U.S. Atomic Bombings Didn’t Save Lives or End the War
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"August 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius explosion (ten thousand times hotter than the surface of the sun) over the city. Richard Rhodes’ The Making of the Atomic Bomb reported, More
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The death of children from hunger in Gaza is no longer a metaphor—it has become a deadly reality, the result of genocide and starvation policies imposed by the Israeli enemy on more than a million starving children in the besieged Strip.www.saba.ye
Trump-backed Nawrocki assumes the Polish presidency and could steer a more nationalist course
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A wildfire in southern France has killed 1 and injured several and is still spreading
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On Creating a Cover for Genocide
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"In July 2025, the Massachusetts legislature’s Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill to make it the 38th state to follow the federal government, 45 other countries (almost all of them in the global North), and more than 50 U.S. local governments in adopting a strange definition of antisemitism. In 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), a group More
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In July 2025, the Massachusetts legislature’s Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill to make it the 38th state to follow the federal government, 45Aviva Chomsky (CounterPunch.org)
Rising like a sentinel on the skyline of amusement parks, the Ferris wheel is more than just a rotating structure—it is a mechanical icon that encapsulates the very spirit of vertical leisure. Among all amusement rides, it offers a paradoxical blend of serenity and elevation, of motion and pause. From historical prototypes to modern mega-wheels, this engineering marvel has retained its charm while adapting to evolving design paradigms and safety standards.
The inception of the Ferris wheel traces back to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where engineer George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. unveiled the original structure as America’s answer to the Eiffel Tower. Measuring 264 feet in height and carrying 36 wooden cars, each capable of holding 60 people, the design was nothing short of audacious for its time.
The prototype wheel was a triumph of structural integrity and rotary engineering. Built using carbon steel and riveted joints, it resisted not only its own torsional stress but also the skepticism of contemporary architects. This inaugural model laid the groundwork for the global proliferation of the Ferris wheel in urban and recreational contexts.
A modern Ferris wheel is a synthesis of axial symmetry and dynamic balance. At its core is a massive central axle supported by two robust towers. The wheel rotates via motorized drive systems that typically use electric motors connected to gear trains or hydraulic actuators, depending on the model’s scale.
Key structural elements include:
Some high-capacity models incorporate frequency converters and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) to manage rotational speed and loading cycles with precision. Safety interlocks and overload sensors are also integrated to comply with international standards such as ASTM F2291 and EN 13814.
As one of the most recognizable amusement rides, the Ferris wheel is often the focal point of a park’s layout. Its towering presence serves dual purposes: offering panoramic vistas and acting as a spatial anchor that enhances navigability within the park.
Designers increasingly employ themed gondolas, LED-integrated spokes, and immersive audio systems to align with branding goals and customer experience metrics. For instance, observation wheels in metropolitan settings now feature climate-controlled cabins, touchscreen tour guides, and luxury seating to convert them into quasi-touristic capsules.
The reliability of the Ferris wheel depends heavily on advanced material selection. Galvanized steel, marine-grade aluminum, and polycarbonate enclosures dominate the construction landscape. Anti-corrosion coatings are applied to protect against environmental degradation, particularly in coastal or humid regions.
Welding methods such as TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) and robotic MIG welding are employed to maintain dimensional consistency and fatigue resistance. Structural simulations using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software are now a mandatory part of the design validation process.
Although Ferris wheels operate at relatively low rotational speeds, safety is paramount due to their vertical orientation and high passenger volume. Operators must adhere to rigorous inspection protocols that include:
Advanced installations also include backup power supplies and emergency descent procedures, such as manual cranking systems or auxiliary drives. Emergency egress platforms and intercom systems in each gondola provide additional layers of operational safety.
A Ferris wheel offers considerable return on investment (ROI) due to its broad demographic appeal and high throughput. It operates efficiently in a variety of settings—theme parks, shopping malls, waterfronts, and festivals. Operators often recoup installation costs through diversified revenue streams, including:
The longevity of the structure—often exceeding 30 years with proper maintenance—further supports its financial sustainability.
Unlike high-thrill amusement rides such as roller coasters or pendulum swings, the Ferris wheel offers a tranquil, scenic experience. This quality makes it accessible to a wider audience, including seniors, young children, and those averse to intense motion.
While it lacks the adrenaline factor, its visual dominance and experiential appeal provide intangible value that high-speed attractions often cannot replicate. Moreover, the Ferris wheel's compatibility with tight footprints and modular construction makes it a flexible asset for parks of all sizes.
Recent technological advancements are redefining what Ferris wheels can offer. Concepts under development include:
The integration of smart systems enables predictive maintenance, reduced energy consumption, and customized user experiences.
The Ferris wheel remains a quintessential symbol in the pantheon of amusement rides. Its graceful rotation belies the complexity of its mechanical heart, while its adaptability ensures it remains relevant across generations. In a world increasingly dominated by virtual experiences, the Ferris wheel continues to deliver an elemental joy: the simple wonder of rising above the ground, suspended between sky and structure.
Each Ferris wheel features an innovative structural design, serving as a unique landmark and boosting passenger flow by 25%–35%!Beston Rides
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. makes history, crushes 103.9 mph pitch from Mason Miller for a 2-run homer
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“Out, Damned Spot!” The Actively Complicit Try to Launder a Genocide
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"A week ago, a grotesque parade of op-ed writers, pundits, and politicians who have publicly supported, justified, or excused the war on Gaza for more than a year and a half began a series of predictable contortions in hopes of escaping what I am going to call their “active complicity” in a genocide: neither the direct
A week ago, a grotesque parade of op-ed writers, pundits, and politicians who have publicly supported, justified, or excused the war on Gaza for more than a year and a half began a series of predictable contortions in hopes of escaping what I am goin…Adam Rzepka (CounterPunch.org)
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As the Israeli military turns the streets of Gaza into killing fields with unprecedented brutality, subjecting its defenseless people to relentless bombardment, starvation, and a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing — the Iranian Red Crescent has…iranpress.com
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TURQUIE. Les Kurdes de Dersim souhaitent que le DEM Partie joue un rôle plus actif
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"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Les Kurdes de Dersim font confiance au Mouvement de libération du Kurdistan, mais souhaitent que le DEM Parti se concentre davantage sur les problèmes locaux. Les habitants de Dersim, dans le contexte de la nouvelle phase qui a commencé avec l’appel d’Abdullah
Since I don't plan to get another dog right away, I took all of Gordon Freeman's things to a dog rescue.
The lady there tried to send me home with a rescue chicken.
She also has rescue sheep and goats.
As Gaza Starved, NPR’s Coverage Expanded but Didn’t Get Any Better
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"Before the third week of July, when mass-starvation alarms finally started sounding, only a tiny minority of Americans were focused on the crimes against humanity that Israel was committing in Gaza. CounterPunch readers had long known what was going on, of course, but most Americans who depend on establishment media,
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An Important New Book on the Praxis of Social Ecology
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"Proponents of the theory and praxis of social ecology – the holistic approach to reharmonizing society and nature originated by social theorist Murray Bookchin during the 1960s – ’90s – have long sought new ways to introduce those ideas to a wider audience. While Bookchin’s writings offer an exceptional depth of analysis that has thoroughly
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NIESR suggests a rise of 5p in the pound on basic and higher rate of income tax would fill the budget gapPhillip Inman (The Guardian)
Trump’s Tariffs Come for Your Morning Wake-Up Routine
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"On August 6 — unless he chickens out — US president Donald Trump will impose a 50% tariff on American buyers of Brazilian coffee. Brazilian coffee isn’t the only coffee Americans find themselves paying exorbitant taxes on. Vietnamese, Indonesian, Indian, Colombian, Nicaraguan, and European Union-produced coffee just got hit with tariffs (paid
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media enquiries: gazapressmission@pm.me Instagram The Issue What’s happening in Gaza today reveals a far broader crisis: the erosion of press freedom as a pillar of democracy.Freedom to Report
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Dieu est le cœur battant du zen libre.
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Je me demande parfois si ne pas nommer Dieu, ne pas parler de Dieu dans une pratique n’est pas la meilleure façon de lui permettre d’exister en nous.Le zen occulte le divin, tandis que dans certain…Notes & Silence
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Tucked away in the northwestern corner of Xing’an league in north China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Arxan ranks among China’s “tiniest cities” by population, just 28,600 residents, yet it exerts a disproportionate influence in tourism and cul…Tehran Times
From the depths of my being, there is no prayer that I cannot pronounce.
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some people feel an erotic thrill in forcing others to do what they do not want to do.
the constant encroachment of governments on populations, censorship, IDs are part of this pressure
and it may done for the erotic sadistic thrill
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Brewers use best 60-game stretch in team history to state case as best team in the major leagues
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In this Roundtable hosted by Shaun Newman, Tom Luongo, Alex Krainer and Matt Ehret discuss the causes for the existential crisis striking western civilization and address the question: Is Trump a genius, a patriotic doofus, captured by transhumanists…Matthew Ehret (Matt Ehret's Insights)
Buenos y antisionistas días ✨
Con Palestina y con todos los pueblos que resisten el acoso del imperialismo de “occidente”
Big Balls has the right heart, we just need to give our young guys better strategy and organization.
These young fellows are the way we win. But they need to be taught collective action and tactics and strategies.
This one goes out to Big Balls and young White men everywhere.
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*Monarch butterflies’ mass die off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure - study.*
New peer-reviewed research found an average of seven pesticides in each of 10 butterflies testedTom Perkins (The Guardian)
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You did this, #Netanyahu.
You are a destroyer of cities.
A killer of people.
A murderer of children.
Have you no pity?
Have you no shame?
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The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s offensiveLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
Proponents of the theory and praxis of social ecology – the holistic approach to reharmonizing society and nature originated by social theorist MurrayBrian Tokar (CounterPunch.org)
Archaeologists uncover unusually large Roman shoes at Magna fort, revealing insights into ancient military life near Hadrian’s Wall.Dario Radley (Archaeology News Online Magazine)
August 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was theJohn Laforge (CounterPunch.org)
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Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
Link: github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
State-of-the-art TTS model under 25MB 😻 . Contribute to KittenML/KittenTTS development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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It is cold comfort that, in the very final stages of Israel’s genocide, media pundits such as Piers Morgan are finally ready to concede that a genocide may be about to happen. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.Consortium News
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Are you feeling bad about yourself? Your country? Your economic system?
You can end all of that RIGHT NOW by just blaming the Jews!
Wartime blues? Blame the jews!
Got a soft willy? Blame the Israelis!
Stop following the money and reading conspiracy theories; make all your research start and end with Israel! Save time, money and most of all, make your problems their problems!
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Auswärtiges Amt lehnt die Initiative deutscher Städte zur Aufnahme von Kindern aus Gaza ab - Wir tun nix, dann sollt ihr auch nix tun, lautet das Motto des Außenamtes.
Staatsministerin Güler sagte dem „Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger“, die Idee sei nett, um im Wahlkampf zu punkten, helfe den Menschen aber nicht. Sie verwies unter anderem auf die Reisestrapazen.
Echt jetzt? 4h Flug. Man mutet den Kids die Hölle von Gaza zu, aber ein vierstündiger Flug muss als Ausrede hinhalten.
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Das Auswärtige Amt lehnt die Bitte einiger deutscher Städte um Aufnahme verletzter oder traumatisierter Kinder aus dem Gazastreifen ab.Die Nachrichten
@rlier23 Nexon uses something called Blackcipher for all of their games. I haven't researched too much into it, but it has been known to collect hardware info, and possibly even your browser tabs. I'm not too sure whether or not they actually send this information, but yeah shit glows harder than a CIA n'wah.
Here's someone's attempt at reverse engineering what it does: github.com/67-6f-64/rebecca
If you also search Blackcipher, people also complain about it being creepy.
Reverse Engineering BlackCipher. Contribute to 67-6f-64/rebecca development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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🚨Doctors in Gaza have raised the alarm over a dangerous spike in post-infection paralytic syndromes like Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), triggered by severe viral and bacterial infections spreading rapidly through the besieged population.tiktokgenocide.com
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Israeli society cheers on the Gaza slaughterhouse and sees in genocide not a crime, but a utopian fantasy.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
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The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee unanimously found in 2020 that the ICA was “coherent and well constructed”
-- and reconfirmed that Russia “engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence” the 2016 election in Trump’s favor.
Durham’s work is particularly instructive here.
Durham was a Trump U.S. attorney whom Attorney General William Barr tasked with leading an investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe into alleged Trump-Russia campaign ties. Durham investigated exhaustively
—over almost four years
—whether anyone broke the law in connection with the 2016 intelligence assessments.
While Durham’s final report found certain procedural faults with intelligence actors and the Mueller operation, it confirmed that Russian spies were behind the hacking of Democratic campaign files and the release of campaign emails. It specifically failed to find a plot approved by Hillary Clinton to tie Trump to Putin
But now enter Tulsi Gabbard,
Trump’s controversial director of National Intelligence.
Trump strong-armed her confirmation notwithstanding her lack of experience in the intelligence community
—a depressing point she has in common with so many Trump nominees
—and her apparent pro-Syria and pro-Russia sympathies.
Over 100 former intelligence professionals wrote to Congress to warn that her candidacy posed a national security risk.
Gabbard has gone on the warpath in recent weeks with a series of document dumps
seeking to revisit the unanimous verdict about 2016.
Last month, she appeared at the White House press podium to accuse Obama,
along with former CIA Director John Brennan,
former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper,
and former FBI Director James Comey,
of engineering a “yearslong coup” against Trump.
She then chimed in that the information she was releasing showed
a “treasonous conspiracy”
by top Obama administration officials.
A few days later, Trump touted Gabbard’s comments
and took it over the top, laying it on Obama himself:
“It’s there. He’s guilty. This was treason.”
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It’s officially happening: the use of the machinery of justice to go on fishing expeditions about political predecessors. Absolute madness.The New Republic
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in reply to Cevilia (she/they/…) • • •cRazi_man
in reply to gon [he] • • •Alexandrite is easily the best.
For people like me who don't know about the web frontends: use your desktop browser and go to: alexandrite.app/lemmy-instance…
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in reply to cRazi_man • • •Mike Wooskey
in reply to gon [he] • • •GitHub - asimons04/tesseract
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in reply to Mike Wooskey • • •Oh, I think I've heard of Tesseract before... The reason I ended up going with Alexandrite was because Tesseract looked a little over-featured and very busy; not really what I was looking for, but it looks great!
A shame about those issues with developments. Sometimes that's just what happens with Open Source, especially for niche stuff developed by a single individual. Do you know why the dev swore off the Fediverse? I'm very interested in why someone would decide that. I did go thru their post history and got an idea as to a possibility, but I wonder if they made a post about it or something that I might've missed.
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in reply to gon [he] • • •Here's the Readme from the commit when he discontinued Tesseract.
Here's a post where the developer explains his reasons.
tesseract/README.md at e86f2f2e45be6879740346586a682c5a1f033b44 · asimons04/tesseract
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in reply to gon [he] • • •RmDebArc_5
in reply to Cevilia (she/they/…) • • •Welcome to Interstellar
Interstellarlike this
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in reply to Cevilia (she/they/…) • • •Ŝan
in reply to Cevilia (she/they/…) • • •I have þe same question, except wiþ a qualification: no web apps. No electron apps. I want a desktop app, not an SPA bundled with a bunch of JavaScript.
More þan þat, however, I want a decent, functional TUI for þe FediVerse. Þere's a couple great ActivityPub microblogging TUIs, but I haven't been able to find a good TUI for þreaded FediVerse like Pixelfed or Lemmy.
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in reply to Ŝan • • •rtv, someone should update it for lemmyŜan
in reply to Hexarei • • •kixik
in reply to Ŝan • • •GitHub - mrusme/neonmodem: Neon Modem Overdrive
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in reply to kixik • • •Karna
in reply to Cevilia (she/they/…) • • •I'm using Voyger iOS client on my phone, so decided to self host the same web app on my homelab.
Split screen mode is useful for me on desktop.
github.com/aeharding/voyager?t…
GitHub - aeharding/voyager: Voyager — a beautiful app for Lemmy
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in reply to Cevilia (she/they/…) • • •There's this apps doc. From there I see in addition to others' comments:
Both being Go based apps. but the neonmodem looks more interesting to me.
Another option is a hybrid one, to add the rss feeds from the lemmy communities your're interested in, or the rss feed from all of them together into your feed reader (even better if newsraft), but those feeds don't show full lemmy conversations and one has to show them in the browser, and also if in need to comment or post one still need to use the browser.
apps doc is constantly evolving, so it's good to keep an eye on it periodically, 😀
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in reply to kixik • • •Neonmodem looks really cool and support multiple backend. TUI is cool and definitely earns its place. Excellent for my old laptop.
But on the other hands, I wish we have a proper complicated non electron liked desktop gui. My browser probably has 1000+ tabs. So able to open multiple threads are must. But building this sophisticated desktop app is hard. I am really being spoiled by open source apps. And I am always thankful to devs' hardwork.
kixik
in reply to grapemix • • •GitHub - lemmygtk/lemoa: Native Gtk client for Lemmy
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