The foreign press continues to analyze yesterday's 2,5-hour telephone talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.novosti (Военное обозрение)
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Thailand, Indonesia elevate bilateral ties to strategic partnership-english.news.cn
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C'est pas assez... Je vous cite quand même ce qu'ont fait les Latins après le reigne jugé infâme de despote Domitien - dont je n'avais jamais entendu parler en effet : ils ont rasé tous les lieux qui pouvait le rappelé, effacé son nom de partout, détruit toutes ses statues, bustes, traces ! Ils l'ont EFFACE de la mémoire collective...
Ces gens devraient être EFFACES TOUT DE SUITE, sur un place publique...
How to explain Lido Shuffle to an Extraterrestrial Visiting Earth for the First Time
To explain "Lido Shuffle" to extraterrestrials without cultural references, we can break down the song's themes and narrative in a straightforward manner. Here’s how you might present it:
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Overview of "Lido Shuffle":
The song tells the story of a character named Lido, who is on a journey that involves risk, excitement, and a desire for freedom. It captures the essence of a life filled with adventure and the pursuit of something greater, often at the cost of stability.
Key Elements:
1. Character Introduction:
- Lido is a person who has just left a place (referred to as a "shack") where he may have felt trapped or limited. This signifies a desire to escape from a mundane or restrictive life.
2. The Journey:
- Lido makes a stop at a bar, which is a social gathering place where people often come to relax and enjoy themselves. This stop is brief, indicating that he is focused on his journey rather than lingering in one place.
3. Ambition and Risk:
- Lido is depicted as someone who is willing to take risks for the chance of reward. He is involved in a series of tasks or "jobs" that he believes will lead to success. The phrase "one more job oughta get it" suggests he is close to achieving his goal but is not quite there yet.
4. Fun and Consequences:
- Lido enjoys his life and seeks fun, but he also faces challenges. He receives a warning ("Toe the line or blow it"), indicating that there are rules or consequences he must adhere to. This adds tension to his story, as he must balance his desire for enjoyment with the need to stay out of trouble.
5. The Concept of "One More":
- The repeated phrase "one more for the road" signifies a common human tendency to want one last experience or chance before stopping or changing direction. It reflects a desire to savor life and take risks, even when aware of potential dangers.
6. Conclusion:
- Ultimately, Lido's story is about the pursuit of happiness, the thrill of adventure, and the inevitable challenges that come with living a life full of risks. It captures a moment in time where one must decide whether to continue pursuing their dreams or to settle down.
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⏫ oftentimes people stop me to try to shame me for taking down the kidnapping genocide propaganda posters all around Manhattan
Being colicky in nature with lifelong PTSD, and an autistic overshare stim, I have been known to put on shows of half coherent rants against Zionism
(A profound one here and there as well)
Always hurts the voice
So I have mostly changed that into breaking out into the O Palestine refrain
It works brilliantly
It's like I'm spraying bug spray: they disappear
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Katarsis released a cover of Lemon Joy's "Balta Meilė" and it's an absolute banger! youtu.be/JdaN1jwb3KE?...#music #katarsis #postpunk
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Rosa Shanina: But I know that I have done little more, no more than I owe as a Soviet man who defended his homeland. 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.
Donald Trump’s tour of the Gulf hinted at possible changes in U.S. foreign policy, but Israel’s escalation of the genocide in Gaza makes clear its destructive fundamentals are essentially intact.Craig Mokhiber (Mondoweiss)
#Insomnia gives you the opportunity to some incredibly crazy things sometimes.
For example, over the past several days I have been experimenting with #ChatGPT. More because I was bored nothing more. And I wanted to see how good some of these newer models were with #writing. #Fiction.
Now, I #write. Fiction. #ScienceFiction mainly. Although I've dabbled into other more mainstream fiction #genres too except fantasy & horror. Other than #Grammarly and #ProWritingAid I've never really used #AI for anything other than to help me sound less snarky when replying to Reddit comments. A look through my history here and you can see just how unfiltered I am about topics I care passionately and deeply about.
But I've never used AI to actually *#write* a #story, from start to finish. At least not until now.
And since I'm usually a *#pantser* when I write, I just started with a simple #prompt and a simple #premise.
And holy fuck. Holy-holy fuck.
I mean, the AI didn't write it all by itself. I had to prompt it, guide it. Even fix some glaring and stupid mistakes (AI really has no cognitive understanding of the real world right now.)
And of the 40,000+ words it's written just about every single paragraph needs to be #edited. Heavily in places too. The overuse of #em-dashes is real y'all. I use em-dashes, but I don't use them in every fucking paragraph!
But the foundation is there.
The premise is unique. The story is unique. The characters are unique. And they have a depth to them that frankly has blown my mind.
I am both incredibly excited and very scared for what comes next but only a fool would take something AI has created and #publish it without #editing whether it's a Reddit comment, an Email, a social network post, or a tome.
Depuis des années et d'autant plus depuis 18 mois, Meyer #Habib c'est le #suprémacisme décomplexé, la #xénophobie bien portante et heureuse, l'apologie du #génocide et du #terrorisme en toute détente. « Cancer », « barbares », « chiens » et « sauvages » sont autant d'insultes utilisées par l'ex députés pour désigner les Palestiniens. Une #déshumanisation visant tout un peuple, traduisant une idéologie profondément raciste : il y a bien, dans ces propos, une hiérarchisation raciale.En décembre #2023, à l'Assemblée Nationale, un député pose la question : « Qui peut douter maintenant des véritables objectifs de guerre du gouvernement #Netanyahou qui, après le nord, bombarde le sud de la bande de #Gaza, là où il avait précisément demandé aux Palestiniens de se réfugier ? » à la ministre Catherine Colonna et à deux reprises, Meyer Habib prononce : « Et ce n’est pas fini ! ». Par la suite,Yael Braun Pivet refusera la levée de l'immunité parlementaire de Meyer Habib. Elle n'était visiblement pas dérangée le moins du monde par cette apologie de crimes de guerre, elle, qui portait un pin's en soutien à un gouvernement génocidaire.
Puis pour nier les crimes du #colonialisme sioniste, rien de tel que le négationnisme : « Un juif ne sera jamais un colon en Judée ». Pour un puriste si dévoué à l'idéologie sioniste, Meyer Habib n'a visiblement jamais lu Theodor #Herzl, l'un des pères fondateurs du #sionisme politique qui théorisait déjà à la fin du XIXe siècle : la #colonisation, la #déportation et l' #occupation. Alors en voici un passage : " Lorsque nous occuperons la terre, nous apporterons des bénéfices immédiats à l'État qui nous reçoit. Il faut exproprier en douceur, sur la propriété privée des domaines qui nous a été confié. (....) Nous essaierons de faire traverser la frontière à la population sans le sou en lui procurant un emploi dans les pays de transit tout en lui refusant tout emploi dans notre propre pays. (...) Les propriétaires viendront à nos côtés. Tant le processus d’expropriation que l’expulsion des pauvres doivent être menés avec discrétion et circonspection. Laissons les propriétaires de biens immobiliers croire qu'ils nous trompent, en nous vendant des choses plus chères qu'elles ne valent. Mais en retour, nous ne leur vendrons rien du tout. (...) L'expropriation volontaire sera accomplie par nos agents secrets. La Compagnie paierait des prix excessifs. (...) Nous vendrons alors uniquement aux Juifs, et tous les biens immobiliers seront échangés uniquement entre Juifs." (...) "Si le propriétaire souhaite vendre la propriété, nous aurons le droit de la racheter à notre prix initialement fixé."
Pour justifier le #génocide en cours, Meyer Habib multipliera les arguments les plus fallacieux : « Regardez notre Marseillaise : aux armes citoyens. Ils égorgent nos fils et nos compagnes. C’est exactement ce qu’il s’est arrivé. Alors, à un moment donné, oui, aux armes citoyens. Les Israéliens n’ont plus le choix ». « #Israël doit se défendre, doit détruire ses barbares, doit détruire ses sauvages », dit Meyer Habib aux micros après la projection du film de 43 minutes sur les massacres du #7octobre, diffusé à l’Assemblée nationale. « Je crois aujourd’hui que tant qu’il y a de la vie, y’a de l’espoir. Même si c’est avec des sauvages ». Le droit d'Israël à se défendre est toujours mis en avant par Habib mais jamais il n'évoque les 76 ans de violation du droit international commise par l'état Hébreu, de déplacements forcés de millions de personnes, l' #apartheid, les #tortures, 56 années d’occupation, 16 années de blocus de Gaza. Il ne sert à rien de débattre avec les défenseurs d'Israël. On ne discute pas avec des raclures xénophobes qui normalisent le fait de tuer des dizaines de milliers de personnes pour en éliminer une seule. Ce combat contre le "terrorisme" n'est qu'une excuse pour justifier une épuration ethnique et le chantage à l' #antisémitisme ne sert qu'à masquer le #racisme puant et l' #islamophobie maladive d'un gouvernement suprémaciste.
L' #impunité. Comment peut-on laisser un homme violer la loi avec autant d'impunité ? Meyer Habib semble donc intouchable. Ses vociférations constantes laissant échapper toutes les 20 secondes, entre deux apologies de crimes de guerre, les dénonciations calomnieuses "antisémites" et "terroristes" si on a le malheur de demander un cessez-le-feu ou de dénoncer la #politique colonialiste et criminelle d'Israël. Si un membre de la FI dit un gros mot ça fait les gros titre de la presse pendant 3 jours et ça enchaîne les débats sur la violence de l'extrême-gauche. Mais quand Meyer Habib, habitué des apologies de crimes contre l’humanité, traite Rima #Hassan de "pute antisémite" le 20 mai 2025 dans un tweet : il n'y a plus personne. Aucun journaliste n'est là pour nous parler de la violence des sionistes fanatiques.
Oui, il est intouchable et il est peu probable que ses incitations à la haine raciale et religieuse, ses apologies de crimes de guerre, ses insultes diffamatoires soient punies par cette justice et condamnées par une classe politique inféodée à l'extrême-droite israélienne. La justice française fait preuve d'une grande mansuétude à l'égard des haineux de l'arabité ou de l'islam. En #France on ne touche aux défenseurs du #colonialisme c'est pourquoi l'impunité de #MeyerHabib doit être garantie. La condamnation de ce grand ami de #Netanyahou, reviendrait à condamner toute la politique et la doctrine du gouvernement israélien. Mais ce serait aussi reconnaître le laxisme et la complicité du gouvernement français dans les crimes coloniaux en #Palestine et plus récemment au #Liban.
Si les gouvernements français, américain et autres puissances mondiales soutiennent Israël, lui fournissent des armes et du matériel militaire – au delà des intérêts économiques et des accointances idéologiques – c'est avant tout pour des questions d'occupation, de #contrôle et de #domination au Proche Orient. L’expansionnisme israélien est l'assurance du maintien d'une hégémonie occidentale dans cette région du monde. #Tsahal n'est pas seulement l'armée terroriste et génocidaire d'Israël, elle est aussi celle des impérialistes.
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Everyday evil. The mundane kind of evil. The kind no one even bats an eyelid for because we’ve become so desensitised to the everyday horrors of capitalism.
Please help if you can. twoot.site/@TicklishHoneyBee/1…
My landlord¹, who's fully aware I'm unable to work for several weeks, has just put my rent up, effective immediately (or from the next time I pay, so next week).Twootsite
Doing Timor overland sounds simple on paper until you actually try it. Two countries sharing one island, a confusing exclave, and some of the mostGareth Johnson (Young Pioneer Tours)
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Identitäre Identitäten. Fuck it!
Es gibt keinen Qeeren Metal, keinen Black Punk und keinen Frauen Jazz. Das ist Identitäre Scheiße. Da heult man mit den Nazis. Musik und überhaupt das menschliche Leben kann man nicht in diese spaltenden Kategorien einteilen. Wir gehören alle zusammen. Ihr werdet uns nicht teilen. Fuck you! - Different but equal.
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#blackmetal #identiträe #iran #metal
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Joey JB Carter – THERE’S A BRAND NEW DAY ON THE HORIZON (2025)
JB Carter is one of my colleagues whom I particularly respect. He lives for music. It’s nice to hear something new. It’s always a new day on the horizon.
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#elvis #jbcarter #music
JB Carter is one of my colleagues whom I particularly respect. He lives for music. It's nice to hear something new. It's always a new day on the horizon.Undead Blog
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You know what, GOOD for #GaryLineker and #FuckTheBBC! The #BBC is complicit in #Israel's #GENOCIDE. They are complicit in the #UK's own #CrimesAgainstHumanity with regards to #migrants and #immigrants.
The BBC has confirmed Gary Lineker will leave his presenting roles sooner than planned. His departure comes after he shared a post about Zionism that include...YouTube
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is worsening dramatically more than two months after the ceasefire collapsed, noting that the population is living in conditions resembling “hellish.”In a statement issDAILY YEMEN
Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge
Link: trenvista.net/en/news/rnhs/fin…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The Finnish government announces the migration of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to international gauge (1,435 mm) from 2032. The change aims to improve military mobility and regional security.Miguel Bustos (Trenvista)
Trump declared that "Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War," following a two-hour phone call with Putin.Rachel Blevins
Frank Zappa: A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. 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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Young people in Gaza cope with misery and boredom however they can.The Electronic Intifada
Do you make of God a verbal experience ?notesandsilence.com/2025/03/14…
#words #religion #spirituality #silence #meditation #prayer
Verbal Experience
The calming of the body and mind is an essential prerequisite for divine talkingfor talking about the divine,People of a religion have, mostly, a verbal experience of God,They make God a verbal exe…Notes & Silence
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On Sunday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that the U.S. has begun an "endless war" across the world to plunder other countries' resources and eventeleSURenglish
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli special forces kidnapped a Palestinian mother and her child from Gaza on Monday. The assault took place in Khan Younis, where an Israeli unit disguised in women's cloEditing Team (Quds News Network)
i think my managers managers manger has a ketamine (or some other recreational) problem.
he send a complete redesign of the project.. in power point... at midnight.
today he looked fucked up.
Making Video Games (Without an Engine) in 2025
Link: noelberry.ca/posts/making_game…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make gamesnoelberry.ca
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Last night the news broke that former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer, which has already metastasized to his bones. The conversation has gone in two predictable …OffGuardian
Frank Zappa: Well I think that progress is not possible without deviation. And I think that it's important that people be aware of some of the creative ways in which some of their fellow men are deviating from the norm, because in some instances they might find these deviations inspiring and might suggest further deviations which might cause progress, you never know. 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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A shower thought turned into a Collatz visualization
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The PGO explained that since the beginning of the special military operation Amnesty International activists have been doing everything possible to fuel the military confrontation in the regionTASS
I got fooled by AI-for-science hype–here's what it taught me
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I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.Nick McGreivy (Understanding AI)
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Frank Zappa: We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in terms of reliance on governing functions. Most people don’t want to come to terms with that. It’s been proven over and over again that the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes, but most people don’t like to look at naked emperors. In the process of turning around to avert their eyes, they saw the discotheques and a few other things and latched onto them. 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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太难为我了
比让我写全英文的租赁合同更离谱的事，来了
让我审核全英文的会计报表
我的英文水平也就大学四级低空飘过罢了
还是那么多年前的事了
还好有AI
这业务但凡早几年我都要秃头
Raouf Sheibani warned against resurgence of terrorism in Syria following the occupation of parts of its territory by Israel, the U.S. and Turkey.IRNA English
[ Daily Mail: Olive Garden-owner abruptly shuts a third of its restaurants ]
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#TIL #BahamaBreeze was owned by #OliveGarden's parent company.
Frankly I haven't even heard the name Bahama Breeze since 1994 and I haven't missed it.
A popular restaurant chain owned by Olive Garden parent company Darden Restaurants abruptly closed 15 locations.Emma Saletta (Daily Mail)
Well, it's #paywalled so I haven't read past the headline or the #CEO's picture, but I've got two-things to say to #BlueSky CEO #JayGraber:
1. #Censorship from #Türkiye2. Lack of #Federation
Wake me up when you've stopped #1, and figured out #2.
Until then, BYE FELICIA!
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I have an idea for a program to promote businesses that are good for the environment because they help people repair things. Places like tailors, cobblers, electronics repair are all at risk of vanishing along with the skills required to do these things.
Right at a moment when we should be making repair and longevity a bigger part of material culture.
My cobbler is very old and isn't training anyone to take over.
Just telling people to repair things won't cut it.
Tailor shops are plentiful where I live. Cobblers, not so much. It broke our hearts some years ago when our favorite cobbler lost his apprentice to an illness, and by then he was too old to take on a new apprentice. A couple of others have come and gone since. Now there's just one left in the neighborhood. Same with computer repair shops. Been doing so much business with our last one for the past five or six years.
There's still a clockmaker in the neighborhood, too; another shop I used to know in town closed down sometime in the last year. So did the nearby photography shop where I kept meaning to take my old film camera. No idea when that happened; one day I simply noticed it was gone.
Attached: 2 images Built-in obsolescence. Humph. My mic stand boom has a hardened steel adjuster bolt going into a cheap pot metal housing to grip the mic stand boom. Of course it’s not going to last.C.IM
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Bible: Never give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs. Otherwise, they will trample them with their feet and then turn around and attack you. 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.
#ANNE-FRANK #DIARY IS #FAKE ADMITS GERMAN #MEDIA
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TUCKED AWAY ON pages 119 and 122 of the October 6 2024, issues of Der Spiegel, a weekly German news magazine comparable to Time or Newsweek, was a news item of considerable significance.
A scientific analysis of the manuscript said to be the original diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who died in a German concentration camp during the Second World War.
The analysis revealed that the manuscript could not have been written before 1951, six years after the end of the war and the teenager’s death from typhus.
AS LUCRATIVE AS THE OIL INDUSTRY: The Diary of Anne Frank has sold an estimated 30 million copies and been translated into over 70 languages. It’s considered a powerful memoir of the Holocaust and remains a widely read book today.
Inconvenient History: Anne Frank did not write the diary that has been peddled by the triumphant Allies. Like Schindler’s List, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Carve her Name with Pride and thousands of other propaganda fictitious novels, The Diary of Anne Frank – of which no one has ever seen the purported original – is as fake as a child’s comic book.
The significance of Der Spiegel’s revelation of this fraud is twofold.
First, the printing of the story in a mass-circulation publication constitutes a major break with past treatments of similar news.
NOTE QUOTE: ‘Members of the German media are paid by the CIA in return for spinning the news in a way that supports US interests, and some German outlets are nothing more than PR appendages of NATO, according to a new book by Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Germany’s largest newspapers.’
The German news media generally follow a pro-Israeli line, a heritage from the immediate postwar years when the Allied occupation forces gave publishing licenses only to those Germans who had proved their disloyalty to their country during the war.
Consequently, most genuine news media and social media tend to cast doubt on Jewish stories about gas chambers and the like from the World War II era, which have either been blacked out altogether or downplayed and given very unsympathetic treatment.
The present article, though accompanied by copious apologies and held back for six months after it became news, would not have been printed at all a year or two ago.
The diary of a young girl, in addition to being so heavily edited that Otto Frank had to pay the author of the work of fiction (Anne Frank Hoax Exposed – National Vanguard), also undermines the orthodox narrative surrounding the ‘holocaust’ or ‘Shoah’ or whatever it is called.
1) Anne Frank didn’t work at Auschwitz, was a teen, and was not gassed. This is a fact, but against the victor’s spin.
2) In 1945, Anne Frank joined the salvation march into Germany to flee the advancing Soviet Red Army. The Allied spin claims this survival freedom march was a forced death march.
AS LUCRATIVE AS THE OIL INDUSTRY: The Diary of Anne Frank has sold an estimated 30 million copies and been translated into over 70 languages. It’s considered a powerful memoir of the Holocaus…Michael Walsh Stories and Books
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Little doubt that voting for Israel is organized. As in rigged. Horrible song, mediocre singer, genocidal country shameless people.
In 2024:
[…] Public votes for #Israel were boosted by a campaign by Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Advertising Office, which featured Golan asking for support in French, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, Latvian, Estonian, Albanian, Georgian and English. The campaign stated, "In light of the wave of hatred and Muslim demonstrations in Malmö, a counter-reaction by the silent majority is taking place. Europeans don't like what their eyes see."
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Congratulations, #Austria!
#Palestine / Israeli TV Host apologizes for Eurovision comment about Jerusalem's Armenian quarter
Israeli broadcaster Assaf Liberman apologized after joking during #Eurovision coverage: "I can't believe we gave these folks an entire quarter in Jerusalem." Armenian representatives objected, noting their 1,700-year presence wasn't "given" but built "stone by stone over hundreds of years." Liberman clarified he meant no offense.
Hebrew e.walla.co.il/item/3750326 or archive.is/7b4C4
@palestine
@israel
#Armenia #EthnoFascism
לאחר הופעתו של הזמר הארמני אמר בהומור אסף ליברמן: אני לא מאמין שלחברה האלה אנחנו נתנו רובע שלם בירושלים. בארמניה קמה סערהיואב איתיאל (Walla!)
Better response would have been:
We can hardly believe that in 1947, United Nations member states granted these individuals—Jewish illegal immigrants, including families like Liberman’s from Poland—the authority to establish a state there. Yet, we witness a country attempting an ethnic cleansing of Palestine’s indigenous population to cover up the original sin of its creation as a consequence of European colonialism.
[followup] Audio analysis confirms #Eurovision producers selectively removed audience boos and "Free Palestine" chants during Israel's 2024 contestant performance, contradicting #EBU's public denial of censorship. This fact alone challenges Israelis on social media, interpreting Eurovision public voting count as support for their position rather than what they term the "Hamas narrative" promoted by anti-genocide protesters.
Beyond debates about voting patterns and allegations of Israeli-organized voting campaigns, technical examination of broadcast feeds reveals concrete audio manipulation that preserved cheers while eliminating protest sounds—raising significant questions about Eurovision's claimed political neutrality amid controversy over Israeli participation during the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
theintercept.com/2025/05/17/eu…
Despite Eurovision denials, an audio analysis shows booing and a “Free Palestine!” cry during Israeli singer Eden Golan’s 2024 performance.Nikita Mazurov (The Intercept)
Readers comment in Haaretz:
"Here in Germany, every video in YouTube I received Yuval Raphael's statement in German asking to vote for Israel. How much money was invested in ads around the world for this foolishness?"
Haha… Well, that was quite quick, 🎩 Spain
Spanish broadcaster #TVE will request a debate on #Eurovision’s televoting system, with other countries joining the call. Officials worry military conflicts are influencing voting patterns, undermining the contest’s cultural essence. The discrepancy between jury and public votes was highlighted when #Switzerland ranked second with juries but received zero televotes, while #Israel topped public voting with 13 countries giving it maximum points. #Spain has requested detailed data on how Spanish votes were distributed among competing nations.
H/t @dbattistella
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