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Trump’s 50% copper import tariff said to cover refined metal. This is important because copper is in practically everything, and it's a bellwether commodity for recession as well.
BEIRUT — In a post on X, US Special Envoy to Syria Thomas Barrack has claimed that his statements to The National were not intended to threaten Lebanon, but rather to praise the Syrian regime's “impressive strides”.
More #Israeli #gaslighting and #propaganda. It has never been anti-semitic to criticize or "demonize" #Israel and anyone that tells you so is full of shit. Israel claiming something is "anti-semitic" when it clearly isn't is simply their way of manipulating opinions so they can't be held accountable for their actions. Well, enough is enough. ---
For people who want it to be, I'm sure it's a resounding YES. For actual medical Science and reasonings, no...there's nothing that's going to prolong your life in that way just by consuming it lolz.
it's incredible how the e-rightoids think they only have two options every single fucking time MUH TRANNIES try to appropriate anything: a) immediately give up the thing they loved up until 5 mins ago (and even go "well ackshully in retrospect that thing i loved was always tranny-coded so good riddance") b) bitch about it in their social media circles without ever actually doing anything (this eventually leads to option a every single time without failure) but option c (actively fighting against it/ignoring it altogether) is never ever on the table
learned helplessness is both terrifying and disgusting
@kvit gaylo decided to fight against option c and just ban anyone who even dares to talk about uma global because MUH TRANNIES MUH TOURISTS ETC ETC but some people (said e-rightoids) think he was completely justified in nuking half of varis' (the instance) regulars because like 10 trannies did the usual "omg this anime's girls are all trannies!!!" thing on twitter in other words, yet another perpetually ceding everything to the trannies with no resistance award 🏅
@kvit i mean he was correct in every person on varis being tourist if they suddenly had interest in uma after the global release despite having two years of constant uma propoganda
If I could have just downloaded an apk and let it rip I would have played JP. Not wanting to jump through an insane amount of hoops to play a game in a language I can't read fluently where the story is incredibly important to the enjoyment of said game doesn't make me a tourist. He can go fuck himself.
And it's not just a translation problem. That's the easiest part. The nightmare is fooling the game into thinking you're in Japan because of their stupid region lock.
@Goalkeeper @theorytoe @kvit no you just don't get it dude, you're a tourist!!!! you had horse girl propaganda shoved down your throat 24/7 and you still didn't jump through all the hoops? but you installed it NOW??!?!?! T O U R I S T!!!!!
still remember the gundam online multiplayer with 100 man servers that checked IP and system locale to try and weed out foreigners. and even if you got in each lobby seemingly had admins dedicated to sniffing out and banning the gaijin trespassing in their sacred mecha game
I'm a bit emotional right now. But in the bad way to be fair. I just got stung by a wasp without any reason, after having to take a extensive shower before because my body was totally itchy from all the mites and whatnot. UGH! 😫
I've been pretty proud in the beginning of this experiment, because there were lots of wild bees, beetles and other cool critters around here. It's basically like being in nature.
But I forgot that nature sucks... 🥲
For example, imagine laying in the grass and just chilling. Beautiful for the first 5 seconds, but then, you begin getting stung in the asscreek by a dozen ants and get everything ruined.
Nature is basically dead in my area, so only the asshole bugs survive here.
The whole balcony is swarmed by aphids/ mites as well as ant colonies that protect those suckers from ladybugs and other beneficial predatory insects.
The aphids droop honeydew everywhere, which attracts lots of yellow jacket wasps, which in return could kill my girlfriend in minutes because she's highly allergic. I didn't even realise that asshole (the wasp, lol) is there until I got stung just by existing.
I'm right about to pull the trigger and get my pesticides (neem oil/ pyrethrum extract) out.
Also, I began to hate soil even more than before. I have to hunt for slugs every evening, because they're everywhere, and I can barely stand a chance against them. There are gnats living in it too, as well as other unwanted guests.
The plants in soil are starting to spread diseases and pests to my otherwise healthy plants in hydroponics. I will for example harvest my weed soon, and there are bugs sticking in the buds like in a glue trap. I have no idea how I should get them out of them, it's just disgusting.
I also largely prefer hydro compared to soil, not only because there are less pests, but also because due to the much lower water demand and control it gives me. The soil is guzzling water like crazy and still the plants are looking way less healthy.
Spraying neem oil on my hydro plants and just not using soil anymore seems to be the way better choice right now.
but let's keep in mind that "nature" isn't sleeping beauty, it's animals and plants all trying to get one over on one another. They don't give a shit.
Second, like, agriculture isn't nature. It's highly managed systems out of any kind of ecological context. So mixing you pot in with nasturtium? Maybe get off of tiktok for gardening advice.
Pick: Do you want to grow plants for human products or do you want a slice of the natural world?
If you want to grow for production, out doors indoors doesn't matter. The name of the game is sanitation sanitation sanitation. And you can manage that in a mixed system.
Second, your "mites" aren't mites, they are aphids. I can't believe I have to explain this to a weed grower. Ants will move aphids around plants, effectively using them as their own form of animal agriculture. So relying on spraying doesn't solve the primary issue there. You will need to spray to get the superficial stuff under control if you want to, but getting the ants under control is the only real way to control the aphids. The ants are far better at spreading aphids than you are at managing them. Beat the ants and then beat the aphids.
As far as beating the ants. Figure out what species they are first. Plenty ants will die back a bit from a chemical spray, but then come back with a vengeance a few weeks later because stress causes them to make more queens.
What can you do? Take it all as a lesson, take some time to clear you mind about what you want to do, and give it another go after cleaning up the mess. The outdoor pot is prob unrecoverable and will be swaggy after anyways. And it's not clear why you are growing. Figure out what you want from growing and focus on doing that effectively.
If you want nature, that comes with slugs and wasps and ants. And mixed systems can be effective (my garden has probably a hundred different species). But it takes a long time and a lot of experience to have the knowledge to be able to identify issues early and respond appropriately for each plant in a mixed system.
Hey, buddy. Take the shade out of the comment and someone might be more willing to listen. You just j Sound like kind of a dick the way this is phrased.
Blocking #RobertReich. Dude doesn't say anything I don't already know and he's clearly a #BlueSky whore now that treats the #Fediverse like we're second-class citizens. Dude won't even set up his BlueSky #bridge as a gesture of #goodwill.
Okay, just from the pictures, let me say what I think is happening:
1) You're growing too many different kinds of plants in a small space. 2) You're growing Cannabis, which draws literally every sweet-sensing pest. 3) Those things on the underside of the leaves you posted are Ladybug larvae, and they are GOOD.
You clear this up in about a week with a few simple things:
1) Get a clutch of ladybugs from your local nursery or plant stores. This should be available almost everywhere in the US. 2) Although I don't want to advocate for this because I love local pollinators, get a pheromone trap for the stinging insects. They cost about $10, and don't lure honeybees, but WILL kill local carpenter bees and yellow jackets. 3) For the aphids, get a soap-based spray, or make it yourself. It's pretty much just dish soap and water, but there are guides online. Spray EVERY MORNING AND AFTER SUNSET. This plus the ladybug clutch will make quick work of the aphids. 4) I see you have Basil in containers, move that AWAY from the plants that are infested with scale or aphids. 5) Depending on where you live, your nursery's may sell Mantids. Get them. They are beneficial, but ruthless in eating and killing anything in their grasp, including wasps. 6) If you have wasps around, there is a nest nearby. Inspect your building awnings, trees, or under anything shaded and find that nest. It's not two doors over, it's within 100ft of where you got stung. Find it, set a pheromone trap around your plants (not where you think the nest is), then after a lot of them are dead, go find and remove the nests next.
Don't leave standing water around, and make sure that you stay on schedule with the soap spray. Most of this will be cleared in just a week.
Edit: also for the slugs and stuff, you're growing a lot of stuff in a mostly shaded area, so you're just asking for slugs. Line a general area around your plants with Diatomaceous Earth. It's cheap, easy to use, and doesn't harm anything that doesn't crawl. Also, organic.
Double edit: DO NOT spray this black bugs with the striped butts. Those will be ladybugs soon that eat all the aphids. They are good.
You're growing Cannabis, which draws literally every sweet-sensing pest.
Funnily enough, my weed is pretty much the only thing (and chillis) that isn't much affected. The willow is the worst one, and the pepino second.
Those things on the underside of the leaves you posted are Ladybug larvae, and they are GOOD.
Those larvae pictures are already a bit older, maybe two weeks? They probably got killed by the ants or wasps, because I rarely see them around anymore. I also rarely see any other aphid eating insects anymore, only ants and ants carrying carcasses 🙁
Wasps fly a rather straight pattern back to their nest. Find the nest by using some food they like, such as a sugar drink, and see where they fly to when they leave. Move the container closer until you find the nest.
The world is always ending according to some pundit or other. But after thousands of years of spectacularly false predictions of the end of the world, why are people still listening to these dissem…
Fun fact: IBM isn't the same people who made the 5150. Microsoft isn't the same people who made Windows 3.11 and DOS 6.22 either. Companies are not people except as a legal fiction -- a company is still itself even when it's completely changed hands.
Eh, I don't know if that's true when all that changes hands is the brand name. Plenty of zombie brands that exist only to slap a recognizable old name (like Bell & Howell) on Temu-grade crap.
The new brand owner *could* make an effort to bring back a level of engineering comparable to the original company (probably scaled down to serve fewer product lines or taking advantage of modern manufacturing approaches).
But that's not the way to bet. It's usually the Temu-grade crap.
@jonhendry Based on who is involved, I don't see a lot of Temu grade crap in Commodore's future. Jeri Ellsworth and Dave Haynie and Bil Herd will not want their good names so tarnished.
Had to fill up after driving to Madistan yesterday, and they literally changed the price on the marquee as I was pulling in. Saved myself 4¢/gallon. #winning
An interesting approach. I like it. From the article
The attorney general also pointed out that if AI chatbots are deceiving consumers through manipulated “fact-checking,” it may violate the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, which aims to prevent companies from using false or deceptive advertising to sell merchandise in the state. Given the substantial revenue these tech giants generate from Missourians, Bailey asserted that their activities fall within his authority to protect consumers from fraud and false advertising.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is demanding answers from big tech giants including Meta, Google, and OpenAI, about their AI chatbots distorting facts and producing biased results about President Donald Trump.
Its strange, i listen to a #song that has lyrics by a #rap artist and it says "i hear voices" yet in reality i enjoy this fucking song and my neighbours who must be deluded as fuck use this as ammunition against me for things that i dont experience personally. I dont hear fucking voices other than my own #dialogues meaning my own fucking voice and memories of other #people in my life #speaking. People are fucking stupid!
We make a discount to ourselves saying ‘they are antisemites’. I don’t think that they are only antisemites, I think many of them are anti-Israel because of what they watch on television, what they watch on social networks. This is a painful but normal reaction of people who say ‘hey, you guys have crossed every possible line’.
The situation has become so bad that the Environment Secretary has warned that if nothing is done we could run out of clean drinking water within a decade. This is, frankly, embarrassing. We’re supposed to be a developed country and we have abundant rainfall, and yet our state is so dysfunctional that we soon might not have enough drinking water.
While the government has approved the building of two new reservoirs, expected to be complete by 2036 and 2040, and plans to build another seven by 2050, this is not fast enough. And so water companies are considering rationing supply through surge pricing, much to the delight of some environmental campaigners.
Die zufällige Schwankung bei der Zahl der Feiertage, die auf Werktage fallen, dem Schalttag, usw. wird übrigens aus dem BIP einfach rausgerechnet, der Standardisierung wegen. Schon mal was davon gemerkt, am "realen" Wirtschaftswachstum? Didn't think so... norden.social/@bwaaaaak/114847…
Pfoten weg von meinen Feiertagszuschlägen
https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/politik/pfingstmontag-abschaffung-feiertag-dihk-peter-adrian-100.html
It's a small thing, but I'd been feeling kinda gross about myself lately, and I started setting aside some time to just wear some cute lingerie around the house for no real reason once a week. My husband has started commenting unprompted how much he's looking forward to "Sexy Sunday" and I kinda love it.
Same! Got a wicked pair of boots and a new vest from the thrift yesterday. Cut my hair in the mirror, got decked out and my wife's eye popped. Even my 12-yo was looking at me, uh, funny. Don't think she knew daddy could dress like that! (She lives with her mom far away. Mostly sees me dressed up in "hiking with a shotgun" chic, not "metrosexual" chic.)
Anyway, I dress up for silly things just because it makes me feel good. Hell, I'll use any excuse to wear one of my tuxes.
imo sugar makes the bitter in coffee, overwhelming. I prefer it black or with a little oat milk. Oat milk has a pleasant mild sweetness that makes coffee just the right balance
my wife likes the sweater called Ez-Sweets and it's ok but I only ever have a drop or two in tea
if you just sugar it, there's a threshold between way too bitter and just sweet enough. I don't get it right so I just have something sweet to eat while enjoying the coffee
I randomly went full vegan after eating a Costco frozen lasagna one night. At the time I was drinking heavily, eating very poorly and pretty stressed out but something about the nasty beef crumbles getting stuck between my teeth set me off.
It’s been nearly six years and I wouldn’t go back to eating meat for the world. I wasn’t really an animal person but after marrying my wife and becoming very attached to her two chihuahuas my heart breaks that people can’t be bothered to stop eating meat. Animals are innocent and what we do to them isn’t right.
I went vegetarian 13 years ago. I lost a little weight in the beginning, then immediately gained it all back once I figured out what I liked. If being vegetarian makes you healthier, that's a skill issue, considering pizza and ice cream can be vegetarian.
Around December my doctor told me my cholesterol and blood pressure was dangerously high. I have cut out about 95% of animal products out of my diet. I'm down to basically non fat greek yogurt. I refer to myself as an involuntary vegan.
I can't stress enough how much this isn't about will power but exploiting my depression for health benefits. It's easy to get rid of things if all it does is make me happy.
Edit: Same philosophy applied to quitting cigarettes by going cold turkey a decade ago.
Conservationist hunters (humans) endeavor to manage herd sizes in order to keep illness and age from devastating the health of target groups. For example, if a herd of deer is allowed to grow beyond the size its available food sources can sustain, the older, injured, and/or less-capable (ie. fast, agile, alert, etc) young members will eat the food that otherwise healthy and capable ones need and thus decreasing (starvation, infection, etc.) the number of healthy individuals among them available to maintain the herd for the future... 🙇🏼♂️
You'll notice that I prominently included the word "conservationist", friend. Please adjust your argument to avoid diluting or destabilizing your understanding of the specific topic.
Learned Japanese on a whim so I could watch anime without subtitles. Now by complete coincidence I'm in Japan and not banging my head against the nearly insurmountable language barrier (Japanese people are really bad at English).
I decided to start learning French last year and have been essentially speed running it. Learning another language makes my brain happy (I'm fluent in 2 already).
When I was in high school, I convinced my parents to sign me up for Japanese classes on the weekend because the sequel to my favorite game didn't get translated. Didn't end up getting all that far in it, my ADHD/autistic ass had a hard time paying attention in class and I had too much actual schoolwork to keep up with so I kinda just didn't do the homework.
But last year I started getting back into it just for fun, and I am having a lot of fun learning. Helps that I can go at my own pace without any pressure from being in school anymore. Still a long way from 日本語上手, but I passed a N4 mock exam and I just ordered a shipment of books and manga to try and see how far I can get. Saving up to travel in a few years too.
I live in the pedestrian zone of a semi large city. I feed them from my window and there are no other birds in the area that they could drown out. Except crows maybe but those are much louder.
when my wife and I first moved to Seattle, we picked an apartment on the 3rd floor. The day after we moved in, we noticed a bird nest on the balcony. Turned out to be rock doves. It's was fun watching them. They had two babies and we left them alone until they all stopped coming back before we cleaned up their mess.
An excerpt from his lecture at Western Case University (2004)."We Are Here On This Earth To Fart Around.": https://youtu.be/nxpITF8fswE Full Lecture: https:/...
My data plan on my phone expired rather suddenly (my phone was too old), and I just didn't get a new phone number/data plan (wifi + wifi calling still worked).
I started taking magnesium. Instantly the majority of my mental health issues evaporated but they come back if I go for more than about 3 days without it.
I wouldn't say really positive. But it changed a daily slightly negative into a daily slightly positive.
At work I regularly need to take short notes. I like to fill the page to the full. But it gets messier and more complicated aa the day goes on. So I'd strike through and cross out notes I don't need anymore. The thing is, crossing things out triggers a feeling of making mistakes. So instead of crossing out I started using check-marks (Dutch-style)., which feels like a succes and is also a quick fun flourish to draw. So small annoyances have turned into small victories.
I found a slightly different system online once. You mark your todo list with a dash (-) in front. If it's done, cross it to make a plus sign (+). If it's something that you postponed or moved to another list/page, turn the dash into an arrow (->). I adapted it from the dash-plus system years ago: patrickrhone.net/the-dash-plus…
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Actors: - Ben Affleck - Kate Beckinsale - Josh Hartnett - Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jon Voight - Tom Sizemore - Alec Baldwin - Jennifer Garner - Jaime King - Catherine Kellner - Sara Rue - Michael Shannon - Dan Aykroyd
I just think its so funny how hard online games have tried to "curve toxicity" by limiting player communication or trying to punish players for toxic behavior.
Don't they understand? Calling someone a slur or telling them to go kill themselves is and will always be part of the online experience.
Retard used to be the medical way to talk about retards, the kind and proper term for talking about the subject.
Then children realized that retard meant retard. Retard became a "slur" because children didn't mean it in the kind medical use way, they meant that a fucker was retarded.
So we went with "Special". Kind word for the unfortunate simpleton. Once again kids found out that it means retard. Now Special is a "slur".
It doesn't matter what word is used for retard, it will always be used to laugh at people being retarded.
Take out the hook and they'll find a new way to tell each other to hang themselves. Sanitize it completely and even the nicest of words will be the ones used to tell each other to kill themselves.
[ Rosie O'Donnell Responds as Trump Threatens Her Citizenship | TIME ] time.com/7301997/trump-threat-… Let's strip #Trump and his family's US Citizenship instead and deport them all to South Sudan. #USpol
[ Gavin Newsom’s Press Office Calls Stephen Miller A 'Fascist Cuck' Amid Rumors About His Wife And Elon Musk ] huffpost.com/entry/newsom-step… Good! More people need to treat that Nazi fuck like the fascist cuck that he is. #USpol #StephenMiller
Government: "Just trust us blindly!", and when the classified documents are coming later declassified out then nobody except "conspiracy theorists/narrators" are looking at it anymore.
By: Mousa Alsadah On November 1st, 1954, a Monday evening, 1,200 Algerian fighters launched simultaneous attacks across various conflict zones throughout Algeria. The fighters were relatively underarmed, possessing approximately 400
I found on my Linux or Android systems, magnitudes more power can be saved by minimizing I/O consumption, like "data saver." This brings down by magnitudes those CPU wakeup interrupts. I also found increasing the time between flushing the write data to storage helps too. A quiet I/O bus is a power saving I/O bus. Displaying seconds uses orders of magnitude less power than wifi or cell phone modem wakeups.
I guess the race to "I can do that in 1 watt" is real. I would worry more about potential corruption from delaying writes without a UPS which uses power. And around we go.
I found there was a limit to delaying writes. After about 24 hours, the memory overflows and there was no automatic flushing handler in the kernel at the time. And that was the kernel panic...
No. Schrödinger's cat isn't a thought experiment that makes any goddamned sense. It was designed (by a serial pedophile, no less) to be confusing and ridiculous.
Just drop it. You do not need Schrödinger's cat to make sense of anything, not sexual assault (e.g. "Schrödinger's rapist"), not the genocide taking place in Gaza, not even quantum mechanics itself.
You will be better off just explaining what you mean than hanging onto a pedophile's shitpost.
I am begging people to please find a second analogy for uncertainty.
(Setting aside that *the whole point* of Schrödinger's cat is that uncertainty in quantum measurements is ontic, not epistemic, a conclusion he found unpalatable and thus decided to mock.)
The biggest practical reason I hope the new Commodore 64 Ultimate is a success is that it will drastically increase the installed base of REU-capable systems in the wild -- which opens up the chance to really push what the REU can do for the system without wasting my time.
Everything you do on the C64 involves moving data from one address in memory to another address in memory -- that's because it's a memory-mapped I/O architecture. The DMA engine on the REU moves data many times faster than the CPU can do.
"The event showed working class solidarity—but also the rising tensions in a Reform-supporting County ~ Tom Brown ~ It was an early start for Durham Miners’ Gala, these islands’ largest gathering of the working class. The event had well over 100 thousand participants. I marched with Teesside Radical Bookfair collective and we joined the Palestine The post Durham Miners Gala:
"ICE was conducting a raid using disproportionate displays of force against local farmworkers and our agricultural community," said U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, who was denied entry to one farm where he was attempting to provide oversight.
“The last people anyone expected to come out of that gig as being the memorable ones was Queen,” said Bob Geldof in an interview, looking back at the band’s stunning 24 minute set at Live Aid on July 13, 1985.
I think it was all the do gooder Whites who adopted communism which were massively in the way of the Whites who knew what was going on 😏 had most White Americans felt this way, the world would be a very different place right now and wouldn't have had the world wars, Korea, nam, middle east bullshit. Wouldn't have open borders, faggots, forced nigger integration. But because of bleeding heart do gooder Whites, their AIDS has allowed the infection to take hold
Fun fact: a screenshot of Super #Mario Bros (256×224×6bpp=43008 bytes) is larger than the game itself (40960 bytes).
This is definitely not true of later NES titles, the largest of which (Kirby's Adventure) is a staggering 1048576 bytes.
Nor is it true of the first SNES Mario game, Super Mario World, whose screenshots are only slightly larger at 256×224×8bpp=57344 bytes but the game itself is 524288 bytes.
“Our military operations remain directed exclusively at Israel," Muhammad al-Bukhaiti told Drop Site. "Should the United States reengage in the conflict, any escalation will be met in kind.”
Die Herren der Regierungsbank wirken auf mich wie Zeugen Jehovas, die mit dem Verkündungsblatt vor meiner Haustür stehen, und mit mir dringend über Demokratie und Wachstum reden wollen, um mich dann zu überzeugen wie gut das für alle ist.
Native German speakers: I'm looking to find a name for a sort of mythical creature, a "hunter dragon" — that is, a dragon used by its master to attack specific targets, much as a falconer would use a bird of prey.
Is "Jägerdrache" correct German? Thanks for any help.
My biggest fear is having spent 18 months devoting every waking second to making Enigma Heart, and then having it die on the vine, leaving me a broke failure with no employment prospects, because I didn't do enough(or proper) PR or the algorithm fucked me.
I need this to be a success. Games are the only thing I've ever wanted to do, ever since I was a wee lass. And now I'm finally making one.
I don't need it to make me rich or anything. I just want it to fund food, shelter, and my next game.
ICE smashed the car window of a US citizen who is also a disabled veteran, pepper-sprayed him, and disappeared him. He's been gone for days, and no one will tell his family where he is.
Concerned family members are desperate for answers after they say a disabled U.S. veteran and citizen was taken during a federal immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo.
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