@lynngrant
Security & database software engineer, game developer. Former mainframe guy. Big fan of modern Fortran, XQuery and all things XML, and dogs. (Cats are pretty cool, too.) Also interested in precision time (IRIG, IEEE-1588, White Rabbit) and typography.
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
Between 500,000 and 700,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon.
No other country would be allowed to do this. Yes, Israel has the right to exist.
But the long-term damage to our world from such behavior is being dangerously underestimated.
There are no second-class world citizens. We are equal
Once I found out that the Proton CEO was a big DJT supporter, and then they rolled out their AI assistant that requires you to send your email to them in the clear (undoing their βWe cannot read your messages when they are on our serverβ promise), I switched to Tuta Mail.
My experience with six cats echos yours.
If you really want to know, and arenβt just trying to get a rise out of us, I would ask Lesley Carhart (a.k.a. Hacks4Pancakes) at tisiphone.net.
It's never ending
The evil
The monsters are who we have become...
Do not trust or believe ANYTHING THE FASCIST REGIME TELLS YOU
THE KURDS GOT THE MESSAGE STRAIGHT, ALREADY!!!
This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things Iβve ever seen from the United States government.
This sounds like what we used to hear about the Soviet Union, where the central committee would tell farmers how much grain they had to produce, even if it was more than the farm was capable off. Any balking was met with "Are you not a loyal Soviet citizen?"
Trump and Hegseth have everything figured out. We got strategic geniuses running this operation.
And it doesnβt just apply to Black folks. I was at a mall one time, and there was a Russian guy yelling into his cellphone. I said to my wife βHe must be really mad.β She said βNo, look, he is smiling. Thatβs just how Russians talk to each other.β
As a proud Iranian born, Canadian, I do not want any help from the US and Israel for a regime change!
The government will be toppled when people are ready.
The same should happen in the US, and this criminal regime needs to go to prison.
#FuckYourWar
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Ms. Lacksβs cells were the first to reproduce in a laboratory, outside the human body, and have been used in groundbreaking research, including to develop vaccines for polio and Covid-19 and treatments for cancer, Parkinsonβs and the flu.
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "If there was ever a time for Republicans to find their spines, it's now, when the Commander in Chief readily admits that he is choosing to put our troops' lives at risk without a legitimate imminent threat to our homeland or our citizens."
Perhaps the goal is to get their oil, sell it, and put the funds in his Qatar bank account, just like with Venezuela.
Rep Jason Crow (D-CO): βI went to war three times for this country and learned that when elites in Washington bang the war drums, working class folks pay the price. The tough talk of a five-time draft dodger falls flat for Americans tired of military adventurismβ
"Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks."
β Stephen Hawking
Amen to that!
But the computer sure had style. The designer said that he patterned it after the old IBM accounting machines, like the IBM 407 (www.columbia.edu/cu/computing...), which were a lot curvier than later IBM computers.
Wargames remake 2028: "The only way to win is to use ALL THE NUKES AS FAST AS POSSIBLE"
Keep in mind that the stories in βI, Robotβ were all about edge cases where the three rules did not work so wellβ. Still, they were trying to keep the robots in check. I donβt think anyone is even trying with todayβs AIs.
I remember them well.
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βHe doesnβt represent our views and doesnβt represent the best version of the pro-Israel position,β said another one of the people, a State Department official....
Then why is he in a position where he represents the views of the U.S. Government?
There is also a tradition of authoritarian rulers applying their authoritarianism to the Church. In the past, some of the Orthodox churches have had this problem.
So DJT is carrying on an old, bad tradition.
"...Bibles are not supposed to be tampered with, especially when it comes to ... removing pages."
Actually, there is a great tradition of removing pages. That's why we have the Hebrew Bible, the Douay-Rheims bible, the King James, etc., but it is usually done by religious authorities.
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There is a YouTube channel that collects movies scenes where women are kicking alpha male asses. It is refreshing to watch sometimes, but we need more women doing this, not just young babes in leather bodysuits.