"Next, we visited Virginia and Nick Browning, a couple who have lived for over 30 years on property north of the plant and mine. While Nick isn’t bothered by the cyptomine’s noise, given his deteriorating hearing, Virginia is kept awake and suffers bouts of vertigo after sleepless nights. “Some days, I look like I’m drunk. I mean, that’s how I walk. I can’t walk and have my head up,” she said."
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The Crypto Racket
Bitcoin mining afflicts locals with noise pollution, threatens water supplies, and receives generous public backing.Candice Bernd (The Texas Observer)
🎵A cemetery where I marry the sea
🎶A stranger thing could never change my mind
🎵I gotta take it on the...
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Ukraine says it has busted Hungarian spy ring collecting military data
Two Ukrainians arrested as authorities claim operation had one eye on a possible future military incursion
Ukrainian authorities claim to have busted a Hungarian spy ring operating on its territory, alleging that Budapest was collecting sensitive military data with one eye on a possible future incursion into the west of the country.
Hungary’s foreign minister dismissed the accusations as “propaganda” and announced the expulsion of two Ukrainians described as “spies working under diplomatic cover” at the Ukrainian embassy in Budapest.
The allegations will further test already fraught relations between the two neighbouring countries. While Hungary is a member of Nato and the EU, its prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has been an outlier among European leaders, strongly critical of Kyiv and neutral towards Russia.
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I know you are not malicious, but conflating Hungary, the will of the Hungarian people and the actions of the Orbán government is the cornerstone of Orbán's propaganda. Please don't do it.
The actual Hungarian people overwhelmingly support Ukraine and its defense, and would like to see it as an EU member. When the Russian total offensive started in 2022, people in Hungary were getting in their cars, packing them full of groceries, and driving hundreds of kilometres to the Ukrainian border to help refugees, with exactly zero prompting or help or even acknowledgement from the government.
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The Scale Scenes block of flats background for the Thunderbirds Mole model.
My header image of the Tachi/Rocinante (The Expanse) approaching Mars is a big free card model I downloaded. It's 49cm (19 in) long.
It was the first card model I made, the only other option was a smaller less accurate prebuilt model that was expensive for what it was.
I did try and build a 1/72 scale card tank, but it was to fiddly, also tried an aircraft and that didn't go well either.
For me bigger is better with card. Or no curves and circles if smaller.
Happy Birthday to Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin
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She worked out that the stars are made of Hydrogen and Helium, and the male astronomers of the time didn't believe her.
El noticiario de la comunidad de KDE está de vuelta, episodio 44 de #KDEexpress lleno de noticias sobre #Plasma6.4 , #SteamDeck, #Kdenlive , #Papirus, #TrinityDesktopEnvironment ... y otras muchas cosas más.
Enlaces a todas las noticias en
kdeexpress.gitlab.io/44
¡Disfruten y buen finde!
Gracias como siempre a @raivenra por su inestimable colaboración.
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Colorado school district seeks restrictions on transgender athletes amid Trump crackdown
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Colorado school district seeks restrictions on transgender athletes amid Trump crackdown
The discussion in conservative-leaning District 49 foreshadows what’s to come in other Colorado school districts as federal and local officials target transgender youth in sports.Matt Sebastian (The Denver Post)
Unoffensive Animal: **Chickens Liberated At A Vigil.**
"3rd April, Argentina. via: @anarcoveganismo.arg ENGLISH (translation): “It’s their lives, not ours” is often shouted in the streets among speciesists but how much do we value their lives? Imagine being tortured/slaved and that your destiny is to have your throat slit, would you expect total abolition or at least that someone would risk everything to …"
Patrick Healy Joins the Newsroom Masthead
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TURQUIE. Les mères du Samedi demandent justice pour Halil et Kasım Alpsoy
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"TURQUIE – Aujourd’hui, lors de leur 1050e veillée sur la place Galatasaray, les mères du Samedi ont demandé justice pour Halil Alpsoy et Kasım Alpsoy, deux hommes politiques kurdes portés disparus après avoir été arrêtés par la police turque en mai 1994. Les Mères du samedi ont demandé des nouvelles
TURQUIE. Les mères du Samedi demandent justice pour Halil et Kasım Alpsoy – Kurdistan au féminin
TURQUIE – Aujourd’hui, lors de leur 1050e veillée sur la place Galatasaray, les mères du Samedi ont demandé justice pour Halil Alpsoy et Kasım Alpsoy, deux hommes politiques kurdes portés disparus après avoir été arrêtés par la police turque en mai 1…Kaf1 (Kurdistan au féminin)
Is this behavior of employers in IT firms normal?
Context, I signed up for practice, did the technical interview, got a position. I was told to join Slack and that I will get that profit what I should do. 🟦BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Tried to run, tried to hide
Break on through to the...
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