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1) Die Steuer auf die Einfuhr von Lebensmitteln wurden drastisch um 80%-95% gesenkt 2) Der Feiertag, den nur Beamte am 27. Juni hatten, abgeschafft (per Gericht vorläufig wieder eingeführt) 3) Leiterin einer Geschäftsstelle der Rentnerbetreuung entlassen, weil sie die Niederlassung geschlossen hat, um an einer Demonstration teilzunehmen 4) Beobachtungsstelle für Verkehrssicherheit geschlossen 5) Dezentrale Aktivitäten des Nationalen Instituts für indigene Angelegenheiten (INAI) im Innenministerium zentralisiert 6) Verpflichtung der Exekutive aufgehoben, Seminare zur Beseitigung geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt durchzuführen 7) Holzzertifizierung für Verpackungsmaterial dereguliert 8) Die jährliche (selbstverständlich gebührenpflichtige) Neuregistrierung und für „legitimen Nutzer“ von Schusswaffen wird dereguliert 9) medizinische Importgenehmigung für Medizinprodukten mit geringem Risiko gestrichen 10) Genehmigungspflicht für Batterien und Produkte mit Batterien gestrichen 11) Lizenzpflicht für den Postdienst abgeschafft 12) Digitale Telegramme und Briefe dereguliert und diesen Postbereich damit ebenfalls für den Wettbewerb freigegeben 13) Registrierung und Prüfung aller Tanks mit einem Fassungsvermögen von 2.500 Litern dereguliert 14) Einsatz von Pflanzenschutzmitteln dereguliert 15) Wettbewerbsrechtliche Genehmigung für den Neueintritt in den argentinischen Telekommunikationsmarkt abgeschafft 16) Zinsen auf Steuerschulden in Argentinien um rund 30% gesenkt 17) Antidumpingzölle für Thermoskannen aufgehoben
US security contractors working with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) have fired live ammunition and stun grenades at starving Palestinians queuing for food and supplies, according to a report by the AP.
"Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations."
-- John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President Source: letter to William Cushing, June 9, 1776
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As temperatures soar, here is something cool for Europe’s future.
⚛️ Introducing the Quantum Europe Strategy: A plan to bring together EU countries, industry, academia and society to unlock the full power of quantum tech.
Τέσσερα επενδυτικά ταμεία και μια ισραηλινή τράπεζα, τα οποία χρηματοδοτούν έργα στα κατεχόμενα Παλαιστινιακά εδάφη, αποτελούν σχεδόν το 40% των μετόχων της Energean. Ο κύριος πελάτης της Energean είναι η εταιρεία Israel Electric Corporation (IEC), ο μεγαλύτερος αγοραστής φυσικού αερίου του Ισραήλ που προμηθεύει ηλεκτρική ενέργεια στους παράνομους ισραηλινούς εποικισμούς στην κατεχόμενη Δυτική Όχθη. Και εξίσου εγκληματικό, η Energean συνεργάζεται άμεσα από το 2019 με την αιματοβαμμένη Elbit Systems Ltd, τη μεγαλύτερη ιδιωτική εταιρεία στρατιωτικής τεχνολογίας, πυρομαχικών και λογισμικού παρακολούθησης του Ισραήλ.
Havana, July 2 (Latin Press) The XV International Convention on Environment (Cubambiente 2025), based in the Palacio de Convenciones de La Habana, today promotes debates and presentations on current issues in this area with the participation of more …
"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders
Counterinsurgency against U.S. social movements has evolved since the 1960s. What was once the exclusive domain of state agencies has now been privatized. This is seen perhaps most clearly in the ongoing campaign to neutralize the Palestine movement.
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) US Founding Father 1787 Source: as recorded by Constitution signer James McHenry in a diary entry.
"Outside Independence Hall when
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"Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
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then that is on the material plane which often implies the socially constructed plane
not the most advanced plane there is not calling myself an expert but you are obviously not winning at your game my answer is to play harder and adapt to obstacles
@relentless_eduardo We live in a material world, and I adapt every-day considering the entire sighted population is something I must deal with as a blind person.
@Max_Imum @DaddyO @Wyliesau @fkq1q2r2 yeah, I follow him on X too. Haven’t heard from him in a while. I do have his address in Switzerland too, and sent him a Hahn New Year card. Maybe that’s what made him go dark?🤷🏻♂️
The United States has stopped supplying interceptors for Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems, artillery supplies and missiles to Ukraine for several months. The New York Times (NYT) newspaper writes about this, citing American officials.
#jiaoyingsummers #comedy About Jiaoying Summers:Jiaoying Summers is a Chinese-American stand-up comedian, actress, and social media influencer known for her ...
Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?
Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.
Mr. Kingett,
I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.
You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.
The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.
I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.
My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.
You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.
Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.
Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.
Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.
Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.
Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.
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TEN House Republicans are standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s historic “Big Beautiful Bill” — a legislative masterpiece that delivers the largest tax cuts, deepest spending reductions, and toughest immigration crackdown in American history.
TEN House Republicans are standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s historic “Big Beautiful Bill” — a legislative masterpiece that delivers the largest tax cuts, deepest spending reductions, and toughest immigration crackdown in Ameri…
We need to see a list of those who are - by their objection to this BBB - are authoring the biggest tax increase on the middle class in American history.
Es gibt übrigens in Deutschland mehr antimuslimische Gewalt(!)fälle als antisemitische.
Ja, selbst wenn für zweitere die teils herbei fantasierten Zahlen der RIAS genommen werden. Natürlich ist die Zahl der Muslime als potentielle Opfergruppe weit größer, logisch. Die Untererfassung allerdings auch. Außerdem können nach RIAS-Logik ja auch nichtjüdische deutsche Polizist*innen Opfer "antisemitischer" Gewalt durch jüdische Demonstrant*innen werden, von daher ist die potentielle “Opfergruppe” für die Antisemitismusstatistik sogar größer. bird.makeup/users/tarek_bae/st…
Es ist ein Skandal auf so vielen Ebenen. In Berlin hat die Senatorin für Integration, Cansel Kiziltepe (SPD), die Stelle der Beauftragten gegen antimuslimischen Rassismus eingeführt. Eine gut qualifizierte Wissenschaftlerin, Antisemitismus- und Rassismusforscherin namens Yücel Meheroglu bekam die Stelle. Das missfiel der Israel-Lobby (![url=https://onlycasino.legal/users/MostlyHarmless])[/url], angeführt von Volker Beck, dem Präsidenten der Lobbygruppe DIG. Ihm nach müsse die Stelle des Beauftragten gegen Antisemitismus exklusiv bleiben und „antimuslimischer Rassismus“ sei ein „Kampfbegriff“. Was macht Berlins Bürgermeister @kaiwegner (CDU)? Er nimmt die Ernennung einfach zurück. Die @berlinerzeitung nennt die Wissenschaftlerin Meheroglu dazu kurzerhand „Muslim-Aktivistin“. Einfach so. Offenkundig, weil sie ein Kopftuch trägt.
Wie sehr will sich unser Land noch durch Rassismus und Israelfanatismus zu einem Karnevalsverein machen lassen?
Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?
Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.
Mr. Kingett,
I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.
You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.
The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.
I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.
My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.
You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.
Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.
Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.
Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.
Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.
Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.
In this discussion with the Holmes sisters, Cynthia Chung goes through the historical context of British figure Winston Churchill and answers the question “Is there any reason at all why Calgarians shouldn't be celebrating a Churchill statue recently…
Israeli fighter pilots returning from air defense missions during the 12-day war with Iran were routinely authorized to unload their leftover munitions on the Gaza Strip, according to a 2 July report by Maariv.
The move, initially a pilot-led initiative to “assist” Israeli ground forces in Khan Yunis and northern Gaza, was quickly expanded by Air Force Commander Tomer Bar into a daily operational policy across all squadrons.
The report outlines how, during the operation, pilots assigned to intercept missiles and drones launched from Iran were equipped not only with air-to-air missiles but also with air-to-surface munitions.
After completing their Iran-related missions, pilots contacted Gaza operation control rooms and offered to drop remaining bombs on designated targets in the enclave.
Air Force officials embraced the initiative. Within hours, the ad hoc proposal became standard practice, with squadrons instructed to coordinate with ground units before landing and to strike Gaza “Hamas targets” on their return.
Military officials described the program as a “force multiplier” that allowed the air force to expand bombing raids in Gaza without additional resources.
“Instead of bouncing planes off the ground for an attack policy, planes that were already in the air carried out the missions,” an Israeli Air Force source told Maariv. “It saved a great deal of resources and increased the Air Force’s capabilities.”
The result was what the report describes as “waves of powerful air strikes” on the strip, far removed from the Iranian front. According to the Israeli army, dozens of fighter jets participated daily, each releasing surplus munitions over the besieged enclave before landing.
While presented as a resource-efficient strategy, the practice effectively turned Gaza into a secondary front in a war that had no operational connection to the territory.
The attacks were directed based on instructions from Israeli ground forces already operating in Khan Yunis and northern Gaza, amplifying the daily bombardment of areas already under siege.
Israeli officials described the move as a resource-saving measure, but the result was intensified bombing of Gaza by jets returning from unrelated missions
@cbrooklyn112 the driveway has really needed to be replaced since we moved in 27 years ago. I just keep putting the $200 patch on it by sealing it at least once a year. There have always been other projects that have taken precedence.
@cbrooklyn112 already spent a few hours a couple of days ago using trowel grade crack filler to fill in most of the large areas/cracks, now it’s just putting the tar down on top.
my father did it for decades. in his last decade he had a service come out to do it. So if you tire of it make sure you know there are services. Also cement is a satisfying alternative.
@scottdhansen as I said, I’ve wanted to replace it w/concrete for years. Unfortunately the $10k investment in it has always been overshadowed by other priorities (i.e. furnace/AC, plumbing, water heater, interior remodels, etc.) as long as I can drive to my garage (oh yeah, garage replacement happened 15 years ago too) I can keep patching it. Winters here are rough, so eventually I am sure I’ll need to do it.
I know the gulp I did when replacing mine but it was a joke. Having the damn garage in the backyard added an extra run of concrete that ate up a shit ton of capital. I’ve too have no end of stuff on the capital expenditure list to sort and prioritize.
News story this AM on the local broadcast, Independence Day cookouts are more expensive this year. How much? “Almost 2% for a group of 10”. But this amount was not stated until the very end. They spent the time saying how much the price burgers/beef or brats have have gone up.
So NOW they want to tell us how inflation is affecting us. But under 4 years of Biden when inflation was running much higher (forgive me, I’m too lazy to go look up the amount) it was never talked about.
« Comme tout le monde, j’ai souvent pensé que je n’avais pas le temps. Jusqu’à ce que je fasse preuve d’honnêteté envers moi-même : le temps, je l’avais. Simplement, je ne le prenais pas ! »
Several perch over 2 pounds was caught yesterday. These are the two biggest and both new personal records closing in to 3 pounds. My friend new record is 1290 gram (2.84 pounds) and mine was 1305 gram 2.88 pounds and 49 cm long. I also caught a small zander wich is a rare fish where I live. #fishing #sweden
Dr. Marwan Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, his wife, and their five children were killed when Israeli forces shelled their home in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of southern Gaza.
« votre pourquoi, la raison profonde pour laquelle vous désirez vous lancer dans un projet en particulier. Ce pourquoi est un moteur qui donne sens à vos actions et vous permet de ne pas abandonner.»
This study investigates the association between speakers' personal attributes, such as political stance or military experience, and their variable pronunciations of Iraq/Iran, as elicited through a rapid anonymous survey. For both target items, speakers' choice of variant appears to be associated not with political affiliation but with two other factors: ability to speak a second language and military service. English speakers who report being able to speak a foreign language are more likely to employ a variant more aligned with the source language, [irɑ:k]/[irɑ:n], while those with a record of military service tend toward the Americanized variants, [ajræk]/ [ajræn]. These results suggest that while specific variants might index political attitude in contexts where the construction of a particular political identity is desirable, in the absence of such a context, speakers' choice of variant is governed primarily by experiential factors.
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