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Navigation warning: Military mission being conducted in Bohai Sea - China Military

According to a navigation warning notice released by China's Tangshan Maritime Safety Administration, from May 15 to May 16, and from May 19 to May 21, live-fire training will be held daily from 06:00 to 21:00 in certain waters of Bohai Sea.
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Going live very shortly: Gilmour Space is set to carry out the inaugural launch of their Eris-1 rocket: the liftoff is set for not earlier than 21:30 Universal Time (UT) from Gilmour Space’s private spaceport Bowen Orbital Space Port, based in Bowen, Queensland Australia. The launch was scrubbed from yesterday, we’ll see if the second time’s the charm. Watch live in about 10 minutes: youtube.com/live/rCPsqhSf3d8?s…

LIVE: Watch Gilmour Space Launch Their FIRST Eris-1 Rocket From Australia!

Gilmour Space is targeting 'No Earlier Than' (NET) May 14th at 21:30 UTC for the maiden flight of their Eris-1 small lift launcher. The launch will take plac...
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INTERVIEW W/ A TRAVELER | A WEATHER IS HAPPENING MINI-MOVIE

/ WAT IF A PERSON FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION MITE ENTER UR UNIVERSE/ NO EYEM NOT TALKING ABOUT MEYESELF/ EYEM ONLY A "PERSON" IN THE SENSE THAT EYE AM INHABITING...
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NASA named Stanford University of California winner of the Lunar Autonomy Challenge, a six-month competition for U.S. college and university student teams to virtually map and explore using a digital twin of NASA’s In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx). The winning team successfully demonstrated the design and functionality of their autonomous agent, or software that performs […]

Top Prize Awarded in Lunar Autonomy Challenge to Virtually Map Moon’s Surface - NASA

Stefanie Payne (NASA)

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Drops Perfect Line During Oral Arguments Over Nationwide Injunctions (AUDIO)

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Drops Perfect Line During Oral Arguments Over Nationwide Injunctions (AUDIO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

           Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dropped the perfect line during oral arguments over nationwide injunctions on Thursday.
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Scientists know that changing tree leaves can indicate when a nearby volcano is becoming more active and might erupt. In a new collaboration between NASA and the Smithsonian Institution, scientists now believe they can detect these changes from space. As volcanic magma ascends through the Earth’s crust, it releases carbon dioxide and other gases which […]

NASA Satellite Images Could Provide Early Volcano Warnings  - NASA

James R. Riordon (NASA)

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Following an international signing ceremony Thursday, NASA congratulated Norway on becoming the latest country to join the Artemis Accords, committing to the peaceful, transparent, and responsible exploration of space. “We’re grateful for the strong and meaningful collaboration we’ve already had with the Norwegian Space Agency,” said acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro. “Now, by signing the […]

NASA Welcomes Norway as 55th Nation to Sign Artemis Accords - NASA

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Lavrov called it a ‘disgrace’ the refusal of EU ambassadors to participate in the meeting on Ukraine en.news-front.su/2025/05/15/la…

Lavrov called it a ‘disgrace’ the refusal of EU ambassadors to participate in the meeting on Ukraine

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the refusal of all ambassadors of the European Union member states to come to a meeting with him and participate in an open discussion on Ukraine is a ‘shameful act.
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selfhosting.couchsurfing

@benda oh duh, I completely forgot I could set it up to use Tor.

I had considered reaching out, it's just a couple guys running that project, and tbh they should know that blocking data center IPs is a bad call since their (relatively) light distro with compositing disabled is a great choice for running on headless desktop VMs with no GPU.

the main reason I defaulted to 'wait and see' is mostly just, I'm tired and my task list is 20 miles long 😩

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#fedihelp time, although this is a small and simple (i hope) #linux question...

in redirecting all output of a command, standard output and standard error, it seems the correct syntax is:

some_script.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

except one website I am reading put >& and then later put &> and so I tried and it seems both work exactly the same...
am i wrong that they are both working? if i am not wrong, how do they both work? I feel like &> would background "some_script.sh" while its standard output is going to bitbucket, and then... i don't even know.

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Lenin: They do not see the wood for the trees. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

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2021-07-31 15:43:02

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  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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Iranian President Hits Back at Trump: ‘Let Him Dream’ iranpress.com/content/305152

Iranian President Hits Back at Trump: ‘Let Him Dream’

KERMANSHAH (IP) — President Masoud Pezeshkian fired back at U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, dismissing his recent criticism of Iran’s internal challenges and vowing to resolve national problems with the help of the Iranian people.
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Scientists know that changing tree leaves can indicate when a nearby volcano is becoming more active and might erupt. In a new collaboration between NASA and the Smithsonian Institution, scientists now believe they can detect these changes from space. As volcanic magma ascends through the Earth’s crust, it releases carbon dioxide and other gases which […]

NASA Satellite Images Could Provide Early Volcano Warnings  - NASA

James R. Riordon (NASA)

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LIVE BLOG: Journalist Killed as Gaza Massacres Continue | Al-Shifa Evacuated Again – Day 587 #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/live-bl…

LIVE BLOG: Over 100 Killed as Gaza Massacres Continue | Al-Shifa Evacuated Again – Day 587 - Palestine Chronicle

Palestinian journalist Hassan Samour was killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted his home in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
admin (Palestine Chronicle)

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To celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman — NASA’s first chief astronomer and the namesake for the agency’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — we’re baking a birthday cake! This isn’t your ordinary birthday treat — this cosmic cake represents the contents of our universe and everything […]

Let’s Bake a Cosmic Cake!

To celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman — NASA’s first chief astronomer and the namesake for the agency’s nearly
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Stalin: I am ready to continue to devote all my strength, all my abilities and, if necessary, all my blood, drop by drop, to the cause of the working class. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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Diverging populisms - Emmanuel Todd


#politics #society #civilisation

I will start by explaining why the defeat of the West does not in itself surprise me, and why indeed I have anticipated it, and then I’ll try to say something about the areas where I am less certain and to formulate a few hypotheses. But please excuse my lack of certainty at this point. To offer any certainty at this point about what is going to happen would be enormously presumptuous, even a sign of insanity.


emmanueltodd.substack.com/p/di…


Diverging populisms

Lecture in Budapest, Hungary, on April 8th, 2025
Emmanuel Todd

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Souverainetés nationales et divergence des populismes


#politique #société #civilisation

Je vais d’abord rapidement rappeler les thèses de mon livre qui m'ont donné le plaisir, je dois l'avouer, d'une prédiction réalisée avec une vitesse folle. Pour voir se réaliser ma prédiction sur l’effondrement du système soviétique, j'ai quand même dû attendre 15 ans. Dans le cas de la défaite militaire et économique des États-Unis, de l'Europe et de l'Ukraine face à la Russie, je n'ai eu à attendre qu’un an.


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Souverainetés nationales et divergence des populismes

Conférence à Budapest le 8 avril 2025
Emmanuel Todd
in reply to Emmanuel Florac

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Emmanuel Florac

@Salinger 3

en effet tu ne sembles pas voir qu il y a un gros problème à partager les idées rances de l extrême droite et complaisante avec celle ci.


Oui je sais, si Le Pen dit "il fait beau" et que je constate que le soleil brille, je dois absolument affirmer qu'il pleut pour éviter le déshonneur par association. Dans le même ordre d'idées, les humains sont des animaux mammifères sexués, il existe exactement deux sexes et pas un de plus, puisque des gens d'extrême-droite le disent c'est donc que je suis d'extrême-droite. De même, le jour où Le Pen aura l'idée de dire "il ne faut pas sauter par la fenêtre c'est très dangereux", tu te mettras à réfléchir à comment sauter par la fenêtre en défiant la gravité.

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Eski ABD Suriye Özel Temsilcisi Jeffrey: Colani ile beraber çalışıyorduk, onları Esad'dan koruduk
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Eski ABD Suriye Özel Temsilcisi Jeffrey: Colani ile beraber çalışıyorduk, onu Esad’a karşı koruduk - Evrensel

ABD’nin eski Suriye özel temsilcisi James Jeffrey, dün ABD Başkanı Trump ile görüşen HTŞ lideri Colani için "Dolaylı olarak beraber çalışıyorduk. Esad’dan korunmalarında başarılı olduk" dedi.
Evrensel gazetesi

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'Ukraine's best security guarantee is to be neutral and friendly' — Ex-DoD contractor odysee.com/Kevin_Michelizzi_in…

'Ukraine's best security guarantee is to be neutral and friendly' — Ex-DoD contractor

Ex-DoD contractor working for CyberCommand, Kevin Michelizzi, joins RT to discuss NATO's push to include Ukraine, calling it a strategic mistake that ignores decades of warnings from Moscow
Odysee

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NASA has selected two more university student teams to help address real-world aviation challenges, through projects aimed at using drones for hurricane relief and improved protection of air traffic systems from cyber threats. The research awards were made through NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC), which provides student-led teams with opportunities to contribute their novel […]

NASA Selects Student Teams for Drone Hurricane Response and Cybersecurity Research - NASA

John Gould (NASA)

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Supposedly there is a multiple year back log on court cases for deciding if immigrants who did not do the proper paper work get assyylum and they can roam free

What if they were put in holding cells where they were protected but forced to do labour until the court date

If they had legitimate reason for assylum they should be happy that they are protected and well fed in holding cells

They can be in a giant farm with walls and grow their own food plus a little extra

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Al-Qaeda affiliate claims 200 soldiers killed in Burkina Faso attack
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/15/al-qaeda-affiliate-claims-200-soldiers-killed-in-attack-in-burkina-faso?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Al-Qaeda affiliate claims 200 soldiers killed in Burkina Faso attack

Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) claims attack on Djibo military outpost, SITE Intelligence Group says.
Al Jazeera

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Feeling good about the chapter I just wrote for “the novel I’m not allowed to talk about until it’s done” — I’ve been writing so much and pulling all the threads of the story together: it feels like maybe I really can complete this story.

Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by all the text. But right now I can see a light glinting at the end of the tunnel.

I imagine listening to the whole book and liking it. Thinking “that was a good story.”

That will be me someday! Maybe you to? maybe?

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Florida becomes second state to ban fluoride in tap water under DeSantis-backed law
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/ron-desantis-fluoride-ban-florida-water-2nd-state/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Florida becomes second state to ban fluoride in tap water under DeSantis-backed law

Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a measure that prohibits local governments from adding fluoride to water systems.
CBS Miami

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Takeaways from Supreme Court hearing on Trump's birthright citizenship order
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/takeaways-from-supreme-court-arguments-on-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Takeaways from Supreme Court hearing on Trump's birthright citizenship order

The Supreme Court adjourned Thursday after hearing nearly three hours of arguments on President Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship. The court focused on judges' power and nationwide injunctions.
CBS News

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Palestinian Resistance Committees: Anti-Israeli operation in Salfit was a strong response to crimes of Zionists parstoday.ir/en/news/daily_new…

Palestinian Resistance Committees: Anti-Israeli operation in Salfit was a strong response to crimes of Zionists

Pars Today – In response to the anti-Zionist operation in Salfit, located in the West Bank, the Palestinian Resistance Committees stated in a declaration t...
Pars Today

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US Supreme Court grills Trump administration over birthright citizenship
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/15/us-supreme-court-grills-trump-administration-over-birthright-citizenship?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Global News @global-news-AlJazeera


US Supreme Court grills Trump administration over birthright citizenship

Donald Trump’s lawyers seek to stop judges’ national block on executive order in case that could decide policy’s future.
Joseph Stepansky (Al Jazeera)

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Lenin: No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself; but a revolution does not learn to defend itself at once. The revolution has awakened millions to a new life. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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Musician mutuals! I need one more thing to cover for this week's Other People's Music, so if you have a release you'd like to get more ears on (and have never submitted before), send me a DM.

Here's a link explaining the very few requirements:

etherdiver.com/2024/04/04/opm-…

To that I have since added two things:

1) NO AI of any kind. Not in the art, not to write lyrics, nada. If you mess with that stuff, don't submit to me, please.

2) Everything has to be on one release, for logistical reasons.

OPM: Other People’s Music – Ether Diver

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We have two more singles off our upcoming album that you haven't gotten to yet: Halken is a lilting kind of dance tune that is surprisingly straightforward for being us (which might not be saying much), while Grössjön is more of a journey, representing the different seasons of a forest where our bassist used to play as a child:

Halken: ryamusicumea.bandcamp.com/trac…

Grössjön: ryamusicumea.bandcamp.com/trac…


Grössjön, by RYA!

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