​India Loses Its Top Fighter Jet, Implications For Future Air Combat orientalreview.su/2025/05/11/i…

Die deutsche Wirtschaft im freien Fall – mehr #Insolvenzen als bei der #Finanzkrise 2008


Die Zahl der #Firmenpleiten hat im April einen neuen #Höchststand erreicht. Seit fast 20 Jahren gab es keinen Monat, in dem mehr Unternehmen Insolvenz anmelden mussten.
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#apollonews

Trump welcomes Edan Alexander’s release as 'Israel' faces discord english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

Putin, Trump, Erdogan Can Steer Ukraine Conflict to Peace Agreement - US Economist Sachs sputnikglobe.com/20250512/puti…

Bible: For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 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.


Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought

Link: phys.org/news/2025-05-universe…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

The Hebrew “Calcalist” Newspaper: Advanced Yemeni missiles bypass the Israeli defenses thanks to maneuvering techniques dailyyemen.net/2025/05/11/the-…

scams within scams...

" if these decrees are still so vital, why has no covered entity requested their removal, even after fifty or sixty years? The silence is not noble. It is mercenary.

At its best, the American legal system uses consent decrees to right institutional wrongs. At its worst, it converts those wrongs into open-ended annuities for politically connected lawyers. The time has come to distinguish between the two."

x.com/amuse/status/19216846326…

This week's Other People's Music has some awesome selections from two of Mastodon's many fine musicians! @lislegaard delivers an awe inspiring album of experimental electronic music in collaboration with a tap dancer, while @liquid_clear proves there's still plenty of life left in industrial, so long as you're willing to take it down to the metal and rebuild it in new ways!

All that and more awaits!

etherdiver.com/2025/05/09/opm-…

@electronicmusic
@experimentalmusic
@ambientmusic
@avantgardemusic

NASA will host a live Twitch event to highlight the ongoing Moon Mascot Challenge, which invites the public to design a zero gravity indicator for the agency’s Artemis II crewed test flight around the Moon. Viewers will have the opportunity to provide real-time input to an artist who will create an example of a zero […]

Alexander Pope: Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. 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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If you want to support a *nix distro, that's awesome and I fully support you. What you shouldn't support is distributions locking features behind a paywall.

This is how you get Microsoft Windows and Copilot.

Absolutely proprietary


To answer your question--Windows is destructive to *nix boot sectors. When you update Windows, it will bork your *nix install. Dual booting with Windows is a real PITA.

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"But the experience that really opened my eyes to the corruption in industrial vaccine development involved being hired to do diligence and generate a comprehensive expert witness report concerning two legal cases involving the whistleblower (qui tam) cases brought by Stephen A. Krahling and Joan A. Wlochowski (former Merck employees) against Merck & Company, Inc.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy recently referred to these cases in an interview with Dr. Phil. "
malone.news/p/merck-mmr-malone…

Headed for Jupiter’s moon Europa, the spacecraft did some sightseeing, using a flyby of Mars to calibrate its infrared imaging instrument. On its recent swing by Mars, NASA’s Europa Clipper took the opportunity to capture infrared images of the Red Planet. The data will help mission scientists calibrate the spacecraft’s thermal imaging instrument so they […]

Kemal Tahir romanında tahrifat iddiası: ‘Kurt Kanunu’na 12 Eylül sansürü 50 yıl sonra ortaya çıktı
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> Talking to my seven year old daughter about one of the neighborhood boys.

> Me: When he acts like that, you should call him "the queen" and if he asks why tell him that he's acting like a girl and say....

> Daughter: .... oh... do you want to be a pretty girl who wears a dress and carries a purse 👜👌 maybe you could marry a man and kiss him. 💋

I'm raising a monster. 🥳

Oxfam: Starvation in #Gaza ‘deliberate, engineered’

from #MiddleEastMonitor
May 12, 2025 at 2:58 pm

"“For over two months, #Israel has enforced a total siege, blocking food, water, medicine and aid, while thousands of trucks filled with life-saving supplies ready for swift distribution, are waiting at the border, metres away, blocked from entering.”

He added that families are “wasting away from hunger”, while children are “malnourished” and “too weak to cry” as entire communities are surviving “without food or clean water”. #Oxfam’s field teams reported that in one displacement camp, only five of 500 families had any flour left to make bread."

middleeastmonitor.com/20250512…

#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopGazaGenocide
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine

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Keyboard loving friends! The Logitech bluetooth keyboard I am using is dying. The space bar works only intermittently (btw, if you've noticed a lot of weird missing spaces in my posts... now you know why). I can replace it with another $30 Logitech thingy, but I am really considering getting one of those funky mechanical keyboards... if I can find one that I can afford and won't regret buying.

For my followers who might be into that world, would love some budget recommendations.

JUST IN: Kristi Noem Issues Stern Warning as Trump Admin. Launches Landmark Investigation into California Providing Federal Benefits to Illegal Aliens

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/j…

#Browser #Extensions can be dangerous


source: bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…

If you have no idea about #cybersecurity and don't want to have one, then make sure you only install extensions that have been tested by #Mozilla.

Recommended Extensions - Extensions that carry this badge are carefully selected and meet rigorous standards in #security, functionality and user experience.

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#internet #web #www #software #addOn #check #test #news #danger #warning #risk #hack #hacker #surveillance

CrowdStrike CEO cuts his voting power by 92% with unexplained gifts

Link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Berlin is deporting four foreign residents after their participation in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza. Three are EU citizens, including two from Ireland.

The deportation orders are unlawful, but Berlin’s senate is going ahead anyway.

@hahauenstein #Germany #Gaza #Israel #freespeech #fascism

theintercept.com/2025/03/31/ge…

in reply to Ciarán Fahey

“You can see it in the U.S. and Germany, too: Political dissent is silenced by targeting the migration status of protesters.”
@hahauenstein nails it in the title of his article:
"Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook ..."
Similarities concerning repressive state action against migrants are outlined, but also German specialities:
" ... three of the four deportation orders cite Germany’s national pledge to defend Israel – the country’s Staatsräson, German for reason of state – as justification."

"Studies have shown that children begin to identify and punish autistic traits from a young age. Human beings reinforce social norms by hurting people who break them."

If you want to understand why autism is a disability and not just a quirk or a difference, reread this quote until the words find a permanent home in your brain.

"Human beings reinforce social norms by hurting people who break them."

"Human beings reinforce social norms by hurting people who break them."

"Human beings reinforce social norms by hurting people who break them."

This happens every. Single. Day.

observer.co.uk/news/first-pers…

#ActuallyAutistic
#Disability
#DisabilityRights
@actuallyautistic

in reply to Hungry Shorkboi

Not likely to feel deprived either, we have halal options for things like bacon and marshmallows that are made with beef instead of pork, and they actually taste better. Anything that is forbidden to us is for our benefit, and the food rules keep us healthy. The clothing rules keep us having a positive self image and being comfortable. Some people opt for more modest clothes than others. I have heard from sisters their reasons for choosing niqab or burqa, and it is always
something to do with boosting their confidence or feeling less stressed out about something they think os a flaw in their appearance. Like a saftey blanket for their self esteem. And I feel the same about thobes and kaftans as a man. I worry less about how I look when I wear longer clothes. Praying salah improves our stress levels and help our mental health. And so on. The reason to do practices is always because of making Allah (swt) happy with us, but the side benefits are known as "fruits" of practice. These usually improve physical or mental health, or quality of life. You can try Sunnah practices without converting if you want to see if I am telling the truth first. For example, try halal food or do wudu when you wake up. Try sleeping laying on your right side with your head cupped in your right hand. (Prevents your liver from sitting on top of your heart as happens when you sleep on the left, you get better sleep, also prevents a relaxed jaw from causing snoring as happens if you sleep on your back. Prevents nightmares and restless sleep, snoring, and stressing the heart or having a low oxygen situation.)
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There's a 2017 paper in nature that finds that adults form snap judgement of autistic people based on audio and/or visual cues only, within the first minutes. This even extends to still images.

If only given the text, no such judgement happens.

nature.com/articles/srep40700

George Habash: As long as you are still fighting in defense of your dignity and for your occupied land, all is well. 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.


Danger to Raja Eghbarieh’s life and health as occupation refuses to bring him to court #Palestine samidoun.net/2025/05/danger-to…

The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Dennis Leveson-Gower and Laura Iraci. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborative disposition needed to explore this world and beyond. Space Biosciences Star: Dennis Leveson-Gower Dennis Leveson-Gower, Assistant Branch Chief of Bioengineering, has contributed to numerous […]

TUI of P&R Communiqué of Solidarity with the Teachers and Workers of Nepal Against the Violent Repression of their Strike #WFTU labortoday.luel.us/en/tui-of-p…

📣 We're looking for communities and individuals interested in setting up their own Bonfire instances over the next weeks.
We need your help to:
- Use Bonfire in real-world scenarios
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California Governor Gavin Newsom and his fellow Democrat cronies are in hot water with Team Trump for openly flouting immigration law, and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has a brutal message for those illegal aliens and states who continue to break the law.

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/j…

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@Java Hey Rose, this isn’t popular to say these days but the time for stern warnings have long past. It’s time to start enforcing the laws on the books as they apply to everyone. Dem Congress persons storming ICE facilities, giving Social Security to illegals and other crimes need to see justice served!