AI, TL; DR:
“…the tech industry is trying to bake a broken toy into every aspect of our society…”
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And if you think LLMs are "good enough" as they are, then the only thing I can say is I hope you're right because at the moment it looks like the tech industry is trying to bake a broken toy into every aspect of our society in the belief that the onl…Toot Café
The Lebanese House Speaker Nabih Berri indicated that the recent municipal elections proved that Hez...Al-Manar TV Lebanon
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Julien Assange, le fondateur de WikiLeaks, présent à Cannes pour la présentation d’un film documentaire retraçant son histoire et intitulé The Six Billion Dollar Man (« l’homme qui valait six milliards de dollars »), a monté les marches du Palais du …Benjamin König (L'Humanité)
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Wonder where it's going? /s
Note: All these are things which should be publicly funded, not privatized and run for-profit.
"i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks. daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs
college costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts students into debt for life and yet we have thousands of professors living in their cars.
everything we need is astronomically expensive and yet almost none of the money we pay is going towards the people actually doing the work and providing the services."
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Time is running out. 😮
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#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #FossilFuels
Even allowing warming to exceed 1.5°C for a few decades could trigger irreversible damage.The Conversation
Pars Today- Leader of the so-called Democrats party of Israel, criticizing the war crimes committed by the regime, said,Pars Today
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"May" - I hear your calm songs..May
I remain
in the green of your memory.May
I pass through
you,
as winds pass through
new leaves.May
your eyes find me
even in other springs.May
our shadows
touch again.May
you return
with the calmness you left in me..TsL. 25
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News - Middle East: Lebanese political analyst and director of the Sonar Media Center, Hussein Mortada, stated that the escalating operations of the Yemeni Armed Forces send multiple political, military, and economic messages to the Zionist enemy.english.masirahtv.net
Bertolt Brecht: With the war the properties of the landowners increase, the misery of the miserable increases, the speeches of the general increase, and the silence of the men increases. 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.
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UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures urged governments to prioritize international legal obligations over domestic laws.iranpress.com
My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane
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Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Jokes aside, GitHub/Microsoft recently announced the public preview for their [GitHub Copilot...reddit
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio suddenly announced the possibility of the imminent fall of the new "government" of Syria.Max_Svetlyshev (Военное обозрение)
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Microsoft email block of ICC prosecutor fuels Dutch alarm over U.S. tech dependence-english.news.cn
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An innovative satellite that offers reliable connectivity wherever and whenever it is needed – in crowded places such as summer festivals as well as following passengers in planes, trains and automobiles – has celebrated its second anniversary in space.
#telecommunications #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Linguists find proof of sweeping language pattern once deemed a 'hoax'
Link: scientificamerican.com/article…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, potentially revealing what a culture valuesCody Cottier (Scientific American)
Every year, YPT arrange a tour to coincide with Timor-Leste National Day, not just the biggest event on the country’s calendar, but also one of the moreGareth Johnson (Young Pioneer Tours)
Bertolt Brecht: There are men that fight one day and are good. There are others that fight for a year and are better. Some fight for many years and are very good. But there are those who fight their whole lives: those are the essential ones. 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.
To create a crumbly crater rich in ice and chunky blocks soaked in layers of martian history – like this one recently observed by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express – follow this recipe:
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To create a crumbly crater rich in ice and chunky blocks soaked in layers of martian history – like this one recently observed by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express – follow this recipe:
Toss a space rock into Mars to form a classic circular …
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We’re a small community working on a new Fediverse-based platform with privacy-friendly services, aimed at making onboarding easier—especially for Indian users.
We're still in early stages and would love your input on what you'd actually like to see.
If you're interested, you can fill out this short survey to help guide our direction:
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We aren't hosting it all, as of right now. We'll be picking a few services and scale as required. As for why we're doing it at all is because we have seen for there to be a very few such initiatives in our region and aim to promote the conversation about foss and privacy through our efforts in providing alternative services.
The whole point of fediverse is to decentralise and federate it, so it doesn't make sense to just keep using existing servers!
We plan to use personal hardware and aim to minimise costs wherever possible!
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Air-cooled condensers are an essential component in many cooling and refrigeration systems. They provide a simple and effective method for removing heat from a refrigerant without the need for water. This makes them a popular choice for installations where water availability is limited or where maintenance needs to be minimal.
The main purpose of an air cooled condenser is to transfer heat from the hot refrigerant gas to the surrounding air. After the refrigerant is compressed, it enters the condenser as a high-pressure vapor. In this stage, it contains a significant amount of thermal energy that needs to be released before it can return to the evaporator.
Inside the condenser, the refrigerant flows through a series of coils or tubes. Air is blown across these surfaces by one or more fans. As the air passes over the coils, it absorbs the heat from the refrigerant, allowing the refrigerant to condense into a liquid. This liquid then continues through the system to complete the cooling cycle.
The efficiency of this process depends on several factors. The size and design of the condenser coils determine how much surface area is available for heat transfer. The speed and volume of the airflow also affect how quickly heat is removed. More airflow generally means faster cooling, but it can also require more energy.
Another important factor is ambient air temperature. Since air-cooled systems rely on the temperature difference between the refrigerant and the surrounding air, higher outdoor temperatures can reduce performance. That is why air-cooled condensers are often sized based on the highest expected outdoor temperature in a given location.
These condensers are usually made from materials that conduct heat well, such as aluminum or copper. Fins are often attached to the tubes to increase the surface area and improve heat dissipation. The fan motors and blades are also designed to operate reliably in a variety of conditions, ensuring consistent airflow.
One of the biggest advantages of air-cooled condensers is their low maintenance requirements. Since they do not use water, there is no need for pumps, towers, or treatment systems. However, they still need regular cleaning to remove dust, leaves, and other debris from the coil surfaces. Blocked airflow can significantly reduce efficiency and lead to overheating.
In summary, air-cooled condensers offer a dependable and straightforward solution for heat rejection. They are ideal for systems where water use is not practical or where simplicity and reliability are priorities. Understanding how they work helps ensure they are used and maintained effectively, delivering consistent performance in a wide range
Get your high-efficiency air cooled condensers (ACC) by HTAC, designed for diverse climate conditions and ideal for thermal power plants, combined cycle, and industrial applications.www.htac.com.cn
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I had the pleasure of joining Jason and Jim Jatras for a chat about techno-feudalism, Mark Carney, the unspeakable evil embedded in Canada’s system of controls, Jesuit manipulation of world events, secret societies and much more in a jam packed episo…Matthew Ehret (Matt Ehret's Insights)
Hudaydah – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:Two Yemeni fishermen were killed and a third was injured today after they were targeted by the Eritrean navy while practicing fishing in Yemeni territorial waters in the Red Sea, in an incident that adds to the seriesDAILY YEMEN
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The chile pepper, a fundamental ingredient in Mexican gastronomy, continues to dominate traditional and modern culinary creations, cementing its status as theteleSURenglish
Lord God,
you love innocence of heart;
you restore it when we have lost it.
Lead the hearts of your devoted people to yourself,
so that freed from the blindness of unbelief,
they may never abandon the light of your truth.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
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May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.
Amen.
Building your own website seems like a smart way to save money. Platforms like Wix, WordPress, or Squarespace are free or cheap, so why hire someone? The catch: your time is a currency, and DIY can drain it fast, often costing more than you save.
Here's a breakdown of the true cost of DIY web design—and when cheap web designer or cheap web design services makes more sense.
If you're a freelancer or business owner, your time has a price. Say you charge $60/hour. Spending 30 hours on a website means $1,800 in lost income—money you could've earned on other work.
Even if you don't bill hourly, those hours could be spent on client outreach, marketing, or strategy. DIY isn't free; it just hides the cost in your time.
Website builders are designed for ease, but they're not instant. You'll spend time:
For beginners, simple tasks like mobile optimization or contact forms become hours-long struggles. A cheap web design service delivers a ready-to-go site in days.
Your DIY site might look decent, but does it:
Poor performance means lost business. A cheap website designer builds sites that work, not just look good.
Those "free" platforms nickel-and-dime you for:
Cheap web design services often include these essentials upfront.
Visitors judge your business in 0.05 seconds. DIY templates often scream "amateur" with:
A cheap website designer creates professional, brand-appropriate sites that convert.
When (not if) problems arise:
With DIY, you're the IT department. Pros handle these issues automatically.
Building a site requires 100+ micro-decisions about:
This mental tax distracts from revenue-generating work.
Consider DIY only if:
Invest in a cheap web designer when your site:
Calculate:
(Your Hourly Rate × DIY Hours) + Hidden Costs
Versus
Web Designer's Flat Fee
For most businesses, professionals deliver better value when you account for:
✅ Saved time
✅ Better performance
✅ Fewer headaches
✅ Actual results
Get affordable and professional website design services in Singapore with modern designs. Call 6362 0123 now to create a professional-looking website.Cheap Website Designer
Clojuring the web application stack: Meditation One
Link: evalapply.org/posts/clojure-we…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
In a land bereft of a canonical "killer app" web framework or two, one must think about the what, why, how, where of all the moving parts. Out here, one must become a student of web framework architecture in addition to web application architecture.www.evalapply.org
How Pope Francis Saved the Catholic Church From JD Vance
#NewRepublic #TNR #Francis #LeoXIV #Catholicism
By paving the way for an American pope, Leo’s predecessor has ensured the faith won’t get hijacked by the right.The New Republic
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Again, settlers are trying to block trucks carrying food and aid materials from entering #Gaza.
Like last time, #StandingTogether is trying to protect the transports.
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מצורף: תמונה 1 אתמול בלילה גילינו שקבוצת מתנחלים קיצוניים מתכננת להפריע למשאיות סיוע שמיועדות להגיע לעזה עוד היום. המשמר שלנו יצא מוקדם הבוקר לצמתים המובילים לכרם שלום, כדי לוודא שמשאיות הסיוע יעברו ללא הפרעות ויגיעו לאנשים בעזה.Leftodon | לפטודון
Washington (Quds News Network)- Israel may be preparing to launch a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities if the US makes a "bad deal" with Iran, according to new US intelligence obtained in reEditing Team (Quds News Network)
Bertolt Brecht: Nature has perfections to show that it is the image of God and imperfections to prove that it is only an image. 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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From discrediting the UN to embedding U.S. contractors, Israel’s Gaza strategy replaces humanitarian aid with surveillance, privatized checkpoints, and displacement.Sarah B. (DD Geopolitics)
The 2020–2021 Indian farmers’ protests garnered significant international support due to the unprecedented scale and resilience of the movement against three controversial farm laws. The gove…OffGuardian
@aral This might be the same argument you're making, but:
I think there's a dangerous 'worship' of entrepreneurship, as though the only problem with the markets and the economy is that businesses are too big, and that anyone who runs a small business is automatically a hero and deserving of subsidies.
I don't like monopolies, but not all small businesses are good either, and as far as I am aware every business wants to become big.
So our team just flipped a ~ 28% agree / 72% disagree initial vote to a 52% agree / 48% disagree vote after our presentations and debate at the Straits Times Educational Forum in Singapore on the motion “Entrepreneurs today do more harm than good.”
Gives me hope to see that change is possible once people actually get to hear diverse viewpoints. Here’s hoping we can follow-through with The Straits Times and Singapore Management University to implement some of the alternatives that we discussed.
So in 2019 we were debating the motion “Entrepreneurs today do more harm than good” against the provost and one of the professors at Singapore Management University and we managed to flip an initial audience vote of 28% for / 72% against to 52% for / 48% against, thereby winning the debate.
The video of the event was locked in Facebook so, as part of my work on the new version of the Small Technology Foundation website, I just liberated it.
You can watch it at:
vimeo.com/1086336391
#BigTech #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming #debate #SmallTech
Aral debated for the motion that “entrepreneurs today do more harm than good.” We were on the home turf of a business school, debating against its provost…Vimeo
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Romanian expats have destroyed documents in protest after nationalist candidate George Simion lost to Nicusor DanRT
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