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#environnement #énergie #économie

⬛Quelles sont les causes du Black out en Espagne ?
C'est le sujet le plus abordé sur le plus grand salon consacré au solaire Intersolar.

Nous n'avons pas les résultats de l'enquête officielle mais nous avons collecté des hypothèses pertinentes depuis une semaine.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 version pour un enfant de 5 ans :
C'est comme si on change le moteur d'une vieille voiture par le moteur de tesla sans changer les freins, en ligne droite tout va bien mais dans les virages... c'est la cata.

👨‍🔬version pour les grands :
Pourquoi l’Espagne a perdu 15 GW de production électrique en quelques secondes, provoquant un black-out.

en synthèse :
en cas de défaut, les centrales solaires se deconnectent en quelques millisecondes provoquant une réaction en chaîne ingérable. Alors qu'un système à inertie se déconnecte beaucoup plus lentement. Le système de régulation utilisé a été conçu à l'époque des machines tournantes et pas avec du solaire. Nous devons changer les seuils de déclanchement.

En détail : utilisons la règle des 5 pourquoi

Pourquoi n°1 :

Pourquoi la production a-t-elle chuté si brutalement ?
Parce qu’un grand nombre de centrales solaires se sont déconnectées simultanément du réseau.

Piste RTE : cela s’est produit principalement en Estrémadure, dans des zones très ensoleillées avec beaucoup de PV raccordé en réseau moyenne tension.


Pourquoi n°2 :

Pourquoi les centrales solaires se sont-elles déconnectées ?
Parce que les protections automatiques (anti-îlotage, chute de fréquence, surtension, etc.) ont été déclenchées en cascade, en réponse à une variation brutale de fréquence.

RTE explique que certains onduleurs ont réagi de manière trop sensible à une chute de fréquence locale, provoquant une réaction en chaîne.


Pourquoi n°3 :

Pourquoi la fréquence a-t-elle chuté si rapidement ?
Parce que le système électrique espagnol manquait d’inertie, c’est-à-dire de masses tournantes (turbines, alternateurs) capables d’amortir les fluctuations.

Un système très renouvelable, très solaire, ça c’est bien. Mais quand le soleil brille, y’a peu de turbines en marche : moins d’inertie = plus de sensibilité.


Pourquoi n°4 :

Pourquoi manquait-il d’inertie dans le réseau ?
Parce que la production d’électricité était ce jour-là majoritairement assurée par du photovoltaïque (et un peu d’éolien), et que peu de centrales thermiques tournaient.

La production solaire représentait plus de 60 % de la couverture de charge à ce moment-là. Mais il est utile de rappeler que le système Espagnol a déjà fonctionné avec 100% d'ENR.


Pourquoi n°5 :

Pourquoi la structure du réseau n’était-elle pas prête à encaisser une telle situation ?
Parce que le dimensionnement et les paramètres de réglage des protections n’étaient pas suffisamment adaptés à un réseau massivement renouvelable sans inertie.

Traduction : l’Espagne est en avance sur la transition énergétique, mais son système de protections, conçu à l’époque des grosses centrales thermiques, doit évoluer.


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@dimillian has a short threa announcing availabiilty in @IceCubesApp and sub.club advisor @quillmatiq has more info here.

sub.club's a project of The BLVD, Inc, the makers of @mammoth. I know there was a lot of skepticism when Marc Benioff, Mozilla, Long Ventures et al, funded Mammoth ... with so many good apps out there, how are they expecting to get VC-level returns on their investment? But if sub.club can tap into the creator economy, there's clearly money to be made!

#fediverse @fediverse

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The Soldier Who Assassinated Shireen Abu Akleh is Dead


Palestinian journalist and US citizen Shireen Abu Akleh was martyred on May 11, 2022 while covering zionist crimes in Jenin. As the occupation typically does after deliberately targeting journalists, they denied any involvement, claiming that Palestinian resistance fighters had shot the Al-Jazeera journalist.

Independent investigations in the following months all came to the same conclusion: a zionist sniper had deliberately shot Abu Akleh, despite her being clearly marked as a journalist. In the meantime, occupation forces stormed the journalist’s funeral in Al-Quds, assaulting mourners and causing her coffin to fall. Naturally, the United States turned a blind eye to the murder of its citizen by virtue of the fact that her murderer was a zionist settler.

She was neither the first nor the last journalist assassinated in cold blood for reporting the truth: Over 210 Palestinian journalists have been martyred since the start of the occupation’s aggression on Gaza. The occupation has never pursued action against soldiers who target journalists, and the case of Shireen Abu Akleh was no exception: despite a halfhearted apology over a year later, the occupation refused to name the soldier responsible.

A new investigation sought to uncover the identity of this murderer. According to the documentary’s producers:

“Earlier this year, we did what the US failed to do and found Shireen’s killer. It turned out that the soldier who shot Shireen in Jenin was himself killed last year in the same West Bank city. The soldier, Alon Scagio, had been quietly transferred to a different unit after the ‘israeli’ investigation into Shireen’s death.” The operation in which the soldier was killed was recorded in detail on RNN here.

This is the fate of every foreign tyrant who has invaded the land of Palestine, delivered by the resistance, and paid for by the blood of the martyrs. It is worth noting that war criminal Scagio was not targeted for his brutal murder of Shireen: when confronting the criminal zionist entity, one can be sure that they are confronting a monster who is paying for their crimes.

Shireen Abu Akleh was avenged on the pure soil of Jenin, where she was martyred. Every Palestinian will be avenged on the same pure soil, until liberation.

source: Resistance News Network

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#gaza #occupation #palestine #repression #resistance #westAsia #westBank

»'Gaza Must Be Wiped Out' | Pro-#Netanyahu #Channel14 Incites to #Genocide in #Gaza, Israeli Groups Claim in High Court Petition.
Three civil society groups claim that #Israel's Channel 14 News aired hundreds of statements like 'it really needs to be total annihilation' in Gaza and 'there are no innocents' – while Israeli authorities refused to act against the channel«
haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0… (Paywall)

archive.is/20250508154152/haar…

in reply to stephie

Der israelische Sender Channel14 ist der Haussender von Netanyahu. Hier läuft seit eine so umfassende Masse an Hass über den Bildschirm, dass klar wird - hier werden systematisch genozidale Verbrechen an Palästinensern gefordert.

In Israel ein Verbrechen, bei dem das Rechtssystem selbst tätig werden muss, und Strafen bis zur Todesstrafe möglich sind. (Eingeführt mit dem Beitritt Israels zur Genozidkonvention)

In der Realität passiert nichts.

Deswegen wurde nun Klage eingereicht.

in reply to stephie

Einer der Anwälte der die Klage eingereicht hat ist der israelische Menschenrechtsanwalt Michael Sfard, der in einem Thread hier beschreibt um was es geht. Er betont dass die Menge an Aufhetzung so enorm ist, dass es sich nur um eine redaktionelle Linie handeln kann. Michael Sfard merkt auch an, dass der Sender eine vergleichbare aufhetzende Funktion wie Radio Ruanda hat, folgerichtig sind dann hohe Mitarbeiter als Kriegsverbrecher vom ICC verurteilt worden.

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Erst in dieser Woche forderte der Produzent von Channel 14 Elad Brashi dazu auf die Bevölkerung in Gaza zu vernichten, explizit forderte er einen Holocaust, Gaskammern und Eisenbahnwaggons.

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Yemenis celebrate victory over US, Israel in Saada province en.mehrnews.com/news/231610/Ye…

In my day job, I work for a media company that focuses on the toy industry.

Apropos of nothing, I decided to add the Mastodon plushie (aka #Plushtodon) to the latest products on our Toy Insider website.

Please boost this so our editors will frustratingly tell me to stop trying to make Mastodon happen.
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After years of depicting Klarna as an AI-first company, the fintech’s CEO reversed himself, telling Bloomberg the company was once again recruiting humans after the AI approach led to “lower quality.” An IBM survey reveals this is a common occurrence for AI use in business, where just 1 in 4 projects delivers the return it promised and even fewer are scaled up.

article is behind a paywall at Fortune.com...

#AI is #Fakeandgay

Director Kash Patel Warned About Significance of DOJ Prosecutor to Take On the ‘Deep State’ – What Is Senator Tillis Hiding?

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/d…

Israeli security officials suspect two Qatargate figures worked for Qatari intelligence haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…

Noam Chomsky: Education is not memorizing that Hitler killed six million Jews. Education is understanding how millions of ordinary Germans were convinced that it was required. Education is learning how to spot the signs of history repeating itself. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


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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Huawei a annoncé qu'il lancerait ses premiers ordinateurs fonctionnant sous HarmonyOS le 19 mai, marquant une expansion significative du système d'exploitation après son adoption sur les téléphones et les tablettes.

Avec ce lancement, Huawei vise à concurrencer Windows et macOS. Le système est le résultat de cinq années de développement, équipé de fonctionnalités de sécurité robustes et d'une prise en charge d'une intégration transparente sur tous les appareils Huawei.

Malgré les défis auxquels Huawei est confronté pour attirer les utilisateurs, le système prend en charge plus de 1 000 appareils externes et comprend des centaines d'applications compatibles.

For two days I've been on a driveway repair job. The customer stupidly allowed a pipe laying contractor to trench down the middle of his 1/2 mile driveway when here in central South Carolina it is all clay below the surface, which made for a sloppy muddy mess. He hired me to rectify this situation, which, in the middle of we got un-forecasted massive rains making a mess into a muddy swamp. I'm surprised the gators didn't move in.

Adam and John need to expose big weather.

I hate big weather!!!

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Amazing Benefits from Half a Tablespoon of Olive Oil

The evidence keeps accumulating that olive oil can help people lose weight and reduce the risk of heart disease and dementia. Getting enough?

peoplespharmacy.com/articles/a…

A lot of health professionals discouraged the use of olive oil because it contains roughly 14% saturated fat. In retrospect, a lot of “experts” were wrong about low fat/no fat and olive oil.

Today's top Trump headlines:

—Fires the much-admired longtime Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, for being Black.
—Orders agencies to stop using the civil-rights measure of "disparate-impact liability."
—Orders one exception to the otherwise total shutdown of refugee admissions: white Afrikaners.
—Attacks the digital-equity act, which provides high-speed internet access to disadvantaged groups including veterans, older people, the disabled, and rural areas, as "racist."

See a pattern?

C Diff Infections Can Be Treated with Microbiota

C diff infections causing diarrhea have become widespread in the community. They can be treated with healthy microbes given via colonoscopy.

peoplespharmacy.com/articles/c…

Another potential culprit is the widespread use of acid-suppressing drugs such as esomeprazole, lansoprazole or omeprazole. People who take such heartburn medicine (think Nexium, Prevacid or Prilosec) on a regular basis are at increased risk for C. diff.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday evening he is appointing Ed Martin to be an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice with two jobs, Pardon Attorney and Director of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Weaponization Working Group.

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/b…

Israel's drone strike on Gaza Flotilla: MEMO in conversation with Ann Wright middleeastmonitor.com/20250508…

Uncovering the Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

Renowned journalist Gardiner Harris discusses unethical business practices in No More Tears, the Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson.

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Johnson’s Baby Powder was as American as apple pie. The company counted on the emotional associations with its baby products. The fragrance of its Baby Powder was linked to feelings of love and security. That was smart ...

in reply to HunDriverWidow

marketing.Continuing to sell a product contaminated with asbestos was something else, though. How did the company deal with this problem? And what did it tell the FDA?

Not all of the company’s business decisions are so laudable, and most are not so well-known. Few people are aware that the Johnson & Johnson company developed fentanyl, a potent opioid. It was originally invented by Dr. Paul Janssen, head of Janssen Pharmaceutica. When J&J acquired Janssen, it also acquired the rights to

Le sionistan doit être exclu de l’Eurovision !

Depuis plus de 17 mois, le sionistan mène une politique génocidaire contre le peuple palestinien.

L’art ne peut être neutre, et les organisateurs d’événements culturels doivent répondre de leurs choix.

Cette exigence de responsabilité est portée par les artistes eux-mêmes : 72 anciens candidats de l’Eurovision, dont trois Français, ont demandé l’exclusion du sionistan en raison de ses crimes.

Des milliers de Français, ainsi que des associations et collectifs de défense des droits humains, soutiennent cette demande. La mobilisation ne cessera pas tant que le sionistan ne sera pas exclu.

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Une crise éclate entre la France et l'Inde, Paris se trouvant dans une situation critique car il reçoit des signaux selon lesquels les acheteurs de ses armes sont réticents à les acheter.
Les Français tentent de rejeter la faute sur les pilotes indiens.
Paris crie :
La faute incombe aux pilotes indiens, pas au Rafale 🙃
Le Monde : « L’opération militaire au Pakistan révèle les faiblesses de l’armée de l’air indienne. »

Like Pope Francis, Pope Leo also previously called for an end to the death penalty, reposted messages against immigrant deportations, and Congress’ inaction on gun laws after mass shootings, Just the News reported.

justthenews.com/nation/religio…

Two IOF soldiers killed, six wounded in southern Gaza battles english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

Simone de Beauvoir: Never forget that it only takes one political, economic or religious crisis for women's rights to be put in jeopardy. Those rights are never to be taken for granted; you must remain vigilant throughout your life. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


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.


"In the #Covid pandemic & ensuing global economic meltdown of 2020 we were #InThisTogether & gonna #BuildBackBetter for a hot minute but when all was said & done the rich got richer (WAY richer) while everybody else got poorer, AGAIN."

podcastics.com/episode/357264/…

#WellBeingEconomy #Parkland #Oligarchy #Climate #TrumpCrash #DonutEconomics #cdnpoli #abpoli #yyc #ClimateAction

Tom Scholz is an MIT-trained engineer who designed and built his own recording studio in an apartment basement in the early 1970s. A fan of rock music throughout his teen years, Scholz began writing songs while earning his master's degree at MIT. The first "Boston" album was mostly recorded in his basement studio, primarily using devices he invented. minds.com/newsfeed/17675732526…

What do a tavern lunch and the battle for Palestine have in common? strategic-culture.su/news/2025…

Ladies and Gentlemen, our Director of the FBI, Kash Patel.
#FBI #Congress #FY2026 #budget #KashPatel

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Malcolm X: The number one weapon of 20th century imperialism is Zionist dollarism, and one of the main bases for this weapon is Zionist Israel. The ever-scheming European imperialists wisely placed Israel where she could geographically divide the Arab world, infiltrate and sow the seed of dissension among African leaders and also divide the Africans against the Asians. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


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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“Given the opportunity, the IRS will take the easy way out and grab whatever it can... the IRS does not really care about you and what your future... may be.”

~ Santo Presti
former IRS Criminal Investigation Agent and author of "IRS In Action"

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in reply to Sebastian Krzyszkowiak

So yesterday I saw a @postmarketOS toot about their web flasher for Android devices, and I thought - how hard would it be to make one for L5? Turns out - not hard at all. Here it is booting Jumpdrive.

Some caveats:
- requires permission setting on Linux 😔 I may work out-of-box on other platforms though
- it's sloooow, but there's hope: github.com/WebAssembly/design/…
- asks 5 times to allow access to the device. Could go down to 3, but no less than that.

#librem5 #linuxmobile #mobilelinux #nxp #imx

in reply to Linux G. Fossman

@opensourceopenmind @postmarketOS Yes, it needs WebUSB & WebHID and therefore Chromium. Dunno how well Chromium plays with Flatpak though, sounds like it could be fiddly.

I'm not sure I'm convinced about convenience being so much better. Definitely on Windows or macOS, but since uuu is packaged across distros it would seem to me that the option with the least friction is usually to just grab it from the repos. I'm willing to accept that I'm the weird one though 😜

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“I have sat on many a promotion panel where the first question of panel members was 'How many seizures have you made?'”

~ Joseph R. Smith
IRS agent for 18 years
testifying before Congress

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“The IRS is an extraordinary example of the end justifying the means. The means of this agency is growth. It is interesting that the revenue officers within the IRS refer to taxpayers as 'inventory'. The IRS embodies the political realities of the selfish human desire to dominate others. Thus the end of this gigantic pretense of officialdom is power, pure and simple. The meek may inherit the earth, but they will never receive a promotion in an agency where efficiency is…

Celui qui a donné à Adam, sans parents, une vie humaine distincte de la vie de toutes les autres créatures en respirant de Son esprit, est le même qui a donné à Jésus, sans père, cette vie humaine également. Et ce discours simple et clair est plus approprié que ces mythes sans fin sur la divinité du Christ, simplement parce qu'il est venu sans père, et sur la divinité des trois hypostases également.

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