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A guild mate of mine told me that Sabrina is the type of person to give you a warm honey butter foot job at a Dennys and that shit has lived rent free in my head for months
"I have seen the light, I thought baby killing was done for a good cause... mass murdering very poor people in the other side of the planet was done to "protect" my own."
It is not just people it is their media too ... the planet stands shocked to hear Americans' sad personal tragedy of being dumb and brainwashed.
It is not just a job, as a free pass for murder and get away with it.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz Under Fire After Rare Stock Trade Surges Over 300%
In response to these concerns, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley (R) introduced the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments (PELOSI) Act earlier this year.
The proposed legislation seeks to prohibit members of Congress and their spouses from trading stocks during their terms in office.
This has been brought up before, all major laptop manufacturers have offered linux on their laptops for at least over a decade now. People only noticed it just now since everyone's pissed about Windows 11. It's not new and they're never going to stop offering devices with Windows. It's an option that's always been there but doesn't get attention since few people buy directly from the manufacturer.
@Azur_Fenix SteamOS wont solve the problem, only sidestep it. People will mostly only be willing to use it for games if they're willing to use it at all. It will be a nice uptick in linux usage but hardly a reason for most to use linux overall. Linux development right now has a lot of problems caused by the lack of concrete leadership. I felt like I was having a stroke reading the discussions on Wayland's official development page about how they do not want to add any cross-compatibility functionality for setting a main monitor in case software asks for it (i.e. Windows software running through Wine). It's the kind of feature that users expect to have. Lots of Linux software is full of gaps like that, intentional or not. A good OS like SteamOS cannot fix those kinds of pressing issues unless Valve were to outright take over a lot of linux projects.
phoronix and its consequences... there always has been stupid drama and bike shedding in FOSS (how do you think linus gained infamy) the same way it exist in proprietary software you just don't hear about it behind closed doors and NDAs. the average user does not need to care or know about a protocol discussion, the issue only effects wayland native games anyways which do not exist outside of a couple FOSS/Native games. until x11 truly is dead in +5 years and steam has switched to wayland that protocol will have been long created the same way other essential protocols have like screen sharing and variable refresh rate.
>A good OS like SteamOS cannot fix those kinds of pressing issues unless Valve were to outright take over a lot of linux projects.
wrong. valve can simply implement the code themselves that's the whole point and spirit of free and open source software like they already did numerous times e.g. made HDR on x11 work.
@DarkMahesvara @Azur_Fenix All fair and I don't really think the Wayland situation was that pressing since most DEs handle it instead. It's merely an example of a pointless argument that has been drawn out over a year now that forces cross-platform software (i.e. SDL) to uncross-platform itself for sake of Wayland and only Wayland as it doesn't share a standard that every other platform does for this feature. I got it a little incorrect at first and I do apologize for that. Point was I think drama fucks over FOSS much more since there's far less structure and requirements for any of it. A disagreement can start unrelated to any given project and all of the sudden there's a minefield around with everyone's thoughts and responses. Managers are awful and definitely have issues but there is the benefit of the fact that a manager can force a team to get something users need done. It doesn't matter what happened behind closed doors since the people were paid and forced to make something happen regardless. I'm not championing closed software or anything, rather I'm worried quite a lot of projects have disconcertingly lacking structure. Some would choose to value their political views and arguments over accepting that the guy the disagree with may make good software.
>valve can simply implement the code itself thats the whole point and spirit of free and open source software like they already did numerous times e.g. made HDR on x11 work. This is good but relies entirely on how others react. I imagine most would be willing to also adopt features. I stretched a bit in what I said though. You're right that it'll at least provide something and would likely benefit overall. Not worthless, just not guaranteed to solve problems across the board. Hopefully Valve's contributions can help make others more usable and provide others with what they need. I still stand by SteamOS, as it is being developed, cannot prove to be a good desktop OS. It will need a mostly different build to provide that.
>I still stand by SteamOS, as it is being developed, cannot prove to be a good desktop OS
valve has from the get go prioritized the handheld part with the optional desktop part being exactly that. none of the things discussed here would prevent them from prioritizing the desktop part once they target desktop combined with desktop hardware support making it as good as any other proper distro experience
i'm tempted to share my big secret project that i've been working on for the past year but unfortunately pretty much everything i do has my real name attached
- Mun tuet, reseptilääkkeet sekä terapia katkesivat yhtäkkiä 4-6kk ajaksi byrokraattisen säästösyyn takia, kun mun asiakkuus siirrettiin yhdestä laitoksesta sellaiseen, missä ei ole jatkolausuntojen kirjoittamisen mahdollisuutta - Jäin toimeentulotuen varaan, toimeentulotukipäätös on nyt kestänyt 13 päivää Kelan kesätukoksen vuoksi (mulla ei ole ollut edes 1 euroa rahaa yli kahteen viikkoon) - Virkailija puhelimessa sanoi kuulevansa ”tätä hätää päivittäin”
@hiljaisuus Kiitos, en osaa sanoa. En voi ottaa oikein rahaa vastaan koska se on kaikki pois toimeentulotuesta (jos sitä joskus myönnetään), ja oon vähän noin muutenkin huono ottamaan apua vastaan, kiristelen hampaitani mieluummin. En siis oikeasti tiedä!
Joo, tämä ongelma toimeentulotuen suhteen on tullut vuosien varrella kovin tutuksi, siksi kysyinkin näin.
Avun ottaminen vastaan ei varmaan ole kenellekään helppoa. Meille on kovasti taottu päähän sitä, että aina ja kaikissa tilanteissa pitäisi pärjätä täysin omillaan, vaikka se on yhteiskunnan fiksaatio, ei ihmisten ominaispiirre.
Tuli mieleeni, että jos lähellä on ruokakauppoja, joihin voi tehdä noutotilauksen, nehän vissiin noudetaan vain luukun numerolla ja koodilla.
@hiljaisuus Vinkkiviitonen, että mobilepayssa voi myös tilatessa laittaa maksajan numeroksi jonkun muun kuin itsensä. Oon jeesaillu näin oman lähipiirin toimeentulotuella olijoille juttuja ja hyvin on toiminu.
Ja ruoan kotiinkuljetuksia, esim. K-ruoka voi tilata muuhun kuin omaan osoitteeseen. Nouto toimii myös.
- Sain vinkeiksi muun muassa yksityiseltä lääkäriasemalta lausunnon hakemista, ”vaikka se on toki kallista”, ja sosiaalipalveluista tukien hakemista lainaan, niin että maksaisin ne sitten takaisin takautuvasti (???). - Mulle ehdotettiin (tutun toimesta) myös sukusolujen luovuttamista maksuksi lausunnon kirjoittamisesta yksityisellä, ja sit että adhd-diagnoosilla sitäkään ei voi tehdä :,D - Kolme eri asiakaspalvelijaa tai hoitajaa on pahoitellut syvästi sitä, ettei voi tehdä asialle mitään
Yksi ihminen, kuullessaan että oon tänä vuonna kärsinyt nälkää köyhyyden vuoksi kertoi mulle myös oikein avuliaasti, että voisin hengen pitimikseni myydä seksiä ”vaikka tuolle herralle tuolla”. Toinen rikas kertoi, että taloudellinen tilanne on vain mielentila, että ei raha oikeasti vaikuta elämään vaikka sitä nyt sattuisikin olemaan.
Tuntuu vaikealta edes selittää oman elämän realiteetteja hyvätuloisemmille, me eletään niin täysin eri maailmoissa.
vittu että on perseestä!! oon niin pahoillani et oot just siellä pahimmassa välissä kun fasistit paskoo silmät ummessa kaiken eteen sattuvan.
ainoo mahdollisuus taitaa olla kääntyä kunnan/kaupungin puoleen ja hakea sieltä (täydentävää) toimeentulotukea. Yleensä tarvitsevat kelan ttt-päätöksen ennen myöntämistä mut toisin kuin kela, nää voi tehdä poikkeuksiakin. 😮💨
Sitten myöhemmin tänään silmiini osui tämä: hs.fi/mielipide/art-2000011316… Että voivat ihmiset olla tyhmiä. Se ettei erota vankilansa luonnollistuneita muureja tekee siitä *pahemman* vankilan. Vasta jos muurit näkee, voi yrittää karata.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has condemned the repeated use of Iraqi airspace by the Israeli regime to carry out military strikes against Iran, labeling the act a clear violation of Iraq’s sovereignty and a breach of international law…
Jaguar is on its way to going broke. Jaguar’s European sales crashed 97.5% in April 2025, with only 49 vehicles registered, down from 1,961 the year prior. A...
Filmed footage this evening documented the moments when the alarm sirens sounded in the towns of occupied Palestine after the launch of a missile from Yemen, which led to the closure of the airspace and air traffic in the occupied territories.Follow
About 70 Jewish settlers attacked #IDF reservists near #Ramallah, throwing stones, choking a commander, and damaging military vehicles. Israeli media outlets described them as “Jews,” “citizens,” or “settlers” in headlines. The same outlets call #Palestinians who throw stones “terrorists.” The analysis in the Seventh Eye compared coverage from #Kan 11, #Ynet, Channel 13, and other major #Israeli media, showing different terminology for the same actions based on who commits them.
[…] And how did the main media outlets in Israel describe the incident? On Kan 11, not a media outlet considered a propaganda mouthpiece, this headline was given: “Jews attacked reserve fighters, six arrested.” “Jews.” Not terrorists, not hooligans, not even rioters. What a whitewashed definition for a violent and dangerous incident against IDF soldiers.
[…] When it comes to stone-throwers who are not Jewish, the treatment is completely different. For example, the headline on the “Israel Hayom” website for an article that referred to Palestinians throwing stones at Israeli drivers was “Stone-throwing terror.” When Ynet wanted to report on a case of stone-throwing by Arabs, the headline was “Terrorists threw stones at a bus in Samaria and fled, Israeli citizen injured.“
“Judea and Samaria” (occupied West Bank) in #Ynet and most Israeli media is of course another example of a a cognitive framing which tries to change reality, referring to an occupied land using biblical reality denying terminology.
What delayed the launch of my new podcast? you ask. Endless staff debates about whether episodes should be released semimonthly or biweekly. (We compromised on fortnightly.)
Anyway, Kohn's Zone is finally available. Listen to the 1st two episodes now at alfiekohn.org/podcasts/
Thank you so much for providing an RSS feed. So few people do these days.
It's always been important, but particularly so now, to provide an option that allows people to listen without the tech oligarchs intermediating and surveilling.
Indigenous peoples of Panama. Still subdued by neocolonialism. The current government of José Raúl Mulino has represented the opposite of human principles and democracy. Under Operation Omega, there have been people injured, detained, tortured, and killed. A struggle against Law 462, the opening of mining, the reservoirs on the Indio River and territorial sovereignty in the face of the US military presence. All within the framework of the National Strike 2025.
Photographs: Olmedo Carrasquilla Aguila. Radio Temblor / ALER
Et ce mec, qui n'arrive pas au bas de la cheville de Lavrov, est secrétaire général de l' #OTAN...
Le bon à rien Mark #Rutte, qui ne sait que lécher le cul de son maître et s'humilier devant lui de toutes les manières possibles, a essayé d'utiliser les mots les plus stupides pour blesser le meilleur et le plus instruit diplomate du 21e siècle, Sergueï #Lavrov, sur Fox News : "As for Lavrov - well, in my opinion, he has been the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia since the birth of Jesus Christ. And since then, nothing useful has come out of his mouth. So let's not pay too much attention to Mr. Lavrov." Les paroles d'un politicien de haut vol
This AI shit pisses me off. Am I supposed to be drawn to read your article (link) when you serve me a 'pic' of a THREE ARMED MAN? #AISlop pubeurope.com/@byteseu/1147847…
@Wowzy Wowzy Woo Woo Strange numbers of limbs and fingers seems common in AI and I find that very bizarre since even people who can't count money can count fingers.
New podcast out now! @elifriedman.bsky.social and Kevin Lin talk about their book, China in Global Capitalism. Class struggle, feminist activism, China's relations with Israel, the US, and much more.
As part of our Radical Reads series, we speak to Eli Friedman and Kevin Lin about their new book, China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry.
@Ralf Neumaier Foreigners who come to this country, even those who come legally, need to be willing to integrate into our society rather than bring their own along and expect us to integrate into theirs.
From Dec. 16, 2024, until May 16, 2025, Interpol led an operation across 90 countries, Operation Pangea XVII, that resulted in the seizure of 50.4 million doses of illicit pharmaceuticals worth more than $88 million, with 769 suspects arrested and 123 criminal groups dismantled worldwide, the largest seizures and arrests in the organization’s history.
“Fake and unapproved medications are a serious risk to public health. They can include dangerous or illegal ingredients potentially resulting in severe illness, or even death,” said David Caunter, director pro tempore of organized and emerging crime at Interpol.
In Canada’s case, Health Canada inspected 19,193 packages coming into the country, stopping 7,096 from entering and seizing another 539 at the border suspected of containing counterfeit or otherwise unauthorized health products worth an estimated $378,000.
About 69 per cent of the seized products were sexual enhancement medications, and another 10 per cent were supplements, including herbal and dietary forms.
About four per cent were veterinary and antiparasitic drugs, two per cent were hormones, two per cent were antibiotics and one per cent were weight loss drugs.
Health Canada is advising Canadians to be careful about buying health products on the internet and to ensure the online stores they buy from are safe to purchase from.
@Otter Raft You get into a situation where law enforcement needs to find something to justify it's existence and interdicting ED drugs is surely safer than fentynal where guns and the like might be involved and people are actually dying.
They turned back my order for 36% permethrin for parasite control. So now I get to pay the equivalent of 30X as much for 0.5% permethrin because it's apparently not a problem to sell permethrin, but you have to make sure you pay a stupid amount to entrenched suppliers that got in before the restrictions.
New podcast episode! We talk to the authors of China in Global Capitalism about working-class life and struggle in China and its relations abroad, inc with Israel, in Africa, and its rivalry with the US.
As part of our Radical Reads series, we speak to Eli Friedman and Kevin Lin about their new book, China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry.
Newsom is putting out press releases saying the new gas tax that goes into effect tomorrow is just a few cents. He’s manipulating language. The tax is a few cents but the new benchmarks for the low carbon fuel standards (a tax) may increase prices up to $.65. Playing with words again. x.com/ChefGruel/status/1939915…
@francisscottkey Same BS here in Washington, already got the second highest gas tax in the nation, after Californicatia, and we got carbon cap and trade bullshit further raising that, and that money isn't spent on roads but public transportation bullshit.
An Israeli strike on a residential building in Gaza killed the director of the Indonesian Hospital, Marwan al-Sultan, along with members of his family. Al-Su...
mannn my friend gave me a preenfm3 synthesizer to check out last night. i almost started up the sound studio but then thought better of it. this has to wait til after the move
The weather is rainy again, so here is another live Ambient Improvisation session with the PreenFM3 and the OXI One. These two make an amazing pair and it's ...
At least, Lorde found a way to effectively fight AI coping her music: Release the world's first audio CD with 0 tracks on it.
Maybe it is also meant as a retro revival. In the early 2000s it was usual that labels sold fake CDs, which could not be played on many regular CD players
The demographics of gun ownership are changing, with a huge uptick in Black and Latino people, women and members of the LGBTQ community. Meanwhile, gun influencers are getting younger and younger.
Neofeud is a Dystopic Cyberpunk adventure game in the vein of Blade Runner, but with an overlay of Game of Thrones-like political intrigue, and 1366x768, hand-painted, stylized visuals.
Neofeud is a Dystopic Cyberpunk adventure game in the vein of Blade Runner, but with an overlay of Game of Thrones-like political intrigue, and 1366x768, hand-painted, stylized visuals.
NYT to start searching deleted ChatGPT logs after beating OpenAI in court What are the odds NYT will access your ChatGPT logs in OpenAI court battle? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Wikipedia's fine; it usually sucks but it is convenient. But it was written during the Perpetual Now, and it's more interesting to look at contemporary sources. Before the establishment of the Perpetual Now by paywalled newspapers and shitty goddamn blogs that want to ruun 6MB of JavaScript for engagement farming, there was Usenet and public mailing lists and bulletin boards for discussion and because of bandwidth constraints, "publications" that weren't on physical media were on really lightweight text files. This sort of thing is easy to pass around, it's all viewable regardless of operating system, you have your choice of software. Searching through text and processing text, these are really well-understood pieces of computer science, there are standard tools for doing it on any operating system, and they are so well understood that when you build search, the first thing you do is reduce everything to text; this is the point of software like Tesseract. Even HTML is more or less serviceable (provided you follow Fielding's advice on document structure). But someone babbling in a TikTok video or some four-hour Youtube ramble, a paywalled news site, that's all huge, heavy on bandwidth, and most people don't have a way to view RealMedia videos, soon enough they won't have a way to view .flv files. Nobody worries about this.
I'm not saying this because of nostalgia or anything like that: it is interesting that for that period of history, we have very good records, but it's just that window. Whatever is going on now is all broken links and paywalls and a morass of content-marketing, right, you are at the mercy of major commercial search engines, which are opaque and censored and then further censored in a way that varies by region and then gamed by people trying to make some cash, blogs have to have these massive header images. So one era of history has this really machine-friendly way of recording itself and that was rare before and after: you can read code and text from really old systems but say the bulk of it, the heyday of text files, maybe the mid-80s to the mid-00s.
So I have been reading up a little on Operation Sundevil (I'll probably have some more things to say about it), having gotten interested in it after reading about it in old issues of 2600. If you are not familiar, in 1990 the Secret Service coordinated with local law enforcement to carry out about thirty simultaneous raids across 15 cities and seized BBSs, floppies, etc., but ended up with very few actual arrests, and there was a lot of rhetoric in press releases from law enforcement and it was pretty apparent that they didn't understand the tech. The EFF was founded as a result of a raid that (coincidentally) happened at the same time as the Operation Sundevil raids: Steve Jackson Games was publishing cyberpunk-themed tabletop games and the feds seized the company's BBS because they believed the tabletop game ruleset "GURPS Cyberpunk" was a "hacking manual", they seized half the company's material for their upcoming game (due to be published a month later). All of these independent public communications systems were scooting along, people were dialing in and sending each other messages and then out of nowhere, the cops showed up. The reason someone running a fedi instance should be interested in how that event unfolded is obvious; the German government just arrested that old lady for posting thumbs-up emojis at a joke about a news story. Do you know what it will look like in real-time when they start to *really* notice fedi?
Of course there's a Wikipedia page ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operatio… ) but the contemporary accounts of it are very interesting. Wikipedia is written in retrospect: what did the people that were There say about it while it was happening? Fedi actually matches the culture around the BBSs really closely, so when (or "if" for optimists) this sort of thing happens to fedi, what will it look like? Contemporary accounts of it give you a better feel for how it unfolds. People over- and under-reacting, how you perceive these things with the fog of war (so to speak) in effect.
So, here is a tarball of text files. Phrack is a phreak/hacker publication (was distributed on BBSs and still available as text files) and was one of the targets; FidoNet was the biggest network of BBSs and had a model that caused some really similar inter-board dynamics (read some of the old FidoNews, see if it doesn't resemble fedi instance drama) and they had FidoNews published periodically. Note that spelling varies: "Operation Sundevil", "Operation Sun-Devil", "Operation Sun Devil". I was generous with the grep and it is probably going to be a footnote rather than the main topic. But because they're text files, I could just grab them and use grep. (And, of course, this stuff is what got me to write that uudecode thing in awk: I've been reading these on Plan 9. git.freespeechextremist.com/gi… )
I am below going to break one of my own rules; not an ethical thing but a "I really shouldn't". I try not to say "someone really should": I think you either do it or support someone else that is doing it but "someone really should" is terrible. I am going to be terrible.
And, kind of related, maybe there should be something like FidoNews for fedi: a kind of neutral publication that is independent of any given instance or project, information and announcements for people running instances or using fedi, open submissions, editorial from the staff, maybe interviews, maybe transcripts of the interviews in the Fedi Files podcast, something that people can download and have. It is, at present, easier to understand FidoNet's history than fedi's, because of FidoNews. Fedi has itself (good luck searching) and scattered blogs, and if I decide to shit some awful fedi drama onto the FSE blog, there's not an editor that will reject it: I'm the editor of my blog. That's fine for a blog, but a fedi-wide publication with a couple of editors, you know? I'm sure on the non-ideologue region of fedi there are some people that'd do a reasonable job, I'd be happy to help or send some material, but I am really not fit to be the editor, among other things I am too stubborn and I will spend my time arguing with people about their submissions instead of just publishing them (and aside from that, being the FSE admin carries some baggage that this publication shouldn't have to deal with). Tom Jennings (creator of FidoNet and main editor of FidoNews for most of its history) is on fedi and I would be surprised if he wants to be the editorial staff for that but you can probably ask him for advice (and probably should because I have *never* dialed into a FidoNet BBS but FidoNews is still an interesting read). So, sorry to "someone should" but someone should.
Shit I've just saw what ze wife paid for the fabric for the shade tent thing for the patio. I want out! If I wanted to spend that much on woman's wants I'd get me a trophy wife!
@Max_Imum bugs? Man, we're waaaaaaay past that! We're talking armored komatsu bulldozer and a herd of literal dragons. Flying, breathing fire and all that shit! 😂
Mexican is not a race, it's a nationality. The Mexican flag doesn't represent a race, it represents a country. Hispanic is not a race, it's really just people who share a language. Which really isn't a shared culture at all.
Mexicans claim their Hispanic ancestry from... Spain. And last time I checked, Spanish people are... WHITE and... EUROPEAN. And most Mexican Americans are... WHITE.
Americans aren't prejudice against your race, they are opposed to illegal immigration. Coming from Mexico. Which is a corrupt, shithole country that produces ignorant people. It's also slightly socialist.
Being born in American, you have the luxury of abandoning that identity and becoming the proud people you see yourself as. But instead, you choose to identify with the dregs of humanity.
I am libertarian, and I am probably a little bit more socially liberal than other users here. But all commies can go to hell. If you insist on subjugating yourself to Marxist identity politics, then you have no hope, and you have no sympathy from me
Republican Nazis have stolen all your money and healthcare and other services so they can give our money to billionaires and build death camps for Americans.
so i'll just roll for her and not her weapon.
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