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The hardline immigration policy of the Trump administration is beginning to show its consequences. According to a CNN report, at least seven undocumented migrants have died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody so far in 2025, an in…
Israel-Saudi normalization negotiations have reportedly been 'de-linked' from Washington's talks with Riyadh due to Netanyahu's refusal to reach a Gaza ceasefire
Hat es bei der @tagesschau einen Personalwechsel gegeben? Oder ist die Angst, wegen Beihilfe zum Völkermord angeklagt zu werden, doch zu groß geworden?
Die erste Reise außerhalb Europas führte den neuen Außenminister nach Israel. Für Wadephul war es ein Balanceakt zwischen deutscher Verantwortung und deutlichen Worten.
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.
Every level in Stickman Hook is like a trapeze act in which you shine. The difficulty picks up quickly, with changing hurdles, tighter hooks, and abrupt drops needing exact timing.
Sure millions will suffer under the Trump tariffs, but my succulents are THRIVING with all the extra attention my stress relief garden's getting! 💁♀️🌵✨
Les moyens de transports moins chers et privilégiés par les personnes sans papiers sont la cible des contrôles d’identité au faciès. La France mérite mieux en matière de politique migratoire que cet acharnement discriminatoires envers les plus précaires. streetpress.com/sujet/17458511…
Dans les Flixbus et Blablacar, moins chers que les trains, les contrôles d'identité et au faciès s’accentuent sur les routes de France. Pour les personnes sans papiers, ce moyen de transport souvent privilégié est de moins en moins sûr.
« L’idée que je cherche à défendre à travers ces deux hypothèses est qu’il faut réfléchir au sens que l’on donne aux manifestations. À la fois dans leur rôle qu’elles peuvent jouer dans nos plans politiques, mais aussi au sens qui donnent envie aux gens de s’y joindre et de les défendre avec leur corps quand il est nécessaire. Car rien ne donne plus de force et de courage que de défendre quelque chose auquel on tient au plus profond de nous-mêmes. »
Soumission anonyme à MTL Contre-info Une question flotte dans le milieu anarchiste depuis quelques temps. Quel est le rôle que doivent/peuvent jouer les manifestations dans la politique que nous menons? Voici un point de vue situé sur la question.
The fourth round of indirect talks between Iran and the United States wrapped up in Oman on Sunday, with Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei describing the discussions as “difficult but useful,” aimed at narrowing major gaps on nuclear-…
Faute de moyens dans les services publics concernés, force est de constater que les enfants en danger sont de moins en moins bien protégés. La #LDH rappelle la nécessité d’un plan d’urgence pour la protection de l’enfance en danger. leparisien.fr/yvelines-78/enfa…
À la suite des recours déposés par plusieurs familles de mineurs placés, le conseil départemental détaille les mesures mises en place pour la détection et la prise en charge de ce phénomène.
The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
or
OSI's Open Source definition:
The Open Source Definition Page created on July 7, 2006 | Last modified on February 16, 2024> Introduction Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open source software must comply with the following criteria:
Free Redistribution The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
Source Code The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost, preferably downloading via the Internet without charge. The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.
Derived Works The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
Integrity of The Author’s Source Code The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form only if the license allows the distribution of “patch files” with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. The license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code. The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the original software.
No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
Distribution of License The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.
License Must Not Be Specific to a Product The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program’s being part of a particular software distribution. If the program is extracted from that distribution and used or distributed within the terms of the program’s license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the original software distribution.
License Must Not Restrict Other Software The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open source software.
License Must Be Technology-Neutral No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of interface.
The Open Source Definition was originally derived from the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG).
Version 1.9, last modified, 2007-03-22
Here’s the historical “Annotated OSD” from the early 2000’s.
I remember there being a 50something point definition from OSI, back when I started... but even in this 10 point version...
Do you agree to be held to all those points? Do you agree to hold others to those points? Do you have the right interpretation of their ambiguities? Do you have impeccably high moral standing such that you would not commit abuses by abusing the letter of the poorly written "law"? Do you agree to all future version changes?
Free Software's definition does not seem to want to change as much, nor tries impart more than it is. Free Software definition, itself, like that part of "unix philosophy". Do one thing, well.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed during a Sunday press conference that Kiev resume direct talks without preconditions on May 15 in Istanbul.
Au sortir de la seconde guerre mondiale, la France coloniale massacre à Thiaroye (1944), Sétif et Guelma (1945), Haïphong (1946). Et à Madagascar(1947), avec des dizaines de milliers de morts. Récit. histoirecoloniale.net/madagascar-1...
Alors qu'une "commission mixte" a été annoncée par la France, Alain Ruscio fait ici le récit de la terrible répression survenue après l'insurrection indépendantiste de 1947.
Blocking out the Sun is quite normal these days. Been done for many years.
Stop watching Netflix and they will stop their evil schemes. Just like that. Oh, no. It's probably better not to watch movies, but spent the evenings worrying yourself to death.
El ejército de ocupación intensifica la demolición de edificios en los campos de refugiados de Nur Shams y Tulkarm, al noroeste de #Cisjordania. es.mdn.tv/8RyK
Thich Nhat Hanh: In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Look at this horse. Beautiful, tremendous horse, maybe the best horse ever made, and they say it’s a gift from the Greeks. I love the Greeks, great country, great baklava. Some people, the haters, the fake news crowd, they said, “Don’t take it, Mr. President, it’s a trick!” But I know deals, okay? There’s nothing to worry about, it’s just a big, beautiful horse, and we’re going to enjoy it. We’re bringing it in, we're making America great again. Free horse, folks. You don’t turn that down.
That is my biggest issue with this deal, beyond the emoluments violation, beyond the obvious bribery and corruption. The president is planning to fly in a plane that is guaranteed to be full of espionage equipment, tracking equipment, and possibly navigation equipment capable of taking control of the aircraft, all completely controlled by the government of Qatar.
@kaidenshi Like are we so poor a nation that we can't afford to build the President's flying fortress ourselves. Why are we taking handouts from the Middle East.
Exactly! Not to mention one of his companies recently signed a deal to build a luxury golf course in Qatar. It's all one big grift and it's how he's always enriched himself: Quid pro quo.
Pars Today- The period of adolescence for girls is accompanied with physical, emotional and social changes which can be challenging. The emotional support...
White House chief Donald Trump has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposed resumption of talks with Ukraine could be a “great day” for Moscow and Kiev.
The documentary film “The Encampments” shares the inspiring story of how students brought Columbia University to a standstill, and the issue of Palestine to millions around the world.
This is the Grand Haft Sîn at Westfield Century City here in Los Angeles! The Creature and I attended a really lovely Nowruz celebration there this past weekend, and even documented this beautiful daf performance.
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.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin to welcome the possibility of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine resuming in Istanbul.
Die #Antisemitismus-Definition der #IHRA, auf die sich #CDU/ #CSU, #SPD & #Grüne berufen, steht internat. in der Kritik. Die Definition der Jerusalem Erklärung, auf die sich #Linke beruft, hingegen nicht & wird daher auch im Ausland mehrheitlich die verwendet
Beim Tagesspiegel lügt man das Gegenteil herbei. Sucht bei ausländischen Medien wie bbc, Guardian, CNN & überzeugt euch selbst.
Auf dem Parteitag im Chemnitz sucht die Linke ihre Rolle – zwischen Kapitalismuskritik und dem Wunsch nach Anerkennung. Zugleich kämpft die Partei um ihre Haltung zu Israel – wieder einmal.
Abdulla Aripov, the prime minister of Uzbekistan, is visiting Iran, where he will conduct meetings with Iranian officials and attend a joint business session with economic leaders from both countries.
Port Sudan’s Mapina Hotel is one of those relics of the past that gets under your skin. The type of place that was once a shining beacon of luxury and western
Re this from @cdarwin, I can’t help but note that Loomer’s objection is not that Trump takes bribes; it’s that he took a bribe from the wrong (brown) people. c.im/@cdarwin/1144910281761726…
A guide to selecting safe, space-efficient roller coasters for high-traffic retail environments.
In the evolving landscape of retailtainment, shopping malls are no longer just spaces for commerce—they're immersive environments where entertainment plays a central role in driving footfall and increasing dwell time. Among the various indoor attractions available today, the dragon roller coaster stands out as a versatile and visually captivating ride that balances moderate thrill with family-friendly appeal. Selecting the right model for mall integration demands a careful assessment of space constraints, audience profiles, and theming compatibility.
Tailored Designs for Indoor Integration
The <a href="https://bestonamusementrides.com/roller-coaster/dragon/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">dragon roller coaster</a> inspired by Eastern mythological aesthetics, is a perennial favorite in compact amusement settings. Its undulating track layout and iconic serpentine train design offer a visually engaging experience that resonates with a broad age demographic. When implemented inside a mall, spatial limitations often necessitate a more calculated engineering approach—track length, curvature radius, and elevation must be optimized to preserve excitement within a reduced footprint.
Ride heights typically range from 2.5 to 4 meters, ensuring that the installation complies with common indoor ceiling restrictions. Track lengths average between 60 to 120 meters, depending on the design model. These configurations allow for multiple thematic embellishments, including LED-integrated scales, sound-activated roars, and synchronized fog effects that enhance rider immersion without compromising mall aesthetics or traffic circulation.
Working closely with an experienced amusement park ride manufacturer ensures that these rides are not merely retrofitted into existing infrastructure but are custom-built to align with the mall’s branding strategy and safety regulations. Manufacturers with strong R&D capabilities can provide solutions that include noise-dampening systems, modular installation, and smart ride diagnostics—all critical features in high-footfall, noise-sensitive environments like malls.
Evaluating Suitable Dragon Roller Coaster Models
For mall operators, choosing the correct model is pivotal. There are several proven configurations that balance excitement with scalability:
1. Mini Dragon Coaster
Designed specifically for younger riders, this model features a gentle slope and slower speeds. The train, usually composed of 5 to 7 connected dragon-shaped cars, traverses a looped oval or figure-eight track. Despite its compact dimensions—typically under 80 square meters—the ride maintains a high visual presence through dynamic lighting and motion. This is ideal for ground-floor installations where visibility attracts impulse riders.
Elevated Track Dragon Coaster
This mid-sized variation features more pronounced elevation changes and faster acceleration. Suited for slightly older children and teenagers, the ride introduces shallow drops and curved banks that increase the thrill factor while still remaining safe and predictable. The elevated track can be designed to pass over kiosks, waiting areas, or small decorative elements, maximizing use of vertical space. Partnering with an experienced <a href="https://bestonamusementrides.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">amusement park ride manufacturer</a> ensures that these elevated coasters are engineered with precise load distribution, structural integrity, and compliance with indoor safety standards, making them a reliable option for mall-based installations.
Themed Tunnel Dragon Coaster
Integrating scenic tunnels or semi-dark environments enhances mystery and anticipation. With sensory effects like vibrating tracks, ambient sounds, and projection mapping, this type of dragon coaster appeals to experience-seeking mall visitors. It's particularly effective in malls with designated family entertainment zones or areas earmarked for immersive attractions.
Custom Looping Mini Coaster
Though less common in indoor settings, some malls with high ceilings or atrium areas can accommodate a looping segment. Manufacturers capable of advanced steel fabrication and precision engineering can deliver compact coasters that feature a single, slow-speed loop, creating a wow factor that distinguishes the mall’s entertainment offerings from competitors.
Power Requirements: Most indoor dragon coasters operate on 3-phase power systems with energy-efficient motors. Ensuring compatibility with the mall’s existing grid avoids excessive retrofitting.
Footprint Versatility: Modular track systems allow the ride to be relocated or reconfigured in case of mall layout changes. This is especially valuable for malls undergoing seasonal rebranding or promotional space shifts.
Queue Design: Given limited floor space, single-entry queue systems with overhead digital signage optimize crowd management. Pre-ticketing and RFID entry systems further streamline operations.
Maintenance Protocols: Regular inspections, component lubrication, and track realignment are essential. A reputable amusement park ride manufacturer typically provides remote diagnostics software and training packages for in-house technicians, reducing reliance on third-party servicing.
Enhancing Revenue Potential Through Ride Integration
Dragon coasters are more than standalone attractions—they can anchor themed zones or integrate with retail and F&B strategies. For instance:
Photo Booth Upsell: Install automated photo-capture systems at high-thrill segments and offer printed or digital photos at the exit.
Branded Merchandise: Partner with IP licenses (e.g., animated dragon characters) to sell co-branded plush toys or collectibles.
Augmented Reality Tie-ins: Use QR codes along the queue to engage visitors with games or previews, increasing dwell time and cross-promotion with digital channels.
Safety and Compliance in Enclosed Spaces
Indoor environments require enhanced attention to safety. Emergency egress paths, fire suppression systems, and ceiling clearance are just the start. Dragon coasters intended for malls must adhere to regional standards such as EN 13814, ASTM F2291, or local building codes.
Further, noise levels must be controlled below 70 dB to avoid interfering with retail ambience. Manufacturers often encase drive systems in acoustic foam or use rubber-mounted track supports to minimize vibration transmission.
Final Thoughts
As shopping malls transform into hybrid commercial-entertainment complexes, integrating amusement rides such as dragon roller coasters becomes a strategic move rather than a novelty. With compact design, modular adaptability, and wide demographic appeal, these coasters can significantly enhance the experiential profile of a mall. However, successful deployment hinges on choosing the right specifications and collaborating with a technically proficient amusement park ride manufacturer that understands the nuanced requirements of indoor installations.
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In all seriousness. this mural was done by Mel Depaz, AngelOnce, and GoopMassta.
Depaz is quicky becoming my favorite mural artist in LA, and it's so cool to start to recognize aspects of her visual style when I'm travelling around Los Angeles!
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.
Our director of publication and editor-in-chief directed French magazines several years ago, and has won journalism awards abroad. He has regularly contributed to some fifteen major dailies and magazines around the world.
In the competitive world of construction, efficiency and cost-effectiveness are paramount. The self-loading concrete mixer has become an essential tool, offering mobility and independence by combining mixing and transportation capabilities into one unit. However, for many small to mid-sized contractors, the challenge often lies in finding a balance between cost and performance. With self loading concrete mixer machine price significantly above \$40,000, it’s crucial to identify models that offer exceptional value without breaking the bank. This article explores the best standard self-loading mixers available for under \$40K, designed to provide maximum productivity while keeping costs in check.
Top Self-Loading Mixers Under \$40K
Key Features and Benefits of Affordable Models
Affordable self-loading mixers under \$40K are built to deliver high performance without compromising on essential features. While premium models offer cutting-edge technology, standard versions still pack a punch with features that make them ideal for smaller projects and tight budgets. The primary advantages of these mixers include:
Ease of Use: Even at lower price points, these models feature user-friendly interfaces that make operation straightforward, reducing the learning curve and downtime.
Efficiency: These mixers allow for quicker turnaround times on-site by combining mixing and loading functions, cutting down the need for separate transport or manual labor.
Mobility: Their compact design ensures they can move easily across varied terrains, making them perfect for rural and smaller job sites.
Durability: Despite the lower price, these models are still built to withstand harsh conditions, offering reliable performance over time.
These features ensure that even budget-friendly options can still be high-performing and versatile, proving that affordability does not equate to sacrificing quality.
Best Models and Their Specifications
Several self-loading concrete mixers under \$40K have earned their place as reliable workhorses in the market. Some of the top contenders include:
AIMIX AS-1.8 Self-Loading Concrete Mixer: With a price point well under \$40K, this mini concrete mixer self loading model offers a capacity of 1.8m³, making it an ideal option for medium-sized projects. The 4-wheel drive system and efficient mixing mechanism ensure high productivity, even in tough working environments.
SANY SYM-2.0 Self-Loading Concrete Mixer: A robust, 2.0m³ mixer designed for both urban and rural construction needs. SANY’s model includes a heavy-duty engine and simplified control systems, ensuring ease of operation and reliable performance at a reasonable cost.
JBC-45 Self-Loading Mixer: Known for its ability to work in confined spaces, this 4m³ capacity model is a great fit for smaller construction projects that require frequent concrete mixes without high capital investment. The versatility and efficiency make it a leading choice under \$40K.
These models combine affordability with essential features, offering excellent value for contractors looking to maximize performance while maintaining budget constraints.
Making the Right Choice: Cost vs. Performance
Evaluating Long-Term Value
When deciding between affordable self-loading mixers, it’s crucial to consider not only the initial cost but also the long-term value. A lower concrete mixer price in Ethiopia doesn’t always mean the best deal if the total cost of ownership (including maintenance, fuel consumption, and operational efficiency) is higher in the long run. Many of these mixers are designed to minimize maintenance requirements, reducing the frequency and cost of repairs over their lifespan. By factoring in these considerations, contractors can ensure that the initial savings are not overshadowed by higher future expenses.
Tips for Choosing the Right Mixer Within Budget
Selecting the right mixer involves more than just looking at the price tag. Here are some tips to help make the best choice within the \$40K budget:
Assess Project Needs: Determine the typical job sizes and material requirements to choose a model that suits your workload.
Prioritize Durability: Ensure the model has a reputation for reliability and can withstand frequent use.
Consider Resale Value: Some brands hold their value better than others, providing the opportunity for resale if you upgrade later.
Check for Fuel Efficiency: The more efficient the mixer is with fuel consumption, the more cost-effective it will be over time.
By carefully evaluating these factors, businesses can select a self-loading mixer that balances cost-effectiveness and performance, ultimately making it a wise investment.
In conclusion, affordable self-loading concrete mixers under \$40K offer significant value for construction professionals who need reliable, versatile, and efficient equipment without breaking their budget. While there are several excellent models to choose from, the key is to assess your unique needs and carefully evaluate the long-term value of each option. By striking the right balance between cost and performance, contractors can secure a reliable mixer that delivers consistent results for years to come.
President Trump won the 2024 election in a landslide, winning the US Presidency with 312 electoral votes, all of the battleground states, the popular vote, the US House of Representatives, The US Senate and 2750 counties across the country.
Not ADHD (as far as I can tell), but this from @adhd_coffee was genuinely useful to me in understanding (and hopefully supporting) several folks I know. mastodon.social/@adhd_coffee/1…
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We rescue 12 babies from a burning house without thinking about it, but that I should do my tax return in the next 3 months gives me a nervous breakdown.
#adhd #meme #adhs #mentalhealth
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.
What a Junior Engineer Can Teach Us About a Time When America Really Was Great We’re told we’ve never had it better. America and Americans are rich, they say. That wages are up, quality of life is high, and progress marches on.
@Activist Post Too bad so few people are left alive that actually remember what it was like in 1910, most people had no electricity, no centralized heating or cooling, no washing machines or dryers, no refrigerators, went to the bathroom in an outhouse. Obviously your idea of rich is skewed as is your knowledge of history.
In a written statement on Friday, the Presidency of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) 12th Congress said the following:
“The PKK’s 12th Congress was successfully held in the Medya Defense Zones between 5 and 7 May. The congress was conducted in two different areas in parallel with delegates representing all branches of the party.
The PKK’s 12th Congress convened upon the call of Leader Abdullah Öcalan. The congress, first of all, greeted Leader Apo with longing and respect, and read and evaluated the perspectives and proposals presented by Leader Abdullah Öcalan to the congress. In addition, a brief report of the PKK Central Committee was read and discussed at the congress.
Within this framework, the PKK’s 12th Congress, on the basis of Leader Apo’s call, took decisions of historic importance concerning the PKK.
Held in May, the Month of Martyrs, the 12th PKK Congress commemorated all the heroic martyrs of the 52‑year struggle with respect and gratitude. The Congress called on our patriotic people and all democratic socialist forces to properly embrace and live in accordance with all the national and democratic values that this great 52‑year struggle has brought forth.
The 12th PKK Congress also commemorated Martyr Sırrı Süreyya Önder with respect and gratitude, one of those who contributed most to the Congress’ preparation. The Congress called on everyone to work together to achieve the peace and democratic‑society goals of Sırrı Süreyya Önder, a comrade to Leader Apo for 12 years.
Extensive and detailed information and documents regarding the outcomes and decisions of the 12th PKK Congress will be shared with the public very soon, after the results from the two different areas are combined.
On this basis, we once again commemorate all our heroic martyrs -in the person of our first great martyr, Comrade Haki Karer- with respect and gratitude; we call on our patriotic people and pro-democracy friends to commemorate our heroic martyrs in every field and to further raise the struggle for the freedom of Leader Apo.”
Hacker and free speech advocate Retro Guy has passed away.
I have been away from the Internet for at least a couple months. I came to quickly check my feeds and I am sad to have found report of the passing away of a very cool hacker, Thom Miller, known by the handle, Retro Guy. According to his wife Kaylen Miller, Thom died about two weeks ago from pancreatic cancer. He had a years-long struggle with cancer and multiple therapies and surgeries. During all the time of his illness he continued to hack away providing network access and software updates absolutely free to his user base. He was a strong believer in the value of open and decentralized communication for all. His software is simple and awesome, and useful for censorship-resistant communication. (gitlab.com/rslight-public/rock…)
Thom, known as Retro Guy, created the Rocksolid Light NNTP forums and server software. He served the hacker community as a free speech advocate and provider of free speech communication networking. He refused to censor opinions that he found offensive or stupid on the principle of the golden rule. He endured a lot of annoyances to provide service for many. Thom maintained the software for years giving web-based NNTP access to countless users. Thom was always helpful and patient with users needing assistance, even when he was feeling ill and suffering. He pushed through his pain to serve others with something he believed was a necessary tool and blessing for the general public.
I am sad to learn of Thom's passing. He will be missed and remembered. I will remember him by continuing to run his software.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to the Kiev authorities to resume without preconditions the direct talks they had interrupted at the end of 2022
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