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Andrei Zhdanov: Under the leadership of Comrade Stalin, the Party is organizing the masses for the struggle to destroy capitalist elements once and for all, to eradicate the vestiges of capitalism in our economy and in people's minds, and to complete the technical reconstruction of our national economy. The eradication of vestiges of capitalism in people's consciousness means struggle against every vestige of bourgeois influence over the proletariat, against laxity, frivolity or idling, against petty-bourgeois license and individualism, against graft and dishonesty towards social property. We hold a trusty weapon to overcome all the difficulties in our path. This weapon is the great and invincible teaching of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, now being put into practice by our Party. 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.


Reviving a Modular Cargo Bike Design from the 1930s - Core77


#transportation #cycling

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Palestinian Journalist Assassinated in Israeli Strike on Gaza Hospital #Palestine qudsnen.co/palestinian-journal…

Duterte Wins Election for Mayor of Davao from ICC Prison Cell eir.news/2025/05/news/duterte-…

Thank you for your service, Galileo GSAT0104


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Galileo In-Orbit Validation satellite

On 12 March 2013, Galileo satellite GSAT0104, alongside its fellow In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites, made history by enabling the first position fix by Europe’s independent satellite navigation system Galileo. Now, after 12 years of service mostly in the area of Search and Rescue, GSAT0104 makes history again by becoming the first satellite in the Galileo constellation to be decommissioned.

#navigaton #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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"This week in KDE Apps" brings optimizations galore!

Look out for boosts to Krita's text rendering, improvements to Kdenlive's online resource and audio thumbnail rendering, Qrca's better battery usage, reduced memory usage in NeoChat, and more.

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#apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #videoediting #design #matrix

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Israel Shahak: The Nazis made me afraid to be a Jew, and the Israelis make me ashamed to be a Jew. 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.


Divination for the Future: Who will be tasked with gazing into the "Digital Crystal Ball" to Protect Future Generations? drjacobnordangard.substack.com…

Fifteen people killed in Gaza after Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter eu.eot.su/2025/05/12/fifteen-p…

Die rechte israelische Gruppe "NGO Monitor" hat auch in der Schweiz für Reputationsschäden bei palästinensischen Hilfsorganisationen gesorgt. Im Fall von Al-Shabaka hat diese Dämonisierung nun Konsequenzen:
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Pesticides : « Les agriculteurs, les riverains et les citoyens ne veulent plus servir de cobayes », alertent 1 200 médecins et scientifiques


#environnement #agriculture #pollution #santé #biodiversité

Dans une lettre ouverte aux ministres de l’agriculture, de la santé et de l’environnement rendue publique lundi 5 mai, des centaines de médecins et de scientifiques s’opposent aux dispositions de la proposition de loi du sénateur républicain Laurent Duplomb.
Lors d’un rassemblement d’apiculteurs contre la loi Duplomb, sur un marché de Toulouse, le 27 avril 2025.

Réintroduire des produits « tueurs d’abeilles » interdits, placer le « gendarme » des pesticides sous la houlette des filières agricoles, maintenir l’évaluation des molécules sous la coupe de leurs fabricants, écarter la littérature scientifique de l’analyse des risques… Dans une lettre ouverte rendue publique lundi 5 mai, plus de 1 200 médecins et scientifiques alertent les ministres de l’agriculture, de la santé et de l’environnement sur les failles du système d’homologation de ces produits, qui font de la population des « cobayes », écrivent les signataires.

Parmi eux, plusieurs centaines de médecins, mais aussi de nombreux membres des communautés scientifiques impliquées (toxicologie, écotoxicologie, agronomie, etc.) issus des universités et des organismes de recherche publics (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS ; Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement, Inrae ; Institut de recherche pour le développement ; Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement).

Les signataires demandent le renforcement de l’expertise réglementaire et s’opposent aux dispositions de la proposition de loi du sénateur de la Haute-Loire Laurent Duplomb (Les Républicains), qui doit être examinée par les députés avant la fin du mois de mai. « Cette proposition de loi contient de nombreuses mesures qui vont renforcer la dépendance des agriculteurs aux pesticides chimiques de synthèse, sans pour autant répondre à leur demande de rémunération juste, dénoncent les signataires. Or, cette dépendance pose déjà d’énormes problèmes de santé humaine et de dégradation de l’environnement. »
« Faits scientifiques incontestables »

Portée par plusieurs organisations de médecins (Médecins du monde, Alerte des médecins sur les pesticides), la lettre met en avant les données déjà acquises sur les effets sanitaires et environnementaux de ces intrants. « La liste des pathologies en lien avec l’exposition professionnelle aux pesticides ne cesse de s’allonger, tout comme celle des pathologies impactant la population générale, en particulier par la contamination lors de fenêtres de vulnérabilité comme la grossesse, ajoutent les signataires. Deux expertises collectives, celle de l’Inserm [Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale], en 2021, et celle de l’Inrae, en 2022, ont permis d’établir des faits scientifiques incontestables, écrivent les signataires. La contamination par les pesticides de tous les milieux et du biote [faune et flore] qui y vit est généralisée et tous les niveaux d’organisation biologique sont impactés. »

Les signataires rappellent que l’évaluation des risques de ces substances demeure « dépendante des données fournies par les industriels » ; que les tests réglementaires « n’explorent pas tous les risques potentiels » comme, par exemple, les propriétés de perturbation endocrinienne ; que la littérature scientifique « est trop souvent marginalisée » dans les procédures d’homologation.

Enfin, ils soulignent que les risques liés à l’exposition chronique des produits réellement utilisés sur les parcelles et les effets potentiels des mélanges (« effet cocktail ») ne sont pas évalués avant autorisation de mise sur le marché. « Agriculteurs, riverains, citoyens ne veulent plus servir de cobayes à l’évaluation de “l’effet cocktail” de toutes ces substances disséminées dans l’environnement, et que l’on retrouve dans l’eau du robinet, les eaux minérales, et nos aliments », plaident-ils.
Le retour de trois néonicotinoïdes interdits

Ceux-ci s’en prennent aussi à la proposition de loi Duplomb, qui prévoit notamment la création d’un « conseil d’orientation pour la protection des cultures », composé de représentants des filières agricoles et de l’industrie des pesticides, qui superviserait l’agenda de travail de l’Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (Anses). Cela reviendrait, selon les 1 200 chercheurs et médecins signataires, « à une remise en cause de la place de l’expertise à travers un affaiblissement du rôle de l’Anses ». Auditionné à l’Assemblée nationale le 25 mars, le directeur général de l’Anses, Benoît Vallet, avait déclaré qu’une telle mise sous tutelle de l’agence reviendrait à une forme de rupture de contrat. « Pour moi, il n’y aurait plus la possibilité de rester directeur général de l’agence », avait-il précisé.

« La loi Duplomb sacrifie la santé et en premier lieu celle des agriculteurs au profit de l’industrie agrochimique, et constitue une grave remise en cause de l’indépendance de la science, comme on le voit aux Etats-Unis », estime Marc Billaud, chercheur au CNRS, signataire du courrier aux ministres et coauteur – avec le professeur d’hématologie aux Hospices civils de Lyon et à l’université Lyon-I Pierre Sujobert – d’un article dénonçant les manœuvres d’occultation des liens entre pesticides et cancers du sang, dans la prochaine édition de la Revue de biologie médicale.

Autre point de crispation : le retour de trois néonicotinoïdes ou apparentés, interdits au terme de plus d’un millier d’études publiées dans littérature scientifique, expliquent les signataires, pour les risques qu’ils font peser sur les abeilles et les insectes pollinisateurs. Ces dernières semaines, des rassemblements d’apiculteurs protestant contre un tel retour se sont tenus en France. La ministre de la transition écologique, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, s’est prononcée contre cette mesure. Le gouvernement a une position réservée. Contactés, les autres ministres destinataires du courrier n’étaient pas, lundi 5 mai au soir, en mesure de réagir.

Stéphane Foucart

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Israel Shahak: The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans. 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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SeC50 : #Injections 💉 #Covid, le crime presque parfait ?
#Statistiques: Hausse de la mortalité à chaque campagne d'injections, baisse de la natalité....

Après "Covid19, ce que révèlent les chiffres officiels" sorti en #2023 Pierre Chaillot réplique avec "Victimes des vaccins Covid19, ce que révèlent les chiffres officiels" sorti fin janvier #2025 (disponible partout en librairie). Nous verrons avec Pierre les conséquences des injections sur la #mortalité et la #santé des populations qui ont subi ces #injections.

Pour ce 50ème épisode de l'émission "Science en Conscience", Jérémie Mercier reçoit Pierre #Chaillot, statisticien, chercheur indépendant et auteur, dont vous pouvez retrouver les vidéos sur la chaîne "Décoder l'éco".


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#médecine #santé #vaccins #vaccination #pharmacovigilance #statistiques

Trump Vows Drastic Drug Price Cuts with New Executive Order tn.ai/3311050

Student Jailed for Writing Op-Ed Released From US Detention consortiumnews.com/2025/05/12/…

Israel Shahak: You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms. 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.


"Not only would Google be unable to fully monitor or prevent Israel from using its software to harm Palestinians, but the report also notes that the contract could obligate Google to stonewall criminal investigations by other nations into Israel’s use of its technology. And it would require close collaboration with the Israeli security establishment — including joint drills and intelligence sharing — that was unprecedented in Google’s deals with other nations."

theintercept.com/2025/05/12/go…

my ethics, mention of categories of harmful people

Being anti-suffering means that, for example, I don't want Nazis to suffer. I just want them to be stopped from causing suffering to others. But if doing so causes some suffering to the nazi, it's a necessary evil because the nazi would otherwise cause greater suffering by doing their nazi things.

I apply similar logic to other harmful people like billionaires, rapists, racists or transphobes.

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Second International Anti-Fascist Forum in Moscow socialistchina.org/2025/05/12/…

#goodcomment

github.com/servo/servo/discuss…

Brodie Robertson red the first paragraph, but the rest is good too. [ ]


Hi: I'd like to object against this policy because there's no actual benefit that is mentioned here. Writing code is not the struggle of maintaining an application, and typing documentation is not the struggle of documenting things. For the former, the struggle is actually understanding how to solve a problem and come up with solutions for it, along with fixing subtle errors and logic issues - writing code is the easiest part. For the latter, accuracy is key and inaccurate documentation is substantially worse then no documentation.
So: what is the actual perceived benefit then? The usage of AI for generating code means you are getting a large block of code - possibly taken from other codebases, that you must now as a maintainer review for accuracy and hope you don't hit a subtle issue you missed. It is an extra layer of code review on top of the fact you're -already a maintainer having to review people's code all day-, you now have to review code from a contributor that randomly hallucinates things and cannot answer any questions as to why code was written a certain way. How does this save the maintainer time? And if you generate documentation with it, now you have to deal with potential fallout when contributors gets confused with your documentation and submit incorrect patches. You saved yourself typing in both cases, but quite literally that is possibly the least significant timesink of any of this. How much extra time have you actually spent babysitting the tools that were meant to help you?

And, I hate to say it: but I do agree this hurts the reputation of servo and willingness of people to contribute. As someone who has worked in FOSS for years frankly getting told I need to deal with AI generated code is still more then enough to make me take my time and effort somewhere else. I mention this because frankly, a lot of people here are going to get angry and give you the same point with far less respect - and I can certainly understand that. Not only do we want to stop this in projects like servo, people working in FOSS like myself want to make sure that AI absolutely does not become a norm in FOSS as it will make maintainer's lives everywhere so much more miserable.

Also: on the topic of funding, come on guys. If you want to get AI funding fine, I know how capitalism is. But there are more clever ways of doing this and waving the shiny AI keys in front of investors to get them to give money then actually honestly using the tools. Show some demo of using ChatGPT on the browser or something, be more creative then just going "yeah well who cares about maintaining a project anyway".


And that fits with my experience too, in my own projects. It's more work, and your skill atrophies... or... does it? Do we get better at code review by going through the llm's hallucinations? ... How likely is that tenuous hope? Not likely at all, with all that lazy convenient ignorance to fall into?

"Someone still needs to understand it".

#vibecoding #llm #ai #softwaredevelopment #coding #programming #typing #timesink #maintainers #goodcode #badcode #timemanagement #toolsthathelp #toolsthathinder #aihallucination #FOSS #codeityourself


ps, this was a #goodcomment too, that Brodie also highlighted:

btw the current formulation of the policy excludes anyone who relies on voice coding:
Contributions must not include content generated by large language models or other probabilistic tools

Voice coders, even those who are not using LLMs, are using speech recognition engines that are (of course) probabilistic tools

Reinventing Retail Destinations: Driving Footfall with an Indoor Dragon-Themed Coaster


 Attract Families, Boost Engagement, and Keep Visitors Coming Back

In the age of digital commerce, traditional malls face unprecedented pressure to retain relevance. Shoppers expect more than retail—they demand experiential value. To address declining foot traffic, forward-thinking developers are integrating entertainment zones as anchor features within retail complexes. Among the most impactful additions is a dragon-themed roller coaster, engineered to combine visual spectacle with high-thrill dynamics. This fusion of shopping and sensation turns passive consumers into engaged visitors, amplifying time-on-site and cross-spending potential.

The Dragon Coaster: A Centerpiece of Motion and Myth

A <a href="https://bestonamusementrides.com/roller-coaster/dragon/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">dragon roller coaster</a> inside a mall environment is more than an amusement fixture—it’s a thematic journey. Designed to mimic the twists and aerial maneuvers of a mythical creature, the ride becomes a kinetic sculpture within the architectural envelope. Suspended tracks, LED-lit scales, roaring audio effects, and animated fire-breathing sequences convert the interior space into a narrative-driven zone. This immersive installation redefines the mall’s identity from retail corridor to destination experience.

Unlike outdoor installations, indoor coasters demand spatial efficiency and architectural integration. Modern designs prioritize compact layouts, tighter turning radii, and modular support structures. This allows installation in atriums, upper-level voids, or around existing anchor stores. The visual prominence of the coaster, especially during peak operation, attracts attention from across floors and compels visitors to explore areas they might otherwise bypass.

Manufacturing Partnerships: Precision Engineering Behind the Experience

To execute a project of this scale and complexity, mall operators must collaborate with a seasoned amusement park ride manufacturer. This partnership ensures not only adherence to safety regulations and structural compatibility, but also a ride that delivers high-performance consistency under indoor environmental conditions.

Leading manufacturers employ advanced simulation tools to optimize track geometry, minimize decibel output, and integrate seamlessly with building mechanical systems. Environmental controls such as HVAC load, lighting intensity, and fire suppression must be considered during design and installation. A reliable manufacturer also provides customized theming options—from dragon aesthetics to multi-sensory effects—tailored to the mall’s branding or regional mythology.

Beyond engineering, operational considerations are critical. Ride throughput, queue design, maintenance cycles, and control systems integration must align with the mall’s traffic patterns and safety protocols. Only experienced suppliers can balance these variables while meeting construction deadlines and budget constraints.

Revenue Impact: From Passive Browsing to Active Spending

Installing a dragon coaster transforms the mall from a transactional zone to an entertainment complex. Unlike standalone amusement parks, malls benefit from the ride’s spillover effects. Families and groups who visit for the ride are likely to dine, shop, and spend time in adjacent zones. Anchor tenants report increased footfall, and smaller retailers benefit from prolonged visitor dwell time.

Ticketed entry systems provide direct revenue streams, while combo packages (ride + store vouchers) incentivize in-mall purchases. Additionally, branded photo zones, ride merchandise, and themed F&B outlets add to the monetization framework. The ride itself becomes a content generator—every loop, dip, and scream is a shareable moment, multiplying exposure through organic social media activity.

Design Considerations: Merging Fantasy with Functional Constraints

Fitting a full-fledged roller coaster inside a retail setting is a logistical undertaking. Ceiling height, column placement, vibration isolation, and emergency egress routes all dictate the ride’s form factor. Leading <a href="https://bestonamusementrides.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">amusement park ride manufacturers</a> work closely with architects and mall operators to tailor each installation to the unique spatial and structural challenges of indoor environments.

To meet the low-noise requirements of enclosed spaces, hybrid propulsion systems—such as magnetic launches, tire drives, or chain lifts—are carefully adapted. Track materials are often treated with acoustic dampening, and coaster trains are engineered for minimal lateral sway to reduce wear and enhance rider comfort. A skilled amusement park ride manufacturer not only brings imaginative concepts to life but also ensures safety, regulatory compliance, and seamless integration into commercial spaces.

Theming must be robust yet modular. Fiberglass dragon elements must withstand vibration, cleaning protocols, and sustained visual scrutiny. Smart lighting, fog effects, and projection mapping can simulate flight through caves or skies without needing expansive set construction. All enhancements must adhere to fire codes, evacuation standards, and accessibility guidelines.

Psychological and Demographic Appeal

The dragon motif taps into cross-generational symbolism—mythology, adventure, fantasy. Children perceive it as magical. Teens associate it with power and rebellion. Adults experience nostalgia and cinematic familiarity. This broad-spectrum appeal increases rider demographic diversity, enabling better per-cycle fill rates and repeat visitation.

Moreover, the ride offers varying thrill levels through modular speed control and train variation. Some installations support family-friendly versions during the day and more intense sequences for evening audiences. This dual-mode operation maximizes utilization and broadens the attraction’s appeal.

Integration with Seasonal and Promotional Campaigns

One advantage of an indoor roller coaster is the capacity for year-round operation and flexible theming. During holidays or special mall events, digital projection systems and lighting can transform the ride into a seasonal centerpiece—ice dragons for winter, flame effects for summer, or golden dragons for Lunar New Year festivities.

These updates require no structural changes, only programmable content shifts. This agility supports frequent marketing renewals and keeps the attraction from becoming visually stale. Combined with mall-wide promotions or loyalty programs, the dragon coaster becomes a marketing lever that reinforces repeat visits.

Conclusion

Retail complexes must evolve into hybrid environments where commerce, entertainment, and engagement intersect. A dragon roller coaster achieves this fusion with dramatic flair and operational logic. When designed by an experienced amusement park ride manufacturer and executed with architectural precision, it can redefine the mall’s value proposition.

More than just a ride, it becomes a magnet for attention, a catalyst for commerce, and a storytelling engine within the built environment. As consumer expectations shift toward immersive, multisensory experiences, the indoor dragon coaster is not a luxury—it’s a strategic imperative.

When did you start working around with Linux?


Yes, im doing le funy Meme. And yes, I am an autist, with some signs towards something adhd adjacent

I first tried Linux Mint when I was 12, eventually changed to Ubuntu when I was 13 or 14 because I saw the Windows 11 copilot button, installed arch at late 14, and got to gentoo when I was 15.

Can anyone beat me to it?

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in 2002 when my windows me computer start looping on the blue screen of death, with all of my college papers/essays/tests/assignments trapped in it.

the recovery media refused to work because i had upgraded the computer several times and i couldn't afford the $180 windows xp cd. so i bought a linux magazine for $5 that included a copy of mandrake linux installation media and used paper printouts from my college's computer labs to help me rescue my work from the computer.

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I first heard about it in about 1994 when a Unix guy I knew told me about a type of Unix that could run on regular computers. He loaned me a POSIX book, but I didn't really hear anything until 98. I started getting fed up with all the problems with Windows 98, and I started installing it and breaking it on any machine I could get access too. I don't know how many floppies I formatted with each disk image of RedHat and Debian. I broke the school network a few times with things like accidentally setting up a DHCP server. I sent a patch to the kernel. I Learned a whole lot those first years.
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Neue Bundesregierung: Überleben im Gruselkabinett

#nd #Meinung #MrBurns #Dobrindt

Lenin: The socialist revolution is not a single act, it is not one battle on one front, but a whole epoch of acute class conflicts, a long series of battles on all fronts, i.e., on all questions of economics and politics, battles that can only end in the expropriation of the bourgeoisie. It would be a radical mistake to think that the struggle for democracy was capable of diverting the proletariat from the socialist revolution or of hiding, overshadowing it, etc. On the contrary, in the same way as there can be no victorious socialism that does not practise full democracy, so the proletariat cannot prepare for its victory over the bourgeoisie without an all-round, consistent and revolutionary struggle for democracy. 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.


As Donald Trump begins his first trip to the Mideast during his second term, he has put a kind of distance between the White House and Israel that we haven’t seen in decades. While what he plans to do on this trip remains to be seen, we can already draw important lessons for policy and strategy from what has already transpired.

The Limits of the Israel Lobby

open.substack.com/pub/mitchell…

L'histoire du 1er mai


🎬 1er mai, mémoire populaire.
Dans cet extrait du film Howard Zinn, une histoire populaire américaine, retour sur les origines du 1er mai : luttes ouvrières, répression, graines de révolte.
Une histoire effacée des manuels… qu’on ne raconte pas assez.

📢 La suite est en préparation : Zinn 2 arrive.
Et la souscription est lancée pour que ce nouveau film voie le jour !

👉 Pour participer : laboutiquedesmutins.org/Souscription-Zinn2
📽️ Un film de Olivier Azam et Daniel Mermet, produit par Les Mutins de Pangée

#1erMai #HowardZinn #HistoirePopulaire #LesMutinsDePangée #Zinn2 #FilmDocumentaire #Souscription

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🎬 1er mai, mémoire populaire.
Dans cet extrait du film Howard Zinn, une histoire populaire américaine, retour sur les origines du 1er mai : luttes ouvrières, répression, graines de révolte.
Une histoire effacée des manuels… qu’on ne raconte pas assez.

📢 La suite est en préparation : Zinn 2 arrive.
Souscrivez pour que ce nouveau film voie le jour !

👉 Pour participer : laboutiquedesmutins.org/Souscription-Zinn2
📽️ Un film de Olivier Azam et Daniel Mermet

#1erMai
video.davduf.net/w/mRjQnJwGWwS…

40% of Israelis say they consider leaving the country. This is what keeps them here haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…

1/2

The 747 from Qatar is not going to be used as AF1 any time soon, I'm reasonably confident.

It is being donated because the aircraft is an impractical beast, even for royal transport, and I think it is going to have a special role, or cluster of roles, in upcoming events.

I am imagining that the aircraft could be used as a enormous courtesy coach, bringing together parties to momentous events. It could be the dramatic setting for the signing of some historic agreement.

Je sais bien que les heures les plus sombres de notre histoire c’est pas toujours la meilleure comparaison

Mais la Cimade a été créée pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, d’abord pour aider les déplacé·es d’Alsace-Moselle, avant de cacher et sauver de nombreux Juifs.

Quel symbole envoie Retailleau.

nouvelobs.com/politique/202505…

Hamas says it will release US-Israeli captive as Tel Aviv stresses ‘not committed’ to ceasefire presstv.ir/Detail/2025/05/12/7…

#introduction
Bonjour à tous, je me présente. Je suis papa d'une petite fille de presque un an 👨‍🍼, qui a été diagnostiquée comme atteinte de la maladie génétique d'Angelman 🧬 il y a environ 2 mois (handicap grave sur le plan moteur et cognitif). J'ai créé ce compte spécialement pour en parler, peut-être pour trouver d'autres personnes dans la même situation, demander de l'aide, et faire connaître le quotidien de ce syndrôme.
Merci pour votre accueil 🙏
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