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It is all fakery...elections are staged, the system designed to keep the slave class divided and dependent...the "teo party system" is perfect for that, keeping the masses divided into color coded "teams", called "parties"...blue vs red, crip vs blood, democrip vs rebloodican... This keeps the slave class engaged in the system, obedient, paying their taxes...while facilitating the illusion of :choice" and "freedom"...-Gary Williams
WHAT DO YOU GET? Woods' Law Number 3: No matter whom you vote for, you always wind up getting John McCain.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins." -H. L. MENCKEN
Alastair Crooke- Trump sided with the Israelis, asserting that Iran was ‘very close’ to having a bomb, and added that he didn’t care what Gabbard thinks.
Israel isn’t a country, it’s a genocidal, apartheid regime. Palestine is the name of the country. This regime is waging war against Iran while millions of Palestinians are caught in the middle unable to defend themselves.
My biggest fear would be for Iran to own and be able to use and deploy a #nuclear #weapon, and to be a stranglehold on #Israel, on the whole region and other parts of the world. And that is why NATO has said Iran should not – and this is a consistent position of NATO – Iran should not have its hands on a nuclear weapon. So, and I would not agree that this is against international law what the US did.
I wish people would back up their statements with arguments. In my opinion, the US attack clearly violates international law. Here are my arguments:
1) An attack is only possible for self-defense and even Israel says it could take months to build the bomb. So there can be no question of self-defense. 2) There were negotiations and even if they were difficult, that is no reason for an attack. 3) North Korea also has nuclear weapons and has not used them to date. The ownership of nuclear weapons alone does not make a country a source of evil danger. 4) Israel also bombs scientists who are not #military targets.
Israel "secretly" has nuclear weapons and is in violation of several of those "international laws". Israel is without a doubt the most destabilizing entity in the Middle East threatning, invading, occupying it's neighbours. Israel is an apartheid ethnosupremacist state conducting a genocide since it's unlawful inception was brutally forced upon the peoples living in Palestine.
If the threat is not required to be real then any country on earth can be considered a threat as they are going to eventually get a bomb. Israel on the other hand already has a bomb so they actually are a current threat given that they have also stated their wish to destroy Iran, Palestine and anyone who says anything remotely bad about them or their terrorist activities.
There were not negotiations as the talks were at the point of a gun. That is the exact opposite of negotiation as proven by the bombs that were dropped to force an outcome. Negotiation can only be by open discussion and agreement. Would an armed robber be able to say in defence that he negotiated your wallet when he pointed his gun at your face or shot you son?
North Korea may have weapons but that is not in any way relevant as Iran not only does not have nuclear weapons and totally lacks any weapons programme to obtain them.
The opinion of NATO, a beligerant, is not relevant in finding peace. Iran is a member of BRICS which has no military and whose opinion would be far more relevant. The countries of NATO are becoming less and less relevant. I am not a supporter of Brazil, Russia, India, China or South Africa but they are becoming more and more relevant as the west supports more and more mass murder.
I went to my local Pride parade (and related festivities) in downtown Half Moon Bay, California — so you're about to see a batch of photos from that. So nice to have this joyous event amidst all that's going on.
We just got back from a hike. The Berners are fine, other than their noses. I, on the other hand, am down a couple pints of blood for the mosquitos. Often, I wish I had as much berner hair to protect from the mosquitos
Some years ago, when cryptocurrencies weren’t talked about as much, we were considering announcing a parody cryptocurrency for April’s Fools. It would be called ThinkCoin, and the joke was that all the value associated with it was in the mind of the user, with no software to back it in the real world.
This was ridiculous, of course, playing on the idea that actual cryptocurrencies have no actual value either. This should tell you that we never thought seriously about entering that space. These days, however, with the incredible hype and attention that cryptocurrencies, and more recently NFTs, are currently getting, we couldn’t even go for such a joke, for fear that it would be taken seriously.
Since the discussion around cryptocurrencies has reached such an extreme, I think it is high time to clarify Vivaldi’s position.
Cryptocurrency – is it a revolution?
Cryptocurrency has been touted by many as a revolution in currency, the future of investment, and a breakthrough technology. But if you look beyond the hype, you’ll find nothing more than a pyramid scheme posing as currency.
It’s basically a digital commodity, though one without government backing or banking system support. Claiming to be the new digital currency of the internet, cryptocurrencies promise decentralization and freedom from governments.
Each cryptocurrency typically follows a certain recipe to ensure that the founders create a lot of wealth, a way to distribute the currency to give it legitimacy, and some story on how it is different from all the others.
But since cryptocurrencies are too volatile to be used as an actual currency, people treat it as a sort of investment scheme. The problem is that to extract actual money from the system you have to find someone willing to buy the tokens you are holding. And this is only likely to happen as long as they believe they will be able to sell them on to someone who’ll pay even more for them. And so on, and so on.
If at any point one stops being able to find people willing to buy those tokens on just the promise of them being worth more in the future, the whole scheme might well come crashing down, with the value of all tokens going to zero.
An environmental disaster
The energy consumption of cryptocurrency is another major concern. The energy usage of bitcoin alone is staggering, consuming as much electricity as some countries. And this is likely to keep increasing as the technology behind it does not and cannot scale in any reasonable way.
For obvious reasons, that sort of energy consumption isn’t good for the environment as the energy could clearly be spent better somewhere else. This is also true if it’s renewable energy since it could instead be used to displace fossil fuels in other applications.
While so many of us are trying our best to reduce our carbon footprints, it feels counterproductive to indulge in technology that undoes that hard work.
The entire crypto fantasy is designed to lure you into a system that is extremely inefficient, consumes vast amounts of energy, uses large amounts of hardware that could better be spent doing something else and will quite often result in the average person losing any money they might put into it.
Jon von Tetzchner
Where we stand
At the time of writing (January 2022), there are over 8,000 cryptocurrencies in existence. Compare this to the 180 actual currencies worldwide that can be used as legal tender.
The most baffling part of this cryptocurrency craze is that it’s still unclear if there is any viable use case or a meaningful way to value it. Without this, it is reduced to merely an overcomplicated slot machine for those with money to burn.
Yet, despite all the negatives, there will still be those who opt to participate. And for those who end up owning some crypto tokens that they’ll need to manage, the browser might seem a logical place to keep track of it all. Indeed, some of our competitors have done just that and now provide crypto-wallets in the browser.
Since Vivaldi is all about offering choices and customizability, you might expect us to include this functionality, as well. But in good conscience, we cannot.
The entire crypto fantasy is designed to lure you into a system that is extremely inefficient, consumes vast amounts of energy, uses large amounts of hardware that could better be spent doing something else and will quite often result in the average person losing any money they might put into it.
When you strip away the hype, these virtual currencies have very real repercussions for people, society, and the environment. By creating our own cryptocurrency or supporting cryptocurrency-related features in the browser, we would be helping our users to participate in what is at best a gamble and at worst a scam. It would be unethical, plain and simple.
We refuse to dress these scams up as opportunities. Instead, we encourage you to treat them with the skepticism they deserve. This may be a game for some curious crypto-investors and wealthy speculators, but for those unlucky enough to get caught out by the pyramid scheme, it could be devastating.
It’s just not worth it.
What are your thoughts on Vivaldi’s stance or cryptocurrencies in general? Let us know in the comments below.
Not that I don't still love using linux daily, but it is getting a little old having to search for how to do anything even just install a simple program (recently, had a. Deb file to install unifi software that wouldn't install and had to find a custom script to do it).
I feel like there's no way I'd ever learn all the random commands I've been copying and pasting (and keeping in a text file for later) and can't help but feel it's kind of clunky. And I don't feel like I really know anything of what Im doing. Even man pages baffle me. I've been into computing for 20 years but only used linux a little like 8 years ago, but now it's been my main os on my desktops for probably 2 months. I know, maybe that's just not long enough. I just don't like the fact that if I couldn't search, I'd be completely stuck on a lot of tasks.
A good start is to install tldr. You use it like man, but it gives you shorter explanations – or rather, a short list of illustrative examples.
As for man pages themselves (which I often find overwhelming, too), if you're not doing that already, you can pipe it into grep to extract just those lines that contain your search string:
man ps | grep user
# or for two lines of context above and below each match:
man ps | grep user -C 2
Going further, check out Fish instead of Bash. I haven't use Fish yet, but it's said to be much better for learning Linux commands as a beginner. Later on, you may switch to Zsh. In any case, hitting Tab once or twice will often give you a list of possible completions to the command you are typing.
PS: I see no good reason why anyone should downvote this question.
Edit: As it so happens, just today I've stumbled into the O'Reilly book "Classic Shell Scripting" by Robbins and Beebe (ISBN 9780596005955). What can I say – its age notwithstanding, it's apparently an extremely good book for understanding things and learning how to solve real problems. (It presupposes some familiarity with Unix-like systems and with the shell, so if one's just starting out, the book "Learning the Unix Operating System" may be better.)
We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well.
We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.
@fanch_301 l'espérance de vie est très déformée par la forte mortalité infantile. 60% des enfants mourraient jeunes, mais si tu arrivais à 10 ans tu vivais souvent jusqu'à 60 ans.
En même temps lorsqu'on a survécu à une bonne dizaine de frère et sœur n'ayant pas survécus beaucoup plus loin que la première semaine d'existence, on commence à comprendre qu'il est vain de se tuer à la tâche. Et pourtant de grands monuments se sont élevés et sont conservés jusqu'à nos jours funestes.
Niger to nationalize uranium to wrest control over its resource from France.
Accusing French state-owned Orano of illegally extracting a disproportionate share of Uranium, Niger’s government said that nationalization will make way for “optimal enjoyment of the wealth from mining resources by Nigeriens.”
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Interesting perspective though I wouldn't trust him in general. "He already sent troops into Los Angeles under the guise of “restoring order.” But I’m hearing it’s just the beginning.
"More deployments are coming. More cities. More ICE raids.
"And this time, they’re not just targeting Central Americans. They’re targeting Muslims—under the pretext of Iranian “sleeper cells.”"
PM Mark Carney has described developing fossil fuel infrastructure as “pragmatic.”
But it’s unclear how a country grappling with abysmal air quality due to wildfires fuelled by global warming will benefit from further fossil fuel development. Deborah de Lange writes.
Rescuers Attempt to Save Tourist Trapped In Active #Volcano » Explorersweb
Rescuers are still trying to reach a Brazilian tourist who fell into the crater of #Indonesia’s 3,726m Mt. Rinjani on Saturday. Juliana Marins, 26, rose before dawn to hike around the rim of the country’s second-largest volcano with a small guided group. But in the early-morning fog, she slipped over the edge of the trail and fell down a cliff into the crater.
Drone footage captured over the previous three days shows her alive and conscious, but rescuers have been unable to reach her.
However, when rescuers descended to that point, they were unable to find her. They called out but received no response and were forced to climb back up to the rim. On Sunday, more drone footage confirmed that she was no longer in her original location.
On Monday morning, authorities found Marins again, even further down the slope. It appears that at some point on Saturday, she slid further down the cliff from where she was perched. Rescuers attempted to reach her again, but stopped a little under halfway down. They were reportedly able to send food and water down to her before retreating.
Everyone involved made a whole bunch of mistakes: The local guide who wasn't anywhere near her when she fell. Whoever never advised her to take her own backpack with at least a few things in it that might have kept her alive. (She had nothing with her at all.) (and though this can't fairly be criticized:) Mistakes which she very probably made through her own inexperience when she was in her original safe position 1000 ft down (see the photo above).
If she'd barely moved a muscle and stayed exactly there, maybe very carefully, inch by inch, digging herself a kind of bucket seat, they'd have reached her the next day and she'd only have had to make it through one bad night.
We'll never know, but I'm guessing she panicked, tried to climb out on her own or change her position, and then fell far further, likely injuring herself badly. There are quite a few signs that the Indonesian rescuers weren't very expert or experienced. Americans, Europeans or Russians would have got her out well within 24 hours. If I'd been i/c the rescue effort, I'd have commandeered a military sea rescue helicopter with a 2000 ft steel cable and winch, and trained operators who could pull anyone out of anything. Nothing like that ever happened. Deaths occur in adventure sports all the time. But the very worst kind are when someone is clearly alive and yelling for help, but for one reason or another just can't be reached or helped in any way. "
Selon Marianne, Signes des temps a été supprimée suite “notamment à une campagne orchestrée par David Chavaralias”. Le chercheur au CNRS qui a lancé début 2025 HelloQuitteX, un système de transfert de compte de X vers un autre réseau social, avait été invité fin janvier dans cette émission, aux côtés de l’essayiste Samuel Fitoussi et le patron d’Atlantico Jean-Sébastien Serjou.
En plein conflit avec Paris, Bakou a demandé en avril qu'Interpol délivre une notice rouge contre Alexandre Benalla. Depuis, la diplomatie parallèle s'active en coulisses. Enquête.
Man life is a wild ride. One minute you're demanding to see the list of pedophiles on Epstein island. The next you're cheering on those same pedophiles as they bomb another country
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« contre la stupidité, nous sommes désarmés. Ni les protestations ni la force n’y peuvent rien ; les arguments tombent dans l’oreille d’un sourd ; les faits qui contredisent les préjugés sont ignorés, et quand ils sont irréfutables, ils sont écartés comme insignifiants. »
TRIBUNE - Pour le colonel Douglas Macgregor, conseiller défense dans la première administration Trump, la décision de rentrer en guerre contre l'Iran pourrait s'avérer fatale à l'empire américain.
Even the EU, which so far has provided full political, economic, military and diplomatic cover to the Israeli regime, admits in a leaked report that Israel is committing every war crime and atrocity in the book, including “indiscriminate attacks” on civilians, “starvation”, “torture” and “apartheid”.
Full text: The EU has corroborated UN allegations that Israel was guilty of "indiscriminate attacks ... starvation ... torture ... [and] apartheid" against Palestinians in a leaked "review".
MOSCOW: Russia has strongly condemned the United States over its recent strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, calling the move a “blatant violation” of international law and a threat to global se
Russia? Full-on cynical thug mode. No pretense, no moral fluff. They bomb, lie, and shrug — and don’t even try to look noble doing it.
The West? Now that’s the real show. Constant smiles, speeches about “values,” “rules-based order,” and “democracy” — while running drone wars, backing shady regimes, and bending the rules whenever it’s convenient.
And that’s what makes it more dangerous: the West actually believes its own(!) moral PR. It plays global sheriff while quietly acting like just another empire — only with better branding and a bigger arsenal
End vom Lied? One side’s a cynical bastard. The other is a cynical bastard with a savior complex. And that one’s got better and bigger media team.
A human skeleton was discovered in the North Carolina marshlands and, when investigators learned she'd been dead for 18 months, they knew it would be difficu...
⭕️ Overall developments in Gaza today according to Al-Youm News: "53 Palestinians martyred in ongoing Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since dawn on Monday, 23 June, including 24 who were waiting for humanitarian aid."
○ Southern Gaza:
– 11 killed by Israeli army fire at aid distribution centers west of Rafah.
– 7 bodies recovered from various areas east of Khan Yunis.
– 4 killed in an Israeli strike on a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in Mawasi al-Qarara.
– 2 passed away from injuries sustained in a previous strike on Khan Yunis.
China, Indonesia, and South Korea warn of global fallout after US strikes on Iran’s 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 we’re witnessing is a regression to a kind of global lawlessness — a “might makes right” 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 — a reality that brings us to the next point.
We have now entered a new phase of Western-led global savagery — prefigured by the genocide in Gaza — in which all pretences have been dropped and only the logic of raw, unrestrained violence remains
-"La guardería del pueblo no tiene aire acondicionado" -"Uuf que lastima, no nos llega el presupuesto de este año" -"¿Ni para unos ventiladores?? -"Nada, está todo muy mal....pero mira que petardos vamos a tener este año 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 there’s 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 aquí la puta #revetlladesantjoan decir que es otra de esa fiestas que el puto capitalismo también nos ha robado. Cuando era pequeña la Revetlla era una fiesta en el pueblo, ¿con petardos? SI. Pero entonces eran lo que se llamaban piulas y poco más. Y el Ajuntament entonces contrataba una orquesta y se daba más importancia a la fiesta con baile y hogueras en la playa. Ahora el ajuntament se gasta miles de euro del presupuesto (guiño a esas comisiones) en pirotecnia a ver cual petardos más fuerte (sin tener en cuenta a los que sufrimos este horror, claro) y adivinad qué ha desaparecido?. Efectivamente, la orquesta,la música, y la charanga. Añado: todos estos ajuntaments que fueron corriendo a traerse refugiados ucranianos,seguro que se lo pasan genial hoy 😒😒😒 #stoppirotecnia
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