enforcement", but they had the legal authority to compel disclosure, i.e. we had to disclose the information. Administrative agencies are typically a tax agency or the CRTC's enforcement folks. 6/9
Moving on, this quarter, we made 2 proactive reports to law enforcement. These are rare, like when an agent overhears violence or a threat. It is never related to a customer's online activity; we do not track that. From our stats, we make proactive disclosures about five times per year. 7/9
Finally, as always: Sometimes our numbers don’t add up perfectly, or may not be totally complete, mostly because it's hard to perfectly keep track of every informal request, including so-called "jurisdiction requests". There may be small discrepancies in our numbers due to that. 8/9
You can post. Or you can transmit. You can design. Or you can awaken. Some build brands. I build worlds. Narratives carved from silence. Aesthetic charged with intention. AI used not to generate — but to initiate. If your project has a soul — I can show its face. Everything else is just noise.
FBI’s Kash Patel opens criminal probes into Comey and Brennan; USAID caught red-handed—again; Ukraine’s collapse accelerates, right on schedule, just like we warned them for four years; more.
"Premature babies are being treated amid Israeli attacks at the Al-Hilu Hospital as they are at risk due to fuel shortages and closure of border crossings in Gaza City, Gaza on July 10, 2025. The fuel crisis affecting all hospitals could lead to the failure of generators and vital equipment.”
If we did real history, we'd write about the counter-revolution to put women back in their place after the 1900s-1920s. Women made huge, huge progress, then there was a backlash. But it wasn't about sex, so that was no fun to talk about. The Futurism art movement list putting women in their place in their manifesto.
I'm one who watches politics more for the theater than the rhetoric.
I'm hoping for a summer action/suspense movie ending to the Epstein episode: A "turncoat" intelligence agent decides to play Snowden and dumps EVERYTHING on the internet. Both sides try to shoot it down as fake, but the victims use this revelation to find their voice and come forward.
August is supposed to be a HOT month. Maybe something will actually happen for those who have the brains to realize we're not living in normal. We're living in psyops & have been for decades if not longer.
Right now I'm on vacation in this beautiful place (Baschi, Umbria, Italy 🇮🇹), but while I'm enjoying the sun, my colleagues launched the fun little website I helped make: onlyfjords.com
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Zwischen der 1920-30er-Jahre Nazi-Kultur-Gesetzgebung und heutiger undemokratischer Bestrebung der Regierungsparteien, nämlich Rechte von Minderheiten zu zerstören und stattdessen sie zu Feinden der Gesellschaft zu desklarieren, da ist nur noch ein dünnes Blatt Grundgesetz.
@DoctorG_1, wenn in Deutschland schon Komiker regieren, warum dann nicht Torsten Sträter oder Nico Semsrott? Die jetzt in der Regierung sitzen sind überhaupt nicht komisch, höchstens unfreiwilligigerweise.
Kaum vor zig Jahren der eigenen gemeinen ns-verseuchten Verwandtschaft entronnen, kommt der menschenhassende Mist wieder in Form der Regierung.
Jetzt, wo jeder wie Orban, Putin oder Trump mit harter Hand regieren möchte, kommt die sonst Nie-Wieder-skandierende Regierung daher und erlegt juristisch Bürgerrechte und Menschenrechte unter dem Denkmantelchen der Sicherheit und Moral und dem Ziel der Zusammennarbeit mit Rechtsextremisten in Länder- und Bundesparlamenten..
Eine neue Recherche von +972 & LocalCall widmet sich dem Einsatz von Drohnen durch die israelische Armee in #Gaza. 🧵
>>‘Like a video game’: #Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones. The Israeli army is weaponizing Chinese-made drones to police expulsion orders across Gaza, with soldiers saying they deliberately target civilians so others will ‘learn’ not to return, an investigation reveals.<< 972mag.com/drones-grenades-gaz…
Statt der teuren, militärischen Drohnen, die Rüstungskonzerne für viel Geld anbieten werden Drohnen für wenig Geld aus China angekauft, und die dann auf einfache weise umgerüstet um als Waffe eingesetzt zu werden - dafür reicht eine Vorrichtung aus, die an der Drohne befestigt wird, und bei der auf Knopfdruck eine Granate abgeworfen werden kann. Die israelische Armee hat eine ganze Flotte dieser Drohnen.
>>Soldiers most commonly use EVO drones, produced by the Chinese company Autel, which are primarily intended for photography and cost around NIS 10,000 (approximately $3,000) on Amazon. However, with a military-issued attachment known internally as an “iron ball,” a hand grenade can be affixed to the drone and dropped with the push of a button to detonate on the ground. Today, the majority of Israeli military companies in Gaza use these drones.<<
Eingesetzt werden die die Drohnen in den Gebieten für die die israelische Armee "Evakuierungsanordnungen" herausgegeben hat - das bedeutet meistens - wer bleibt wird als legitimes Ziel betrachtet - und getötet - und dann einfach als Terrorist eingestuft.
Es reicht einfach aus Palästinenser zu sein in einem von der israelischen Armee zum Kampfgebiet erklärten Gebiet getötet zu werden, um automatisch als Terrorist in die Statistik einzufliesen. -
>>S., an Israeli soldier who served in the Rafah area this year, coordinated drone attacks in a neighborhood of the city that the army had ordered to be evacuated. During the nearly 100 days that his battalion operated there, soldiers conducted dozens of drone strikes, according to daily reports from his battalion commander that +972 and Local Call reviewed.<<
>>In the reports, all Palestinians killed were listed as “terrorists.” However, S. testified that aside from one person found with a knife and a single encounter with armed fighters, the scores of others killed — an average of one per day in his battalion’s combat zone — were unarmed. According to him, the drone strikes were carried out with the intent to kill, despite the majority of victims being located at such a distance from the soldiers that they could not have posed any threat.<<
>>“It was clear that they were trying to return to their homes — there’s no question,” he explained. “None of them were armed, and nothing was ever found near their bodies. We never fired warning shots. Not at any point.”<<
>>Because the Palestinians were killed far from where the soldiers were positioned, S. said that their corpses weren’t collected; instead, the army left them to be eaten by stray dogs. “You could see it on the drone footage,” he explained. “I couldn’t bring myself to watch a dog eating a body, but others around me watched it. The dogs have learned to run toward areas where there’s shooting or explosions — they understand it probably means there’s a body there.”<<
Wer eine nichtgekennzeichnete Linie überschreitet wird zum Ziel:
>>Soldiers testified that these drone strikes are often carried out against anyone entering an area the army has determined is off-limits to Palestinians — a designation that is never demarcated on the ground. Two sources used variations of the phrase “learning through blood” to describe the army’s expectation that Palestinians will come to understand these arbitrary boundaries after civilians are killed upon entering the area.<<
>>“There were many incidents of dropping grenades from drones,” said H., a soldier who served in the Nuseirat area in central Gaza. “Were they aimed at armed militants? Definitely not. Once a commander defines an imaginary red line that no one is allowed to cross, anyone who does is marked for death,” even just for “walking in the street.”<<
>>In several cases, S. said, Israeli troops deliberately targeted children. “There was a boy who entered the [off-limits] zone. He didn’t do anything. [Other soldiers] claimed to have seen him standing and talking to people. That’s it — they dropped a grenade from a drone.” In another incident, he said, soldiers tried to kill a child riding a bicycle a great distance away from them.<<
>>A., an officer who was involved in operations around Khan Younis this year, said that a primary goal of these attacks was to ensure that neighborhoods were emptied, or remained empty, of Palestinians. In June, his unit flew a drone into a residential area that the army had ordered to be evacuated the previous month. Soldiers stood at the city’s outskirts, watching a small screen showing live footage from the drone to see who was still in the neighborhood.<<
>>“Whoever they spot, they kill,” A. testified. “If people are moving around there — it’s a threat.” He said the assumption is that any civilian who remained in the area after evacuation orders “is either not innocent or will learn through blood [that they must leave].”<<
Mohammed wird zusammen mit seiner Gruppe angegriffen kommt mit seinem Leben davon.
>>On June 13, a few weeks after the Israeli army had ordered the evacuation of much of Khan Younis, 27-year-old Mohammed returned to the city with several other young men to check on the condition of their homes. When they reached the city center, a drone dropped an explosive on them. “I ran to a wall to protect myself, but some of the young men were wounded,” “It was terrifying.”<<
Reem berichtet von Quadrocoptern - die Evakuierungsanordnungen abspielen und Sprengstoff auf Zelte abwerfen:
>>Reem, a 37-year-old from the neighborhood of Shuja’iyya in Gaza City, said she decided to flee south after a drone killed her neighbors. “In March, the army flew quadcopters above us that broadcast messages ordering us to evacuate,” she recounted. “We saw them drop explosives on tents to burn them. It terrified me, and I waited until nightfall to leave my home and evacuate.”<<
>>Yousef, 45, described a similar incident on May 11 when Israeli drones — which he described as “surprisingly small” — dropped explosives “in different areas of Jabalia to force residents to flee.” After defying Israel’s evacuation orders for months, this was the incident that led him to flee his home and move south.<<
Auch die Angriffe auf verzweifelte Menschen, die auf Nahrungsmitteln warten, werden mit solchen Drohnen durchgeführt:
>>Drones have also been reported to have targeted residents near humanitarian aid centers. Mahmoud, 37, told +972 and Local Call that when he went from Khan Younis to an aid distribution center near Rafah on June 23, “a quadcopter dropped a bomb on a group of people. Dozens were injured, and we ran away.”<<
Killzones werden durch die Drohnen erweitert - bis mehrere Kilometer:
>>The testimonies from soldiers interviewed for this article line up with previous reporting that the army has marked certain areas of Gaza as “kill zones,” where any Palestinian who enters is shot dead. Soldiers told +972 and Local Call that the use of drones has expanded the size of these kill zones from the range of light firearms to the range of a drone flight — which can extend up to several kilometers.<<
>>“There’s an imaginary line, and anyone who crosses it dies,” S. explained. “You expect them to understand this in blood, because there’s no other way — no one marks that line anywhere.” He said the size of the zone was “a few kilometers,” but that it changed constantly.<<
>>“You send a drone up 200 meters high, and you can see three to four kilometers in every direction,” said Y., another soldier who served in Rafah. “You patrol like that: you see someone approaching, the first one gets hit with a grenade, and after that, the word spreads. One or two more come, and they die. The rest understand.”<<
Palästinenser, die zu schnell laufen, werden als Ziele betrachtet, die zu langsam laufen auch. Alles ist verdächtig
>>S. said that drone fire was directed at people who were walking “suspiciously.” According to him, the general policy in his battalion was that someone who “walks too fast is suspicious because he’s fleeing. Someone who walks too slowly is also suspicious because [it suggests] he knows he’s being watched, so he’s trying to act normal.”<<
Eine universelle Begründung dafür jemand zu töten ist "messing with the ground" - jeder der sich bückt ist verdächtig
>>Soldiers testified that grenades were also dropped from drones at people who were considered to be “messing with the ground” — a term the army originally used for militants launching rockets, but which over time has expanded to incriminate people for something as simple as bending over.<<
Entmenschlichung wird durch die Drohnen noch weiter vorangetrieben - zum Videospiel:
“This technology has made killing much more sterile,” H. said. “It’s like a video game. There’s a crosshair in the middle of the screen, and you see a video image. You’re hundreds of meters away, [sometimes] even a kilometer or more. Then you play with the joystick, see the target, and drop [a grenade]. And it’s even kind of cool. Except this video game kills people.”
Das was in dem Artikel beschrieben wird ist - so deutlich muss man es sagen - die Beschreibung einer Einsatztaktik, die aus dem Begehen von Kriegsverbrechen besteht, als völlig alltäglichen Verhalten der israelischen Armee.
Da gibts nicht den Versuch irgendwelche legitimen militärischen Ziele zu erreichen - da gehts darum, dass die Existenz von Palästinensern in einem bestimmten Bereich ausgelöscht werden soll. Das ist eindeutig genozidales Handeln.
I've been trying to work through how to setup a router so I appreciate this. I've posted on here problems I'v had, to no success, I've exchanged messages for weeks trying to get OpenBSD to work as a router, so your article is helpful. A couple of OpenBSD names stopped replying when their suggestions did not work or did not solve the issues.
“What we really need to do is be willing to get shot.” Those words to a Democratic member are part of a chilling Axios story on the rising violent rhetoric on the American left. As alle…
I've recently gotten into "alternative process" printing. I built my own UV exposure box and have started with cyanotypes (the easiest, cheapest, least toxic alt-printing method). Are there any good photo printing/alt-printing hashtags/accounts I should follow on the fediverse? (Boosts for visibility are appreciated!)
@dictatordave They can't give their kid measles at will and have 99.9% assurance of death. Measles could impact a kid they didn't murder and that is a threat and so it is bad.
The official numbers for world population released by the United Nations as of now have just surpassed 8 billion people living on Earth. In 1800 there were o...
Globally in 2024, there were 132 million births and 62 million deaths, a population increase of 70 million people. Worldwide deaths are 73 million each year. 61%/yr end in abortion. Russia had over 200 million abortions since 1960; 9 million in UK. In 2024, there were 1,038,100 abortions in US. 1973-2020 65,464,760 abortions in US. Infertility rate grows. War deaths since 1900 is 187 million. I don't how it pans out, but imo, humans do their own population control.
@m0xEE @rose yes. That's why it is entirely voluntary. The only true incels are those physically incapable of sex or those in complete and total involuntary isolation (psych wards, solitary confinement, etc).
📬 Bu hafta @newslabturkey n okuyoruz| bültenin odağında yapay zekâ ve telif hakları konusunu ele aldım. Her ne kadar ilk bakışta YZ’ya karşı etkili bir koruma aracı gibi görünse de telif kanunlarının neden bir çözüm olmayacağını, aksine daha fazla zarar verebileceğini düşündüğümü anlattım.
“Ne Okuduk” bölümünde BBC’nin tarafsızlık uğruna düştüğü durum, Economist’in yeni uygulama tasarımı ve daha fazlası var.
Why the Christian Reaction to the Theory of Evolution Is Misplaced
I'm always surprised by the reactionary nature of the Christian response to the theory of evolution. Presumably, they're so reactive because they believe the (((atheist))) lie that evolution disproves The Bible.
However, evolution does not disprove the biblical creation story, in fact, the story of creation in Genesis and the story of the evolution of the cosmos (including the evolution of Man) offered by . . . stormfront.org/forum/blogs/u15…
Today I learned about 'rabbit starvation' and how Neanderthals avoided it.
When you're a hunter-gatherer and it's winter, you may try to survive by eating only meat - like rabbits, but also deer and other game. But this gives you too much protein and not enough carbohydrates and fat: most of this meat is very lean. If you eat enough lean meat to get all the calories you need, you can die from an overdose of protein! It's called 'protein toxicity'.
Hunter-gatherers in this situation sometimes throw away the 'steaks' and 'roasts' - the thighs and shoulders of the animals they kill - or feed them to their dogs. They need FAT to survive! So they focus on eating the fatty parts, including bone marrow.
So, in some cultures, while the men are out hunting, the women spend time making bone grease. This takes a lot of work. They take bones and break them into small pieces with a stone hammer. They boil them for several hours. The fat floats to the top. Then they let the water cool and skim off the fat.
There's been evidence for people doing this as far back as 28,000 BC. But now some scientists have found a Neanderthal 'bone grease factory' that's 125,000 years old!
This was during the last interglacial, in Germany. In a site near a lake, called Neumark-Nord, Neanderthals killed a lot of bison, horses and deer and crushed their bones, leaving behind tens of thousands of small bone fragments.
• Lutz Kindler et al, Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago, science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv…
My first academic paper, despite being a Pure Mathematician, was in archaeology.
We applied Linear Programming to solve The Diet Problem for hominids in the late upper paleolithic in the South West of France. Having computed the "Optimal Diet" from first principles, we then predicted what should appear in middens, and achieved very good agreement.
The limiting factor in the diet was, indeed, fat, so despite the wealth of rabbits and roe deer, there was an unexpectedly large amount of nut debris, and this was explained by the calculations.
I should try to find copies of the papers ... I think there were two.
I'm wondering how they knew to approach things this way? Did they do a good job of listening to their bodies? Did they observe and deduce about protein toxicity? Both? Or maybe some other means of learning ... ?
I thought that the mainstream scientific opinion these days is that all genders were involved in hunting? Where are you taking this "making bone grease was a job for women" from?
So interesting! Puts the Neanderthal “industrial site” aka 'bone grease factory' (that's 125,000 years old) & the domestication of wolves into dogs (added bonus - great observation) into perspective & sparks off a fascinating discussion!! Also gives perspective to fat stores like “the great butter mountain”. How detached & distant we are from these survival basics! Thanks for kicking this off! 🙂
The important part is to realise that early man or woman were NOT primitive. No modern doctor taught them. They figured out the problem themselves.
They survived in conditions that would kill the white supremacists within a couple of days. Navigated using the night sky tracked the seasons as key to survival, were highly skilled hunters.
I really get mad when people say primitives.
Then again the ones that love such words usually are just that. Primitive.
I did know about rabbit starvation, given my family history of farmers with bad farmland. I just assumed "you can't survive only by eating rabbits" was something most people knew about lol 😄
Ooo this so interesting. I thought there was something else wrong with an all rabbit diet... so it's the lack of fat? I may have had a confusion previously between rabbits and rats which prisoners of war tried to survive on in Asia, and with reports of people not being able to sustain themselves on feral pigeons. All disparate threads and possibly with other reasons, but all very lean meat. I'm totally fascinated.
- I'm an omnivore, so I don't say this ideologically; however, agriculture is the true source of civilization. We ate meat as modern humans for at least 250,000 years. It wasn't until we planted grains that we had the excess calories and time to do anything else.
Wired - DHS urging local law enforcement to consider a wide range of activities as violent tactics, including skateboarding, riding a bike or livestreaming a police encounter. wired.com/story/dhs-tells-poli…
This is a 5+ year old interview between Kristina Borjesson (CBS journalist, twa800, fired 1990s, died 11/2023) and David Boies, a prosecutor for Epstein victims. This is from 2019.
Borjesson's channel lives on for now on RSS "The Whistleblower Newsroom". Download and archive.
America’s greatest living writer released another tariff letter yesterday and it features all the hallmarks we’ve come to expect. Donald Trump is threatening Canada this time around and he’s upped his demands, including 35% on Canadian goods.
This would be great for lantern flies, etc. Absolutely not for hornets, carpenter bees, wasps, and so on. Laser attachment is separate.🙄
It got good reviews. It all comes to about $72, plus taxes. It's a lot for plastic, imo. I'll still look around. Lantern fly population is growing, and they are fast little buggers.
I got one (without the laser) when they first came out and I still use it every day during the summer. Works great on flies, but yeah its not wasp medicine.
Shoot at aluminum foil to see the pattern it throws. Using the sights matters! Ideal max range is about 1 yard from the muzzle, approx the length of the gun itself. Add in the length of your extended arm and you get almost ten feet total.
Halka işkence etmekten hoşlanırlar. Üstelik bu yaptıklarina gayet güzel bir isim takmasını da bilirler; bütün yaptikları kepazeliklere vatanseverlik, yahut anayasanın korunması derler.
"Friday Live: California ICE Raid At Marijuana Farm Turns Into Riot, Man Filmed Firing Shots At Agents" - Infowars
Me: Woa, so they're raiding this farm making illegal drugs that ruin the brains of the youth (en mass, orchestratedly) and are a gateway to everything else bad?
Them: No the weed growing was the legal part.
Me: Maybe Russia can invade America? How bad could it be?
What I'm talking about here is through the pot legalization they removed shame. Without that unwritten reality, and without parents who believed in maintaining a certain way (which is all but gone in most of America today), society will crumble. And I believe they did this "legalization" part on purpose no question about it.
@eriner @raintrees It’s true that no real parallel society can be created but a culture can be changed for the better. Here’s a good example of how that’s done….one devoted person at a time…..
Close to 10,000 college faculty and staff have either been let go or are projected to lose their jobs amid hundreds of program cancellations and suspensions since last year, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union said Wednesday as it warned of se…
Ich erspare euch mal die screenshots von "ex"(naja) -AfD Cotar mit dem Dank an die vielen "Kollegen der Union", die "hinter den Kulissen" so tatkräftig Einsatz gezeigt haben.
Man ist kurz versucht, dazu was mit "Steigbügelhalter des Faschismus" zu kommentieren, aber soll ja keine unzulässigen historischen Analogien ziehen:
Selbst die originalen Steigbügelhalter haben noch was von in der Ecke quietschen gedruckst und sich nicht auf den rauchenden Ruinen tanzend feixende Zwinkersmileys zugeworfen für die tolle Nummer, die sie da grade gemeinsam abgezogen haben.
Dieses Firewall-Geblubber war doch von Anfang an nur Schutzbehauptung und Ablenkung. Die cdU ist Täterin, nicht am Nasenring geführt, sondern steuernd unterwegs.
Saskia Ludwig und CDU-Konsorten gehören vor Gericht. Wegen übler Nachrede und Beauftragung eines Rufmords. Die CDU hat bei mir ähnlich verschxxxen wie "die Russen", die "AfD" und die Trump-Anhänger. Boah, hab ich einen Hals...🤬
Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Sliver Cat (sometimes incorrectly called the Silver Cat).
There are many variations of club-tailed cats in North American legend, and the Sliver Cat is Wisconsin's take on the legend. It was a large creature, with tasseled ears like a lynx, and red eyes with horizontal slits.
Most notably it had an eleven-foot-long tail, ending in a bony, ball-shaped knob. Half of the knob was smooth and hard, while the other half was barbed with sharp spikes. A Sliver Cat would lurk in the pine trees above, waiting for potential prey to pass below it. It would then knock its target unconscious with the smooth side of its club-tail, and then use the barbed side to pull its prey up into the tree, where it could be safely devoured.
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in reply to Lucy_maybe 🐭 • • •I have no idea what you are trying to interpret - the event was real.
It's the one that led to the arrest of those Muslim men with a video that has been spread as "violence against Muslims" 😡
And those colors are just what they actually use in that airport. They could not just cut them out of the picture.
I really don't get your point...