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American physician Dr. Saeed Rehman, speaking from Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, described treating victims of today’s aid massacre. He pleaded with the Western world to wake up: “What we’re seeing here is an absolute annihilation of humanity — of children, of pregnant women. What we’re seeing here is an execution.”@palestine
Amid Israel’s continued attacks on Iran, U.S. lawmakers from across the political spectrum are pushing efforts to curb Donald Trump’s war powers as U.S. involvement in the war threatens to fracture Trump’s political coalition.
Beijing, June 17 (Prensa Latina) The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs highlighted that the St. Petersburg Economic Forum is an important platform for discussing global economic governance and building consensus on international cooperation.
#Israel has support from the U.S. and Europe. #Iran's allies have been dramatically weakened, taken out completely, or are not in a position to help. What does this mean for this war and its aftermath?
Israel has support from the U.S. and Europe. Iran's allies have been dramatically weakened, taken out completely, or are not in a position to help. What does this mean for this war and its aftermath?
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The protester said the rally was peaceful until it suddenly got ugly. Now, as he recovers in the hospital, he's not sure if he'll get his vision back in his right eye.
I hope they recover their vision. As someone who lost sight in one eye I can attest that going from binocular to monocular vision is life altering AND not considered a disability under the ~~law~~ Social Security requirements but typically is covered by ADA.
In their hubris, Israel Zionists and US shitlibs think other countries' political system are like theirs', where the whims of a single person will shut down a government.
If that were true, wouldn't assassinating all those Iranian generals stop the missiles raining down on Tel Aviv today?
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like the palestinians say. you can kill a body, but not an idea. the ir has been setup for this. israels been killing their politicians and academics for decades lol.
Yeah comrade. It's particularly amazing because it is US-based analysts who have concluded this too. But as usual, the shitlibs in Washington and their fascist allies in Israel have given themselves brainrot in their foreign policy by ignoring the policy nerds because, racism.
Israel finally attacked a country that can fight back, and it turns out the Iron Dome isn't so effective. Israelis are now experiencing what the State of Israel has inflicted on Palestine.
And while missiles might not discriminate between Jews and Arabs, shelters do. Israeli citizens have shelter doors slammed in their faces by their neighbours if they are overheard speaking Arabic to their terrified children.
Thirty-one years ago, the beautiful Kathie Lee Gifford was on her way to host The Miss America Pageant with her newborn daughter in tow when she received a d...
Friday, 6 June 2025 The Economic Freedom Fighters notes with deep concern the recent public remarks by the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), Adv
I was foolish to believe capitalism would allow real dissent. It is not within the capacity of capitalism to allow self-harm. My waning faith in left wing political commentary is all but spent. They cannot harm the system.
Apart from those at the top for whom the system is rigged, capitalism allows only viable businesses to survive. The obscene joke we are compelled to partake in, all that exists, all that is allowed to exist, is only that which will do the lest harm to capitalism.
Do you think your anti-capitalist blogger will save the world? The obscene elegance of capitalism allows for a person to announce freely its every flaw in exquisite detail, whilst perpetually donating to its cause: paying capitalism for the privilege of critique.
And do support your political commentator of choice! There is no harm in it; how else will fools learn?; but be sure that it will not see the decline of our greatest foe. We all need to eat, have rent to pay, and your particular brand of counterculture needs to be supported; but remember what business model you are investing in.
Supporting political commentary is to lubricate the dissemination of ideas; but that is all. You are donating to support words.
As a rule capitalism honours those who aid the system; so no matter how radical the voice, it exists in equilibrium to the money making machine. Any alteration to that paradigm will lead only to financial ruin or else a greater endorsement of capitalism. Your voices of counterculture will not bring an end to capitalism.
The popular bloggers and commentators could easily join forces to disseminate ways for the public to unite in dissent; but the fact they have not done that already is perhaps all you need to know. Capitalism allows only that which will do the least harm to its system. Obviously they are not politicians; so we should not expect revolution from them. But more than that, they are not strategists: they have no clue how to effectively dissent. They have no clue how to assuage the looming fascism that is currently gripping the world.
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“AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline, according to a new survey published today”
One of the heralded traditions of #Juneteenth is for wealthy privileged Whites to donate some of their excess surplus funds to Black folks as a form of reparations for slavery/Jim Crow/ discrimination.
Something to think about today with #MutualAid requests going around.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Großer Fehler. Warum dachte ich, dass das eine gute Idee ist? Jetzt gehts mir wieder scheiße und ich habe nix dabei gewonnen. Werde den gleichen Fehler (hoffentlich) nicht nochmal machen und mich davon schön fern halten.
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Das funktioniert so nicht. Als es mir vor 5 Jahren schlecht ging hab ich natürlich die 2000 Jahre vorher zu verantworten. Hab viel geändert mir geht's besser, aber die Welt ist immernoch scheiße und das zieht mich wieder runter. Glaube solange man mit geschultem Blick Probleme auf der Welt sucht, wird man sie auch finden. Außer diese dann komplett auszublenden ist mir noch kein sinnvollerer Kompromiss eingefallen. Groß ändern wird sich dadurch aber auch nichts
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00:00 Intro 00:42 Sponsor: 10% off your first website 01:36 Init systems and SystemD 03:21 SystemD is bloated? 05:48 Everything depends on it now? 07:01 It's a Red Hat project? 08:44 It restricts choice and modularity? 09:51 It makes Linux less secure? 10:59 Why use systemD? 12:37 Parting thoughts 13:52 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 14:52 Support the channel
All Linux based systems use an Init system, short for initialization: it's the first process that starts after you boot your OS, and it runs in the background while you're using your computer, to manage system services, and various processes. For many, many Linux distros, SystemD is this init system.
SYstem D is a relatively recent project, at the scale of Linux anyway, it started in 2010, and was spearheaded by Red Hat. Its goal was to replace the existing solutions, like SysV or Upstart, to make things faster and more resilient.
It quickly became the default on Fedora, obviously, then on Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, and many, many others.
The famous Bloat argument is one advanced most often. System D, as time went on, encompassed more and more features that were generally handled by individual services, not the init system itself, like device management, login, or network management and creating logs.
This can be perceived as going against the Unix philosophy, where a piece of software is supposed to do just one thing, and to communicate well with other small systems.
What's certain is that most distros that implement it are general purpose distros, that need to provide as many systems as possible, and so they tend to use most of systemD's features and modules.
SystemD also "hides away" certain configurations with its own tools, like systemctl, instead of exposing everything as a config file. Whether these things are important or not, though, depend on the person.
Another criticism levelled at System D is the fact that it has become so pervasive that a lot of other components are created with a hard dependency on it: without SystemD, they can't work at all, or will have a limited featureset. This results in some extra work for distros that don't want to use systemD, as they have to use an alternative implementation of these features.
Another regular criticism of SystemD comes from the fact it's mainly a Red Hat project, or at least was started by Red Hat. The fact remains that while systemD was started at Red Hat, it IS an open source project, and it is receiving contributions from a lot of people that aren't at Red hat.
Another criticism of SystemD is that it's making Linux based systems uniform and that it restricts choice. I'd argue this isn't really true, since there ARE other alternatives, like OpenRC, Dinit, SysVInit and more.
One final problem people identify with SystemD is system security. First, there's the fact that having one single system that powers the init and service management of most distros is a security risk: an attacker can target many, many systems by targeting systemD.
Second, some people would say that since SystemD is huge and does a lot of things, it has a very large attack surface.
But why would you WANT to use it, exactly?
SystemD is a unified project, which means you don't have to learn 20 different programs if you need to interact with something: you learn how systemD works, and you can manage everything.
Compared to other init systems, it's also simpler, as it opens various sockets that services can plug into, and services can start in mostly any order. And finally, systemD is written in C, and isn't the usual compilation of bash scripts, so it tends to be faster and more efficient than many other init systems.
the fact that israel controls our government has never been more blatantly obvious. as i've said many times, bribery and blackmail are the two primary drivers of US policy
how many presidents have had good rhetoric during campaigns, sounds like they're anti-war, and then boom they flip into israel's little obedient lapdogs. basically every one since they blew JFK's head off
i genuinely wonder what dirt they have on trump cause he was extremely anti-war during the campaign and i think this is likely more driven by blackmail or extortion than bribery of trump, since he didn't really need their money. i don't think he can be bought.
Fun Fact: Obwohl „Emoticon“ und „Emoji“ ähnlich klingen und sich beide auf grafische Ausdrucksformen von Emotionen beziehen, sind sie etymologisch nicht miteinander verwandt.
„Emoticon“ ist ein Kofferwort aus dem Englischen, zusammengesetzt aus emotion (Gefühl) und icon (Symbol). „Emoji“ hingegen stammt aus dem Japanischen und bedeutet wörtlich soviel wie „Bildschriftzeichen“. Er setzt sich aus den Schriftzeichen 絵 für „e“ (Bild), 文 für „mon“ (Ausdruck) und 字 für „ji“ (Buchstabe) zusammen.
this is nearly unbelievable he would be so openly brazen. I don’t disagree with him but he’s either an idiot being so careless or it’s intentional. I’d say that is a rare case. It’s weird.
@HaleakalacraterIf you have an established and vetted definition of Death Cult, based on years of research, in the military intelligence "manuals" and you apply that criteria to Israel and it fits, it's your duty to declare it.
The antiwar movement’s failures on Ukraine & Palestine came from lack of a united front. With Iran, we must correct this flaw. rainershea.substack.com/p/the-…
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) — Following is the full text of the commentary released by Kim Hyok Nam on Monday titled “Commentary on the ‘strategic flexibility’ of the U.S. forces in the ROK”: The commander of the U.S.
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US President Donald Trump will leave the G7 summit in Canada earlier than it was scheduled because of the situation in the Middle East, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
@UptownGirl I fail to see how getting us in a war with Iran and potentially Russia is "America First", seems more to me like "Ashkenazi Psychopaths First".
Happy Birthday to Duncan Lamont (06-17-1918 to 12-19-1978) The Crimson Blade (1963), The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964), The Brigand of Kandahar (1965), The Witches (1966), Frankenstein Created Woman (1967, The Prisoner aka Hans' father), Quatermass and the Pit (1967). A great character actor. He appeared in 7 Hammer Films. #Horror #HammerFilms
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Israel has 80-100+ nuclear weapons. Israel has never had to have UN weapons inspectors checking on their nuclear capabilities in fear of sanctions. Israel has killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians. Israel has attacked Iran preemptively for literally NO valid reason. #Iran_IsraelWar
@Mungencakes missed a golden opportunity to throw a padlock on the back of that truck. they usually roll up on such trucks. we should start showing up to events with padlocks.
Happy Birthday to Adam Smith (06-16-1723 to 07-17-1790). Mr. Smith was one of the most influential economists who ever lived. He wrote 2 significant and important books, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). He created and/or formalized the ideas of Division of Labor, Specialization, and Absolute Advantage. #Scot #Economics #GreatOnes
Sadly there is no UI in friendica itself to set a banner. You can use clients like Aria, Pachli, Fedilab or others to set a banner image. Hopefully this can one day be added to friendica UI.
Re bluesky: can't help with that. Not using that service.
@wilhelm @Friendica Support Thanks for your input. It seemed to be an option in setup process I can't find now. It only shows up in other places, like Mastodon, for example, that have that format. I have option to edit it in 3rd party apps, like Raccoon, but whenever I upload an image and hit save button, nothing occurs. It definitely exists and needs updating. Here's a screenshot of Friendica's impossible to remove pretty lame logo in place.
Have not tested Raccoon to set a banner image. If that is not working as intended why not file an issue over at github.com/LiveFastEatTrashRaccoon/RaccoonForFriendica/issues The dev is very friendly. Make sure to include as much detail as possible like Android version, Raccoon version, Friendica version + instance, repro steps etc.
Meh, I tried it multiple times, not very excited about that app anyways. Fedilab did it fine. Friendica needs a native app. It's the most feature-rich interface, just using that through phone browser is better than anyone else's take on it. That being said, I'm good with Fedilab, Moshidon, and Elk.Zone on desktop browser. I think the Bluesky intertanglement is its own buggy problem (it barely populates the feed and only rarely). So, I'm not seeing Friendica as having further problems for me, essentially. Thank you again for your input.
@Jools [Friendica] Great to know. I forgot to mention I was able to log in through Mastodon, didn't poke around in there yet. Fedilab did the trick so I'm good for now. Thank you.
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in reply to Sardonic Smile • • •I would love to hear Martha Stewart weigh in on this topic.
She was clearly unfairly prosecuted by James Comey in the early 2000s. They tried to pin on Martha what members of Congress are obviously doing now.