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I just finished listening to book 3, then this one, now waiting on number two from the library, because I had no idea they had an order. So far it was good listening in that order!
Setsuna would have a decent chance, iirc he was dealing with a ayylmao that looked like the man who has done so many horrible things to him, so it's understandable he'd be a bit freaked out when shooting him did Jack shit
Those who purport to lead and speak for the Western world seem to be breaking their disgraceful silence 18 months after the onset of the Zionist state’s primitive savagery.
Santo Domingo, May 20 (Prensa Latina) The Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) is currently working on five pillars that will allow for the reduction of the digital gap, greater connectivity, security, technological sovereignty, and strat…
This article was published in People's Dispatch on May 16, 2025, by Peiman Salehi. When international law is selectively enforced, when justice is sacrificed for geopolitical interests, what remains is
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Monday inspected the city of Luoyang in central China's Henan Province.
Stalin: Dialectics comes from the Greek dialego, to discourse, to debate. In ancient times dialectics was the art of arriving at the truth by disclosing the contradictions in the argument of an opponent and overcoming these contradictions. There were philosophers in ancient times who believed that the disclosure of contradictions in thought and the clash of opposite opinions was the best method of arriving at the truth. This dialectical method of thought, later extended to the phenomena of nature, developed into the dialectical method of apprehending nature, which regards the phenomena of nature as being in constant movement and undergoing constant change, and the development of nature as the result of the development of the contradictions in nature, as the result of the interaction of opposed forces in nature. In its essence, dialectics is the direct opposite of metaphysics. 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.
La maison des "gnomes"... ou plus exactement un ophrys scolopax (bécasse). C'est le coin de garrigue où je photographie, un peu plus tôt au printemps, les himantoglossum robertianum et les ophrys araignée, bref, c'est un peu comme un coin à champignons... sans l'omelette à la fin ;>) #photo #mywork #flore #gard #occitanie
Help Feed Starving Bees "According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, commercial beekeepers across the United States are reporting the near or total collapse of their colonies—some seeing 70-100% losses—with the apiary industry calling this the worst bee die-off in U.S. history.
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Hurricane Helene and Milton decimated flowers and other bee food sources across the Southeast. Over a billion bees will starve to death if we don't act now - help them make it through the winter.
I’m out. I am done with this insanity, circus and inverted clown puppet show. Atrocities are in plain sight and more are coming like a express train whilst most of you bang pots n pans, keep poisoning yourselves, roar like lions at the bread n circus entertainment and clap your own genocide like demented seals 🤡🌎🐑
Calling an anarchist who is also a communist a tankie because they use the word communism has to be a new liberal thing. Of course, liberals will perpetuate anti-communist garbage by equating all of communism with what they believe about the USSR. They're politically illiterate
I feel I have to emphasize it's just what they believe about the USSR because they haven't actually engaged with the facts enough to have nuanced criticism from a communist perspective. Often anarchists haven't either tbf but many of us have and can see the successes and failures
I myself have a lot of criticisms of the USSR under all of the various regimes and leaders but I don't see any liberals engaging on that level and they just see anyone to the left of them as Stalinists so they call us all tankies
The consumer hardware market is often said to be one of the toughest to survive. Yet, Framework has continued to grow steadily, with its DIY laptop as a flag...
Stalin: Contrary to metaphysics, dialectics does not regard nature as an accidental agglomeration of things, of phenomena, unconnected with, isolated from, and independent of, each other, but as a connected and integral whole, in which things, phenomena are organically connected with, dependent on, and determined by, each other. The dialectical method therefore holds that no phenomenon in nature can be understood if taken by itself, isolated from surrounding phenomena, inasmuch as any phenomenon in any realm of nature may become meaningless to us if it is not considered in connection with the surrounding conditions, but divorced from them; and that, vice versa, any phenomenon can be understood and explained if considered in its inseparable connection with surrounding phenomena, as one conditioned by surrounding phenomena. 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.
Hiring a website designer should be exciting—you're getting a shiny new site! But a bad proposal can turn that excitement into a mess of extra costs and delays. Here's how to spot ten traps in proposals for web design services before you're stuck.
1. Super Sketchy Scope
If the proposal says "SEO" or "custom site" but doesn't explain what that means, watch out.
What's the deal? Vague terms let designers skimp on work or hit you with surprise fees. What to do Ask for the nitty-gritty. What's "SEO" cover? Is "custom" really unique? Get it in writing.
2. No Timeline, No Bueno
A solid website designer gives you a plan—think design, coding, testing—with clear deadlines.
What's the deal? No timeline means you're left guessing, and delays sneak in. What to do Ask for a schedule. When's the first draft? When's launch? Nail down the details.
3. Too-Cheap Prices
A crazy-low quote might seem like a steal, but it's usually a setup for disappointment.
What's the deal? Cheap means cut corners—think bad code or generic templates. What to do Ask why it's so cheap. Are they skipping testing? Outsourcing? Compare carefully.
4. Revisions? Crickets
You'll want to tweak your site as it's built. If revisions aren't mentioned, that's trouble.
What's the deal? No revisions could mean you're stuck with a site you don't like. What to do Check how many revisions you get (2–3 is standard) and how feedback happens.
5. Ownership's a Big Question Mark
Who owns your site when it's done? If the proposal doesn't say, you might not.
What's the deal? You need full control of your code, domain, everything. No excuses. What to do Ask, "Will I own my site and get all logins?" If they dodge, run.
6. Hosting and Maintenance? Total Mystery
Some designers handle hosting; others leave you hanging. If it's not clear, you're in for a shock.
What's the deal? Unclear terms can mean surprise bills or a site that crashes. What to do Ask about hosting, updates, and security in their web design services. Get prices upfront.
7. No Portfolio, No Dice
A website designer without a portfolio—or with shady samples—is a big red flag.
What's the deal? No proof of past work means you're gambling on their skills. What to do Ask for 3–5 live sites. Check for clean designs, fast loads, and stuff like your project.
8. Hype Overload
"Top Google spots!" or "mind-blowing design!" sounds cool, but it's usually just hot air.
What's the deal? Big talk often hides weak skills or empty promises. What to do Ask for proof—past projects, client wins. Focus on their plan, not their pitch.
9. Solo Designer, Agency Act
Freelancers are great, but pretending to be a big team is a trust-killer.
What's the deal? Lies about their setup can mean delays or sloppy work. What to do Ask who's doing what. Are they coding or passing it off to someone else?
10. No Plan After Launch
Your site's live—then what? If the proposal stops there, you're on your own.
What's the deal? Sites need fixes or updates. No support plan leaves you stranded. What to do Ask about post-launch help. Free fixes for a bit? What's the cost later?
Wrap-Up
A great website designer hands you a clear, no-BS proposal. Don't fall for these traps—ask tough questions and demand answers. With the right web design services, you'll get a site you love without the headaches.
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I hope you're doing well. I have a proposal that I believe could potentially impact our lives. I would like to do this business with you, get back for more details.
Unmasking the Fake Signatures of the MEK: The Truth Behind the Controversial Statement by 560 Lawmakers and the European Parliament’s Formal Protest geopolitica.ru/en/article/unma…
Not gaming news but an important subject to cover anyway since it's something that affects me and GamingOnLinux directly, as well as all of you who regularly use a search engine. The OpenWebSearch might be one way to save us all.
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International aid organizations are calling an Israeli-U.S. plan to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza a “politicized sham” and a “blueprint for ethnic cleansing.” Meanwhile, the UN warns 14,000 babies could die within days if Gaza does not receive aid.
It is good to see Sanders & others bring attention to how the Democratic Party rigs its primaries. It has gone back even longer than 2016 with rules designed to lead to a more centrist candidate initiated after the 1972 primaries. Democrats need to end superdelegates, front loading of conservative Southern states & various other rules which enable them to greatly influence the winners. newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-ag…
but they won't. they're still fighting it too and nail. ive been away from the news mostly for a bit now but i think i heard the dnc is ready to dump david hogg, no? david should have known better, hes no wasserman shultz to be getting away with sticking his nose in the primaries. man, could you imagine what they would do to him he funneled money from state dems straight to a progressive's campaign? anyways i heard sanders is an antisemite, so that pretty invalidates everything he says here.
@benda I assume you are being sarcastic with everything you are saying here. Can never be certain considering how absurd the responses I sometimes get from BlueMAGA.
lol sorry. i should start specifying my sarcasm. i just assume such takes are so absurd the sarcasm should be readily assumed. but like you said... then bluemaga comes along and gives you every reason to hate humanity.
STATEMENT: THE RE-INCLUSION OF CUBA ON THE UNITED STATES’ LIST OF COUNTRIES THAT “DO NOT COOPERATE FULLY” IN COUNTER-TERRORISM #Cubacanadiannetworkoncuba.ca/2025/…
* It uses too much energy * Grok is polluting the air and actually choking out a predominately Black community in Tennessee * It lies. It does not hallucinate, it lies. * Its sole purpose is to eliminate labor
@TXPatriot2021 @TXHolly Greg Abbott is running for a 4th term. Thoughts? I think he's overstaying his welcome, not that he stands a chance of losing in the general election.
If a proven MAGA type candidate were to run, they would get my vote.
Texas politics is very corrupt and Abbott at least does the right thing 60% of the time, but I just haven't seen anyone else yet that I would consider.
Unfortunately, he's running for re-election for Lt. Governor.
Sometimes, I get the idea that Abbott is running for re-election explicitly to keep Patrick out of the mansion, because if Dan ran, he would win, so Abbott is keeping the seat occupied for the Bushites so he can run the clock down.
Stalin: Contrary to metaphysics, dialectics holds that nature is not a state of rest and immobility, stagnation and immutability, but a state of continuous movement and change, of continuous renewal and development, where something is always arising and developing, and something always disintegrating and dying away. The dialectical method therefore requires that phenomena should be considered not only from the standpoint of their interconnection and interdependence, but also from the standpoint of their movement, their change, their development, their coming into being and going out of being. The dialectical method regards as important primarily not that which at the given moment seems to be durable and yet is already beginning to die away, but that which is arising and developing, even though at the given moment it may appear to be not durable, for the dialectical method considers invincible only that which is arising and developing. 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.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to release a report Thursday on how pesticides and other issues may be linked to childhood chronic diseases.
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro discussed the importance of empowering young Venezuelans, announcing that a Popular Consultation for Youth will be held on July 27.
It has a maximum take-off weight of 16 tonnes, a wingspan of 25 metres and an ability to fly above many of the medium-range #defence systems that are deployed worldwide.
Wendt got his start in Chicago's The Second City improv comedy troupe. He went on to earn six Primetime Emmy nominations for his role as a lovable barfly on Cheers.
We speak to fired tech workers, Asem Alnabih in Gaza about Israel’s starvation, cover the latest resistance operations in Gaza, Trump's Gulf tour and much more.
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.
African Initiative. "We have a solid cooperation based on mutual respect, but it would benefit from being strengthened and better developed, particularly in the areas of defense, economy, and finance," Ousmane Sonko emphasized.
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@shitpisscum maija got kicked from netzsphäre for making them federate with pedos and baiting people into arguments or something like that (couldn't be bothered to check).
Finally made his own instance (spergia.net) instead of bothering others and the typical people you would expect around maija joined basically day one.
Help Declassified expose the powerful by joining us: https://www.declassifieduk.org/join/The UK government was challenged in court last week over its decisio...
not only is the artwork cooler, but just the politics of it. the irreverence of intellectual property law, having a card because you made it as opposed to gambled and got it, still perfectly functional. and especially if its for a young one... good to instill these values while young.
The UFW and dozens of supporters rallied in Kent NY demanding the release of farm workers detained by ICE earlier this month as they were driven to work at Lynne-Ette & Sons Inc. on a company bus. #WeFeedYou
Me and some #FreeSoftware friends are setting up a #Fediverse + cloud server aimed at getting #Indian users away from the mass surveillance, censorship, and disinformation of proprietary platforms.
Please let us know which services are important to you by filling out this 2-minute survey, so we can prioritize accordingly and estimate the costs.
Decentralization is obviously the big thing about the Fediverse but is it TOO decentralized to gain traction?
There is no reason why they have to be fully separate domains in the same branch. You can set up a system of fully independent moderation and extreme levels of customization while having them all on one site with a front page that allows everyone to see whats popular.
A front page wouldn't prevent individual subgroups from requiring approval to join, it wouldn't prevent subgroups from banning those it doesn't want. It doesn't prevent users from blocking subgroups that it doesn't want to see on the front page.
What would be most useful is that now someone could create an account on the Reddit, Twitter, Facebook(?) alternatives and give them access to every community, and then allow each community to set its own rules, and customize its own to be unique while having a unified product to "sell" and get people to move.
Hot take? Blue Sky should be worked with to join the Fediverse as the twitter alternative and Mastodon should work to be the Facebook alternative
TLDR: One front page and general site for Lemmy, Mastodon....and to sign up and see whats popular and then have fully independent subgroups.
Google Chat or whatever uses to be federated via XMPP, but then they slowly started making incompatibility changes. Due to it being such a dominant chatting service, the real federated versions died out.
Basically I'm saying it's not worth it. If you want to support Threads or Blue Sky as a central front page to the Fediverse then go for it, but they don't actually need your support.
IMO, it isn't decentralized enough. The federated model is better than centralized corporate services, of course, but it still suffers many of the same pitfalls in microcosm. We need private, encrypted friend-to-friend connections that enable friend-of-a-friend onion routing to those outside one's personal social circle to effectively mimic how real human social networks actually work. The only middlemen we need are the friends we made along the way.
From my perspective, that's not something I'd use, or at least, it wouldn't have been much use to me when I was a young closeted queer person in small town Australia. It wouln't have been much help finding my peers
It could have been, there's nothing preventing such a network from providing a degree of anonymity by leaving your signature out of a post and adding a few increments to the distance on its onion route to obfuscate the source.
And in any case, you'd only need to make one remote friend to reach an entirely different segment of the network.
I cannot, and they can't stand me either because I've deleted more bitcoin than most of them will ever see and I've personally killed about $5million in crypto scams before they could pull out the rug. XD
A group of people who would all need to agree before action, a mini government of sorts, maybe elected idk but its the only way to gain a real foothold. The people running it are only supposed to act if illegal activity is going on and they are contacted by authorities in the appropriate jurisdiction.
The people running it are only supposed to act if illegal activity is going on and they are contacted by authorities in the appropriate jurisdiction.
which is the "appropriate" jurisdiction?
what if it's legal in my country, but it is illegal in the country where the server is? I have no other choice of server, you're taking away our ability to join servers in our own countries
Which EU country? Who's to say that's the ideal? That sounds biased. Also the "ideal" (if there is such a thing) could change over time with global politics.
Still too problematic, as what is legal and not in the EU depends on the trendy neo-nazi party du jour. Check Germany, for one, where apparently showing any disapproval of Israel gets you Gestapo'd, or that's what Lemmy administrators in Europe seem to fear. Or Italy / Spain, where any attempt to liberate sports transmissions gets half the internet shut down.
Oh, did I even mention Turkiye?
Honestly, I've always been of the opinion that projects that are intended to be truly international need to build up to some sort of "all humanity" jurisdiction or international waters jurisdiction. Since it's not like the UN is going to provide any sort of aid here.
Switzerland is probably the country most likely to leave everyone alone lol. Because they're a direct democracy and extremely decentralized. Plus internationally neutral.
It won't get bad there it's the richest country and has direct democracy, CHF 5,430 post tax median salary. There's nothing for an authoritarian party to say to convince voters who are the wealthier people (actual citizens) of Switzerland
Also the average assets for adults is over $800K they're too rich to fall to power hungry parties
Then make the "one true frontpage" for Lemmy or whatever (implement ActivityPub, maybe borrowing some code from the Lemmy codebase itself, or kindof making a fork of Lemmy), and if it's good, it'll be used. If not, it won't.
But then, it might well fall victim to this phenomenon:
Lemmy has lots of competing "front pages." How will one more change anything? A more generic domain name or something?
Quite unshocking news: Americans voted in a dictator-wannabe, because their standard of living & economy had in fact sucked for decades.
Exactly how the prelude to strongman authoritarians has played out everywhere else in the world.
There is nothing exceptional or strange to what’s happening right now in the USA. The best defence against tyranny would be economic security and social mobility, but it was lost for too many. youtube.com/watch?v=Z6zPnmuxZ1… #authoritarianism #economy #trump #maga
Status Coup's Ashley Bishop reports on the latest in the economy, with house buying power being cut in half, jobs not increasing, and much more. This was a p...
Hamster here. You still there? In my time out of the wheel sprinting to power the community transmitter and now with 80% less hospitals I have discovered the RFF studio had a kitchen all along. All I ever got was an occasional delicious goldfish dropped into my wheel. Based on this discovery, something is cooking...
The world is grim, the fedi is grim. I hope you have continued to lift one another up out there best you can especially supporting independent art. Stay vertical. 🐹
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