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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday released new documentation detailing its new "Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees." The rule, set to take The U.S.
Stalin: Some comrades say that it is not advisable to speak openly of mistakes, since the open admission of mistakes may be construed by our enemies as weakness. This is rubbish. Open recognition of our mistakes and their honest rectification can only strengthen our Party. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
A problem with all the "do your own research" nonsense is it's just that.. nonsense. To actually "do your own research" requires not only a working brain but reliable access to factual information. Both these days are in short supply.
I was done with the convid "vaccines" the day Hancock (UK Health Minister, stood up in parliament 2 days after taking a £250,000 "donation" from Pfizer) and said out loud "It doesn't stop you getting it or spreading it, but everybody must be vaccinated" ... Errrmmmm.. excuse me.. haven't you just said out loud to us all it doesn't work?
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A reminder that Jimmy Carter felt he needed to sell his peanut farm when he became president, in order to avoid even the appearance of any conflicts of interest.
Microsoft has unveiled a substantial AI-focused update for Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs, introducing features that leverage neural processing units across the operating system.
I met Louis Theroux to share my story as a Palestinian under the constant threat of displacement. While the film is an important look into the Israeli settlers trying to erase us, there is one crucial part of our story that was left out.
Watch the full conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8pA2TDXtewWatch more here: https://watchtcn.co/49CDF2tPaid partnership:Bon Charge: Go to h...
I had the absolute honor of spending time today with 100 year old, @usmc WWII Veteran, Don Graves. He ran a flame thrower at Iwo Jima. He has a few words for the young folks. Check it out👇
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of ...
"In a tit-for-tat series of actions, Beijing imposed tariffs of 125 per cent on all US goods, on top of earlier duties. According to the White House, China now faces tariffs of up to 245 per cent on certain goods."
How Hong Kong Underwear Giant Top Form Coping With Surging US Bra Demand
The tension in this house is so thick you could cut it with a knife. Funny how one person's bad mood can put an entire household on edge. My aunt's been crabby the past few days and it's starting to wear on everyone.
I know the feeling. Been taking care of mom with Alzheimer’s for almost a year now. The moods are not my favorite. Though she has always suffered mood problems. No need to spread it, right?! 😂
@HeyLiberty I totally get it. I don't know what's going on with my aunt, but whatever it is, I wish she'd work through it and stop taking it out on everyone else. One day every once in a while is bad enough, but this has been going on for days now.
I’ve resorted to giving mom the supplement D-Mannose and cranberry pills to prevent UTIs. She has now only had one in the time I have cared for her. This was before she started those supplements!
Julius Fučík: In the face of adversity, the strength of the human spirit shines brightest. It is in the darkest of times that we must hold on to hope and fight for a better world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Explore a rugged, isolated island far from our connected communities. Isle Royale offers adventures for backpackers, hikers, boaters, paddlers, and divers.
Editor’s Note: The following is an interview with Organizational Secretary of the TUI of Pensioners and Retired of the WFTU, Bachir Hakem. It was originally published in Algeria be Le Jeune Indépendent.
BEIRUT, May 06 (YPA) -The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P) condemned the treacherous Zionist-American aggression against Yemen.In a statement issued on Monday, the P.F.L.P said, “We strongly condemn the treacherous Zionist-Amer
Renowned for the world’s tallest trees, Redwood’s landscapes span from open prairies and oak woodlands to pristine rivers and untamed coastline. This ancient home has supported people for thousands of years.
Burkina Faso, under President Ibrahim Traoré, has become a focal point for anti-imperialist sentiment and political renewal in Africa. Traoré’s government has taken bold steps to assert national so…
The international community’s lenience towards Israel’s genocide in Gaza mirrors the complacency and complicity in the early years of Zionism. What we have seen through decades of Zionist colonisation in...
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Fedi like all the social media platforms have gone full on islamophobic reactions on how the people comment about Palestinian arm resistance and struggle
But the most disappointing thing is that this kind of behavior coming from so called anarchists
Honestly, I don't like either side, your sister gets raped, behead her? A newborn baby is born, cut off part of his dick and suck on it. As near as I can tell psychopathy is a requirement of both religions.
Wow, I can’t believe it’s May already. And here I am, still working through my April to-do’s. Fortunately, there’s lots of great Bandwagon news.
New Profiles Released
I’ve just posted a big update to your artist profile pages. This new design builds on the work we’ve done together on the search engine, highlighting albums, concerts, and posts each in their own unique ways. It all combines to streamline your profiles, making them easier to navigate and simpler to manage. Here’s just a hint of the new profile pages:
I’m hard at work on this one, and while there’s nothing to DEMO just yet, the basic outline is taking shape. I am aiming for the first versions to be in your hands before the end of May. Here’s how it will work:
To begin, Bandwagon will work with both PayPal and Stripe. You create your own merchant account with one of these two processors, then set it up in your Bandwagon profile. This means that 100% of the payment processing will be done in your own merchant account, and Bandwagon will take 0% of your transaction fees. I’m doing this because:
It’s best for Bandwagon as an open source app.
It’s best for me because it limits the work and liability that comes with touching your money.
I think it’ll be best for you, by putting you firmly in control of your own revenue.
What will this mean for paid plans?
Paid accounts are still on deck for Bandwagon.fm - once album sales and account migration tools are ready. I’m currently looking at a single paid tier at $10/month called “Bandwagon Premier” that will enable online album sales, higher bitrate streaming, and a handful of other features to be announced in the future. I will also give away some Bandwagon Premier accounts on a case by case basis for small artists who need an extra boost. I think this strikes a balance between fair prices and a sustainable ecosystem for everyone.
This is more than just “album sales”
This payment integration will work for both one-time sales (like “buy my album”) and recurring payments (like “join my Patreon”). It all depends on what you want to create for your fans. I’m working on a system that’ll let you grant special access to ANYTHING based on your visitors’ purchases and subscriptions. Want to sell a one-off album? Yes. Want to make a paid newsfeed for “A-List fans? Yup.
How will I connect to Stripe or PayPal?
The details will vary for each merchant processor, but at a high level, you’ll set up your products and subscription plans with Stripe or PayPal, then copy API keys into Bandwagon to link the two together. There will probably be a few more steps than, say, selling stuff on Bandcamp, but I’m working to make this as smooth as possible. The end result will be that you’re firmly in control of your own brand and revenue, without being locked in to any platform - whether it’s Bandwagon.fm, or a payment processor.
What about paying with crypto?
No.
Will it support X payment processor?
At launch, Bandwagon will only support Stripe and PayPal. The goal is to include a select few other processors going forward, depending on what works best for the community. So how do you all currently sell stuff? Let me know. We’ll see if we can plug into them, too. By enabling payments with multiple processors, we can avoid being locked in to bad platforms, and can mitigate their worst monopolistic effects.
Which reminds me, I should probably (finally) write down…
My Decentralization Manifesto
If you’ve been online for 30 seconds or more, you’ve certainly seen some strong opinions about relying on services from big companies. For the most part, they’re justified. Enshitification, surveillance capitalism, and corporate over-reach are all real problems. On the Fediverse, the typical answer is to avoid “centralized” services at all costs. Some voices want to block any kind of search engine because of the potential for abuse. But “distributed everything” is not the only solution available, and it’s probably not even the best choice.
At the end of the day, some things (like moving money online) are hard, and doing it well necessarily means working with big companies. Now, I’m as disappointed as you in the way many big companies are behaving in 2025, but I’m still enough of a capitalist to believe that there are solutions in a free market (a real free market).
Enshittification happens when a company’s customers are so loyal to their brand that management is comfortable squeezing their customers for just a little more. Often times, that loyalty comes from necessity; there’s simply no good alternative to Company XYZ.
The solution is to prevent any one organization from gaining monopoly control over us. By playing competitors against each other (publicly and loudly) each platform knows that their business could evaporate at a moment’s notice if they ever let their customers down. You’d be shocked to learn just how scared the C-suite can get when they think their customers have other places to spend their money.
What does this mean for Bandwagon? Bandwagon will build integrations with private companies (lots of them, actually) but we will never depend on any one specific company. Open APIs are best, but when those are unavailable, we’ll connect directly to Stripe, PayPal, or anyone who can deliver benefits for indie artists. But If I have to integrate with one merchant provider to accept payments, then I’ll integrate with two, or seven, or as many as we can to guarantee that the companies we work with cannot abuse their position with monopoly power.
And what does this mean for Bandwagon.fm? I’m in this game, too… I mean, I just laid out my pricing plans for Bandwagon Premier, and I really want your $10/month. But for this project to be viable, the ecosystem needs other Bandwagon servers to be online. And you need to know that if Ben goes off the rails, you can always run your own server or jump over to an open collective that’s doing the same. Ironically, this lack of lock-in is what builds real confidence in both customers and the organizations that serve them. So, Bandwagon will always be free and independent, and not tied down to anyone. Not even me.
I’m on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in Boston (Apr 11) with Randall “XKCD” Munroe, Providence (Apr 12) and beyond! Remember the first time you used Google…
Despite running for office promising to resolve the conflict in Ukraine within “24 hours,” US President Donald Trump and the special interests he serves
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued their genocide campaign against the Gaza Strip, now entering its 578th day since the onset of aggression.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will visit Pakistan and India this week to discuss bilateral relations and regional developments, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.
American ICU nurse Wally Massay speaks about his harrowing experience working in Gaza hospitals under Israeli bombardment, revealing firsthand accounts of mass civilian casualties and deliberate attacks on medical staff.
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
>> Mark Pritchard, the MP for The Wrekin since 2005, noted that over twenty years as a parliamentarian he had supported Israel “pretty much at all costs.”
>> “But today, I want to say that I got it wrong and I condemn Israel for what it is doing to the Palestinian people in Gaza and indeed in the West Bank, and I’d like to withdraw my support right now for the actions of Israel, what they are doing right now in Gaza…
>> “Can the minister stand up to our friends and allies in the United States and make a strong stand for humanity? ...”
>> The minister on duty commended Pritchard for his “very powerful intervention”, adding: “I hear his words and I feel their force”.
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It also protects them from a sense of personal responsibility knowing their true identity can't be easily traced. This is what Mastodon doesn't like about them.
You got another shout out on Rollo's stream. Someone asked if you two would do a colab, he said he was down. Message him and see if you guys can find a time that works.
"A crucial rationale used early in the Nazi regime and one heard today was that, as Arendt puts it, “if you are confronted with two evils… it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether.” Yet Arendt quickly notes the catastrophic morality of this position: “those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.”
"More insidiously, the “lesser evil” argument didn’t just provide external justification but was “one of the mechanisms built into the machinery of terror and criminality.” Authoritarian regimes deliberately employ this logic as a conditioning tool, implementing horrors incrementally, she argues."
"This kind of “psychological grooming” allowed ordinary citizens to participate in extraordinary evils while maintaining their self-conception as morally good—after all, they didn’t choose the worse evil—effectively dismantling their ethical resistance one compromise at a time."
Hate to break it to you Dem voters, but your party has been playing you for fools this entire time, ratcheting up their evil to the point where now y'all don't even know what a fucking genocide *looks* like.
Remember DADT/DOMA? Remember the War on Terror, Patriot Act, Eternal AUMF, and 20-year wars you supported? Remember the torture you never punished? Remember the banks you bailed out and the homeowners you bailed on? Remember burying COVID? Remember supporting a genocide?
In a wide-ranging interview with Drop Site, the senior Hamas leader discusses negotiation strategy, why disarmament is a red line, his direct talks with U.S. officials, and more.
Claude-Adrien Helvétius: The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
I have watched it so many times and each time I have to pause it to stop laughing. When you consider everything in the lead up to this event, this really is the best press availability ever.
The Hebrew newspaper Maariv revealed that the recent Yemeni strikes against the Israeli enemy have transcended the direct military dimension of their impact, as they have actually succeeded in undermining what it described as Israeli sovereignty, co
Clippy lets you run a variety of large language models (LLMs) locally on your computer while sticking with a user interface of the 1990s. It's a love letter and homage to the late, great Clippy - and the visual design created by Microsoft in that era.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are targeting DC restaurants today in what is shaping up to be one of the city's most high-profile examples yet of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
NASA’s on-demand streaming service, NASA+, launched a FAST (Free Ad-Supported Television) channel on Prime Video Tuesday, giving viewers another way to watch the agency’s aeronautics, human spaceflight, science, and technology missions unfold on screen. As the agency continues to improve life on Earth and inspire new generations through innovation, exploration, and discovery, NASA+ is dedicated […]
Hot take: the "I" in "AI" actually *is* "intelligence".
Not intelligence in the sense of carrying out reasoning processes enabling a being to meet its survival and welfare needs.
Intelligence in the CIA/nation-state "intelligence" gathering sense: amassing and organizing information about persons in a form in which it can be used to commit harm against them.
Despite their misleading marketing, TeleMessage, the company that makes a modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs from its customers.
BUDAPEST (Sputnik) - Brussels "paved a high-speed route for Ukraine to join the EU", which would entail two serious consequences, Hungarian minister of foreign affairs and foreign economic relations said.
This one is called "Paroxysmal Cough" which is when you cough so violently it triggers your vagus nerve and you start gagging/dry heaving. Used to be rare for me but lately is happening every day.
'If the Church still has a glimmer of rationality, it must elect Pietro Parolin as Pope. It is the only way to restore its authority,' declared Freemason Giuliano Di Bernardo.
This brief article to which I was one of two contributors is a useful antidote to the Trump administration's self-congratulatory public statements on the minerals deal with Ukraine.
The notion that inequality arises where resources are both unevenly distributed and defensible, suggests we should be able to predict its emergence in the future. A few candidates stand out.
Hey there, I’m just chatting—not gunning for the know-it-all status!
It is said: “...hierarchy can arise in an otherwise egalitarian society.” Certainly—but where, then, lies the difficulty in grasping the duality between equality and differentiation? In nature, hierarchy emerges organically; it is necessary among things.
The real issue, perhaps, lies in the failure to understand that True Democracy cannot exist without "Social Justice". Hierarchy in nature is necessary and self-organizing. Yet when imposed within human systems—through power, wealth, or technology—it must be legitimized through democratic principles. Not just any democracy, but one rooted in truth: a democracy that forms the foundation of any State and Market of Law and Wellbeing.
Watch the action from our osprey nest in the heart of an ancient Caledonian pine forest. Our remote camera brings you footage live from the Scottish Highlands.
The PFLP slams "Israel" for endangering the life of its Secretary-General Ahmad Sa’adat, citing severe health conditions and mistreatment in Megiddo Prison.
On Monday, just days after Peter Ticktin’s amicus brief was filed, President Trump directed the Department of Justice to take all necessary action to release this political prisoner from the Biden regime.
In yet another blatant display of political persecution, former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters, 68—a gold star mother—has been sentenced to 9 years in prison.
Yes, they are not self-sustaining anaerobic thermite-like charges, but they can explode and burn with oxygen present in atmosphere once moisturized all the same.
@iamtakingiteasy the chemistry is basically non-flammable, although it could theoretically explode if shorted AND if the internal short circuit protection failed. it would just be from the chemistry boiling though. LiFePO4 is safe compared to normal lithium chemistry. these have built in BMS and a 150 amp breaker.
what's your suggestion though, just fall down in the fetal position and die? electricity is dangerous. life is dangerous.
It's one of safer options available, but it's not "non-flammable" in the slightest, it's just not having own free oxygen to produce and it's heat runaway condition is usually high enough - around 200-300C. But once introduced to atmospheric moisture from puncture or corrosion, it still goes in smoke and flames, only relying on atmospheric oxygen to burn so it can be put out with common CO2 extinguishers fairly easily, unlike traditional lithium units that are burning anaerobically and will reignite as long as reaction goes on. But you still have to store LiFePO4 units in a non-flamable casing and away from anything it could potentially ignite with flames or heat, especially if you store multiple units together, as chain reaction with one unit causing runaway on adjacent ones is still possible.
@iamtakingiteasy i'm sorry but you are literally talking out of your ass. you're wrong, and i don't even know what point you're trying to make. do some research. lithiumhub.com/lifepo4-batteri…
LiFePO4 batteries are widely considered the best, but what makes them better than lithium ion & other types of batteries? And what IS a LiFePO4 battery?
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As I said earlier, it requires atmospheric oxygen to burn. With sufficient potential in a single cell, enough access to atmospheric oxygen, runaway local reactions can go up to 700C and can easily ignite constituent and surrounding materials. Here for example what happens if enough oxygen is reaching the runaway centers of a variant with just several larger cells: youtube.com/watch?v=07BS6QY3wI… and here is a couple dozens of more controlled studies: sciencedirect.com/search?qs=Li… ; but if you want to believe in a lithium-based battery that is capable of releasing energy without potentially cascading exothermic reaction because marketing text on a seller site is telling you so, be my guest.
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@iamtakingiteasy did you bother reading any of those papers? i clicked the first paper in that search result and it says the first thermal runaway reaction occured at 530 °C (986 F). you would literally have to chuck it into a fire to reach this temperature.
to your original point about moisture, i could dump a bucket of salt water on these batteries and nothing would happen. i'm done talking about this. i can't educate you. good bye.
I setup a smaller 5kWh system with a 6kW inverter (overkill) for my sister and brother in law's new property that is out in the sticks. Surprisingly cheap to do, just $2k Australian Shekels.
During a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Trump teased a major announcement that will be made in the coming days ahead of his trip to the Middle East.
During a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Trump teased a major announcement that will be made in the coming days ahead of his trip to the Middle East.
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