The Israeli Navy early on August 17 launched strikes against a power plant located south of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa,...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
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That post can be sent toward another user, but that user can block with one of their own posts. And if one post's power is enough to reduce another post's toughness to zero, the user must delete that post.
Anybody got good resources (web pages, studies, etc.) on ME that I can pass on to a friend who's trying to get a diagnosis? Please link them below if you do. Boosts welcome.
MacIntyre's frustration: Scheffler's long chip the latest epic shot to go against the Scot
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A Palestinian young man was martyred on Saturday evening after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah in the West Bank.The Palestinian Information Center
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Today I learned about this!
It's the first accurate image of a black hole, created by astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978, using an IBM 7040 computer with punch cards and plotting it out by hand with India ink.
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This is the type of BS we need to eliminate.
Nothing wrong with what he has.
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You might have heard of the line, "one ring to rule them all" from the book the Lord of the Rings. Though, this ring is an evil object created by the evil Sauron, the idea of just one thing existing to manage or control a lot of things at the same ti…Basil Ajith (undefined)
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It's been 80 years since Indonesia broke free from the shackles of Dutch colonialism but despite the celebrations, the dark legacy of that time still haunts the country.Odysee
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Dare County’s Senior Leaders gathered this afternoon (Sunday, August 17, 2025) to receive a briefing from the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Newport/Morehead City, N.C. While Hurricane Erin is expected to […]Staff Reporter (Island Free Press)
Mundial de Vôlei Sub-21 Feminino 2025
Local: Surabaya, na Indonésia
O bronze é do Brasil!
Emoção e garra para conquistar uma medalha no Campeonato Mundial sub-21 feminino.
A central Luana entrou para a seleção do Mundial sub-21.
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Great new film about Occupy Wall Street! Premiere screening 9/17/25 in NYC; streaming link available.
From the director / producers:
It’s hard to imagine now, but not so long ago millions of us fervently believed we were going to uproot this rotten system once and for all. Bursting with hope, Occupy Wall Street was one of the great democratic moments in U.S. history, when we had the plutocrats and the powerful on the back foot.
On the 14th anniversary of the movement, please join us for the premiere of a new film followed by discussion.
What: Premiere screening of Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream
(dir. Michelle Fawcett, 2025, 51 min.) and discussion
When: Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: The People’s Forum, 320 W. 37th St., New York, NY
(A screening link will also be available.)
Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream is a unique look at how the movement spread like wildfire across the country, upending politics as usual. It’s the story of laid-off factory workers in the Rust Belt, Indigenous activists in the Southwest fighting another kind of occupation, recent graduates saddled with debt and no jobs, and homeless veterans of America’s forever wars kicked to the curb. In our travels to 42 occupations in 27 states, we met hundreds of everyday people fed up with the politicians and pundits who were as bankrupt as the big banks that blew up the economy—then stuck us with the trillion-dollar check.
But out of this suffering, the occupiers forged a new American Dream on street corners, parks, and public plazas from coast to coast. And out of this struggle, they flipped the script from austerity to inequality, from reform to revolution, and from fear to power, heralding a new era in American politics.
The Occupy movement now feels, politically and temporally, like a dream. By telling the tale of its first year within a personal narrative, I hope to inspire my nephew’s generation to believe a better world is possible—and that there once was a time when people from all walks of life got together to fight for it.
Please sign up here to reserve a seat at The People’s Forum in NYC on September 17, or to request a screening link.
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For more information about the Occupy USA Today media project, please visit our website
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In this time of great despair, let’s go on a trip to a time of great hope. Let’s find our way forward again.
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Please join us for a premiere of the new film Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream, followed by a discussion about the movement and its legacy on its 14th anniversary. When: September 17, 2025, 6:30 - 8:30 pm ET Where: The People's Forum, 320 W.Google Docs
Here's what I don't get about the afterlife... do you just watch everything get worse where you were or do you just ignore it? Or is there no perception of what was, just your memory?
It just seems like a retirement cruise on the ship of the damned.
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Dear Brain,
Once again I find myself begging: will you shut the hell up and let me sleep!?!
Please.
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Akie Iwai wins Portland Classic to join twin sister Chisato as rookie LPGA Tour champion
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I picked up a Camillus TL-29 Linesman Knife. Made in USA.
A hugely popular knife in the 20th century amongst tradesmen.
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Unmasked in Smoke, Wildfire Crews Are Getting Fatally Ill.
By Hannah Dreier (NYTimes)
Aug. 17, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET
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The smoke from the wildfires that burned through Los Angeles in January smelled like plastic and was so thick that it hid the ocean. Firefighters who responded developed instant migraines, coughed up black goo and dropped to their knees, vomiting and dizzy.
Seven months later, some are still jolted awake by wheezing fits in the middle of the night. One damaged his vocal cords so badly that his young son says he sounds like a supervillain. Another used to run a six-minute mile and now struggles to run at all.
Fernando Allende, a 33-year-old whose U.S. Forest Service crew was among the first on the ground, figured he would bounce back from his nagging cough. But in June, while fighting another fire, he suddenly couldn’t breathe. At the hospital, doctors discovered blood clots in his lungs and a mass pressing on his heart. They gave him a diagnosis usually seen in much older people: non-Hodgkin lymphoma, an aggressive cancer.
It would be unthinkable for urban firefighters — those American icons who loom large in the public imagination — to enter a burning building without wearing a mask. But across the country, tens of thousands of people who fight wildfires spend weeks working in toxic smoke and ash wearing only a cloth bandanna, or nothing at all.
Wildfire crews were once seasonal laborers who fit in deployments between other jobs. They might have experienced only a few bad smoke days a year and had the winter and spring to recover. Now, as the United States sees more drought and extreme heat, forest fires are starting earlier in the year, burning longer and expanding further. Firefighters often work almost year-round.
And many of them are getting very sick.
Some struggle to walk up a flight of stairs after seasons spent in smoke. Others have become permanently disabled after breathing in concentrated plumes of ash, fungus or poison oak. They are getting cancer in their 20s, developing heart disease in their 30s, waiting for lung transplants in their 40s.
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Countries with major wildfire seasons, including Canada, Australia and Greece, have begun to hand out half-face respirator masks with replaceable filters, like those worn by painters and demolition teams. In laboratory tests, they block about 99 percent of the toxic particles in smoke. Disposable N95 masks are nearly as effective.
But year after year, the Forest Service sends crews into smoke with nothing to prevent them from inhaling its poisons. The agency has fought against equipping firefighters with masks. It issues safety handbooks that make no mention of the long-term hazards of smoke exposure. And its workers are not allowed to wear masks on the front line, even if they want to.
The agency said in a statement that it wanted to protect its crews but masks posed too great a risk that firefighters would overheat while doing the strenuous work needed to contain a wildfire. Instead, supervisors are supposed to move them out of heavy smoke and set up sleeping camps in cleaner air when possible.
“Respirators are a potential tool to reduce smoke exposure, but regulatory and logistical challenges make widespread use impractical,” the statement read.
Researchers in countries already using masks told The New York Times that they had not seen an increase in cases of heatstroke. Firefighters will slow down or remove the masks when they get too hot, they said. The Forest Service said it “continues to monitor international practices and research.”
Internal records, studies and interviews with current and former agency officials reveal another motivation: Embracing masks would mean admitting how dangerous wildfire smoke really is.
That could lead to a cascade of expensive changes. The agency, already underfunded and understaffed, might have to add crews to allow for more breaks, or pay for them to sleep in hotels. Recruitment for the grueling, low-paying jobs could become harder. Spending could increase on an extensive range of health issues among workers and veterans.
The concern was evident, for instance, in a 2014 Forest Service internal presentation that listed pros and cons of masks. At the top of the pros: “Protects respiratory system.” The con list began: “Heat stress/work reduction” and continued, “20% Work Reduction.”
Many wildland firefighters reject masks, which they see as restrictive and uncomfortable, and for some, a sign of weakness. Still, research has found that supplying masks, even without making them mandatory, prompts firefighters to wear them on and off throughout their shifts.
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“None of us really have any information about the inherent risks,” said Jacob Dale, a 30-year-old firefighter in Oregon who said he had developed precancerous nodules in his lungs. “It feels like superhero work.”
Bandannas shield against heat and flying ash and don’t restrict breathing. But they also don’t filter out the most dangerous part of smoke: fine particulate matter. These tiny particles can travel deep into lungs, enter the bloodstream and harm the body.
When wildfires encroach on cities — setting cars, buildings and furniture ablaze — the smoke is even more toxic.
The risk can feel abstract, though, especially to new recruits, who sometimes join right out of high school for $15 an hour. Many start with just five days of training.
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But narrower studies repeatedly have shown a connection between wildfire work and illness. Some new studies have begun to document harms at the cellular level, like cancer markers and immune system abnormalities.
The Times reviewed dozens of scientific papers and spoke with more than 250 wildland firefighters, supervisors and agency officials. Nearly all said the same thing: Smoke damage isn’t the exception — it is part of the job.
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Their researchers found that the crews were breathing in a mix of carcinogens and other harmful chemicals. The C.D.C. advised the Forest Service to ban bandannas — which offer “no degree of protection.” The gear that urban firefighters use isn’t practical for wildfires, but the C.D.C. said the Forest Service should equip crews with respirator masks. The agency rejected that advice and commissioned more studies.
Again and again, the Forest Service asked its own researchers how to better protect firefighters, and they came back with the same recommendation: Give them masks.
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Unions representing wildland firefighters have lobbied for years for greater protections.
In 2022, Congress granted federal firefighters workers’ compensation coverage for more than a dozen kinds of cancer, as well as C.O.P.D., heart attack and stroke. The law was intended to spare them from having to prove a connection between these illnesses and their years fighting fires. But this year, the Trump administration cut the administrative staff, leading to confusion and long waits for approvals.
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Younger firefighters tend to be more interested in wearing masks, but some say they are scared of being mocked by their crewmates and supervisors.
The federal Department of Labor, which sets workplace safety standards nationwide, stepped in a half-century ago to protect urban firefighters — over their objections.
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After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Labor Department officials faced similar resistance to masks from the emergency workers who were recovering bodies and clearing debris in the rubble of the Twin Towers.
“There’s always resistance to wearing respirators because they’re not comfortable or easy to work in,” said Jordan Barab, a former top official at the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. In what occupational health experts now widely consider a mistake, the agency did not insist that the workers wear protection. Within a few years, hundreds began to fall sick and die.
Shaken, Labor Department officials again started overhauling workplace standards for firefighters. After many years of fine-tuning, the department formally proposed a requirement last year that wildfire crews be given masks.
In a series of tense video meetings that have not been previously reported, Forest Service officials pushed to kill the mandate, according to three people with knowledge of the meetings who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss internal deliberations.
The National Wildfire Coordinating Group, an association made up of state and federal wildfire agencies and steered in part by the Forest Service, noted that the new safety standards might be ruinously expensive.
In its statement, the Forest Service said it wanted the rules to be more “flexible” and “reflect the unique conditions of wildland firefighting.”
Joe Perez, a California firefighter who was forced to stop wildfire work in his 30s because of lung damage, followed the proceedings closely and urged the Labor Department in a letter not to back down. “We work, eat and rest in these toxic environments with little to no protection,” he wrote. “Something must change.”
He said he was crushed to see the fire services pushing back against masks.
Labor Department officials initially held firm to the requirement, but they are now under pressure from the Trump administration to roll back workplace safety regulations.
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Lauren McCarthy and Eli Murray contributed reporting. Julie Tate, Kitty Bennett, Susan C. Beachy and Kirsten Noyes contributed research.
Hannah Dreier is a reporter for The Times who covers laws and policies by telling the stories of the people they affect. She can be reached at hannah.dreier@nytimes.com.
A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 17, 2025, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Unmasked in Smoke, Wildfire Crews Are Getting Fatally Ill.
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RESISTANCE. Fuck the ICE/Trump Gestapo. HE'S WAGING WAR ON AMERICA. Asshole--MUST GET RID OF THAT CRIMINAL POS.
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Gaza Health Director, Munir Al-Bursh, warns of “healthy genocide” and the collapse of the medical system: 23 out-of-service hospitals, severe medicine shortages, amputations without anesthesia, and famine threatens to die 500 people perDAILY YEMEN
What in the cop-on-cop violence…? ACAB.
Long Beach police say they arrested a Los Angeles Police Department officer after she became violent with a man she was dating, causing their car to crash early Monday morning.
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Long Beach police said she also assaulted an LBPD officer and tried to leave the scene while she was being detained.Jeremiah Dobruck (Long Beach Post)
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August 2025 is Doggust for SPW Movie Night! Chat can vote on what dog-related movies to watch. Showtime is at 5:30pm US Mountain Time (UTC-6) every Sunday. Come watch Youtubes with us until then!
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@Wtdrisco vote from any two of these!
101 Dalmatians (1996) 1h 43m
A Boy and His Dog (1975) 1h 31m
Air Bud (1997) 1h 38m
Balto (1995) 1h 17m
Benji (1974) 1h 26m
Best in Show (2000) 1h 30m
Bolt (2008) 1h 36m
Cujo (1983) 1h 33m
Eight Below (2006) 2h
Fixed (2025) 1h 27m
Fluke (1995) 1h 36m
Frankenweenie (2012) 1h 27m
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) 1h 24m
Isle of Dogs (2018) 1h 41m
Lady and the Tramp (1955) 1h 15m
Lassie Come Home (1943) 1h 28m
Man's Best Friend (1993) 1h 27m
Marley & Me (2008) 1h 55m
Old Yeller (1957) 1h 23m
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) 1h 17m
Snoopy, Come Home (1972) 1h 20m
Teen Wolf (1985) 1h 28m
The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1986) 1h 16m
The Dog of Flanders (Gekijôban Furandaasu no inu) 1h 33m
The Fox and the Hound (1981) 1h 23m
The Howling (1981) 1h 31m
The Plague Dogs (1982) 1h 43m
The Sandlot (1993) 1h 41m
The Secret Life of Pets (2016) 1h 26m
The Shaggy Dog (2006) 1h 38m
Togo (2019) 1h 54m
Top Dog (1995) 1h 26m
Turner & Hooch (1989) 1h 37m
Underworld (2003) 2h 13m
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