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Ya know in our household we've solved this age-old issue. Arrive at the toilet, seat isn't in the position you need it in? Exert the extreme effort to move it to the position you need. Continue, life goes on in relative tranquility.
Fidel Castro: Everything imperialism used to concentrate against the USSR and the socialist camp, it now concentrates against us.... there is a country called Cuba, stuck in the middle of its throat! 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.
Forgive me if I’m amused that those greens who did everything to keep Labor out of power are now demanding that Labor pick up their causes now their own party has collapsed. That’s not how the democratic contract works, love. That’s not how maths works. #auspol
Hamas said the Israeli cabinet's approval of plans to expand its ground operation in Gaza “is a clear decision to abandon Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip and repeat the cycle of failure that began 18 months ago, without achieving any of its s…
Why does even the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of VE Day have to involve drag queens?
Drag queens have now become an integral part of every aspect of British life, despite being the minority interest of a tiny number of male fetishists. youtube.com/watch?v=5lzlJg_3l4…
Drag queens have now become an integral part of every aspect of British life, despite being the minority interest of a tiny number of male fetishists.https:/...
Zodiacs & Astrology News: A 2019 study, highlighted by the Pahalgam terror attack of April 2025, warns of a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan, forecasting devast
The ethos is 100% 'ask forgiveness rather than permission' > DOGE aims to pool federal data, putting personal information at risk washingtonpost.com/business/20…
Pakistan’s information minister Ataullah Tarar was left struggling to defend his country’s record on terrorism after Sky News anchor Yalda Hakim reminded him of past admissions by Pakistani leaders, including his own defence minister.
For decades, the European Union couldn’t have imagined turning off the tap on its steady stream of cheap, abundant natural gas from Russia. Now, Brussels says
On May 8, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Cuba will commemorate a momentous date which is the 65thanniversary of reconstituting diplomatic relations.
One of America's leading pediatricians has gone on the record to warn the public that vaccines cause the vast majority of sudden deaths in young children and babies.
Scientists have discovered that cuttlefish use distinct arm movements to communicate with each other, adding another dimension to these already remarkable marine creatures.
cut your carbs down to < 20 grams/day, cut out all refined sugars and carbs, and do all your eating within a 4 hour window, and you'll be less hungry. maintaing a ketogenic state makes it way easier
The Israeli Air Force is aware of at least 3,000 unexploded bombs in Gaza. After tens of thousands of airstrikes, the IDF ran low on reliable fuses and turned to outdated ones – some decades old.
Lenin: Do you mean to tell me that these men who have just organized the slaughter of seventeen million men in a purposeless war are concerned over the few thousand klIIed in our revolution, which has a conscious aim - to avoid the necessity of future wars? But never mind.. I don't deny the terror, don't minimise the evils of revolution. They occur, They must be counted on. 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.
@Flick"Electromagnetic waves pulsed by radio equipment form clouds:
1 - Electrically charged nanoparticles (such as in smart dust made of polymers sprayed by airplanes) bind water vapor molecules on their surface (they are hygroscopic = water-attracting).
2 - The emitted pulsed electromagnetic (radio) waves (caused by Haarp, Nexrad, mobile radio, StarLink, etc.) interact with the nanoparticles and cause them to vibrate.
3 - Since the water vapor molecules are bound to the nanoparticles, they automatically move to the rhythm of the pulsed electromagnetic waves.
The result is these cloud formations in the typical "frequency patterns / ribs / lines / waves" which can now be observed almost daily in the sky."
@meowski @FlickIn my childhood there were fleecy clouds, I can't remember any waffle-iron clouds, nor can I remember confesstripes that darken the sky after a few hours. I can't find anything like that in old photos either.
La rapporteure des Nations Unies pour les territoires palestiniens occupés, vient d’accuser les responsables de l’UE, dont la présidente de la Commission européenne Ursula von der Leyen, de complicité de crimes de guerre et crimes contre l’humanité pour leur soutien à Israël dans son génocide à Gaza.
« Je ne suis pas quelqu’un qui dit : L’histoire les jugera – ils devront être jugés avant cette date. Et ils devront comprendre que l’immunité ne peut être assimilée à l’impunité » , a déclaré Francesca Albanese dans une interview à Intercept.
Une plainte contre le Leyen, le président de la Commission européenne, a été déposée devant la Cour pénale internationale en mai dernier pour complicité de crimes de guerre et de crimes contre l’humanité à Gaza. Il ne faut pas en rester là.
Au-delà de l’obligation de rendre des comptes concernant les dirigeants de l’UE, Francesca Albanese a indiqué qu’elle travaillait sur un rapport qui exposerait les banques, les fonds de pension, les entreprises de technologie et les universités pour complicité dans la destruction de Gaza.
« Toutes les personnes impliquées dans l’occupation illégale, en lui fournissant un appui, aident et encouragent les violations du droit international et les violations des droits de l’homme, et un certain nombre d’entre elles constituent des crimes », a-t-elle déclaré.
« Il peut y avoir une responsabilité individuelle pour ceux qui ont aidé et encouragé ou rendu possible ces crimes », a affirmé courageusement la rapporteure des Nations Unies qu’Israël n’a toujours pas réussi à dégommer, et qui fait face à des menaces de mort.
« Ma sécurité est devenue moins sûre depuis que j’ai présenté mon rapport « Anatomie du génocide », a déclaré Francesca Albanese. « J’ai reçu des appels au milieu de la nuit pour moi, les membres de ma famille, mes enfants. Bien sûr, je prends des précautions, j’ai une protection. Mais en même temps, je ne me laisserai pas paralyser à cause de ces techniques de type mafieux ».
« Je viens d’un endroit qui m’a appris que la mafia tue par silence », a-t-elle déclaré. « Il tue quand les gens ne réagissent pas. C’est pourquoi je suis tellement motivée dans ce que je fais et je continuerai », a conclu la rapporteure de l’ONU.
Dans une lettre ouverte, une trentaine de membres du Board of Deputies of British Jews, l’organe le plus représentatif des juifs au Royaume-Uni, ont condamné l’« extrémisme » du gouvernement de Benyamin Nétanyahou, qui a « choisi » de rompre le cessez-le-feu à Gaza et « encourage ouvertement » la violence en Cisjordanie.
Dans une lettre ouverte, une trentaine de membres du Board of Deputies of British Jews, l’organe le plus représentatif des juifs au Royaume-Uni, ont condamné l’« extrémisme » du gouvernement de Benyamin Nétanyahou, qui a « choisi » de rompre le cesse…
How to explain this seemingly irrational behaviour? Vijay Prashad suspects that European elites are primarily invested in preserving their own legitimacy. They have invested too much political capital in this goal of ‘victorious’ peace to walk away now.
Comment expliquer ce comportement apparemment irrationnel ? L’intellectuel indien Vijay Prashad soupçonne les élites européennes de s’être avant tout investies dans la préservation de leur propre légitimité. Elles auraient trop engagé de capital politique dans cet objectif de paix « victorieuse » pour se retirer maintenant. Compte tenu de sa position de force sur le champ de bataille, il est encore trop tôt pour dire quel type d’accord le Kremlin accepterait.
Jusqu'à quel point l'Union européenne s'opposera-t-elle à une issue négociée du conflit ukrainien ? Déploiement de troupes, nouvelles sanctions, budgets militaires en hausse : au moment précis où un cessez-le-feu devient envisageable, Bruxelles accél…
I have this lilly, not sure what the name is, and it only flowers when rain is on it's way, so it seems. I might be wrong, except the perfume is exquisite. 💜
@@iam-elegance@diaspora.psyco.fr this is a shrub in the Lilac family. Your Lily sounds like a great forecaster. A perfume enticing you to breathe deeply 😀
Due to my on going eye issue I missed out on the lilacs blooming here @Shonie Hutter & @Katherine Bond. The smell is wonderful. It was lovely to see this pictures. 😍
While Victor holds the camera, Paige catches up with Evan Prodromou one of the architects of Activity Pub in a busy Montreal Cafe. We ask about the future of the protocol, encrypted direct messaging, account transfer, the co-social co-op and hopes for a federated future.
Algorithms have a bad reputation due to commercial social media, but a humble set of rules and instructions to let users choose what they see is key to making the fediverse a more enjoyable experience.
PeerTube has a new update for their mobile app, the Mastodon team is growing, and more.
The News
PeerTube has officially launched their apps as a v1, some four months after the apps became available in beta. Some new features include the ability to log in with an existing PeerTube account (up until now you'd log in with a local account that only existed in the app itself), commenting from the app, and playlist and channel management options.
Mastodon announced some updates on how their team is evolving. The organisation is currently in the process of setting up a Foundation in Europe. Mastodon is also growing their team, and the organisation now consists of 15 employees. Mastodon's news update is a followup on their announcement from January 2025, in which Mastodon said that current CEO Eugen Rochko would step down. A new CEO has not been announced yet by Mastodon. In the previous update, Mastodon also said that they would need a €5 million annual operating budget. There are some new team members related to fundraising, but Mastodon has not made a clear statement yet on how exactly they will raise the money needed for this budget.
Evan Prodromou of the Social Web Foundation has published a first version of places.pub. It is a service that "makes OpenStreetMap geographical data available as ActivityPub objects." The goal is for other fediverse software to integrate with places.pub to have a standardised way to refer to geospatial objects via ActivityPub.
A follow-up on last week's news regarding the Fosstodon server: the server administration will be taken over, with an update and introduction by the new admin here.
The Links
A recommendation algorithm for PeerTube videos. It is a browser extension that records your PeerTube viewing history, and uses that to generate recommendations to watch.
Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. On clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, et cetera. You’ll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all kinds of fields.
Visitors bring their broken items from home. Together with the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café. It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else’s repair job. You can also get inspired at the reading table – by leafing through books on repairs and DIY.
There are over 2,500 Repair Cafés worldwide. Visit one in your area or start one yourself! See also the house rules we use at the Repair Café.
The American aircraft carrier stationed in the Red Sea, on Monday, continued its return journey at an accelerated pace… This comes in the wake of rapid developments in the region, the latest of which was the strongest missile attack on Tel Aviv.Excl
It's a certain kinda livin, It's a certain kinda style Not everybody likes us But we we drive some folks wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz5USGT0WRs
The Olympiad’s final will take place on May 6 at the Victory Museum in Moscow. The jury will select three winners from ten laureates, who will receive invitation tickets to the Victory Day Parade on Red Square on May 9, 2025.
Fiverr and Google are full of testimonials for cheap web design services. Some are truthful, others are cooked up to trick you. Betting on fake reviews could mean tossing money at a website that’s a dud.
Shopping for a cheap web designer? Reviews are a key tool, but not all of them are legit.
Fiverr and Google are full of testimonials for cheap web design services. Some are truthful, others are cooked up to trick you. Betting on fake reviews could mean tossing money at a website that’s a dud.
Here’s how to spot the phonies.
Why Fake Reviews Are a Thing
Reviews create confidence. A freelancer with a slew of five-star ratings feels like a low-risk pick, especially at budget prices. But some sellers game the system. They buy reviews, swap them, or write their own using fake profiles.
On Google, some hire agencies to “build” their reputation.
It’s sneaky, but it’s widespread.
Red Flags to Watch
1. Over-the-Top Praise
Real clients don’t sound like they’re selling you something.
Fake: "This cheap web design service was life-changing! Perfect work, insanely fast, total pros!!!"
Real: "They built a site for my craft shop. It’s clean and works fine."
Excessive hype or too many exclamation marks? Be wary.
2. Empty Compliments
Legit reviews have details — project type, business name, or specific fixes.
Fake: "Fantastic job. Very professional. On time."
Real: "Made a portfolio for my photography business. Fixed a mobile glitch fast."
Generic praise that could fit any service is a red flag.
3. Dodgy Reviewer Profiles
Check the reviewer’s account.
On Google: Only one review? Posted with a bunch of others on the same day?
On Fiverr: No profile pic, no order history, no other reviews?
Accounts made just to drop one review are suspicious.
4. Repeated Language
Spot the same phrases across reviews?
Example: “Top cheap web designer, highly recommend!”
If reviews sound like they’re from a script, they probably are. Some sellers even reuse usernames across gigs.
5. Sudden Review Spikes
A new profile with 75 five-star reviews in a week? Unlikely.
Most happy clients don’t review. A rapid flood of perfect feedback often means paid reviews. On Fiverr, this is common for sellers chasing higher ranks.
Google Reviews: Same Tricks, Different Look
Freelancers with websites use Google reviews to seem trustworthy. Watch for:
Reviews from accounts with only one review
All five-star ratings, no variety
Generic names (“Jake T.,” “Sophie L.”) with no profile pics
Reviews posted in a short time frame
Stilted or recycled wording
If it looks off, it probably is.
Signs of Real Reviews
Honest feedback looks like this:
Plain Talk:“They built my bakery’s site. Looks good, runs smoothly.”
Mixed Feedback:“A bit slow on delivery, but the final site is great.”
Specific Details:“Used WordPress for my blog. Mobile layout is clean.”
Natural Tone: Like a casual chat, not a sales pitch.
Pro Tip: Reach Out
On Fiverr, you can sometimes message past clients. Ask: "Hi, saw your review. Is the website still working well?"
Not everyone replies, but those who do can give you the unfiltered truth.
Don’t Trust “Perfect + Cheap” Claims
A designer offering premium work for dirt-cheap prices with endless glowing reviews? Pause.
Most cheap web design services are basic or spotty. That’s okay if you’re expecting simple. But fake reviews can fool you into thinking you’re getting a bargain masterpiece. You’re not.
Final Thoughts
Real reviews are raw — detailed, imperfect, and human.
When searching for a cheap website designer, don’t just glance at star ratings. Read the words, look for patterns, and dig deeper.
Spotting fake reviews saves your money and keeps your website on track.
Portioning fillings was once tricky, but with the Food Depositor Machine CH7, bakeries can easily maintain the same taste and texture in every bite. Injecting Machine
Merciful Lord, hear the prayers of your people. May we who have received your gift of faith share for ever in the new life of Christ. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
________
May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.
May 3 marks World Press Freedom Day, which will be commemorated this year amid Israel’s ongoing genocidal aggression against the Gaza Strip and countries of the region. Since this genocide
We believe that having died with Christ we shall return to life with him: Christ, as we know, having been raised from the dead will never die again. Death has no power over him any more. When he died, he died, once for all, to sin, so his life now is life with God; and in that way, you too must consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.
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.
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“Il est plus facile d’imaginer la fin du monde que la fin du capitalisme” Cette citation attribuée aux philosophes Slavoj Žižek ou Fredric Jameson, en dit long sur notre incapacité à imaginer des alternatives au système capitaliste. Pourtant de nombreux chercheurs et chercheuses le répètent inlassablement depuis des années, il est nécessaire de remettre en question le modèle de croissance économique infinie alors que nous vivons sur une planète finie. Alors qu’il devient de plus en plus urgent de réinventer nos modèles économiques et que les crises s’intensifient partout dans le monde; le débat public actuel ne porte absolument pas sur la remise en question du capitalisme et de la croissance à tout prix.. Nous étions avec Blast au Festival du film et forum international sur les droits humains à Genève pour justement enfin parler d’alternatives. Comment construire une société qui respecte les limites planétaires tout en garantissant justice et équité ? À quoi pourrait ressembler une économie post croissance ? Une économie régénérative, redistributive qui assure des droits fondamentaux pour toutes et tous. En bref, un tout nouvel équilibre. Paloma Moritz interroge ses 3 invités sur toutes ces questions et bien d’autres dans cette table ronde avec : Olivia Lazard, chercheuse et membre de Carnegie Europe. Ses recherches se concentrent principalement sur la géopolitique du climat, la transition climatique et les risques de conflit et de vulnérabilité associés au changement climatique et à l'effondrement de la biodiversité. Timothée Parrique, chercheur en économie écologique à l’Université de Lausanne en Suisse. Docteur en sciences économiques, spécialiste du lien entre économie, environnement et des théories post-capitalistes. Auteur de Ralentir ou périr. L’économie de la décroissance (2022) au Seuil. Julia Steinberger, chercheuse en économie écologique à l'Université de Lausanne. Ses recherches portent sur les liens entre l'utilisation des ressources et la performance sociétale. Depuis 2023, elle co-dirige le projet "REAL - A Post-Growth Deal" sur les sociétés post-croissance. Elle est auteure principal du 6e rapport d'évaluation du GIEC au sein du groupe de travail 3.
Pour aller plus loin : Entretien avec Célia Izoard “On est en train d’enfouir la crise climatique au fond des mines” Entretien avec Timothée Parrique “Ralentir ou périr : à quoi ressemblerait une économie post-croissance” Les enjeux du vote suisse sur les limites planétaires bonpote.com/un-vote-pour-les-l…
Journaliste : Paloma Moritz Montage : Hugo Bot Delpérié Son : Baptiste Veilhan, Théo Duschesne Graphisme : Morgane Sabouret, Margaux Simon Production : Hicham Tragha Directeur du développement des collaborations extérieures : Mathias Enthoven Co-directrice de la rédaction : Soumaya Benaïssa Directeur de la publication : Denis Robert
Ce que les Européens vantent comme une « réinvention » d'un système économique, par opposition au capitalisme, n'en est pas une, mais plutôt un système éprouvé et raté à maintes reprises, causant des millions de morts et une pauvreté généralisée à chaque fois : le communisme et le socialisme.
Les deux systèmes peuvent être abusés, et c'est regrettable. Mais là où le capitalisme équilibre automatiquement l'offre et la demande et permet une production et une distribution optimales, le socialisme, n'incitant absolument à aucune efficacité, engendre systématiquement une pauvreté généralisée.
Il y a une raison pour laquelle, à l'époque du mur de Berlin, les gens ont tenté de fuir Berlin-Est pour Berlin-Ouest, il y a une raison pour laquelle ils tentent de fuir la Corée du Nord, il y a une raison pour laquelle ils affluent des pays voisins vers les États-Unis et le Canada : notre système, malgré ses failles et malgré ceux qui en abusent, fonctionne, et les autres non.
Vous devriez prendre le temps d'apprendre suffisamment d'histoire avant d'essayer de réinventer ses échecs, les gens n'ont pas besoin d'échec, ils ont besoin de succès, et l'agenda anti-humaniste de l'UE est la fin de la civilisation.
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« Aujourd’hui on va vous parler d’un milliardaire qui a décidé d’utiliser sa fortune pour faire triompher l’extrême droite en France. Et ce milliardaire ça n’est pas Bolloré, c’est un autre, Pierre-Edouard Stérin. Stérin, c’est le premier à formuler son projet d’une manière aussi claire et franche, mais derrière lui, c’est tout un groupe social qui s’ensauvage, et qui trépigne d’impatience. »
Nouvel épisode de Rhinocéros, par Usul et Lumi.
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ils l'ont déjà ! Comme si personne ne se rendait compte que le gouvernement actuel est déjà fasciste ? Mais même parmi les fascistes il y a plusieurs clans
Determined to remain wedded to America’s rentier economy, Europe’s and Britain’s elites will not deviate from current policies – not unless we overthrow them first. But for this, we need an agenda bolder than Trump’s and Farage’s and, of course, a radically humanist one – an agenda that is not fearful of radical proposals like a public green investment bank, a trust fund for everyone yielding an unconditional personal income, the termination of all quasi-energy markets, the socialisation of housing and, last but not least, a surge in corporations practising one-employee-one-member-one-vote.
The Israeli occupation military renews its aggression on Yemen, targeting Sanaa International Airport and several other locations, including power stations and factories.
Just a week after its launch, ESA’s Biomass mission has reached another critical milestone on its path to delivering unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their vital role in Earth’s carbon cycle – the satellite’s 12-metre-diameter ante…
Grâce aux efforts de tous, le chaos s’installe gentiment
Réflexions décousues et Crêpes au sucre
Au moins la France peut-elle s’enorgueillir d’avoir, outre des paysages magnifiques, une situation sociale très… fluide, qui évolue de plus en plus vite. Ce qui est un événement hallucinant un mois donné devient un fait divers cocasse le mois suivant et passe dans la routine le mois d’après.
Tenez, prenez par exemple cette amusante histoire du déplacement forcé d’une école primaire à cause de trafics de drogue un peu trop frétillants autour d’elle : il y a un mois de cela, début avril, les parents d’élèves votaient courageusement pour que l’établissement de Saint-Ouen déménage loin de sa localisation actuelle, cette dernière étant devenue – fortuitement il semblerait, à lire les médias et les autorités – un point majeur de deal de drogue.
Au début du mois d’avril, certains citoyens – un peu vifs et pas encore affranchis des us et coutumes françaises – pouvaient s’étonner que les autorités locales choisissent cette solution en lieu et place d’un nettoyage musclé de la racaille environnante. Mais avec l’expérience et le temps qui passe, le mois suivant, ces mêmes citoyens trouveront certainement cette réorganisation scolaire relativement normale.
Il suffit en effet de parcourir la presse locale ou régionale pour découvrir ces petites pépites qui forment la substantifique moelle du Vivrensemble dont nos fines élites nous rebattent les oreilles à longueur de journées.
Et si l’on se souvient récemment des festivités contre les prisons françaises dont tout indique à présent qu’il s’agissait essentiellement d’une opération de marketing musclée de la part des gangs marseillais de trafic de drogue, on découvre que les festivités s’étendent jusqu’à Montpellier où des narcotrafiquants ont mis un contrat sur la tête du maire et président socialiste de la métropole, Michaël Delafosse. Apparemment, le fait que notre homme ait décidé de muscler les contrôles dans les stupéfiantes boutiques de ces braves commerçants joue quelque peu dans ce rebondissement montpellierain : les trafiquants du Sud sont taquins et n’aiment pas trop que les autorités leur soufflent sur la nuque, que voulez-vous.
Du reste, ce qui est vrai à Montpellier et à Saint-Ouen semble tout aussi à Bagnols-sur-Cèze ou des lycéens et leur professeur de sport ont été calmement menacés de mort pendant leur cours de sport par des vendeurs de drogue installés pas trop loin : les enquiquinants élèves faisaient trop de bruit à proximité de leur point de deal. Réfugiés dans les vestiaires, ils ont été obligés d’y attendre les forces de l’ordre afin de pouvoir sortir et rejoindre leur lycée.
Bref, la France de nos villes et de nos campagnes apprend petit-à-petit à vivre en harmonie avec les gangs de racailles, les trafiquants de drogue, les go-fasts, les mariages aussi ethniques que colorés et musicalement ambiancés, et les animations pyrotechniques de plus en plus inventives, comme dernièrement, à Vigneux-Sur-Seine, où une aire de jeux pour enfants construite pour un montant de 90 000 euros a été inaugurée par un petit incendie multiculturel, fraternel et cohésif.
Cette nouvelle ambiance, dont les prémisses remontent bien évidemment à plusieurs décennies, semble maintenant se répandre et s’affirmer un peu partout en France. Jadis cantonnée aux riants quartiers sensibles et émotifs, l’ambiance gagne du terrain dans nos petites villes, nos campagnes, nos villages mêmes.
On pourrait y voir un miracle de l’intégration (même si le sens de cette intégration n’est probablement pas celui imaginé par les tenants de ce concept à son introduction, dans les années 70 et 80), et on pourrait aussi déceler une réussite directe et indirecte de nos magnifiques médias, publics et privés, dont la présentation des informations, toujours délicieusement tronquée et partiale, aura largement contribué à cet effet.
Ainsi, en prenant assez systématiquement la défense des racailles – notamment par une euphémisation olympique des faits ou des oublis répétés et souvent cruciaux de contextes aggravants – ces médias ont directement permis à ce climat général de se répandre.
De la même façon, on retrouve ce désir de baratiner l’individu chez la plupart des politiciens qui font assaut d’inventivité pour camoufler une réalité de plus en plus corrosive. L’extrême-gauche est bien sûr en tête dans la course au camouflage (comme ici par exemple), mais tout le spectre politique est atteint du même mal qui nourrit directement et indirectement le refus de l’autorité, de l’usage raisonné et compétent de la force et malheureusement, la disparition complète de toute droite articulée, cortiquée et vertébrée laisse le champ libre aux atermoiements contre les forces de l’ordre.
Enfin, le tableau ne serait pas complet sans rappeler le travail exemplaire et permanent de la magistrature : même si elle n’est pas entièrement acquise au chaos, la minorité (?) qui s’en délecte suffit amplement à garantir qu’il finira par s’installer partout d’autant plus facilement que le laxisme est maintenant devenu une véritable institution. Les exemples abondent et le dernier en date – dans lequel un patron de salon de coiffure d’Aubervilliers, qui vendait de tout y compris des armes de guerre en toute décontraction et illégalité, et n’a été condamné qu’à de la prison avec sursis – ferait presque rire si l’on oublie que ces armes sont maintenant couramment utilisées un peu partout en France pour ambiancer les soirées et les transactions mafieuses.
Bref, il apparaît de plus en plus clairement que les forces de l’ordre sont complètement dépassées en France, que ça ne semble inquiéter personne en haut lieu, que les médias s’en foutent, que les politiciens en font leur beurre et que les magistrats s’en accommodent. Or, s’il est évident que la police et la gendarmerie sont d’abord des instruments de pouvoir de l’État (ceci expliquant la répression sanglante des Gilets Jaunes par exemple), ce dernier doit, en contrepartie de ce pouvoir, garantir que ces forces seront aussi utilisées pour garantir l’ordre auprès des civils.
Ces derniers acceptent le joug étatique tant que, au moins en moyenne, c’est le cas. Cependant, dès que ce n’est plus le cas, l’ordre disparaît effectivement et les civils doivent alors s’organiser, ce qui commence à arriver de façon de plus en plus fréquente, sans même parler des « opportunités business » qui éclosent (comme ici et, à l’opposé du spectre, comme là) dans ce genre de situation délétère.
Au bilan, grâce aux efforts de tous, experts de plateaux et journalistes, politiciens, magistrats et état d’esprit déconnecté de la bourgeoisie dirigeante, le chaos s’installe gentiment dans le pays. Bien sûr, tant que ce dernier n’atteint pas les beaux quartiers, l’élite croit comprendre et agir comme il le faut, au moins pour ses propres intérêts. Cependant, inévitablement et comme à chaque fois dans l’Histoire, lorsque le chaos les atteindra, il sera trop tard pour eux comme pour tout le monde.
I had a bunch of issues setting it up to work on my laptop, but now that I have I would like to compile all the bits and stuff together into one guide!
device-path: use ls /dev/video* or v4l2-ctl —list-devices to see all device paths and test each of them using sudo howdy test (for me it was /dev/video2)
settings to change “freedy237” recommends: (note that howdy-beta uses different words e.g. “abort if” rather than “ignore”, make sure you have howdy-beta! This stumped me for a while)
Name it anything you want, I go with names like “glasses” and “no-glasses” since…I wear glasses. Some random person on GitHub with a multi-monitor setup has it set to looking at different monitors. Whatever you want, doesn’t really matter.
You can use sudo howdy test to check if it works. A red outline means it’s an unrecognised face, a green outline with the name means it is a recognises face. no outline means not a face. Also check that whether it is a “dark frame” or not vs a “scan frame”. You might need to set the dark threshold higher using config. (this was an issue I faced as well, for me 80 works)
howdy on login
sudo nano /etc/pam.d/gdm-password
add: auth sufficient pam_howdy.so
a similar thing can be done for gnome’s password pop ups (e.g. when installing an app) by going to “polkit-1”
howdy on sudo (you might not want this!)
sudo nano /etc/pam.d/sudo
add: auth sufficient pam_howdy.so no_confirmation
permissions
sudo chmod o+rw /dev/video*
sudo chmod -R o+rx /usr/share/howdy/dlib-data
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/howdy
sudo usermod -aG video gdm
sudo chmod 666 /dev/video*
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib64/security/pam_howdy.so
fix SELinux perms for login screen
create “howdy.te” sudo nano howdy.te
add: (as seen on fedora copr repo)
module howdy 1.0;
require {
type lib_t;
type xdm_t;
type v4l_device_t;
type sysctl_vm_t;
class chr_file map;
class file { create getattr open read write };
class dir add_name;
}
\#============= xdm_t ==============
allow xdm_t lib_t:dir add_name;
allow xdm_t lib_t:file { create write };
allow xdm_t sysctl_vm_t:file { getattr open read };
allow xdm_t v4l_device_t:chr_file map;
Hey! I was installed howdy(3.0 beta) on my Fedora 41,but I trying upgrading Fedora 42.howdy requires the python3dist(dlib).As a result,I can't update Fedora 42.Howdy and Fedora 42 incompatible?
Lenin: Throughout the civilized world, the teachings of Marx evoke the utmost hostility and hatred of all bourgeois science... And no other attitude is to be expected, for there can be no “impartial” social science in a society based on class struggle. In one way or another, all official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. 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.
The following exchange occurred during the May 2 meeting of the International Peace Coalition:
Q: My question is directed to Helga Zepp LaRouche on India-Pakistan tensions, which, as she mentioned in her enlightening talk, can conflagrate into nucle…
TEHRAN, May 07 (MNA) – India has launched an aerial attack on at least five targets inside Pakistani territory, prompting Islamabad to promise a strong and firm retaliation.
Wrong move. To make sudo more secure, you should instead ditch 90% of the features intended for server which nobody on desktop uses. 150 lines of C code is enough to provide sudo-like functionality on desktop.
A way smaller alternative therefore less prompt to vulnerabilities is OpenDoas found on Arch/Artix/... and other distros. From the GH project:
doas is a minimal replacement for the venerable sudo. It was initially written by Ted Unangst of the OpenBSD project to provide 95% of the features of sudo with a fraction of the codebase.
Go install WIndows 11 if this is what you want punk.
Don't install Ubuntu 25.10 if this isn't what you want. Using Ubuntu means accepting that they're going to make a lot of decisions about your system. The whole point of these large pre-configured Linux distros is that they make all of the decisions for you.
@FauxLiving I've been using Ubuntu for about 14 years and in the past they've been at least somewhat interested in user input. I hope "don't become another fucking Microsoft" is a message that Canonical gets.
@FooBarrington You didn't just specify memory safe, you advocated stripping away a number of features. Yes memory safe anything is a good idea and I've got no objection to the use of rust, I think it's a good language, one of the few worthwhile efforts to emerge in recent years, but if it is going go be re-implemented, do so fully. Yes, anything that runs with privileges should be memory safe else it's open to attack and Rust certainly makes that more possible, I am just concerned about the limiting feature set aspect. I'm not in favor of protecting users from themselves, I don't want a car that is capable of reading speed limit signs and prevents me from exceeding them even if doing so might be unsafe or illegal, that not the car manufacturers job to be come an arm of the government, likewise I don't want Linux protecting me from myself, I already address potentials with regular backups, etc.
Seems like it's Apache-2.0, but original sudo is under ISC license, which is more permissive as far as I'm aware. Although Apache-2.0 is very much still considered "permissive", too.
Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped Kernel 6.15 is taking shape and it looks like it will eliminate support for Intel's 486 chip and its contemporaries.… #theregister #IT go.theregister.com/feed/www.th…
Kim Jong-Il: Our Republic is a genuine people’s country, a people-centered socialist State that upholds the masses of the people as the masters of the State and society, and serves them. 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.
2025 hardcore list of 17 linux distributions without elogind and other systemd parts Posted on 20241228 by sysdfree-editor Welcome antiX and Noir linux to the strict list, with edition 23 antiX is fully functional and lighter than ever without a trace of elogind!
Edited: December 28th 2024 (replacing older strict list)
This list is going to be short and there may be a sublist of distros with a medium strict standard. We shall explain what the object is, below the short list (which we hope the community will assist in making longer as we have not been able to currently review the work of every distro and fork).
2025 list of “healthy” hardcore distros in alphabetical order with date/activity indicator (xxx)
antiX —> antixlinux.com debian fork without systemd/elogind nearly as famous and popular as Debian itself now CarbsLinux —> carbslinux.org (Kiss fork with CPT pkg manager shinit/sinit/runit/busybox 02/2023 ) Damn Small Linux DSL —> damnsmalllinux.org ( compact Linux distribution tailored for low-spec x86 computers – fluxbox jwm) Glasnost —> www.glasnost.org (Kiss fork – multi-arch tarballs 05/2022) Glaucus linux –> glaucuslinux.org (active 09/2023) Hyperbola Linux —> hyperbola.info A libre gnu-linux distro like debian with pacman, or arch but stable as debian in transition to a BSD system – so it will be removed again (active 09/2023) Iglunix Linux —> github.com/iglunix/iglunix/rel…iglunix.xyz. (musl busybox no-gnu + alt kernels + wayland NoX) (active 09/2023) Joborun Linux —> pozol.eu/joborun Arch based w/o systemd building env runit (default) (active 12/2024) Kiss Linux –> kisslinux.org independent from community influence (dormant for quite some time) (neglected but still a strong base to start something new) Kwort Linux –> kwort.org (active 09/2023) Mere Linux —> merelinux.org (alpha project – active 1/2023 Musl + pacman – it boots now!) Milis linux (LFS based) —> milislinux.gitlab.io/en/ (mostly in Turkish – unsure of contents but demanded by community) NOIR linux –> github.com/noirlinux a promising kiss-linux fork with a more aumated building system (may 2023) Oasislinux –> oasislinux/oasis (active 09/2023) Obarun Linux –> obarun.org (the most extensive general use distribution that meets the criteria) (active 09/2023) PCLinuxOS —> pclinuxos.com a long term distro with wide variety of ready made sw without elogind or systemd Sabotage Linux –> sabotage-linux (most inspiring commitments and goals) (active 09/2023)tive 09/2023) Venom Linux —> venomlinux.org (forked from LFS – glibc now with runit – active 9/23)
recently removed:
Superboxon Linux –> superboxon.com Slackware based BSD type init, no elogind,PAM (ac
Mutiny linux –> mutiny.red site vanished/down
Please keep the recommendations going, for inclusion and exclusion from the list. We can not keep and maintain installations for all of them, we count on you.
Hardcore because they seem honest and dedicated to the war against totalitarianism by IBM and other mega corporations to dominate the Open and Free software world.
Basically, after some odd experiences with Nutyx and its full turn into systemd-dom, basic functionality of starting X , such as vte terminals, filemanagers (thunar and pcmanfm) was impossible. Why was it impossible? Because they REQUIRE elogind and dbus to be running in order for them to start. So off this site any further mention of Nutyx.
If such development spreads there has to be a differentiation between distros that include such crap like elogind, for obvious and overly discussed reasons, and DO NOT make their use necessary everywhere that there is no absolute need, to make it necessary. In other words, there seems to be a new trend from utilizing elogind to accommodate needs of upstream desktop dependencies, but some distros go out of their way to enforce the use of elogind EVERYWHERE THEY CAN!
There is a qualitative difference between drinking socially, a cocktail, a beer or two, some wine while dining with friends and comrades, AND being a full blown alcoholic where the first thing you do when opening your eyes, is to reach next to your couch, where you slept with your shoes on, and grab the bottle of 151′ proof rum to rinse your mouth, then swallow the mouthwash. HUGE difference!
….. and such madness was listed as systemd free linux on our long list! No more, that old list will remain to reflect the wide variety of Pid1 switchers.
In light of recent development and discovery of such development, seatd comes to compliment consolekit2 to replicate the functionality of elogind. Its use in Obarun made starting wayland and sway successful. The same developer who wrote seatd has also written greetd, a display manager that is wayland compliant without using elogind/systemd. So the common excuse “we use elogind for wayland” has run out, while with the last edition of ck2 (12/2020 note: there have been later updates to this one) the excuse of it being unmaintained is also fading. People in the BSD ecosystem are contributing plenty of development for ck2.
The difference between elogind and (ck2-seatd) is size and complexity, and it is counted in multiples. So for those who follow unix tradition of simplicity, single use, compliance with everything else, the way to go is clear.
Another proposal
What will now be a proposed as a medium strictness list? Where distros choose to make elogind available, but not absolutely necessary for all X software.
We want to believe that all forms of adelie, antiX, alpine, and Void are still healthy, we are unsure of Artix, but we will investigate and take your recommendations and suggestions as they come. Our last attempts to start X on artix without elogind were futile, but we may be wrong.
The screen is/will be:
Can X be started without elogind?
Can the most popular WMs start within that X session without elogind?
Can basic common terminals and file-managers start without elogind?
Can common file-managers work without automounting devices?
We can repeat this process with dbus, and there are situations where things start and run fine, even though they may throw some warning and errors for not accessing a running dbus channel, while being 90+% functional, and situations where they lose basic functionality. Like LibreOffice has the entire prime menu bar (File Edit View … Help) missing when started without a live dbus session, while a ton of their other icon intense menu bars work.
Medium strict list:
adelie adelie.pkgs.org alpine alpinelinux.org artix artixlinux.org TinyCore Linux tinycorelinux.net (simply amazing size and functionality – elogind is present and available but not necessarily used) void voidlinux.org Help us fill the blanks here or remove the sick ones if you have direct current experience.
Edit Dec. 30th 2020
This (Slackware & forks) was meant to be yesterday on the list, it is now removed, sadly. It seemed to have been a nice system we neglected over the past few years. Ever since Dec 7th 2020 it passed on the other side of one of the many distros succumbing to the pressure, biting the bait, hook, line, and sinkers.
5 Slackware –> (Zenwalk and Slackel are currently reviewed, no elogind found anywhere, ck2 seems available – specific reviews are coming shortly – that is not to say that all slackware forks will adopt or maintain this commitment, and there are many many of them)
Spoke too soon, there is more elogind enforcement in Slackware than there is in Fedora!
Welcome antiX and Noir linux to the strict list, with edition 23 antiX is fully functional and lighter than ever without a trace of elogind! Edited: December 28th 2024 (replacing older str…
I know you are a reader, as much you are a writer, and I would really really like to motivate you to read "between light and shadow" by EZLN after @Galeano died/was-born, while further back on some of the "Sixth" declarations there is an essay about "Us Them"
Play in circles the song "Whose side are you on" sang by Natalie Merchant
For every mad man/wo there is a fix ... this is what keeps me sane (relatively) or outside an institution (although a shot in my head next to a ditch would be financially better).
Most Marxists seem to suffer from this, they can't distinguish the significant among the many destructions, so they reduce reality to their comfort level, everything being economic that is.
So the capitalist reform of SU, Yugoslavia, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Laos Cambodia, Vietnam, N.Korea .. are more significant than those who attained living outside of capitalism without the transition stage of the socialist state.
Yeah, oh how that infuriates. The outrageously dangerous myopic-blinkered reductive conflation, a seemingly wilful ignorance that opens the doors to all manner of authoritarians to usurp with their centralised council or tyrant.
If only Marx had listened to Bakunin, more than Engels. ... And all Marxists too, heed bakunin's warning, now with added historical weight: "We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality." --Mikhail Bakunin
Much better than "well then we'll make them free" oxymoronic'ness of "communism" (as in the totalitarian's gutted and popularised use of a term originally coined by anarchists... but some people get headspun by the economics-only delusion, missing that totalitarianism is not anarchism... )
Okay, Ima stop before I write a bookload of rant on that. SO INFURIATING. ... The damage, historical, noospherical, ongoing, ... rRrRrrRrrRRRRGH! [ "to their comfort level," ... Maybe it'd infuriate me less if I remember it's a psychological protective maladaption... ]
Engels was a true materialist, but couldn't escape Marx's economism.
The core idealism in Marxism stems on being individualistic and wanting a concrete theory and doctrine to appeal to the individual, ideologically, then once convinced follow/serve the "party". It is an on/off switch, you buy the idea then engage in the centralized direction of activism. Then they speak of class consciousness also as an individualist. Then they expect the managerial class of experts to develop a consciousness contradicting their own personal interests.
They even make the leap to conclude that capitalists and pro-capitalism individuals are convinced of an ideology supporting capitalism. Capitalism came to be, its evolving ideology and pseudo theory came after the fact. They just fabricated a dress to cover the monster. Marx expects to fabricate a different dress and expects some monster to appear and fit right into it.
Social relations, in particular exchange, are part of material conditions, it is not all production and consumption. Being oppressed is just as bad as being exploited, whether it is the boss at work, the teacher, the cop, the parent, the man, the white man, the husband or mother in law, what you experience is part of those material conditions. It is likely that the wealthier you are the milder the oppression, tell that to the abused wife or child, to the mistreated elderly, to the ethnic/reli/nati/racial minority ...
Material conditions, including social, provide people with enough motivation to want things changed, and the realization they must act collectively towards change is not far. If a certain ideology, theory results from collective action, then fine. But don't start at the wrong end of the pipeline.
But if you read capital book2 chapter 3 Karl explains ...
The working class has either kept away or followed total idiots for a century and a half reducing everything to economic terms. The working class keeps falling victim of its own silly vanguard that can only reform capitalism to state owned capitalists.
Nanook
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