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The Young Pioneer Podcast: S3, Ep 5: No Filter, All Adventure – Interview with Travel Content Creator Mike O’Kennedy youngpioneertours.com/mike-oke…

The Young Pioneer Podcast: S3, Ep 5: No Filter, All Adventure - Interview with Travel Content Creator Mike

Explore global adventures with Mike O’Kennedy on the Young Pioneer Podcast. Discover insights into North Korea, Iraq, Xinjiang, and more.
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Cost-Saving Tips: How to Buy Italian Tiles Smartly Without Sacrificing Quality

Italian tiles are celebrated for their stunning design, durability, and craftsmanship, making them a top choice for home renovations and commercial projects. However, their premium price can be a challenge for budget-conscious buyers.

The good news? You can enjoy the elegance of Italian tiles without overspending. Here’s how to shop wisely while maintaining quality.

1. Plan Your Project Carefully


Start with a precise plan. Measure your space accurately—double-check measurements. Consider:

  • Total square footage needed
  • Extra tiles for cuts, waste, or future repairs
  • The best tile size and type for your space

Avoid overbuying or underbuying by planning thoroughly.

Tip: Add 10% to your estimate for cuts and spares. For intricate layouts or diagonal patterns, increase to 15%.


2. Understand Tile Grades


Italian tiles are graded by quality and durability:

  • Grade 1: Flawless, premium tiles for walls or low-traffic areas.
  • Grade 2: Minor imperfections, durable, ideal for high-traffic floors.
  • Grade 3: More flaws, budget-friendly, suited for rustic or secondary spaces.

Grade 2 tiles often strike the best balance of quality and cost. Also, check the PEI (Porcelain Enamel Institute) rating:

  • PEI 1–2: Walls only.
  • PEI 3: Light floors (e.g., bathrooms).
  • PEI 4–5: Heavy-traffic areas (e.g., kitchens, entryways).

Choose tiles based on function, not just their appearance.

3. Compare Purchase Options


You can buy tiles from various sources, each with trade-offs:

  • Showrooms: Offer hands-on inspection but higher prices.
  • Online retailers: More affordable with diverse selections, though images may vary.
  • Direct importers: Cost-effective for bulk orders, but expect longer lead times.

Ask key questions:

  • Is this first- or second-grade tile?
  • What’s the return policy?
  • Are there overstock or clearance deals?
  • What are the shipping costs and delivery terms?

Focus on the total cost, not just the tile price.

4. Seek Out Overstock Savings


Tiles are produced in batches, and surplus or discontinued stock is often heavily discounted.

Ask your tiles supplier about:

  • Discontinued colors or designs
  • Overstock from commercial projects
  • Usable tiles from partially damaged boxes

These can save 20–50%, but stock is limited, so act quickly. Flexibility with design is crucial.

5. Mix Premium and Budget Tiles


Using Italian tiles throughout can strain your budget. Instead, blend strategically:

  • Use Italian tiles for focal points like backsplashes, pairing with affordable ceramics.
  • Combine premium floor tiles with budget wall tiles (e.g., bathrooms).
  • Add Italian tile mosaics or strips as accents.

This designer strategy maximizes style while minimizing costs.

6. Choose a Reputable Tiles Supplier


A trustworthy tiles supplier is essential for Italian tiles. Look for one who:

If a deal seems too good to be true, investigate—fake or low-quality tiles are common. A reliable supplier is transparent.

7. Budget for Hidden Costs


The tile price is only part of the equation. Include:

  • Adhesive and grout: Quality materials ensure durability.
  • Shipping: Heavy or fragile tiles can be costly to transport.
  • Installation: Factor in labor or DIY tools.
  • Maintenance: Some tiles require sealants or special care.

Plan for the entire project to avoid surprises.

8. Time Your Purchase Strategically


Tile prices fluctuate seasonally. Spring and summer are peak periods with higher costs, while winter often brings discounts.

To save:

  • Shop during the off-season
  • Seek seasonal sales or contractor promotions
  • Be flexible with delivery timelines, especially for large orders.

Ask about discounts for full-pallet purchases if you’re tackling a big project.

9. Opt for Timeless Designs


Trendy tiles can lose appeal over time. For lasting value, choose:

  • Neutral tones
  • Classic patterns like subway, hexagon, or herringbone
  • Finishes that wear well

Reserve trendy designs for small, easily updated areas like a backsplash or accent wall.

10. Consult Your Installer Early


Poor installation or mismatched tiles can ruin your project. Before buying, discuss with your installer:

  • Tile compatibility with your surfaces
  • Potential layout challenges
  • Special tools or adhesives required
  • Expected waste for your design

Their expertise can prevent costly errors and suggest budget-friendly alternatives.

Conclusion: Value-Driven Purchases


Italian tiles are a smart investment when bought thoughtfully. Focus on value, plan meticulously, and shop strategically to achieve a stunning result without breaking the bank.

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Starvation, Destruction of Hospitals, Massacre; What "YOU" Call it ? iranpress.com/content/304793

Starvation, Destruction of Hospitals, Massacre; What

Join Iran Press in an interview with Canadian lawyer and journalist Dimitri Lascaris, over the description he provides about the manifestation of genocide with the ongoing crimes in Gaza by the Israel regime.
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Lenin: Only scoundrels or simpletons can think that the proletariat must first win a majority in elections carried out under the yoke of the bourgeoisie, under the yoke of wage-slavery, and must then win power. This is the height of stupidity or hypocrisy; it is substituting elections, under the old system and with the old power, for class struggle and revolution. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

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Quotes

  • 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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Let’s indeed hope that they back it up with action. Better late than never. Though, I wonder what “guarantee” you’re referring to.


Any "action" that does not result in guarantees isn't helpful to solve this. So again, what I care about is guarantees.

For example, one way to "guarantee" that there's no code that's unaccounted for would be to achieve reproducible builds that can be rebuilt and obtain always the same binary bit-by-bit. So if the binary blob resulting from compiling from clean source matches the one offered then that's proof that the distributed binary was built cleanly and there was no malware being slipped through.

The issue is that this wouldn't just be a Ventoy problem, but also an upstream problem, since all projects Ventoy depends on would need to be, themselves, reproducible. So this wouldn't be an easy task, or even a task that Ventoy should do on their own, imho.

FWIW, slightly over a month ago, someone started working on a solution.


I definitely wouldn't trust that either until there's guarantees. Again, I only care about what guarantees are offered. It's not about who is the one managing the github account and/or what subjective reputation that random anonymous person might have.

The problem isn't the existence of precompiled binary blobs either, so removing the binaries is not solving the issue. The problem is in the traceability and what guarantees we have that the final collection of compiled binary blobs that ultimately is offered for download (and we do need binary blobs for download ultimately) is actually corresponding to libre/open source releases without potentially malicious code.

~~The conspiracy theorist inside of me would like to think this is related to the return of Ventoy’s maintainer. But I digress…~~


I don't think the maintainer went away. I've seen successfully maintained projects with much slower pace than this, specially projects for which stability is important. Last Bash commit was in 2024 and I wouldn't say it's unmaintained. Ventoy had a release 3 months ago.

Also, would it be bad if that was what triggered the interest to work on it? I mean, the post straight away mentions the github issue where that fork was advertised, and it implies that it's in that issue where they noticed that people have started to care about the blobs. So it could well be that they saw there's people who care enough to spend their time working for it (ie. they even made a fork), so why not open the doors for them? It does not have to always be drama.


GitHub - fnr1r/ventoy-cpio: An alternate ramdisk for Ventoy

An alternate ramdisk for Ventoy. Contribute to fnr1r/ventoy-cpio development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Lenin: The proletariat wages its class struggle and does not wait for elections to begin a strike, although for the complete success of a strike it is necessary to have the sympathy of the majority of the working people (and, it follows, of the majority of the population); the proletariat wages its class struggle and overthrows the bourgeoisie without waiting for any preliminary elections (supervised by the bourgeoisie and carried out under its yoke); and the proletariat is perfectly well aware that for the success of its revolution, for the successful overthrow of the bourgeoisie, it is absolutely necessary to have the sympathy of the majority of the working people (and, it follows, of the majority of the population). wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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Quotes

  • 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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Report: Israel to use U.S. military contractors to deliver aid as it prepares to reoccupy Gaza #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/05/report-…

Report: Israel to use U.S. military contractors to deliver aid as it prepares to reoccupy Gaza

Israel’s Cabinet has approved plans to reoccupy Gaza and use U.S. private military contractors to distribute aid to Palestinians. Human rights and aid groups say the plan “makes a mockery of international humanitarian law.”
Michael Arria (Mondoweiss)

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I [they] bought a Linux Magazine from 2000!

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/21842806

Recently came across this magazine from the Linux Format on a second hand vintage shop and obviously had to go for it! These magazines are still produced these to this day btw. However, when I went to linuxformat.com after receiving my magazine to check out some of their other ones, I saw that they were in fact just celebrating their 25-year anniversary and have put out a digital version of the very magazine I bought - for everyone to view digitally!

Their announcement:

25-years ago in this month of May, back in 2000 (just after the giant Y2K meltdown that flipped every plane upsidedown) Linux Format was first published. To help celebrate and remember this momentous pinnacle of publishing prowess (and while we still have server access) we'll be popping out a few classic issues of Linux Format in PDF format. As we already have it to hand here's issue LXF001 with a very young looking Nick Veitch.


The magazine can be found digitally at: linuxformat.com/files/pdfs/LXF…


Either way, I had no idea of the timing but thought it was a fun experience and worthy to share here. Enjoy a step back into memory-lane!

Have a great rest of your day!

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codapine

I used to subscribe to Linux format! I got the back issues on exactly/Exact Editions too, so for a while I could also view every issue on my android tablet. Those were the days.

I don't even know if Exactly is still around anymore.

Edit - nope, I was thinking of New Humanist magazine, oops. But I did used to get Linux Format through the door. I remember they used to have rackspace ads on the plastic weather cover

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Hey everyone, I’m not exactly #newhere. I had a joindiaspora account long time ago. Noe I'm back.

I’m interested in #digital-rights, #digitalrights, #edri, #eff, #floss, #foss, #free-culture, #freeculture, #freesofftware, #free-software, #fsf, #fsfe, #internet, #linux, #open-hardware, #openhardware, #open-source, #opensourse, #oss, #tech, #technology, and #web.

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The Eternaut Sparks Questions Among Those Born During the Argentine Dictatorship telesurenglish.net/the-eternau…

The Eternaut Sparks Questions Among Those Born During the Argentine Dictatorship - teleSUR English

The Netflix series The Eternaut has triggered a surge in inquiries from people born in Argentina during the dictatorship (1976–1983) regarding their identity
teleSURenglish

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Showed some photos to the 2nd grader preparing to present about her grandma and great grandma traveling over to America together from Metz.

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Historic B&W photos of Paris, France, late 19th Century | MONOVISIONS - Black & White Photography Magazine

Late in the 19th century, Paris hosted two major international expositions: the 1889 Universal Exposition, was held to mark the centennial of the French Revolution and featured the new Eiffel Tower; and the 1900 Universal Exposition, which gave Paris…
xxxxxxx (MONOVISIONS - Black & White Photography Magazine)

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Houthi Missile Hits Ben Gurion Airport + Israel Approves Plan to ‘Conquer’ Gaza rachelblevins.substack.com/p/i…

Houthi Missile Hits Ben Gurion Airport + Israel Approves Plan to ‘Conquer’ Gaza

Israel’s Security Cabinet has unanimously approved plans to “conquer” the Gaza Strip and forcefully displace the Palestinian people, with Finance Minister and War Criminal Bezalel Smotrich declaring that Israel will not withdraw from Gaza even if the…
Rachel Blevins

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Jonathan Cook: Shilling for Israel’s Genocide consortiumnews.com/2025/05/07/…

Jonathan Cook: Shilling for Israel’s Genocide

These shills are as morally culpable as the court historians who in 1930s Germany denounced those who opposed the extermination of Jews, Romanies, Communists, the disabled and gays as anti-Aryan racists. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.
Consortium News

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Until the lion learns how to write every story will glorify the hunter. - anonymous wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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Quotes

  • 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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You can follow us in other languages. Visit our website for more information wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2023-06-11 11:27:05

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English– @protestation@friendica.eskimo.com

Français– @protestation@social.trom.tf– @protestation@mastodon.social

Deutsch– @protestation@friendica.opensocial.space

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Over 100,000 sign petition to stop the dissolution of Urgence Palestine #Palestine samidoun.net/2025/05/over-1000…

Over 100,000 sign petition to stop the dissolution of Urgence Palestine

Over 100,000 people have already signed on to the petition to stop the French state’s planned dissolution of Urgence Palestine, the large national coalition and collective for Palestine that …
Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

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Statement by the International Peoples’ Assembly on the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan ipa-aip.org/official-statement…

Statement by the International Peoples’ Assembly on the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan - IPA

Let us reject war and invest in life. Let us use our resources not to destroy, but to rebuild a South Asia that belongs to its people—not to the profiteers of war.
vivian (International Peoples' Assembly)

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June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)

Link: quantamagazine.org/june-huh-hi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

June Huh, High School Dropout, Wins the Fields Medal | Quanta Magazine

June Huh wasn’t interested in mathematics until a chance encounter during his sixth year of college. Now his profound insights connecting combinatorics and geometry have led to math’s highest honor.
Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine)

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Thierry Meyssan: We persist in holding the British responsible for the rise of sectarianism in the Middle East. True, it was they who, with Lawrence of Arabia, organized the Great Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 that brought the Saudis and the Wahhabi sect to power in Saudi Arabia. Certainly, it was they who, with Lord Herbert Samuel, organized the Great Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Mandatory Palestine. Certainly, it was they who, with Sir James Craig, organized the Arab Spring of 2011-2012 that brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

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2021-07-31 15:43:02

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  • 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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#Meta wins $168 million in damages from Israeli #cyberintel firm in #Whatsapp #spyware #scandal


source: courthousenews.com/meta-wins-1…

After its loss in #court, #NSO reaffirmed its commitment to #Pegasus as a valuable tool in anti-terror operations around the world.


Who would have thought that? Using spyware to #wiretap the #communications of millions of people is #illegal. If the #NSA were aware of that ...

#software #security #cybersecurity #justice #usa #communication #chat #smartphone #news

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Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk

Link: engadget.com/audio/samsung-is-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Samsung is paying $350 million for audio brands Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz and Polk

Harman International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung, is purchasing the audio business of health technology company Masimo for $350 million in cash.
Mariella Moon (Engadget)

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Sixth China-Central Asia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting promotes synergised development socialistchina.org/2025/05/07/…

Sixth China-Central Asia Foreign Ministers' Meeting promotes synergised development - Friends of Socialist China

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi recently visited Kazakhstan to attend the Sixth China-Central Asia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, which was held in the capital Almaty.
Friends of Socialist China

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#Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking #AI slop #bug reports


source: theregister.com/2025/05/07/cur…

According to its #HackerOne page, it received 24 reports in the previous 90 days, none of which have led to payouts, and as #Stenberg said in his #LinkedIn post, none of the AI-assisted reports made in the last six years have actually discovered a genuine bug.


The problem is the bug bounty program. People generate #AI bug reports in the hope to get #money.

#technology #software #problem #opensource #finance #fail #foss #floss #time #BugBounty


Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports

: Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed'
Connor Jones (The Register)

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Are Your #Passwords in the Green?


source: hivesystems.com/blog/are-your-…

#password #login #internet #gpu #bruteforce #crack #hack #security #cybersecurity #technology #speed

Are Your Passwords in the Green?

Passwords that felt secure a year ago might not hold up in 2025. Hive Systems’ updated Password Table reveals just how much faster hackers can break into accounts today.
Corey Neskey (Hive Systems)

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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors we borrow it from our children. - anonymous wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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  • 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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Weiße Rose

#dwr #foto #fotografieren #mywork #fedibikes #MdRddG #MdRgD #MdRzA #obob #fahrrad #FahrradStattPorsche #jamendo #CC

#TousledCraneonTour


#Welt! Bist du noch da?

Schräge #Schale


Ehm, und "Nein", es liegt mitnichten an #Spatz oder #Meise, dass unser #Futterschalenpfosten so schräg steht (-:

Jetzt aber einen #Kaffee und munter bei 2°C auf's #Rad geschwungen. Heute nur 'ne kurze Strecke. Bin ich auch nicht böse.

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Bleibt senkrecht und gesund!

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“No Rights Reserved” CC0 enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and owners of copyright- or database-protected content to waive those interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public domain, s…
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Vasily Nebenzya, Russian Ambassador to the UN: Russia does not monopolize the victory – all peoples of the USSR won the Great Patriotic War eu.eot.su/2025/05/07/vasily-ne…

Vasily Nebenzya, Russian Ambassador to the UN: Russia does not monopolize the victory - all peoples of the USSR won the Great Patriotic War

Vasily Nebenzya, Russian Ambassador to the UN: Russia does not monopolize the victory - all peoples of the USSR won the Great Patriotic War Rossa Primavera News from Russia
Alexey Krechetov (Rossa Primavera International News)
in reply to Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦

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Xauri'EL Zwaan

in the last SK provincial election, it was a 100% perfect split between the two big cities for NDP and the small towns and rural ridings for Scott Moe. Just because the redneck farmers who have a death grip on power vote time and time again for corrupt, incompetent dildos purely because they hate the same people doesn't mean we're all regressive d-bags in conservative country

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Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Risks Erasing Palestinians as a Group, Says UN Official #Palestine qudsnen.co/israels-genocide-in…

Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Risks Erasing Palestinians as a Group, Says UN Official

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is pushing Palestinians toward conditions that threaten their existence as a group, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk warned. Reported plans
Editing Team (Quds News Network)

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The Multifaceted Role of Mobile Jaw Crushers in Modern Industry

The utilization of mobile jaw crushers in contemporary industry extends far beyond mere material processing; it embodies a critical nexus of innovation and efficiency. These robust machines play a pivotal role in various sectors, including mining, construction, and recycling, showcasing a myriad of applications that enhance productivity and sustainability. In this article, we will delve into the multifaceted role of mobile jaw crusher for sale, exploring their operational mechanics, the diverse industries they serve, and their contributions to environmental stewardship.

Understanding the Mechanisms of Mobile Jaw Crushers

The Anatomy of a Mobile Jaw Crusher


At its core, a mobile jaw crusher consists of two main components: the fixed jaw and the movable jaw. The fixed jaw remains stationary, while the movable jaw exerts force against the material, effectively crushing it. This action is facilitated by a hydraulic or mechanical system that generates significant pressure, allowing for the reduction of large rocks into smaller, manageable fragments. The design of these machines is not arbitrary; it is the result of extensive engineering aimed at optimizing performance and durability.

Mobile Crusher Plant

Operational Efficiency and Innovations


The efficiency of mobile jaw crushers is largely attributed to their design and technological advancements. Modern mobile jaw crushers incorporate features such as adjustable settings for product size and integrated automation systems that enhance operational efficiency. Innovations such as variable speed drives and advanced control systems enable operators to optimize the crushing process, reducing energy consumption and increasing throughput. These enhancements not only streamline operations but also contribute to cost savings and improved safety standards in the workplace.

Diverse Applications Across Industries

Mining and Material Extraction


In the mining sector, mobile jaw crushers are indispensable. They are employed in the initial stages of ore processing, where large boulders are fragmented into smaller pieces suitable for further processing. This primary crushing function is crucial for extracting valuable minerals and metals from the earth. The robustness of mobile jaw crushers for sale allows them to withstand the rigors of mining operations, making them a reliable choice for extracting resources efficiently.

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Environmental Contributions and Sustainability

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As global awareness of environmental issues escalates, the role of mobile jaw crushers in recycling and waste management becomes increasingly significant. These machines enable the efficient processing of recyclable materials, transforming waste products into valuable resources. By facilitating the recovery of metals, plastics, and aggregates, mobile jaw crushers contribute to a circular economy, where materials are continuously reused, thereby minimizing environmental impact.

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Moreover, the operational efficiencies achieved through modern mobile jaw crushers play a crucial role in reducing the carbon footprint of industrial processes. By optimizing energy consumption and enhancing throughput, these machines help industries move toward sustainability. The ability to recycle materials not only conserves resources but also diminishes the environmental degradation associated with raw material extraction. In this way, mobile crusher plants serve as a vital link in the chain of sustainable industrial practice.

In conclusion, the multifaceted role of mobile jaw crushers in modern industry is a testament to their significance in enhancing operational efficiencies, driving innovation, and promoting sustainability. As industries evolve, these machines will continue to adapt, ensuring their place at the forefront of material processing technologies. Their contributions extend beyond mere functionality; they embody a commitment to responsible and efficient resource management in an increasingly environmentally conscious world.

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Jaw Crusher For Sale

Finding the right jaw crusher for sale can make all the difference in your crushing operations – especially when you need reliable primary crushing
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Trump waves the white flag and ends the war in Yemen en.reseauinternational.net/tru…

Trump waves the white flag and ends the war in Yemen - Réseau International

The Cradle. US President Donald Trump announced on May 6 that Washington had ended its illegal war against Yemen, saying the Ansarullah-led Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) "no longer want to fight."
Réseau International

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Karl Marx: Money lowers all the gods of mankind and transforms them into a commodity. Money is the universal, self-constituting value of all things. It has therefore robbed the whole world, both the human world and nature, of its own peculiar value. Money is the essence of man’s work and existence, alienated from man, and this alien essence dominates him and he prays to it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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Quotes

  • 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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Superconductivity News: What Makes Floquet Majorana Fermions Special for Quantum Computing?


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#science #floquetmajoranafermions #josephsoneffect #quantumcomputing #superconductivity #topologicalsuperconductors #hackaday
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"Ukrainian Investigation": Russia has sharply increased production of Kh-101 missiles, while simultaneously experiencing a shortage of critical components en.topwar.ru/264260-ukrainskoe…

"Ukrainian Investigation": Russia has sharply increased production of Kh-101 missiles, while simultaneously experiencing a shortage of critical components

According to an "investigation" by a private Ukrainian intelligence company, Russia has significantly increased the production of cruise missiles while simultaneously facing a shortage of critical components due to Western sanctions.
Ahilles86 (Военное обозрение)

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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance at Major Munitions Enterprises under Second Economy Commission #DPRK kfauk.com/respected-comrade-ki…

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance at Major Munitions Enterprises under Second Economy Commission - KFAUK.com

Pyongyang, May 7 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, gave field guidance at major munitions enterprises under the Second Economy Commi…
Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)

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Ten Points To Keep In Mind Amidst Escalating Indo-Pak Tensions korybko.substack.com/p/ten-poi…

Ten Points To Keep In Mind Amidst Escalating Indo-Pak Tensions

Everyone has the right to make up their own minds about these tensions and the Kashmir Conflict that lies at their core, but they should also know that there’s more to all this than what they might be led to be believe by the organized pro-Palestinia…
Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)

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A nice post about the reality of geoengineering.

As one comment stated, stopping this needs to start somewhere.

I am old enough to remember the weather changes caused by Mt. St. Helens. As the post goes on to show, a volcano can wreak much more destruction.

But eliminating the chemical dispersal that can carry around the globe needs to be done and I am glad Florida is taking the lead.

realclimatescience.com/2025/05…


It Is A Nice Idea, But ….

Banning geoengineering over Florida makes an important political point, but it doesn’t actual protect anyone.  The atmosphere is constantly moving, and geoengineering anywhere affects the who…
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Rousseau: Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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Quotes

  • 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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Crane Parts Guide: How to Choose for Safety and Efficiency


 Cranes drive critical operations, but their performance rests on the quality of their parts. A single failure can lead to costly downtime or safety risks.

Cranes drive critical operations, but their performance rests on the quality of their parts. A single failure can lead to costly downtime or safety risks.

This concise guide outlines how to pick crane parts that deliver reliability and keep your work on track.

1. Identify the Part Accurately


Start by pinpointing the exact part:

  • Part number or name
  • Crane make and model
  • Specs (load rating, size, voltage)

Refer to the manual or manufacturer to avoid errors. Wrong parts cause delays and added costs.

Tip: Send your crane parts supplier a photo of the part and its markings for precise identification.


2. Invest in Quality


Low-cost parts often lead to frequent failures, safety hazards, or downtime. Choose quality Kobelco crane parts with:

  • Proven durability
  • Certifications or test reports
  • Reliable warranties

Certified rebuilt parts can save money if sourced from a reputable supplier. Avoid generic or untested brands.

3. Work With a Trusted Crane Parts Supplier


A reliable crane parts supplier ensures you get the right part. Choose one with:

  • A deep inventory for fast access
  • Crane-specific expertise
  • Support for technical questions
  • A strong industry reputation


Pro tip: Stick with a few suppliers for priority service when time is critical.


4. OEM or Aftermarket?


  • OEM parts: Built by the crane’s manufacturer for guaranteed performance.
  • Aftermarket parts: Third-party options, varying in quality.

Use OEM for safety-critical parts like load sensors or brakes. High-quality aftermarket parts can work for minor components if the supplier is trustworthy.

Ask: Would the supplier rely on this part for their own equipment?


5. Verify Fit and Compatibility


Parts that look right may not be. Check:

  • Bolt patterns
  • Electrical requirements
  • Load and size specs

Incompatibilities can cause wear or void warranties. Confirm with your supplier if unsure.

6. Consider Delivery Times


Delays can be costly. Ask:

  • Is the part available now?
  • How long will shipping take?
  • Are there backup options?

For long waits, explore rebuilt parts or temporary solutions to keep operations moving.

7. Check Maintenance Requirements


High-maintenance parts increase costs. Ask about:

  • Service intervals
  • Wear rates
  • Lifespan expectations

Parts with low-maintenance features, like self-lubricating bearings, can save time and money.

8. Maintain Spare Inventory


Stock spares for high-wear or slow-to-ship parts, such as:

  • Contactors
  • Filters
  • Wire ropes

This minimizes downtime. Monitor usage to reorder proactively.

9. Equip Your Crew


Skilled installation is vital. Train your team to:

  • Spot wear early
  • Install parts correctly
  • Test systems post-repair

Consult your crane parts supplier for advice on new components.

10. Investigate Persistent Failures


Repeated part issues may point to bigger problems:

  • Gear failures? Check alignment.
  • Electrical shorts? Inspect wiring.
  • Brake wear? Review load balance.

Address root causes to avoid recurring costs.

Final Thoughts


Selecting crane parts requires attention to quality crane parts, proper fit, and a dependable crane parts supplier. This ensures your crane performs safely and efficiently.

Questions about parts or suppliers? I’m happy to help.

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