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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

On January 21, 2025 there will be a planetary alignment of six planets. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus, and Saturn will all be visible at the same time. All but Neptune will be visible to the naked eye.

This image is a depiction of a planet map from the Northern Hemisphere.

More on the event, complete with a detailed schedule for all regions:
starwalk.space/en/news/what-is

#Space #Astronomy #PlanetaryAlignment #CelestialEvent #MilkyWay #Planets #NightSky

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"I am not telling you to start violence. I am desperately trying to tell you the violence has already begun" 

"the main method the Nazis used to round up , folk, , dissidents, etc, onto train cars, 🚋
and shipped to concentration camps,

was by letter... 📩

...a large portion simply went where they were told to go, because they didn't want to start any violence.

I am not telling you to start violence. I am desperately trying to tell you the violence has already begun."

(originally longer and cut a bit for shorter context of modern day life / / energy / real killings / )

Original post by 𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not nonbiological" here: beige.party/@Lana/113568679350
/ @Lana

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Predatory Gambling Industry Is Misleading Voters
jacobin.com/2024/10/sports-bet

* gambling companies convince states to legalize sports betting
* promises of tax-revenue windfalls
* benefits less than promised, at severe human cost

[2018] Supreme Court Ruling Favors Sports Betting
nytimes.com/2018/05/14/us/poli

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professi
* outlawed sports betting

#addiction #gambling #lotteries #casinos #SportsBetting #VLT #VideoLotteryTerminals #UFC #MMAbetting #MintyBets #cryptocurrency #DraftKings #SCOTUS

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@freemo / about

Is there a way to see if a person's server I'm messaging is not communicating with our server or blocked?

Few people I msg said we can't see each other's msg / someone is blocking which is ok as long as I know at the time trying... instead of sending message and waiting a looooog time (msg will never reach them)! :)

Like a colour highlight or message to say "This person won't get your direct message as one of you is blocking" or similar.

Does something or some way exist?

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Trump or Togetherness ? You seems to love hating Trump, but not loving / doing Togetherness... 

Trump might be nothing compared to how much you or average people don't want to interact and build things themselves... Pardon the "T" word.

Not Trump, people love saying Trump.
The bad 'T' word is...
'Togetherness' ! Yuk! Who wants to try that?

BOOST IF YOU AGREE

Yeah 🤯 Togetherness 🤯 not trump posts as much

Dealing with your paranoia online too...

Imagine life...
Building it *Together*
Interacting / Improving
and *without* Trump hating all the time.....

(no way for that right?) You need Trump perhaps... 🍅 🧡

vs
vs Fuck

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

Fediverse Got Any Work / Activity? 

Working Together?

Where is everyone?
Are they doing anything together?

❓ Fediverse Tasks / Activity / Mutual Interaction ? ❓

or do I have to work for State?

❓ State / Cold / BS for dictators ? ❓

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LisaH

Ok now is a good time to ask if anyone knows of a job I could apply for in Canada or any mostly English speaking country? Please? It's just me. I don't own much. I've been fully packed for a year. Ready to go now!

I would also feel almost safe in California or Colorado

I have many skills: journalism, editing, proofreading, proposals, grants, teaching of course medicine. My content areas are broad in science and non-science. I will do any job! Entry level is fine!
#fedihire #fedijobs #relocate

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"A single unpatched vulnerability can bring down even the most fortified network."

- The Art of Cyber War And the xkcd dependency tower toppling.

@SunTzuCyber

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" My credo: Life is harsh.... ...what we should do — is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. " ⬅️ :thumbs

- Simon Brooke @simon_brooke
journeyman.cc/blog/

("credo" = a system of principles or beliefs)

🖼️ = Picture is my own added hemp seeds in heart shaped hands (to reflect quote)

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❤️ for all (even if not all want itm for those that do) <3

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Simon Brooke

I've never done an #introduction on here, I probably should.

I live alone with two cats #offgrid in a home-made #tinyhouse in remote rural #Scotland; I'm a very small-scale #organic farmer/crofter. I write #opensource software both for a living and as a contribution to society.

I'm interested in #landreform and #rewilding. Politically I'm in the anarcho-syndicalist-communist corner, and pro #indy.

Pronouns he/him, but I don't see gender as binary.

I'm #mad.

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Poverty - Redefined by World Bank...!

What is 'extreme poverty'?
by The World Bank...

and from journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu

1 ➡️ Poverty is:
A person living securely on their customary lands, in housing built by themselves using materials freely obtained from the local environment, eating a secure, substantial, varied and healthy diet based on customary agriculture supplemented by fisheries and other activities, with low levels of overcrowding, environmental pollution and infectious disease, owing no rent or tax to anyone, and taking part in regular celebrations and dances in a community of friends and relatives, is in absolute poverty;

2 ➡️ Not in poverty is:
A person living in a dilapidated one room slum apartment in an anonymous overcrowded jerry-built tenement over an open sewer, and working fourteen hours a day in a factory with no natural light to earn two dollars of which $1.70 goes in rent, leaving 30 cents to pay for street food made from scrapings of mouldy rice from the floor of the warehouse and whatever offal the fly-blown knacker's yard couldn't otherwise sell — and nothing at all left over to pay for the medicines needed as a result of the swirling infections and filth of overcrowded, highly stressed urban living, or for new shoes, or clothes, or entertainment — that person, hallelujah, praise the World Bank, praise capitalism, that person has been lifted out of absolute poverty.

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MY COMMENT:
What a redefining of the word poverty eh !

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FULL TEXT
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The Fool on the Hill: Extreme poverty

By: Simon Brooke :: 6 July 2023

People lifted out of poverty

I haven't done my research on this. I have literally no idea to what extent what I'm saying here is true. So you may take it, if you like, as the ravings of a deranged madman; or the seeding of a conspiracy theory; but.

But.

"China declared itself successful in lifting 770 million of its citizens out of poverty"

"India Lifted 271 Million People Out Of Poverty In A Decade"

"at the birth of capitalism, there were only about 60 million people in the world who were not living in extreme poverty. Today there are more than 6.5 billion people who are not living in extreme poverty"

That's a lot of people raised out of poverty, isn't it? And yet,

Branko Milankovic, the former lead economist at the World Bank, is one of the world’s leading authorities on economic inequality. He says bluntly that we are now experiencing the highest level of relative and absolute global inequality at any point in human history. (citation)

Something smells. It smells extremely bad. Let's think about this a bit.

What is 'extreme poverty'? What all the people above mean, is having a limited cash income. The World Bank (yes, that same World Bank) helpfully tells us that it means "Between 2008 and 2015 that line was set at $1.25/day in 2005 [US] dollars..." but it's been updated, and it's now "...$1.90/day in 2011 dollars"; the change was made bearing in mind the need to "minimize changes to the World Bank’s goalpost for the objective of ending extreme poverty by 2030".

So, to be clear, under this definition:

A person living securely on their customary lands, in housing built by themselves using materials freely obtained from the local environment, eating a secure, substantial, varied and healthy diet based on customary agriculture supplemented by fisheries and other activities, with low levels of overcrowding, environmental pollution and infectious disease, owing no rent or tax to anyone, and taking part in regular celebrations and dances in a community of friends and relatives, is in absolute poverty;
A person living in a dilapidated one room slum apartment in an anonymous overcrowded jerry-built tenement over an open sewer, and working fourteen hours a day in a factory with no natural light to earn two dollars of which $1.70 goes in rent, leaving 30 cents to pay for street food made from scrapings of mouldy rice from the floor of the warehouse and whatever offal the fly-blown knacker's yard couldn't otherwise sell — and nothing at all left over to pay for the medicines needed as a result of the swirling infections and filth of overcrowded, highly stressed urban living, or for new shoes, or clothes, or entertainment — that person, hallelujah, praise the World Bank, praise capitalism, that person has been lifted out of absolute poverty.

Let us all give thanks!

OK, step back a bit. People living in customary rural societies have over the past several thousand years been widely parasitised on by thugs, rentier classes, soi-disant aristocrats. Customary rural societies have not universally been bucolic paradises. The very fact of living at a low population density and with limited access to the money economy has made it hard to organise effective resistance to oppression. And they've been extremely vulnerable in times of war.

But for the most part, being primary producers of food is not a bad place in the economy to be: it takes Stalinist levels of oppression to drive peasants to starvation.

And I strongly suspect that, as with the vaunted 'agricultural improvements' of eighteenth century Britain, of which the World Bank's current campaign is very much the spiritual successor, the lands from which the 'unproductive' rural population are being driven in the World Bank's beneficent and disinterested effort to 'lift them out of poverty' into urban sweatshops and slums do not remain the property of those customary societies who have been evicted. Rather, they either remain property of the descendants of the thugs and bandits — take a bow, Richard Walter John Montagu Douglas Scott — who formerly extracted rent from them, or else in the hands of members of the corrupt elite.

Which amounts to the same thing.

It's easy to see, of course, how forcing people into the money economy benefits capitalism. It's easy to see how it benefits bankers, and elites. It's much easier to extract rent from the poor and the powerless when those poor and powerless are already transacting in fungible tokens.

But let's not pretend this is a useful measure of poverty.

We cannot afford an urbanised world. Megacities can be fed at all only with extraordinary input of fossil fuel energy; and our 'modern,' 'improved' systems of agriculture depend utterly not only on huge inputs of fossil fuel energy and fertilisers, which in themselves destroy soil structure and thereby long term fertility, but also on massive inputs of novel synthetic toxins — biocides, poisons — which are exterminating many of the species, for example pollinators, on which food production and thereby human life depends.

We cannot continue using fossil fuels, or fossil hydrocarbon-based fertilisers. The planet is already burning. We cannot continue poisoning our own environment. The biosphere is already dying.

We need to resettle people on the land, where they can tend it intimately, where they can produce their own food without massive, complex economic superstructures extracting rent.

But more: we need to provide for people places to live where they are secure, from which they cannot be driven; where they can live together and together, convivially, in community, agree the customs by which they will work together to provide the things which they mutually need to live good, fulfilling lives.

Money does not provide this. $1.90 a day does not provide this. Every member of any good society would automatically be deemed by the World Bank to be 'living in extreme poverty.' They are measuring, as classical economists always do, precisely the wrong thing.

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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

Gotta be EXTREMELY careful who owns your nuclear power plants.

Belgium's nuclear fleet is owned by a French natural gas company and they're threatening to destroy them all if they don't get what they want from the Belgian government.

Ugly situation, not looking good for Belgium.

It's absolutely the fault of Belgium's shockingly stupid antinuclear energy laws that the country finds itself in this horrifying situation: held hostage by the French and about to lose most of its nuclear reactors over the next year.

The incoming Belgian government sensibly wants to correct things to save their country from utter devastation that would result from losing about half its electricity supply.

So the French fossil fuel company ("Engie", a pun on "N-G" or "natural gas") says that it may just have to destroy them all if the new government tries to life-extend more nuclear reactors.

Their excuse is that they say that if the 𝘯𝘦𝘸 Belgian government tries to save more reactors, then the antinuclear EU will reject the subsidies the 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 Belgian government gave them as protection money to keep just two of the 7 threatened reactors online, for just ten years instead of 20 years the new government wants.

All of this is downstream from previous Belgian governments passing laws forcing all the nuclear reactors to close by 2025 despite them making half of Belgium's electricity (the cheap half).

The whole thing is pretty psychotic and makes me immensely grateful to be American and not European.

Not sure Europe is cut out for survival.

[Original text by Mark Nelson, as posted on Twitter]

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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

An 18 lane freeway, 100 meters wide, moves less people than a busy subway line.

The Brooklyn bridge used to move 420,000 people per day.

In the 1950s, trolleys were removed, and since then it has never moved more than 180,000 people per day.

Cars 👏 destroy 👏 cities.

Info from @notjustbikes

#Urbanism #PublicTransport

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Tool ! :mastodance:

MeowViewer is a tool that lets you *read and search* your old posts by reading an offline copy from any profile... even after switching instances online etc!

⬇️ MORE INFO / FOLLOW ! ⬇️ @meowViewer /
toot.cafe/@meowViewer

P.S Can I run this software offline / as executable on Windows?
💳 💰 I will pay you for that! 💳 💰

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Eminem BLASTS Donald #Trump QUOTE 🗨️ You're either for or against!... 💬 

BLASTS Donald

🗨️ You're either for or against!... 💬
(Drawing a line in the sand)

respect! Life is political.
( is from back in 2017 )

And shows difference of loving and even but not the !

pol1.iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=cK

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TO THE WORLD
= MAKE A CUSTOM FAMILY!

➡️ "Do It Yourself Family!" ⬅️
Not just your immediate family! :)

💗 ❤️ 💜 👪 💜 ❤️ 💗
Pick and choose from Fediverse!
Be more like family
💗 ❤️ 💜 👪 💜 ❤️ 💗

= Add Online Family HERE for text / audio chats and see how it goes merging existing keywords and workflow so it's a constructive OPPORTUNITY at the same time as help us go through existing life and extending a bit of help and habits etc!

Your existing family + others!

Asking for things and deeper chats basically(you have my permission and direct message ok!)

MANY do have space and time
(and if you don't ok too!)

Hashtag :)

Ask me if it's unclear - it's what we do already but increasing actively looking for fun and relativity + real work for ourselves / humanity in each other's life / our stuff in whatever we like already!

Check my media page for for ideas!

💗 ❤️ 💜 👪 💜 ❤️ 💗
Towards more of a family thing without needing to know everything either!
💗 ❤️ 💜 👪 💜 ❤️ 💗


= !

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Nicolas Hoizey

I have to admit that I'm often sad when I read “Font Awesome” in the code of projects I'm auditing for performance. A fairly heavy font is often loaded to display a few icons, whereas we've known for a long time that SVG is generally more suitable.

But the arrival of Web Awesome, and my enduring admiration for @zachleat and @leaverou (and their creations) means that their arrival at Font Awesome may…

#Eleventy #FontAwesome

⚓️ nicolas-hoizey.com/notes/2024/

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Nicolas Hoizey

“HTML for People” by @bw

🔗 htmlforpeople.com/

> anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This book will teach you how to do just that. It doesn’t require any previous experience making websites or coding. I will cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way.

#HTML #CSS #tutorial

⚓️ nicolas-hoizey.com/links/2024/

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