Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97
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i moved to portland, oregon, which is an overwhelming transition, so i'm soothing the life transition anxiety with old historical society photos from when Portland had a citywide streetcar and trolley network
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Plans and drawings of streetcars and trains from various builders. Railway companies represented include Multnomah Street Railway Company; Portland...digitalcollections.ohs.org
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Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist with a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
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Bobbie Gentry performs 'Ode To Billie Joe' live on the BBC in 1968.YouTube
As you can tell, I'm avoiding thinking about some troubling ripples in this recent episode of American Authoritarianism.
The rapid construction of other concentration camps in more states.
The ease with which these states are accepting these federal contracts.
The inevitable moment when they stop testing their apparatus on the Other and finally point it at...y'all.
Des camions transportant de l'aide d'urgence ont commencé à se diriger vers Gaza depuis l'Égypte.
C'est ce qu'a rapporté la chaîne de télévision égyptienne Al Qahera News, selon Reuters.
Cela fait suite à une pression internationale accrue sur Israël la semaine dernière, car Israël a restreint l'accès à l'aide d'urgence à Gaza, et les Palestiniens meurent donc de faim.
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Face à la décision du gouvernement d'augmenter l'aide humanitaire à la bande de Gaza, le ministre de la Sécurité nationale, Itamar Ben-Gvir, a déclaré : « C'est une faillite morale que, pendant que nos otages sont à Gaza, notre Premier ministre y envoie de l'aide humanitaire. Je pense qu'à ce stade, il faut envoyer une seule chose à Gaza : des bombes, pour bombarder, pour conquérir, pour encourager les migrations et pour gagner la guerre. »
Erst seit Gründung des Weltklimarats 1988 steigt die Temperatur rasch, nicht seit der Industrialisierung.
Hintergrund: Bezahlt man einen Romanautor nach Seiten oder einen Programmierer nach Programmzeilen, ändern beide ihr Verhalten so, dass das erwünschte Ergebnis nicht eintritt. Für „Goodharts Law” gibt es viele Beispiele.
Das größte Geschäft der Menschheit, mit einem Rat, der explizit nur „menschengemachten Klimawandel” betrachten soll, ist eines davon. Grünen-Gründer Frank Asbeck konnte mit den erhaltenen Subventionen gleich zwei Privatschlösser kaufen. Größte Profiteure sind die Besitzer von Ödland, auf dem subventionierte Windräder stehen.
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Depuis près de deux ans, Blast collabore avec Mohamed El Saife, journaliste à Gaza.
Dans ce long format exceptionnel, il visibilise au cœur de l’enfer du génocide en cours, les 3 derniers mois à Gaza. Dans une enclave palestinienne faite de ruines et de gravats, il rencontre et donne la parole à des habitants - femmes, enfants, hommes - épuisés, décimés, traumatisés par des mois de bombardements incessants, de destructions continues, de déplacements forcés auxquels s’ajoute désormais une famine organisée des plus meurtrières.
Les autorités israéliennes accélèrent ainsi leur entreprise d’éradication de tout un peuple, toujours en toute impunité, au mépris des droits humains les plus élémentaires et dans une indifférence internationale généralisée.
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Cette interview de Marc-André Selosse dénonce l'utilisation des pesticides, et notamment de l'acétamipride et des néonicotinoïdes dans la loi Duplomb, et critique les megabassines comme une mauvaise adaptation au changement climatique. Marc-André Selosse souligne le manque de science dans les décisions agricoles face aux canicules et au réchauffement climatique. Il met en lumière les dangers de ces mesures pour l'agriculture et la santé.
Cette interview a été réalisée à distance par Maxime Thuillez
CHAPITRES :
00:00 - EXTRAITS
01:30 - Introduction
02:02 - Rapport à l'agriculture
03:32 - L'acétamipride dangereux pour l'Homme ?
07:47 - Des dérogations aux interdictions pesticides
10:30 - Des alternatives ?
14:09 - Faciliter l'élevage industriel
18:35 - Faciliter les mégabassines
21:08 - Adaptation vs dépendance ?
22:16 - Changer nos cultures ?
26:07 - Le rôle du climat
26:45 - L'ANSES sous tutelle ?
30:45 - Mettre la science en sourdine
34:15 - Des pesticides dans la pluie
39:10 - L'OFB mis sous tutelle ?
42:20 - Intimidations contre les scientifiques et les écolos ?
46:33 - Le traitement médiatique de la loi ?
49:11 - L'agriculture : à la croisée des chemins ?
#politique #environnement #pollution #capitalisme #lacorde #guillotine2025
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"Planetary boundaries are interdependent. The long-term large-scale stability of the past, which allowed human societies to develop and thrive, comes from the complex interactions of biophysical processes within the Earth system. This means we cannot consider planetary boundaries in isolation in any decision-making on sustainability."
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The planetary boundaries framework highlights the rising risks from human pressure on nine critical global processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earthwww.stockholmresilience.org
I used this interview to drive home the fact that the Russians do indeed seek a diplomatic solution to the war, but on their own well-known terms which amount to a Ukrainian capitulation.Gilbert Doctorow (Armageddon Newsletter)
Boat capsizes in Nigeria's Niger state and at least 25 people feared dead, authorities say
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Syria to hold first parliamentary elections since Assad's fall in September
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think i wanna make more videos like this instead of just photos
need to re-evaluate video encoding though. SVT-AV1 has fucking horrible psychovisual properties even if you tell it to prefer SSIM instead of PSNR.
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James Watt led a similar effort to privatize natural resources for mining, energy development, logging, and sprawl.Mother Jones
Perhaps because there is already a package named `woman' to read man pages on emacs.
Thus, in a sense, they are already completed. `woman' means "without man" if I am not mistaken.
The name of the "Secret" Memorandum was not “Voluntary Migration”, quite the opposite: Israeli Intelligence Ministry Policy Paper October 2023, the objective of which was to "Expel All Palestinians from Gaza" under Option C.Global Research
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بدء عملية انزال جوي على مواصي خانيونس.tiktokgenocide.com
Injured Rishabh Pant will miss India's fifth test vs. England
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California's leading Republican candidate for governor, Kyle Langford, has a platform that includes incinerating unhoused and unemployed people in concentration camps, like Auschwitz, which he called a "beautiful work camp."
He also wants to force undocumented immigrant women to marry incels to avoid deportation. Immigrant men just get deported. And make Catholicism the official state language.
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#fascism #nazi #immigration #california #kylelangford #concentrationcamp #antisemitism #extermination #republican #auschwitz
GOP candidate for California governor Kyle Langford said he wants to give female illegal immigrants one year to get married.Billal Rahman (Newsweek)
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Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), affirmed Saturday that airdrops of humanitarian aid into Gaza are an ineffective and dangerous distraction from the urgent need to …The Palestinian Information Center
Watching a documentary, there was aremark from the journalist on how, due to how wildly taxation on goods may vary, from area to area, in the US, most retailers do not put the full prices on the shelves and instead just tally it at checkout.
This made no sense to me, a european, as when I go to any regular shop, prices already include all taxes applicable to the product.
There are specialty stores where VAT and other taxes may not be applied on the price on the shelf but those are usually wholesellers, selling for professionals, that already know what additional taxes will be added and at which rates, at checkout.
Not having the full price you'll be paying, on display, seems very underhanded and a bad practice. The client should know how much they are going to pay from the moment they pick an item.
There are often nation-wide or region-wide advertising campaigns that proudly display a price. If individual cities have different sales taxes, that would make it hard. Personally, I still don't find this to be a good reason. Just charge a single amount anyway and eat the costs in the high tax area. Price it in.
Edit: now that I'm thinking about it, many chain businesses are franchised. So each McDonald's (for example) is independently owned. So they couldn't just eat the cost in those areas.
James Watt led a similar effort to privatize natural resources for mining, energy development, logging, and sprawl.Mother Jones
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Wer das anspricht ist #Nazi. Das ist der Zustand in Deutschland.#Migration
#NurNochAFD
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A leading Dutch counterterrorism agency says Israel and the US pose a threat to The Hague, while accusing Tel Aviv of trying to manipulate public opinion and policy in the countrythecradle.co
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La vague de chaleur devrait persister jusqu'à mardi, avec un humidex pouvant atteindre 42.
Un avertissement de vague de chaleur a été émis par Environnement Canada pour le sud de lx27;Ontario.#Radio-Canada #info #information #nouvelles #actualité #src #RDI #télévision #radio #vidéo #Canada #Québec #régions #politique #économie #international #municipal #faitsdivers #arts #spectacle #sports #météo #français #Montréal
Un avertissement de vague de chaleur a été émis par Environnement Canada pour le sud de l'Ontario.Radio-Canada Info
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◾️Schmiert #Hakenkreuz auf #Wahlzettel
◾️Stört #Weidel-Interview
◾️Schließt AfD-Kandidaten von Wahl aus
◾️Dreht Abgeordneter das Mikro ab
Die heutigen #Sozialisten kopieren die damaligen bis ins Detail. #SchonWiederIstJetzt Belege:
All diese undemokratischen Vorgänge spielten sich in nur einer Woche ab, vor dem Hintergrund seit Jahren verweigerter #Ausschussvorsitze und #Vizepräsidentenposten.
Und vor dem Hintergrund des Festhaltens an fragwürdigen Kandidatinnen für das #BVerfG, deren Positionen zu #Spätabtreibungen, #Klimadiktatur und #Enteignungen zwar nicht in den #Wahlprogrammen standen, die aber in Sachen #Oppositionsverbot als sichere Bank erscheinen: Erst #AfD, dann #BSW, dann #Union.
#SPD #CDU #CSU #DieLinke #Merz ist ein #Lügner
Nach dem Stimmzettel-Skandal im Landtag prüft die Staatsanwaltschaft den Fall. Die juristische Bewertung ist knifflig.red (Stuttgarter Nachrichten)
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#politique #police #corruption
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Alors que l'enquête de l'IGPN sur l'Office anti-stupéfiants (Ofast) s'étend, trois policiers de Charleville-Mézières ont été mis en examen il y a dix jours. Y aurait-il un lien ?Marc Endeweld (The Big Picture)
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imagine many folks are in this situation
I actually feel better around completely clueless ppl than around ppl who have "knowledge" and have to sell it to you.
Especially when that "knowledge" is a well known cul-de-sac, or makes assumptions that are also disproven.
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Pew Research: Men Aged 18-29 Now the Most Republican Demographic in the Nation
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Me: Except if you look at the chart, men over 50 y.o. have an even higher percentage, but in terms of their difference with their female peers of the same age, the greatest difference in political leaning between the sexes is found among these young people.
The Democrats are going to have to hire a few more queer, plus-size, disabled Latina activists to lure young men...David Strom (HotAir)
Der private Konsum der #Familien in #Argentinien erreicht nach dieser (speziellen) Erhebung im ersten Halbjahr 2025 mit 45% #Wachstum gegenüber dem Vorjahr fast einen neuen Höchststand. Es ist das dritthöchste Halbjahr seit 2008. Nur 2011 und 2015 lag der Verbrauch höher, allerdings ohne ausgeglichenen Staatshaushalt und mit Stimulus aus der Gelddruckmaschine. Besonders hervorgehoben wird, dass insbesondere die sozial bedürftigsten Familien ihren Konsum überproportional erhöht haben.
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Several people injured after passenger train derails in southwestern Germany
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Dumb Pipe
Link: dumbpipe.dev/
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Iroh connections are dumb pipes: easy, direct connections that punch through NATs & stay connected as network conditions change.www.dumbpipe.dev
BelAZ Director General Sergei Lesin introduced the Tanzanian official to the production process of mining truck haulers and the company’s broad range of heavy-duty equipment.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
I cant say for sure that White woman is going to change her voting patterns.
And that's the problem.
When niggers attack whites it's a fight
When whites fight niggers it's an attack
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🗣 LAS #6deLaSUIZA SOMOS TODAS ✊🏾✌🏾 | No podemos ni queremos permitir que este nuevo caso de represión antisindical nos haga retroceder.
Las #6delaSuiza secuestradas en la cárcel por plantar cara a la explotación y al uso reaccionario de los tribunales, la clase trabajadora solidaria en las calles de #Valladolid 👊🏾✌🏽💪🏾
"Nos confesamos orgullosas culpables de todo lo que nos acusan de hacer, y si hemos de entrar en la cárcel por ello lo haremos con la cabeza bien alta" ❤️🖤💜🖤
Sahar grew up in a '67 settlement in the West Bank. She shared with us her journey—from living next to Palestinians and seeing them as non-existent, to becoming an anti-Zionist who speaks out against the genocide in Gaza and calls for Palestinian liberation.In the conversation, we touch on our shared experiences of dealing with friends and family, and dive deep into how the cult operates to keep its members afraid and obedient.
At the end of the episode, Sahar delivers a powerful message to our audience about critical thinking and how to remain mentally free while living inside oppressive systems.
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#cult #Zionism #SocialPsychology
Sahar grew up in a '67 settlement in the West Bank. She shared with us her journey—from living next to Palestinians and seeing them as non-existent, to becom...YouTube
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Dodgers 2-way star Shohei Ohtani to start on mound Wednesday. Team goes to 6-man rotation
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Pogačar effectively seals 4th Tour de France title as organizers neutralize times before stage ends
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Alec Baldwin talks his love for 'Peanuts' and the 'immeasurable' effects of his trial
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in reply to wet forest moon folklorist • • •love an excuse to pp over to transitmap.net
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Transit Maps: Project: A Map of Electric Streetcars in Portland, Oregon, 1915
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in reply to wet forest moon folklorist • • •Welcome to the PNW 😀
Is this your first time living here?
Did you live in Alaska long?
What about that really cool door you and your husband built? (am I remembering that correctly?)
What part of Alaska were you in?
I have aspirations to visit Alaska with my family this year or next.
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Unknown parent • • •@sidereal This was the whole west coast; the Bay, Seattle, Los Angeles.
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in reply to Joel Ethan Koan • • •@kschroder wild how we grew up thinking streetcars were this really cool quirk of san francisco alone, and didn't understand what was taken from us
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The SF bay area had the Key system.
Huge amounts of rail were just ripped up nationwide, and we STILL haven't got back to the level of service we had in the 60s....
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Watch American passenger rail shrivel up and die in this animated map
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If you like streetcars, I invite you to come to Toronto, Ontario, where we have a fairly extensive (and expanding) network. Although I guess these are more like small street trains than tram cars.
I believe you can also find them In other Canadian
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Photo Credit: Bobit Studios
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Nice