Cal Raleigh successful as 4 of 5 challenges reverse calls in first All-Star use of robot umpire
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“Folks, this is the captain speaking, if there are any medical professionals on board, could you please make yourself known to the crew?”
What timing. Her first flight since becoming a doctor, and she was about to find herself in the hotseat. Still, she was confident in her abilities, so didn’t hesitate to stand. Was everything she’d learned about to be tested? Time would tell.
She tapped a flight attendant on the shoulder.
“Hi, I’m a doctor, can I help?”
“Oh thank you, please, this way.”
She was brought to row 9, where she was introduced to a gentleman in his late 50’s, who was clearly in some distress.”
“Sir, I’m Dr. Moss, what’s going on?” She asked, gently.
“I am…I have…” he struggled to speak.
“Ok, before you use up all your energy. Let me ask you this,” she said. “Do you have a copy of your insurance card?”
“Erm I er…”
“Wait, you do have insurance, right? I am in network for Anthem.”
At this point, the flight attendant interjected.
“Is that really relevant, at this moment in time?” He asked.
“You’re right. I’m so sorry,” she said. “I actually have the Stripe app on my phone, so we can just put a hold on your credit card for now until we figure out insurance on the ground.”
Within the framework of the Days of St. Petersburg in Minsk, the delegation of the Russian city toured many enterprises, including MAZ.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
Fatma Çıngı Kocadost : « Penser l’hétérosexualité au pluriel »
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"Entretien avec l'autrice de La promesse qu’on nous a faite.
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« Tenir tête, fédérer, amorcer » - Entretien avec l'autrice de La promesse qu’on nous a faite.Ballast (BALLAST)
State Dept spokesman Matt Miller panics and refuses to comment on USAID funding of gain of function on Coronaviruses!
USAID is the CIA proxy that funds bioweapons research in Ukraine as well.
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...mment on USAID funding of gain of function on Coronaviruses! USAID is the CIA proxy that funds bioweapons research in Ukraine as well. #minds. Subscribe to @barrybestt on MindsMinds
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the brazen US military takeover of the Oyster Bay in Palawan. The once peaceful community of small fishermen has now been overrun by US soldiers with their giant war arsenal.
The Oyster Bay now serves as a forward base for US imperialist provocations against China. It is just one of the latest in the long list of locations the Marcos regime has handed over to US armed forces, putting Filipino lives and livelihoods in even more danger.
Since 2020, the US has been quietly upgrading its facilities in Oyster Bay. Working with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the US developed the Oyster Bay Naval Detachment where it can dock, repair and resupply its naval warships. On March this year, the US Congress authorized the release of up to $5 million to complete repairs to the naval detachment so it could fully serve US manned and unmanned surface vehicles.
Hundreds of local fisherfolk have lost their sole source of livelihood as US warships and military exercises turn Oyster Bay’s waters into a toxic playground for US war games. Rich marine life and fragile coral reefs, the lifeblood of Palawan’s fisheries, are being destroyed. The environmental damage from US naval waste is both permanent and unacceptable.
Oyster Bay is now being used as a launchpad for so-called “freedom of navigation operations” of US military forces in the South China Sea. It serves the joint naval exercises being conducted by the US with Australia and Japan, in conjunction with operations from Subic Bay.
Oyster Bay now serves as a key node in the sprawling US military web across the Philippines—a network of military bases and facilities, ports, airfields, as well as storage facilities and factories for war. The recently announced plans to manufacture drones and produce ammunition in Aurora and Subic will further deepen US military entrenchment in the country.
The rapidly increasing US military presence in the Philippines is absolutely not about defending the country’s sovereignty. This is about turning the Philippines into a fortification for US imperialist hegemony and a springboard for the so-called Indo-Pacific Strategy, positioning the country as a key link in the US “first island chain” strategy to contain the growth of its imperialist rival China.
The Marcos regime’s gross subservience to US geopolitical strategy has allowed the US to drag the country into its hegemonic schemes and war plans. Marcos’ betrayal of the nation’s sovereignty has placed the country’s security in jeopardy. Regional security is under threat.
The Party firmly unites with the Filipino people in the fight against US imperialist aggression in the country. It is imperative that we raise our voices to make a powerful demand for the immediate dismantling of all US military bases, and the expulsion of all US forces from Oyster Bay, all of Palawan, and the entire Philippines. We must hold Marcos accountable and make him pay dearly for this betrayal.
The Filipino people must act now as nation’s sovereignty and future are at stake.
What does "privately" mean?
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BREAKING: Trump has privately encouraged Ukraine to 'step up deep strikes on Russian territory' and asked Zelensky if 'he could strike Moscow', according to Financial Times report.
“Reform #Capitalism: Tax the Rich”
Well, let’s see what “reform” means, but we’ll analyze it with an example.
#Slavery.
Towards the end of slavery in #US, in the North there were two trends.
The #revolutionary one that called for the complete abolition of slavery and then there were the “reformers”.
What did they demand?
Better food and better clothing for the slaves.
But there would still be slaves.
So?
Are you still in favor of the petty-bourgeois reform of Capitalism?
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Kick US Troops Out of Oyster Bay, Out of the Philippines!
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It was reported on Wednesday that President Trump drafted a letter to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell.Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Have you forgotten, you will own nothing and like it.
‘A family of traitors’: Trump’s Brazil tariffs ultimatum backfires on Bolsonaro | #Brazil | The Guardian
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"US president’s attempt to help his rightwing ally avoid jail has sparked wave of anger and given boost to rival Lula"
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George Kittle's all-around excellence earns him the honor of top tight end in AP rankings
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Daily Beast reports CNN polling analyst Harry Enten has never seen Americans so unified on how much they dislike Trump, particularly Trump's handling of the Epstein files.Adam Lynch (Alternet.org)
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ο υφυπουργός Παιδείας Κωνσταντίνος Βλάσης αποκάλυψε ότι η αφαίρεση κειμένου μου για τα παιδιά της Γάζας από αναγνωστικό βιβλίο της Γ’ Γυμνασίου έγινε ύστερα από παρέμβαση του Κεντρικού Ισραηλιτικού Συμβουλίου.
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Ο Υφυπουργός Παιδείας K. Βλάσης αποκάλυψε ότι το κείμενο του Π. Παπακωνσταντίνου για τη Γάζα αφαιρέθηκε από το βιβλίο της Γ' Γυμνασίου έπειτα από παρέμβαση του Κεντρικού Ισραηλιτικού Συμβουλίου.Ioanna (INFO-WAR)
”The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
-George Orwell, 1984
Deadly Massachusetts fire highlights the minimal regulations that govern assisted-living facilities
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Co-op Congress brings together those working to build a fairer economy to share ideas, get inspiration and take action. See the full programme of Day One at ...YouTube
SANAA, July 15 (YPA) - The Yemeni armed forces of Sanaa government announced on Tuesday the implementation of a simultaneous, dual military operation targeting a major Israeli military target in the Negev region and the Umm al-Rashrash port in occupibasheer (Yemen Press Agency)
Here is a quick series of frequently asked questions about the X11 session kissing us goodbye. Shoutout to Nate from which I copied the format of the post. Is Xorg unmaintained and abandoned? No,...Jordan Petridis (Rust in Peace)
Is Wayland Gay?Yes and Xorg is Trans.
Picture of the libxtrans gitlab repository with a Trans flag as the project banner.
Happy Pride month and Free Palestine ✊
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Tribes in North Dakota yesterday appealed to the Supreme Court, after a lower court said they couldn’t challenge state maps under the Voting Rights Act.
Bolts covered that ruling, which risks making the VRA a “law without a way to enforce it,” in June: boltsmag.org/voting-rights-act…
In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native groups face a triple threat on voting rights: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to enforcing it, and a funding crunch depleting their work.Daniel Nichanian (Bolts)
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation guards used teargas or pepper spray on crowds, say health authorities and witnessesEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
UNRWA says one in 10 children under the age of five screened at its clinics in Gaza suffer from severe malnutrition.Al Jazeera
"The Guardian view on the children of Gaza: when 17,000 die, it’s more than a mistake"
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It's breathtaking how Israel's apologists find a way to ignore the obvious.
Editorial: Israel’s military blamed the deaths of six Palestinian children on Sunday on a technical error. But a staggering toll continues to mountEditorial (The Guardian)
The Atlantic: Trump Now Personifies What MAGA Opposes
For the first time, the president finds himself at odds with his own movement.
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MARS.EXE → COM (2021)
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Capitol Police Detain Man After Bow and Arrow, Empty Holster Observed in Car Near Security Barrier
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A man was detained Wednesday morning near the Capitol after police spotted a vehicle with a tricycle on its roof with a bow and arrow and empty holster inside near a security barrier located at 200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, according to repo…Kristinn Taylor (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
While traveling to Sikkim is a highlight in itself, probably the real treat of any journey here is visiting Lake Tsomgo.Gareth Johnson (Young Pioneer Tours)
*Close To the Machine* is Ellen Ullman's classic memoir of writing software in Silicon Valley at the start of the dotcom bubble; it was originally published in 1997 and reprinted in 2022 for the 25 annniversary by Farrar, Straus and Giroux's MCD books:
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This 25th Anniversary Edition of Close to the Machine, featuring a new introduction by Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, resurfaces Ellen Ullman’s astonishing account of computing and the ways it shapes our very existence.MCD
latest #distrochallenge candidate idea for me,
keeping my no-systemd rule, thus keeps many distros ruled out,
if i also add, none of my standard dependable 4 (artix, devuan, gentoo, void),
what would i go for?
yus, still bedrock... but perhaps also could limit it to static libs distros and bsd style packaging and init...
CRUX, i imagine as the hijack core i'd build around, as i figure out what other exotic lesser-known distros fit.
KISS, Carbs, joborun, spring to mind too. As does stali, but, that's not really a distro, and long abandoned.
maybe if i limit respins and distros based on other distros, so even carbs and joborun are out. i know carbs is independent, and has its own package manager, but, it's nearer KISS than guixsd is to nixos, or funtoo is to gentoo. joborun too, impressive and appealing an independent direction it's taking, is still basically an arch derivative, not sufficiently distinct again from the likes of parabola, artix, obarun and the arch respins for my tightened criteria here (~ otherwise, it'd make a strong 2nd most used stratum).
and i've had the idea of all the little distros already (my post on this just prior, 19 days ago)... so it's not that kind of thing i'm going for here.
would be looking more to independent distros ( distrowatch.com/search.php?ost… )...
they may be little, but, not the cute little, if you know what i mean. (not slax, slitaz, puppy, dsl, tinycore, etc)
like ideally they're focussed on a solid core, and their minimal system's top priority, and comes available as a rootfs tarball ready to deploy as a stratum. ... heh, maybe that should be the only criteria.
well, it's fun to think about, but shant be making any hasty moves on this today.
... okies, food will be burning if i dont hop afk to it now.
News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.distrowatch.com
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Osaisko kukaan vinkata aurinkorasvaa, joka ei haise eikä tee iholle niin hengittämätöntä kelmua, että rasva nostaa jo lämpöuupumuksenkin riskiä, kun iholta ei haihdu mikään. Mulla alkaa olla suojakertoimen 50 hajustamattomat mömmöt testattu ja hylätty pitkäkestoiseen rasitukseen soveltumattomina. Onko pienemmän kertoimen rasvat yhtään vähemmän vesieristetyyppisiä?
En haluis ihosyöpää, mutta lämpöuupumus on myös vaarallinen tila.
At the supermarket buying stuff for lunch (can't do shit while Windows fucks itself updating Visual Studio). Just saw an employee (I suspect massively autistic) finishing stacking the mandarines so perfectly the thing looked like a giant orange corn cob.
I was about to take a picture when a fucking sheboon appeared out of nowhere, took a bunch of mandarines and the whole thing fell apart. Fucking niggers, I fucking hate niggers, but I think the the guy will start to hate them even more, 'cause his face was like a tomato
Foreign YouTube stars are being secretly paid by the UK Government to publish "propaganda" videos, it has emerged ...Lucy Garcia (The National)
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France declined to join the plan because of President Emmanuel Macron's push for European nations to strengthen their own defense industries by purchasing...Anna Fratsyvir (Yahoo News)
So France and Italy would rather "shore-up" their own defenses then provide funding for weapons for Ukraine.
Good. The US should stay out of the Ukraine-Russia War anyway.
Russia will invade Europe way before it shows up in the US. Why do we care?
Wayne Thomas, ex-NHL goalie, assistant and executive dies at 77
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Hello there! Here's the thing: I got some old HDD for my Debian home server, and now that I have plenty of disk space I want to keep a backup of the OS, so that if something accidentally breaks (either SW or HW) I can quickly fix it.
now the question is: which directory should I include and which should I exclude from the backup? I use docker a lot, is there any docker-specific directory that I should back up?
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It is a question I've spent a lot of time trying to work out. Can't speak to docker.
Some of the specifics of Keeps and Dontkeeps depend on details of your system. You have to find out where the distro, DM and other apps keep the following:
Dontkeeps:
- trashes
- temp files
- file indexes .. IMHO these dont backup properly if you leave them in and will prevent you from completing the task
- device files
Keeps:
- list of installed packages --- explicit and deps separate if possible
- config files: /etc, ~/.config, ~/.* on a case by case basis... I say remove the obvious large temp dirs and keep the rest by default for simplicity
- for the system configs I've had a tool called etckeeper running for a while because it was highly recommended but I've never actually restored from it...
- personal documents and other files such as typically kept in the home directory
- /root occasionally has something you need
Ways to investigate:
- use a disk usage utility to find out where your storage is being used up ... It'll help you find large Dontkeeps
- watch for recently modified files
- dirs and files that are modified all the time are usually temp dirs. But sometimes they have something useful like your firefox profile.
Most backup solutions are ONE of the following:
Don't spend too much time crying about needing two solutions. Just make your backup today and reach perfection later.
Remember: sync isn't backup. Test your backup if you can (but its not as easy as it sounds). Off site your most precious files.
I think most options have been covered here, but I'd like to consider some other bits...
User accounts & file permissions:- if you have >1 account, note that the UserID is internally numbered (starting from 1000, so Bob=1000, Sue=1001) and your file system is probably setup using the numerical UserID... so re-creating the users in a different order would give Sue access to Bob's files and vice versa.
Similarly, backing up /etc /var etc... you should check if any applications (ie databases) need specific chmod and chown settings
Rsync, tar, etc can cover some of this, you just need to check you rebuild users in the correct order.
Maybe Ansible is another approach? So your disaster recovery would be:
1. Install plain OS on new drive
2. Get Ansible access to it (ie basic netwroking)
3. Rebuild OS and instsll applicstions automatically with Ansible
4. Restore application & home folders (again with Ansible)
When you get this working, it's amazing to watch an entire system being rebuilt
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Soaring temperatures are pushing us towards environmental crises that the Government is doing little to prepare us for, argues Green Party co-leader Adrian RamsayAdrian Ramsay (Byline Times)
Και να και όχι. Είναι ψιλό αποθήκες και παίζουν πολλά φορτηγά που φορτώνουν. Αυτά τα καφέ γενικά παίζανε τότε για κόσμο να πηγαίνει να τρώει, τώρα έχουμε τα φρανσαιζ που υπάρχουν παντού, coffee berry, coffee Island κτλ
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EXCLUSIVE: The former GB News host wants to rely on the same European laws he has campaigned againstJosiah Mortimer (Byline Times)
Today in vulnerability coordination:
Vendor: "That's not a vulnerability, it requires X level of access and nobody should expose that according to our hardening guide"
Me: "Okay, so if I publicly disclose the backdoor password needed to exploit this, you are comfortable with that?"
Vendor: "You can't do that, it would put customers at unnecessary risk."
You can just hear the penises falling off as this bitch just nags nags nags.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio #Lula da Silva has defended #fossilfuel exploration, saying he would not unilaterally halt exploring #Brazil ’s riches to the detriment of the nation’s development.
In June, Brazil’s oil regulator agency ANP auctioned off 34 blocks for exploration, largely to multinational corporations, including Chevron, ExxonMobil and China’s CNPC. More than half the blocks are in the #Amazon Delta.
#ClimateCrisis
"HalkıI yalnızca gösterilmek istenen şeyleri görebilecekleri bir mesafede tutmak, politikacılara özgürlük tanır. Devlet çıkarları, genelikle politikacılarıin çıkarlarıdır."
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Judge will consider releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia from jail, possibly leading to his deportation
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More than 2in of rain fell in an hour in the region, killing two people, and such storms are only going to intensifyEric Holthaus (The Guardian)
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UK NEWS: Israeli Jewish anti-genocide activist Yael Kahn charged for describing Israel as ‘Nazi'
Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert agreed with her this week but Starmer regime won’t let that interfere with his war on pro-Palestinian speech skwawkbox.org/2025/07/16/israe…
#UK #Britain #Protest #Antisemitism #Fascism #UKpol #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #Europe
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe
Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert agreed with her this week but Starmer regime won’t let that interfere with his war on pro-Palestinian speech UK-based Israeli Jewish anti-genocide activist Yael …SKWAWKBOX
Cambodia makes 1,000 arrests in latest crackdown on cybercrime
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I disagree. The Eye of Africa has a vague visual similarity, but it's in the wrong location, and it's something like 100 times too big.
Have you watched Randall Carlson's series on Atlantis? It makes the best case I heard, and he thinks Atlantis is the Azores. There are around 5 videos in the series. Here's one.
Carlson is a fun guy to watch in general. He's brilliant and hates liberals.
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Check out Randall's - Plato's Atlantis "Back to the Source" VoD presentation on howtube: https://www.howtube.com/12513Two 3-hour lectures available On Demand...YouTube
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BBC Sounds is getting ready to lock anyone out who's not in the UK next week.
Fortunately there are VPN providers that let you route all your traffic through London (or Manchester, or Leeds, etc.)
Google Maps helpfully shows you the post code for any address in the UK.
Oh look! I just got a notification that there's a new episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage!
On this day in 1993, Patrick Volkerding released Slackware 1.0, the oldest Linux distro still maintained!
Still simple, still solid, still Slackware.
Read the original announcement: slackware.com/announce/1.0.php
#Slackware #Linux #FOSS #HappyBirthdaySlackware
Education is at the heart of the cultural renewal that is necessary if we are to save the White race. We must start re-educating Whites in order to understand what's really happening in the world and what their true place in it is.
The Patriot Portal's "Books" sub-directory contains links to more than 60 pro-White book sites to help you educate yourself and homeschool your children.
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The Patriot Portal is the Web's largest web directory of pro-White and White-friendly websites. With over 1,000 different websites listed in one of our 24 different sub-directories, listing everything from etailers to news sources to political advocacy groups and more, it has something for everyone.
A list of pro-White booksellers, archives, publishers, and libraries.patriotportal.org
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday met in Beijing with foreign ministers and heads of standing bodies of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) who are in China to attend the Meeting of the Council of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of SCO…eng.chinamil.com.cn
BREAKING REPORT: President Trump Drafted Letter to Fire Jerome Powell… But Trump Says 'Highly Unlikely' He will Fire Fed Chair
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It was reported on Wednesday that President Trump drafted a letter to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell.Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
There are only 2 races.
Whites
nons
"According to ICE datasets analyzed by the Los Angeles Times, during the first 10 days of June, ICE arrested 722 undocumented immigrants in California. Of those, 70% had never been convicted of a crime. The trend undermines claims that the raids are targeting 'the worst of the worst.'”
"Instead, the arrests disproportionately affect working-class immigrants with no criminal records. Among them is the father of a U.S. Marine, who was beaten and detained at his landscaping job. In another case, a Marine’s wife, Paola, who arrived in the U.S. as a child seeking asylum, was arrested during an immigration appointment."
"These are not hardened criminals. They are street vendors, day laborers, and families struggling to make ends meet. In Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood, many undocumented immigrants now face a dire choice: stay home to avoid arrest or risk their freedom to put food on the table."
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#ICE #Immigration #ImmigrantRights
ICE raids in California show how immigration enforcement is being used to justify unchecked state power and mass civilian targeting.Jalyssa Dugrot (MintPress News)
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