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Cats like pulling things down off of other things. It entertains them.

This is essentially every project funded through a “defense” agency.

For additional context, the MK-84 is manufactured by General Dynamics and the JDAM systems they are usually retrofitted with are always manufactured by Boeing.

Both companies are weapons manufacturers for this genocide. Both are also unionized “good job” companies. It’s very important to not be knee-jerk pro-union, but to understand how one’s own participation in their country’s economy impacts everyone else. Say no to bomb manufacturers. If you work for a weapons manufacturer, change jobs as soon as you can. If you work somewhere that does business with Israel or weapons contractors, consider organizing your workplace against that (you may get fired but Palestine is more important).

It was Big Pencil all along

The last point is the important one. If you’re regularly seeing these in your house that means they’ve found a food source: your house is infested with another insect they’re keeping at bay.

More honest headline: Dell created intolerable working conditions so that they could engage in constructive dismissal and avoid paying for unemployment for their massive layoffs.

It’s good because most of the American audience is too politically miseducated to recognize it otherwise.

An invasion of Lebanon risks direct Iranian involvement. Not sure if they’re trying to call a bluff or if they actually want that.

I’m always amazed at these losers that think Trump is somehow fit under that big ol suit

apt is good for most things.

Flatpak is good for applications where you want the people who write the software to be creating the releases and for closed source apps that you want to isolate a bit from your system.

For example, on a new system you might install everything using apt except for Zoom. Zoom isn’t in the Debian repos, it’s closed source and proprietary. But you can get the official Zoom application using flathub. Zoom will also be fairly isolated from the rest of your system so it has less access to your files and can be removed more cleanly later on if needed.

Monopoly capitalists did the most monopoly capitalist thing ever, journalists are surprised.

tyranny.gov is just a proxy for tyranny.com

The court has always been illegitimate, it’s just doing a bad job at maintaining the facade.

Yeah duh. This is a very, very old way to fire people without having to actually fire them. Just create intolerable working conditions.

In modern times they’re mostly trying to avoid paying for unemployment.

Chemically yes, physically no. Microwaved water is more buoyant because it has a heat gradient and rarely boils properly. It tends to get superheated and explode rather than boiling.

This is why tea bags float on top of microwaved water but not boiled water.

Archived version only grabbed the first page or so, I think

Yes that’s correct. The empire is not consistent. Its stated principles are empty propaganda intended to build national myths for their populations to believe in support of the actual material goals of that empire. They want you to hate Russia so that when they create policies that marginalize Russia you think, “yeah, serves them right” not, “is that fair? Don’t we do the same things or worse and get away with it?” Same for attempts to marginalize China. They’re coming up with words the public has never even heard of (productive overcapacity) to justify their new tariffs and if the public were told “this just makes your stuff more expensive in an attempt to hurt China” they’d throw a fit if the propaganda apparatus hadn’t already taught the public that China is the enemy always doing evil things.

The real driving force is always a deepee material interest. Who can fund the propaganda narrative, what is the intended national or corporate interest.

lmao look at the AI-generated journal cover.

This is true but the article title is very misleading. It gives the impression that you can just boil your water first and then drink it and you will have a decreased intake of microplastics. “Boil your water before drinking” is very common in many parts of the world to prevent infectious disease, it means boiling a few liters for 10 minutes or so before use. In reality if you do that the precipitate will be in suspension, such as when decanting in a normal way rather than very carefully to keep (nearly invisible) sediment out, and you’ll still drink it.

It’s realistic if security is a priority.