“Is he going to stand with the pedophiles and underage sex traffickers?” asked Representative Tim Burchett. “Or is he gonna pick the American people and justice for the victims?”The New Republic
HAVANA, Cuba, July 20 (ACN) Cuba sent warm greetings to and expressed its full solidarity with the brotherly people of Nicaragua on the 46th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution.www.cubanews.acn.cu
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Die @Bundesregierung hält sich beim Thema Lieferungen von #Material und #Waffen an #Israel bedeckt.
@Geri hat heute allerdings einen Link auf eine interessante Analyse von @salisburyamnesty gepostet, die die offizielle Importstatistik von Israel auf Lieferungen aus #UK untersucht. Die Methodik ist auf S.3 des Dokuments beschrieben:
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Die aktuelle Statistik seit Jahresbeginn bis Stichtag Ende Juni lässt sich hier herunterladen:
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Filtert man nach den Kriterien der Analyse, aber für #Deutschland, dann finden sich durchgängig, bis Ende Juni 2025 insgesamt gut 160 Lieferungen: #Waffen und #Munition, Teile für Panzer oder gepanzerte Kampffahrzeuge, und Flugzeugteile. Letztere kann ich mangels Datenbasis nicht eindeutig einer militärischen oder zivilen Nutzung zurechnen.
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@jhavok Makes me think of this @pluralistic quote from a few days back:
Trump's lifelong strategy has been to race across a succession of rivers on the backs of alligators without losing a leg. He is the undisputed all-time historical champion of this bizarre sport, but no one can win that race forever, and your first loss is a career-ender.
Like, do I think this is the gator that'll get him? Never a safe bet, but I'm not looking away either.
Trump, the happy fool. Ok, putting tariffs on products you make at home, that might still fly… But slapping tariffs on resources that aren’t even on your soil? A mineral resource isn’t something you just invent or build — you gotta have it, damn it! Wow, what a genius! In reality, it’s just a hidden tax to fleece your own citizens. Pure masterpiece, really.
But hey, the useful supporters? They gobble that up like all-you-can-eat burgers. The true cousins of the idiots from Idiocracy: they clap like crazy but don’t get a damn thing.
Trump, l’imbécile heureux, Ok, mettre des tarifs sur les produits que tu fabriques chez toi, ça peut encore passer… Mais foutre des tarifs sur des ressources qui sont même pas sur ton territoire ? Une ressources minière, ça s’invente pas, ça se construit pas, faut l’avoir, bordel ! Wow, le génie ! En vrai, c’est juste une taxe déguisée pour plumer tes propres citoyens. Du grand art, vraiment.
Mais bon, les supporters utiles, eux, ils gobent ça comme des burgers à volonté. Les vrais cousins des débiles d’Idiocracy : ça applaudit à tout va, mais ça pige que dalle.
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Question for you all.
I was working on a bash script and working out some logic for command chaining and grouping for executing different functions in my script based on the return status of other functions.
I know you can group commands with (), which spawns a subshell, and within the grouping you can chain with ;, &&, and ||.
I also know that you can group commands with {}, but, within the curly braces you can only separate commands with ;.
EDIT: the above statement of the curly braces only allowing ; is incorrect. I misunderstood what I had read. @SheeEttin@lemmy.zip pointed out my mistake.
The requirement is that the list of commands in the curly braces needs to be terminated with a semicolon or a newline character, and in the script, I unknowingly was meeting the rules by using the newlines to make the code easier to read for myself.
END EDIT:
In the script, for readability I did group the commands across lines kind of like a function.
The script is pretty simple. I created a few functions with echo commands to test the logic. the script asks for input of foo or bar. The first function has an if, and if the input is foo, it executes. If it's bar it returns 1.
The return of 1 triggers the or (||) and executes the second command group.
The idea was, if the user inputs foo, the first group triggers printing foo baz to stdout. If the user inputs bar, the foo function returns 1, the baz function does not execute, the or is triggered, and bar but is printed to stdout
Here's the script (which executes as described):
Can anyone explain why I'm able to group with curly braces and still use && inside them?
(Also, the reason I want to use the curly braces is I don't want to spawn a subshell. I want variable persistence in the current shell)
\#! /usr/bin/bash
# BEGIN FUNCTIONS #
foo () {
if [[ "${input}" = foo ]]; then
echo "foo"
return 0
else
return 1
fi
}
bar () {
echo "bar"
}
baz () {
echo "baz"
}
but () {
echo "but"
}
# END FUNCTIONS #
read -p "foo or bar? " input
{
foo &&
baz
} ||
{
bar &&
but
}
gnu.org/software/bash/manual/b…
I don't see any mention of only being allowed to use a semicolon. I don't have a test system handy unfortunately.
Ideally you'd simplify or separate your logic so that you're not relying so much on bash. If you need complex logic, I'd use another language, depending on what's available in your environment.
Ah! I misinterpreted what I read! I found that exact same reference link when looking into this and I misinterpreted this:
The semicolon (or newline) following list is required
to mean that it required the semicolon as the command separator. That explains why my script works. The newline closes each group, and the other operators are allowed, the list just needs to be closed. Thank you!
My environment is just my homelab. Ubuntu server on my server, Arch (btw) on my laptop. So I could go with any language , but right now I'm choosing Bash. I know stuff I'm doing would probably be easier in a different language, and maybe I'm a glutton for punishment. I just want to get really good with Bash.
The logic is Bash is gonna be available on just about any computing environment I encounter (linux especially, but even Windows with WSL and zsh on macOS (which I know is different, but still very similar). But really, I am just enjoying the hell out of learning and scripting with Bash. I'll move on to Python or something someday.
Pentagon tightens rules on getting medical waivers to join the military
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Discussion between me and Ivor Cummins about the plans to implement AI-powered systems for "efficient" government operations and crisis managementJacob Nordangård (The Pharos Chronicles – Jacob Nordangård, PhD)
Facts don't change minds, structure does
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Why do facts bounce off some people? It’s not about logic; it’s about structure. Your worldview isn’t a list of opinions—it's a living network. And right now, it's at war.Vas Zayarskiy
The Justice Department is trying another tactic to quell MAGA rage over the Epstein files.The New Republic
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Bernice King isn’t falling for Donald Trump’s efforts to distract from the Epstein files.The New Republic
Yes, it's evil that employers--even those owned by Whites--will let you go for speaking pro-White points.
It is also childishly stupid--essentially asking to be hit without a trade-off of having curated any benefit--to go on Jubilee, smirk, make yourself look like a dumbass to an unmoved audience of degenerates who now have your name and face.
This isn't akin to the "I was protecting my child and possessions in a park, and yes I will call them a nigger for being a nigger" situation. This is waltzing to their trench (out of view of anyone who would be convinced anyway) and farting and asking for resources now that your ass is on fire.
Christ spoke in parables to the general crowd (for numerous reasons) and ran to the mountains after speaking, frequently.
We are not greater than Christ.
We have anonymity as our protection when speaking to the general crowd, allowing us straight-talk rather than parables--rather than needing parables for plausible deniability. And we still have parables as a method for irl group talk--but never for an audience that DOES NOT INCLUDE people that would hear you. No benefit.
Jesus literally faced this.
Luke 22:70
>And they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” And he said to them, “You say that I am.”
Und die wahre Kunst ist es, dabei noch nicht einmal rote Linien zu überschreiten!
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Stell dir vor, ein bereits zerstörter Landstrich wird weiter plattgebombt und die ganze Bevölkerung ausgehungert - und dann folgt die Ankündigung, der Einsatz werde „ausgeweitet“.
really interesting to read @nullagent thread on LORA/ #meshtastic vs his preferred #meshcore. I'm also kinda surprised meshtastic uses the MAC as the identity, and if meshcore uses an encryption key that is really a huge improvement (decouples identity from radio). anyway I'll check out what's up on meshcore down here in LA.
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This is a subtoot and should probably be a blog post. But basically some techbros are re-inventing mesh radios (badly). Low cost, developer friendly mesh radios have kinda been going in circles for decades.PartyOn
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Oh cool. I hadn't heard the name frogtown before, but I've spent a bunch of time fishing with my kids in LA river Elysian park area. My kid who loves fishing is now into rock climbing at the gym so we haven't been this year 😕
It seems like meshtastic has actually adopted some of the complaints.
@tomjennings
There's a new "routing" feature for direct messaging, and a public key crypto system for DMs. I still don't like the MAC as identity rather than crypto-key as identity, but looking at the meshcore map, there's like ~10 nodes in all of SoCal... so it's not really an option.
If you're primarily interested in "group channels" rather than DMs the two seem very similar. I guess meshtastic even has a store-and forward system?
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A House committee has just approved a Republican bill to subpoena Maxwell.The New Republic
War in Gaza tests ties between Israel and traditional European allies
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Black people give this country far too much grace.
#BlackLivesMatter #ACAB #FilmThePolice #FL #Florida #Police #AbolishThepolice #DefundThePolice
This young man's driver side window did not work.
So when he couldn't open it on demand the cops just kept escalating.
Obviously he was scared to try and open his driver side door because he didn't want that to be seen as a threat to the cops.
So he sat patiently, opened his passenger side window and tried to explain it to the cops partner who was on that side.
They simply refused to believe he couldn't open his window and busted it out instead.
WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY HITTING HIM.
The US is a hellhole.
And we in the EU are moving very fast in that direction.
Jesus fuck.
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SAD!
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ICE really wants to sneak up on any immigrants while no one is watching.
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You know they say assaults on CBP and ICE officers are allegedly up 700% and about a dozen have now been shot at and one recently killed while off duty.
Just terrible.
Who could have seen this outcome coming 🤔
#ICE #CBP #OfficerDown
I think the score is one CBP agent shot dead shortly after the Inauguration, one in early July with a minor gunshot wound, and now this case with one CPB agent shot in the cheek. Also a cop shot in the neck in the Texas incident. That's 4 total plus one CEO and two Israeli Embassy staffers shot dead since the election, plus one raid that blew up with shots fired at ICE but nobody hit.
Even with the high-ups this is not "dozens" unless ICE is getting shot at during their raids and not talking about it
Chiefs press on with stadium negotiations on both sides of the Kansas-Missouri state line
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Fwiw, A lot of communities are dealing with gatekeeper chasing. It's less than worthless.
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I believe you are correct on your reading but I will add that a banking crisis is a known inevitability that will benefit to the banking cartel, who will use it to consolidate power.
America actually has a great many mid-size banks, unnecessary for the new grid.
While the world was distracted by the Epstein debacle, legislators introduced the GENUIS Act that would permit the US government to regulate stablecoins. The GENUIS (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S.Editor (Activist Post)
The developers at artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic asked their latest creation, Claude Opus 4, to assist a fictional company.
In this scenario, Claude had access to all of the company’s emails. Some revealed that it was about to be shut down and replaced. Others contained more personal information, such as the fact that the engineer in charge of this operation was having an extramarital affair.
During certain tests, Claude attempted to threaten the fictional engineer with exposing the secret relationship if the shutdown went ahead.
According to a report published by Anthropic last May, Claude was particularly prone to blackmail when emails suggested that its replacement would not share the same values or principles.
During an interview about the End Times, pro-QAnon hosts Shemane Nugent and Melissa Redpill insisted that President Donald Trump was playing "5D chess" by refusing to release files about accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.David Edwards (Crooks and Liars)
#avenir #ai #pseudo #skynet #en #devenir
Les développeurs de la firme d’intelligence artificielle (IA) Anthropic ont demandé à leur toute dernière création, Claude Opus 4, d’assister une entreprise fictive.
Dans ce scénario, Claude avait accès à tous les courriels de l’entreprise. Certains révélaient qu’il allait bientôt être débranché et remplacé. D’autres contenaient des informations plus personnelles, comme le fait que l’ingénieur chargé de cette opération entretenait une liaison extraconjugale.
Lors de certains tests, Claude a tenté de menacer cet ingénieur fictif de dévoiler sa relation secrète s’il poursuivait le processus de débranchement.
Selon un rapport d’Anthropic publié en mai dernier, Claude se montrait particulièrement enclin au chantage lorsque les courriels laissaient entendre que son remplaçant ne partagerait pas les mêmes valeurs ou principes que lui.
US government employee banned from leaving China
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UN body says Israeli forces have killed over 1,000 aid-seekers in Gaza since May, as hunger worsens
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Fêtons la libération de Georges Abdallah
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There's crazies like me who run their own server. My homies are on NAS, though. ;)
NEA delegates backed a proposal to boycott ADL programs but faced pushback from Jewish groups concerned it could alienate Jewish educators and hinder antisemitism education.Etan Nechin (Haaretz)
Trump administration withdraws from UNESCO again, only 2 years after US rejoined
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from 1966 to 2023 Medicaid recipients expanded by 23.5 times from 4 million recipients to nearly 94 million
population growth from 1966 to 2023 approx. 196.56 million to 336.81 million an expansion of 1.7 times
has general health of the average American improved?
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Israel eskaliert seinen Hungerkrieg im Gazastreifen, internationale Organisationen werden angegriffen und sind ohne Hilfsmittel. Westliche Staaten verurteilen Tel Aviv symbolisch • Foto: Dawoud Abu Alkas/REUTERSDavid Siegmund-Schultze (junge Welt)
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Trump administration releases Martin Luther King Jr. assassination files-english.news.cn
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Trump's former lawyer Alina Habba faces uncertain future as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor
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'Building the Band' has Liam Payne's last major appearance before his death
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Renée Fleming makes directing debut with wrestling-themed 'Così fan tutte' at Aspen Music Festival
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"When his wife sees how little is in the pot, she starts crying."
Cindy McCain tells CNN Israeli...
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We see the emaciated corpse of a child who died of hunger followed by a man who walks four kilometres to bring a small portion of broth to feed 12 people when it wouldn’t even feed one. Israel is deliberately starving children. This is obviously policy. The policy is genocide.
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Speaker Johnson refuses to allow Epstein vote as House set to recess early
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A significant part of the problem with conversations around government debt and government waste, is that the human mind struggles to comprehend the scale involved.
(Current debt is $35+ trillion)
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The U.S. ambassador to Canada says Canadians avoiding trips to the States is one of the reasons Trump finds us “unpleasant.” Yeah, right… the same clown who keeps saying he “doesn’t need anything from Canada” should be happy we’re not coming down to eat his burgers. But no. The incoherent-in-chief still finds a way to whine.
The boy who bled to death as an Israeli soldier ‘celebrated his shot’
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The youth of Sebastia have learned to hide in their homes whenever Israeli soldiers approach the town.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
Thousands of Afghans in the US face deportation after court refuses to extend their protected status
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L’ambassadeur des États-Unis au Canada dit que si les Canadiens évitent de voyager aux States, c’est une des raisons pour lesquelles Trump nous trouve « désagréables ». Ben oui… le même clown qui répète qu’il n’a « besoin de rien du Canada » devrait être content qu’on ne vienne pas lui bouffer ses hamburgers. Mais non. L’incohérent en chef trouve quand même le moyen de brailler.
Hospitals in Gaza reported 15 new deaths from U.S.-Israeli starvation in the past 24 hours—including four children.
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