Woohoo! The "I Love America Social" group on Truth Social has hit 5k members! I love you all! God bless!
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Woohoo! The "I Love America Social" group on Truth Social has hit 5k members! I love you all! God bless!
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Με το που πλησίασε το #Handala την Ελλάδα (τώρα βρίσκεται νότια της Κρήτης), εμφανίστηκαν τα drones
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I was so young when I was born
My eyes could not yet see
And by the time of my first dawn
Somebody holding me, they said
I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace
We've been expecting you
You bring such joy in Crackerbox Palace
No matter where you roam, know our love is true
While growing up or trying to
Not knowing where to start
I looked around for someone who
May help reveal my heart - someone said
While you're a part of Crackerbox Palace
Do what the rest all do
Or face the fact that Crackerbox Palace
May have no other choice than to deport you
I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace
We've been expecting you
You bring such joy in Crackerbox Palace
No matter where you roam, know our love is true
It's true, it's true
Some times are good, some times are bad
That's all a part of life
And standing in between them all
I met a Mr. Greif - and he said
I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace
Was not expecting you
Let's rap and tap at Crackerbox Palace
Know that the Lord is well and inside of you
And we, welcome you to Crackerbox Palace
We've been expecting you
You bring such joy in Crackerbox Palace
No matter where you roam, know our love is true
You bring such joy in Crackerbox Palace
No matter where you roam, know our love
Know our love is true
Everyone seems to forget that Colbert was about to be fired from the Tonight Show in 2016. Then he discovered Trump hate. He saved himself by restructuring a light hearted comedy show into Orwell's two minutes hate.
The hate wave is petering out. Now everyone's pretending that he had something to offer.
The US decision to leave UNESCO again puts a spotlight on what the agency does and why it matters
https://apnews.com/article/what-is-unesco-explainer-us-funding-6797042db1016bacf0d522366dbe809a?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into International News @international-news-AssociatedPress
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Epiphany from Joan Goodman's book "When Slow Is Fast Enough": IEPs amount to "mandatory behaviorism." Their focus on specific, measurable behaviors "forces teachers to concentrate on narrow accomplishments, restrict free choice," and manipulate kids with extrinsic inducements.
"The more specific the goal, the more control must be exerted over the response, so only an extraordinarily ingenious teacher can be child-directed and flexible yet [still] conform to the IEP law."
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“My Sweet Lord” has overt religious connotations and references. What makes the religious content of this song different from most, however, is its usage of both Christian and Hindu terminology. Harrison’s goal in combining both religions in one song was to call out religious sectarianism, or the perceived notion of conflict between groups. To put it simply, Harrison just wanted everyone to get along, so he wrote a song.
Within the song itself, the Christian references appear via the repetition of My sweet Lord, as well as using the call to faith phrase Hallelujah. Also in the lyrics are the phrases Hare Krishna and Hare Rama, which praise the Hindu god Krishna.
Just a few months after Harrison released “My Sweet Lord,” he was sued by Bright Tunes Music Corporation for copyright infringement. The organization claimed that Harrison had taken unauthorized inspiration from the Ronnie Mack song “He’s So Fine.” (Bright Tunes owned the publishing rights to the song at that point in time due to Mack’s death.)
During the suit, Harrison explained that he actually drew inspiration from The Edwin Hawkins Signers’ song “Oh Happy Day,” not Mack’s tune. Unfortunately, though, Harrison was found guilty of “subconscious plagiarism” on August 31, 1976.
Another deceptive leftist faggot.
The Somalis in the US are not Somali general population.
What this graph shows is that some of the smartest, hardest working, and entrepreneuring Somalis, filtered by their ability to escape Somalia and reach the US, have an average IQ of 86.
This is the best they have, and it's on the verge of retardation (according to the old definitions prior to 1976).
Just a point above the standard variety of American niggers.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) warned that its freelance reporters in the Gaza Strip are now facing the risk of dying from hunger due to worsening living conditions amid the ongoing siege and the collapse of basic services.www.saba.ye
China building mekasuits.
nextgendefense.com/china-exosu…
The Kestrel exosuit boosts mobility and endurance for drone operators, featuring limb supports, AR displays, and possible drone deployment.Joe Saballa (NextGen Defense)
Keir Starmer's decision to cut humanitarian aid in order to fund military spending is already having a deeply damaging impact, argues Iain OvertonIain Overton (Byline Times)
The action by the Charity Commission followed a Byline Times investigation into the video, which appeared to show a Palestinian being hit by Israeli munitionsIain Overton (Byline Times)
En trois jours, 21 enfants sont morts de malnutrition à Gaza.
Combien de temps allons nous encore regarder un génocide se dérouler sous nos yeux ?
Les Écologistes appellent à un cessez-le-feu immédiat et à la libre circulation de l’aide humanitaire.
👉 lemonde.fr/international/live/…
Plusieurs centaines d’ONG, dont Médecins sans frontière, Médecins du Monde et Oxfam, alertent mercredi sur une « famine de masse qui se propage dans la bande de Gaza ».Le Monde.fr
As Gaza burns, Labour is split at a critical moment—ministers push for Palestine recognition while Lisa Nandy wages war on the BBC.Mike Sivier (Vox Political)
Police nonsense over Palestine Action proscription continues as Ian Hislop jokingly bemoans officers never having heard of Private EyeMaryam Jameela (The Canary)
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) admitted losing two soldiers in separate incidents in the southern Gaza Strip on July 21....Anonymous1199 (South Front)
Patriarchy stretches to every corner of the world. Rahila Gupta takes us from Riyadh and Russia to Rojava to spotlight the women who dare to resist.
Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company
bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gx288…
Transport company KNP forced to shut down after international hacker gangs target thousands of UK businesses.Richard Bilton (BBC News)
Nothing there about the danger the men on board those small boats will pose to women and girls, I see 😑
theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…
Home Office orders diversion from usual landing place to Ramsgate to avoid clashes with far rightDiane Taylor (The Guardian)
Replit, une startup californienne bien connue pour son IDE dans le cloud et ses ambitions en IA, vient de vivre une humiliation publique.Aymeric Geoffre-Rouland (Les Numériques)
There's gambling going on here....
US attorney says Minnesota government fraud could exceed $1 billion - KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News
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Joe Thompson also said that when current investigations are prosecuted and finished, the scope of fraud in Minnesota government programs could exceed $1 billion.Cory Knudsen (KSTP-TV LLC)
<<Common Sweetener Could Damage Critical Brain Barrier, Risking Stroke>>
No need to read it. You just need to know they're talking about erythritol.
I just find it funny how for the past 4 years or so everything that was always safe and caused no serious health issues, causes strokes, myocarditis, pericarditis and uncontrollable clothing disorders.
And of course, the fauci sauce is always safe and effective. Be a good person. Go get jabbed again.
sciencealert.com/common-sweete…
Found in everything from protein bars to energy drinks, erythritol has long been considered a safe alternative to sugar.The Conversation (ScienceAlert)
#antifa_Lesvos
Η μούργα του ντουνιά:
Πλωμαρίτης οσφυοκάμπτης γενοκτόνων σχολιάζει το χτεσινό μπλόκο στο ισραηλινό κρουαζιερόπλοιο στη Σύρο.
Προσέξτε τη ρητορική "να πάρουν οι καταστηματάρχες το νόμο στα χέρια τους".
Ίδια γράφτηκαν και στις παραμονές του πογκρομ της πλατείας Σαπφούς. (22/4/2018)
The Israeli Foreign Minister made an urgent phone called to his Greek counterpart following a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Greece that trapped hundreds of Israelis aboard a cruise ship in a local port.iranpress.com
⚡🇬🇧🇮🇱 Famous British comedian Mr. Bean:
"As a human being and a comedian who has lived through people’s stories… I cannot stay silent while two million are deprived of life’s most basic needs — in the name of false humanity.
We must all raise our voices loudly… Enough death."
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Imagine warding off the Mongolian horde side by side with your neighbor then being told you need to go back to fighting each other..
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol…
> Warring European princes realized they had to cooperate in the face of a Mongol invasion, so local wars and conflicts were suspended in parts of central Europe, only to be resumed after the Mongols had withdrawn.
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I wonder if there's a way to establish a precise measurement (e.g. make a block that you know to be 1 inch tall, plus or minus 1/10,000th of an inch) using only rough measurements, like a tape measure, or even a home made ruler based on what you THINK is an inch.
I'm thinking the answer is yes, and using angular measurement as a precision amplifier.
Actually I think it's better. The reason is because the amount that you drive every week or month or so is arguably fixed, and L/100k directly converts that into liters which is a proxy for cost.
Why that's important is because MPG can give you misleading intuition. For example: Lets say you're buying a car and a truck, you will drive both roughly equally, you could spend a little extra on a 40 MPG car rather than a 35 MPG car, or you could use that money instead to spend a little extra on an 11 MPG truck rather than a 10 MPG truck. Which one should you choose?
It's not immediately obvious and can't solve it in your head...
But here are the conversions:
11 MPG = 21.38 L/100k
10 MPG = 23.52 L/100k
40 MPG = 5.88 L/100k
35 MPG = 6.72 L/100k
So the 1 MPG between 10 and 11 is worth 2.14 L/100k, but the 5 MPG between 35 and 40 is only worth 0.84 L/100k. Investing extra in the truck is the better choice, and L/100k easily tells you that but MPG doesn't.
Petit rappel pour améliorer grandement sa tranquillité : installer sur son téléphone Android le bloqueur d'appels indésirables #YetAnotherCallBlocker
Après un an d'utilisation, la conclusion est claire : c'est top !
Ça fonctionne parfaitement bien et tous les insupportables appels pour vous parler des aides de l'État, ou pour Ma Prime Rénov, ou pour l'assurance-vie Machin, etc. sont automatiquement rejetés.
À télécharger sur F-Droid :
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Sources :
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Block unwanted calls effortlesslyf-droid.org
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Indian police arrest a suspected scammer running a fake embassy near New Delhi
https://apnews.com/article/india-fake-embassy-arrest-bddf800f5d851320d2d2c32ce318756f?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Asia @asia-AssociatedPress
Indonesian police arrest 44 people suspected of starting forest fires
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-forest-fires-arrests-smoke-environment-health-bfa93ff2ed819fdfcdca5da90e2a1010?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Asia @asia-AssociatedPress
"I never imagined that hunger could be more terrifying than the bombs and killing. This weapon caught us off-guard, something we never thought would be more brutal than anything else we’ve faced in this endless war.
It’s been four months without a single full meal for my family, nothing that meets even the basic needs on Maslow’s hierarchy"
Al Jazeera’s Maram Humaid
#Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Starvation
aljazeera.com/features/2025/7/…
Al Jazeera’s Maram Humaid writes about trying to take care of her children while worrying her family will starve.Maram Humaid (Al Jazeera)
Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens
Medical staff say they are struggling to function well enough to care for injured and malnourished civilians in overwhelmed hospitals
theguardian.com/global-develop…
#Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Starvation
Malnourished medical staff say they are struggling to provide care to injured civilians, while recovery rates are also hit byAnnie Kelly (The Guardian)
The World Health Organization reported that 94% of Gaza’s medical facilities have been directly damaged by Israel.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Israel said on Tuesday there were 950 trucks' worth of aid waiting in Gaza - but the agencies accuse Israel of blocking access to it.BBC News
“Palestinian women and girls carry the promise of the continuity of Palestinian life.”Al Jazeera
From experience, some people live in a different world. Genocide is not genocide. Children are not starving. It's all because of Hamas. Israelis are totally innocent.
archive.is/dLU7b
@palestine
The Israeli atrocities against innocent civilians, including systematic starvation of over two million Palestinians in Gaza, are making headlines across major UK dailies.
STILL NO MENTION OF ISRAEL ON FRONT PAGE.
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS #palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml
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“Everyone is just really messed up right now. We don’t know where Eliotte is. We need to find her,” the missing woman’s brother told News 8 Now.Patrick Reilly (New York Post)
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With Sonoma, Apple grafted their iOS widget system to macOS. Of course, widgets are something we’ve enjoyed for a long while on KDE, starting with Plasma 4. But Apple’s implementation IS better in some regards.
Widgets can auto align if you want them to: dragging a widget close to another one you’ve already placed displays a white outline that will make the new widget snap in place, so everything looks tidy.
Something that is very, very difficult to do in KDE. Most widgets don’t have a similar aspect ratio, or size, and resizing them tends to be a finicky operation. On top of that, Apple offers multiple preset sizes for their widgets, and these can be changed on the fly. But these widgets are also a lot less functional than the ones we have on KDE.
They’re not really interactive: you can just click on them to open the related app. That’s it. No note taking straight in the notes widget, no clicking on a specific day in the weather widget. And there’s also no “user contributed widget directory”.
One new feature in MacOS Sonoma is a better autocorrect and predictive text system. Autocorrect can be a bit annoying on a computer, but the predictive text can be a game-changer, especially for those with disabilities.
On Linux, we have something called iBus typing booster, which does pretty much the same thing, but it is hidden in the input sources settings, and not an easy one click toggle. The way it works is also pretty distracting, as it displays a complete pop-up with word suggestions that flickers in and out of existence with each character you type.
MacOS Sonoma brings 2 main improvements for gaming: the first one is game mode, which does exactly the same thing as its Linux equivalent: it gives CPU priority to the game that's currently running, and also reduces latency for bluetooth controllers and bluetooth headphones, something that we DO NOT have on Linux, and that's been an issue for a lot of people.
The second thing is their game porting toolkit, which lets developers test their games on Apple Silicon macs. And this toolkit basically converts DirectX12 games into Metal Games thanks to a translation layer. It shares a lot of DNA with Proton, since it's based on Wine, and the same kind of translation DXVK does. Performance is no good yet, though.
Sonoma lets you set some animated screensavers, that represent a bunch of landscapes, cityscapes, even underwater scenes and Earth views. When you unlock your mac, this animation will seamlessly transition into your wallpaper.
On Linux, we do have animated wallpapers. Screensavers aren’t really a thing on Linux anymore, you can add them back.
Now in terms of OS compatibility, there's an important “feature” in MacOS Sonoma that we need to spotlight. Unlike Linux's broad compatibility, which supports a diverse range of devices of all ages, MacOS Sonoma adopts a more restrictive approach, narrowing down its compatibility to Macs manufactured from 2018 onwards.
Now, Safari can boast,of profiles to separate for example your work and personal browsing. They also now support web apps that can be pinned to your dock.. A bunch of web browsers on Linux can do that already.
FaceTime now lets you overlay yourself on top of the slides or screen that you’re sharing with others. This already exists as “presenter mode” on Microsoft Teams, which is available on Linux as well. And of course, as long as Facetime doesn’t have an app for Windows, no one will use it in a professional context, so what’s the point?
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.Discord
#NewMexico #Pinon #Coffee #K-Cups #recalled.
local12.com/news/nation-world/…
The FDA issued a recall for coffee pods sold nationwide due to an issue that could potentially contaminate the product with ink.WKRC
Haul of the month
So ... someone wanted to throw this piece of furniture away.
We decided to rescue it and now it will need some slight #restauration #woodworking #antique
That is a mall bar cabinet with rather nice carvings.
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Impressive! Do you intend to lighten it at all, or just keep the color as it is?
It strikes me that now with CNC, everyone should be able to have furniture with beautiful carvings on it.
@cjd i plan to carefully improve the surfaces. the top surface might have to be carefully sanded and then a new layer of shellack on it.
I see some other spots, i'll ask people that know what they are doing there first.
Some hardware needs replacing. The right rear foot has broken off - its a clean break though and i have the broken off foot.
Besides that ... i want to have it stand there and give me some time and thinking and then ... lets see.
@cjd more like this:
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@cjd no. Not with a consumer grade 3 axis machine. Not by a long shot. To get anywhere close you need a five axis mill, and at that point your shape file requires a lot more work than drawing in 2D and adding a depth to it.
And you'd still get all sorts of ugly tear-out and artefacts because a carving blade doesn't move at a thousand ripms. It's an artform. And chip carving is very simple and low barrier to entry. Piece of wood and a short, stiff, straight blade. And some time.
Hmm indeed. My thought was not so much to fool people into thinking it was hand carved, but more to easily make something with a really pleasant aesthetic. I imagine probably:
1. The type of wood matters a lot
2. There are some shapes you can't do (e.g. sharp cracks)
3. Choice of tools and speeds matters a lot as well
I imagine probably some dremel tooling would do finishing passes pretty well.
@cjd That's kinda my point: it is surprisingly easy to do basic woodcarving. And very accessible. Whereas getting the machinery, tooling and process dialed in to approximate it is very much not. And the result will always be inferior, in my book at least.
* The physics of how router bits cut is inferior to a slow slicing knife
* The end result is as close to interchangable with any other panel you ran with the same pattern
Well, it might be approachable, but I'm not that motivated to become any good at it. There are lots of activities like gardening, hiking, reading a book, and of course wood carving, which are great things to do, but they're not *my* favorite because I just more enjoy doing things which have some potential to add to the body of human knowledge.
I know that's going to sound pretentious as hell, and let me assure you that I don't consider myself to be of any historical significance whatsoever. Also, I never think of my leisure activities as being to some kind of professional standard... the goal isn't to work, it's to have fun.
But the selection of things I like to do is those which have the theoretical potential to somehow contribute something. Even my worthless commentary here on the Fedi is something that could potentially get scraped up by an AI, which gets copied into a better AI, and then a better one, and eventually ends up being a couple of bits of weights in some future global super-intelligence, thereby adding one quadrillionth* of one percent to the history of human progress.
So for me, I more enjoy the idea of futzing around with CNC machines and publishing my bad designs in little git repos.
*It's probably a bigger denominator, but I don't know any larger numbers than that.
Org tutorials
Link: orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
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Good morning all
I returned to Texas last night. The service for mom went great. I don't for one second regret returning to VA to honor her memory. Many of mom's prayer fellowship were there, plus old family friends, and her sister was able to come. It was not a funeral; my mom didn't want that. It was a memorial tribute to her and it was mostly an acknowledgement of a life well- lived.
We live-streamed it. I sent the link to everyone invited. My brother never even opened the email.
So, that's that. I did my duty to tell him.
The hospice chaplain attended via the link and he messaged me that it was a great service. He told me I did the right thing by going back to the DMV to have it there.
I'll bet my brother never does his own service for her. Even small ones take planning, effort AND money. He never did any of those with mom.
The church was too small to have a luncheon so instead, I gave all attendees a purple gift bag that I filled with mom's favorite foods.
The bag contained
A foil- lined sandwich bag with 2 fried chicken wings
Mini bottles of hot sauce
A container of pasta salad with grilled vegetables and poppy-seed dressing
A bag of Utz Crab(Old Bay- flavored) potato chips
A can of Coke
A slice of white chocolate mousse cake from Stella's Bakery
A handful of Tootsie Rolls
Two gold forks
A gift tag with mom's picture.
I was happy with the service. At first, not having a luncheon bothered me but it turned out to be better. Everyone was tired.
The guests were mostly older folks who battled over two hours of terrible traffic to get there. They needed to get back and have a rest and I was pretty much at my end, too. I had to make the gift bags, design a program, pick the songs for the service, write a biography and a tribute to my mom, order flowers, and make a tribute video in less than 2 weeks. I was plumb tuckered, as they used to say.
Thank God for good friends. They chipped in time to help me make everything and extra $$.
I gained five pounds and felt like a VIP with all the invitations to breakfast, lunch and dinner. I think we were taken out to eat like fifteen times!
We had Mike's American grill 2x, Coastal Flats 2x, Artie's, breakfast (First Watch & Metro 29 Diner) fish and chips, had Ledo's pizza a few times, and of course we went to Stella's.
I tried to bring home a small mousse cake with us but somehow the melted ice seeped into the carefully wrapped plastic bag and saturated it. Epic fail.
I hate that my mom's not with us any longer for ME, not for her. Mom is fine now having the time of her life and enjoying perfect health. But it's a big adjustment for us.
Even though I have more time on my hands, and my anxiety level has dropped considerably, I'd rather have my mom here. But like she was before the strokes, NOT like these final years. It was a very long decline and I'm happy she's no longer suffering.
I will now be able to visit friends in VA more often, and I will.
Just now read this -- I've been out-to-lunch for a few days (or maybe just plain out-of-it??)
Your tribute to your mom sounds like a sweet success, just like she would wish for. So glad it went well. And as for your brother, you did indeed do the best that anyone could do while keeping proper boundaries. Well done!
You'll be in my thoughts and prayers as you process this huge life change. ❤ ❤
I agree.
Industrial meat farming is dirty and unhealthy in many ways.
It would be great to know where my meat comes from. One of these days I'll be able to afford buying a half cow at a time straight from the farmer.
That's what my dad and brother-in-law do with bison. They split a half bison a couple of times a year directly from a rancher. You have to have a big freezer, and the upfront cost is high, but it's a great way of doing things other than that.
Kyle Becker
BREAKING: Mass protests have erupted in Kyiv, Ukraine against President Volodymyr Zelensky
This is the first known major protest against the Ukrainian leader.
Thousands of people have turned out in the streets of Kyiv to protest moves by Zelensky’s government to block anti-corruption measures.
The vote targeted the independence of Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies, including the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) that was made infamous with Joe Biden's threats against the prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden's corrupt activity at Burisma.
The Ukraine government is also becoming increasingly unpopular due to Zelensky's refusal to seek an end to the war.
Zelensky has established control over state media, outlawed over a dozen political parties, and has suspended democratic elections while he is in power. BREAKING: Mass protests have erupted in Kyiv, Ukraine against President Volodymyr Zelensky.
This is the first known major protest against the Ukrainian leader.
Thousands of people have turned out in the streets of Kyiv to protest moves by Zelensky’s government to block anti-corruption measures.
The vote targeted the independence of Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies, including the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) that was made infamous with Joe Biden's threats against the prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden's corrupt activity at Burisma.
The Ukraine government is also becoming increasingly unpopular due to Zelensky's refusal to seek an end to the war.
Zelensky has established control over state media, outlawed over a dozen political parties, and has suspended democratic elections while he is in power.
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We've arrived at the stage where our 'global leaders' are expressing their 'horror' about Israel's extermination of the people of #Gaza. The UK's foreign secretary says he's "sickened".
Call it the 'emotion stage'. What purpose does it have?
The emotion stage is meant to make those leaders seem less sociopathic to you. True, they've not used their power to stop Israel. And you know it. And they're still not doing that. But they want you to know that, nonetheless, 'they feel it too'.
The next stage will repeat the familiar: our 'global leaders' will get distracted again by the next row over alleged antisemitism. Perhaps it's an artist calling for Israel to be dismantled. Perhaps it's an aid-worker saying that this is just as bad as Auschwitz.
And all the time, nothing will happen. I'll predict that for you. As long as you keep waiting for your 'horrified global leaders' to do the right thing, the people still alive in Gaza will continue to starve and will continue to be torn apart by bombs.
Don't wait for those 'leaders' to do the right thing. Continuing to sit on their hands must be made simply too costly. You must help inflate the personal cost, the political cost, and the economic cost of supporting a #genocide. Inflate it until it hurts them. Only then will something happen.
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My Android phone just performed a forced, unauthorized OS update, removing root access in the process.
Despite automatic updates being explicitly disabled.
The tech industry's understanding of "consent" is contemptuous.
"No" means "no", not "maybe later", or "unless you think you know better".
Last updated: 9 June 2025, I will just leave this here!
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If you think anything is factually incorrect, please let him know.
#Privacy #Security #Android #GrapheneOS #CalyxOS #EOS #LineageOS #Android
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