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"All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification."

-- Judge Learned Hand
(1872-1961), Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals

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“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant… then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. […] We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”

~ Karl R. Popper
(1902-1994) Austrian-British philosopher, professor
The Open Society and Its Enemies, vol. 1 (London: Routledge, 1945), 217 (note 4).

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@HaleakalacraterAnd I feel lucky as hell. I live on the 5th floor and got nothing. On the 10th floor, units above me got a little damage, the 4th floor below didn't get anything but the 3rd floor, all hell broke loose and they were monumentally flooded. I went to give the co-op ladies a hand, brought my cotton floor mop with me and helped mopped up the water that was still trickling under the walls on their floors. It was ugly. An emergency plumber came with a vacuum to pick up the water to help out.
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terrible! These collars - are they like couplings at pipe joints? Seems like if the pipes are ok they need to locate all the collars and fix them. Fernco makes flexible couplings they should investigate using these. Now there are flexible video scopes where they can drill a small hole in a wall and see where couplings are located.

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@HaleakalacraterYeah! I didn't know the English terms, I searched for the English equivalency and it said collars (in French, the word is collets = collars, I had specified for plumbing but...). I think what they are planning to do is fix them as soon as they break but hell that means we'll all be under stress for years to come... There are 109 units + 19 for the co-op. I'm not sure they want to tear down all the walls to change them all...

Plus the damn smoke detectors and general fire alarm go crazy because of the dust when they take down a wall (the gypsum boards and plaster). This is a concrete building (slabs for the floors and ceilings (well, d'uh - another man's ceiling is another man's floor LOL) but part of the walls are soundproofed and built of gypsum board...

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interesting, the term collet is used in machining metal, except we pronounce it with a hard “t” it should be pronounced as French, “collay”. We’re doing it all wrong!😭

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@HaleakalacraterYour suggestion does make a lot of sense. When I studied in technology of architecture, we had learned about contraction in winter and expansion of materials in summer. We had calculated the difference in a 20-floor building and it varied something like 4 or 5 inches or something. Not only were the materials under great stress, but the fasteners of materials had to give and take also. One of the building here had a bad design or I dunno if it was the way the plans were done, but corner of Sherbrooke street and Peel in downtown, a piece of concrete curtain wall detached itself and went crashing through a closed terrace restaurant on the first floor, it killed two customers. That happened maybe 20-25 years ago? Can't recall now.
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@HaleakalacraterAnd since it's a government project, not sure how the building was supervised, if there wasn't corruption also. Because let's face it the construction industry is one of the most corrupted, we call it one of the mafia strongholds, like construction of roads and all that. I had watched way back when a documentary on road construction in Sweden which has (or had) pretty much the same temps and weather we do. The opening questions were: how much does road construction in Sweden cost? And why do their roads last 10 times ours? What is the difference between what we do and what they do?

Road construction companies here cut in half all the materials. Like, say in Sweden they lay down 8 inches of crushed stone as an underlayer, over here, they put 3 or 4 inches. And they charge the government twice or three times what companies in Sweden do. Roads are all owned by government, either federal, provincial or municipal.

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@HaleakalacraterThe worst? When they repair roads, they usually just scrape off the top asphalt layer and lay asphalt over the road or street. I roll my eyes so damn hard each time, it gives me a headache because the problem is structural, but they make cosmetic repairs, it looks good for about 2 years, max, and then they have to redo the whole thing again or let the street or road deteriorate more.
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@HaleakalacraterNot sure if ours are that modern, but they are kinda similar. But the thing that bugs me is the road that cracks deeply and chunks come off, it's a sign the structure of the road, in lower layers of materials is working, shifting under the strain of traffic, the problem is structural. No matter how nice the top layer looks after, the shifting and crumbling will still go on. There is also the fact that on the roads, there are much more trucks and 18-wheelers than there was before, like 50 years ago.
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yeah but that’s a lot of work to fix and compact underlaid material look how easy this is!🤗

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ESWIN and Canonical team up to port Ubuntu to EBC77 RISC-V SBC


ESWIN Computing is launching a new SBC running RISC-V. In a joint statement with Canonical, they have announced first-party support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the new device. Good news for anyone wanting to diversify away from ARM SBC's.

The UK government is secretly paying foreign YouTube stars to publish “propaganda” videos.

A three-year investigation has found that online influencers are made to sign legal contracts banning them from disclosing the government’s involvement.

Whitehall officials give “feedback” on each video before the influencers are allowed to publish them.

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#uk #propaganda

Peace and Development Are Better Than Austerity and War: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2025)


As military rhetoric and spending by the US and its allies continue to intensify, it is clear that the world must stand up and carve out an alternative path – one rooted in peace and development.
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Reason seems to have been gradually abolished by the language of bombs. As weapons systems get ‘smarter’ and ‘smarter’, the range of diplomatic instruments used by the Global North states becomes blunter and blunter. US and European diplomats have returned to the old colonial habit of speaking loudly and brusquely, lecturing the natives about what they should or should not do while they themselves do whatever they want. If the natives do not agree, then the old colonial rulers simply threaten to cut off their hands or bomb their homes.

When the International Criminal Court tried to open a file to investigate US atrocities in Afghanistan, Washington reacted by revoking the prosecutors’ visas and threatening to sanction their families. More recently, the United States government sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her report on corporate complicity in the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people. This gangster-like behaviour reflects the longstanding attitude of colonial rulers, indicating a return to a period when the West sent its gunboats to threaten our countries to trade as they wanted us to trade rather than to trade as equals. During the colonial period, that form of behaviour was called gunboat diplomacy. What we have now is an updated version: nuclear missile diplomacy.
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Trump Has Completely Dropped His "Populist" Act

It’s so funny how Trump has stopped even pretending to be a populist. As soon as he was re-elected he was just “Yeah okay so Israel comes first and forget everything I said about free speech and the Ukraine war is continuing and there will be no Epstein investigation, fuck you.”

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Breaking news and analysis on day 650 of the Gaza genocide | The Electronic Intifada #Palestine

IRAN. Les forces iraniennes tuent un kolbar kurde
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"IRAN / ROJHILAT – Les forces frontalières iraniennes ont abattu Peyam Ahmadi, un jeune kolbar kurde de Sarvabad (Sewlawa), sans sommation préalable, alors qu’il transportait des marchandises à travers la zone frontalière de Hanjiran, à Marivan. Selon les informations reçues par l’Organisation de défense des droits humains, Hengaw, le mardi 15 juillet

“I was disoriented, hungry, and nauseous. In Georgia, after suffering a severe asthma attack without my primary inhaler and having a hard cry, I was feeling completely hopeless. In Louisiana, I found myself in a cramped, cagelike bus, waiting for hours. I watched as countless people arrived from a nearby plane, all shackled — hands, feet, and waists. Some were taken inside a building, while others were loaded onto a bus, where I was left behind. I asked for water but was given none.”

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#Palestinian Saed Salam was killed following the #Israeli attack on the Catholic Holy Family Church in eastern #Gaza City, where over 400 Christians had been seeking refuge after their homes were destroyed in the ongoing #Israeli #genocidal war.

t.me/QudsNen/175896

Πάνε και φτιάχνουν κλειστές δομές προσφύγων την ώρα που ο νομός Γρεβενών κοντεύει να εξαφανιστεί πληθυσμιακά απ τον χάρτη.
Ηλίθιοι ακροδεξιοί φασίστες και αγράμματοι, αμόρφωτοι νεοέλληνες, θα έρθει η ώρα που θα παρακαλάτε να έρθουν πρόσφυγες

KURDISTAN. Série d’attaques de drones contre les champs pétrolifères kurdes
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"IRAK / KURDISTAN – Depuis trois jours, plusieurs champs pétrolifères kurdes ont été touchés par des attaques de drones. Certaines sources accusent l’Iran d’être derrière ces attaques qui paralysent le secteur énergétique de la région autonome kurde d’Irak. Un drone a ciblé un champ pétrolifère dans

WeTransfer changed its terms to allow using your files to train AI. After users protested, they softened the language. But the rights they claim are still broad.

At @xwiki we believe privacy should be built in, not patched after backlash. Your content should stay yours.

Open tools like @CryptPad , @nextcloud and OnionShare put you in control.

#privacy #opensource #foss #digitalsovereignty
#ai #wetransfer #oss #news

Born to Revolution: The “Red Diaper Baby” Roots of Zohran Mamdani and Today’s Leading Democrats

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Trump’s change in rhetoric towards Russia is not related to his sympathy for Ukraine, – Atlantic en.news-front.su/2025/07/16/tr…

Four-legged robot’s first encounter with microgravity


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The four-legged robot Olympus on Europe’s flattest floor

For the exploration of planetary bodies with low gravity, such as the Moon or Mars, legged robots have an advantage over traditional rovers. One such robot recently jumped from wall to wall in conditions simulating partial microgravity and free flight at the European Space Agency’s Orbital Robotic Laboratory.

#engineering #technology #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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SYRIE. Les chefs druzes appellent à la création de couloirs avec les Kurdes et la Jordanie
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"SYRIE – Les gangs djihadistes sous commandement de Damas se sont retirés de la région druze de Soueïda où ils ont massacré des centaines de civils, dont des enfants et des femmes, en plus de piller les habitations civiles. Comme cela ne suffisait pas, leur chef

Was hanging out with a bunch of Germans and apparently me being American agro to one of them like a NPC.

They apparently were very passionate about gun control and started talking about that and how could we Americans allow such things to happen in our country.

Anyways, it ended up with them talking about self-defense and me saying that you have the unabictous right to kill anyone who threatens you or your property.

They then said no one's property is worth their life, I said well you shouldn't have taken my property, and then I made a gun sound.

Anyways everyone looked at me as if I was complete psychopath so I may have gone to American.

Hey, so what? It was only two dead (mentioned later in the article) and two seriously wounded. So what man?

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ALTIUS ozone mission’s satellite platform assembled


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ALTIUS satellite platform in the cleanroom

In a spotless cleanroom, engineers at Redwire’s facilities in Belgium, have completed the assembly of a key part ESA’s ALTIUS ozone mission – the all-important satellite platform is now fully formed ready to receive its measuring instrument.

#earth #science #space #esa #europeanspaceagency
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“When a child with asthma gets treatment without their parents checking their bank balance first, that’s the NHS working. When someone survives cancer without facing bankruptcy, that’s the NHS working. When a premature baby gets months of intensive care because they’re human, not because they’re profitable, that’s the NHS working”

À ce rythme, elle passe la barre des 100 000 ce soir 🙂.

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US Senate approves cutting billions in foreign aid as Trump demands
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/17/us-senate-approves-cutting-billions-in-foreign-aid-as-trump-demands?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Elon Musk is repeatedly insisting, no, no, there’s a difference between what I’m doing and being a Nazi. And what the model keeps telling him is, statistically, that’s not the case


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Life reminder. If you are poor you can’t afford cheap stuff. Today I learned a good lesson. If a paint is super cheap it also means it’s super bad. Had to spend quite some money on paint today (mistake number one was the idea to paint cupboards instead of just doors as those are visible), and seeing how much it will cost (basically the cost of making the entire furniture so far), I figured I would hack the system and grab the paint that was three times cheaper. Pressing fast-forward few hours I’m back in the shop buying the expensive paint. That piece of crap I bought stood nowhere near a paint. More like colored water at best.

La cour d’appel de Paris a ordonné, jeudi 17 juillet, dans la matinée, la libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah le 25 juillet prochain. Après 41 ans d’enfermement dans les prisons françaises, il sera autorisé à quitter son centre pénitentiaire à condition de quitter le territoire.#charlespasqua #georgesibrahimabdallah #israël #liban #mossad #palestine

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An 80-year-old pensioner with severe mobility problems has spoken out about his eviction from a rental property, claiming civilian tenants have been poorly treated since 2020.

Colin Hall told a staggered Nigel Farage on GB News he felt "very disgusted" with the treatment of civilian tenants, suggesting properties may have been allocated to Afghan refugees instead.

"We didn't know whether Afghan refugees were being put in our properties and we still don't,"Hall said.

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According to a recent Speech First report, the nation’s leading medical schools are controlled by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion fanatics, who inflict beliefs such as “weight inclusivity,” racial justice, and gender ideology on their staff and students through policies, forced statements, and curricular mandates.

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Filed in the fall of 2024, “Critical Condition” analyzed public records from FOIA requests from 54 of the country’s top medical schools, and the results are alarming.

For example, the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School offers a “Developing Outstanding Clinical Skills” program that teaches students to embrace “weight inclusivity,” arguing that weight-loss strategies foster a “culture of shame.” Students are also instructed to avoid terms such as “overweight” or “obese.”

More sleaze and corruption. NIH needed reforms for sure--but of course, wholesale destruction and theft were not on order. Fuck Scheißeführer Drumpf.
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Iran Deepens Strategic Coordination with Russia, China en.al-akhbar.com/news/iran-dee…
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@meowski "Saturn" being satanic is just christians backwards projecting any thing ever associated with a pagan religion as satanic. You can use Saturn for its scientific or symbolic meanings without believing in the roman imperial cult. It's like how christians are scared of goats because the Israelites put all their sin in a scapegoat. Scared of themselves basically lmao

NASA, “Sonsuzluk Galaksisi”ni keşfetti: İşte benzersiz görüntüler ve detaylar
James Webb Teleskobu, şimdiye kadar gözlemlenen en sıra dışı galaksilerden birini keşfetti. "Sonsuzluk Galaksisi" adı verilen bu yapı, kara delik oluşumuna dair bilgileri sarsabilir.
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Wie die #Nationalsozialisten mit angeblich "Arbeitsscheuen" oder "Asozialen" umgingen, ist bislang nur wenig erforscht. Der Stuttgarter Historiker Sebastian Wenger hat dazu eine umfassende Studie verfasst – und erklärt im Kontext-Gespräch, warum das Thema hochaktuell ist.
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The myth that Whites are uniquely guilty of genocide (and must be held accountable) was introduced by Cultural Marxists as part of their attempt to rob Whites of their confidence. The truth is that genocide is an even older profession than prostitution. It predates civilization. In fact, it is an evolutionary strategy utilized by (perhaps) all species. All peoples have practiced it. Whites have been . . . stormfront.org/forum/blogs/u15…