Anatomy of a settler abduction
Last Wednesday, Palestinian teenager Owais Hammam was on a walk near his home in the West Bank village of Kharbatha Bani Harith, when he was ambushed by a group of Israeli settlers, dragged to a hilltop outpost, and beaten unconscious. From his hospital bed in Ramallah, Hammam spoke to photojournalist Faiz Abu Rmeleh, recounting how both settlers and Israeli soldiers took part in his brutal torture.
from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Dec 14, 2025
Also:
* Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
* Israel’s Gaza proxy strategy is collapsing
* After Israel-Hamas prisoner deal, ‘48 Palestinians ask when their turn will come
* Netanyahu’s pardon request is a lens into Israel’s political psyche
* The GOP fed the antisemitism monster. Now it’s turning on its masters
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How do I keep PulseAudio from randomly changing the volume?
I'm on OpenSuse Tumbleweed (although I'm pretty sure I noticed the behavior on Manjaro, too).
The problem is that the volume of e.g. Firefox gets turned down for no reason. I noticed that a youtube video was quite quiet. I then checkt pavu control and saw that the volume for Firefox was set to 83%. I set it back to 100, but after the pc resumed from standby, it was at 83 again. Sometimes it's enough to just pause the video for it to move the volume back down.
Why is that and how do I disable this functionality?
Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux - alavi.me
Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux - alavi.me
We will explore how we can use an Android E-ink tablet (or any tablet) as a monitor for Linux computeralavi.me
YouTube’s AI is Breaking the Creator Ecosystem
Over the past four years, I've significantly reduced my social media footprint. There are countless reasons for this, all of which are beyond the scope of this article, but the point I want to make is this: despite my growing apathy and downright hostility towards social platforms, I've found YouTube to be an oasis of sorts.I am not going to pretend that YouTube hasn't played its part in the global disinformation epidemic or that it has somehow escaped the claws of enshittification. What I will say is that unlike other social platforms, its feed (unlike those of its competitors) are maleable using browser-based plugins (tools such as subscription managers). It is one of my primary learning platforms; without its vast array of tutorials, there is no way that I, a non-programmer, would have learnt Linux as fast or become as comfortable in a FOSS-based computing environment, as I have since the pandemic.
But enshittification is, like death and taxes, a certainty now. Which brings us to the subject of this column: AI moderation on YouTube.
YouTube’s AI is Breaking the Creator Ecosystem
A moderation system that leans on automation just knocked legitimate tech tutorials and even entire channels offline. The appeals felt automated, too.Theena Kumaragurunathan (It's FOSS)
SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years
After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.The 5D Memory Crystal stores data by using tiny voxels – 3D pixels – in fused silica glass, etched by femtosecond laser pulses. These voxels possess "birefringence," meaning that their light refraction characteristics vary depending upon the polarization and direction of incoming light.
That difference in light orientation and strength can be read in conjunction with the voxel's location (x, y, z coordinates), allowing data to be encoded in five dimensional space.
And because the medium is silica crystal, similar to optical cable, it's highly durable. It's also capacious: The technology can store up to 360 TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter.
The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years
: SPhotoix moves its 5D Memory Crystalcold storage tech closer to deployment in data centersThomas Claburn (The Register)
First AI implosion: Oracle just lost $35 billion in market cap. In 48 hours
THE THERMODYNAMIC RECKONING
How a $610 Billion Circular Financing Architecture, the Laws of Physics, and the Ghosts of Railway Mania Are Converging to Reshape Global Financesubstack.com
The View From Inside the AI Bubble
In a small room in San Diego last week, a man in a black leather jacket explained to me how to save the world from destruction by AI. Max Tegmark, a notable figure in the AI-safety movement, believes that “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI, could precipitate the end of human life. I was in town for NeurIPS, one of the largest AI-research conferences, and Tegmark had invited me, along with five other journalists, to a briefing on an AI-safety index that he would release the next day. No company scored better than a C+.The threat of technological superintelligence is the stuff of science fiction, yet it has become a topic of serious discussion in the past few years. Despite the lack of clear definition—even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has called AGI a “weakly defined term”—the idea that powerful AI contains an inherent threat to humanity has gained acceptance among respected cultural critics.
Granted, generative AI is a powerful technology that has already had a massive impact on our work and culture. But superintelligence has become one of several questionable narratives promoted by the AI industry, along with the ideas that AI learns like a human, that it has “emergent” capabilities, that “reasoning models” are actually reasoning, and that the technology will eventually improve itself.
I traveled to NeurIPS, held at the waterfront fortress that is the San Diego Convention Center, partly to understand how seriously these narratives are taken within the AI industry. Do AGI aspirations guide research and product development? When I asked Tegmark about this, he told me that the major AI companies were sincerely trying to build AGI, but his reasoning was unconvincing. “I know their founders,” he said. “And they’ve said so publicly.”
The View From Inside the AI Bubble
Secret parties, lavish buffets, and talks of annihilation at one of the largest AI-research conferencesAlex Reisner (The Atlantic)
Shiru Anime Streaming! Open source and decentralized!
GitHub - RockinChaos/Shiru: Manage your personal media library, organize your collection, and stream your content in real time, no waiting required!
Manage your personal media library, organize your collection, and stream your content in real time, no waiting required! - RockinChaos/ShiruGitHub
I don't think this is a reasonable comparison between X and Bluesky. i also believe it's fomenting strife where it doesn't exist. Finally using AI to generate memes removes any possible value a meme can have, and that is a critical thought produced by a human using an entertaining image. AI destroys all of that.
Don't use AI.
PhotoGIMP - The Photoshop Like Experience on GIMP
A patch for optimizing GIMP 3.0+ for Adobe Photoshop users, including features like:
- Tool organization to mimic the position of Adobe Photoshop;
- New Splash Screen;
- New default settings to maximize space on the canvas;
- Shortcuts similar to the ones in Photoshop for Windows, following Adobe's Documentation;
- New icon and Name from custom .desktop file.
github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/…
Flatpak (Linux)
In order to install the newest version of PhotoGIMP on your Linux operating system using Flatpak, just follow this simple steps:
- Make sure you already have GIMP installed from Flathub; (for Ubuntu/Mint user just select Flatpak below the install button in the manager)
- Start and quit GIMP after you installed before you continue!
- Download the files from this repository or just click here - > github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/…
- Extract the content of the zip file on your home folder (.config and .local - they are the important ones) and overwrite the files if needed;
(if you can't see the file click Ctrl+H to see hidden files)
-You're done, enjoy it! 😄
PhotoGIMP/screenshots/photogimp_3_-_diolinux.png at master · Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
A Patch for GIMP 3+ for Photoshop Users. Contribute to Diolinux/PhotoGIMP development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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The muscle memory is hard to fix
Also this is software, we should celebrate and embrace the fact that the same tool can be customized to look and be organized differently to maximally ease users into learning it. This is one of the super powers of software!
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This is just wrong. I love foss and the effort put into gimp, but there are so many little ux things that it gets wrong.
The big one for me is non destructive resizing of pasted objects. Photoshop puts the little drag handles on them allowing for resizing, the top middle one allows you to rotate, holding the shift key locks proportions etc, all right away after pasting.
On gimp you can open a menu and specify the height and width, or you can click shift + s, which kind of works like Photoshops but is somehow clunkier & destructive when shrinking.
I also really miss smart objects and the universal tool options menu (not sure what it's called but it lives on the top of the canvas on PS and gives you all the relevant options for whatever tool you are using. I'm sure gimp has an equivalent but out of the box I find it much more correct and confusing.
I highly recommend you watch one of the free video courses, from the beginning, on youtube.
GIMP is a really sophisticated piece of software designed for maximum technical control and flexibility. If you can dedicate a few hours to learning it you can do basically anything, for free, forever. If you only need to do basic stuff it might be worth looking at something else like Tux Paint for example, which is faster to pick up. It also has sound effects and is great fun.
It was a long time ago now but I distinctly remember having to watch videos to learn how to do things in Photoshop.
IMO Gimp will always get flak about the UI not matching Photoshop, rather than the other way around, for the simple reason that users are always switching in that direction. I haven't heard of anyone ditching GIMP for Photoshop.
I agree. I transitioned to GIMP on my own hardware a couple of years ago but still have to use Photoshop once a week for work.
Panning and zooming - a massive part of graphics UX - is miles better in GIMP for example and makes PS look primitive by comparison.
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Not in the popup dialog, but in the text tool properties (on the left under the tools after you select the tool). You can scroll through the fonts there and your selected font will apply to the currently selected text.
My biggest pet peeve is having to scroll past 5000 versions of Noto font.
GitHub - Acly/krita-ai-diffusion: Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required.
Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required. - Acly/krita-ai-diffusionGitHub
At it's heart, Krita is a drawing program with a few concessions to photo editing/manipulation. Whereas Gimp is a photo editing software with a few concessions to drawing.
Unless Krita decides to go the full adobe route and try to do both (which I doubt will ever happen), a feature like setting a white point (or any feature that isn't solely useful for photography but not drawing) will ever be in it.
People making the comparison as though Gimp and Krita are both trying to do the same thing are utterly exhausting.
Yeah, that's kind of a thing; the Adobe suite kind of doesn't have a raster drawing program, Photoshop gets used for that but Photoshop is meant to be a photo editor.
A "digital artist" or "digital painter" will want to use Krita, a "graphic artist" designing logos or signage is gonna want Inkscape, and people wanting to lie via photograph want GIMP.
Well, I'll put it to you this way: If I hire a graphic artist to design a logo for my company, and they turn in a .png they drew in Photoshop, GIMP or Krita, they're fired. Because I'm going to have my logo on my website, printed on business cards, on key fobs, on the side of work trucks, and painted on the side of buildings. I need a four color variant, a black and white variant and an outline variant, and they all need to work when printed at any scale. Raster art can't do that. "Hey, can you plasma cut my company logo out of stainless?" "Send over the file." "...what the fuck is this?"
Hell just having it in .svg format rather than .ai format is gonna be a problem, because Adobe Illustrator is a proprietary industry standard. But I mean, the rest of society is dying, why shouldn't graphic arts also have the disease?
people wanting to lie via photograph want GIMP.
Taking digital photos without editing them is like taking analog photos without developing them.
Whether you use those tools to lie, or to get closer to what your eyes saw is your choice.
But if you just use the unedited RAW image from the sensor, it won't look anywhere close to reality either.
Thank you. Works well. I'm much happier with the interface I used for over 30 years in Photoshop, it's helpful to have that emulated somewhat in GIMP.
I also tracked down how to set the scroll wheel to zoom without the need for the Ctrl key, which was another annoyance. I've tried before to discover this, but failed. Maybe I was looking at the official documentation, which could use some work. Anyway, here's how to get the scroll wheel to zoom without the Ctrl key:
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Just did that, thanks👌.
btw the comand x me was just :
view-zoom-in
view-zoom-out
To save anyone from having to watch a video:
Edit > Preferences > Input Devices > Input Controllers > Main Mouse Wheel
In this menu, double-click "Scroll Up", and select view-zoom-in-accel. Then do the same to "Scroll Down" with the value view-zoom-out-accel.
Kate, Geany and Micro are already pretty good.
I'd argue that they're even better than Notepad++. There's certainly no shortage of good text editors on Linux...
Kate is too bloated to fill the role of Notepad. Kwrite is lighter but like Kate all the shortcuts are different from Notepad and the Gnome Text Editor. Took me three attempts to get the shortcuts right, first because I didn't save them correctly and second because I missed one of the way too many things you can configure.
Kate and Kwrite make the OOTB experience with KDE bad for new users from anywhere else.
You open it you're greeted with a list of options instead of a blank file ready to use. When you open it again you'll have 10 open tabs from previous sessions. On the left side you get multiple buttons with coding features ... and I think most KDE users aren't programmers. At the top there are dropdown menus with and most of the hundreds of options there are irrelevant to the non-programmer.
It's much better to leave these kinds of programming-centric features out of the default text editor. The programmers know how to install something better.
I'm not saying Kate shouldn't exist, nor that it shouldn't be installed by default. It just shouldn't be the default.
I think this may be a configuration issue. I suspect you may have Kate set up very differently from the way I have it.
When I open Kate, I'm greeted with a blank file, ready to use.
When I open it again... I'm greeted with a blank file, ready to use.
On the left side I have four icons that I largely ignore except for the top one which is handy if I have a lot of files open.
At the bottom is the status bar. I may be allowing my privilege to show a little here, but with a 1080p screen, I can afford to lose 50 or so pixels to that.
At the top there's New, Open, Save, Save As, Undo, and Redo.
I'm not saying your configuration of Kate is bad. I'm not even going to claim that my configuration is the default, because I've used it for over a year and a half now and I don't know what the default configuration looks like. What I am saying is that your experience and my experience do not align.
Excuse me for being out of the loop, but is there a path towards AI photo manipulation coming for gimp? (Or already here?). Basically doing things like generative fill and other AI editing capabilities?
(I use affinity photo for my photo editing at the moment, so it's been awhile since I've been paying attention to gimp.)
I think there's a plug in. But it does connect to an api. So you have to have an endpoint available for that. Being an online service (mostly paid) or your own service running in your machine.
github.com/thndrbrrr/gimp-stab…
GitHub - thndrbrrr/gimp-stable-boy: GIMP plugin for AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion WebUI
GIMP plugin for AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion WebUI - thndrbrrr/gimp-stable-boyGitHub
I'm not sure about Gimp but searching for Krita tutorials i've found something about that:
docs.interstice.cloud/selectio…
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Its also trained on stolen data, artists work without their permission. AI training, even for the offline models, uses massive amounts of electricity and water and is currently accelerating climate around the world as well as unaffordability as demand for water and electricity cause prices to skyrocket. At the same time its accellerating the unaffordability of personal computing, including phones, and threatening to remove open PC hardware platforms by removing direct access to affordable DIY hardware.
On the other side of this, continued use and justification of LLMs existence is enabling the founding of mass surveillance and control systems that will be the foundation for totaltarian states, while at the same time enabling the rich to manipulate and control truth. And because of randomized token tie breaking, anything that comes out of it is only partially correct even when its one of the 30% of the times the reply is partially useful.
And - on top of all of that, you are nerfing your own skills and brainpower everytime you use it, in addition to having it do something for you that you could be learning yourself, which would have increased your existing skills while teaching you a new one.
AI is a horrible technology, doesn't matter where you run it.
It doesn't verify the authenticity of all the software that it downloads with cryptography.
Compared to something like apt, which will refuse to install something if it was maliciously altered, verified with pgp signatures.
It's pretty pathetic, but most of these new package managers are a security nightmare
This is not true. Flatpaks from flathub are signed with a gpg key.
Now admittedly, they use a single release key for all their signing, which is much weaker than the traditional distro's model of having multiple package maintainers sign off on a release.
But the packages are signed.
Edit: snaps are signed in a similar way.
From flahubs docs: docs.flathub.org/blog/app-safe…
The build itself is signed by Flathub’s key, and Flatpak/OSTree verify these signatures when installing and updating apps.
This does not seem to be optional or up to the control of each developer or publisher who is using the flathub repos.
Of course, unless you mean packages via flatpak in general?
Hmmm, this is where my research leads me.
docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/fla…
Though it generally isn’t recommended, it is possible not to use GPG verification. In this case, the --no-gpg-verify option should be used when adding the repository. Note that it is necessary to become root in order to update a repository that does not have GPG verification enabled.
Going further, I found a relevant github issue where a user is encountering an issue where flatpak is refusing to install a package that is not signed, and the user is asking for a cli flag to bypass this block.
I don't really see how this is any different from apt refusing to install unsigned packages by default but allowing a command line flag (--allow-unauthenticated) as an escape hatch.
To be really pedantic, apt key signing is also optional, it's just that apt is configured to refuse to install unsigned packages by default. So therefor all major repos sign their packages with GPG keys. Flatpak appears to follow this exact same model.
When installing an unsigned local flatpak package, allow me to temporarily override the GPG signature errors with a commandline parameter
Linux distribution and version Fedora 33 Flatpak version 1.10.2 Description of the problem When I just want to test a random throwaway flatpak package file like what is the case in https://gitlab.g...nekohayo (GitHub)
Much, if not all of this, you can set up yourself, without a lot of installing things...
But people really would be better of, getting used to GIMP as it is, because it will cause problems later on, on updates and if the project discontinues and so forth.
Hey OP, please remove the photogimp[.]com from your post body, as it's not an official webpage of the project and could lead to something like clueless people installing viruses off of it. Thanks in advance.
(Also, for those who are Brazillian, or just speak Portuguese for one reason or another, I highly recommend the YouTube channel belonging to the people behind this patch –Diolinux (YT) (website))
On Arch Linux
pacman -S gimp will do, run and close, and then overwrite as instructed above. No need for Flatpak.
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Trump wants regime change in Venezuela - oppose US intervention & fight for a socialist alternative! | Socialist World Media
US imperialism, headed by Donald Trump, has launched a military build up in the Caribbean not seen for decades. The deployment of the USS Gerald R Ford strike group, including the largest US aircraft carrier, a nuclear submarine, and over 10,000 combat troops, is a clear warning that Trump and US imperialism mean business. Normally two US war ships are stationed in the Caribbean, now it is at least 10. Under the pretext of wanting to hit the narco-traffickers, over 20 boats have been bombed, killing over 80 occupants, even though most of the drugs smuggled into the US do not originate from or pass through Venezuela.Now an oil tanker has been seized by the US in an act of imperial piracy. Asked what he would do with the seized tanker, Trump replied, “I guess we will keep it”. Yet it is not just one tanker, apparently destined for Cuba, that the US empire has its eye on. It is access to the vast Venezuelan crude oil reserves, the largest in the world, that Trump and the oil barons who backed him want.
Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of crude oil in reserve, 20% of the world’s total. Furthermore, most US oil refineries are designed to process ‘heavy crude oil,’ which the US only gets from Venezuela, Canada, and Russia. Securing such supplies along with an estimated US$1 trillion gain for US business is in the offing if they can get their hands on it.
Apart from the naval build up, in preparation for further action the military base on Puerto Rico, closed following mass protests in 2004, has been re-opened. Thousands of US troops, amphibious landing craft, tanks, and war planes are being flown into the base.
Puerto Rico, the last remaining US colony that was seized in 1898, has historically been a crucial base and training ground for the US military. It was on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, where thousands of the indigenous population were driven off and slaughtered, that Napalm, ‘agent orange ‘and other deadly weapons of mass murder were tested before they were used in the Vietnam war.
Militarily, Puerto Rico historically has been strategically important for US imperialism – lying close to Cuba and less than 100 km from Venezuela, the closed military bases have now been reopened to the consternation of many on the island.
Trump’s claim that his motive is targeting narco-traffickers. In the order of narcotics trade, Venezuela is a relatively small player. Regime change for the lucrative black gold, which is the mainstay of the economy of the petrostate of Venezuela, is one of Trump’s real objectives. Geo-political factors are also a factor in Trump’s objective of regime change. He is also warning rival powers, China and Russia, not to challenge US influence in the Americas. Putin is supporting Maduro, and both regimes have trade relations, including oil.
US imperialism has long wanted the overthrow of the Venezuelan government, since the election of Hugo Chavez, in 1998. An attempted military coup to oust Chavez, a radical left populist in 2002, backfired as millions poured onto the streets defeating the coup and restoring Chavez to the Presidency. The mass social explosion which followed drove the radical, well intentioned, Chavez, even further to the left, undertaking partial nationalisations, speaking of “socialism in the 21st century” and, using revenue from oil, introduced sweeping social reforms.
In election after election, Chavez won sweeping victories. A revolutionary movement developed. Popular though Chavez’s reforms and his regime were, as the CWI analysed at the time (Socialism Today – Venezuela at the crossroads; Venezuela: Revolution and counter-revolution – Socialist Party; Socialism Today – Venezuela: the revolution in danger; Venezuela: A New Phase In The Revolution – Socialist Party) the government’s often top down bureaucratic methods, corruption, the absence of democratic workers’ control and management and, fundamentally, a failure to definitively break with capitalism, resulted in the revolution reaching an impasse. The fall in global oil prices had a devastating effect, resulting in stagnation and then economic decline. Chavez died in 2013 and was replaced by Nikolas Maduro.
With the revolutionary process in retreat, US imperialism imposed crippling sanctions, including under President Obama; an economic blockade, that was tightened under Trump 1 and 2, with the objective of strangling the economy and forcing regime change. At the same time, Maduro did not continue the radical steps of Chavez which encroached upon capitalism but moved in the other direction.
Of the 303 billion barrels of oil reserves, Venezuela has only managed to sell four billion barrels due to international sanctions. Venezuela has 161 tons of gold reserves – much of it locked away in the Bank of England as the country’s assets have been frozen by imperialist powers. Shortages due to lack of imports have a devastating effect. These have compounded the crisis which existed due to mismanagement, corruption, lack of investment, and other factors. Venezuela is not only rich in oil. It has 80% of the natural gas reserves in Latin America but only accounts for 18% of that used largely due to lack of infrastructure and corruption.
Hyperinflation and shortages have all resulted in a devastating social collapse. Between 2014 and 2021, the GDP plummeted by 75%. The devastating social situation led to a dramatic fall in support of the regime. Since 2013 over 8 million (out of an estimated population of 28 million) people have fled the country, in one of the largest global refugee and immigrant crises.
Such an impasse in the situation has resulted in big opposition to Maduro’s regime which is more corrupt and authoritarian than which existed under Chavez. The regime has also acted against leftist critics who do not support US imperialism. According to some reports, Maduro has had US$700 million worth of assets seized in the US. However, revulsion of the rich, right wing opposition, and the legacy of the revolutionary process (though it ended in stagnation and decline), means Maduro still maintains a significant base of support. This is likely to be solidified and may be strengthened in response to the threats of Trump and fear of US intervention.
Right-wing opposition in Venezuela
The right-wing opposition in Venezuela, a vicious Thatcherite ruling class, if it comes to power will be ruthless in seeking revenge and enacting repressive anti-working class measures. It offers no solution for the working class and poor. The right wing opposition has a programme of collaboration with imperialism and to further enrich the Venezuelan rich and powerful ruling class.The stench of hypocrisy of western capitalism in awarding the Nobel peace prize to the leader of the opposition, Maria Corina Machado, has been smelt in Oslo and around the world. The same Machado urged a coup to overthrow the Maduro regime. The same Machado refuses to condemn US bombing of boats in the Caribbean or condemn Trump for his racist attacks on Latinos in the US, including the deporting of Venezuelans to prisons in El Salvador.
Trump clearly is aiming at regime change. The amassing of a military force threatening Venezuela is going to arouse the strong anti-imperialist sentiment that exists throughout Latin America. It will have a massive polarizing effect. It is note-worthy that the right-wing Presidents of Argentina, Ecuador, Panama and Paraguay went to Oslo. Others, like Lula in Brazil or Boric in Chile, did not, reflecting the pressure against US imperialism which exists among the masses of region.
At this stage, US imperialism has not amassed sufficient forces for a full ground invasion, which is unlikely, although not entirely excluded. This would risk triggering a massive movement throughout Latin America and a war with echoes of Vietnam. Trump may also be hoping that amassing a military threat will be sufficient to provoke a split and revolt by a section of the military in Venezuela. This depends on the situation within the Venezuelan military, which is unclear. A land invasion would provoke a big reaction amongst Trump’s support base in the US, which generally opposes further US military interventions. However, bombings, drone attacks, assassinations, kidnappings – including Maduro – are not excluded, indeed more likely. US imperialism has undertaken such interventions in the past in Panama. It kidnapped the ‘strongman’ Noriega. And members of Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq were kidnapped.
The CWI condemns and opposes all US imperialist intervention in Venezuela or elsewhere. There can be no support given to the reactionary right-wing opposition in Venezuela. It is the challenge facing the Venezuelan working class to find a road to fight imperialist aggression, oppose the capitalist right wing and establish a genuine democratic socialist government of the workers and poor. Such a workers’ government can offer a solution to the catastrophe affecting Venezuelan society, including an appeal to the masses throughout Latin America and the US for support and solidarity.
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US and imperialist forces out of the Caribbean, Central and South America! US imperialism, headed by Donald Trump, has launched a military build up in the Caribbean not seen for decades. The deployment of the USS Gerald R Ford [...]niall (Committee for a Workers' International)
Kim: No Lieutenant, I'm actually a bastard too. You are as well. Technically, we all are.
Logic: He has a point. 'All' makes no exceptions.
Rhetoric: It's a professional hazard. But that doesn't preclude the existence of a 'good' bastard. You can be it. A communist bastard cop. A bastard for the people.
Except that quantum fluctuations only have enough of a chance to get bigger when in a void.
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People. What a bunch of bastards
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Not that I don't want to. But still.
“'F the Police' but who's stopping you from killing me?” ―
I do believe about 20% of police officers have good intentions and significantly more signed up with that attitude, not knowing that they protect the wealthy elite and crooked politicians more than they uphold democratic values and ethical standards in society.
Unfortunately, probably more of them consider such a career because of the authority it gives them. Therefore I prefer to say that "many cops are bastards"; granted, it doesn't have an equally nice ring to it.
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If cops’ one job was the protection of others/life at all costs, I’d think they were cool.
Intentions vs actions.
All cops are bastards because it doesnt matter what their intentions are when their actions mean they prop up injustice, legal slavery, oppression of the right to protest, and corruption.
Cops enforce what their boss tells them to enforce, as is the way in extremely hierarchical organisations. Their intentions no longer matter, they do as they're told.
But then following your logic, any employee working in a company doing something bad is a bastard.
Don't blame the guys at the bottom of the ladder, blame the system.
mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work…
This article is a fun read.
The system only works because millions of cogs step in line and allow the machinery of that system to work.
I have been part of a larger evil system. Because where I grew up that's what everyone did, you went into the industry propping up the local economy (oil and gas). As I grew older I learned of the evils of fossil fuels, about climate change, and no longer work in oil and gas. I have no intention of ever doing so again.
So you could quite rightfully call me a bastard. But I left and will never be returning, does that absolve me of the bastard title? I don't know. But while you're actively part of the machinery you're definitely a bastard. Especially if you're the part of the machinery that is systemically racist and assaults and restrains people on a daily basis.
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To be a Venn it has to show intersection not just overlap.
not since 1996, apparently. Try Edmonton
(nb: I googled all of this, please don't hold me to any standards w/r/t sports trivia)
As funny as the joke is, it is also concerning that knowledge is still being used as a cudgel to judge people over.
We really have to stop normalizing shitting on knowledge.
... Though if they look like in OP, uh... that's using more information than knowing words to judge someone, which is fine.
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To be fair, most languages end up using English words for stuff that's tech related. For example, I've been learning Italian and actually laughed out loud when I learned that the Italian word for coach (which seems to be used for both buses and trains) is "Pullman" it gets even more obvious when it's a computer-related technology
Probably next year I might try to learn a bit of German because I keep encountering Germans writing in German on various parts of the internet and it would be fun to join the club (plus I'd love to visit Germany sometime so that would remove one barrier for sure)
I've been living in Germany for 3 months and somehow it feels like I understand less every day.
So yeah a while
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Just make sure you use the joke "ich verstehe nur Bahnhof". The locals love that.
Also if you see a swiss person, always greet them with "Gruezi". They love that too.
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I'm in this picture and I don't like it
Edit: who am I kidding, I love it
Big mood, I love that me_irl seems to transcend language barriers.
I saw a really good one the other day of Mr. Robot, where the only two phrases I recognized were "Hackerman" and "Dailymotion" and it still made me snort laugh lol
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in reply to marius • • •I've never seen this "just" happen, but have seen it during events like switching from headphones to speakers and such.
You may also have your app volumes linked to your master channels, meaning when you lower the sound on your master with something like a key combo, then it lowers the individual app volumes as well, which is generally not something you'd want enabled.
Apps at full, and using PCM/Master channel for general volume is pretty much the "default".
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in reply to marius • • •Jokes aside, it could be some setting of the DE you are using. If the audio output device is detected as headphones, there tend to be settings that reduce the master volume on certain events.
I remember KDE Plasma used to do that. Every time I switched the output device (or was it when I unplugged and re-plugged it?), it set the headphone volume to 60%.
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