Very good summary of Wynn-Williams "Careless people" by @pluralistic
"Facebook bosses aren't just "careless" because they refuse to read a briefing note that's longer than a tweet. They're "careless" in the sense that they arrive at a juncture where they don't have to care who they harm, whom they enrage, who they ruin."
Pyongyang, May 10 (KCNA) — The Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPR…Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
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Isle Royale National Park (Mott Island) and Padre Island National Seashore ( Malaquite Beach) today.
For more information nps.gov/isro/index.htm and nps.gov/pais/index.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit National Park Service #IsleRoyale #miwx #lake #spring #michigan #vessel #transportation #texas #seashore #nationalseashore #txwx #padreisland
Explore a rugged, isolated island far from our connected communities. Isle Royale offers adventures for backpackers, hikers, boaters, paddlers, and divers.www.nps.gov
Das sind die Partner, die gemeinsam mit der #EZB #Zahlungsfunktionen und #Anwendungsfälle des digitalen Euro untersuchen:
ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/20…
#Bargeld #Bargeldverbot #Überwachung #Orwell #1984 #CBDC #E-Euro #DigitalerEuro #D€ #Freiheit
#SelberDenken #SelbstDenken #BitCoin #DigitaleID #KI
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There is still a lot more to be learned about the latest encounter between the Pakistani and Indian Air Forces. There may be more bad news.Stephen Bryen (Oriental Review)
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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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.Hannes Märtin (Apollo News)
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Wir erleben einen beispiellosen Anschlag auf die Demokratie in Deutschland: Erstmals in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik wird darauf hingearbeitet, mit der AfD die stärkste Oppositionspartei zu verbieten.Petition für Demokratie
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Donald Trump welcomes Hamas's move to release Edan Alexander, a US-Israeli captive, calling it a step toward ending the Gaza war, as "Israel" faces internal criticism.Al Mayadeen English (Trump welcomes Edan Alexander’s release as 'Israel' faces discord)
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The leaders of the United States, Turkey, and Russia will be able to navigate Ukraine into a peace settlement, renowned American economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs told RIA Novosti.Sputnik International
finally got both of these steering knuckles off of the acura so i can try to press out the bearing and replace that one broken wheel stud
i realized something, i think the vibrating boing boing noise might be a pulsing due to an ABS sensor malfuction. the axles and brakes and everything else feels fine
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/…
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- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
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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 universe is decaying much faster than thought. This is shown by calculations of three Dutch scientists on the so-called Hawking radiation. They calculate that the last stellar remnants take about 1078 years to perish.Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (Phys.org)
The Hebrew newspaper “Calcalist” revealed that the ballistic missiles launched by the Yemeni Armed Forces have been able to penetrate the Israeli air defenses and hit their targets accurately, thanks to the advanced techniques they possess in maneuvDAILY YEMEN
The great @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social is so damn right about this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘Cheap foreign labour’ – this ...
The government’s claims about immigration driving down wages are so demonstrably untrue, it’s hard to feel the appropriate level of outrageZoe Williams (The Guardian)
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" 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."
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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!
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@electronicmusic
@experimentalmusic
@ambientmusic
@avantgardemusic
On 8 March, activist Daniel Day breached parliamentary security to climb 25 meters up Big Ben, the iconic clock tower of the Houses of Parliament in London. ...YouTube
it sounds like a great deal
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> Pope Leo XIV: “How do we teach people to become critical thinkers?”
good one coming from someone who believes in an invisible man in the sky
The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin.
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Alexander Pope: Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
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A paid version of Linux (almost) isn't a thing. You can buy the install media, you can donate to a foundation, or you can subscribe for support.
If you're paying for the software, ~~it's not Linux or your being cheated~~. That's weird and I didn't know that.
Ignoring Red Hat which according to the Software Freedom Conservancy organization are GPL violators.
But with Ubuntu it depends on whether you consider paid repositories features or support. Sure you can just compile it yourself but that's kinda the same thing Zorin is doing:
lemmy.world/post/29546682/1701…
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.
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.
Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read
Link: bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/2131…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Expert witness report in the case of Stephen A. Krahling and Joan A. Wlochowski vs Merck & Company, Inc.Robert W Malone MD, MS (Malone News)
I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
Link: alexschapiro.com/blog/security…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Startups Need to Take Security SeriouslyAlex Schapiro
using #chlorine-dioxide to clear #glyphosate?
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Nay, nary do they grasp the complexities of that which I have I penned abroad,
Currently all of my esteemed African fellows are of the National Socialist Workers' Party,
My fellow colored Africans, proclaiming Heil Hitler
US treasury secretary calls talks "productive", promises complete briefing on the outcome on Monday.AFP (DAWN.COM)
The Barbican
Link: arslan.io/2025/05/12/barbican-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Three years ago, while searching for Vitsoe setups, I stumbled upon Barbican. I delved deeper and discovered a building complex that that was beyond my imaginations. Young Fatih would definitely find it ugly; current me finds it beautiful.Fatih Arslan
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This photo taken on May 10, 2025 shows a view of the Port of Los Angeles in California, the Uniteden.people.cn
Doç. Dr. Nuri Sağlam: Kemal Tahir romanlarının yayım hakkı 12 Eylül döneminde Tekin Yayınevi’ne geçince, yayınevi, ‘Kurt Kanunu’ üzerinde birçok tahrifat yapmış ve bu şimdiye kadar hiç kimsenin dikkatini çekmemiş.KARAR
Ursula von der Leyen’s political identity – and her vision of the role of the EU – are more and more in line with Nazi…Strategic Culture Foundation
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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. 🥳
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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
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…
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 br…Cullen Linebarger (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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.
source: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/a…
#internet #web #www #software #addOn #check #test #news #danger #warning #risk #hack #hacker #surveillance
You’ll know if an extension is being regularly reviewed if it has one of the badges listed in this article.support.mozilla.org
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CrowdStrike CEO cuts his voting power by 92% with unexplained gifts
Link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer George Kurtz disclosed last month that he’d gifted over $1 billion worth of his company’s stock to undisclosed recipients, sharply reducing his influence over the company in an unusual move for a tech…Dylan Sloan (Bloomberg)
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…
Four Gaza protesters in Germany are set for deportations despite objections from an immigration official that none were convicted of crimes.Hanno Hauenstein (The Intercept)
"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
An autism diagnosis helped Laurie Penny make sense of their experiences, but its real value was in helping them understand the rest of societyLaurie Penny (The Observer)
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.
Scientific Reports - Neurotypical Peers are Less Willing to Interact with Those with Autism based on Thin Slice JudgmentsNature
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/…
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- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Serious concerns about the health and well-being of imprisoned Palestinian leader Raja Eghbarieh are being raised by his family and comrades. Eghbarieh, 73, is a leading figure in Abnaa al-Balad, t…Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
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in reply to Julia's Reruns Bot • • •but good info, nonetheless.