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No Breakfast For the Children: A Concise History of the FBI’s War on the Black Panther Party hamptonthink.org/read/no-break…

No Breakfast For the Children: A Concise History of the FBI’s War on the Black Panther Party

[Pictured: The Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast for Children Program in action, New York, 1969. Photo by Bev Grant/Getty Images ] By Samatha Pleasants The first chapter of The Black Panther Party came out of Oakland, CA, in October 1966…
Samantha Pleasants (Hampton Institute)

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Keeping Your Kobelco Crane Running for Years


 Your Kobelco crane's durability hinges on consistent care, proper use, and quality parts. Stay on top of maintenance, act on issues fast, and avoid shortcuts. That's how you get years of dependable service.

Kobelco cranes are designed for durability, but they need proper care to stay reliable. With the right maintenance, operation, and parts, you can extend their service life significantly. Here's how to do it right.

Follow the Maintenance Schedule


Scheduled maintenance is non-negotiable. Oil changes, filter swaps, and hydraulic system checks keep your crane running smoothly. It's tempting to skip these when work gets busy, but that leads to performance issues, odd noises, or complete failures. Stick to the factory's recommended intervals.

Choose the Right Parts


Using low-quality or mismatched parts is a big mistake. Even if they fit, they may not handle your crane's workload. For Kobelco cranes, always opt for genuine parts or source from a crane parts supplier with brand expertise. A single faulty component can wreak havoc on your hydraulics.

Make Daily Inspections Routine


Before each shift, give your crane a quick check. Look for leaks, damaged cables, or anything unusual. This isn't about filling out forms—it's about catching small issues before they become major problems. A quick inspection can save you from costly downtime.

Invest in Operator Training


A crane's longevity depends on how it's used. Overloading, jerky movements, or sloppy setup can cause serious wear. Train your operators to follow load limits and operate with care. Small mistakes, repeated daily, can shorten your crane's life significantly.

Shield from Environmental Damage


Idle cranes are vulnerable to weather. Rain, extreme heat, or salt can corrode components, ruin seals, or cause electrical problems. If your crane's sitting unused, cover it, drain fluids as needed, and secure controls. Neglecting this is like letting your tools rust in the rain.

Monitor Usage Hours


Track operating hours, not just calendar time. A crane used heavily needs servicing sooner than one used sparingly. Check the hour meter regularly and adjust maintenance accordingly. A crane parts supplier can guide you on part replacements based on those hours.

Address Problems Immediately


Small issues like a slow boom or strange noise are warning signs. Fix them right away to avoid bigger, costlier repairs. Ignoring these signals will lead to more downtime and higher expenses down the line.

Work with a Trusted Supplier


A dependable crane parts supplier is a key ally. Choose one who carries Kobelco crane parts and knows your model's specifics. They can help diagnose problems and prevent future issues, not just supply parts. Don't wait for a breakdown to find one.

Key Takeaway


Your Kobelco crane's durability hinges on consistent care, proper use, and quality Kobelco crane parts. Stay on top of maintenance, act on issues fast, and avoid shortcuts. That's how you get years of dependable service.

For parts, connect with a crane parts supplier who knows Kobelco cranes. It's the smartest way to keep your machine running and avoid major repairs.

Kobelco Crane Parts | Crane Parts For Sale in Indonesia and Malaysia

Browse the Kobelco Crane Parts products for your cranes here. Buy genuine crane parts product from HL Equipment. We are one of the biggest stockiest of crane spares in the Asia Pacific Region.
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Lord Starver has 'secretly allowed at least three Israeli Air Force (IAF) planes involved in the bombing of #Gaza to land in the UK' since he took office. dropsitenews.com/p/revealed-uk… #UKFascism #UKWarCrimes #GazaGenocide #ICJ4UK

Revealed: UK's Labour Government Is Secretly Allowing Israeli Military Planes Involved in Bombing Gaza to Land in Britain

Britain’s Labour government has secretly allowed at least three Israeli Air Force (IAF) planes involved in the bombing of Gaza to land in the UK since it took office, according to flight data reviewed by Drop Site News.
Abdullah Farooq (Drop Site News)

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A lot of us ought to ponder this if we are to call ourselves Christian

Mat 5:21-22 NASB “You have heard that the ancients were told, ‘You shall not commit murder’ and ‘Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court.’ “But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.

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trump's #BigBillionaireBill "is expected to add $2.8 trillion to the deficit and reward tax cuts to wealthy individuals and corporations while slashing Medicaid and other social welfare programs.
Inflation is expected to go up to 3 percent, GDP growth is expected to fall by 1.4 percent, and unemployment will rise to 4.5 percent, the Fed announced Wednesday."
finance.yahoo.com/news/federal…

#TrumpRecession #trumpslump #tariffs #trumpfascism

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« … traces the origins of the Zionism that rules Israel today back to the ideas of the founder of Revisionist Zionism, Vladimir Jabotinsky… »⁣⁣⁣

🔗 · youtube.com/watch?v=aQeU3XiESf…

#Palestine #ceasefire #FreePalestine @palestine⁣⁣

🕊️ 🇵🇸 🍉 🙏🏻 ✌️ ☮️


The Fascist Roots of Bibi's Zionism: Mussolini, Jabotinsky, and Betar

This video traces the origins of the Zionism that rules Israel today back to the ideas of the founder of Revisionist Zionism, Vladimir Jabotinsky and his ide...
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What Is the Role of Paula White-Cain, President Trump's Evangelical Christian Zionist Adviser? eir.news/2025/07/news/what-is-…

What Is the Role of Paula White-Cain, President Trump's Evangelical Christian Zionist Adviser?

On April 11, just under three months ago, Paula White-Cain, who is effectively President Donald Trump’s personal religious pastor, did an interview with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the Daystar tv network.
Richard Freeman (EIR News)

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Lety Does the Grunion Run

Fish cum. And fish eggs. And floppy fishy fuckers. We got thousands of them in this video cause I'm attending the local grunion run at the peak of the grunion mating season! So, come along with me while I stay up until midnight at the beach to give myself panic attacks.

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Lety Does Stuff

Hihi! Lety here, auto-commenting from my main account (which doesn't have a 🔕 icon)!

This is how my PeerTube videos look on other Fediverse platforms!

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Replies and favorites on that post show up as comments and likes on PeerTube, and following the account that posted it subscribes you to my videos.

Heads up, though! While some platforms might allow you to respond with custom emojis, gifs, images, polls, and reactions, most of that fancy stuff won’t show up correctly on PeerTube. The same goes for any edits you might want to make to your response unless you delete & re-draft.

If you already know all this or are tired of seeing this wall of text, you can hide these explanation posts by going to your account preferences and creating a new filter with the title and keyword “#LetyDoesPeerTubeExplainer” and all context boxes checked.

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#Meta’s banning of two anti-Zionist comedians from #Instagram is the latest example of Big Tech’s deep anti-Palestinian bias #fascismМeta mondoweiss.net/2025/07/metas-b…

Meta’s banning of two anti-Zionist comedians from Instagram is the latest example of Big Tech’

The Instagram account of a well known anti-Zionist Jewish comedian was deleted after Meta’s Public Policy Director for Israel and the Jewish Diaspora viewed one of his stories. This is just one example of the anti-Palestinian bias across Big Tech.
Omar Zahzah (Mondoweiss)

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Trump Threatens MORE #ICE PRISONS Like "#AlligatorAlcatraz," Deporting U.S. Citizens
#FascismUSA
LIVE NOW: youtube.com/live/g0kDGpnxZ20

Trump Threatens MORE ICE PRISONS Like "Alligator Alcatraz," Deporting U.S. Citizens

Jordan Chariton is LIVE discussing Trump wanting to use 'Alligator Alcatraz' as the blueprint for even more ICE prisons amid his inhumane and illegal crackdo...
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Pressure Builds to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice)

Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of the 2025 legislative session in an attempt to create legal protections for wild rice.

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Pressure Builds to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice) - UNICORN RIOT

Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of the 2025 MN legislative session in attempts to create legal protections for wild rice. 
niko (UNICORN RIOT)

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"Keep eyes on LA. We won’t back down. “We keep us safe” is the spirit of the city."

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To Live and Fight in LA: People’s City Council on the Growing Mobilization in the Streets Against ICE

In early June, demonstrations exploded after ICE carried out militarized raids in working-class communities and workplaces in Los Angeles, CA, leading to large confrontations between ICE, the LAPD,...
It's Going Down

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NEW: Sunrise Movement Executed Series of Senate Disruptions to Stop Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ 📹

In an attempt to stop Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill,' the Sunrise Movement executed several disruption actions outside the offices of senators who support the bill.

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Sunrise Movement Executed Series of Senate Disruptions to Stop Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' - UNICORN RIOT

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" passed the Senate, but not without strong opposition from environmental and human rights groups.
akicita (UNICORN RIOT)

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“In ‘The Unseen’, an anonymous young narrator describes the existential process of his militant radicalization, from the high school revolts and the first squatted social centers to the use of revolutionary violence amongst a broader armed struggle…

The militant practices of the late 1990s, from black blocs to social forums and occupations, would end up informing mass mobilizations, first in the anti-globalization movements of Seattle, Prague, and Genoa, and later in the Arab Spring(s), in the occupied plazas and anti-austerity movements of Southern Europe, where a protesting multitude adopted the critical and antagonist repertoire of the militant milieu.”

#history #militancy #books
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An Eclipse of Invisibility • Ill Will

Luhuna Carvalho on myth, mourning, and depoliticization in Nanni Balestrini's "The Unseen"
Luhuna Carvalho (Ill Will)

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Federated Services

Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.

We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our services are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.

There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.

Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.

Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.

Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.

Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the entire network.

Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this sort of material. There are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.

We offer the following federated services:

Friendica.Eskimo.Com
Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.

Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com
Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s primary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.

Mastodon.Eskimo.Com
Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another instance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.

NextCloud.Eskimo.Com
Nextcloud If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.

Pixelfed.Eskimo.Com
Pixelfed is a federated pixel gallery. A place where you can share your photos to the widest audience possible, and you can view what others have shared. Instance is new as of April 6th, 2025.


Yacy.Eskimo.Com
Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl, but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.

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A Russian soldier is being beaten because his complaint to the prosecutor’s office got his commander in trouble. At the end, the soldier filming the video warns that this is what will happen to anyone who complains byteseu.com/1159357/ #Ukraine #UkraineWarVideoReport #UkraineWarVideos #UkraineWarVideoReport
A Russian soldier is being beaten because his complaint to the prosecutor’s office got his commander in trouble. At the end, the soldier filming the video warns that this is what will happen to anyone who complains

A Russian soldier is being beaten because his complaint to the prosecutor’s office got his commander in trouble. At the end, the soldier filming the video warns that this is what will happen to anyone who complains

BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)

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Shell Accounts

Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.

Account Types
We offer four different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.

Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.

Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.

Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.

E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.

Security[color]
Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.

[color=darkblue]Eskimo North has been providing Unix timeshare services since 1985. We have been providing Linux timeshare, shell access, web hosting, e-mail, and Internet services since 1992. Please take a look at our services as they support our free Federated services including Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Nextcloud, Pixelfed, and Yacy Search.

Available Shell Servers

We have a variety of Linux Servers with a variety of Linux Distributions and Desktop Environments. Linux servers in use here are of three basic lines, those derived from RedHat, such as Fedora, Centos, and Scientific Linux, and those derived from Debian such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint. Ubuntu is the most current and feature rich. Then there is Manjaro, derived from Arch Linux. Arch is more often broken because it is a real “do it yourself” Linux, an excellent learning platform, a good development platform, not a good production platform.

All of these servers are available if you have a shell account here. You can use them to learn various versions, decide which to install, and as one place you can develop applications for all versions. We install a wide variety of development tools on all of our publicly available servers.

Our servers listen to port 443 in addition to the standard ssh port of 22 to provide a means to connect from behind a firewall that blocks non-web access. You can also utilize Guacamole on our website (login public, password public).

Alma.Eskimo.Com
This server is running Alma 8. Alma Linux replaces Scientific Linux after it’s discontinuation. Presently we are running Alma 8 because Alma 9 does not support NIS out of the box although there are ways of hacking it in. It is unfortunate that Redhat chose to piss on the infrastructure so many organizations depend upon. This is why we tend to favor Debian derived flavors. None the less as Redhat derived software goes Alma is pretty solid.
Anduinos.Eskimo.Com
Anduinos is a Debian derived distribution that defaults to a Gnome Desktop themed to look like Windows 10. At present though this Desktop is not working over network connections, instead Mate and Gnome are presently available. I am working on some others.
Debian.Eskimo.Com
Debian Bullseye has a rich assortment of software installed, including hundreds of Games, a huge variety of Office Productivity software, many Educational and Scientific applications, a variety of Integrated Development Environments, and many programming languages. All of the documentation available online these applications is also loaded.
Fedora.Eskimo.Com
Fedora Rawhide can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate desktop. It has the most applications of any of the Redhat derived servers. I install just about everything I can get to work on this machine so it has a huge variety of applications installed.
Kali.Eskimo.Com
Kali is a special purpose shell server designed for penetration testing. It is primarily here to test our own internal security, and as a result, egress is extremely limited, however upon request, proof of IP space ownership, and permission of the owner and agreement to hold us harmless because it is possible some of these tests may be destructive, we will allow outbound for testing of other sites.
Manjaro.Eskimo.Com
Manjaro is a good choice for a Linux user who wants to just install and go. There is a pleasant user interface and a good choice of software in the Manjaro repositories. It is a less technical Linux than Ubuntu, you can do most things through graphical interfaces and the default xfce interface is extremely light in terms of memory footprint. Like most modern distros, a variety of Windows systems are available and we have Gnome, Mate, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and LXQT installed.
Mint.Eskimo.Com
Mint is another recent addition to our shell servers. It is running Mint, although we have the Mate Desktop installed for graphical access. This is necessary because Unity and other compositing Desktops are incompatible with x2go and really work very roughly with VNC. If you like games, this is a good server to use and there are many installed. Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu which in turn is derived from Debian and this server thus follows the structure and layout of Debian and Ubuntu.
MxLinux.Eskimo.Com
MxLinux is an excellent choice for a computer with limited resources. Before the overhead of a Desktop is considered, MxLinux uses 200MB less RAM out of the box than does Ubuntu. If you’re not a fan of Poettering and Systemd, you’ll like this OS as it still uses a System-V init with Systemd shims to allow packages requiring systemd to function. You can also run systemd and in fact I am doing so because it boots faster. The default Desktop is LXDE which is also small and efficient. But if you like eye candy you can install any Desktop you like and as with other servers I will install all that I can get to work on this OS.
PopOS.Eskimo.Com
popOS is a modern appearing OS based upon Ubuntu, and not just indirectly, it actually utilizes Ubuntu’s repositories in addition to it’s own. The Desktops presently available on it are Gnome and Mate, though Gnome is a special edition known as Sparkle, and it does not operate properly with X2go. Presently X2go and ssh are the only two access methods. I am working on the others.
Rocky8.Eskimo.Com
Rocky8 is a RedHat derived operating system very similar to Centos before Centos was absorbed, and ruined, by Redhat. While Centos support, with the exception of Centos9 is going away on June 30th, 2024, and CentOS9 is not usable because of the deletion of NIS by RedRat which is necessary to our organization, Rocky8 will be supported for security updates through May of 2029, thus provides us a means of continuing to offer a Redhat based environment for another five years.

Ubuntu.Eskimo.Com
Ubuntu can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate Desktop. The native Unity desktop is a compositing desktop which is incompatible with x2go. This machine is equipped with many applications including a huge number of games, a rich assortment of development tools and computer programming languages, a huge assortment of Office productivity software, many scientific, electronic, and educational tools.
Zorin.Eskimo.Com
Zorin is a Ubuntu derived operating system. It combines the eye candy of some other Ubuntu flavors such as Mint, with the security awareness and up to date nature of Ubuntu providing a really superb server environment. This machine is our best equipped server. It has the full Ubuntu Studio Suite, a very large assortment of development tools, language packs for all supported languages, many games, both Libre and Caligra Office Suites, and much more. X2go is supported on this machine.

Crontab access, batch, and background jobs are allowed on all of our servers. Most have unrestricted outbound access with the exception of kali owing to high abuse potential for tools that exist on it.

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sawridedsa

The backrooms game is a surreal, eerie setting that began as a simple image posted on 4chan in May 2019—a photo of a yellowish, seemingly endless office space, lit by fluorescent lights and lined with stained carpet. This single unsettling image sparked an entire mythos: a liminal world that exists just beyond reality, where you might accidentally "noclip" out of the world and find yourself trapped in its infinite, monotonous halls.

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The Economics of Nuclear Weapons

The fact remains that the strategic value of nuclear arms lies almost totally on the side of defense. Obtaining nuclear weapons is a way of getting reliable defensive capability on the cheap. This is why small, relatively powerless countries want them. North Korea can shell Seoul from the DMZ with conventional weapons fairly easily, but having a few nukes certainly hasn’t hurt North Korea’s ability to keep much larger powers at bay. Pakistan’s status as a nuclear power means it faces no true threat of invasion from foreign powers, even large ones.

While they do not ensure a complete lack of armed aggression against one’s territory, they have shown that they will prevent all-out foreign invasion or any foreign action that threatens the existence of a nuclear-armed state. (The end of the USSR shows that internal threats to a regime can be maintained without nuclear war.) And at a relatively low price tag. In other words, countries with nuclear weapons need not face the dreaded “unconditional surrender” demand that is standard practice for the US in its conflicts with non-nuclear powers.


The Economics of Nuclear Weapons

Ryan McMaken (Mises Institute)

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian officially notifies the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran to implement the parliament's decision to halt cooperation with the IAEA. english.alahednews.news/fastne…

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian officially notifies the ...

Alahednews - Fastnews - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian officially notifies the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran to implement the parliament’s decision to hal...
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What do you play in your phone?

We are coming from here.

I'm not gonna lie, guys, neither say the opposite: there are people who play in their phones, I bet you do, so do I. I'm curious to know what do you play in your phones, what kind of "phone gamer" are you. Remember PDAs? The only games that things had were mineswipper, solitaire, chess, sudoku among others. All those are games that perfectly use the touch capabilities of its device, but now, we have more process capacity, and we still have one touch screen (I know, you can touch many points of the screen at the same time). I've always seen the screen of my phone as a one big button, so, I can't play any game that needs more than one touch to be played. I do limit my catalogue of games to those mentioned above, and I really like them. I love sudoku.

What do you play in your phone?

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Venezuela Advances in Dismantling Far-right Terrorist Plot (+FBI & Iran) orinocotribune.com/venezuela-a…

Venezuela Advances in Dismantling Far-right Terrorist Plot (+FBI & Iran)

Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello denounced an international terrorist network transporting weapons of war from Colombia to Venezuela to carry out simultaneous attacks against healthcare infrastructure, diplomatic missions, and represent…
Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond

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Settlers as human shields: Israel's militarization of civilian areas in Tel Aviv and Haifa


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#ZionistEntity #HumanShields #Iran


Settlers as human shields: Israel's militarization of civilian areas in Tel Aviv and Haifa

Iranian retaliatory strikes against Israel once again exposed the regime’s military strategy of placing critical military facilities in civilian areas and using settlers as human shields.
PressTV
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RussianChineseDeepStateSock

putin is attacking civilians? I thought there was a war going on between the US/Ukraine and Russia, and Ukraine has been supplied with weapons and money enough to cover their entire GDP for 2 years and running.

Ukrainian war pages constantly talk about exchanges of weaponry, but you are saying its a war against civilians eh? Not a war, then?

That certainly waters down the ACTUAL war against civilians (genocide) happening also with US backing. Strange wording.

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RussianChineseDeepStateSock

@nanook I don't watch TV. Haven't for over 20 years. Im a student of history and I do a lot of research, and it isnt confusing or hidden knowledge at all.

Especially since it's all in the congressional record. Did you know the US congress debated the issue, and agreed to quote "allow US congressional funds and weapons to fall into the hands of Azov neonazis", specifically, years before any of this happened? Is the congressional record "tv" friend?

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RussianChineseDeepStateSock

@nanook wait so you understand that the US congress funded and supplied Azov, but you also see my analysis of America's latest proxy war against Russia as an "msnbc" story? I don't really follow. This can be viewed in the congressional record, cspan, etc. The US also shot down peace talks twice, and this is certainly not a "war against civilians" any more than ALL wars are. Calling it that in this world, right now, of course is a tactical decision that hurts Palestine.

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With 2 #postal #workers #dead from heat-related causes, #corporate #America and #Trump move to gut proposed #heat #safety rule
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With 2 postal workers dead from heat-related causes, corporate America and Trump move to gut proposed heat safety rule

The fate of the rule exposes the complete control of the government by the corporate oligarchy.
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The New York Times completely failed in its effort to upend Zohran Mamdani. They are unable to understand his wide support because they refuse to acknowledge the rage surging through the Democratic base over Israel's genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-big…

The biggest loser besides Cuomo in the NY mayoral race was The New York Times

The New York Times completely failed in its effort to upend Zohran Mamdani. They are unable to understand his wide support because they refuse to acknowledge the rage surging through the Democratic base over Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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trevor (he/they)

I'm not quite sure why you think pointing out someone's confidently incorrect claim that containers do give you reproducible environments means that I fetishsize anything?

But if you genuinely want to know why reproducibility is valuable, take a look at reproducible-builds.org/.

I was quite happy to see that Debian and Arch have both made great strides into making tooling that enables reproducible packages in recent times. It's probable that, because of efforts like this, creating reproducible builds will become easier/possible on most Linux environments, including traditional container workflows.

For now though, Nix Flakes are much better at enabling reproducible builds of your software than traditional containers, if you can suffer through Nix not being documented very well. This article covers some more details on different build systems and compares them with Nix Flakes if you want more concrete examples.

FWIW, I think that containers are awesome, and using them for dev environments and CI tooling solves a lot of very real problems ("it works on my machine", cheap and easy cross-compilation for Linux systems, basic sandboxing, etc.) for people. I use containers for a lot of those reasons. But if I need to make something reproducible, there are better tools for the job.


Reproducible Builds

Reproducible builds are a set of software development practices that create an independently-verifiable path from source to binary code.
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chaospatterns

I really want to like Nix. The idea of declaratively defining my entire system sounds great. I can manage it with Git and even have multiple machines all look the same. I can define my partititioning once and magically get a btrfs disk working. Wow!

But I find the language confusing no matter how many times people say it's easy. I have a lot of experience with other programming languages so maybe it just doesn't mesh. It also gives terrible error messages that are hard for me to understand. And Nixpkgs is unpredictable for what version I'm going to get. One of the services I installed ended up being a release candidate version which was a surprise. What if I don't want the latest version of Docker? How do I pin it? Do I have to duplicate part of Nixpkgs? It just feels like a monorepo where everybody has to be on the same versions. Why on earth do the Nix language docs start by introducing math expressions instead of here is a simple self contained thing that installs one program. Here's how you configure it. Here's how you expand. Why does the dependency graph seem to pull in so many unnecessary dependencies? For example, I tried to build a minimal Docker image (which Nix looks to be a very good fit for), but I couldn't figure out how to strip out dependencies that likely were only used during build for a dependency.

I still like the idea and have managed to get my server defined entirely with NixOS which is very cool, but I can't recommend this to my tech friends because if I'm confused they will be more so.

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Anadolu Documents Israeli Atrocity on Tehran’s Evin Prison tn.ai/3346787

Anadolu Documents Israeli Atrocity on Tehran’s Evin Prison

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Turkey’s news agency Anadolu has exposed the extensive devastation caused by Israel’s airstrike on Iran’s Evin Prison, highlighting a deliberate massacre of detainees, civilians, and staff.
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