Interview: "Obey the Law”: Palestinians Sue State Dept over US Arms to Israel
"There is a mountain of evidence of Israel carrying out torture, extrajudicial killings, rape, enforced disappearances & other abuses.
"Despite all that, the State Department has never once held any Israeli unit ineligible for assistance under the Leahy Law."
~Fmr State Department official Charles Blaha
democracynow.org/2024/12/18/le…
#LeahyLaw #IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #USEnablement #USPol #BDS .
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Interview: Alex Gibney on “The Bibi Files,” Netanyahu’s Corruption Cases
Netanyahu is the country’s first sitting leader to face criminal charges, in these three cases: fraud, breach of trust & accepting bribes.
Netanyahu has tried to evade his trials by wrapping himself in the mantle of prime minister & waging endless war.
Alex Gibney's documentary is banned in Israel, but Netanyahu couldn't stop its screening at Toronto.
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3 things I know about Indiana.
I already knew one of their sportsball teams is called Pacers.
I think... One of their archeologists is called Jones?
And now this:
Good morning. 🌿🌿🌿
21 December 2024
I got up early this morning, thanks once again to Ben; so, I made coffee and let the dogs out - in case you were wondering who. Now I'm up struggling while Ben and Charlie are fast asleep.
It is bundle up weather where I live in Louisiana (34° F or 1° C) which translates to shirt sleeve weather in Minnesota. Do you know what is weird? It is not surprising that the United States adopted the Imperial System of measurement along with the British Empire (British Weights and Measures Act of 1824), what is surprising is that after the rest of the world moved on to the metric system, the United States did not - change is difficult in the United States of America.
'Thus, the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.' - Dave Barry
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #morning #imperialsystem #metric_system #foliage
One of my peeves is when an API does something useful but with obfuscated names so you don't know it is there.
I just read through the entire (big!) API for #Golang's new slices package and it has exactly what I wanted:
slices.Values(slice) // slice -> iter.Seq
slices.Collect(seq) // iter.Seq -> slice
Why not slices.AsSeq() and iter.AsSlice()? Or even slices.Seq() and iter.Slice() since they are namespaced?
No, Values and Collect it is.
Days to completely forgetting this in three.. two..
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“In 1969 Bob Gore set his mind to making PTFE more usable in a sheet form. The best way to do that was by stretching it. With thick oven mitts, he would slowly and carefully pull thin white rods of PTFE night after night. But the cords kept breaking. One evening he got so fed up that he just yanked a cord out of frustration. When he pulled quickly, he was surprised to find the PTFE cord stretched as wide as his arms. Bob had discovered the material that would become Gore-Tex almost by accident.”
'Should come with an addiction warning!'
Escape to 19th-century Ireland with The Fitzgeralds of Dublin Series.
Amazon - mybook.to/FitzgeraldsSeries
Other Retailers - books2read.com/LornaPeel
#TheFitzgeraldsOfDublinSeries #BooksByLornaPeel #FamilySaga #HistoricalFiction #19thCentury #Victorian #Dublin #Ireland #IrishFiction #IrishBooks #IrishFiction #IrishHistoricalFiction #BooksSetInIreland #KindleUnlimited
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"Canvi històric: tornarà el sistema de retorn d'envasos als supermercats"
#residus #rrr #reutilizar #envasos
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Building A Custom Swiss Army Knife
The Swiss Army knife is the most well-known multitool, combining a bunch of functionality into a compact package. [Jeff Gough] decided to build a custom example featuring a selection of …read more
#hacking #projects
hackaday.com/2024/12/21/buildi…
Trump's claims of a mandate run into reality of narrow majorities (Washington Post)
washingtonpost.com/politics/20…
memeorandum.com/241221/p5#a241…
Boat collision left Charlotte stranded at the surface and in danger of predation.
arstechnica.com/science/2024/1…
The Importance of Pipelines in Complex UNIX Data Interpretations
Pipelines are a foundational feature of UNIX systems, enabling the seamless flow of data between programs. This capability lies at the heart of UNIX philosophy, emphasizing modularity, simplicity, and the use of small, reusable programs that perform specific tasks well.
Read More: machaddr.substack.com/p/the-im…
#Linux #UNIX #Computer #Science #Command #Line #OpenSource #pipeline
With the feature code freeze continuing, the Wine team had put up a third Release Candidate for the upcoming stable main release of Wine 10.0 coming in early 2025.
gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/wind…
#OpenSource #Wine #NewRelease #Misc
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in reply to DrALJONES • • •Leahy… an ancient Irish surname.
Funny that.