Trump executive order backs change to Medicare negotiation pushed by drug industry (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
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Matas Buzelis expresses doubts on debuting with Lithuania this summer
By Johnny Askounis/ info@eurohoops.net An altered approach by Matas Buzelis on the way to the senior national team of Lithuania and EuroBasket 2025.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
‘They will be first to suffer’: Russia’s chilling warning to the Baltics & Poland revealed by Putin’s top spy chief
RUSSIA will target Poland and the Baltics if they continue to feel threatened by Nato, Vladimir Putin's top spy chief has warned.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Steam has a buried page that totals all your spending, if you dare to look
Video games can be an expensive hobby, but how much money have you actually spent? Steam has you covered.Ed Nightingale (Eurogamer.net)
Emmanuel Moulin, un nouvel Alexis Kohler à l’Élysée
Conseiller influent des sarkozystes puis des macronistes, le nouveau secrétaire général de l’Élysée a cultivé toute sa carrière les liens public-privé et une vision pro-entreprise de l’économie. Au détriment de la bonne tenue des comptes publics.
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Emmanuel Moulin, un nouvel Alexis Kohler à l’Élysée
Conseiller influent des sarkozystes puis des macronistes, le nouveau secrétaire général de l’Élysée a cultivé toute sa carrière les liens public-privé et une vision pro-entreprise de l’économie. Au détriment de la bonne tenue des comptes publics.Mathias Thépot (Mediapart)
Christine Sinclair says 'exciting times for women's soccer' in Canada as Northern Super League kicks off
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Switzerland will face Czechia in the quarterfinals
The Swiss team ended the preliminary stage of the Women's Worlds with a 5-0 loss to the USA. Goalie Andrea Braendli kept her team in the game, she faced 53 shots in the entire game. The Swiss were held to six shots on goal.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
i'm ~50% sure i have a PPC604 (or thereabouts, maybe a 700 series) macbook, and i have a macbook air that's 12 years old. i think the PPC is running gentoo, and the air is running whatever macOS X fits on it. someday i'll re-flash it to linux or something.
the PPC is from at least 20 years ago if not 23.
The comeback tours that no one wants (Calder McHugh/Politico)
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The comeback tours that no one wants
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Trump signs healthcare executive order that includes a win for pharma companies (Ahmed Aboulenein/Reuters)
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Trump signs healthcare executive order that includes a win for pharma companies
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Slovakia’s pro-Russian leader rejects a call by the EU not to attend a military parade in Moscow | Ap
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia's populist Prime Minister Robert Fico reacted angrily Tuesday to what he called “disrespectful” remarks by the European Union foreign policy chief who warned European leaders against traveling to Moscow for milita…BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Washington drops sanctions against Hungarian PM’s close ally Antal Rogan
The United States has made the decision to lift sanctions on Antal Rogan, a senior assistant to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Looking to leave the US? If you're a mathematician, consider a career in the winelands area of South Africa! Stellenbosch is hiring!
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Chicago, where black people also cannot rule, cannot govern. No matter where you go - black people cannot rule, cannot govern.
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Illustrating the Chicago Values of Crime, Murder & Mayhem with comprehensive charts, precise graphs and exhaustive data sets of Chicago stupidity.HeyJackass
Skin color DOES make a difference.
As you can see, there were 19 assailants and NONE of them were white. There were 203 victims, and 5 of those was white.
With or without "guns", blacks cannot rule, blacks cannot govern.
@FourOh-LLC
I speak as a university professor, sorry. I am not a politician. It's for politicians to find ways out. I can also point at particular events in US history which led it where it is now, if it helps.
I don't fly an Australian flag. The Blue-Yellow is the Ukrainian flag 🙂
But Dutch is my only citizenship. The Netherlands does not allow double citizenships when you naturalise on the basis of residency.
By the way, stop taking stand as an American exceptionalist, it's so weak. If you, unlike the present US government, are true to US Constitution, please recall the 1st amendment, and don't try to shut me up because I am not an American.
@FourOh-LLC the current government is wiping their feet with the constitution. E.g. how many court rulings have they already ignored? Only truly brainwashed don't see it, and that's why I called you brainwashed.
One thing they won't solve for sure, it's the problem of bringing Chicago homicide rate down. Because they don't care about these black people, just like you apparently don't.
To the contrary, it's in their political interests to incite racial hatred, just as they do with fanning xenophobia.
That's a standard fascist way, the way of Hitler, Putin, Orban. Yes, your fellow citizens are making fascist political decisions. You seem to approve of it.
@FourOh-LLC you don't have to be wealthy yourself - but surely you are brainwashed by the USA's wealthy.
My country of citizenship, NL, is considerably poorer compared to US, but it does not have homeless citizens living aboard subway trains, something I regularly see in Chicago.
You know, GINI index 25, as opposed to US' 41.
If I were “brainwashed,” I wouldn’t be having this conversation with you.
I was born in 1968 in Soviet-occupied Hungary. At 19, I emigrated to Austria, and in 1989, I legally immigrated to the United States, where I later became a naturalized citizen. I took an oath to uphold the Constitutional Representative Republic of the United States of America—and I meant it.
I hold no dual citizenship, and I owe no allegiance to any other flag, government, or ideology.
The poverty I’ve witnessed—both abroad and here—is not unique to one country. It is the result of misplaced leadership and moral failure, a condition that has repeated itself across all nations and eras.
You cannot shame me by pointing to those who struggle.
That’s not critique—it’s propaganda.
Pride is not denial. Pride is what keeps people standing when systems fail.
Did you not hear this woman?!
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"Blacks cannot rule, blacks cannot govern." Why would I want to get into the skin of people who are a failure to govern?
@FourOh-LLC you don't understand why they are where they are now. If you don't try, you won't understand the problem. And the only way to understand them is to make a thought experiment I propose.
Otherwise, I'll have to block you as an KKK-style racist.
Dima, threatening to label someone a “KKK-style racist” because they express skepticism or frustration about governance outcomes is not a discussion—it's coercion.
You invited a thought experiment. I responded with a real-world example, grounded in a citizen’s own experience—not in skin color, but in function and failure. If the subject is governance, then the standards are outcomes—not racial identities. Governance is judged by whether roads work, power stays on, institutions function, and people feel safe. Nothing about that is inherently racist.
If I must suspend my reason and agree to your premise unconditionally—or face moral condemnation—then you’re not proposing a thought experiment. You’re issuing a loyalty test.
I'm here for dialogue. But I won’t trade my right to reason for your approval.
If that boundary is unacceptable to you, blocking me is your decision, not mine.
Merck Signs Nearly $500 Million Licensing Deal With Austria-Based Cyprumed For Tablet-Based Peptide Delivery – Merck & Co (NYSE:MRK)
Merck & Co Inc MRK and privately held Cyprumed GmbH signed a non-exclusive license and option agreement on Tuesday to develop oral formulations of Merck's peptides using Cyprumed's drug delivery technology.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Norwegian snowboarder goes orbital to land historic quad flip in Swiss Alps stunner
Norwegian snowboarder Oyvind Kirkhus made history over the last week at Switzerland's Swatch Nines by landing the world's first switch backside quad 1620, a gravity-defying manoeuvre that left even its creator in disbelief.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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