Question about how to use Akku packages with Chez Scheme
I can setup the project to build using Akku-R7RS:
akku add akku-r7rs;
akku install;
./.akku/env;.sld files to binary using the Chez compiler?@mdhughes @civodul @wasamasa do any of you know how to do this?
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GAZA, May 16 (YPA) - The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on Friday strongly condemned the Israeli aggression on the ports of Hodeida and Al-Salif in western Yemen, describing it as a new war crime in a series of Israeli violationbasheer (Yemen Press Agency)
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Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python
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Today we are announcing an alpha version of Pyrefly, an open source Python type checker and IDE extension crafted in Rust. Pyrefly is a static type checker that analyzes Python code to ensure type …Chris Wiltz (Meta)
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Paris reveals memorial to LGBTQ victims of Nazi regime and other persecutions
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The massive steel star designed by French artist Jean-Luc Verna is located at the heart of Paris in an effort to remember and fight discrimination against LGBTQ people.CBS News
Decades of seeing how literally every Western White nation goes down the exact same Path.
Nationalism is ridiculed and attempts are made to make it banned. Non whites are pouring in and taking over. Whites are constantly targeted, raped, murdered, robbed in their own nations while at the same time being brainwashed with white guilt.
So is this a coincidence or is it due to someone coordinating White extinction?
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En raison des sanctions américaines contre la CPI, Microsoft a bloqué la
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fortement avec les promesses que l’entreprise a faites à l’Europe.
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signup sheets.. like to get an account? i was able to create an account on the spot just a few weeks ago.
to de-google (as far as their docs/sheets/etc goes) cryptpad is an option. im not in love their interface but better than feeding google, imho.
there's also collabora which has been trying to port LibreOffice to the cloud for a while. its functional, but a lot of features seem to be missing (compared to locally-run LibreOffice).
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated on Friday that Israeli forces have killed 45 children in the Gaza Strip over the past two days.The Palestinian Information Center
Russian drone strikes continue in Ukraine as Vatican renews offer for help
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The strikes – and renewed offer from the Vatican – come hours after Moscow and Kyiv had held their first direct peace talks in years that failed to yield a ceasefire.CBS News
Catalog of Novel Operating Systems
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Catalogue of novel operating systems. Contribute to prathyvsh/os-catalog development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the British capital, London, on Saturday in support of the Palestinian cause and in condemnation of the ongoing genocide committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip.www.saba.ye
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Donald Trump’s tour of the Middle East this week made headlines for scandals and massive military sales, but equally notable is what was missing: Palestine.Mitchell Plitnick (Mondoweiss)
Is that quadrapus a set of UV "grow" lights?
#ProjectHotsauce2025 is a go, I repeat, Project Hotsauce 2025 is a go!
6 x each of Habanero, Cayenne, Tabasco, Jalapeño, Reaper and some bell shaped one I don't know the English name of, and 4 x Lemon Drop.
hell yeah! Did this with fogponics two years ago. No dirt, just water and nutrients and minerals.
Those lights on your sill. Have them too, but they couldn't convince. Like at all. Pity, though.
Enver Hoxha: Any disguise, any falsification, any deviation from the scientific theory of Marxism-Leninism cannot be kept up for long. Sooner or later it is exposed, because it runs counter to the ideals of the working class and the peoples who fight for freedom, for genuine democracy, for socialism, for a society without exploiters and exploited. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
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A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant
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Those of us who have spent our lives playing with computers naturally see the appeal of deployi [...]LWN.net
Trump’s long-touted “Deal of the Century” with Ukraine has finally been signed, granting the U.S. privileged access to Ukrainian mineral resources underСит Феррис (New Eastern Outlook)
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In Deutschland betreffen die Gefängnisstrafen fürs Fahren ohne Ticket jährlich schätzungsweise 10.000 Menschen. Wissenschaftliche Studien gehen davon aus, dass die Strafverfolgung von ihnen jährlich 120 Millionen [1] Euro Steuergeld kostet.WeAct
St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer confirmed five deaths in her city and said more than 5,000 homes were affected as parts of the United States were hit by severe weather.
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TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA) – Israeli media have reported growing frustration among Tel Aviv officials over being excluded from the details of ongoing US-Iran talks, calling the lack of transparency a serious concern for Israel.Mehr News Agency
The TBR queue has been long but finally got around to Picks and Shovels, the latest Marty Hench book by @pluralistic - I couldn’t put it down once I started! I love this series. The early craziness of mid-80s computing boom really hit it home (yeah I’m old). I hope we get to see more of Marty!
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New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new...Macmillan
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs The U.S. government once again discredits itself by unjustly including Cuba on the List of countries that “do not fully cooperate with its anti-terrorism efforts”.Ahora
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On May 13, 2025, the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the China-CELAC [Community of Latin American and Caribbean States] Forum was held in Beijing, presided over by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and attended by foreign ministers and representatives o…Friends of Socialist China
Push Ifs Up and Fors Down
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Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
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In 1990 around 80% of Germans felt they could express their opinions freely; now it is less than half. The authorities have been accused of trying to silence pro-Palestinian voices on the grounds of antisemitism. More controversially, the hard-right Alternative for Germany party has been branded as “extremist” by intelligence services; many politicians want to see it banned outright. Romania annulled its presidential election in December over concerns that the hard-right candidate had won only with the help of dodgy social media, in breach of electoral laws.It is not just politicians who are protected from harassment. “Hate-speech” rules also shield minorities—whether gays or Muslims, migrants or the disabled—from others’ opinions. What Americans dismiss as tasteless, European prosecutors sometimes treat as criminal. Most notably, the right to offend religious groups is no longer assured everywhere. Once upon a time Denmark lived with the political consequences of racist agitators burning the Koran (which sparked terrorism threats). Since 2023 it has deemed “improper treatment of a religious text” to be a criminal offence. To liberal critics, that seems a lot like an unwelcome return to once-abolished blasphemy laws.
It’s becoming dangerous to anger minority groups and politiciansThe Economist
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Enver Hoxha: In genuine socialist society, in which the common property is managed by the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat, with the broad, organised and effective participation of the working class and the other working masses, according to the principle of democratic centralism, and in which great differences in the distribution of the social product, which lead to the creation of privileged strata, are not permitted, the worker is not a wage-slave and is not exploited. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
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US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News that he believes it is impossible to reach a deal on Ukraine without his participation.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
Hello, fellow Linux users!
My question is in the titel: What is a good approach to deploy docker images on a Raspberry Pi and run them?
To give you more context: The Raspberry Pi runs already an Apache server for letsencrypt and as a reverse proxy, and my home grown server should be deployed in a docker image.
To my understanding, one way to achieve this would be to push all sources over to the Raspberry Pi, build the docker image on the Raspberry Pi, give the docker image a 'latest' tag and use Systemd with Docker or Podman to execute the image.
My questions:
At the moment I am using Raspbian 12 with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and the whole setup works with home grown servers which are simply deployed as binaries and executed via systemd. My Docker knowledge is mostly from a developer perspective, so I know nearly nothing about deploying Docker on a production machine. (Which means, if there is a super obvious way to do this I might not even be aware this way exists.)
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Ein Vorstandsmitglied erzählte mir, die Hälfte seiner jüdischen Gemeinde wolle #AfD wählen. Der #Zentralrat der #Juden rief gerade zur Bekämpfung dieser Partei auf. Finde den Fehler.
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#JerusalemerErklärung
#DieLinke ist antisemitisch und rassistische!
#Rassismus #Antisemitismus #Gesellschaft #Kapitalismus #new normal
Ein Vorstandsmitglied erzählte mir, die Hälfte seiner jüdischen Gemeinde wolle AfD wählen. Der Zentralrat der Juden rief gerade zur Bekämpfung dieser Partei auf. Finde den Fehler./ Foto: Imagowww.achgut.com
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – At least one civilian was killed and nine others wounded in Israeli attacks on Yemen’s Red Sea ports, according to the Yemeni Health Ministry.Tasnim News Agency
Korean War veteran short story by The Fat Electrician you will enjoy!!
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The Movie Disney Deleted - Togo - The Fat Electrician
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Totally undeniable.
Si Gaza était peuplé de Juifs et que ceux qui massacraient les habitants de Gaza étaient des Musulmans, personne n'aurait aucune difficulté à nommer correctement la réalité de la chose. Les mots "génocide" et "holocauste" apparaîtraient dans l'actualité chaque jour depuis 19 mois.
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BRICS+ stands at a critical crossroads, navigating the delicate balance between reforming existing global governance structures and ambitiously seeking to redefine them.BRICS
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#politique #désinformation #propagande
Quand les désinformateurs et les propagandistes se plaignent de la désinformation et de la propagande...
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#humans are #finished
#zero love only war and hate allowed
Net zero really means net zero food, net zero clothes, net zero freedom, net zero travel
Australian senator Malcolm Roberts: "Net zero is a policy of... destroying farming through a death by a thousand regulatory cuts, strangling farmers with restrictions on water use, and on farm chemicals and fertilisers, and even their soil." "Str…BitChute
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Some of our thoughts today on #land #grabs, awakening our local farmers
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Actress Juliet Stevenson reads a harrowing witness statement outside a court in London where a legal hearing against the UK's arming of Israel has started.Pa...YouTube
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Les dirigeants du monde entier sont venus à Paris après l’attentat de Charlie .🇮🇱 a tué + de 210 journalistes et + de 15 600 enfants à Gaza mais aucune marche de chefs d’état pour arrêter ce génocide!
Les vies Arabes n’ont pas de valeur pour eux!
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If you lie, you're a liar.
When A.I. lies, it's just "hallucinating" — except those hallucinations are being taught in classrooms, cited in court cases, and presented as reality. And it's getting worse.
Coronavirus? Woke #Mind Virus?
How about the #AI Virus?
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New high-quality hash measures 71GB/s on M4
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Very fast, high quality, platform-independent hashing algorithm. - Nicoshev/rapidhashGitHub
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#Broadcom employee data stolen by #ransomware crooks following hit on #payroll provider
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Friedrich Engels: Fifthly, there is absolutely no mention of the organization of the working class as a class through the medium of trade unions. And that is a point of the utmost importance, this being the proletariat’s true class organization in which it fights its daily battles with capital, in which it trains itself and which nowadays can no longer simply be smashed, even with reaction at its worst (as presently in Paris). 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.
Ever since Floyd's autopsy was released in 2020, people have incorrectly claimed the doctors got it wrong.
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I think one of the major engines of disintegration in the West is our media establishment.
From normalizing Israel's genocide to platforming fascists to burying plagues, they've done the real heavy lifting required for all the worst effects of the run-up to Trump's regime and the rise of Maga.
As the mid-term effects of Trump's EOs start accumulating, they'll avoid the ground floor and talk only to people who are doing "alright". They'll "balance" their coverage so that the misery seems okay.
Their attitude reflects our society's attitude toward data: absent context, it's without substance, but still incredibly useful.
The context of suffering in the US skyrocketing under Trump will be lost, but the "data" that people are "both succeeding and hurting under this administration" will be first page shit.
In this way, the media normalizes Trump's horrific acts. And will continue to do so until the impacts are so widespread and terrible that even their smoothbrain blindness is pierced.
"How could we have known!?" they'll cry out when the pictures of emaciated Palestinian childrens' bodies stacked like cordwood emerge from Gaza.
"Who could have seen this coming?!" they'll exclaim when Bird Flu ravages a world with dysfunctional immune systems.
"I'm sure it's not that bad!" they'll write when incidence of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, aggressive cancer, and autoimmunity quintuple.
"Maybe this is morally right?" they'll ask when Maga suggests we euthanize the sick and disabled.
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