The organ harvesting racket is coming to light in the US too:
As has become clear in the UK, COVID atrocities were not the first time that hospital murder became the standard of care.
The organ harvesting racket is coming to light in the US too:
As has become clear in the UK, COVID atrocities were not the first time that hospital murder became the standard of care.
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Inside: Conservativism considered as a movement of bitter rubes; and more!
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Ozzy Osbourne, pioneering heavy metal singer and Black Sabbath frontman, dies at 76
Very sorry to see this. We're glad that he got to experience his final show and the love of his fans. Makes it all the more poignant.
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Iconic heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, who became a huge solo success and later a reality TV star after being fired from Black Sabbath, has died.Ethan Sacks (NBC News)
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Ascending to 14,410 feet above sea level, Mount Rainier stands as an icon in the Washington landscape. An active volcano, Mount Rainier is the most glaciated peak in the contiguous U.S.A., spawning five major rivers.www.nps.gov
The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optical media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Inte…www.phoronix.com
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Besides the corrections others have said, I really can’t think of any reason people would intentionally use legacy BIOS on a machine with UEFI for a new install.
Like, I could get doing it for an old install - I know someone who installed Windows 7 in 2015 on their then-new desktop build and later upgraded to 10 but is stuck on legacy BIOS for now with that machine because 7 only ran on that.
I could see something similarly jank happening to someone in the Linux world and then decide not to address it for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it reasons”, but certainly not for no reason.
Paret-Peintre wins Tour de France stage on Mont Ventoux, where Pogačar deals Vingegaard another blow
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Commanders GM says non-football topics such as President Trump's comments don't reach him
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Jim Jordan was finally forced to testify under oath in the Ohio State sex abuse scandal.Sarah Jones (PoliticusUSA)
So long...
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Ozzy Osbourne, the frontman for Black Sabbath and a pioneer of heavy metal music, has died. He was 76.Chris Morris (Variety)
Republican Jim Jordan deposed in federal suit tied to sex abuse by late Ohio State team doctor
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Connecticut Democratic Rep. Jim Himes gave Trump's Commerce Secretary the treatment he deserves when asked about Trump's continued threats to fire the Fed Chair, Jerome Powell.Heather (Crooks and Liars)
#Greece #protests #IsraeliTourists
@palestine
"Israeli passengers on a [Israeli] cruise ship docked on the island of Syros in Greece were unable to disembark due to large pro-Palestinian protests at the dock on Tuesday"
"Protesters near the Syros dock flew Palestinian flags, held banners reading slogans including “Stop the Genocide,” and “No AC (Air Conditioning) in Hell.”"
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Israeli passengers on a cruise ship docked on the island of Syros in Greece were unable to disembark...Al-Manar TV Lebanon
The Blob is back—and other explanations for the Trump administration’s foreign-policy flip-flops.Stephen M. Walt (Foreign Policy)
General Zod had spittle coming out of his mouth.John Amato (Crooks and Liars)
Apparently, we are NOT better than this.
ICE Jailed a 6-Year-Old With Leukemia for More Than a Month
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#ICE #DHS #KristiNoem #PamBondi #USPol
The boy, who was jailed along with his sister and mother, cried every night, a lawyer for the family said.Amy Goodman (Truthout)
Facing growing outrage and legal action, Trump admin frees chunk of withheld education funds.Stephen Prager (Crooks and Liars)
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CND has called out the UK government for its secrecy around US nuclear cargo landing at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.The Canary
This week on 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on Melbourne/Naarm community radio 3CR, @sexenheimer & I talk to Nicola Guerra about the ‘Strategy of Tension’, ‘Years of Lead’, geopolitics, & hobbits.
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This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Nicola Guerra. Nicola is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Turku, Finland, and the author of The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-U…slackbastard
On ITA, we spoke to David Broder back in 2022:
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On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to David Broder [Twitter]. A translator and Jacobin Europe editor, his next book is titled Mussolini’s Grandchildren: Fascism in Con…slackbastard
And in 2020, we spoke to Caterina Froio about Casapound:
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On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Caterina Froio [Twitter], Assistant Professor in Political Science/e-politics at Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CE…slackbastard
If you enjoy laughing at glue sniffing imperialists while they drag us all down into the abyss:
The Hudson Institute published a plan (for lack of a better word) for how the U.S. should bring about regime change in... wait for it… China (!), a plan that involves a "military occupation”. Of China. By the US.
I don't think there's an emoji for that.
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This might be one of the most insane reports ever produced by a U.S.Arnaud Bertrand
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Less than you, it seems. I've only discovered him recently and hadn't picked up on China (or presumably specifically CCP?) propaganda. Not disputing your assessment at all, just to say I've only read a handful of things and this is the first one to even mention China as far as I remember, so I wouldn't know. Thanks for the warning.
#ozzy
Ozzy Osbourne est décédé / Ozzy Osbourne has died.
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Global Jews for Palestine event on Thursday sees anti-Zionist Jewish speakers from around the world come together against genocide and occupation “Silence is complicity!” says the Globa…SKWAWKBOX
Stewart and Stephen Colbert separately went on expletive-laden rants against CBS.The New Republic
The massive buyouts of veterinary clinics in Canada by foreign interests and multinational corporations are leading to skyrocketing prices and a blatant decline in access to services.
Everyone with animals is noticing it.
House Republican leadership is rushing to provide Donald Trump cover in the Epstein files debacle.The New Republic
Palestinians in the West Bank are facing an unprecedented crisis in accessing enough water. But drying water resources isn’t the problem — it’s the fact that Israel extracts and controls all of the water from under their feet.Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)
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On Tuesday, Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) said on X that Palestinians in Gaza should "starve away" while also claiming the reports of people dying of hunger due to the US-backed Israeli blockade are a "lie.News From Antiwar.com
“Is he going to stand with the pedophiles and underage sex traffickers?” asked Representative Tim Burchett. “Or is he gonna pick the American people and justice for the victims?”The New Republic
HAVANA, Cuba, July 20 (ACN) Cuba sent warm greetings to and expressed its full solidarity with the brotherly people of Nicaragua on the 46th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution.www.cubanews.acn.cu
Die @Bundesregierung hält sich beim Thema Lieferungen von #Material und #Waffen an #Israel bedeckt.
@Geri hat heute allerdings einen Link auf eine interessante Analyse von @salisburyamnesty gepostet, die die offizielle Importstatistik von Israel auf Lieferungen aus #UK untersucht. Die Methodik ist auf S.3 des Dokuments beschrieben:
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Die aktuelle Statistik seit Jahresbeginn bis Stichtag Ende Juni lässt sich hier herunterladen:
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Filtert man nach den Kriterien der Analyse, aber für #Deutschland, dann finden sich durchgängig, bis Ende Juni 2025 insgesamt gut 160 Lieferungen: #Waffen und #Munition, Teile für Panzer oder gepanzerte Kampffahrzeuge, und Flugzeugteile. Letztere kann ich mangels Datenbasis nicht eindeutig einer militärischen oder zivilen Nutzung zurechnen.
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@jhavok Makes me think of this @pluralistic quote from a few days back:
Trump's lifelong strategy has been to race across a succession of rivers on the backs of alligators without losing a leg. He is the undisputed all-time historical champion of this bizarre sport, but no one can win that race forever, and your first loss is a career-ender.
Like, do I think this is the gator that'll get him? Never a safe bet, but I'm not looking away either.
Trump, the happy fool. Ok, putting tariffs on products you make at home, that might still fly… But slapping tariffs on resources that aren’t even on your soil? A mineral resource isn’t something you just invent or build — you gotta have it, damn it! Wow, what a genius! In reality, it’s just a hidden tax to fleece your own citizens. Pure masterpiece, really.
But hey, the useful supporters? They gobble that up like all-you-can-eat burgers. The true cousins of the idiots from Idiocracy: they clap like crazy but don’t get a damn thing.
Trump, l’imbécile heureux, Ok, mettre des tarifs sur les produits que tu fabriques chez toi, ça peut encore passer… Mais foutre des tarifs sur des ressources qui sont même pas sur ton territoire ? Une ressources minière, ça s’invente pas, ça se construit pas, faut l’avoir, bordel ! Wow, le génie ! En vrai, c’est juste une taxe déguisée pour plumer tes propres citoyens. Du grand art, vraiment.
Mais bon, les supporters utiles, eux, ils gobent ça comme des burgers à volonté. Les vrais cousins des débiles d’Idiocracy : ça applaudit à tout va, mais ça pige que dalle.
Thrilling Wonder Stories, vol. 17, no. 3 (September 1940), with cover art by Earle Bergey illustrating a scene from Oscar J. Friend’s short story, “The Stolen Spectrum.”
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Question for you all.
I was working on a bash script and working out some logic for command chaining and grouping for executing different functions in my script based on the return status of other functions.
I know you can group commands with ()
, which spawns a subshell, and within the grouping you can chain with ;
, &&
, and ||
.
I also know that you can group commands with {}
, but, within the curly braces you can only separate commands with ;
.
EDIT: the above statement of the curly braces only allowing ;
is incorrect. I misunderstood what I had read. @SheeEttin@lemmy.zip pointed out my mistake.
The requirement is that the list of commands in the curly braces needs to be terminated with a semicolon or a newline character, and in the script, I unknowingly was meeting the rules by using the newlines to make the code easier to read for myself.
END EDIT:
In the script, for readability I did group the commands across lines kind of like a function.
The script is pretty simple. I created a few functions with echo commands to test the logic. the script asks for input of foo or bar. The first function has an if
, and if the input is foo, it executes. If it's bar it returns 1.
The return of 1 triggers the or (||
) and executes the second command group.
The idea was, if the user inputs foo
, the first group triggers printing foo baz
to stdout. If the user inputs bar
, the foo
function returns 1, the baz function does not execute, the or is triggered, and bar but
is printed to stdout
Here's the script (which executes as described):
Can anyone explain why I'm able to group with curly braces and still use &&
inside them?
(Also, the reason I want to use the curly braces is I don't want to spawn a subshell. I want variable persistence in the current shell)
\#! /usr/bin/bash
# BEGIN FUNCTIONS #
foo () {
if [[ "${input}" = foo ]]; then
echo "foo"
return 0
else
return 1
fi
}
bar () {
echo "bar"
}
baz () {
echo "baz"
}
but () {
echo "but"
}
# END FUNCTIONS #
read -p "foo or bar? " input
{
foo &&
baz
} ||
{
bar &&
but
}
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I don't see any mention of only being allowed to use a semicolon. I don't have a test system handy unfortunately.
Ideally you'd simplify or separate your logic so that you're not relying so much on bash. If you need complex logic, I'd use another language, depending on what's available in your environment.
Ah! I misinterpreted what I read! I found that exact same reference link when looking into this and I misinterpreted this:
The semicolon (or newline) following list
is required
to mean that it required the semicolon as the command separator. That explains why my script works. The newline closes each group, and the other operators are allowed, the list just needs to be closed. Thank you!
My environment is just my homelab. Ubuntu server on my server, Arch (btw) on my laptop. So I could go with any language , but right now I'm choosing Bash. I know stuff I'm doing would probably be easier in a different language, and maybe I'm a glutton for punishment. I just want to get really good with Bash.
The logic is Bash is gonna be available on just about any computing environment I encounter (linux especially, but even Windows with WSL and zsh on macOS (which I know is different, but still very similar). But really, I am just enjoying the hell out of learning and scripting with Bash. I'll move on to Python or something someday.
Pentagon tightens rules on getting medical waivers to join the military
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Discussion between me and Ivor Cummins about the plans to implement AI-powered systems for "efficient" government operations and crisis managementJacob Nordangård (The Pharos Chronicles – Jacob Nordangård, PhD)
Facts don't change minds, structure does
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Why do facts bounce off some people? It’s not about logic; it’s about structure. Your worldview isn’t a list of opinions—it's a living network. And right now, it's at war.Vas Zayarskiy
The Justice Department is trying another tactic to quell MAGA rage over the Epstein files.The New Republic
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Bernice King isn’t falling for Donald Trump’s efforts to distract from the Epstein files.The New Republic
Yes, it's evil that employers--even those owned by Whites--will let you go for speaking pro-White points.
It is also childishly stupid--essentially asking to be hit without a trade-off of having curated any benefit--to go on Jubilee, smirk, make yourself look like a dumbass to an unmoved audience of degenerates who now have your name and face.
This isn't akin to the "I was protecting my child and possessions in a park, and yes I will call them a nigger for being a nigger" situation. This is waltzing to their trench (out of view of anyone who would be convinced anyway) and farting and asking for resources now that your ass is on fire.
Christ spoke in parables to the general crowd (for numerous reasons) and ran to the mountains after speaking, frequently.
We are not greater than Christ.
We have anonymity as our protection when speaking to the general crowd, allowing us straight-talk rather than parables--rather than needing parables for plausible deniability. And we still have parables as a method for irl group talk--but never for an audience that DOES NOT INCLUDE people that would hear you. No benefit.
Jesus literally faced this.
Luke 22:70
>And they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” And he said to them, “You say that I am.”
Und die wahre Kunst ist es, dabei noch nicht einmal rote Linien zu überschreiten!
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really interesting to read @nullagent thread on LORA/ #meshtastic vs his preferred #meshcore. I'm also kinda surprised meshtastic uses the MAC as the identity, and if meshcore uses an encryption key that is really a huge improvement (decouples identity from radio). anyway I'll check out what's up on meshcore down here in LA.
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This is a subtoot and should probably be a blog post. But basically some techbros are re-inventing mesh radios (badly). Low cost, developer friendly mesh radios have kinda been going in circles for decades.PartyOn
@tomjennings
Oh cool. I hadn't heard the name frogtown before, but I've spent a bunch of time fishing with my kids in LA river Elysian park area. My kid who loves fishing is now into rock climbing at the gym so we haven't been this year 😕
It seems like meshtastic has actually adopted some of the complaints.
@tomjennings
There's a new "routing" feature for direct messaging, and a public key crypto system for DMs. I still don't like the MAC as identity rather than crypto-key as identity, but looking at the meshcore map, there's like ~10 nodes in all of SoCal... so it's not really an option.
If you're primarily interested in "group channels" rather than DMs the two seem very similar. I guess meshtastic even has a store-and forward system?
toxicity is hard to deal with though
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A House committee has just approved a Republican bill to subpoena Maxwell.The New Republic
War in Gaza tests ties between Israel and traditional European allies
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Black people give this country far too much grace.
#BlackLivesMatter #ACAB #FilmThePolice #FL #Florida #Police #AbolishThepolice #DefundThePolice
This young man's driver side window did not work.
So when he couldn't open it on demand the cops just kept escalating.
Obviously he was scared to try and open his driver side door because he didn't want that to be seen as a threat to the cops.
So he sat patiently, opened his passenger side window and tried to explain it to the cops partner who was on that side.
They simply refused to believe he couldn't open his window and busted it out instead.
WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY HITTING HIM.
The US is a hellhole.
And we in the EU are moving very fast in that direction.
Jesus fuck.
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ICE really wants to sneak up on any immigrants while no one is watching.
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You know they say assaults on CBP and ICE officers are allegedly up 700% and about a dozen have now been shot at and one recently killed while off duty.
Just terrible.
Who could have seen this outcome coming 🤔
#ICE #CBP #OfficerDown
I think the score is one CBP agent shot dead shortly after the Inauguration, one in early July with a minor gunshot wound, and now this case with one CPB agent shot in the cheek. Also a cop shot in the neck in the Texas incident. That's 4 total plus one CEO and two Israeli Embassy staffers shot dead since the election, plus one raid that blew up with shots fired at ICE but nobody hit.
Even with the high-ups this is not "dozens" unless ICE is getting shot at during their raids and not talking about it
Chiefs press on with stadium negotiations on both sides of the Kansas-Missouri state line
https://apnews.com/article/kansas-city-chiefs-royals-arrowhead-kauffman-stadium-bead0f1904c8d45b8adee2573c0f9a4f?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Fwiw, A lot of communities are dealing with gatekeeper chasing. It's less than worthless.
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I believe you are correct on your reading but I will add that a banking crisis is a known inevitability that will benefit to the banking cartel, who will use it to consolidate power.
America actually has a great many mid-size banks, unnecessary for the new grid.
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