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I'm curious how many agencies know the that body bags with ice in them can save lives in heatwaves?

J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open
. 2020 Jan 8;1(1):49–52. doi: 10.1002/emp2.12007

A body bag can save your life: a novel method of cold water immersion for heat stroke treatment

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…

#heatwaves #heatstroke #heat

A body bag can save your life: a novel method of cold water immersion for heat stroke treatment - PMC

Non‐exertional heat stroke is a life‐threatening condition characterized by passive exposure to high ambient heat, a core body temperature of 40°C (104°F) or greater, and central nervous system dysfunction. Rapid cooling is imperative to minimize ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Hey folks - for health reasons (mine, not hers!) I may need to soon re-home my amazing cat, Smalltalk! If you live in the SF Bay Area and might be interested, please ping me! She's truly a wonderful sweet creature! (She'd do best as an only pet.)

(Update 6/27: I’ve found a couple wonderful humans and am exploring options w them. Thank you all for your help!)

A small brown and white cat gazes up while laying on a rug behind an Apple Magic Keyboard. She has one white paw on the space bar. She's extremely cute.
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High-resolution mapping reveals ocean carbon sink detail


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Ocean acidification is detrimental to coral reefs

As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to rise, the ocean plays a crucial role in helping to reduce the full impact of human-driven climate change by absorbing roughly a quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity. However, this uptake is far from uniform across the global ocean. A new satellite-based product can now map the ocean carbon sink at unprecedented resolution, offering unique insights into this highly variable and complex component of Earth’s climate system.

#earth #science #space #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Brian Ó Donnell / pod_feeder_v2 · GitLab

Publishes RSS/Atom feeds to Diaspora*
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Well! Some excellent news! Fuck you, Cuomo and all your rotten neolib Dems like you. Breath of fresh air.

commondreams.org/news/zohran-m…


Zohran Mamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to 'Billionaire-Backed Status Quo' in NYC

"The people of New York City proved that a movement powered by hope, courage, and working people can beat the money of billionaires," said one Mamdani supporter.
jake-johnson (Common Dreams)
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FIAR Light

@tomcapuder Well--this was just a primary so the next part is beating the repugniqant and/or that asshole Adams. I think he'll do OK--and yes. Once he is mayor, we know how nasty and corrupt politicos can be to preserve funding and turf....I'll be surprised if he lives to the end of the term, frankly.

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« … voiced outrage at what they see as an attack on free speech and solidarity with Palestine… »⁣⁣⁣

🔗 · youtube.com/watch?v=lhJ9oH7BqX…

#Palestine #ceasefire #FreePalestine @palestine⁣⁣

🕊️ 🇵🇸 🍉 🙏🏻 ✌️ ☮️


Protests erupt after UK bans Palestine Action movement

Following the UK government’s decision to officially ban the activist group Palestine Action, protesters rallied in cities across the country in defiance. De...
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Hi, here's my #Introduction, it seems to be the done thing. I'm a fifty-something man, my world is small. I have my #family and my #dog. I grow #vegetables, I #swim, I try to eat well, sleep well, and move well, and generally stay alive. I love #music, it's significantly helped in terms of making it through a fairly difficult life with a variety of recently diagnosed #emotional and #neurological conditions. I study #Humanities, rather sporadically with the #OpenUniversity. #Cornwall, #UnitedKingdom.. and some additional and hopefully useful tags #jazz #classical #electronica #allotment #allotmentlife #Kernow #KernowLife
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📢 ISR illegal settlers set fire to a home belonging to a Palestinian citizen in the village of Susiya / Yatta, south of #hebron

#westbank

Anti-settlement activist Osama Makhamreh told WAFA that a number of criminal settlers, armed and under the protection of Israeli soldiers, attacked a home belonging to Nasser Shreiteh.

They set it the house on fire, completely burning it down. No injuries reported.

#palestine

Source: WAFA Ramallah

📰 Report: YPA JUN-25

en.ypagency.net/360780

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‘Bring Your Pilots Home’: Trump Warns Israel against Violating Ceasefire with Iran #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/bring-y…

'Bring Your Pilots Home': Trump Warns Israel against Violating Ceasefire with Iran  - Palestine Chronicle

US President Donald Trump warned Israel against bombing Iran, calling it a “major violation” of a ceasefire agreement.
admin (Palestine Chronicle)

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Frank van der Linde is a long-time activist for racial justice, the environment, and a free Palestine.

In 2018, he discovered that the Dutch police had listed him as a terrorist — and since then, van der Linde has endured legal battles, delays, and cover-ups. Now, he’s demanding accountability.

📄 Read the full article: statewatch.org/news/2025/june/…

A green-hued image of a "Free Palestina" placard sits above the text: Dutch police labelled pacifist activist a "terrorist"—and he's seeking justice.

Statewatch | Activist demands compensation from Europol for illegal surveillance

A Dutch political activist last week filed a legal complaint with EU police agency Europol, seeking compensation for the unlawful processing and handling of his personal data.
www.statewatch.org

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For decades, Route 3254 was used by Palestinians and Bedouins to reach the #Ad-Dhariya market. But the traffic bothered the #settlers, so the Apartheid Major General Avi Bluth set up a checkpoint on the road to the market and had some of the stalls destroyed. In order to spare about 1,000 settlers from waiting in line with Palestinians at a checkpoint, a market that serves tens of thousands of people is now being shut down.

Route 3254 in the southern #WestBank had never really attracted settler interest since it was paved in the late 1990s. But in recent weeks, settlers from the South Hebron Hills, led by the toxic head of the regional council, Eliram Azoulay, have launched a new campaign: "The Ad-Dhariya Market is a Security Threat". They handed the narrative off to their loyal allies at “Israel Hayom” newspaper, and they provided with a sensational headline: "Drugs, prostitution, and even weapons: Bedouin residents storm a criminal pirate market”.

But what really bothered the settlers was spelled out clearly in the opening paragraph of the article: "Massive traffic jams have been reported in the Hebron Hills area in recent days, due to thousands of Bedouin residents arriving at a pirate market operating between Eshkolot, Tene Omarim, and Ad-Dhahiriya. The nearby Meitar checkpoint could not handle the pressure, and traffic backed up at the few surrounding checkpoints, which were never intended to accommodate such a volume of vehicles". Link to the “Israel Hayom” article is in the comments.

How did these traffic jams were created? For decades, the Ad-Dhahiriya market has served many Bedouin residents from the negev, who come there to shop. Recently, due to a consumer boycott by the Bedouin communities protesting rampant racism in Beersheba, even more people have begun shopping in the market. At the same time, following October 7th, Israel banned the entry of Palestinian workers. As a result, several dozen Palestinians, trying to make a living, set up roadside stalls along Route 3254. All of this has led to traffic congestion at certain times of day - and that is what upset the settlers from the settlement of Tene Omarim.

Now let us zoom out in order to understand what actually happened there. In the early 1980s, two isolated settlements Eshkolot and Tene Omarim - were established in the southwestern Hebron Hills. Both were built on lands that were looted from the residents of the village of Ad-Dhahiriya by declaring them as "state land". Although these two settlements are relatively small, with a combined population of around 1,700 residents today, the area that the state looted and handed over to them is above 16,000 dunams!

As part of the policy aimed at creating "Jewish continuity", Highway 3254 was paved in the 1990s in order to connect the two settlements, which lie about five kilometers apart. The road is effectively branching out Highway 325, which links the Meitar checkpoint to the settlement of Tene Omarim and was originally intended to continue on to Ad-Dhahiriya. However, the section leading to Ad-Dhahiriya was blocked by the army already in 2001 and has remained closed ever since.

And now we return to the present. The Meitar checkpoint is the checkpoint used by Bedouins that are heading to shop in Ad-Dhahiriya. Meaning, the settlers from Tene Omarim, the residents of Ad-Dhahiriya riding to the checkpoint, and the Bedouins that are coming from the Negev to shop in the market, all use the same road. Now, settlers occasionally find themselves standing in traffic - and even worse, standing in traffic with Arabs! And so, they concocted a story about drugs, prostitution, weapons, and nonsense.

At this point, Major General Avi Bluth entered the picture. On June 8, the Facebook page of the head of the Mount Hebron Regional Council reported that Bluth met with settlers who had "demanded solutions". Two days later, the council head announced that a solution had been implemented: a permanent checkpoint was installed at the junction of Highways 325 and 3254, blocking Bedouin access to the road leading to Ad-Dhahiriya. At the same time, bulldozers were sent to demolish the stalls that were built along the road. Links to the head of the Mount Hebron Regional Council posts are in the comments.

And what about the Bedouins who still want to reach Ad-Dhahiriya? For now, they can take a long detour of several dozen kilometers and approach the town from the north, via Highway 60. But who knows how long that option will remain open. Sooner or later, settlers will likely start complaining that there are too many "Arabs" on Highway 60 as well - and then that route will be closed to them also.

This is how a market that served tens of thousands of Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line - for livelihood and shopping - was destroyed. A gift to the settlers, just so they can drive without traffic jams from the settlement of Tene Omarim to the Meitar checkpoint. After all, they were promised "quality of life”.

#KeremNavot - Naboth’s Vineyard
Naboth’s Vineyard (Kerem Navot) is an Israeli NGO established in 2012, which monitors and carries out research on Israeli land policy in the #WestBank.

#Palestine
#apartheid #Israel #apartheid-Israel
#History #settlers
#Kerem-navot
#EU #US #US-Israel #US-Israel-terrorism #Israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine
keremnavot.org/english
https://x.com/nabothVin

kerem navot

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It has been Confirmed those involved with the Biden Autopen Scandal will meet in a closed door meeting with Congress

The whole thing done in secret

Remember, Peter Doocy found ONLY ONE signature may have actually been signed by Biden IN 4 YEARS
#minds minds.com/newsfeed/17845830856…


It has been Confirmed those involved with the Biden Autopen Scandal will meet in a closed door meeting with Congress The whole thing done in secret Remember, Peter Doocy found ONLY ONE signature may have actually been signed by Biden IN ... | Minds

...en Scandal will meet in a closed door meeting with Congress The whole thing done in secret Remember, Peter Doocy found ONLY ONE signature may have actually been signed by Biden IN 4 YEARS #min...
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“I think that Earth 2024 means stupidity,” Kathy said. We all laughed. It was a time when the leaders were both clowns and dangerous. It was a new age on Earth after a pandemic when the stupid were put into positions of power with the hope that stupidity would be the new path to the future. It didn’t work and caused World War Three. They did everything backwards. It was as if they went to stupid school and learned to carry out every activity in a way where it didn’t work and not only that, came back to hurt them.

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Kilroy Was Here With The Earth ETs

Back to the past to visit burned out Earth Before WW3
Futurism

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Woodturner Transforms MASSIVE Redwood Log into a MASTERPIECE | by ‪@WoodworkingProducts‬ - YouTube

youtube.com/watch?v=tbgJJQLZin…

It would take big brass balls to sit next to that thing.

The thumbnail's bait.


Woodturner Transforms MASSIVE Redwood Log into a MASTERPIECE | by @WoodworkingProducts

In an age when technology seems to strip away what’s real, there remains a stubborn effort: transforming a massive, unruly log into a work of art. This proje...
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Reunião de estratégia para divulgação da petição Dinheiro Público Código Público


A carta Dinheiro Público Código Público é uma petição organizada pela Comunidade Software Livre #43 para reivindicar uma legislação que exija que sistemas utilizados por instâncias públicas sejam softwares livre.

A carta abaixo assinado (softwarelivre.tec.br/campanha-…) foi lançada em maio deste ano e precisamos construir uma estratégia de divulgação da campanha para recolher o maior número de assinaturas possíveis.

Além disso, planejamos construir uma cartilha mapeando o que já existe de legislação a respeito no Brasil e os casos de sucesso de uso de software livre no setor público.

Participe!

Precisamos de mais braços para alavancar esta campanha!
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Reunião de estratégia para divulgação da petição Dinheiro Público Código Público - Plantaformas

A carta Dinheiro Público Código Público é uma petição organizada pela Comunidade Software Livre #43 para reivindicar uma legislação que exija que sistemas utilizados por instâncias públicas sejam softwares livre.
plantaformas.org

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Η εξαίρεση του κανόνα: ραδιόφωνο της Κρήτης κάλυψε την απόφαση του ΕΔΔΑ για το τουρκικό σωματείο (και την ανάρτησε όλη) ενώ κανένα ραδιόφωνο ή εφημερίδα της Αθήνας, της Θεσσαλονίκης ή της Θράκης (πλην των τουρκόφωνων) δεν το κάλυψε
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Παύλος Στεφάνου : Καταδίκη της Ελλάδας στο ΕΔΔΑ για τον "Πολιτιστικό Σύλλογο Τούρκων Γυναικών Ν. Ξάνθης" - Radio 984

Γ. Αϋφαντής : Με σοβαρή νομική προετοιμασία στο νέο αίτημα το Ελληνικό κράτος Ο νομικός Παύλος Στεφάνου, που προσφέρει νομικές υπηρεσίες και στα Ευρωπαϊκά Δικαστήρια, παρέθεσε σήμερα στην εκπομπή του 98.
Γιώργος Σαχίνης (Radio 984)
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Dieu

I am sure I don't have the most demanding job in the tech world, but it really seems like whenever I am somewhat stuck, ChatGPT is completely blown out of the water. Here I got lots of blather that I had to correct twice in order to be offered the obvious solution I was trying to avoid: chatgpt.com/share/685bdad2-caf…

Whoever considers this a useful technology must be using it for freshman homework assignments or something like that.


ChatGPT - Podman systemd env variable

Shared via ChatGPT
ChatGPT

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#Windows10 #updates will #cost you $30 - #Linux updates are for free 👍


Source: windowslatest.com/2024/10/31/m…

#Microsoft #cybersecurity #security #Software #os #update #Problem #fail #news #freedom #change #Windows #Windows11 #money #finance #economy

Microsoft: Pay $30 to keep using Windows 10 securely if you hate Windows 11

With support for Windows 10 ending on October 14, 2025, Microsoft wants people to switch to Windows 11 or pay $30 to keep using Windows 10.
Mayank Parmar (Windows Latest)

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Not entirely unreasonably, if you're old enough to remember that the “UN weapons inspection programme in Iraq, was "infiltrated and fatally compromised" by the American and British intelligence agencies”…

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_eas…
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BBC News | Middle East | Unscom 'infiltrated by spies'

The UN weapons inspection team in Iraq was infiltrated and compromised by spies, according to claims in the BBC's Panorama programme.
news.bbc.co.uk

Susan Ville

2025-06-25 10:03:07

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📢 #iran asserts its right to national security by suspending #IAEA access, following the agency’s silence over hostile attacks on its peaceful #nuclear program

#us #eu #uk #menaplot

📰 Report: Al Mayadeen JUN-25 12:30 Beirut-t

english.almayadeen.net/news/po…



Tehran halts IAEA access over silence on US-Israeli aggression

Iran asserts its right to national security by suspending IAEA access, following the agency’s silence over hostile attacks on its peaceful nuclear program.
Al Mayadeen English (Tehran halts IAEA access over silence on US-Israeli aggression)

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Sanaa declares continuation of war on Israeli occupation en.ypagency.net/360715

Sanaa declares continuation of war on Israeli occupation

SANAA, June 24 (YPA) - A prominent Ansarallah leader in Sanaa confirmed on Tuesday that Yemeni military operations against the Israeli occupation will continue until the aggression on the Gaza Strip stops.Mohammed Nasser Al-Bukhaiti, a member of the
basheer (Yemen Press Agency)

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Spahn und Masken-Affäre: Komplett geschwärzte Seiten, heftige Vorwürfe und neue Fragen
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Spahn und Masken-Affäre: Komplett geschwärzte Seiten, heftige Vorwürfe und neue Fragen

Nina Warken hat den geschwärzten Masken-Bericht vorgelegt. Ihr Haus greift die Sonderermittlerin an und nimmt Spahn in Schutz.
Christina Berndt (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

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‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/31924287

404 Media

2025-06-24 13:43:47

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‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops


A new site, FuckLAPD.com, is using public records and facial recognition technology to allow anyone to identify police officers in Los Angeles they have a picture of. The tool, made by artist Kyle McDonald, is designed to help people identify cops who may otherwise try to conceal their identity, such as covering their badge or serial number.

“We deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up,” McDonald told me when I asked if the site was made in response to police violence during the LA protests against ICE that started earlier this month. “fucklapd.com is a response to the violence of the LAPD during the recent protests against the horrific ICE raids. And more broadly—the failure of the LAPD to accomplish anything useful with over $2B in funding each year.”

“Cops covering up their badges? ID them with their faces instead,” the site, which McDonald said went live this Saturday. The tool allows users to upload an image of a police officer’s face to search over 9,000 LAPD headshots obtained via public record requests. The site says image processing happens on the device, and no photos or data are transmitted or saved on the site. “Blurry, low-resolution photos will not match,” the site says.

“fucklapd.com uses data provided by the City of Los Angeles directly to the public,” McDonald told me in an email. “This data has been provided in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits. That means all of this information belongs to the public and is a matter of public record. fucklapd.com is not scraping any data.”

In addition to potentially identifying officers by name and serial number, FuckLAPD.com also pulls up a police officer’s salary.

“Surprisingly it [the domain name] only costs $10 a year to exercise my first amendment right to say fucklapd.com,” McDonald said.
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I tested the tools by grabbing an image of a white and bald police officer from an LAPD press conference addressing its use of force during the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. I uploaded the image to the site, and within a few seconds the site presented me with nine headshots of officers who could be possible matches, all of them bald white men. The first correctly identified the cop in the image I uploaded.

Clicking “view profile” under the result sent me to the Watch the Watchers site by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a community group based in the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles. “All of the information on this website comes from records that were deliberately made public by the City of Los Angeles in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits,” the Watch the Watchers site says. “We plan to keep refreshing this data from new public records requests as well as to add other data.” Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is not associated with FuckLAPD.com and did not endorse the site.

McDonald told me that since the site launched, it had around 50,000 visitors, but “Because the analysis happens on-device I have no way of knowing what people are using it for, except for some people who have posted screenshots to Twitter or Instagram,” he said.

In 2018 McDonald made another tool called ICEspy which used hundreds of photos of ICE employees from LinkedIn and does much the same thing as FuckLAPD.com. “This app is designed to highlight and embarrass the organization committing atrocities against refugees and immigrants to the United States,” ICEspy’s website says. That tool originally used a Microsoft API, before Microsoft restricted access to it. McDonald said on X that he recently relaunched the tool to run locally on devices. 404 Media tested ICEspy using images of ICE employees on LinkedIn to verify if the tool worked and each result was incorrect; McDonald indicated on X he was looking for others to re-scrape LinkedIn and update the database.

Over the last few months ICE officers have consistently worn masks, neck gaiters, sunglasses, and baseball caps to shield their identity while often refusing to provide their name or even confirm the agency they belong to. This includes while violently assaulting people, detaining U.S. citizens, and pointing weapons at bystanders, leaving little room for recourse or accountability against the individual agents or the agency.

ICE’s constant use of masks has created a climate where people cannot be sure that the heavily armed group of men coming towards them are really federal agents or not. In Philadelphia, a man pretended to be an ICE agent in order to rob an auto repair shop and zip tie an employee. In Brooklyn, a man posed as an immigration officer before attempting to rape a woman.

ICE claims that assaults against its officers have increased by 413 percent, and use this as the justification for covering their faces. But as Philip Bump showed in the Washington Postthere are still plenty of questions about those numbers and their accuracy. ICE says its officers’ family members have been doxed too.

Neither the LAPD or ICE responded to a request for comment.

Joseph Cox contributed reporting.



'ICE Agent' Pulls Gun on Man Taking Photos of His Car

Activists post footage which also shows suspects being led away by masked agent.
Billal Rahman (Newsweek)

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HayadSont

Again, I want to establish that I've learned a ton and really appreciate your writings. Thank you!

That looks interesting, although I would be weary of learning a layout that only works on specific keyboards, it will make it hard for you to use a laptop on the go, work in an office with a normal keyboard or any other similar situation.


Thanks for the reminder! While I can't completely ignore the main takeaway, I do find myself only rarely (read: less than 5%) engage with normal keyboards. And, AFAIU, by only adopting the exotic layout for splitting keyboards, I can keep the muscle memory for QWERTY on regular keyboards. Though, please feel free to correct me if I say something that goes against your own experiences.

which btw I strongly recommend you check out wrist and finger stretching exercises as they help a lot


Would you be so kind to share what has worked for your wrist? While there's no reason to assume that your exercises work out for me, I can at least discuss them with the physiotherapist. BTW, to be clear, I've already visited the physiotherapist a number of times and we've discussed exercises that I've eventually incorporated in my daily routine.

Lots of the changes I made (e.g. split ortholinear keyboard) were probably not needed


Question: If we focus on the split ortholinear keyboard, is only the ortholinear aspect (possibly) redundant? Or..., the split itself?

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Nibodhika

Damn, I thought I had sent the reply and it's been erased.

I'll keep it short, muscle memory for qwerty doesn't go away that easily, at least it didn't for me, but I'm able to type blindly in qwerty (just not touch typing). Still I think that something I can use in my laptop is very useful so I can keep the ergonomics on the go.

I don't have the exercises, it was just something someone told me to do, I'm sure whatever your doctor is telling you would be better.

For the split vs ortholinear I think split makes more difference, whenever I use a normal keyboard I feel this, but never had any pains related to it, it's just more comfortable.

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#ynet news alert

Deri rejects Trump’s claim: “No one has visited Fordow yet”

Shas party chairman Aryeh Deri said in an interview with the “Kikar Hashabbat” website that “damage was certainly caused to Iran’s nuclear facilities,” and rejected the claim by US President Donald Trump that “people on behalf of Israel visited the Fordow facility.” Deri was asked what damage was caused to the Iranian nuclear program and whether there was enriched uranium inside the facilities, and replied: “No one knows for certain, because no one has visited there yet.“​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

@israel

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International law, so it goes, is supposed to govern how nation states resolve their differences.

Analysis of US & Israel's current flouting of international law in the Middle East:

"Preventive attacks like this are clearly illegal under international law & have been over the last eighty years."

~Ben Saul, UN Special Rapporteur

abc.net.au/listen/programs/the…

#internationalLaw #WesternImperialism #MiddleEast #Settler-ColonialStates #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #Genocide .


The international rules based order: not just a nice idea

The international rules based order is supposed to govern how nation states resolve their differences, but amid chaos and confusion in the middle-east are we seeing a different paradigm at play; one rule for them, another for us? 
Flint Duxfield (ABC listen)
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Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices

Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices

According to the legal representatives of the 'Fair PlayStation' campaign, at least 1.7 million Dutch PlayStation owners pay too much for their digital downloads. Economic research shows...
Rob Thubron (TechSpot)
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Dariusmiles2123

To be honest that would just be the end of the consoles system as there is a reason Sony is selling the PS5 for so cheap.

As much as I understand why Apple shouldn’t be allowed to keep everything in the Apple Store, Sony’s situation isn’t the same.

But what would bother me more is if Sony starts to raise the prices of everything without justification.

I got a Steam Deck and I’m slowly migrating my gaming from Playstation only to Linux/Playstation gaming. Still a Playstation 5 is a great product, especially with kids and its ease of use and great graphics for your bucks.

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ayyy

Maybe it’s because I don’t use it enough but the last Sony console I bought was the absolute opposite of “no fuss”. It was nothing but mandatory unskippable updates and I constantly got signed out and had to sign in and the 2fa app kept changing names. And also all those updates and sign-ins had mandatory EULAS you had to scroll through. Such a hassle.

Edit: also it tried to talk to my Sony tv in some “smart” way over HDMI (so I couldn’t disable it) which would sometimes cause my TV to crash and reboot for several minutes.

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ayyy

For the updates: I put it to sleep. However my power cuts out every now and then. When the power comes back, the ps4 turns itself back on on and makes obnoxious beeping noises, just to tell me the power was cut. The dumb thing is it will stay on that screen until manually dismissed and won’t auto-update until you dismiss that screen, with no timeout. The hassle-free appliance experience!

For your claim that the eulas being easy to skip, keep in mind that sometimes there were back-to-back updates that each required me to agree to a eula. So I would babysit the thing, walk away when it was taking forever, and when I came back it wouldn’t even be ready for gaming. Even windows isn’t that obnoxious.

Also my tv at the time had no way to disable CEC (my new one does, and also doesn’t crash lol).

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ayyy

I don’t understand where the confrontation came from, but I guess if that’s what you want you can have it. I literally told you two posts ago about how it’s not just waiting for 20s and clicking a button. It’s an attended upgrade and scrolling process. I won’t bother quoting what I wrote 3 minutes ago, go scroll up and read it again yourself. No, my microwave does not present me with EULAs when the power goes out.

What “score” are you talking about? Do you take personal offense when a Sony product sucks? Did you invent the PlayStation or something? I was just sharing my lived experience.

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Mamdani Wins Stunning Upset in Democratic Primary as Cuomo Concedes Race

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is on track to secure the Democratic nomination for mayor, after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded to him Tuesday night following the first round of ranked-choice primary votes.

With 95% of precincts reporting two hours after polls closed at 9 p.m., 44% ranked Mamdani as their first choice while 36% chose Cuomo first and 11% had city Comptroller Brad Lander.

Mamdani emerged to raucus applause at his election party on a brewery rooftop in Long Island City, about 20 minutes after midnight.


Mamdani Wins Stunning Upset in Democratic Primary as Cuomo Concedes Race

The democratic socialist state Assemblymember from Queens is on track to be the Democratic nominee for mayor in a ranked-choice election.
Samantha Maldonado (THE CITY - NYC News)

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My bank, business, changed their site, but lost my entire account I set up 15 yrs ago. It was like a new acct. All day, I spoke to 4 people & they didn't know what I meant. My bill pay is gone, no tax documents, no mortgage documents. Just one loan document. The "operations" dept tried to blame me. Nope. The last girl said, "Just fool around with the buttons. That's what I had to do." Like I didn't try that already many times. 🙄 I'll face them, just not today. I'm too tired. SMH
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roscoeellis

My sympathies for your situation. I had to contact two of my banks yesterday to straighten out situations similar to yours. (though not as extreme, thank God!) At the first bank I spoke on the phone with a rep who apologized for the situation, promised to resolve it, but it will take aprox. 10 days to get me new cards, etc. At the 2nd bank I dealt with an AI chat bot. Resolved this situation quicker. I expect to see everything back to normal there tomorrow. We'll see.

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@roscoeellis That's awful! We started the business just before the crash under Obama & committed to pay back a venture capitalist within a year. We talked to many banks. This is the only one that would give us a refi to pay him back @14%. No buyers, so we had to rent. And so it goes, the crime, destruction of property, rehabbing them over and over, shocking filth. We needed Hazmat once for the slimy filth, drug dealers, too. One was set on fire. Insurers dumped us. We got thru it all. 😆

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🗨️ Don't worry Israel- #US, nobody in this fxxxing world cares what's going on in #syria and #lebanon - literally, no soul!

#UnitedNations #EU #warcrimes
#UNres1701 #violationoftruce (VOT)

📢 An Israeli drone strike on Wednesday targeted a young man in the town of Mansouri

🔹 The injured civilian was transported to the Lebanese-Italian Hospital in Tyre for treatment

📰 Source: NNA JUN-25 12:00 Beirut-t

nna-leb.gov.lb/en/justice-law/…

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📢 🕯️ At least 12 Palestinians were killed and several others injured today as ISR forces intensified their bombardment of various areas in the #gaza strip - including eastern and western Gaza City and the town of Bani Suheila in #khanyounis

Acc to WAFA, an entire family from the Dahdouh household—comprising a father, mother, and five of their children—were killed in an airstrike in Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighborhood.

#palestine #news

📰 WAFA JUN-25 11:00 local-t

english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/…

At least 12 civilians killed, others injured in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza

WAFA Agency

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The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'
EU petition to stop publishers from intentionally destroying games with kill switches.

The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'

"Companies just started taking away your purchases, nobody stopped them, and it slowly got normalised."
Harvey Randall (PC Gamer)

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The beginning of Ignis Mission


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Video: 00:03:10

These are the highlights of the launch on Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) of ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland to the International Space Station. The mission is called Ignis.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, on 25 June 2025.

Sławosz is mission specialist on the Dragon spacecraft. The other crew members are Shubhanshu Shukla from India and Tibor Kapu from Hungary. They fly under the command of Peggy Whitson from USA.

Sponsored by the Polish government and supported by ESA, the Polish Ministry of Economic Development and Technology (MRiT), and the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), the mission will include an ambitious technological and scientific programme with several experiments led by ESA and proposed by the Polish space industry.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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📢 #iran will hold official state funerals this Saturday for a number of senior military commanders and leading #scientists who were killed during the recent 12-day war with "Israel," according to state #media

#attackoniran #us #eu #menaplot
#news

📰 Report: Al Mayadeen JUN-25

english.almayadeen.net/news/po…


Iran to hold funerals for commanders, scientists killed by 'Israel'

The ceremonies will honor top Iranian commanders and scientists killed during the 12-day war, including IRGC chief Hossein Salami, as the nation mourns.
Al Mayadeen English (Iran to hold funerals for commanders, scientists killed by 'Israel')
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Rich

Good Morning to New York's 1 Million New Illegal Gun Owners
2014 - THEY REFUSED TO REGISTER THEIR WEAPONS WITH THE STATE
The deadline for New York residents to register their so called “Assault Weapons” and “High” (read standard) Capacity Magazines came and went. An estimated million plus, formerly law abiding, gun owners have refused to comply with Cuomo and down state Democrat’s naive belief that the NY Safe Act, passed in a so called emergency session of the New York legislature, could force free people to register their hard earned property.
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