The world desperately needs a new paradigm of security and development. Consider the Russia-Ukraine-U.S.Jason Ross (EIR News)
Tofu factory owners in Indonesia’s East Java feed their boilers with tonnes of foreign plastics each week to produce tofu sold in the regionGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
#politique #industrie #souveraineté
Achetez français, et surtout achetez ouvrier : Duralex est une SCOP !
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Civil rights groups Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today announced the filing of a " friend of the court" brief in the lawsuit against the Trump administration's abrupt cancellation of $400 million in critical federal…Danya Zituni (Palestine Legal)
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Un fou qui fait la guerre sans les lois de la guerre !
Ils mentent quand ils disent qu’ils font la guerre. Ils bafouent toutes les lois de la guerre, tuent les sans défense sans rendre de comptes, détruisent et brûlent tout ce qui est vert et sec.
President Pezeshkian says Tehran will never retreat from its peaceful nuclear program, no matter the pressure or threats it faces.PressTV
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“Infinite growth with finite resources!”
– Capitalism (also, cancer)
#Degrowth an Anglicisation of #decroissance (Fr), #decrecimiento (Sp)
Another way to say it: to #decrease
That's it:
In a world with diminishing resources and greater contamination:
Fewer cars, fewer chemicals, fewer weapons, fewer media channels, less rubbish, less waste, fewer false 'needs'.
But greater health, greater kindness, greater sharing, responsibility, equality, solidarity.
Focussing on what we, the people, need and not what the system, capitalism, the property owners need.
Ça fait encore 29% de tarés et d'abrutis complets.
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Emmanuel Macron : un bilan sévèrement jugé par 71% des Français après huit ans à l’Élysée À deux ans de la fin de son mandat, Emmanuel Macron essuie un rejet record : 71% des Français jugent son bilan négatif, selon un sondage Odoxa-Backbone pour Le.El Diablo (Commun COMMUNE [le blog d'El Diablo])
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Leonid Savin- Vladeck accuses Miller of trying to intimidate federal judges into acquiescing in more unlawful activity by the Trump administration.thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
A day has passed in the fast moving reportage on the peace talks from when this video with the Indian broadcaster was recorded, but I remain satisfied with my appreciation of the improbability of these talks producing any results given the wholly irr…Gilbert Doctorow (Armageddon Newsletter)
Bertolt Brecht: Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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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Recent events suggest that the West may soon find itself compelled to reach an agreement with Russia over Libya. Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK.…Strategic Culture Foundation
我蛮佩服我自己的
我已经气到现在了
就因为洗碗的事情
这算内耗吗？？？
因为我明知道，我回去和我妈提买洗碗机这件事是会被打回去的
好的
打字打到这里，更气了
Unlike past offensives, this operation focuses on holding territory to prevent Hamas from regaining control, IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said.Sputnik Africa
Living in an HDB or condo often means working with limited square footage, but clever design can make small spaces feel expansive. One standout material? Marble. When applied with precision, marble can transform compact rooms into bright, spacious, and luxurious havens. Here's how to make it happen.
Light colors are key to opening up small spaces. Whites, soft greys, and creamy tones reflect light, creating an airy, open vibe. That's why luxury marble tiles in pale shades are ideal for compact homes. In a cozy kitchen or narrow bathroom, light marble flooring can amplify light and prevent the space from feeling cramped. Avoid darker marbles with heavy veining in tight spots, as they can shrink the room.
Tip: Love a bold marble pattern? Check if it's available in a lighter shade with similar veining.
Tiny tiles create more grout lines, which can make a space feel cluttered. Instead, choose larger formats for a cleaner look. A large marble slab for wall use, like a feature wall in the living room or a bathroom accent, reduces seams for a sleek, spacious appearance. Large-format tiles on the floor also minimize grout, creating a more open, uncluttered feel.
Marble's polished finish naturally reflects light, acting like a soft mirror to expand a room. This quality can be enhanced with mirrors or strategic lighting:
These small additions make a room feel significantly larger without taking up space.
Dramatic marble patterns can be stunning, but in small spaces, they can overwhelm. Opt for subtle veining or minimalistic designs to keep things calm. Marbles like Volakas (white with soft grey streaks), Carrara (light with fine veins), or Calacatta Oro (white with delicate gold veins) are perfect. For a large marble slab for wall applications, choose a design that's elegant but doesn't dominate the space.
Using the same marble across connected areas—like a living room and kitchen—creates a seamless flow. This continuity makes your home feel like one cohesive, larger space, rather than a series of small rooms. It also simplifies your design, reducing material changes for a polished, spacious look.
Marble isn't just for floors—walls are a game-changer in small homes. A full-height marble wall in a light shade pulls the eye upward, creating the illusion of taller ceilings. Consider:
Vertical marble adds sophistication and stretches the space.
Built-ins maximize storage in small homes, but they can feel imposing. To soften their presence, cover them in the same marble as your walls. A large marble slab for wall use that extends over shelves or cabinets creates a unified look, reducing visual clutter and making the room feel more open.
You don't need marble everywhere. Too much can feel stark or excessive. Instead, focus on a few key areas where it will shine:
These focal points elevate the space without overwhelming it.
Small spaces can feel grand with the right design choices. Marble, when used thoughtfully, transforms HDBs and condos into bright, spacious, and elegant homes. Stick to light tones, large formats, and simple patterns. Let marble reflect light, unify spaces, and add height. With a few smart moves, even the smallest home can feel like a masterpiece.
Quick Marble Tips for Small Spaces:
✅ Choose light luxury marble tiles for brightness
✅ Opt for large slabs to reduce seams
✅ Keep patterns simple for serenity
✅ Use vertical marble for height
✅ Create flow with consistent marble
✅ Blend built-ins with marble for less clutter
✅ Use marble sparingly for maximum effect
Every choice matters in a small home. Marble, used with care, can work wonders.
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Joe & Cleoma ( Breaux ) Falcon - Ma Valse Preferé - 1934
youtu.be/akZc6vrZLW8Joe & Cleoma ( Breaux ) Falcon - Ma Valse Preferé 1934
Joe & Cleoma ( Breaux ) Falcon - Ma Valse Preferé with 1930's fashion and pictures of Joe, Cleoma and Lulu. Recorded on Saturday the 22nd. of December 1934 i...YouTube
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L’assise silencieuse est ce qui reste quand rien ne reste.
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#zen #zazen #silence #méditation #prière #spiritualité
L’assise silencieuse est ce qui reste quand rien ne reste,Aussi, tenter des stimulations, respirations, motivations, colorations,que l’on peut trouver sur le chemin,Nous éloigne de zazen,Ce sont de…Notes & Silence
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Do you make of God a verbal experience ?
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#words #religion #spirituality #silence #meditation #prayer
The calming of the body and mind is an essential prerequisite for divine talkingfor talking about the divine,People of a religion have, mostly, a verbal experience of God,They make God a verbal exe…Notes & Silence
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OPINION. Légèreté et impatience ont tué la loi de programmation militaire latribune.fr/idees/opinion-leg…
Dans deux articles [1] qui firent à l'époque grand bruit dans les cercles politiques, militaires et industriels de l'armement, notre groupe démontrait, chiffres à l'appui, le non-financement de la Loi de programmation militaire (LPM) 2024-2030 et prétendait que l'économie de guerre cachait en réalité une guerre à l'économie. Deux ans ont passé où notre groupe s'est fait silencieux préférant observer la tournure des évènements, sûr que bon sens et épreuve des faits lui donneraient raison. Avec la publication salutaire du rapport du Sénat sur le financement de la LPM, l'heure est venue en effet de constater, comme Richelieu dans son Testament politique, qu'« il n'y a pas de nation au monde si peu propre à la guerre que la nôtre ; la légèreté et l'impatience qu'elle a dans les moindres travaux sont deux principes qui ne se vérifient que trop ».
Vers un écroulement capacitaire
Légèreté d'abord : dès sa conception, la LPM reposait sur des hypothèses qui, toutes, sont devenues de lourdes hypothèques, à l'exception peut-être (provisoire ?) de l'évolution du coût des facteurs plus favorable qu'estimé par le ministère des Armées. Mais pour le reste, pour tout le reste, nos deux articles se sont tous confirmés dans le moindre détail : sous-estimation des besoins de financement des armées, sous-estimation des surcoûts, non prise en compte des surcoûts (Ukraine, OPEX et OPINT) et des besoins autres (financement de l'OTAN, par exemple), insincérité des ressources extra-budgétaires, déplacement des hausses majeures hors du mandat politique du président...
Nul mérite à ce résultat que la censure sur les comptes rendus des commission de défense du Parlement n'a pas réussi à étouffer : il était d'emblée vain de croire que la défense pouvait, seule, surnager dans la tempête qui décimait les finances publiques nationales sans choix dans le périmètre de l'État. Ce constat fait, l'avenir s'écrira logiquement : sans la priorité donnée au domaine régalien contre les choix sociaux et environnementaux, impossibles, illusoires et inefficaces, la Défense nationale s'écroulera progressivement et avec elle, l'État. Déjà, sans réaction du président ni du ministre des Armées, c'est Bercy qui dirige : bloquant et débloquant les crédits au gré de sa gestion personnelle, au détriment des armées, de l'industrie d'armement et d'une loi votée au Parlement. La légèreté budgétaire entraînera l'écroulement capacitaire.
De l'économie de guerre à une guerre à l'économie
L'impatience ensuite : notre groupe avait également critiqué l'impatience de l'exécutif dans trois domaines : le contexte international, la haute intensité et l'armement. Pour tragique qu'elle soit, la guerre russo-ukrainienne n'a aucune incidence sur les intérêts vitaux de la France et, si elle devait en avoir, la force de frappe est là pour y répondre ; oser prétendre que l'armée russe ira déferler sur l'Europe dès 2029 alors qu'elle peine à prendre des objectifs extrêmement limités en Ukraine ou sur son propre territoire, est tout aussi exagéré que prétendre que les Etats-Unis se retireront du champ européen, alors qu'ils y opèrent des bases majeures (de logistique, de renseignement et d'interception).
Dans tous les cas, la dissuasion protège la France. La fameuse « haute intensité » n'aura guère touché les armées, notamment l'armée de Terre dont l'entraînement tient toujours aussi peu compte dans les écoles de formation d'officiers et de sous-officiers des enseignements des guerres en cours et, qui repose toujours sur un matériel dépassé, usé, échantillonnaire ou carrément absent.
Enfin, l'impatience dans le domaine de l'armement s'est traduite par l'économie de guerre : au lieu d'être un réarmement classique, s'appuyant sur des commandes fermes, pluriannuelles de la Direction générale de l'armement (DGA), l'économie de guerre s'est surtout traduite par une guerre à l'économie de l'armement où les mesures à la fois intrusives, instables et infondées du ministère des armées sont prises dans un climat généralisé de suspicion des industriels et des banques sans pour autant être compensées par des commandes nouvelles fermes. L'État avec légèreté et impatience ignore que qui paie, commande et qui commande, paie.
Dans ces trois domaines, l'impatience était inutile et surtout mauvaise conseillère : il fallait attendre la fin de l'ancienne LPM, se donner le temps de faire des choix, notamment en tenant compte des guerres en cours et surtout ménager un espace budgétaire ferme à la LPM pour traduire financièrement les exigences réels d'un réarmement de fond. Celui-ci s'impose toujours, non en raison d'un quelconque contexte stratégique versatile qu'en raison de la permanence des ambitions nationales de la France qui se veut encore une grande puissance défendant ses intérêts dans le monde et ses alliances tout aussi mondiales.
« C'est chose étrange que la légèreté des Français... »
Au bilan tout provisoire et qui s'alourdira, n'en doutons pas, dans les semaines à venir, légèreté budgétaire et impatience stratégique ont ruiné dès sa conception l'actuelle LPM ; il est curieux de constater qu'à part quelques sénateurs, ce constat pourtant clair dès 2023 ne choque aucun autre parti politique. Voilà qui est de mauvaise augure pour 2027. Comme le remarquait Louis XIII à Richelieu dans une lettre du 5 août 1635 : « c'est chose étrange que la légèreté des Français... ».
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Selon le groupe Vauban, la loi de programmation militaire (LPM), dès sa conception, reposait sur des hypothèses qui, toutes, sont devenues de lourdes hypothèques, à l'exception peut-être de l'évolution du coût des facteurs plus favorable qu'estimé pa…La Tribune
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Latgale has a unique ethnic and cultural background, with the traditions of various peoples. It wasn't "Sovietized"; it was like this before.Arina KORSHUNOVA (Oriental Review)
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“There are people who can see and others who cannot even look”
Link: worldhistory.substack.com/p/th…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The greatest early photographer's portraits of Hugo, Manet, Dumas, and moreGeorge Dillard (Looking Through the Past)
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Quelqu'un peut-il creuser un parallèle éventuel entre la "dead Internet theory" et la représentation de la réalité dans l'approche Bouddhiste, notamment, école yogachara-- le tout-esprit... ?
On ne sait jamais....
And yes I have had similar wonderings about the AI thing. I have decided I still prefer to depend upon my own faculties, no matter how dumb I might appear to the rest of the world.
In the second doco, from that series, is the bit about the tech dakini which is what I found interesting and need to watch again.
I also listened to a Q&A about this and the speaker basically said, "the human brain, better still, intelligence is way more advanced than any AI."
Currently humans use only 10% of their intelligence faculties?
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) considered the outcomes of the recent Arab Summit disappointing and did not rise to the level of the massacres and genocide the Palestinian people have been subjected to in the Gaza Strip for m…www.saba.ye
Bertolt Brecht: Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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.
Let’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump and His MAGA Enablers
#NewRepublic #TNR #MAGA #47
Trump is the head of a criminal syndicate, and he should be treated accordingly.The New Republic
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#phosh-osk-stub is now #stevia 🎹 . The rename wants to reflect that
- it's not just a stub
- typing should hopefully be "sweet"
(and it allows us to keep the "pos_" symbol prefix).
gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/stevia
Thanks to @newbyte for the help in finding the name!
In order for distros to be able to prepare for the rename I've tagged a 0.48~alpha1 of stevia: sources.phosh.mobi/releases/ph…
#phosh #osk #LinuxMobile
Two people were injured, including a Lebanese soldier, in an Israeli airstrike in Beit Yahoun in southern Lebanon.Al Mayadeen English (Two wounded in Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon)
apt from repo, apt doesn't check the distro codename, it just checks if the package dependencies are satisfied.
Really sorry, it's too long ago to remember the exact error,
but IIRC
when you followed the ubuntu instructions for adding the repository it would kick an error because the command included a reference to noble and mint os name is xia so the contents of the osrelease when checked didnt match and it threw an error.
Could be wrong, I didnt document it.
The work around was to edit the commands.
All a moot point now as
a) the instructions now on the mullvad site don't reference noble and
~~b) mullvad now appears to be in the mint store (which is how you should always install if possible~~
Not correct, only true if you've manually added the repo
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A worrying report by one of Europe’s leading law enforcement think tanks has outlined why the crisis in Ukraine will give rise to entirely new kinds of crime. Here are its key points.Sputnik International
Many violent extremist factions, including Jaish al-Islam and others, have already been incorporated into the new Syrian armythecradle.co
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Torkil Lauesen: We will be called national traitors, that's better than being a class traitor. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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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.
The Nazis are scapegoats for a Western heritage of mass slaughter, as if genocides in the Americas, Africa and India are mere historical footnotes. In fact, genocide is the currency of Western domination.Consortium News
话说我以前也会承担一点点家务
拖地 擦家具 洗洗碗
但随着我妈指挥不了我爸，只能指挥我
我就什么都不干了
最近，我妈要求我一个月洗一次碗
我已经在看洗碗机了
可是家里已经放了一堆东西，放不下洗碗机了
我要开始研究一下洗碗机的工作原理看看能不能在我房间里放一个
有什么办法呢？？？我管不了厕所 厨房 客厅 大房间，，，，我还管不了自己房间吗？
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What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)
Link: old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/com…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
I can answer this one. For some reason, I attract these people into my life. I don't do anything super extraordinary. I am not famous. But I...reddit
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The world of Emir Kusturica. The village of Drvengrad, built by the legendary filmmaker himself, hosted the ‘RT.Doc: Time of Our Heroes’ festival. This scenic site provided the perfect setting to discRumble
STATEMENT FROM THE IWI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Dear colleagues, The International Workers Institute (IWI) is organizing two important international online conferences via Zoom, which we invite you to attend.www.pensionistas.info
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well i am exhausted now. after a bit more farting around, i wrapped up all this front end work on the RSX and took it out for a spin on the highway. everything is running smoothly.
my diagnosis of the bad ABS wheel speed sensor wire was correct and the mysterious rhythmic springy boing boing sound when turning and braking at slow speed is gone.
i thought i was a bad axle at first, but noticed it felt like the brake was being pulsed erratically so i checked the wire with an oscillscope and found the bad wire. instead of spending like $200+ for the whole sensor assembly i just spliced out the bad wire for a new one and it works fine.
on top of that i had the brake rotors resurfaced, and replaced that bad wheel stud, so now i can actually have 5 lug nuts instead of 4 which was throwing off the wheel balance slightly
pretty chuffed with how it's driving now. i have a few more minor things to do but it's in pretty good shape so i feel comfortable driving out to the property now.
this is good cause the civic needs some major work. it's really hard to get into gear sometimes and the engine is due for a rebuild, and the clutch is almost gone. i'll do that stuff after i move
His comments come after a social media post by the ex-chief that Trump called a "veiled call for assassination."AFP (DAWN.COM)
New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC
Link: phys.org/news/2025-05-reveals-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
An international team of scientists has discovered an extreme spike in radiocarbon corresponding to the year 12350 BC during the dusk of the last Ice Age.University of Oulu (Phys.org)
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: The trouble is that we live in a failed system. Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources...That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we’re going to have to change the system. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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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.
On a flight from Honduras, 195 Venezuelan migrants arrived at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, La Guaira state, as part of the Return to the Homeland Plan.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
Gack. Power went out. Just the Balcones neighborhood of Jollyville. I'm typing this by candle light.
Livvie and I just walked around the block, and saw some guys in hard hats coming back out to their trucks. "Wha hoppen?" "Some trees got into the lines" "Oh, just like always out here." "Haha, yeah"
They say it will be back on at 1:15 AM. 2 or 3 of my neighbors have gensets. And then Kai has that silly Tesla power roof, lights are on at his house. Din't look like he is home now, tho.
Makes me think of my Florida bros and sistas. There's a hurricane and I ask 'em if they are OK. "Yeah, the generator came on for a while." ...
Sill, it's annoying.
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我昨天看了眼我爸
他一直在减肥，我看他又瘦了一圈
给我感觉，他不是因为减肥瘦的，纯纯的因为肌肉萎缩。
正确的延年益寿的方式，应该去适当的增肌，不喝酒
但是他天天泡在沙发上刷手机，天天要喝酒，最大的运动量就是下楼遛狗。
不错，加速
我什么时候能够摆脱这个鬼东西
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Aral Balkan
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