Tesla EV sales plunge! 13% drop in three months; anti-Elon Musk sentiment harms
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/tesla-ev-sales-plunge-13-drop-in-three-months-anti-elon-musk-sentiment-harms/articleshow/122208236.cms?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Tesla EV sales plunge! 13% drop in three months; anti-Elon Musk sentiment harms

International Business News: Tesla's sales have declined by 13% in the last three months, impacted by Elon Musk's political views and support for Donald Trump, raising concerns ab

^{TOI Business Desk (The Times Of India)}

Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs

Link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Microsoft to Cut 9,000 Employees in Second Layoff Wave (MSFT)

Microsoft Corp. began job cuts that will impact about 9,000 workers, its second major wave of layoffs this year as it seeks to control costs while ramping up on artificial intelligence spending.

^{Brody Ford (Bloomberg)}

Whopping $82.3 billion cost? Donald Trump’s tariffs may hit US employers in a big way, says JPMorganChase Institute analysis
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/whopping-82-3-billion-cost-donald-trumps-tariffs-may-hit-us-employers-in-a-big-way-says-jpmorganchase-institute-analysis/articleshow/122205626.cms?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Whopping $82.3 billion cost? Donald Trump’s tariffs may hit US employers in a big way, says JPMorganChase Institute analysis

International Business News: A recent report indicates that US employers could face an $82.3 billion bill due to President Trump's tariffs, potentially leading to price increases

^{TOI Business Desk (The Times Of India)}

It’s time for barbecue season – Lowell Sun

Oh say can you see — 150 million hotdogs getting barbecued across this great nation of ours on the Fourth of July. We love our hot dogs — not just on the holiday. And the city which loves its hot dogs the most? Not Boston with our Fenway Franks, or New York with Nathan’s Fam…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #RecipeTopics #advice #Columnists' #opinion #Recipes #RecipesTopics
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Hallo Internet, geehrte Denkende!

Ich bin ein extremer Befürworter der #GenferKonvention, sie muss aber auch endlich und konsequent umgesetzt werden.

Überall bzw. weltweit sehe ich gerade circa 120 kriegerische bzw. völkerrechtswidrige Kriege, alle verstoßen gegen die Genfer Konventionen.

Kriege sind nur durch Gespräche zu lösen, also nicht durch immer mehr und neuere Waffen.

Dass das nur durch gute Politiker gelöst werden kann, ist eh klar.

Sollten diese jetzigen "Politiker" uns als Bevölkerung nicht durch Verhandlungen schützen können oder wollen, so sollte man sich wirklich die Frage stellen, ob man diese Versager noch in ihren Ämtern belässt.

Einen freiwilligen Rücktritt kann man wohl heutzutage leider kaum mehr erwarten, wenn "man" gleichzeitig in einer der Aufsichtsräte der Waffenindustrie sitzt und mitkassiert.

Die Demokratie braucht ein Fundament, was die kapitalistische Gesellschaft gar nicht bauen kann, weil der Krieg zum Kapitalismus gehört wie das Amen zur Kirche.

I'm dialing back my LLM usage

Link: zed.dev/blog/dialing-back-my-l…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Why I'm Dialing Back My LLM Usage - Zed Blog

From the Zed Blog: Alberto Fortin shares his honest reflection on the reality of using LLMs in production code and why he's taking a more measured approach.

^zed.dev

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US Dollar Faces Historic Decline in 2025

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/u…

US Dollar Faces Historic Decline in 2025 | The Gateway Pundit | by Robert Semonsen

           The US dollar is enduring its worst half-year performance since 1973, when the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, an OPEC oil embargo, and the Watergate scandal triggered significant devaluation.

^{Robert Semonsen (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)}

US Support For Israel Comes At A Staggering, Multifaceted Price

In one of several observations about Israel that led to him being relieved of his position leading the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Levant and Egypt branch in June, Army Colonel Nathan McCormack summed up the relationship this way:
“[Israel is] our worst ‘ally.’ We get literally nothing out of the ‘partnership’ other than the enmity of millions of people in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.”

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US Support For Israel Comes At A Staggering, Multifaceted Price - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity

When asked about the cost of their government’s support of the State of Israel, some Americans will say it’s $3.

^{The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity}

digiKam's latest upgrades look neat. 😲

news.itsfoss.com/digikam-8-7-r…

#opensource #digikam

New today: Despite warnings from advocates like me about the dire consequences, Congressional Republicans have sought to dismantle core legal protections for detained immigrant children, fund strip searches of children as young as 12 years old by law enforcement officers, allow indefinite detention, and impose new barriers to children’s release.

texasobserver.org/republicans-…
#human rights

How Republicans Are Willfully Endangering Immigrant Kids

GOP lawmakers often claim they want to protect children, but their policy decisions tell a different story.

^{Trudy Taylor Smith (The Texas Observer)}

MASS ARRESTS HAVE BEGUN‼️

One leads to another … to another.

The DOJ has criminally charged 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals, in 50 federal districts and 12 State Attorneys General's Offices across the United States, for their alleged participation in various health care fraud schemes involving over $14.6B in intended loss. minds.com/newsfeed/17871708770…

MASS ARRESTS HAVE BEGUN‼️ One leads to another … to another. The DOJ has criminally charged 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals, in 50 federal districts and 12 ... | Minds

...her. The DOJ has criminally charged 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals, in 50 federal districts and 12 State Attorn...

^Minds

European Energy Prices Increase up to 500%

The UK’s lowest income households are among the most disproportionately affected by the cost of living crisis
Using data from the International Monetary Fund, we had compared the rise in the cost of living, based on projected figures taken in January 2021 and May 2022, across these select countries and the UK.

Here’s what it revealed about the UK compared to the rest of Europe:

greenmatch.co.uk/blog/energy-p…

Energy Prices in Europe: Latest Trends and Comparisons

See how energy prices and cost of living have changed in Europe compared to pre-crisis levels.

^{GreenMatch.co.uk}

WOAH 🚨 RFK Jr exposes “NONE of the vaccines that are administered to children during the first six months of life have ever been studied for autism.”

People need to go to prison

RFK Jr tells Tucker Carlson “There's a lot of people out there who say you, you know, this is part of the consensus. You'll see this on every mainstream, Anderson Cooper, Jake Tapper, all of these guys again and again that the link between autism vaccines has been debunked. Right. It's been studied. Those studies that I was talking about earlier, the epidemiological studies, they only looked at one vaccine, the MMR, and one ingredient, thimerosal. NONE OF THE VACCINES THAT ARE ADMINISTERED TO CHILDREN DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF LIFE HAVE EVER BEEN STUDIED FOR AUTISM.” minds.com/newsfeed/17871707564…

WOAH 🚨 RFK Jr exposes “NONE of the vaccines that are administered to children during the first six months of life have ever been studied for autism.” People need to go to prison RFK Jr tells Tucker Carlson “There's a lot of people out t... | Minds

...inistered to children during the first six months of life have ever been studied for autism.” People need to go to prison RFK Jr tells Tucker Carlson “There's a lot of people out there who say...

^Minds

_If there were no government, wouldn’t psychopaths or supervillains acquire nuclear weapons and either deploy them or use them for blackmail?_

Christopher Cook's answer:

Nuclear bombs are incredibly expensive. Fissile materials have to be mined and then enriched. Delivery technology must be invented, improved, built, and maintained. States can do this because they can steal your money through taxation or print it (and enrich themselves and their cronies in the process due to the Cantillon Effect).

In a condition of market anarchism, a private person must acquire this wealth through providing goods and services. He would have to be a successful businessman—offering things that people want, things that people feel would make their lives better—BEFORE he can get the wealth necessary to build even a small number of missiles/bombs.

So does our nuclear-mad psychopath intentionally seek success in business just so he can acquire the wealth needed to develop even a small arsenal? Maybe.

But then we must ask—what are his incentives to do so? Bloodlust? Lunacy? Again, maybe, but certainly not a common scenario.

Meanwhile, we know the perverse incentives of the state. We know that “War is the heath of the state.” War makes the state more powerful. War allows centralizers to centralize. War allows some to become fabulously wealthy making weapons. “Democracy” allows all of these costs to be passed on to the people. And the nationalism of the modern state allows authorities to convince people in their own lands that people in far-off lands are their bitter enemies. To sacrifice their wealth and treasure, to sacrifice themselves and their children to fight this far-off enemy. And if you are unwilling to fight, they can draft you and kill you if you refuse.

The private psychopath in a condition of market anarchism has none of these incentives and none of these abilities. The state, by contrast, has all of them. The state has a record of using nuclear weapons. The state can build and maintain a world-destroying number of them. The Japanese were suing for peace when “we” dropped Fat Man and Little Boy, just to show the USSR we meant business.

I am not saying that psychos will not exist in a condition of market anarchism, or that such a condition will be perfect. But when we compare that possibility to the current reality, how can we possibly prefer the current reality?

christophercook.substack.com/p…

Without Government, Will Psychopaths Nuke Us?

Answering reader questions on market anarchism

^{Christopher Cook (The Freedom Scale)}

Today in Labor History July 2, 1929: Augusto Sandino left for México to seek aid for his Nicaraguan rebels, fighting the U.S. occupation of his country. The rebellion lasted from 1927-1933. In 1934, he was assassinated by General Anastasio Somoza, who seized power in a 1936 coup d’etat, and who, along with his sons, ran the country as dictators until the Sandinista Revolution of 1979 ended their reign of terror. While in México, during early 1920s, Sandino participated in strikes led by the IWW. Inspired by the Wobblies, he returned to foment revolution in Nicaragua, adopting the IWW's black and red syndicalist colors in their Revolutionary Flag.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #sandino #Sandinista #Revolution #rebellion #occupation #imperialism #IWW #Nicaragua #mexico #dictator #anarchism

I want everyone to know that @Cosmic is smarter than his posts make him look.

He pretty much has to be.

The IDF does this to children every 🇮🇱day

🇬🇧British media pretends not to know

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