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JD Vance's entourage to the Olympics came over in 14 planes, with 1 plane entirely full of food supplies.
No, really. He took 1 entire plane full of American food. To Italy!
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/jd-vance-ridiculed-40-car-36688400.amp
"On 22 January, Amsterdam city council approved a ban [on] fossil fuel and meat adverts in public spaces and on the city’s public transport network.
The measure will prohibit advertising for air travel, cruises and petrol-powered cars.
Amsterdam follows several other Dutch cities [with] similar bans, including Utrecht, The Hague, Zwolle, Delft and Nijmegen.
France became the first European country to ban adverts for fossil fuels under a new climate law in 2022."
"Technologieoffenheit ist häufig ein Ausdruck für technologische Ahnungslosigkeit" Harald Lesch
#MerzKannNichtKanzler
hey lovelies 🩷
there are reasons why we're still awake, but we won't go into specifics
if you're awake past 03:00 UTC and see a long post from us with a long CW on it, it means a scheduled post has posted... and hopefully with the formatting correct 🤞
it's something for a friend in need
that's all we'll say for now
if you see the post, please boost or quote boost if you can, but also... yeah... it's gonna trigger a lot of filters by the CWs alone 😔
we're gonna try to sleep now
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@liztai I know they serve this in Vienna, Austria
@alextecplayz @firefoxwebdevs
"We mostly refrain from using "opt-in" because people have different definitions of opt-in"
this will result in "opt-out" by removing Firefox from devices.
מה שאני אוהב בלהעיף עפיפונים אלו האינטראקציות עם אנשים סביב העפיפון.
אתמול בטיול ט"ו בשבט כל הילדות ביקשו להחזיק. היתה רוח חזקה ואני הקפדתי לשמור שלא יעזבו את החוט. היו ששאלו מה יקרה אם יעזבו את החוט ואני אמרתי שהעפיפון ייפול.
אחר כך העפתי עוד עפיפון וביקשתי מאשתי שתעזור לילדות להעיף את האדום. סובבתי רגע את הראש ואשתי קוראת לי שילדה עזבה בטעות את הידית והעפיפון נפל.
בדרך לאסוף את העפיפון שמעתי את הילדה אומרת "עזבתי בכוונה".
לעפיפון לא קרה כלום.
‘Sorry, Baby’ director Eva Victor tells Ricky Gervais & Kevin O’Leary to “shut the fuck up” after they said celebs shouldn’t speak out against ICE: “I can say what I want. I am here for one night... I’m allowed to say ‘fuck ICE’ because it’s fucking stupid & it’s horrible & it’s violent & evil.'
This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters
Prices reduced on Libreboot laptops: https://minifree.org/ - Debian Linux and Libreboot preinstalled plus upgrades.
T480 base price was £498 GBP, now £398. T580 base was £758, now £598.
Libreboot is a Free Software BIOS/UEFI replacement (coreboot distro). Free Software democratises computing, giving you control. Libreboot provides many unique security features that you rarely find elsewhere, e.g. true Full Disk Encryption.
I'm Libreboot's founder, and lead developer. Sales fund the project.
The Tokaido Shinkansen continues operating in conditions that would shut down most rail systems.
**Engineering behind it:**
🔹 Advanced snow detection sensors
🔹 Heated track switching systems
🔹 Aerodynamic design prevents snow buildup
🔹 Real-time monitoring & predictive maintenance
🔹 Automated de-icing systems
Since 1964, the Shinkansen has maintained a perfect safety record while running at 320 km/h.
I have a horror of polluting my internal knowledge base with bad information. I literally do not use any genAI tool that generates plausible outputs. I'm only interested in specialized tools that create suggestions that can be verified by experts
The problem of #Substack is old: "Launched in 2017, the platform has previously faced criticism for hosting newsletters that promote #extremist views. Its co-founder, Hamish McKenzie addressed its decision to host #Nazi content in one of his own posts on the site in 2023."
But now #algorithms even promote it! "Substack #algorithm directed the Guardian’s account to 21 other profiles featuring similar content." https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters
Hey, folks who solder stuff - for my silly little electronic hobby projects, I use solder wire that measures 0.8mm in width, and looking at Jaycar 0.7mm and 1.0mm seem common too. But there is also a spool there that's got 3mm thick solder wire on it, that says it's recommended for soldering pins on Anderson connectors (seems like a niche use case).
What thicknesses of solder outside of my little world are common, and what are they used for?
Any/all comments and boosts welcome. #AskFedi
Die norddeutsche Bäckereikette De Heidbäcker, deren Zentrale in Wittorf nahe Lüneburg (Niedersachsen) sitzt, hat aus Protest gegen Trump das beliebte Gebäck „Amerikaner“ nun in „Grönländer“ umbenannt. Sie meinen, dass Trumps USA die Namensgebung für dieses leckere Gebäck nicht mehr verdient haben. Die „Grönländer“ ziert nun ein Eisbär.
https://youtube.com/shorts/7y0Xbf16Paw?si=ndN9jQoD0lXPbnf7
What Germans ans Austrians have to say about the USA today. Listen closly.
@tante : well, we didn’t wait for the Epstein files.
The Gates foundation is the one to thank for *NOT* having an opensource COVID vaccine. Oxford wanted to make it OpenSource but the Gates foundation threw enough dollars at them to make sure it doesn’t happen.
And that’s for one single reason: avoiding at all cost a case where open source could work and 3rd world coutries would be able not to depend on US tech.
That’s their whole philosophy…
