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As relentless bombardment and mass killings continue in Gaza, with entire neighbourhoods wiped out and children buried under rubble, the corporate media and political establishment have once again shown where their true priorities lie: policing langu…
More Americans are biting their tongues, not because they don’t care, but because they’re afraid to speak.
From DEI to the war in Gaza, people are more afraid to speak their minds now than during the Red Scare, according to a political scientist who has been conducting surveys.
This “spiral of silence” is real. It’s stifling democratic debate and amplifying the loudest, most aggressive voices.
The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that no further action will be taken against Mo Chara, a member of the Irish rap group Kneecap, following the recent terror charge brought against him in May.
B. Franklin used to write under other names, but I always assumed it was just to fill up space and generate interest in his newspaper. In retrospect, he DID write some controversial things. Perhaps the same technique to avoid getting cancelled?
Augmenten a seixanta-sis els nens morts a la Gaza per desnutrició a causa de l’obstrucció israeliana a l’entrada d’ajuda vilaweb.cat/noticies/gaza-mort…
El govern palestí ha augmentat a 66 la xifra nens morts a Gaza arran de la desnutrició causada pels obstacles imposats per Israel a la distribució d’ajuda humanitària a l’enclavament.
Russia's terror attacks against Ukraine have significantly increased the last 3 months and reached another height. 477 drones, 46 cruise missiles and 14 ballistic missiles were used only last night. The targets of this terror attack were all far from the frontlines.
Putin is clearly feeling emboldened by the indecisiveness of the West, especially by this US administration, but also by European timidness. It proves once more that appeasement only emboldens Russian aggression and causes more war.
Only total Russian defeat will bring peace and this starts by transferring all Russian money in the West to Ukraine, so that all kinds of weapons can be bought.
Yes, there is a European Tram Driver Championships. Yes, it is amazing. Massive thanks to @tram-em1847 and @VGFChannel for not only letting a cheeky YouTuber...
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>GC_HPWR >instead of shoving 600W into your gpu through a single wire you're gonna shove 1000W into your motherboard (plus whatever your cpu will draw) through 1x12vhpwr (read: a single wire) and 3xpcie connectors yes you need to buy a new motherboard yes you need to buy a new gpu yes if anything goes wrong anything attached to your motherboard will be fried instead of just your gpu and psu yes ANUS is behind this yes jewidia will just buy/license it, build it to a cost and make it a standard yes both motherboard and gpu prices will increase
@Gerhard Hallstein Du kannst #Hashtags folgen, indem Du die Suche nach einem solchen speicherst. Das nutze ich als Schleppnetz: Selbst wenn eine Hashtagsuche nichts erbringt, folge ich dem Hashtag. Sobald jemand einen Post damit taggt, hab ich ihn. So finde ich unter Umständen für unterrepräsentierte Themen neue Accounts zum Folgen. Ich habe hier z.B. nur wenig Nachrichten zu Indigenen. Oder Achtung Reizthema, orthodoxe Juden die Israel als Staat ablehnen.
China is the Schrodinger's communist. When you're bashing them It's the Chinese Communist Party. When someone says "they've had a growth rate far better than ours for decades" "ThEy'rE CapItaLiSt"
I didn’t make the original song — all credit goes to Duran Duran.This is just a fan cover for fun.If you see this track on Spotify or SoundCloud — that’s not...
If you're the kind of person who follows me, you may know about the Kessler Syndrome.
That's when collisions between satellites and space junk create enough debris to cause *more* collisions, leading to a runaway chain reaction. This could render certain regions of near-Earth space unusable!
It's one of nature's ways of containing stupid civilizations, sort of like how inflammation contains infections. So don't be surprised:
A new study by Lewis and Kessler argues that we've hit the "runaway threshold" - the point where a chain reaction is expected - at nearly all altitudes between 520 and 1000 kilometers.
Below that, or above that, space could remain usable. So we could still get out and ruin other layers of space - or go to other planets and mess up those. Luckily, planned deployments of large satellite constellations like Starlink, Amazon's Project Kuiper, etc. will reduce the risk of such a breakout.
Yes, I'm joking - we can differ on whether the expansion of stupidity into the cosmos would be a good or bad thing compared to a mostly dead cosmos, and I don't really have an opinion on that. But the study is for real, and worth checking out:
• Hugh G. Lewis and Donald J. Kessler, Critical number of spacecraft in low Earth orbit: a new assessment of the stability of the orbital debris environment, conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/pr…
In case you're curious: Lewis and Kessler say that if the population of objects in some zone exceeds the "unstable threshold", collisions will drive it up to some higher value, but that higher value could be stable. If it exceeds the "runaway threshold", it will keep growing indefinitely.
This is obviously based on some sort of simplification, since the paper says "if the number of intact objects exceeds the runaway threshold, the fragment population will run away over an infinite amount of time to an infinite number of fragments."
You can have larger and larger numbers of smaller and smaller fragments, but the model must not bother figuring out what happens when the fragments become molecule-sized. That's okay.
When WW3 kicks off, what are the chances that some country triggers the bombs that are already on one of their satellites (or just collides two of them) to purposely fling shrapnel through the orbits of enemy satellites? Wrecking satellite communications and maybe some launches for decades.
I am extremely concerned for several reasons, but I don’t want to bang on; - an order of magnitude increases in sat numbers is going to go wrong - Starlink already have to actively trim orbits several times a day to avoid collisions - there’s no way to fix this, nor is there any control on sat design - that’s far, far too much aluminium in the upper atmosphere.
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And as a making-of, all the 482 frames with a smol processing but before registration (alignment). The drift and jumps are caused by the motorized mount which is not perfectly following the target.
"A new study by Lewis and Kessler argues that we've hit the "runaway threshold" - the point where a chain reaction is expected - at nearly all altitudes between 520 and 1000 kilometers."
Lo siento, pero me pongo un poco pesao porque en mi entorno han pasado cosas™ y os quiero bien:
BEBED AGUA, OSTIA.
Estamos con olas de calor de narices y lo sabéis, así que toca hidratarse aunque estemos en casa con el ventilador y nos encontremos bien. Aunque mayormente estemos en un sitio con Aire Acondicionado...
Si toca engañaros porque el agua no es para vosotros os dejo un par de trucos tontos:
- No tiene pq ser agua, pero tiene que tener mucha agua. Haceos infusiones frías, usad saborizantes (la marca Bolero no está mal). Cuando haga mucho muchísimo calor no tiréis de refrescos, que el azucar al final da sed.
- Si vivís en un sitio donde el agua del grifo es potable, pero sabe un poco a cloro/fluor llenad una botella grande y dejadla sin tapar una noche. Le cambia el sabor e igual es más tolerable.
- Si sois como yo que lleváis botella a todos lados, rellenadla a la mínima. Aunque luego esté calentorra como para echarle un puñao de arroz es mejor tenerla a no tener nada...
- Los hielos de hieleras alargadas sirven muy bien para luego echar un turulillo helado a la botella y que haga su magia de hielo.
-Motivaos con lo que haga falta, compraos una botella chula para el agua (metálica para poder fregarla bien a ser posible). Poned pegatinas o pintadla. Yo soy muy fan de esta que pongo abajo.
Y a la mínima que os sintáis pochos (nauseas, mareos, dolor de cabeza...) buscaos una sombra y bebed poco a poco.
Y no salgáis a dar un paseo a las 5 de la tarde, eso es tentar a la suerte...
I’ve never understood the debate about whether or not support for Israel is commanded in the Bible. If you think the Bible commands you to support what’s being done in Gaza, then throw your Bible in the trash and get a different religion, because it’s plainly false and immoral.
It is not legitimate to offload your responsibility for your own behavior onto your religion. If your religion commanded you to sexually molest children, it would be your moral responsibility as a human being to disobey your religion and stop following it. Gaza’s no different.
This past weekend, the REV17 Anti-Child Trafficking Conference was truly remarkable. Some of the most inspiring individuals gathered to share their stories of resilience and contribute to the fight ag
Our yacy search engine is back online and fully operational. And it is now upgraded to the most recent release. Upgrading provided a substantial improvement in crawl rate but at the expense of higher memory consumption. All in all though the performance increase was worthwhile.
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"بدي بابا مش قادرة أعيش بدونه" لقد أصابتني كلماتها في مقتل وهي تتحدث عن والدها الذي قتلته اسرائيل، بكت نجوى اليتيمة فأبكتني وأبكت الجميع..
“I want a father, I can’t live without him.” Her words ki,lled me while she was talking about her father, who was ki,lled by Isr,ael. Najwa, the orphan, cried, so I cried and everyone cried. #Gaza #Help #Support #Peace
Jamie: You do such a GREAT job! So tough, so insightful, and so incredible! I watch you all the time, and you just never miss. Jamie, as President, I just wanted to tell you this, and THANK YOU for the incredible work you are doing! DJT DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Numerous people have come forward wanting to run in the Primary against “Senator Thom” Tillis. I will be meeting with them over the coming weeks, looking for someone who will properly represent the Great People of North Carolina and, so importantly, the United States of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Republicans must remember that they are fighting against a very evil, corrupt and, in many ways, incompetent (Policywise!) group of people, who would rather see our Country “go down in flames” than do the right thing and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! The Democrats would LOVE to see the Biggest Tax Hike in History (68%!), No Border Spending (Open Borders!), and a weak, underfunded Military, so we wouldn’t be able to do things like we did just one week ago in Iran. We gave the Dems a Debt Extension because it was the right thing to do, but they won’t do it for us. The one thing they do have is an ability to stick together, and vote as one group (They don’t have GRANDSTANDERS!). They also have House and Senate Rules that give Great Power to their Leaders - Committee Chairmanships, etc. Republicans don’t have that, have never been able to get it, BUT THEY SHOULD! What we do have is wonderful people and phenomenal Policy, and that should win Elections every single time!
Much of my family left Turkey after my great-grandfather was murdered in the Armenian Genocide. Turkey, Israel, and many other countries still deny this genocide occurred. It’s a denial that enables genocides like that in Gaza to take place today.
@lain he didn't have the gravitas for a main belt run, always smirking and laughing and demeaning his position, he's a chickenshit heel midcarder at best
well you live in france so obviously you think it's a good idea to flood a western country with 3rd world migrants. opinion discarded. ... oh you're talking about bush not trump never mind
"I am not obsessed with Israel nor - to be sure - am I obsessed with Jewish people. I would be happy to never mention Israel again if only they would stop killing children (I am a father) and stop blackmailing our politicians into supporting them.
the boys at GTW are probably as shocked as the people who have supported the Ron Paul political movement to learn that NA is Zionist and now bashing Their midlife base and everything we believe in. I especially love the lack of coverage on Epstein and Massie and all the taxpayers money involved in lobbying our congress critters and senators. Could be the ultimate exit strategy or maybe the keeper is really a handler after all just like Bidens sons lovers
@DameAtomicGinger I just don't see that they are zionists. I'd love to hear why you think they are. I'm not here to defend them, I am genuinely curios why you think they are.
They pretty much just talk about what is in the media, so of the media isn't covering Epstein, they can't cover it either.
Fight under the onslaught of mutated monsters, obsessed soldiers and even darker bosses. Just try to survive and find out what to do next in this life, simultaneously tearing your enemies to pieces.
The Earth is boiling The World is bleeding because of clowns who put money over Life
"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is the truth - nothing more."
The Netherlands is enacting it's national heat plan this week. With temps forecast to be as high as 35˚C in the middle of the week. We need to talk about shade. Specifically, about the way our infrastucture is not designed for the new normal of these high temperatures in the summer.
In the heat of a summers day, by far the best thing a person can do is seek shade. Alas the way we have designed our built infrastructure makes this difficult. Take for example this bus stop in Amsterdam.
The Glass roof and sides makes the bus shelter light and airy. In the depths of winter, this is great, it stops it turning into a dark dingy space noone wants to use. Alas in the heat of summer, it turns the space into a furnace. The inspiration for this thread came about when I got sunburnt sholders waiting for a bus last summer. Not only does the lack of shade result in being hot and sunburnt, but it also heats up the bench in the bus shelter, a crucial piece of infrastructure for many.
This isn't a one off design flaw either. It's like the entire public transport infrastructure of the Netherlands hasn't taken into account the idea of providing shade for users. Take the design of Leiden Centraal Station bus station. This is the shelter provided. This one is a double whammy, It's crap in winter, and crap in summer. I don't know what the designers were thinking when they came up with it, but it's entirely unfit for purpose. There's not even a bench to sit on while you wait.
On my travels in Southern Europe last summer, I thought I'd check out what the locals do there. They have a lot more sun and hot weather than up in the frozen north. They have got to have solved this problem right?
This bus shelter is in Genoa, Italy. The photo sums up the design failure nicely. People having to stand behind the bus shelter because the bus shelter itself offers no actual shade in the shelter itself.
But that's Northern Italy, it's not that far south, it can't be that hot there. What if we go further south? Say. Spain.
Well this is a bus shelter in Madrid. A city not known for it's cold grey weather... it's a bloody greenhouse. No shade offered here at all. Just a nice boiling hot place to quietly melt while you wait for your bus...
Another one of those cases where I struggle to understand what on earth the designers were thinking. Why would you build a glass box in a hot country? 5/n
And before you start thinking this is just a bus stop problem. Here's Utrecht Centraal station. The glass panels of the platform cover are positioned perfectly to cook anyone who needs to sit in the heat of the day... This is good in winter for providing passive solar gain for cold travellers, whilst avoiding the station feeling dark and dingy. But in summer. Passengers cook. It's telling that noone is sitting in any of the benches on the platforms at this station. 6/n
This is not an easy design problem to solve. You want the sun in the shelter space in the winter to provide passive solar gain, and to make the space feel light and welcoming. but in the summer you need the shade so as to make the bus stop, or train platform a safe cool space for passengers to wait. This is an accessibility issue. Safe waiting locations are crucial for many to be able to use public transport properly. Yet, almost universally, public transport users are failed. 7/n
There are ways to design better sun/shade aware structures. That balance passive solar gain in the winter with shade in the summer, but the key to that is taking the situation into account. Being away of sun angle across the year. The way that building designers do with a Brise soleil. But then you can't copy and paste your bus shelter design across the whole city. It drives up cost. It requires thought. Which is a lot ot expect of the local councils...
One other possible solution is to not integrate the shade into the shelter itself, but to instead plant deciduous trees on the street to provide shade in the summer. And yes. This is an absolutely fantastic idea. And one that we really really really need to do. Street trees reduce local temperatures through shading, making it feel as much as 30°C cooler. They also lower temps through transpiration by about 2.5°C. Street trees are universally brilliant. We need more of them. But... 9/n
They take time to provide the shade needed. Time scales of ten plus years at least to provide a meaningful amount of shade. This doesn't mean we shouldn't be planting street trees. We absolutely should. No ifs, no buts. Planting street trees are the single simplest measure the local council can take to improve the livability of a street. But until they are big enough to provide meaningful shade for public transport passengers. We need to find a better design of bus shelter.
To illustrate just how much of a challenge this is, we need to cross the pond to LA. And perhaps the pinacle of poor bus shade design.
La Sombrita. The design of this is so notoriously bad that I, a geek who's never set foot in the US has heard how bad it is.
This is a cautionary tale of the competing obstacles to proper people centred infrastructure. Announced with some fanfair as a shade solution for bus users in LA. It's been universally mocked. But how did it happen?
La Sombrita came about due to the competing jurisdiction wrangling of the LA street.
The transit authority don't own the pavement, so can't build a shelter there. They can't take space from the road, cos car space is sacred. They often also have to wrangle private interests in the areas around the bus stop too. The result is the only place the transit authority can put anything is on the bus stop pole itself. The need to handle winds dictate the perforated design. La Sombrita is... 12/n
Basically all they could do within the constraints of the various stakeholders of an LA street. The podcast 99% invisible have am excellent episode that details how this all came about, I highly recommend a listen (99percentinvisible.org/episode…).
But the rest of us need to heed La Sombrita as a cautionary tale. And in the meantime time pressure local councils to build better public transport infrastructure, and of course plant more trees. Lots more trees.
This past May, the city of Los Angeles rolled out a brand new, state-of-the art feature for bus shelters. It’s called La Sombrita. La Sombrita is a metal screen that’s intended to provide shade for the thousands of people who ride the bus every day.
the tree plan is obviously better, but how about incorporating liquid crystal in the roof and walls to adjust shading? Most shelters have power anyway, with lighting and advertising displays....
You might enjoy this article on new architecture designs coming out of Africa:
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Madrid is an example... of what not to do. The right-wing dominated city council pleases substituting concrete for trees (see Sol square just for a blatant example). They also indulge in privatizing everything, not only public services but public spaces, so you have less and less places for sitting, hydrating or enjoying shadow unless you pay. Once you remove trees, fountains and benches, you have plenty of space for restaurants and bars' tables! However, the situation is backfiring: in many places the heat is unbearable on the street for most of the day, even below a canopy (too much concrete, too few trees and fountains). This have lead to Kafkian situations (here we say esperpéntico). In Sol, and looks like planning for other places the city Hall is installing canopies at large, at huge cost, low effectiveness and debatable aesthetic results.
Looking at the label, it's the same company JC Decaux who gave Amsterdam a strangle (wurg) contract. They're actually an advertising agency, specialising in outdoor advertising. The bus stops are likely just a means for them.
The bus station is horrible. They don't like people sitting outside for free.
they were very controversial when introduced, they were designed as an urban decoration element, not for their actual usefulness; in winter we get a decent amount of wind so they don't shelter you from the rain. The good news is that after two decades (I think?) they're in the process of being replaced.
Is that intended to be a shelter? I’ve always taken it for pointless decoration, with actual waiting & sheltering being done on the railway station side (after all, officially we don’t even know where which bus is going to leave from until a few minutes before, and the info screens are by the station).
Let’s hope the new bus station will be better! (It won’t be better)
many Scottish cities are not bad about providing bus shelters, but without exception they are all open at the ground which means all the rain falling on the outside runs in and you end up standing in a puddle. An upstand around the base of the bus shelter would be a huge improvement.
Matter interact with other matter in different ways. Just like rain drops are made of matter, light is matter too and can be blocked. In other words, we can have windows that let visible light through while absorbing, or reflecting rest of the spectrum.
That bus stop might be letting visible light while blocking wavelengths that contribute to most heat, or upgraded to do that.
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame develop a new window coating to block heat-generating ultraviolet and infrared light and allow for visible light, regardless of the sun’s angle.
my experimental solution would be to see what window boxes with annual climbing plants could do - something like morning glories, maybe. They would cover the shelter in the summer, but you'd still get the benefit of the sun in the winter. I don't have any bus shelters near me (public transportation here is abysmal/non-existent) or I'd try it myself.
IDF soldiers are killing civilians in Gaza every, single, day. More than 500 Palestinians have been killed & 4,000 injured trying to get aid in a territory where 100% of the population are at risk of famine. IDF soldiers have said they are being ordered to shoot civilians.
IDF soldiers are killing civilians in Gaza every, single, day. More than 500 Palestinians have been killed & 4,000 injured trying to get aid in a territory where 100% of the population are at risk of famine. IDF soldiers have said they are being ordered…
“Parts of the Mediterranean are now running more than 5-6°C above their long-term average as well, or around eight standard deviations from the average. In statistics anything more than two standard deviations from the average is usually considered an extreme departure from normal.”
Channel 4 announces it is airing Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. The film examines allegations that healthcare workers, including doctors, have been targeted by Israeli forces. It was originally commissioned by the BBC, who delayed and then dropped the documentary. Watch it ⬇️
Channel 4 announces it is airing Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. The film examines allegations that healthcare workers, including doctors, have been targeted by Israeli forces. It was originally commissioned by the BBC, who delayed and then dropped the…
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![From the Guardian article called As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel.
The exception writes "An army propaganda leaflet issued in June 1941 paints a similarly nightmarish picture of Red Army political officers, which many soldiers soon perceived as a reflection of reality:
Anyone who has ever looked at the face of a Red commissar knows what the Bolsheviks are like. Here there is no need for theoretical expressions. We would insult the animals if we described these mostly Jewish men as beasts. They are the embodiment of the satanic and insane hatred against the whole of noble humanity … [They] would have brought an end to all meaningful life, had this eruption not been dammed at the last moment."](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7830147 "From the Guardian article called As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel.
The exception writes \"An army propaganda leaflet issued in June 1941 paints a similarly nightmarish picture of Red Army political officers, which many soldiers soon perceived as a reflection of reality:
Anyone who has ever looked at the face of a Red commissar knows what the Bolsheviks are like. Here there is no need for theoretical expressions. We would insult the animals if we described these mostly Jewish men as beasts. They are the embodiment of the satanic and insane hatred against the whole of noble humanity … [They] would have brought an end to all meaningful life, had this eruption not been dammed at the last moment.\"")
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