The key nuclear allegation that started the war was coaxed from a Palantir counter-intelligence algorithm thealtworld.substack.com/p/the…

US strikes on #Iran did not violate international #law, #NATO’s #Rutte says


source: nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinion…

My biggest fear would be for Iran to own and be able to use and deploy a #nuclear #weapon, and to be a stranglehold on #Israel, on the whole region and other parts of the world. And that is why NATO has said Iran should not – and this is a consistent position of NATO – Iran should not have its hands on a nuclear weapon. So, and I would not agree that this is against international law what the US did.


I wish people would back up their statements with arguments. In my opinion, the US attack clearly violates international law. Here are my arguments:

1) An attack is only possible for self-defense and even Israel says it could take months to build the bomb. So there can be no question of self-defense.
2) There were negotiations and even if they were difficult, that is no reason for an attack.
3) North Korea also has nuclear weapons and has not used them to date. The ownership of nuclear weapons alone does not make a country a source of evil danger.
4) Israel also bombs scientists who are not #military targets.


#justice #news #conflict #war #argument #politics #usa

in reply to anonymiss

Israel "secretly" has nuclear weapons and is in violation of several of those "international laws".
Israel is without a doubt the most destabilizing entity in the Middle East threatning, invading, occupying it's neighbours.
Israel is an apartheid ethnosupremacist state conducting a genocide since it's unlawful inception was brutally forced upon the peoples living in Palestine.
in reply to anonymiss

If the threat is not required to be real then any country on earth can be considered a threat as they are going to eventually get a bomb. Israel on the other hand already has a bomb so they actually are a current threat given that they have also stated their wish to destroy Iran, Palestine and anyone who says anything remotely bad about them or their terrorist activities.

There were not negotiations as the talks were at the point of a gun. That is the exact opposite of negotiation as proven by the bombs that were dropped to force an outcome. Negotiation can only be by open discussion and agreement. Would an armed robber be able to say in defence that he negotiated your wallet when he pointed his gun at your face or shot you son?

North Korea may have weapons but that is not in any way relevant as Iran not only does not have nuclear weapons and totally lacks any weapons programme to obtain them.

The opinion of NATO, a beligerant, is not relevant in finding peace. Iran is a member of BRICS which has no military and whose opinion would be far more relevant. The countries of NATO are becoming less and less relevant. I am not a supporter of Brazil, Russia, India, China or South Africa but they are becoming more and more relevant as the west supports more and more mass murder.

Massive Iranian Missile Barrage Hits Israel, Israeli Jets Hit 200 Sites in Tehran #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/massive…

This is our take on Crypto. It has not changed. There is a reason why we have not included Crypto in Vivaldi.

We are very proud of the features we have added, but we also proud of the "features" we have not added.

#Vivaldi #Browser #Crypto #Scam #Politics #Technology #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #ios

vivaldi.com/blog/why-vivaldi-w…


Some years ago, when cryptocurrencies weren’t talked about as much, we were considering announcing a parody cryptocurrency for April’s Fools. It would be called ThinkCoin, and the joke was that all the value associated with it was in the mind of the user, with no software to back it in the real world.

This was ridiculous, of course, playing on the idea that actual cryptocurrencies have no actual value either. This should tell you that we never thought seriously about entering that space. These days, however, with the incredible hype and attention that cryptocurrencies, and more recently NFTs, are currently getting, we couldn’t even go for such a joke, for fear that it would be taken seriously.

Since the discussion around cryptocurrencies has reached such an extreme, I think it is high time to clarify Vivaldi’s position.

Cryptocurrency – is it a revolution?

Cryptocurrency has been touted by many as a revolution in currency, the future of investment, and a breakthrough technology. But if you look beyond the hype, you’ll find nothing more than a pyramid scheme posing as currency.

It’s basically a digital commodity, though one without government backing or banking system support. Claiming to be the new digital currency of the internet, cryptocurrencies promise decentralization and freedom from governments.

Each cryptocurrency typically follows a certain recipe to ensure that the founders create a lot of wealth, a way to distribute the currency to give it legitimacy, and some story on how it is different from all the others.

But since cryptocurrencies are too volatile to be used as an actual currency, people treat it as a sort of investment scheme. The problem is that to extract actual money from the system you have to find someone willing to buy the tokens you are holding. And this is only likely to happen as long as they believe they will be able to sell them on to someone who’ll pay even more for them. And so on, and so on.

If at any point one stops being able to find people willing to buy those tokens on just the promise of them being worth more in the future, the whole scheme might well come crashing down, with the value of all tokens going to zero.

An environmental disaster

The energy consumption of cryptocurrency is another major concern. The energy usage of bitcoin alone is staggering, consuming as much electricity as some countries. And this is likely to keep increasing as the technology behind it does not and cannot scale in any reasonable way.

For obvious reasons, that sort of energy consumption isn’t good for the environment as the energy could clearly be spent better somewhere else. This is also true if it’s renewable energy since it could instead be used to displace fossil fuels in other applications.

While so many of us are trying our best to reduce our carbon footprints, it feels counterproductive to indulge in technology that undoes that hard work.

The entire crypto fantasy is designed to lure you into a system that is extremely inefficient, consumes vast amounts of energy, uses large amounts of hardware that could better be spent doing something else and will quite often result in the average person losing any money they might put into it.

Jon von Tetzchner


Where we stand

At the time of writing (January 2022), there are over 8,000 cryptocurrencies in existence. Compare this to the 180 actual currencies worldwide that can be used as legal tender.

The most baffling part of this cryptocurrency craze is that it’s still unclear if there is any viable use case or a meaningful way to value it. Without this, it is reduced to merely an overcomplicated slot machine for those with money to burn.

Yet, despite all the negatives, there will still be those who opt to participate. And for those who end up owning some crypto tokens that they’ll need to manage, the browser might seem a logical place to keep track of it all. Indeed, some of our competitors have done just that and now provide crypto-wallets in the browser.

Since Vivaldi is all about offering choices and customizability, you might expect us to include this functionality, as well. But in good conscience, we cannot.

The entire crypto fantasy is designed to lure you into a system that is extremely inefficient, consumes vast amounts of energy, uses large amounts of hardware that could better be spent doing something else and will quite often result in the average person losing any money they might put into it.

When you strip away the hype, these virtual currencies have very real repercussions for people, society, and the environment. By creating our own cryptocurrency or supporting cryptocurrency-related features in the browser, we would be helping our users to participate in what is at best a gamble and at worst a scam. It would be unethical, plain and simple.

We refuse to dress these scams up as opportunities. Instead, we encourage you to treat them with the skepticism they deserve. This may be a game for some curious crypto-investors and wealthy speculators, but for those unlucky enough to get caught out by the pyramid scheme, it could be devastating.

It’s just not worth it.

What are your thoughts on Vivaldi’s stance or cryptocurrencies in general? Let us know in the comments below.

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Having to search to do everything..


Not that I don't still love using linux daily, but it is getting a little old having to search for how to do anything even just install a simple program (recently, had a. Deb file to install unifi software that wouldn't install and had to find a custom script to do it).

I feel like there's no way I'd ever learn all the random commands I've been copying and pasting (and keeping in a text file for later) and can't help but feel it's kind of clunky. And I don't feel like I really know anything of what Im doing. Even man pages baffle me. I've been into computing for 20 years but only used linux a little like 8 years ago, but now it's been my main os on my desktops for probably 2 months. I know, maybe that's just not long enough. I just don't like the fact that if I couldn't search, I'd be completely stuck on a lot of tasks.

in reply to bridgeenjoyer

A good start is to install tldr. You use it like man, but it gives you shorter explanations – or rather, a short list of illustrative examples.

As for man pages themselves (which I often find overwhelming, too), if you're not doing that already, you can pipe it into grep to extract just those lines that contain your search string:

man ps | grep user

# or for two lines of context above and below each match:
man ps | grep user -C 2 

Going further, check out Fish instead of Bash. I haven't use Fish yet, but it's said to be much better for learning Linux commands as a beginner. Later on, you may switch to Zsh. In any case, hitting Tab once or twice will often give you a list of possible completions to the command you are typing.

PS: I see no good reason why anyone should downvote this question.

Edit: As it so happens, just today I've stumbled into the O'Reilly book "Classic Shell Scripting" by Robbins and Beebe (ISBN 9780596005955). What can I say – its age notwithstanding, it's apparently an extremely good book for understanding things and learning how to solve real problems. (It presupposes some familiarity with Unix-like systems and with the shell, so if one's just starting out, the book "Learning the Unix Operating System" may be better.)

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in reply to UFW

This is moronic. First of all there is no necessity for this placard.

Secondly, what this does is advise ICE agents that you probably have somethingh to hide and encourages them to come in with a warrant.

Thirdly, the [lacard shows the person(s) developing it do not understand the US Constitutionand how it works in our Republic.

Finally, this adivses everyone that the business supports illegal aliens.

Zakharova responds to Vance’s comments on Russia and China’s position on Iran eu.eot.su/2025/06/23/zakharova…

Leonard Leo's Six Fascist Shits NEED TO BE REMOVED AND PUT IN PRISON FOR THEIR CRIMES AND TREASON.

theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…

Interesting perspective though I wouldn't trust him in general.
"He already sent troops into Los Angeles under the guise of “restoring order.” But I’m hearing it’s just the beginning.

"More deployments are coming. More cities. More ICE raids.

"And this time, they’re not just targeting Central Americans. They’re targeting Muslims—under the pretext of Iranian “sleeper cells.”"

levremembers.substack.com/p/wh…

explorersweb.com/rescuers-atte…

Rescuers Attempt to Save Tourist Trapped In Active #Volcano » Explorersweb

Rescuers are still trying to reach a Brazilian tourist who fell into the crater of #Indonesia’s 3,726m Mt. Rinjani on Saturday.
Juliana Marins, 26, rose before dawn to hike around the rim of the country’s second-largest volcano with a small guided group. But in the early-morning fog, she slipped over the edge of the trail and fell down a cliff into the crater.

Drone footage captured over the previous three days shows her alive and conscious, but rescuers have been unable to reach her.

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However, when rescuers descended to that point, they were unable to find her. They called out but received no response and were forced to climb back up to the rim. On Sunday, more drone footage confirmed that she was no longer in her original location.

On Monday morning, authorities found Marins again, even further down the slope. It appears that at some point on Saturday, she slid further down the cliff from where she was perched. Rescuers attempted to reach her again, but stopped a little under halfway down. They were reportedly able to send food and water down to her before retreating.

in reply to nowisthetime

" She never made it alive to the fourth day.

Everyone involved made a whole bunch of mistakes:
The local guide who wasn't anywhere near her when she fell.
Whoever never advised her to take her own backpack with at least a few things in it that might have kept her alive. (She had nothing with her at all.)
(and though this can't fairly be criticized:)
Mistakes which she very probably made through her own inexperience when she was in her original safe position 1000 ft down (see the photo above).

If she'd barely moved a muscle and stayed exactly there, maybe very carefully, inch by inch, digging herself a kind of bucket seat, they'd have reached her the next day and she'd only have had to make it through one bad night.

We'll never know, but I'm guessing she panicked, tried to climb out on her own or change her position, and then fell far further, likely injuring herself badly.
There are quite a few signs that the Indonesian rescuers weren't very expert or experienced. Americans, Europeans or Russians would have got her out well within 24 hours. If I'd been i/c the rescue effort, I'd have commandeered a military sea rescue helicopter with a 2000 ft steel cable and winch, and trained operators who could pull anyone out of anything. Nothing like that ever happened.
Deaths occur in adventure sports all the time. But the very worst kind are when someone is clearly alive and yelling for help, but for one reason or another just can't be reached or helped in any way. "

Radio France, à la tronçonneuse - by Florence Autret


#politique #médias #propagande #manipulation

Selon Marianne, Signes des temps a été supprimée suite “notamment à une campagne orchestrée par David Chavaralias”. Le chercheur au CNRS qui a lancé début 2025 HelloQuitteX, un système de transfert de compte de X vers un autre réseau social, avait été invité fin janvier dans cette émission, aux côtés de l’essayiste Samuel Fitoussi et le patron d’Atlantico Jean-Sébastien Serjou.


florenceautret.substack.com/p/…

L'Azerbaïdjan à l'assaut de Benalla - by Marc Endeweld


#politique #corruption #lacorde #guillotine2025

La macronie, ramassis de mafieux.

marcendeweld.substack.com/p/la…

"En déclenchant cette guerre, Trump expose l’Amérique à des risques majeurs"


#géopolitique #impérialisme #guerre

« contre la stupidité, nous sommes désarmés. Ni les protestations ni la force n’y peuvent rien ; les arguments tombent dans l’oreille d’un sourd ; les faits qui contredisent les préjugés sont ignorés, et quand ils sont irréfutables, ils sont écartés comme insignifiants. »


eclaireur.eu/p/en-declenchant-…

Even the EU, which so far has provided full political, economic, military and diplomatic cover to the Israeli regime, admits in a leaked report that Israel is committing every war crime and atrocity in the book, including “indiscriminate attacks” on civilians, “starvation”, “torture” and “apartheid”.

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl…

#eu #gaza #genocide

Mindestlohn für Erntehelfer: Bauernverband für weniger Lohn an Aus­länder als Deutsche


#Russia condemns US strikes on #Iran as ‘blatant violation’ of international #law


source: pakistantoday.com.pk/2025/06/2…

Is this irony or cynicism?

🤔


#war #usa #middleEast #diplomacy #politics #question #putin #internationalLaw

in reply to anonymiss

Russia? Full-on cynical thug mode. No pretense, no moral fluff. They bomb, lie, and shrug — and don’t even try to look noble doing it.

The West? Now that’s the real show. Constant smiles, speeches about “values,” “rules-based order,” and “democracy” — while running drone wars, backing shady regimes, and bending the rules whenever it’s convenient.

And that’s what makes it more dangerous: the West actually believes its own(!) moral PR. It plays global sheriff while quietly acting like just another empire — only with better branding and a bigger arsenal

End vom Lied?
One side’s a cynical bastard. The other is a cynical bastard with a savior complex. And that one’s got better and bigger media team.

when GIMP helped solve a murder


cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/30406057

"simple technology available to anyone identified the victim of his crime." -forensic files s12 e26 (06:26)

the skateboarding "computer guru" cracked me up XD

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#IsraelTerroristState KEEPS the #gazagenocide

Vía The Craddle

⭕️ Overall developments in Gaza today according to Al-Youm News:
"53 Palestinians martyred in ongoing Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since dawn on Monday, 23 June, including 24 who were waiting for humanitarian aid."

○ Southern Gaza:

– 11 killed by Israeli army fire at aid distribution centers west of Rafah.

– 7 bodies recovered from various areas east of Khan Yunis.

– 4 killed in an Israeli strike on a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in Mawasi al-Qarara.

– 2 passed away from injuries sustained in a previous strike on Khan Yunis.

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in reply to Disisdeguey🔻Pavlichenko🇵🇸

○ Central Gaza:

– 2 killed by Israeli army fire while waiting for aid near the Netzarim Corridor.

○ Gaza City:

– 6 killed in an Israeli strike on a home in Al-Karama neighborhood, northwest of the city.

– 3 killed in a strike targeting a group of civilians near Al-Hashimiya School in Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

○ Northern Gaza:

– 4 killed and others wounded in an Israeli strike on a home in Jabalia al-Balad.

– 3 siblings killed in a strike targeting civilians in Al-Salatin, west of Beit Lahia.

– 11 killed, including two siblings, and many injured in an Israeli attack on civilians waiting for aid in Al-Waha area, west of Beit Lahia.

If hating #Israel for their ...

- #Genocide - #WarCrimes - #CrimesAgainstHumanity - #KillingCivilians - #KillingBabies - #KillingChildren - #KillingMothers - #KillingJournalists - #KillingDoctors - #KillingNurses - #KillingParamedics
... makes me #AntiSemitic then ...

Bring it on, bitches!
Bring it the fuck on.

Palestinians are a Semitic People.

You know what's really anti-semitic?

Creating a new #HOLOCAUST so you can try to eradicate them as a people.

Can't get any more anti-semitic than that.

@israel@a.gup.pe @palestine@a.gup.pe @gaza@a.gup.pe

Asian powers condemn US strikes on Iran nuclear sites english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

Gangster empire: what the bombing of Iran reveals about the West


#geopolitics #imperialism #war

Today, even that pretence is gone. In Gaza, and now with the strikes on Iran, the gloves are fully off. What we’re witnessing is a regression to a kind of global lawlessness — a “might makes right” free-for-all where nothing is off limits: not the mass slaughter of civilians, not the bombing of nuclear sites, not even the complete sidelining of international institutions. And all of this is happening in the nuclear age — a reality that brings us to the next point.


thomasfazi.com/p/gangster-empi…

The third estate, those of perquisitive classposture, wanted to go back to normal. Wanted to go back to their brunches.

The second estate, those of oligarch classposture, would have continued to find means to extract rents even if we all remained in quarantine in perpetuity.

Until we grapple with the fact that those everyone wants to blame #PublicHealth apologism on, the second estate, in point of fact sequestered wildly more wealth when public health interventions were in effect...

We will continue to spout the comfortable myth that it was some minuscule minority of people who are to blame for those health interventions being abandoned...

Letting the powerful plurality of people who just wanted to go back to having someone serve them at a restaurant...

Continue to behave as if they've nothing to do with any of this.

John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Sean Ono Lennon - ZORN@70 at Roulette



7:36 min live music video

#full 50:14 min #audio archive.org/details/2023-08-27…

#music #experimental #avantgarde #jazz #JohnZorn #LaurieAnderson #SeanOnoLennon

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As Paul Waldman notes, somehow the US got through a couple of hundred years without law enforcement officers needing to cover their faces. Yet suddenly this is the norm for the Trump administration, which claims this is necessary to protect the officers. Why?

#Trump #ICE #masks #violence #authoritarianism
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paulwaldman.substack.com/p/mas…

in reply to William Lindsey

"Government agents, especially but not only those from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will now wear masks when prowling through American streets, raiding homes and workplaces, snatching people out of their cars, rounding up immigrants or people who look like immigrants, and carting them away in unmarked vehicles."

#Trump #ICE #masks #violence #authoritarianism
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in reply to William Lindsey

"This image of masked men ready to do violence is everywhere now, just as the administration wants. The practical purpose is to remove the possibility of accountability, but there’s another message it sends: Unlike even previous iterations of state violence, this is a form of power with which there is no negotiating."

#Trump #ICE #masks #violence #authoritarianism
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bbc.com/news/articles/cp8621gn…
Why would you attack a #PRISON unless your intended goal was simply to #kill #CIVILIANS?

Nevermind, this is #Israel we're talking about here. Killing innocent CIVILIANS is their thing.

Goddamn fucking monsters! More war crimes they're going to get away with impunity.

#Iran @iran@a.gup.pe @israel@a.gup.pe #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity

Mientras sufrimos aquí la puta #revetlladesantjoan decir que es otra de esa fiestas que el puto capitalismo también nos ha robado.
Cuando era pequeña la Revetlla era una fiesta en el pueblo, ¿con petardos? SI. Pero entonces eran lo que se llamaban piulas y poco más. Y el Ajuntament entonces contrataba una orquesta y se daba más importancia a la fiesta con baile y hogueras en la playa.
Ahora el ajuntament se gasta miles de euro del presupuesto (guiño a esas comisiones) en pirotecnia a ver cual petardos más fuerte (sin tener en cuenta a los que sufrimos este horror, claro) y adivinad qué ha desaparecido?. Efectivamente, la orquesta,la música, y la charanga.
Añado: todos estos ajuntaments que fueron corriendo a traerse refugiados ucranianos,seguro que se lo pasan genial hoy 😒😒😒
#stoppirotecnia

what are some sexualities/romantic orientations that correspond to kinsey 5?


i can only decide myself what I am, but i would like to see the kinsey 5 orientations out of curiosity and just because i wanna see what i may be.

i, personally, when male, am a kinsey 5 and almost exclusively attracted to men except for a few girls i dated and one i'm currently with.

so as a girl, i'm about a kinsey 1.