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Joe Biden “is fueling the fire in the Ukraine.” -- Roger Waters of Pink Floyd It takes a musical artist to cut through the morass of propaganda to educate American mainstream media (MSM) about the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the roleof the United State…
Beanie Bastard doesn't seem to comprehend how many business are already completely fucked by all the "negotiations." Containers have been turned away and shipped to other markets. Orders have been cancelled. Even when a domestic manufacturer orders parts, there's a 3~4 month window where those parts get made and loaded on cargo ships. That entire chain has been totally fucked.
Now everyone is going to be blaming "price gouging companies" for tariff (i.e Federal Sales Tax) increases when all the prices go up in six months due to low inventory. Also all the pro-Orange people are cheering on a literal brand new International Federal Sales Tax.
Indian decision-makers failed to handle the crisis properly, causing serious damage to the country. Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Recent developments…
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro harshly criticized Western leaders for marking the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazism with a symbolic visit to Kiev, accusing them of using the occasion to promote war, sanctions, and violence.
Accidentally glimpsed the Y Combinator/React/“Prompt” side of web dev and these dudes are seriously indistinguishable from parody at this point. Just clowns play-acting at business without even a clear idea of what that looks like in practice. Yikes.
How these SaaSes sell crap to each other using VC money until they get acquired reminds me of that scam where the con artists move money around to make it look like they’re bigger players than they are so outsiders get fooled and fleeced
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.
Finally took the time to try out Delta Chat. (delta.chat/en/)
WOW. So smooth. Onboarding in 5 seconds and a small simple tools for organizing.
This is what i been dreaming of as a community organizer. Yesterday i onboarded 20 people, half of them 70 years +. And everyone agreed: normally im critically of new tech, but this is amazing, surprisingly intuitive, and it just works.
Thank you so much @delta and all the developers making the small handy apps.
Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app 💬 Reliable instant messaging with multi-profile and multi-device support ⚡️ Sign up to secure fast chatmail servers or use classic e-mail serv...
@meowski Yes. I know it sounds 2 good 2 be true and all. The point of the post, was to make a positive post/ review. But its coming from a good place, and it really was and is a pleasant experience. I will recommend it alot.
Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University Earth planning date: Monday, May 12, 2025 Curiosity was back to work Monday, picking up where it left off from Friday’s plan. Tosol’s plan started with an APXS analysis on the target “Jeffrey Pine,” though the DRT was kept on the sidelines this time. Curiosity then […]
Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust?
She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a temporary' detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps. She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn't realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn't handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn't care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded.
And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration.
Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State's detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A. Single. Difference.
So unless you want to fucking tell me that Anne goddamn Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y'all can shut the fuck up with that "stop making concentration camp comparisons, you're diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust" bullshit.
Its also worth noting that her family TRIED to flee to the US and was denied. She was in that camp partly because the US refused to let her refugee family immigrate.
Forty years ago today, the Philadelphia police dropped an incendiary device from a helicopter onto the roof of a house in a working-class Black neighborhood of family rowhouses. The entire block burned to the ground in the conflagration that followed. Eleven people died. Five of them were children. How does the saying go? We do not forgive. We do not forget.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported on Monday that 33 martyrs, including 29 new martyrs, four recovered martyrs, and 94 injured, arrived at hospitals in the Strip over the past 24 hours.In its daily statistical report on the number o
They cannot be silenced. Testimonies of children from #Gaza. To be found at more and more places, such as #coffeefellows:
I want the world to feel for us. I want my message to reach my Mom. I want to see them. I miss them so much. Mom and Dad and my two brothers. I want to go back to them. I want to be with them. I miss them so, so much.
Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 16 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.
With me today is Cory Doctorow! You might know Cory from such classics as the term "enshittification" that he coined during one of his many presentations. But besides having catch terms that even your grandparents can agree with about today's big tech platforms, Cory is also a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He's had a few books that us on the open social web might enjoy such as "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" and "The Internet Con : How to Seize the Means of Computation". Cory works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, a visiting professor for numerous colleges. Cory holds and multiple honorary Doctorates. And might I add, I consider Cory to be one of the most charismatic and vocal advocates for digital privacy rights and I am claiming he is now King of the nerds. And there's just so much more to say about Cory, but I recommend everyone just go look up his Wikipedia, because if I have to talk about all of his accomplishments we'll run out of time. Cory thank you so much for joining me and I'm just blown away and honored to be able to speak to you.
Thank you once again to @pluralistic for joining me on #FiresideFedi ! It was an incredible honor to have him!
Please check the following for the conversation and if it's showing an error, just give it a bit to transcode, we aren't Big Tech! 😁 And PROUD of it! 😀
Wow that was really great episode. Watching Fireside's head explode while Corey is talking about DeepCrak was really funny. But the topic about DRM, its history and current opportunities, was really mind blowingly informative!
The Hidden Empire: How 3 City-States Secretly Control the World
What if everything you were taught about your nation, your freedom, and your government was an illusion? What if The United States is not a country—but a corporation? This mind-blowing exposé dives deep into the hidden history of The Empire of the City—a three-pronged power structure composed of the Vatican (spiritual control), the City of London (economic control), and Washington D.C. (military control). Together, these independent city-states operate as a supranational shadow government… beyond your vote, your voice, and your constitution.
In this electrifying breakdown, we cover: • The Act of 1871 and how it turned the U.S. into a for-profit corporation • The mysterious origins and symbols behind the obelisks in each city state • The true puppet masters behind global wars, banking collapses, and sovereign theft • How The Wizard of Oz is actually an allegorical roadmap to breaking free from legal enslavement • Why your birth certificate created a legal fiction—the “Straw Man”—you never consented to • And how the “yellow brick road” was never a metaphor for fantasy… but for gold.
From the Vatican to Wall Street, from the Crown to the courtroom—this video unpacks the architecture of control that has turned nations into colonies and citizens into commodities.
Toto already pulled back the curtain. Now it’s your turn to look.
Feedback that’s clear, constructive, and to the point. Skip vague comments like “It needs more zing” and use these 10 steps to guide your designer to a stellar result.
Revisions are where websites come to life. Whether you’re partnering with a web designer or a web design agency, the first draft often needs tweaks. Maybe the layout’s too busy, the colors feel off, or it’s not quite your brand’s vibe.
The trick to getting it right? Feedback that’s clear, constructive, and to the point. Skip vague comments like “It needs more zing” and use these 10 steps to guide your designer to a stellar result.
1. Start with the Problem, Not the Solution
When something’s not working, don’t jump to “Make this blue” or “Move that button.” Instead, explain the issue: “The button’s hard to spot” or “This section feels cluttered.” This gives your web designer freedom to find the best fix.
Instead of: "Use a different font." Try: "The text feels hard to read. Can we make it clearer?"
2. Be Specific
Feedback like “It’s not quite there” or “It needs more pop” is tough to act on. Zero in on the problem:
Are the images too dark?
Is the spacing uneven?
Does the tone feel mismatched?
You don’t need design lingo—just describe it clearly.
3. Prioritize Your Users
Your website’s for your audience, not you. Ask:
Does this design make sense to our visitors?
Is it easy to navigate?
Could anything confuse them?
User-focused feedback helps your web designer create a site that works.
4. Avoid Feedback Overload
When your team sends a barrage of separate notes, it’s chaos. Conflicting ideas slow things down. Instead, have one person collect and unify feedback into a single, clear message for the web design agency.
One voice means faster progress.
5. Use Visuals to Clarify
Words can be vague. A screenshot with annotations—circling issues or adding notes—makes your point crystal clear. Any basic markup tool does the job.
Even better, share an example: "This site’s clean navigation feels great—can we aim for that?"
6. Focus on Brand, Not Personal Taste
Dislike a color? If it’s in your brand guidelines, it’s likely intentional. Before critiquing, ask: Does this align with our brand? Personal preferences can derail focus, so tie feedback to brand and user goals.
7. Organize Your Feedback
Don’t send feedback in random emails or chats. Bundle it into one document or message, sorted by page or issue. For example:
Homepage: Banner feels too heavy.
About Page: Text blends into the background.
This keeps your web designer on track.
8. Be Honest, But Respectful
If something’s off, say it straight—no sugarcoating. But don’t be harsh. Designers put in real effort. Try:
“The layout’s not quite our style yet.”
“This is close, but it needs a bit more flow.”
Direct and kind feedback builds trust.
9. Highlight Priorities
Some changes are critical; others are nice-to-haves. Tell your web designer what’s urgent—like “The call-to-action must stand out”—versus optional, like “A different image might work.” Prioritizing keeps the project efficient.
10. Embrace the Journey
First drafts are starting points, not the final product. Revisions shape the design into something great. Give clear feedback, expect a few rounds, and trust your web design agency to deliver.
Final Word
You don’t need to be a design expert to give killer feedback. Be clear, user-focused, and organized, and your Singapore web designer will create a website that nails your vision.
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More than two dozen world leaders gathered in Moscow to join Russian President Putin for Victory Day, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany on Friday.
I see people make the same mistakes over and over again when learning Rust.
Here are my thoughts (ordered by importance) on how you can ease the learning process.
My goal is to help you save time and frustration.
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The China Coast Guard (CCG) 1306 fleet patrolled the territorial waters of China's Diaoyu Dao on May 14. This is a rights-protection patrol activity carried out in accordance with the law, the CCG said in a statement.
Galileo Galilei: In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
You know, I really love #KeePassXC. It serves me very well, and so far it's been a lot better than #BitWarden. But the bullshit that is #FLATPAK is a royal fucking pain in the ass.
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved notable success in code generation. However, they still frequently produce uncompilable output because their next-token inference procedure does not model formal aspects of code.
Lake Michigan - Stone Circle Beneath the waters of Lake Michigan lies an ancient mystery a stone circle estimated to be over 9,000 years old, older than even Stonehenge. Divers and archaeologists uncovered carefully arranged stones along with carvings of mastodons, megaloceros, and most baffling of all—a cobra, an animal that never existed in North America.
How could ancient people have known about such creatures?
Were they tapping into a lost knowledge or had distant connections we've yet to uncover?
Whether it served as a sacred site, a ceremonial gathering place, or something far more mysterious, this submerged circle continues to challenge everything we thought we knew about early civilizations.
By Misión Verdad - May 12, 2025Recently, María Corina Machado, representing Venezuela’s far-right opposition, claimed responsibility for the so-called “Operation Guacamaya,” an “impeccable” maneuver.
Moissaye J. Olgin: Freedom must be fought for and this fight cannot wait. It is a matter requiring action right now and every day. Your employers try to prevent you from organizing: organize. They will try to fire your organizers: stand pat, defend them! They will try to him out like a yellow cur! They will put some of your leaders in jail: demonstrate, protest, fill the court room with hundreds of workers, demand the release of your comrades, picket the court house, picket the judge’s house, call other workers to help you in your struggle; make your struggle the struggle of great numbers of class conscious workers! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
They never spilled a drop of blood for this country and are among the most privileged groups in society. When asked to pitch in, the only move is to pull up stakes and go where the farming is good.
@lindy I'm a big proponent of defensive draft but I think last time US was attacked was by Canadians. Otherwise I follow Smedley Buttler's philosophy. I wouldn't want my kids to die for bankers. Also farmers in US get tax breaks. It would be difficult to deploy Amish considering that they travel on horses and use no electricity.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met Tuesday with Hiroyuki Namazu, Japan’s Senior Deputy Foreign Minister, during his visit to Tehran for the 33rd round of bilateral political consultations.
Written by Remington Free, Operations Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, May 9, 2025 I was on downlink today for SA-SPaH, our robotic arm team. We successfully completed a number of fun arm activities, including a DRT brushing and APXS observations of a bedrock target, and also completed a traverse […]
@beardalaxy My only beef with it is the inconsistent syntax and code style. It's decent for small scale web projects (guestbooks, forums, wikis), but you are better off using something else for anything bigger.
@xianc78 @beardalaxy That makes sense. I haven't built anything sizable usually just a few page web pages. But so far it seems like it'll be great for that.
One of my official duties at my last job was managing my Company's OIDs. We had/ have a 4 digit OID that was assigned to us by IANA and since I managed our PKI my custom cert templates used our IANA assigned OID so I assumed the responsibility of managing it all across all the departments. But Hexadecimal Administrator sounds cooler.
i still have to unload these solar panels and return this van. these things are bigger than a sheet of plywood and heavy as heck. 5 panels @ ~ 2500 watts total. still not enough for comfort but it's a decent amount to get started and power basic necessities.
"necessities" probably does not include air conditioning. i'll have to see how it works out. i can always use the generator to recharge if it gets unbearably hot and batteries run out
i've sunk as much money as i can justify right now into off grid power. it's a huge risk to buy this stuff in advance of building the structure to house them, but with all the tariff stuff going on and everything solar coming from china, i had to choose between either doing this now, or possibly paying double for it in a few months, which would have been as huge loss, although now it looks like we are negotiating a better trade deal china, which i hope works out regardless. i think the tariff on china currently is around 30%
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.
Students and faculty at Stanford University announce they are joining the nationwide campus hunger strike movement to protest attacks on academic freedom and complicity in the Gaza genocide.
Edit: I think I need to clarify further that this is a one off thing. I've never had AI build anything for me. This is just one time that I wanted to test it out, and the test came out with a good app that I thought I could share to maybe benefit some. Just to be clear, it's not thinking for me, I still learn on my own, and have AI ONLY explain concepts for me, not code, and it does very well. Asked for opinions, got downvotes. lol
Hi all, I do code on my own without AI, but in all honesty, I'm not that great (I'm a junior dev at my job, and don't have a lot of experience). I always use AI to explain things to me, not code for me. I made that my mission, so I don't let it think for me because I want to learn. It explains things very well and I've been learning a great deal.
Today, I decided to test it out. I asked it to build an app for me that works on KDE Plasma, my favorite DE.
I use some appimages for some apps. I tried appimagelauncher and gear lever and had some issues with them.
I want to integrate appimages into my system. So, I did a small workaround where I created a small script in ~/.local/bin that has one line after the shebang exec /<path to app image>/<appimage>. Then created a .desktop file that points to that script. I made one for Suyu and VIA and they both worked. I wanted to do it for more apps, but it got repetitive, so I gave AI some requirements and told it to add what's necessary if needed.
I've never programmed in Python, and it chose Python. lol. Ok, let's go with it. It made a pretty nice app. The app does 5 things: 1. Creates that little script I mentioned earlier 2. Creates the .desktop file for that app and makes it point to the correct things (script, icon, startupWMClass(this is so the app will still launch after pinning it to the panel)....etc) 3. Copies the appimage into a "appimages" folder in the home directory 4. Adds an icon of your choosing to the app 5. It makes everything executable
I had it package the app into an appimage (that's something I've never done before and it was pretty freaking cool to learn) and I'm planning on making an .rpm and a .deb packages of it, too.
The honest part. I feel a tiny bit of shame deep inside. But then I look at it and I see an app that could help some people. Who cares how I created it? I have always wanted to contribute something to the Linux world, and this feels like it.
What I'm asking for: your honest opinion. Should I feel that little shame? Should I put it up on GitHub? It would of course be GPL licensed. Maybe some folks want to make it better or contribute or fork it. I love open source and I feel like this could be useful to some.
(I’m a junior dev at my job, and don’t have a lot of experience).
You're robbing yourself of gaining legitimate experience.
I always use AI to explain things to me, not code for me.
Ok.
I made that my mission, so I don’t let it think for me because I want to learn.
Alright.
I asked it to build an app for me that works on KDE Plasma, my favorite DE.
Seems like the exact opposite of just having it explain concepts to you, and not letting it think for you, and not letting it write code for you.
I’ve never programmed in Python, and it chose Python. lol. Ok, let’s go with it.
Ok, so you aren't actually learning any python, and it is just generating python code for you, which you made no attempt to change such that it would just be explaining concepts to you preferably in a language you do know. Sounds a lot like you aren't doing a lot of the thinking in this process, or writing the code.
Creates that little script I mentioned earlier
Creates the .desktop file for that app and makes it point to the correct things (script, icon, startupWMClass(this is so the app will still launch after pinning it to the panel)…etc)
Copies the appimage into a “appimages” folder in the home directory
Adds an icon of your choosing to the app
It makes everything executable
Instead of asking AI to make this in a language you don't know, you'd probably be a lot better off learning some BASH and discovering that this is likely doable in a one-liner or function which you can associate to an alias.
I had it package the app into an appimage
So it is thinking for you, writing the code for you, and packaging it for you.
The honest part. I feel a tiny bit of shame deep inside
You should.
Who cares how I created it?
Programmers, artists, your boss, your future self when something breaks in prod and you realize that you have robbed yourself of so much experience by outsourcing any opportunity to obtain skill, knowledge, and wisdom that you have no idea what the fuck to do or why the problem is happening, and then someone sues you over it because it turns out in the mess of AI code which you haven't even looked at 60% of up until this point there are out of scope variables from a thread the AI found on 1337codeForum.fuck circa 2008 which lead to a disaster where some guy who actually knows how code works half way around the globe stack buffer overflowed the fuck out of you.
If you want honest opinions from people, then this is mine. That little shame you feel is probably larger than you think and it's because you aren't doing yourself any favors.
It was a one time test. I thought I have expanded on that specifically. English is my second language, so I could have explained it wrong, or not enough I guess. Appreciate the input regardless 😀
Edit: to add, those 5 steps I asked it to do are the work around I did myself without AI. I know bash. I just wanted it to make what I did in bash into an app. Hope this makes sense.
You learn so much more doing it yourself instead of having AI write code for you. When I first learned how to admin an Apache server I had 0 understanding how it worked, but with some effort I'm now confident enough to do a simple setup on my own. I did follow along with tutorials and examples configs, but I made sure I knew what each part did at least on a high level. The reason I'm confident in this is that I know how to read the docs and how to troubleshoot issues when they happen.
When you let AI do all the work you don't learn the inner workings of a system and are only hurting yourself. If you want to use AI use it for writing some boiler plate you've already written hundreds of times or taking simple functions and converting them to another language. I use AI for basic and repetitive tasks, which is something it's great at. I don't use it for making large design decisions since that will (not "if", but "will") bite me in the ass later on when something breaks. Examples of good uses of AI (in my opinion): generating a list of US states in JavaScript, take a function that converts a strijg to a date object and try to translate it to another language, use it as a tool to bounce some high level ideas off of when you're at a development block.
Holy shit! Has anyone actually read and digested the post? I even edited it to clarify. What else do I need to say to make it known that THIS WAS A ONE TIME TEST. I'VE NEVER HAD AI BUILD ANYTHING FOR ME, EVER. 😂
It was a one time test. One off. Never happened before and won't happen again. I just wanted to test it, and the test came out with a nice app and I thought maybe I should share it. I could've just not said anything and put it on GitHub and no one would've have known. I am not sure how to say it better and make it make more sense. Is my English really that bad that people aren't getting what I'm saying? lol
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in reply to djsumdog • • •Beanie Bastard doesn't seem to comprehend how many business are already completely fucked by all the "negotiations." Containers have been turned away and shipped to other markets. Orders have been cancelled. Even when a domestic manufacturer orders parts, there's a 3~4 month window where those parts get made and loaded on cargo ships. That entire chain has been totally fucked.
Now everyone is going to be blaming "price gouging companies" for tariff (i.e Federal Sales Tax) increases when all the prices go up in six months due to low inventory. Also all the pro-Orange people are cheering on a literal brand new International Federal Sales Tax.
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