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EC ‘Coordinator for combating antisemitism’ says selling cakes to raise funds for Gaza is antisemitic because they might make Israel supporters feel ‘unsafe’ Katharina von S…
hdg (human domesticion guide, petplay kink), me not being normal about the war of the worlds
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after only knowing the musical adaptation for the longest time, the actual War of the Worlds novel had me rolling over laughing with how the Artilleryman not only describes how he's gonna Start All Over Again underground (as in the musical adaptation) but also spends a little bit outlining methods in which the Martians could domesticate humans and why it would work. including "pets of some of them" and "eroticism".
“We know the tank is us and…we’re the ones defending ourselves” A dystopian – and mandatory – Israeli training video for high school students about to travel abr…
Die EU-Antisemitismus-Koordinatorin lobbyierte laut geleaktem Bericht mit Lügen gegen Israel-Sanktionen. Kriegsverbrechen in Gaza seien "Gerüchte über Juden", Spendenaktionen für Gaza "ambienter Antisemitismus". EU-Botschafter widersprachen ihr deutlich: euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl…
The high-level EU official was lobbying against Israel sanctions using bogus claims on antisemitism, according to a "sensitive" cable from Tel Aviv leaked to EUobserver.
Ever more surreal, ever more oppressive. Elderly people in Cardiff holding cardboard signs supporting Palestine Action get their doors stoved in, homes raided and food apparently tested for radioactive materials. Cardboard: the new weapon of mass destruction. 🧵docs.google.com/document/d/1...
For immediate release, 14 July 2025 POLICE DIVIDED OVER PALESTINE ACTION PROTESTS Cardiff, 12 July, extended detention and raids Derry, 12 July, no arrests The spectrum of responses on Saturday ranged from a hands-off approach in Kendal and Derr…
I have previously blogged about the relatively new trend of AI slop in vulnerability reports submitted to curl and how it hurts and exhausts us. This trend does not seem to slow down.
"Every single patient I see is in a state of starvation," said a doctor on today's Democracy Now, on #Gaza.
Anyone who works for the #NewYorkTimes should have a deep & indelible sense of shame for working for a publication that enables genocide and completely fails to speak truth to power.
It is fully possible to interview people in Gaza and interrogate Israeli lies, but #NYT intentionally does not.
Remember that #NYT ran "Screams Without Words" fabricating a narrative that the Oct 7 Hamas attack included systematic sexual assaults, even though the journalist struggled to find a *second* source on the claim.
To celebrate our 20th anniversary of AGT, we’re giving you early access to a Golden Buzzer performance.America’s Got Talent premieres Tuesday, May 27 at 8/7c...
Usher's official music video for 'More' (RedOne Jimmy Joker Remix). Click to listen to Usher on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/UsherSpotify?IQid=UsherMoreAs fea...
Alan MacLeod looks at how the Swedish climate activist widened her focus to the capitalist system and Israeli genocide in Gaza and lost the attention of the corporate press.
Majorities in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain would support the UK rejoining. As things stand, if Britons overstay the 90-day visa-free limit, you may be banned from entering Schengen countries for up to 3 years.
Jeff Epstein was a touchstone for MAGA to articulate anger at concentrated power. It also powered a business model for the podcasteratti. Trum threatened all of that. Plus, the merger spree starts.
Jeff Epstein was a touchstone for MAGA to articulate anger at concentrated power. It also powered a business model for the podcasteratti. Trum threatened all of that. Plus, the merger spree starts.
Yah and Strange Fruit is about the gold standard? These guys work so hard to pretend... I found a discussion that's not oversimplified to support the "Actually," crowd. billofrightsinstitute.org/essa…
Look at this bloated bag of ugly nazi shit...bet that no-balls slime mold of hate (sorry slime molds) doesn't have the guts to spend 25 weeks in Alligator Auschwitz. No guts.
Trump administration border czar Tom Homan didn't hold back when faced with a heckler during a conservative conference over the weekend, launching into a profanity-laced tirade that included questioning the protester's masculinity.
Jeff Epstein was a touchstone for MAGA to articulate anger at concentrated power. It also powered a business model for the podcasteratti. Trum threatened all of that. Plus, the merger spree starts.
European Diplomatic Blackout: Faced with Kallas’s ineptitude and looming ICC charges over Gaza, the EU loses its moral authority journal-neo.su/2025/07/13/euro…
Kaja Kallas exposes her diplomatic ineptitude as Europe cheerleads genocide. Ursula von der Leyen has hijacked EU foreign policy to serve a neocolonial,
🛑 Via Truely Ann Me Peter #Stassen s’est présenté à la première audience au fond du méga-procès en cours aux #Pays-Bas contre : - l’État néerlandais, - l’ancien Premier ministre Mark #Rutte (aujourd’hui secrétaire général de l’Otan), - le patron de #Pfizer, Albert #Bourla - et le milliardaire #BillGates.
Son collègue l’avocat Arno van #Kessel, arrêté il y a un mois pour des raisons peu claires, est toujours en détention au centre pénitentiaire de très haute sécurité de Vught, indique le média alternatif néerlandais De Andere Krant. Une situation qui évoque celle de l’avocat allemand Reiner #Fuellmich, actuellement détenu dans la prison de haute sécurité de Rosdorf en Allemagne. ◆ Le « plus grand #génocide contre l’humanité qui soit »
Interdire une autre vision. Transformer la dissidence en délit. Dans le meilleur des mondes, grâce aux dangereux tarés (et assassins) de la #mafia #pipolitique, notre argent sert à nous censurer. #censure
Quand l’opinion publique échappe à leur contrôle, ils sortent les crocs. Enquête criminelle contre X. Coalition d’associations subventionnées pour signaler v...
THE PRIVATE PRISON INDUSTRY LOOKS FORWARD TO SOARING PROFITS THANKS TO TRUMP’S BUDGET The $45 billion for immigration detention in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" represented a long-sought win for private prisons.
The victory was in the works for years. A private prison company handed consulting and lobbying gigs to Trump’s allies, its political action committee was the first to max out its donation to Trump, and industry executives had already made plans to reopen shuttered prisons — laying the groundwork for what they promised investors would be an incarceration bonanza.
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer. -- Mikhail Bakunin
The collapse of the #German economy. Imagine what would happen if you had a gas station right next door, but you had to drive hundreds Km to fill up with gas at double the price because your puppetmaster sabotaged the pumps near you. But, nevertheless, you knelt down and said "thank you". After all, you vote for your "Masters Voice" every time.
Well... since this is happening to the #EU "locomotive" imagine what will happen in the immediate future to the rest of EU economies
14.7.2025 Gathering after dock workers unions call at #Piraeus port against the docking of Eva Golden ship carrying military grade steel with destination zionist murderers of Israel
Ο Χρόνης Μίσσιος στο πλάισιο της εκπομπής "Το βλέμμα", συζητά με μαθητές του Δημοτικού για την αιχμαλωσία των ζώων και την καταπάτηση των δικαιωμάτων τους από τους ανθρώπους. Τα παιδιά εκθέτουν τις απόψεις τους για την αναγκαιότητα ή μη των ζωολογικών κήπων, μιλούν για τα συναισθήματα των φυλακισμένων ζώων, ενώ ο ΧΡΟΝΗΣ ΜΙΣΣΙΟΣ εξηγεί τη λειτουργία της φύσης σε συνάρτηση με τα ζώα και προτείνει στα παιδιά τρόπους διαμαρτυρίας για την κατάσταση αιχμαλωσίας των ζώων. Η συζήτηση πραγματοποιείται σε ζωολογικό κήπο, από όπου παρακολουθούμε πλάνα. youtube.com/watch?v=_ZWf7p2sNI…
Ο Χρόνης Μίσσιος στο πλάισιο της εκπομπής "Το βλέμμα", συζητά με μαθητές του Δημοτικού για την αιχμαλωσία των ζώων και την καταπάτηση των δικαιωμάτων τους απ...
Κοιτάω τώρα κάτι ντοκιμαντέρ 30ετίας και συνειδητοποιώ ότι σε ό, τι αφορά την βιοποικιλότητα στην ελλάδα, δεν έχει μείνει σχεδόν τίποτα. Είναι εντυπωσιακή η καταστροφή που έχουν δημιουργήσει οι ελληνικές κυβερνήσεις. Άξιες όλες τους. archive.ert.gr/7571/
Concerns have grown lately over reports about Syrian ambitions inside the country, coinciding with comments by US envoy Tom Barrack that Damascus sees Lebanon as ‘its beach resort’
@pluralistic I know you don't know me and I am late to this party.... But I am at the halfway point of Chokepoint Capitalism and I am pissed off. I am so ready to read about the remedies proposed! I already have The Internet Con sitting in my stack to read next!
I posted a video about the demise of GM (the American car manufacturer) and the Nice Crew members thought it was about the demise of the Good Morning post.
Die EU-Antisemitismus-Koordinatorin lobbyierte laut geleaktem Bericht mit Lügen gegen Israel-Sanktionen. Kriegsverbrechen in Gaza seien "Gerüchte über Juden", Spendenaktionen für Gaza "ambienter Antisemitismus". EU-Botschafter widersprachen ihr deutlich: euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl…
The high-level EU official was lobbying against Israel sanctions using bogus claims on antisemitism, according to a "sensitive" cable from Tel Aviv leaked to EUobserver.
Just about to push back from the gate and the capt. comes on and says DFW has a ground stop. We’re stuck here on the plane, at the gate, for at least the next 45 mins.
The Russian armed forces are expanding the buffer zone around the city of Volchansk in the Kharkov Region to prevent the Ukrainian military from strikes on Russia's Belgorod Region, Vitaly Ganchev, the head of the Russian administration in the Kharko…
Its easy to be exasperated with the people who appear to have only just figured out that killing 17,000 children is not cool and not self-defence. I have expressed some of that exasperation.
But here is Prof Alison Phipps @alisonphipps with a timely reminder that we need these converts. It's how we win.
Eleanor Duckworth: The more intensely interested a teacher is in a student’s thinking, the more interested the student becomes in his or her own thinking. Corollary: The more a teacher just wants to see right answers, the less interested students become in their (or any) thinking.
Noted progressive educator Eleanor Duckworth worked with eminent Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget early in her career. "I learned that you can't change what ch...
I'm interested in the idea of building rigid high strength frames, for example for a lathe or milling machine frame, by burning out shapes in plate steel on a CNC plasma cutter, then assembling those plates with 3d printed support jigs holding them together and bolting through them with long bolts. Then pour the interior with concrete and after the concrete sets up, tension the bolts to prestress the concrete...
It's a bit limited in shape, you can't really include the type of features you see in cast iron, but machine bases typically don't need them that much.
When you're attaching a component to the base which needs precise orientation, you attach it to a jig which holds it true, then you bring the bed up to it and you epoxy the mating surfaces so the epoxy acts as a shim. After the epoxy hardens you can tension the hold-down bolts.
I realize that there's a general purpose way to make a high precision surface on something:
1. Lay a piece of surface ground steel, maybe 3-5mm thick, down on a surface plate. This steel must have a smooth finish but it does NOT need to be precise in any way.
2. Tape around the perimeter of the steel with vacuum tape and attach a vacuum hose on one corner.
3. Start the vacuum pump, sucking out all of the air between the steel and the surface plate. At this point, the vacuum will flex the steel, making it conform to the surface plate.
4. Take any old rigid piece of steel, stone, or concrete, paint it with epoxy, and stick it to the exposed surface of the steel.
5. After the epoxy hardens, release the vacuum and cut the tape free.
At this point, you have a high precision surface that has been twinned to the surface plate. The epoxy has hardened in the form of a "perfect shim" between the rigid body of the part, and the strip or plate of steel.
Problem with the above is you don't know how uneven the part is that you're sticking to, too uneven and there's not enough epoxy to fill the gap and you get a void.
A related concern is if too much epoxy is painted in places to fill up the voids, the thick areas will be subject to more shrinkage than the thin areas. Epoxy glues shrink by 0.1 - 3% depending on the type.
Two thoughts come to mind:
1. This process can be done using tinfoil, and then you can hit it with a wire brush to scrape out all of the voids since unbacked tinfoil will tear out instantly. Then the process can be repeated again with a little bit of extra epoxy painted in the void areas. When the entire surface comes up with no voids, then you do the final mating with sheet metal.
2. A related idea is to pour concrete down against the sheet metal on the surface plate. This will have more uniform shrinkage so voids should be less of an issue.
In the flooring business, they use a very liquid cement that is self-leveling, they dam it up and then pour it in, and then it will naturally level to perfectly flat and even.
That could be replicated into something else by just using a very watery epoxy. Something with a very low surface tension.
That'll work for making something like a table, but when we're talking about precision, things get "weird"...
The thickness of a human hair is about 2 thousandths of an inch. Paper is 4 thousandths, a laboratory grade surface plate is guaranteed flat and true to 0.045 thousandths.
When you get to these precision levels, you can put a 1/2 inch piece of steel under a measuring instrument and watch it flex as you push it lightly with your finger. You can hold a part in your hand and see it expand from your body heat in real time. Pouring even the thinnest epoxy and letting it cure in air might get you down to 1 thousandth, but you can get that by purchasing a piece of bar stock and making a simple surface grinder.
Surface plates are made on very high precision surface grinders, those grinders are themselves made using master surface plates. The masters are made in groups of 3, they coat them with a die called Prussian Blue, this die creates an extremely thin and uniform coating of about 0.01 thousandths. They lay one plate down on top of the other and this transfers blue marks from one to the other, then they scrape it using a tool which can take off around 0.001 thousandth per pass. They use 3 because when 1 and 2 match, and 2 and 3 match, and 1 and 3 match, then they know the surfaces are actually flat...
So I would say if you want to build precision machines, the easiest thing to do is buy your surface plate and then make everything else by cloning it.
Off topic: A surface grinder is actually quite easy to make, you clone a surface plate twice, once for the bed and once for the carriage. The carriage slides on a film of oil over the bed and you just use rudimentary chains, tracks and screws to control the right/left and forward/back because these are not precise. Also the angle of the head is not precise, everything can be eyeballed.
A surface grinder is the most rudimentary machine, it requires only 1 flat surface.
A lathe requires 4 flat surfaces: 1. Vertical ways (up-down truing) 2. Horizontal ways (back-forth truing) 3. Vertical cross-slide - parallel to horizontal ways 4. Horizontal cross-slide - square to vertical ways Then the headstock needs to be parallel to horizontal and vertical ways.
The milling machine is the worst, because it has all of the surfaces of the lathe, but it also has a Z surface which needs to be trued on two axes.
Fortunately the lathe and mill are not generally expected to produce work better than +- 1 thousandth, but the cylindrical grinder and the EDM have all of the same problems as the lathe and mill, but are held to a much higher standard...
I've been thinking about this, I have two possible solutions: 1. Air bearings which are obviously self-cleaning 2. Oil bearings with an oil pump which forces a continuous stream of fresh (filtered) oil into the bearings and sweeps away dust
Air bearings have really good precision, but they're expensive to buy commercially and not that easy to make, so I tend to lean toward #2, but I don't know how much oil flow you can push without it beginning to lift the carriage up off of the ways...
I imagine somebody has studied this because it seems weird not to...
I think it goes without saying that you'd like to have grinding in a room with lower air pressure than the machining room, but even grinders have surfaces, so there's still a problem that needs to be addressed...
Know how good your code needs to be for the task at hand. Start with a rough draft. Try to soften requirements if you can. Don't get distracted. Make small changes. Practice specific skills.
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