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Yemeni Forces Launch 4th Phase of Anti-Israeli Naval Operations tn.ai/3363653

Yemeni Forces Launch 4th Phase of Anti-Israeli Naval Operations

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Yemen’s military announced a new phase of intensified operations targeting Israeli-linked maritime activity, vowing to continue its campaign until the Zionist regime ends its brutal aggression and blockade on Gaza.
Tasnim News Agency

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Why Quality Sofa Upholstery Services Are Worth Every Penny

Last year, I was sitting on my grandmother's vintage sofa, the one with elegant curved arms and deep buttons, when I noticed the fabric was wearing thin. The thought of replacing this family treasure was heartbreaking. That's when I discovered the magic of sofa upholstery services, and it completely changed my perspective.

The Art of Reviving Old Favorites


Your sofa is more than just furniture; it's where you relax with a book, where your kids build pillow forts, and where your pet sneaks in for afternoon naps. When it starts showing its age, quality sofa upholstery services can transform it from tired to inspired.

Why Your Sofa Deserves the Best


Remember the excitement when you first bought your sofa? The pristine fabric and perfect cushioning made it love at first sit. Professional Singapore sofa upholstery can bring back that magic for several reasons:

Craftsmanship That Matters
A skilled upholsterer doesn't just recover your furniture; they examine the frame, reinforce weak spots, and replace worn springs. Their attention to detail is akin to a master chef plating a fine dining experience.

Sustainable Style
In a throwaway culture, preserving a piece of furniture is deeply satisfying. Choosing sofa upholstery services over buying new is not only cost-effective but also environmentally friendly. Plus, you get to keep the comfort you've grown accustomed to over the years.

Personalization
When I had my sofa reupholstered, I could choose the fabric and even add extra padding for my back issues. This level of customization is hard to find in store-bought pieces.

Making the Right Choice


Finding the right sofa upholstery services is like finding a good hairdresser. Look for professionals who:

  • Take time to understand your needs
  • Show their previous work
  • Explain their process clearly
  • Offer fabric recommendations based on your lifestyle


The Investment That Pays Off


Quality sofa upholstery services might seem pricey initially. But consider this: my grandmother's sofa has been reupholstered twice in 40 years and is still in great condition. Compared to buying a new sofa every 5-7 years, the cost-benefit analysis becomes clear.

A Real-Life Success Story


My friend Jason was about to discard her "ugly" sofa until I suggested reupholstering. The transformation was remarkable—she saved a solid hardwood frame from the landfill and achieved the exact look she wanted for less than the cost of a new sofa. Now, she's a vocal advocate for sofa upholstery services.

The Bottom Line


Your sofa is the heart of your living space. Investing in quality sofa upholstery services preserves family heirlooms and gives new life to comfy favorites. With the right care and craftsmanship, you can keep the stories alive while creating new chapters in style and comfort. Isn't that worth the investment?

When you're ready to give your sofa a second chance, take the time to find the right professional. The best sofa upholstery services don't just recover furniture; they help preserve memories and create beautiful, comfortable spaces for new ones to form.

After all, some things are worth keeping around. With proper care and occasional updating through professional upholstery, your sofa can continue to be a cherished part of your home.

Singapore Sofa Upholstery Services Starting from $70 - Z.Mivins

Professional sofa upholstery services in Singapore. Renew and restore your sofa with quality craftsmanship and fabrics at the latest low prices. Call now!
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>horror games are now getting banned from itch.io and probably steam soon

FUCKING WARNED THEM I TELL YA :laughingatyou:

Download the latest indie games

itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you covered.
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salty "CunnyConnoisseur" apollyon

@smugumin the jewK is also using it's new draconian laws to censor any talks about protests or problems with inmigrants

apperently some american politicians also want to bring back a similar bill

censorship bros are gonna get the whole package and they are getting raped first if it comes to that lmao

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tiddlywinkler

Paul Newman had a thing for turning Volvo wagons into sleepers. He had them built in Birmingham at HESCO. The owner of HESCO built Bobby Allison's NASCAR engines when Bobby was driving Buicks, so he had extra Buick 3.8l V6's in his shop, and that's what he stuffed into Newman's Volvo.

HESCO is for sale, because Lee Hurley is in his 80's and wants to retire. He's got it listed on Facebook Marketplace, LOL.

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'Indefensible': Reform movement joins Jewish-American voices warning about starvation in Gaza haaretz.com/us-news/2025-07-28…

'Indefensible': Reform movement joins Jewish American voices warning about starvation in Gaza

Just hours after the American Jewish Committee issued a statement expressing deep concern about acute food shortages in Gaza, the Reform movement put out its own response, saying Israel was 'culpable'
Judy Maltz (Haaretz)
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monovergent 🛠️

Mobile CPUs (any any direct-die cooling for that matter) are more prone to pump-out, where the chip and heatsink expand at different rates with temperature changes, and the varying gap between the two creates a pumping action. It's best to use a thicker paste to avoid it, or even better, a thermal pad. Not that it's the best in the long run, but I have gotten away with the thinner MX-4 in my laptop for about a year.

If you have maybe $30 to spare, consider buying some PTM 7950 since it's second only to liquid metal (very hard to get right), and should be good for many years. Be sure to get it from reputable sellers though since there are fakes for PTM 7950.

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一代人有一代人的审美

上次吃饭，我妈回来和我说我外甥女的直角肩难看死了。
还是我的那种溜肩膀好看

按我妈的审美，金珍妮 宁艺卓的肩膀是不能看
刘亦菲的那种是真的绝

这种审美还比较古风，汉服的话，确实是溜肩穿才好看

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America is built on prison labor. When will the labor movement defend prisoners?

“Incarcerated workers are a part of the working class,” award-winning journalist Kim Kelly says. And we are “not telling the real history of labor in this country if [we’re] not focusing on the organizing efforts and the labor of people who are in prison.”

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#labor #movement #prison #working #class


America is built on prison labor. When will the labor movement defend prisoners?

“Incarcerated workers are a part of the working class,” award-winning journalist Kim Kelly says. And we are “not telling the real history of labor in this country if [we’re] not focusing on the organizing efforts and the labor of people who are in pr…
Mansa Musa (The Real News Network)

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A Glenmark Pharmaceuticals factory in central India was responsible for an outsized share of recalls for pills that didn’t dissolve properly and could harm American patients.

In a string of recalls, federal regulators had determined that more than 50 million potassium chloride extended-release capsules sold in the U.S. could be deadly.

Yet, federal drug inspectors at that point hadn’t set foot in the Madhya Pradesh factory for more than four years

Seven weeks after that story was published, FDA inspectors showed up at the plant and found serious problems.

Glenmark subsequently recalled an additional two dozen medicines made there and sold to U.S. patients.

Now the FDA has sent Glenmark a warning letter, a disciplinary tool the regulator uses to lay out significant violations of federal requirements and demand changes.

If Glenmark fails to fix any of the problems outlined, the FDA warned, it may bar drugs made at the factory from entering the U.S.

What’s more, the FDA pointed out that the company had made similar serious mistakes at three other manufacturing sites
and acknowledged that those factories had been the subject of previous warning letters from the agency since 2019.

The problems at one were so severe that federal regulators blocked drugs made there from being imported to Americans.

ProPublica’s December investigation highlighted this pattern,
noting that three of the five factories where Glenmark made drugs for the U.S. market in recent years had been in trouble with federal regulators.

Despite that track record, the FDA
— backlogged from the pandemic
— waited five years before sending its inspectors back to the Madhya Pradesh plant

propublica.org/article/fda-let…


FDA Cracks Down on Indian Factory That Made a Drug Linked to U.S. Deaths

In a warning letter, the Food and Drug Administration said Glenmark Pharmaceuticals failed to properly investigate flaws with a generic drug that ProPublica found was linked to U.S. deaths.
ProPublica

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More tuna, ham salad products made by Oregon company recalled due to possible listeria contamination oregonlive.com/retail/2025/07/…

#OregonLive #oregon


More tuna, ham salad products made by Oregon company recalled due to possible listeria contamination

The recall expands upon a list of ready-made salads recalled earlier this month.
Veronica Nocera | The Oregonian/OregonLive (oregonlive)

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BP appoints new chair to oversee shift back to fossil fuels

BP has been rapidly scaling back its green portfolio. Last week, it agreed to sell its onshore wind business in the US, as part of a plan to offload $20bn in assets to “simplify and focus the business”.


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#SayNoToFossilFuel


BP appoints new chair to oversee shift back to fossil fuels

Albert Manifold, ex-boss at buildings material company CRH, to take over from embattled Helge Lund
Lauren Almeida (The Guardian)

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BREAKING: Manhattan Mass Shooter Identified: 27-Year-Old Shane Tamura from Las Vegas

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BREAKING: Manhattan Mass Shooter Identified: 27-Year-Old Shane Tamura from Las Vegas | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

          The Manhattan mass shooter has been identified as 27-year-old Shane Tamura from Las Vegas.
Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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Why do atomic distros not contain good backup tooling by default?

I have tested a lot of atomic and traditional distributions lately. Tons of desktop environments strictly for fun and branching out. Having a 1 2 3 backup strategy and not just having it in place, but being able to restore your backup in a timely manner to keep continuity is paramount. You can list infinite reasons why.

Why do atomic distros which are supposed to me more stable, superior to some degree immutable environments lack good backup options? You can hack things together and there are somewhat installable tools. Like timeshift or etc etc. But it seems they place a lot more emphasis on rolling back poor updates in the event than total system backups.

By default it you should have true backups then layer in rollbacks. Not the other way around. Am I missing something?

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pyssla

Fam, I loathe saying this, but -please- if you desire engagement, then at least put some honest effort into proofreading your writings before posting them. I'm just assuming stuff at this point because I can barely grasp your intent/writing. *sigh*

Why do atomic distros which are supposed to me more stable, superior to some degree immutable environments lack good backup options? You can hack things together and there are somewhat installable tools. Like timeshift or etc etc.


Which distros even come by default -so installed OOTB- with "good backup options"? Which atomic distros is this statement even based on?

But it seems they place a lot more emphasis on rolling back poor updates in the event than total system backups.


Because their atomicity barely goes beyond updates. The 'atomic' in "atomic distros" mostly describes how its updates are atomic; i.e. the system either updates successfully or doesn't update at all. Thus, by design, we have two possible states after an update: a 'successfully' updated system or a 'failed' update resulting in the same state as the previous. Atomic distros aren't smart enough to catch all 'breakage' occurred by 'successful' updates. As such, most of these breakages will only show them after trying to boot into updated system. Deleting/erasing the previous known good state without verifying that the new/upcoming state works well is foolish. Especially on a distro that's got robust updates otherwise. Hence, the functionality of rollbacks on updates is almost trivially done/applied to atomic distros, as it (almost) follows by design.

So, what I'm interested in is the following:
- Are you familiar with the notion of stateless systems? Is this (perhaps) what you're (actually) seeking?

By default it you should have true backups then layer in rollbacks. Not the other way around. Am I missing something?


I think my previous paragraph should be enlightening in this regard. If you disagree (or something/otherwise), then please feel free to elaborate why you think so. Btw, what do you even mean with "true backups?

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pyssla

Based on their post history, I strongly suspect the OP has English as a non-primary language.


While I believe your intent and attempt is noble, in OP's comment history we find their admittance to being American.

Furthermore, I'd argue their history actually suggests that they're very much capable of writing perfectly sound English. In fact, this isn't my first interaction with OP. So I know they can do better. But, for whatever reason, they haven't demonstrably shown the same diligence when writing up this particular post.

They are doing fine, their posts are perfectly understandable.


The bold part is probably directly targeting the "proofreading your writings before posting them"-part of my original comment. And I'll admit that I should have done a better job at conveying that this doesn't intend to allude to a structural problem. So, to be clear, it was meant as general advice after being bothered by (only) this post.

::: spoiler Uno Reverse
Outwardly suspecting ESL for native speakers ain't nice either, but I digress...
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US higher education leadership is threatened by visa restrictions, federal funding cuts, and anti-Asian sentiment, deterring international students. Hong Kong is seizing this "brain drain" opportunity, actively recruiting top scholars and students, especially from mainland China, with scholarships and expedited admissions.

chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/61…

#usa #china #science


Harvard’s loss, Hong Kong’s gain?

The city can offer Chinese mainland students a high-quality academic, applied research, and culturally safer alternative to the US.
chinadailyhk

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News | Trump frustrated by Iran's emphasis on enrichment rights; Russia proposes joint industrial zone with Tehran parstoday.ir/en/news/world-i23…

News | Trump frustrated by Iran's emphasis on enrichment rights; Russia proposes joint industrial zone with Tehran

Pars Today – The spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry emphasized in an interview with a German publication that Tehran will not relinquish its nuclear...
Pars Today
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Saddest Song Ever, Barber's Adagio, Theme from Platoon, Andrzej Kucybała conductor

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Saddest Song Ever, Barber's Adagio, Theme from Platoon, Andrzej Kucybała conductor

Info: https://gr.afit.plSee other recordings of this orchestra https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR7kJugEJ7kui4ZNxQAX0Q4KZk4NSCs5b0:00 Intro0:31 Barber'...
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