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“It would make [Epstein] a story with which we have to be persistent and steady in our demands; but also cautious, and methodical, and discerning.” —Naomi Wolf
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On Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for canceling funding for California’s failed high speed train.
Kevin MacDonald (born January 24, 1944) is a professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach, best known for his use of evolutionary psychology to inform his study of the development of Jewish population as a "group evolutionary strategy." As part of this, MacDonald theorizes that Jewish features of higher-than-average verbal intelligence and ethnocentrism have eugenically evolved to enhance the ability of Jews to out-compete non-Jews for resources, resulting in their ability to undermine the power and self-confidence of the White majorities in Europe and America.
He has called for the establishment and defense of a European "ethnostate" in America and Europe in a speech while accepting an award from the . . . colchestercollection.com/autho…
The Colchester Collection is the Web's largest curated archive of pro-White books, with almost 1,800 of them in one of our 22 different catalogs.
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If you need some joy in your day, this is my gift to you. Jon Batiste is a gem of a human being. He is also massively talented.
In this interview from 2023 with Chris Wallace, Jon talks about the limitations genres put on music. And THEN he genre hops through part of a Beethoven piece on the fly.
It’s so good. And Chris’ face is priceless. He’s almost giddy.
Sorry for the edits, everyone. I know Mastodon sends you a notification when a post is edited. I needed to clean up a misspelling of his name because I’m a jackass. My bad. Please forgive me.
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@kristinHenry and it brings Jon Batiste such joy! That’s the part that always gets me seeing him speak and perform. He is music and it is the thing he enjoys most.
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NOT more fucked than the USA, not by a long shot. Worth it, but the up-front cost is huge, you have to really commit to putting up with their bureaucracy / taxes / everything-takes-forever / etc.
Taxation is obscene, you lose about 50% of your income.
The good side is nobody wants to kill you, imprison you, and ruin your life. So no cops with quotas, no SWATting (they just don't kick down doors over anonymous phone calls, actually kicking down doors AT ALL is extremely rare), no personal injury lawyers, no toxic food.
The bad side is that nobody wants to do anything, so when you need something done, it can be really painful. Like if you're paying someone and they still don't want to work.
It's not just "lazy" in the sense that an American would think of it, it's a whole culture unto itself.
The French don't grovel. Everybody knows that whatever they're paid half is going out the window, so as a result, customer service is hilarious. But if they can see that you're in a tight spot, they'll help you out, because they do care about you as a human being. It's just that whether or not you're paying them doesn't really have an impact on how much they want to help you out.
The French wear you down, until you become one of them...
Another thing about the French is they are experts at not following rules. The French are absolute masters at implicitly negotiating with one another what is and is not an acceptable thing to be doing, with astonishingly little regard for the letter of the law.
America has nothing comparable to this, America has mostly the German concept of enforcing every stupid little rule to the full extent possible, with no regard for the lives of everyone around, or indeed even the reason the rule was implemented in the first place. America also has the Scotts-Irish Borderer concept of breaking every rule possible, and starting a fight with anyone who suggests otherwise, but there's no analogue to the French concept of gracefully breaking the letter of the law while remaining within the spirit and being a good neighbor.
The hack is you work for Americans but live in France, that way you get paid much better. But making that work with immigration law is tricky. In my case, I have the right to live here because I'm married to an EU national.
may as well move to SEA and work remote for a USA company tbh, france sounds like i'd have to marry a french lady for it to pan out. cheaper living, better women.
More than 100 emails expose the extent to which authorities in southwest Florida were left unaware of plans to build a sprawling immigration detention centre in the Everglades
Reflecting on how knowledgeable I've become on the lore of the Sektur Cinematic Universe has made me consider whether I've given the Marvel and Star Wars soys a little too much shit over the years.
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today is the vet appointment i booked when my cat was acting like he was gonna drop dead any minute before he decided he was done with that and went back to acting completely normal
just got back. no vaccines, just a blood sample and we're delivering urine sample tomorrow. blood result was normal. small murmur in heart. we'll be doing more tests
Read again about how NASA used to do cost-plus deals for rocket building with boeing, lockheed, etc.
This completely insane way of paying for things means that the contract says that they pay the full cost of manufacturing plus a fixed percentage on top.
What this of course leads to is that the manufacturer is incentivised to make the cost as high as possible.
if they would actually have a competitive bidding process and stick to the bids that wouldn't be such a problem. they also run over budget on projects and the government just pays it.
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There is no such thing as a "loneliness" epidemic. There's neoliberalism, and 10% of Western populations who refuse to catch SARS2 over and over again. These are two different issues, tho interrelated.
The "loneliness" epidemic you've read about is the political class applying pressure to people who refuse to catch their favorite plague.
Individualism, a part of neoliberalism's cultural revolution in the 1980s, purposefully replaced community with "enlightened self-interest."
One would think "enlightened self-interest" would include wearing a mask! I'd say what the neoliberal crapitalist bullshit offers now is "endarkened selfishness."
Most of the COVID competent people I'm aware of are *deeply* involved in community efforts, either online or sometimes in person (in safe environments). They aren't lonely, they're angry and unwilling to comply in advance.
This would vex neoliberals and all the well-meaning people who advance their agendas, like erasing the consequences of getting COVID so people would go back to work and keep making the ruling class their filthy lucre.
After all, what use is someone they can't gaslight?
> Δέκα χρόνια από τον θάνατο του σπουδαίου Γιαννιώτη ζωγράφου, συγγραφέα και μουσικού Νίκου Χουλιαρά (20 Ιουλίου 2015), ένα παράξενο θέατρο σκιών φτιαγμένο από τις φιγούρες των έργων του, ζωντανεύει το μυθιστόρημά του «Ο Λούσιας».
We are excited to announce the next step for IntelliJ IDEA: we are moving to a single, unified distribution. And yes, before you ask, our commitment to open source remains as strong as ever. There
wow even back then, an Old Fashioned was still called “old-fashioned”.
(some research later… started in the early 1800s and was sometimes called a “bitter sling”, went out of fashion a bit, but came back with requests for “give me one of those old-fashioned style cocktails” in the late 1800s)
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Good Morning! It is Friday July 18. In 1906 Belle Stewart was born. She was a Scottish Traveller traditional singer. Without her efforts (born: Belle Perthshire), many of Scotland's traditional folk songs and stories would have been lost.
tu es en apprentissage dans le cadre d'une formation ? ton employeur te force à faire du travail dangereux sans qualifications, te refuse des congés ou ne respecte pas tes périodes école ou tes horaires ? ou bien simplement tu veux mieux connaître tes droits ?
lis le guide des apprentis de la CGT. Tout ce qu'il y a à savoir est dedans, simple, clair, bien fait.
As someone seeking objective truth, this has been the source of my confusion. We already know about Trump and Epstein. It was released by the Biden administration. So why is the left freaking out over the list? And why is Trump afraid to release it? Neither makes sense given what we already know. abcnews.go.com/US/times-trumps…
I've been a Mac guy for a while but shifting to Linux? Is it possible this upcoming EOL of Win10 could see a flush of machines come on the eBay market that might be useful for some standard user Linux installs?
@TallSimon Still have a Pentium 3 500mz PC win win 98. Works like a charm with retro games. Still fire it up every now and again. Its battery is flat so doesn't keep time. They don't make those small type of batteries anymore
That said, as a former member of the Royal Order of Ontario Hydro Garbage Pickers (picking the garbage at a nuclear plant is next-level) this picture makes me sad.
I like that there is entire scene for reusing things like that for some PC games. Desktop PC tinkering is such a cool thing that can recycle and save old machines. Shame to see them going to waste.
Reminds of the pallets we'd pillage at computer-recycler that bought remaindered gear from federal agencies. Was a great way to get old UNIX servers for stupid cheap (five- and six-figure hardware, when new, for just a few tens of dollars as remaindered equipment).
@ferricoxide For a long time my boxes were mostly second hand very expensive kit - mostly Dell because HP were arseholes about access to stuff without contracts. However I generally went with the top end "workstation" stuff as it was engineered for a 10K+ budget a machine CAD user so a lot quieter. You just threw the once top end epic and now completely comical graphic card and disks out, replaced them and added more cheap RAM (because nobody wanted registered RAM0
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The Right was wrong. Democratization, as it turns out, is a good thing.
As presented by the Left, the World Wide Web was going to enable a brand of "Democratization" that would empower the various Privileged Identity Groups--Jews, blacks, Mestizos, Muslims, Feminutz, queers, etc.--to speak some imaginary truth to White men and convert Western Civilization into a cosmopolitan MultiCult. Destroying Whites forever.
@Tariq has more than 10K posts, and all of them will be lost if he switches to a different instance. Those 10K posts are a significant investment of his time and effort. That he has to lose those to move to a more palatable instance is not a good reflection on Mastodon.
Or look at it this way: the people who report his posts, and the mastodon.social admins themselves, presumably want to suppress his anti-genocide voice. @Tariq moving instances will simply wipe out all his existing posts, including all of his anti-genocide posts. In that sense, those people will get exactly what they want. Is that what we want?
For criticisms of Mastodon along these lines (though not on the topic of suppression of anti-genocide voices), check out these posts by Hacker News user "pxoe".
But there is an even more insidious problem. Say, @Tariq moves to a small palatable instance or even starts his own Mastodon instance. However, if his profile or his anti-genocide posts get hidden/banned by mastodon.social and some of the other big instances, then almost all of the Fediverse will not even be aware of his profile or his posts. So he will simply be screaming into the void. What's the point then? In that case, why should he even stay on the Fediverse and invest him time and effort?
@feralferment nope, posts will not be deleted. In any case, it is a good practice to autodelete your posts (mine are deleted after some months). Microbloging social media are ephemeral. If you want an archive, create a proper blog. There are also settings to keep any of them in your preferences.
nope, posts will not be deleted. In any case, it is a good practice to autodelete your posts (mine are deleted after some months). Microbloging social media are ephemeral. If you want an archive, create a proper blog. There are also settings to keep any of them in your preferences.
This is the kind of preachy and hectoring response that puts people off!
And it does not even address the point of discussion; it is just you feeling smug about your own decision to auto-delete your own posts, and showing contempt for the people who do not.
The point of my posts was to show that moving to a different instance may not solve the problems @{rzeta0@todon.eu} was facing on mastodon.social, and may even create new problems.
Posts not getting transferred when you move accounts is a design flaw of Mastodon, whether or not they are set to auto-delete; and the reluctance of Mastodon evangelists like you to even acknowledge the problem is harmful to Mastodon itself.
And that’s only one of the problems of Mastodon, and of ActivityPub as a whole.
Here are some others:
A profile redirect, that you and many others are tomtoming about, is still at the mercy of the administrator of the current instance. A malicious admin can simply block it.
There is no way out for a user if the current instance shuts down.
In this context, the irony is that Mike Macgirvin’s Nomad protocol existed and was being used in production before ActivityPub was released, and before Mastodon was even born. The Nomad protocol allows each account to have multiple channels, the channel is what participates on the Fediverse. But here’s the feature relevant to our discussion: a user can open an account on another Nomad-protocol-based instance and can clone the channel from the original instance there. You can choose to post from the original channel or the clone channel, the post gets mirrored on the other one. Connections are also identical on both. So essentially a channel and its one or more clones exist simultaneously. If one of the instance shuts down or bans the user, all the posts and connections and blogs and everything else on the channel are still there on the clone, and the channel can continue functioning as it always did.
Those who are so keen to dish out advice about moving to another instance should at least spend some time learning about nomadic identity, and checking out Fedi software that supports nomadic identity [Hubzilla, (streams), Forte].
But even if some of the fedi software has nomadic identity, the entire fediverse has the major problem of search being entirely local. An instance (call it instance 1) becomes aware of a post on another instance only if someone on the instance 1 follows the poster, or boosts or likes the post. This effectively invisiblizes the global south, and also invisiblizes the low-visibility topics even from the global north. In other words, most of the fediverse remains invisible to most of the fediverse, by design.
@baskin :kafeneio:🇵🇸, you have a Palestinian flag in your profile, so I assume the ongoing holocaust of Palestinians enrages you as much as it enrages me and @{rzeta0@todon.eu} and many other people. And I presume you also care about the fediverse. In that case, try to understand the drawbacks of the fedi, accept them, and organize and agitate for it to be better.
At present, the dominant force on the Fediverse is a tiny liberal Western elite virtue-signalling to each other. The Fedi is entirely irrelevant in the larger sociopolitical context. If you care about the fedi, try to make it a catalyst for genuine sociopolitical change in the world out there.
"At present, the dominant force on the Fediverse is a tiny liberal Western elite virtue-signalling to each other."
That's why I keep encouraging people to leave the big instances and especially mastodon.social. People's decision to stick with mastodon.social invalidates the very concept of federation @baskin
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