When I was buying groceries the other day, I noticed that the cashier reminded me of an online friend I have known for years. And I got to thinking, what if my friend worked as a cashier at a grocery store? Customers would then see her, watch her scan items and pack them dutifully, hear her small pleasantries as they paid, and then leave and think no more about her. Nothing in that transaction would give them the slightest clue about her boundless creativity, her rich mind, her deep heart, all of which I have grown to admire and love. They would have no idea what an amazing person she is.

And then I wondered if perhaps my cashier today was in fact an amazing person and I simply had no idea. And now I am contemplating the notion that every person we see, that we pass by without a thought, might similarly amaze us with their depth and their wonder, if we only had the time and opportunity to learn them. I am left with a sense of being surrounded by invisible riches.

In the face of war and violence that disrupts and even extinguishes the lives of people, paradoxically I look for humanity in the birds I see every day. Sometimes it’s in the ingenuity of a jay, or in the apparent playfulness of a hummingbird. It’s easy to forget that to survive, a hummingbird needs to find food every ten to fifteen minutes. A reminder that while we’re trying our best just to survive, there’s still time to pay attention to other things, even a brief moment of relief.

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Function Health update:

I think I have all of the bookmarkers in from both sets of tests.

Turns out I have some work to do, and my general feeling that my bad diet, lack of sleep, stressed out life style and self-tyrannical attitude of just working harder at things is killing me.

And now I can see the evidence in my blood work.

I have a lot of work to do.

The app and process however have been great. And while it’s hard to be confronted with this info, it’s probably news I needed.

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Israeli Drone Strike Kills Three in Southern Lebanon amid Ongoing Violations tn.ai/3341509

I could use some troubleshooting help for a Linux laptop


I was helping my friend install Mint on his laptop, it all went well and the installation finished, but the driver for the wi-fi module wouldn't turn on properly, or something. I assumed this was due to secure boot messing with the drivers, so I tried to disable it in the BIOS (it's an older laptop, no UEFI). But I have spent the last 3 hours trying and failing to open BIOS, and even GRUB. Nothing I try seems to work.

I tried all the function keys, as well as delete, escape, and enter, and the only thing I found is that F12 opens a boot options menu.

I tried holding and mashing shift throughout the boot procedure to get to GRUB.

I tried using the novo button (it's a Lenovo laptop) which did open a new menu allowing me to select a "BIOS options" button, but it just rebooted after showing me a few rolling lines of text.

I tried plugging in the installation media I used before, which does take me to it's GRUB, but choosing the UEFI options option there just causes a reboot.

I tried disconnecting the battery and the CMOS battery and waiting for 30 seconds in hopes of disabling fast boot, which didn't work.

I edited GRUB config files to change the timeout to 10 and the type away from hidden, which didn't do anything.

I disconnected the disk in hopes of it defaulting to the BIOS, which works for some laptops.

No option worked. I just cannot access BIOS or GRUB. I really don't know where to go next, and could use some help.

in reply to ssillyssadass

If you haven't solved this yet I would try using the novo button again with your camera ready to get the text and see if it's useful. Beyond that, I'm not sure how to get into the bios. Assuming it still boots and doesn't have a soldered wifi card you could always get an AX210 for fairly cheap off of ebay. Should have good linux support.

Edit: Nvm the card suggestion, I see your comment on that.

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Ο πόλεμος είναι μια πράξη βίας, και δεν υπάρχει όριο στην εκδήλωση αυτής της βίας. Καθένας από τους 2 αντιπάλους ακολουθεί το νόμο του άλλου, κι απ' αυτό προκύπτει μια αλληλεπίδραση, που ως έννοια οφείλει να φτάσει στα άκρα.
-Κλάουζεβιτς

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OIC Forms Ministerial Working Group To Respond to Attacks on Iran eir.news/2025/06/news/oic-sets…



Heute war es schon das zweite Mal, dass am Klavier im Bahnhof Südkreuz ein Mann saß, vom Aussehen her, Jacke, Hose, Füße ohne Socken in fragwürdigen Schuhen, vom Aussehen her einer auf der Straße. Und zum zweiten Mal saß er da an dem Klavier und spielte mit einer wunderschönen Eleganz und Leichtigkeit #Chopin. Als ich reinkam in die Halle, begrüßte mich der Minutenwalzer, und danach kam der da:

Das sind so die Momente in der Stadt.


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GH15 prayer for June 24, 2025
Order Into Chaos, Light Into Darkness
Dutch Sheets

youtu.be/XLVOsjSK9tU

Jony and Sam are both suddenly real quiet; wonder how their honeymoon is going

Oh

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*Nelson laugh*

h/t @davidgerard

#TheArgyleSweater by #ScottHilburn on GoComics


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#Humour #Cartoon

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Stephen McNallen, the founder of the Asatru movement here in the United States, produced a series of 17 different presentations and interviews with Odinist luminaries a few years ago called Gods, Folk and Destiny.

TalieVision maintains the complete list:

bitchute.com/playlist/n4lYXpZJ…

They're both informative and entertaining. I wish he had done more.

TalieVision is television for a Whiter future. It's a growing archive of almost 600 pro-White and White-friendly (mostly) full-length videos, featuring news, interviews, speeches, lectures, documentary films, concerts & other live performances, movies, and much more.

Funeral of martyrs of Israeli aggression against Iran en.mehrnews.com/photo/233564/F…
in reply to Partisan Night Slut

That's also pretty high on the f scale there, bub. (All psycho analytics are for the purpose of political, soft warfare, to keep the right wing illegal, perfected in the Soviet Union, brought to us by the escapees, and instituted by Ewan Cameron and mk ultra docs)

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A one-and-a-half-year-old Palestinian baby was shot by Israeli forces near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid site while in her mother's arms.

The GHF has become a death trap for tens of thousands of starving Palestinians, with hundreds shot dead while trying to reach aid distribution points.

#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS #starvation #warcrime
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine @israel

FDA, CDC advisers say lost pregnancies higher than expected following early mRNA vaccination

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Comments from below the link above, check them all:

"They should sue the government and the drug companies..."

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