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China, Indonesia, and South Korea warn of global fallout after US strikes on Iranโs nuclear sites, urging restraint and diplomatic resolution amid rising tensions.
Today, even that pretence is gone. In Gaza, and now with the strikes on Iran, the gloves are fully off. What weโre witnessing is a regression to a kind of global lawlessness โ a โmight makes rightโ free-for-all where nothing is off limits: not the mass slaughter of civilians, not the bombing of nuclear sites, not even the complete sidelining of international institutions. And all of this is happening in the nuclear age โ a reality that brings us to the next point.
We have now entered a new phase of Western-led global savagery โ prefigured by the genocide in Gaza โ in which all pretences have been dropped and only the logic of raw, unrestrained violence remains
-"La guarderรญa del pueblo no tiene aire acondicionado" -"Uuf que lastima, no nos llega el presupuesto de este aรฑo" -"ยฟNi para unos ventiladores?? -"Nada, estรก todo muy mal....pero mira que petardos vamos a tener este aรฑo en la #revetlladesantjoan oye, hacen un ruido tremendo oye!"
The third estate, those of perquisitive classposture, wanted to go back to normal. Wanted to go back to their brunches.
The second estate, those of oligarch classposture, would have continued to find means to extract rents even if we all remained in quarantine in perpetuity.
Until we grapple with the fact that those everyone wants to blame #PublicHealth apologism on, the second estate, in point of fact sequestered wildly more wealth when public health interventions were in effect...
We will continue to spout the comfortable myth that it was some minuscule minority of people who are to blame for those health interventions being abandoned...
Letting the powerful plurality of people who just wanted to go back to having someone serve them at a restaurant...
Continue to behave as if they've nothing to do with any of this.
It wasn't the ultra-wealthy who cheered as they ripped off their masks mid-flight after the captains of airplanes across the country announced the mask mandate for air travel had been lifted.
To lay the end of pandemic measures at the feet of those who weren't and never would be held accountable to commercial airline passenger guidelines, what with their flying in private planes, is puerile fantasy.
Society at large was not going to grieve the interruption of a social contract that equates the burning of disposable income with self redemption. They were going to fly, and eat, and breathe freely, and willfully expose their own children to lifelong harm, confident that they were good people.
Confident that they were untouchable.
They weren't going to grieve, because that would mean feeling bad. And we don't feel bad in this country. Only unhealthy people do that.
Ah--mask mandates were dropped at the behest of biz interests who persuaded asshole Walensky of the CDC and under Biden's direction and ending the Emergency too soon (even as he signed 9/11 Emergency dutifully each year). It came from the top down. Yeah, some assholes like that crap.
Yeah I don't understand your use of perquisites or modeling on the Estates as being much more than sophistry. But then perhaps you're just far too clever for the likes of me. Bye.
Understanding would begin by reading and engaging with what is written, rather than ignoring same and spouting the incessant consensus opinion you tracked in on your boot.
As you've proven unwilling to actually do more than waft those boot scrapings, your leave is welcome.
As Paul Waldman notes, somehow the US got through a couple of hundred years without law enforcement officers needing to cover their faces. Yet suddenly this is the norm for the Trump administration, which claims this is necessary to protect the officers. Why?
"Government agents, especially but not only those from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will now wear masks when prowling through American streets, raiding homes and workplaces, snatching people out of their cars, rounding up immigrants or people who look like immigrants, and carting them away in unmarked vehicles."
"This image of masked men ready to do violence is everywhere now, just as the administration wants. The practical purpose is to remove the possibility of accountability, but thereโs another message it sends: Unlike even previous iterations of state violence, this is a form of power with which there is no negotiating."
Mientras sufrimos aquรญ la puta #revetlladesantjoan decir que es otra de esa fiestas que el puto capitalismo tambiรฉn nos ha robado. Cuando era pequeรฑa la Revetlla era una fiesta en el pueblo, ยฟcon petardos? SI. Pero entonces eran lo que se llamaban piulas y poco mรกs. Y el Ajuntament entonces contrataba una orquesta y se daba mรกs importancia a la fiesta con baile y hogueras en la playa. Ahora el ajuntament se gasta miles de euro del presupuesto (guiรฑo a esas comisiones) en pirotecnia a ver cual petardos mรกs fuerte (sin tener en cuenta a los que sufrimos este horror, claro) y adivinad quรฉ ha desaparecido?. Efectivamente, la orquesta,la mรบsica, y la charanga. Aรฑado: todos estos ajuntaments que fueron corriendo a traerse refugiados ucranianos,seguro que se lo pasan genial hoy ๐๐๐ #stoppirotecnia
If you like gaming computers, do those... but cost more to get into the mid-range and higher end.
If you like Linux or retro gaming, there's older computers that are not supported by Windows 11, but will be great for Batocera Linux and add a couple Logitech USB game controllers.
I usually give discounted services on the computers I sell. That way they understand that my time does have value, but I'm giving them a deal for continuing to do business with me.
Yeah for me it's being blamed for anything that ever went wrong on any computer I had ever touched as a teen it was beyond tiresome the irrational stuff I was blamed for.
Setting the terms of the deal up front is a way to avoid that situation.
Sometimes people are unreasonable, but usually not. Question for those types of people would be "If you had bought this from Walmart, would you expect them to give you the kind of service you are demanding from me?"
I have a HP laptop my secondary school gave me because disabilities. When you shake it, it rattles, but it still works. I used to use it for a Minecraft server.
I would use it as a server today but I can't find the power cable and the battery's dead.
Im not totally sure either. I think the message is that a lot of countries / groups wanted something to be done about Iran but while they were discussing it Trump just pulled a leroy jenkins on that shit and now they're mad about it.
It appears that their nuclear weapons program has just been destroyed, where would they get nukes from anytime soon? I suppose Israel and USA could be lying about hitting anything (but not about Iran having a nuclear weapons program), but that doesn't seem that likely.
We have yet to see any country just give their allies nukes, and it doesn't look like any of these countries give half a shit about Iran in the first place.
You can't just make nukes because you want to just like that, it takes a huge amount of resources that's kinda hard to hide from foreign intelligence. Chances are better than even that they were already trying to do that anyway, and it doesn't seem like it has worked out so well for them.
"According to several biographers, #Vladimir #Lenin was intolerant of opposition and often dismissed outright opinions that differed from his own. He could be "venomous in his critique of others", exhibiting a propensity for mockery, ridicule, and ad hominem attacks on those who disagreed with him. He ignored facts that did not suit his argument, abhorred compromise, and very rarely admitted his own errors. He refused to change his opinions, until he rejected them completely, after which he would treat the new view as if it was just as unchangeable. Lenin showed no sign of sadism or of personally desiring to commit violent acts, but he endorsed the violent actions of others and exhibited no remorse for those killed for the revolutionary cause."
Say what you will about #Microsoft #Windows but not once did Microsoft go and uninstall Calibre from my #Windows11 system without my fucking knowledge!
It's happened 5x (that I've noticed) now since December only because I went to launch something I knew for a fact was installed only to discover that it was no longer installed.
It's still better than Windows by a country mile but it's shit like this that really piss me the hell off.
Don't ask me. I used it about a month ago. Went to launch it again today and it was gone. Only I use my workstation, and it's not open/ exposed to the Internet. In fact doing so is damn near impossible since I'm double-nat'd and my ISP uses CG-NAT.
I have no idea. All I know is Calibre was there a month ago and today it wasn't and it's not the first time something like this has happened. More like the 5th time since December when I switched to LinuxMint.
you probably have unattended upgrades running. if there's a package conflict and you have it set to always upgrade, it will remove packages to make it happen as you have specified. but i'm speculating, you have to check if the packages are present and if you have apt configured with auto upgrades.
Not sure what your particular Mint flavor is based on, but the #calibre package still shows in the stable Ubuntu and Debian repos. Is it truly uninstalled or maybe just not launching for some odd reason?
The author recommends downloading from his site:
> Please do not use your distribution provided calibre package, as those are often buggy/outdated. Instead use the Binary install described below
Linux Mint 22.1 Xia. Installed originally via Software Manager. All I know is it was installed a month ago (I used it) and it wasn't installed yesterday. Fortunately when I re-installed it my Calibre database and settings were not removed and everything came back up.
Lefty upstart Zohran Mamdani has leapfrogged over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the cityโs ranked choice Democratic primary for mayor, according to a stunning new poll released Monday.
๐บ๐ธ/๐ฎ๐ท Statement by the Iranian Armed Forces:
'Noble and Resilient Nation of Iran!
Following the blatant military aggression of the criminal regime of the United States of America against the peaceful nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the clear violation of international law, by the order of the Supreme National Security Council and the leadership of the Central Headquarters of the Rasool Al-Azam, the IRGC with the sacred code of ' Ya Aba Abdullah Al-Hussein' has targeted the Al-Udeid base in Qatar with a devastating and powerful missile attack in Operation Besharat Fatah.
This base is the headquarters of the Air Force and the largest strategic asset of the U.S. terrorist army in the West Asian region.
The message of this decisive action of the sons of the nation in the armed forces is clear and unequivocal for the White House and its allies:
The Islamic Republic of Iran, relying on God Almighty, relying on the faithful and famous people of Islamic Iran, will not leave its territorial integrity, sovereignty and national security unanswered under any circumstances.
With the aggression of the American enemy, it became clear to everyone that the evil of the Zionists was an extension of the Americans' design. Accordingly, we remind you that in this national defense, the U.S. bases and mobile military targets in the region are not a point of strength, but rather a major weakness and a thorn in the side of this warmongering regime.
On the eve of the month of Muharram, the month of mourning for the leader and commander of martyrs, Hazrat Abu Abdullah Al-Hussein (AS), we once again warn the enemies of Islamic Iran that the era of hit-and-run is over, and the will of the country's powerful people's armed forces.
Any repetition of U.S. aggression will lead to the acceleration of the collapse of the U.S. military pillars in the region, their ignominious escape from West Asia, and the realization of the common aspiration of the Islamic Ummah and the freedom-loving nations of the world in eradicating the cancerous tumor of Zion.'
NBC, citing a senior White House official, said Trump, War Secretary, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were in the Situation Room monitoring developments. english.alahednews.news/fastneโฆ
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In this episode, we dive deep into recent studies that reveal how GPT models value human lives differently based on religion and nationality. We explore the ...
"Trump believes that he should not proceed with a "hot" response, as the damage was not great and the "goal was achieved by destroying the Iranian nuclear facilities." ..........which have not suffered any damage, but the #US is basing their entire narrative on this lie.
Iran is claiming it and the hit in response to the IRGC leader's assassination are symbolic acts... albeit not sure symbolic as they use it means the same as westerners mean it.
@fuknukl I worked at the rescue today. I'm not wearing expensive jeans so I can get them covered in bleach and dog shit. Those holes are from the bleach we use.
Many who have watched the American Artifact series have asked the question, "What does Gettysburg have to do with WWII?" Well, the history of Gettysburg didn't stop in 1863. In this episode, we're bringing an artifact from The Gettysburg Museum of History to a spot in Gettysburg that shows how the history of Gettysburg is very much entwined with WWII.
Many who have watched the American Artifact series have asked the question, "What does Gettysburg have to do with WWII?" Well, the history of Gettysburg didn...
No matter what Trump may want, I don't think there's a window for de-escalation unless both Iran and Israel can go 72 hours without attacking the other.
I tried self-hosted AI agents so you don't have to!I wanted to see what options were available and took n8n and ollama for a spin to see what was possible. There are some pointed criticisms about the entire concept, but I can definitely appreciate why people find the idea attractive.
My professional contacts are acting strange. The ones who know that I'm a weak fit for government research are shutting me out. The ones who *don't* know that are desperately reaching out.
There's a stupidly huge number of job postings for DoD contractors. They actually pay industry standard - they usually pay garbage.
I personally suspect that our government is trying to develop some previously inconceivable military technology. I'll call such a secret project "Z," out of ignorance of what it actually is. My discipline is highly specialized, but it's also so broadly applicable that "our government wants CMD to be useful" gives zero fucking information other than "there's a camera of some kind somewhere" which could easily just mean 'we want new face detection tech to keep Z out of our enemy's hands."
The US has been atrocious at keeping secrets for decades. DOGE was obviously a government purge - I suspect that this was actually done to throw out people who our government suspects would leak information about Z. That is, this was a transition from a pseudo-peacetime civil service to a wartime civil service.
Our government is trying to scrape up scientists from the streets right now - if it wasn't, I wouldn't know shit. It cannot find enough suitable scientists to develop Z. That must mean Z is either big enough that it requires a stupidly huge number of scientists, or the US scientific community is full of people unfit to work on Z. I'd suspect it's the latter - American scientists are mostly driven by one of two desires: the desire to publish public research or money.
Patriotism in the scientific community is very low. Unfortunately, the scientists that *do* fill our National Labs are...not the best, nor the brightest. They're usually driven by the desire for a stable job where they don't have to compete...a desire held by incompetent people. They are not *idiots*, but they are undeniably outclassed by the typical university professor, and they are comically outclassed by people selling you ads.
I think we're looking at a second nuke race. I don't know what the next "nuke" is, but whatever it is the US government is trying to make it right now.
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@Lori Right. I remember when Feinstein backed her up against the wall with an angry face. It was about Kavanaugh, I think. She's the one who brought in that liar, Blasey Ford. They all have to go for their crimes. There will be no rest until they're arrested.
As Israel and Iran trade alternate missile attacks after Israel launched a major offensive last week, US President Trump has proposed a two-week interval to negotiate a โsurrenderโ deal with Iran oโฆ
I find it disgusting that they feel the need to appeal to their importance for economic activity. Safety should be a worthy enough goal to maintain such a lightweight organization. Trump says he wants to bring industry back to America. With moves like this, it's clear the actual intent is to keep workers subservient and expendable.
With fewer than 50 employees and an annual budget of just $14.4 million, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) plays a critical role in driving chemical safet...
BGE just called and said tomorrow is an energy savings day between 2 and 6 with recommendations. Then they will call and let us know how we did. Give me a refund, and maybe I will, lol. We do all that stuff now, anyway, to save money.
"each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine" Edit: I got those screenshots from imgur. It might be from Xitter, with the account deleted or maybe threads with the account not visible without login? ๐คท #school #AI #KI #meme #misinformation #desinformation
The beauty is the next time the kid "looks it up" ChatGPT is more likely to give them a completely different set of false facts for the same query.
Now, if they used Perplexity, for example, at least Perplexity provides citations at least. I trust Perplexity a hell of a lot more than anything ChatGPT could ever tell me.
In addition to being a political and economic battle, the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union was a clash of cultures. About the boo...
The office job I had before Covid had machines with Windows XP stickers on the front running Windows 10.
Took near 10min to get to the login screen, and you had to remember to save all your work before trying to open an browser because it was semi common for Chrome to crash everything else, sometimes the whole computer. (and yes we were forced to use Chrome...)
French officials said Sunday that 145 people across the country, including 13 in Paris, reported that they had been stabbed with needles at an annual nationwide music festival on Saturday. Twelve people were arrested in connection with the stabbings.
โSome victims were taken to the hospital for toxicological tests,โ the ministry said. French officials did not provide any details about the people who were arrested or about what substances the syringes may have contained.
While the number of victims was small compared with the millions of people who attended Fรชte de la Musique events across France, the reports were among a number of alarming episodes in recent years in which people have reported being injected without their knowledge or consent in crowded spaces like clubs or bars. A British Parliament report, published in 2022 after a sudden increase in spiking incidents, said there had been more than 1,000 cases of needle attacks in the country between September 2021 and the end of December 2022. The report, which surveyed more than 3,000 victims and witnesses, cited police data showing that about 90 percent of needle spiking incidents occurred during the evening in venues like pubs and nightclubs, though some also happened at festivals and house parties.
The report noted that there was not enough information to determine the overall prevalence of needle spiking and that there could be many more attacks that are not reported.
news sucks at reporting: what percentage of the 145 stabbed were women?! Were syringes found and substances identified?! How are these 12 syringe stabbers related? What RACE and ethnicity are they?!๐ก
itโs terrorism! They are not stabbing a girl in a huge crowd of people and taking her home or raping her there! Itโs a coordinated effort to inflict fear. Hopefully itโs not a toxic substance!
Horrible! What kind of โmanโ would do that?! Women are not safe anymore you need good strong men for protection. I would avoid these crowded festivals and environments, it seems like a free for all for these reprobates.
BREAKING: In Oslo, Norway at a press conference just now, French President Emmanuel Macron said that Trumpโs bombing of Iran is โnot legalโ. Norwegian prime minister reiterated the same. #Iran
Somebody must have an exploit for the platform. Guessing it's Israel because of the messaging from a few weeks ago by various countries' security concerns.
The House is concerned about the lack of transparency in how WhatsApp handles user data. Meta claps back, saying itโs safer than the alternatives recommended by the House.
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The "official" Linux kernel, straight from Linus Torvalds and all the kernel developers, you generally see a new version every 2 to 2 and a half months.
All stable versions of the Linux kernel are numbered in the usual scheme, so major number DOT minor number, but they also have really strange codenames. Some distros tend to modify these kernels with additional patches, or features that haven't been added yet, which is why you can see some kernel versions with a "-ubuntu" at the end for example.
Certain kernel versions are also marked as LTS, meaning Long Term support. These are versions that will be supported for much longer, up to 6 years. The Linux kernel project recently reduced that support window to 2 years.
Since both the stable and LTS kernels ship with some non free firmware, there's the Kernel Libre project, which removes all of that, to only ship software and code that is completely free, as in freedom..
Next, we have the hardened kernel. It's not an "official" project per se, it's a kernel version that certain distros ship in their repos, like Arch Linux for example. It's the stable kernel, with an additional patch set applied to it to make it more resilient security-wise.
Next, we have the realtime kernel. The goal is to reduce the latency between a task being assigned to the CPU, and its execution, and it's mainly meant for industrial applications, or for audio production. This, in turn, makes it less efficient for multi tasking, and it requires a lot more manual config to be efficient, and applications need to be specifically tailored to take advantage of this lower latency.
The low latency kernel variants do the same thing, but at a lesser degree: it still lets you pre-empt CPU threads like the real time kernel, but it isn't as regular as the realtime kernel.
The Android kernel is focused on supporting a specific category of devices, meaning that it has optimizations for these exact things.
The Zen kernel applies a few fixes and improvements meant to have the best performance and experience for linux desktop users. It's also packaged as the Liquorix kernel for Ubuntu or Debian, and other distros, although Liquorix isn't exactly like the Zen kernel.
Another version is the XanMod kernel, with sort of the same optimization as the Zen kernel, and a few more on top of that, with the same goal: improving the performance of Linux systems.
Finally, we have the TKG kernels, and I'm saying kernels, because TKG isn't a specific Linux kernel you can download and use, it's more like a build system that lets you choose a few specific patches and compile your own kernel with that.
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What we (as in humanity) need to do is find a truly objective person to make the ultimate sacrifice. We'd have to compensate them with something outrageous like unlimited wealth for life. But the person would have to be a completely normal sexually active adult. Then give them the trans genital surgery. And have them report on the true efficacy of these surgeries.
plenty of anecdotal evidence exists, that would just be added to the pile. anyone thinking literal castration chemicals are good isn't paying attention.
"The number of deaths from the terrorist attack that targeted the Mar Elias church in the Dweileh area of Damascus has risen to 20, while the number of
Since I've had time to stare at it, I'll share that today I learned that the emergency escape windows on Amtrak work by basically having a little handle that pulls out the window gasket, allowing you to just take out the window pane?
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