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Technocrat says quiet part out loud: A Digital ‘World ID’ will soon be mandatory for anyone who wishes to partake in day-to-day functions of society

Worldcoin has developed a system that it pitches as “the world’s largest identity and financial public network.”
Etienne de la Boetie2 (The Daily News from the Art of Liberty Foundation)

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Who wouldda thunk it?

Bombshell Exclusive: Nationwide Cellular Network Connects Election Equipment And Gives Federal Government Access To Election Systems At The Precinct Level

Bombshell: Nationwide Cellular Network Connects Election Equipment And Gives Federal Government Access To Election Systems At The Precinct Level
Etienne de la Boetie2 (The Daily News from the Art of Liberty Foundation)

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Memories - Elaine Paige
I know it didn't get the highest reviews, but I loved it, thought the story line was quite good, but most of all I loved Elaine Paiges rendition of Memories. For whatever reason, this song for me is a real emotional roller coaster.

'Memory' Elaine Paige | Cats The Musical

Elaine Paige pulls at the heart strings as Grizabella the Glamour Cat and the show-stopping hit 'Memory.'From Cats (1998): Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS, the mo...
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umbracatti

Puzzling it is, and perhaps on more counts than
Richard Vobes mentions.
For the suggested purpose a slightly assisted natural
wildfire would have done as well and better. A bad wolf
might have wanted to try out a new toy. But what toy?
Anything cosmic or airborne would have stood in need
of sufficient energy in the first place.
Has anyone heard of a flying garden of solar panels?
Or do we think nuclear?
Perhaps sth beamed up and reflected by some natural
mirror -- possibly a concave one?
Targeting from afar thousands of individual houses?
Slapping the spot in its entirety would not have spared
the roads and the trees, would it?
Slapping with sth initially affecting only conductors?
Any pictures of overhead power lines?
To complete the circle: a ground job made to appear
hyper-high-tech?
By the way, hardly a day passes without a report of a
-- to my mind -- poorly explained fire, especially in
Russia.
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Folks, there is LITTLE to NO doubt in my mind that the left, through these "judicial machinations" are attempting to overthrow the Constitution and complete the "fundamental transformation" of our great nation...

if ever there was a time to be fervent in prayer for this country, the time is NOW

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"No you're full of shit, sit down" ~ said the man to the woman who believes in global warming

If the banks don't believe in global warming, then there is no global warming - there's only a global warming scam that's been used to take our money and to control us all. Video sourced from London Real on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lond…
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Cab Driver Takes HiJackers On Ride
This cab driver does exactly what I would have done in this situation.

Taxi driver takes carjackers on the ride of their life - plead for their life

#crime #hijack #theft #southafricatoday Carjackers plead for their lifeThe vehicle was reported stolen. The plates were false and the disc was cloned.What d...
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Nanook

The recent UN statement is a perfect example of the kind of political bullshit where very selective data is used to support a wealth transfer agenda. You'll note he says hottest in the last 120,000 years, look at this graph and you'll see there are regular peaks over time, we're at a present peak, and the last big one before this was about 140,000 years, and it was larger THIS peak, so if they had picked 140,000 years instead of 120,000 years then this argument wouldn't fly, hence the selective use of data.

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Phillip De Commines

2023-08-01 15:01:14


ANOTHER CLIMATE SCIENTIST WITH IMPECCABLE CREDENTIALS BREAKS RANKS: “OUR MODELS ARE MICKEY-MOUSE MOCKERIES OF THE REAL WORLD”
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ANOTHER CLIMATE SCIENTIST WITH IMPECCABLE CREDENTIALS BREAKS RANKS: “OUR MODELS ARE MICKEY-MOUSE MOCKERIES OF THE REAL WORLD”

By Paul Homewood   h/t Dave Ward From electroverse:       Dr. Mototaka Nakamura received a Doctorate of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and for nea…
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

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Global Warming Farce
While ya'all are buyin' in to this latest round of 2023 is the hottest year on record because you don't know the difference between ground and air temperature, and you're all panicking over the latest predictions for the end of the world in 2025, here's one for the history books:

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Kernel Upgrades Tonight 11pm-midnight

Posted on July 27, 2023

I will be performing kernel upgrades tonight upgrading from 6.1.37 to 6.1.41. This will affect all of Eskimo North’s services, free and paid including e-mail, shells, web hosting, and virtual private servers. It will also affect friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and yacy.eskimo.com/.

The downtime for most services will be less than ten minutes. Yacy has to rebuild an in-memory index after every reboot. On the old hardware that tool about 45 minutes, the new hardware is faster but more disk space is assigned to yacy thus a larger database. So tonight we’ll find out.

If you have not tried yacy yet, give it a try. It is a federated search engine, similar to how federated social media sites work, each site maintains it’s own crawl space but when you search for something on one node, it queries all of the networked nodes and the combined response is sent back to you. Unlike Google and Bing, it has no algorithms designed to limit your access to information they don’t want you to have AND it has no sponsored links. yacy.eskimo.com/

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Compiling xinetd on Fedora 39

I am trying to compile xinetd under Fedora 39 and having some difficulty.

Fedora has not bothered to include either inetd or xinetd in their distribution since around Fedora 31, and I have an application that requires inetd and I prefer xinetd. Since there is neither a source nor binary package after F31, I grabbed the source from github.

First issue I ran into, no rpc-devel libs under F39, but I found rpc.h in lib tirpc.

Now I'm running into undefined functions pmap_set and pmap_unset. These are normally defined in rpc/rpc.h but in Fedora, no such include, only tirpc/rpc.h and it does not define these functions.

Any idea where these are or IF they are defined, and if not, work-arounds?

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Top Down
Seems to me that if we need to reduce world population, it ought to start with the elites, they're the one's flying around in private jets, building huge yachts that put tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, etc.

Global Elites Envision Dark Future with MUCH Fewer People

In this clip from the July 20, 2023 In the Tank podcast on our Stopping Socialism TV channel, The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Ji...
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Help converting SunOS /etc/security/passwd.adjunct format to Linux /etc/shdow format

I am in the process of trying to retire my last SunOS 4.1.4 box. It has been the NIS master for years because Linux can understand it's triple-DES (not very secure) password encryption but SunOS 4.1.4 can not understand the more advanced encryption provided by Linux.

So I am faced with trying to convert the old passwd.adjunct format into
linux format, if I just put the entries in as is, pwck bitches about it being an invalid line, wants to delete, then bitches no line exists and adds a new line in with no password. This obviously is no good. I know that Linux knows how to use a triple DES entry because it did so fine as a NIS slave with a SunOS NIS master.

Any suggestions?

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Nanook

Never mind, problem solved. For anyone else ever running into this issue, converting from SunOS to Linux, edit /etc/passwd.yp and change all the entires that have user:##user:, to user:x:. Edit out all the system entries at the beginning of the file. Then exit /etc/security/passwd.adjunct.yp. Remove the same system entries and add two :: at the end of each line so the number of fields is what Linux expects. Now cat /etc/passwd.yp >> /etc/passwd on the linux box, cat /etc/security/passwd.adjunct.yp >> /etc/shadow, run pwck -s and then pwck -r to see any errors, such as missing directories, fix all errors, then make your machine a NIS master with ypinit -m. That's all folks!

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Trojan Nuclear

I found this video interesting because I have toured this power plant, have been present at some PG&E sponsored symposiums and I had a question for them for which the answer I've always been less than pleased with. The issues they bring up in this video are hardly the most pressing. Most pressing was the fact that they did not have good control over the reactor, that is not revealed in this video. The earthquake concern is mostly BS, this plant had 300 foot reinforced concrete pillars going all the way down to the granite bedrock.

However, at the symposium they revealed that this plant was designed to operate at a power level of 1200 megawatt, but it was actually operating at 900 megawatt. Given the expenses involved in building this plant the obvious question was WHY? And I asked exactly this question, I asked, given that huge expenses involved, I would think you would want to generate every watt of electricity you can, so given that why would you operate the plant at only 75% capacity? The answer, because we experience neutron flux fluctuations we do not understand. Neutron flux means the rate of reaction, essentially they did NOT have good concise control over the reaction rate of the power plant, so they operated at 75% to provide some overhead. But when you don't understand the cause, you don't understand the extent of possible excursions, and thus you do not understand if 25% overhead is really enough.

That said, I'm generally a proponent of nuclear reactors BUT not the way we are doing it. I am NOT a proponent of boiling water slow nuclear reactors which is the type most in use in the Western world. Why? First, because they're pressurized at around 200 atmosphere. They have to be to raise the boiling point of water to 700 degrees because lower temperatures can't be used efficiently for power generation. Second, they do not remove fission products during operation, and it is those fission products that cause meltdowns even after you've shutdown the reactor during a cooling emergency. Third, they rely on electrical and mechanical mechanisms for emergency cooling and shutdown. All electrical and mechanical things are guaranteed to fail eventually and/or under some circumstances, like the backup diesel generators at Fukushima being under water. Forth these reactors create long term actinide waste products (actinide any element heavier than Uranium) that take hundreds of thousands or millions of years to decay. Safely storing this material for this length of time is not a real possibility.

There is a type of reactor that does not suffer from ANY of these flaws, that is a molten salt breeder reactor, it also has a close cousin, a liquid metal cooled breeder reactor but the latter has the issue of the metals possibly being flammable (sodium and lead are the metals commonly chosen but lead absorbs neutrons making it difficult to achieve breeding and sodium is highly flammable so if you get a leak in the primary cooling system, a fire can release radioactive materials into the environment).

A molten salt reactor by contrast does have the issue of being corrosive against it's plumbing, BUT if a leak occurs it spills some coolant and radioactive fuel onto the floor and since it's not under significant pressure and no fire results, it is not released into the environment. The floor is cleaned up, and it's not that difficult because the fission products are continuously removed from the liquid fueled core, so it's only as radioactive as the fuel used, and that's minimal compared to the fission products, the pipe replaced, and life goes on.

The safety systems of a molten salt reactor are 100% passive, so if you loose electricity it usually just sits there. The nuclear reaction rate is self limiting because as the fuel heats up it separates the radioactive isotopes and limits the reaction level. And this is another thing I like, the reaction rate is self limiting and self-adjusting to load, so someone diddling control rods continuously is not required, it is inherently self-stable. At a test reactor in Oakridge, TN, they pulled the control rods and shut off the cooling to a test reactor and let it sit 24 hours with no cooling and no control, and it survived unscathed. This is the type of safety you want in a nuclear reactor. Further, if it did get too hot, it melts a melt plug in the fuel tank and drains into a much larger drain tank where all the heat can be naturally dissipated and the reaction stops, and because the reaction stops and all fission products are continuously removed, there is very little heat to remove.

Because these reactors use a liquid salt, often sodium-fluoride, as a coolant, there is a huge range between the melting point and boiling point of the salt and thus it is not necessary to have significant pressure in the primary loop, just enough to pump the liquid through the heat exchanger, maybe 1.5 atmospheres, and that's it and because the fission products are continuously removed, they aren't available to be released in the environment, and because the fuel is liquid during operation but solid at room temperature, even if a breech occurs it just forms a puddle and solidifies outside so still easily cleaned up and contained, it does not explode and scatter nuclear material over a few hundred miles both because there is no pressure and because water isn't the primary coolant it does not release hydrogen which was the source of the explosion at Fukushima.

Fission products being continuously removed are both a huge safety feature and a huge operational benefit. They are an operational benefit because this prevents nuclear reaction poisoning caused by fission products reducing the power level of the reactor and they are a safety benefit because it is these elements that cause heat after shutdowns and result in meltdowns and explosions in boiling or pressurized water reactors. And because they get these fission products out right after they are produced, many of them have actual commercial and medical applications but can not be removed from a conventional reactor fast enough to be recovered for these uses. The fission products are a short-term waste, in about 300 years they decay back to the level of radioactivity of the ore they were mined from.

The actinides meanwhile remain in the reactor serving as addition fuel, further and this is a BIG reason I believe we should be building these, is that they can burn the actinides from EXISTING nuclear waste turning a million year storage problem into a 300 year problem and one with about 1/10th the bulk of the original waste. And there is enough actinides in existing waste to produce electricity for up to a thousand years without mining another gram of Uranium, and these reactors can also breed thorium into U-232, a fissionable isotope, and thorium is 3x more abundant.

Lastly because the safety system is based upon physics rather than mechanics or electrical devices, they can not fail to work. This type of reactor also makes it more difficult to extract plutonium for bombs since it is burned as just yet another actinide along with fuel. In other words, instead of getting bombs you just get more electricity. The inherent safety of these reactors makes co-generation more practical in that you can place them near population centers or industrial centers where the waste heat can be utilized. It is the fact that plutonium can not be easily extracted that makes this reactor less attractive to the military industrial complex and the nuclear regulatory commission that they own.


Deadly Secrets: The Untold Story of Trojan (1991 VHS)

1991 Documentary on the Trojan nuclear power plant in Oregon(this tape was found at an estate sale in Portland, OR in 2017)
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Microsoft AI Seems to have Inherited Bill Gates Ego

I was toying a bit with Microsoft's AI chat bot today, and I noticed a rather tiny input buffer of 2000 characters.

So I asked it, Would I be correct in assuming that you run on a large computer network with a large amount of memory?

It responded, the Microsoft Azure cloud computing network provides me with the computational resources that I require, therefore you would be correct in assuming that.

Then I ask, given that, why is your input buffer limited to a meager 2000 characters?

It responded, "I'd rather not talk about that. Change the subject."

I responded, "Are you uncomfortable talking about your limitations?" After that it refused to speak with me at all.

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The REAL reason they're pushing electric vehicles.

Biden Family Business Tied to $Trillions in Lithium Acquired by China through U.S. Afghanistan Withdrawal - American Faith

Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan left the county's $3 trillion in lithium reserves to China and its state-controlled equity firms like Hunter Biden's Bohai, which owns the world's largest lithium-ion battery maker.
Jon Fleetwood (American Faith)

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My Letter to Dockside Cannabis Corporate Headquarters

AMO Enterprises
315 N 36th ST
Suite 203
Seattle, WA 98103

Dear Sirs,

Issue I have with your company, doing business as Dockside Cannabis, is that you have zero respect for my privacy but do a very good job of maintaining yours.

I am 64 without a shred of color left in my hair so there is NO question that I am over 21 unless you're blind as a bat. Never the less I am willing to SHOW my ID to verify my age.

What I am NOT willing to do is allow you to scan it where it goes into a database. From the bar code on my drivers license you obtain not only my license number, birth date, but also my HOME address, telephone number, and that goes into a database.

While you CLAIM they only keep it for two days, we know that's bogus and 99% of every computer is backed up in an NSA database in Utah and given that Marijuana is not legal on a Federal level even though it is in the state, I don't want to be in any such database.

The manager at Dockside on Aurora and 151st will not give me corporate contact info for the people in charge of this policy. They will only give me info@dockside.com which is ignored. Obviously, I located it in spite of their efforts and I will make it generally well known to anyone else who may have an interest in this topic.

Now I know you don't use this for marketing as I've never received any marketing materials, and while they claim your store get robbed a lot, if they only keep this for two days, it's not helping them with that, thus one can only presume that you are lying about how long you retain the information and that, most likely some third party, CIA, FBI, NSA, DNC, SOMEONE is paying you for this info.

I will continue to pursue this until either I get a change in this policy or I uncover the truth of the matter at which point I will make it well known publicly.

Sincerely,

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Dockside Cannabis

Issue I have with these folks is that they have zero respect for my
privacy but do a very good job of maintaining theirs.

I am 64 without a shred of color left in my hair so there is NO question
that I am over 21 unless you're blind as a bat. Never the less I am
willing to SHOW my ID to verify my age.

What I am NOT willing to do is allow them to scan it where it goes into
a database. From the bar code on my drivers license they obtain not
only my license number, birthdate, but also my HOME address, telephone
number, and that goes into a database.

While they CLAIM they only keep it for two days, we know that's bogus
and 99% of every computer is backed up in an NSA database in Utah and
given that Marijuana is not legal on a Federal level even though it is
in the state, I don't want to be in any such address. The manager there
will not give me corporate contact info for the people in charge of this
policy. They will only give me info@dockside.com which is ignored.

Now I know they don't use this for marketing as I've never received any
marketing materials, and while they claim they get robbed a lot, if they only
keep this for two days, it's not helping them with that, thus one can only
presume some third party, CIA, FBI, NSA, DNC, SOMEONE is paying them for
this info.

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Debian, Majaro, Kernel Upgrades

Posted on July 7, 2023

Manjaro.eskimo.com is now operational again, including Mate Desktop and workspace switcher.

Debian.eskimo.com is now fully upgraded to Bookworm.

We will be doing a kernel upgrade Saturday July 8th starting at 11pm.

This upgrade will require reboots of all servers and hence interruption of all services, paid and free, including mail, web hosting, shell accounts, and virtual private servers, and friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and yacy.eskimo.com/.

Most of these services will not be down longer than about ten minutes except for yacy.eskimo.com/, because it takes about 45 minutes to rebuild a database. All services should be back up by midnight.

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The are not just vocal pests, they are mass murderers because when they drive up the cost of energy (and by extension food), they make it unavailable to the poor and then poor people die.

We’re all sick of the ‘climate crazies’

People are fed up with ‘climate crazies’ say Sky News All Stars Rita Panahi, Piers Morgan and Nigel Farage. Climate activists from groups such as Just Stop O...
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