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It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?

Les milliardaires se connaissent tous et partagent tous la même vision du monde eugéniste et fasciste, où le seul droit c'est de faire ce qu'on veut de ce qu'on peut prendre aux autres, et si un pauvre n'est pas capable de trouver de quoi survivre il ne mérite pas de le faire

That’s right. The experience of Covid comprehensively and irreparably boiled the brains of at least a third of our fellow citizens and we’re gonna be dealing with the consequences of this shit for the rest of our lives.

at least for younger millennials on down, I think all this is true as well

Good god, this story!

El misterio de los drones sobre Europa alimenta el temor a la amenaza rusa El avistamiento de decenas de aeronaves no tripuladas junto a aeropuertos y bases militares desde septiembre obliga a varios países a reforzar sus defensas. Moscú no asume la autoría, pero alimenta la confusión propia de su guerra híbrida

El misterio de los drones sobre Europa alimenta el temor a la amenaza rusa. El avistamiento de decenas de aeronaves no tripuladas junto a aeropuertos y bases militares desde septiembre obliga a varios países a reforzar sus defensas
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Just read an FT article about this right now, a big part of FPO's surge has to do with high inflation in Austria. What last year and this year has taught me is that if inflation ever gets high, the concentration of Hitler particles amongst the population just explodes

"The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension."

- W.Kandinsky -

🖼️ : "Circles in a Circle", 1923, oil on canvas

#Quotes #Art

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:

Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.

If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.

Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge The Finnish government announces the migration of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to international gauge (1,435 mm) from 2032. The change aims to improve military mobility and regional ...

Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience.

This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.

You don’t understand how much I love this feature

"EU imports from Russia worth €124 billion have exceeded the amount of aid provided to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion." - stated Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard.

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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025

It’s so important to understand- as Arthur explains here - that the so called peace plan is not only a disaster for Ukraine but a threat to all of Europe

Why does nationality matter, anyway? Deciding someone's legal rights based on a nebulous combination of birthplace and parentage is a bit weird

"We grant people different rights based on their genetic heritage and on which scrap of land they happened to be born on. That’s mad, isn’t it?"

I just think, when debating immigration and so on, that we should try not to lose sight of the fact that "nationality" is a made up thing.

Windows Users Furious at Microsoft's Plan to Turn It Into an "Agentic OS" Microsoft is hellbent on transforming Windows 11 into a "canvas for AI," and users aren't left feeling impressed.

"Great, how do I disable literally all of it?"

Between this, the Epstein emails, and global far right being paid off by Russia I’m going full Q anon conspiracy theory insane

Like, it was very obvious it was a heavily choreographed campaign of bullshit and shenanigans, but even I assumed it was *at least somewhat organic* and not just the country’s most tiresome reactionary crackpots meeting up offscreen and agreeing to all scream the same drivel in unison.

The Fraud by Paul Holden - page 89. Rachel Riley met with Morgan McSweeney and Imran Ahmed at the @LabourTogether offices in February 2019. She agreed 'to front' their campaign to take on Jeremy Corbyn and lett-wing media outlets such as @TheCanaryUK. Thereafter, @RachelRileyRR was one of Corbyn's fiercest critics. In November 2019, shortly before that year's election, she was famously photographed wearing a t-shirt with a doctored photograph of Corbyn that said 'Jeremy Corbyn Is A Racist Endeavour'. Rachel Riley RachelReyRR I didn't feel comfortable knowing my workplace was to be full of racists tonight. I don't endorse Boris, but I do endorse #NeverCorbyn. Please see my pinned thread if you still don't understand why. #LeadersDebate

The actual real explanation always turns out to be way more dumb and insulting than you imagined it was.

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.

A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given surprising new insight into the online “America First” movement.

Hundreds protest in Tunisia over president's escalating crackdown on freedoms More than a thousand Tunisians took to the streets of downtown Tunis on Saturday, protesting what they describe as President Kais Saied’s increasingly authoritarian rule and demanding the release of all jailed political prisoners.

Tunisians took to the streets of downtown Tunis on Saturday over what they described as President Kais Saied ’s increasingly authoritarian rule and demanding the release of all jailed political prisoners.

... charlatans do, they've found a niche (quite big) market for emotional support, building confidence and providing (illusion of) agency to women scarred by their experience with med professionals. Isn't this something worth pondering when thinking of how to not have another midwifery antimed cult?

If we want to protect pregnant people when they are most vulnerable, scared and uncertain, we must offer them not only hospital service, but emotional and social support too. Unless we want to leave it to vultures preying on needs unaddressed by modern society, as these freebirthers did. As all...

“Ah, but this time we weren’t evil, unlike all those other times in recent memory” is, not surprisingly, not a very convincing argument

impressive to watch a huge industry go very swiftly from “widely popular and largely trusted” to “widely considered to be as or even more evil than the oil companies that occasionally spill tons of toxic cute-animal-killing goo into crucial waterways” though

and I really am old enough to remember those far-off days before 2011 or so when most people *didn’t* assume that big tech was the Face of Creeping Evil - tech fucked up bad! by means of actually being evil all the time!

it is absolutely the tech companies fault that people now assume they’re doing something evil and sneaky even when they actually aren’t (regarding the latest Google kerfuffle)

like, no kidding that people have zero willingness to cut big tech the benefit of the doubt anymore

The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star As af Klint’s fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name.

Some scholars of Hilma af Klint’s work believe that some of the artist’s paintings were made in collaboration with Anna Cassel, her overshadowed creative partner. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/MW7Uf1