I tell Trump my peace terms, Trump tells Witkoff what they are and then Witkoff tells me Trump's terms that I told him then I say they aren't enough so we both blame Ukraine for me not accepting my own terms and I keep attacking them.
Rinse. Repeat.
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I just realized my Mastodon experience hasn’t enshittified one bit in the 2+ years I’ve been here.
In fact, it’s only gotten better.
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I've had an account since 2018, although I wasn't very active early on (neither was the Fediverse). It got busier and better on that fateful day when Twitter was captured by a hostile force.
Mastodon is not without faults. Humans are like that, and Mastodon is made of humans (in a good way). But humans are also able to select out the bad stuff and encourage the good.
#Oops: The seminal (strongly influencing later developments) paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.
"Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings in the context of misrepresentation of the contributions by the authors and the study sponsor and potential conflicts of interest of the authors. "
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It has not been published yet.
What you're looking at is not the retraction. The actual retractions go *in the journal itself*, and of course are dated. Here are the retractions that are in the recently published January 2026 issue:
sciencedirect.com/journal/regu…
The top retraction results from a comment made in November 2021. The article's WWW copy is marked retracted *and* now cites its formally published in-journal retraction notice.
A formal request for the #glyphosate retraction was made only months ago, and it would have taken some time to contact and correspond with the remaining living named author.
undark.org/2025/08/15/opinion-…
The February 2026 issue of RTaP is currently in progress.
sciencedirect.com/journal/regu…
The publication of a retraction notice for the article is apparently still happening, there being more steps to retraction than just changing an old WWW page.
So the thing to keep an eye on is the next issue of the journal.
Opinion | A downsized EPA faces a deadline to review the herbicide’s safety without much of its in-house expertise.Alexander Kaurov (Undark Magazine)
@smoltron If I read this here correctly, then the retraction must have been very recently. Between September 2025 and now.
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This popular science version supports the after September 2025 assessment:
undark.org/2025/08/15/opinion-…
The authors of this paper (and the linked sciencedirect paper) submitted the request to retract and, as of August 2025, had only received notice of review by Elsevier.
Opinion | A downsized EPA faces a deadline to review the herbicide’s safety without much of its in-house expertise.Alexander Kaurov (Undark Magazine)
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Indeed, the most recent version without error on archive.org is 27 April 2024 ¹, this is a lower bound, but others say here it is much more recent, probably September 2025.
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Reviews on the safety of glyphosate and Roundup herbicide that have been conducted by several regulatory agencies and scientific institutions worldwid…web.archive.org
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yes, by the handling (co)Editor-in-Chief of the paper, Prof. Martin van den Berg, Ph.D.
Besides the obvious corruption of the authors being payed to regurgitate the Monsanto disinfo*, there are a number of articles mentioned which were left out of the original “analysis” by the authors.
I’m trying to find out if these would have forced another conclusion, but it is waaaay outside my field of expertise. If anyone with expertise could enlighten me (us), that would be great!
*) I don’t have to be polite about it, unlike the (co)Editor-in-Chief.
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Iowa has the second highest cancer rates in the US.
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Iowa's second-place ranking for new cancer cases has come up recently in health and environmental news. Here's what goes into that ranking., The Des Moines Register (Des Moines Register)
This is the problem with capitalism. Corporations will do anything to make a buck. This includes poisoning us with roundup.
Corporations are *legally obliged* to make a buck in their terms of incorporation.
Sadly they're not legally obliged to run sustainable and productive businesses or to avoid harming the planet or it's living populations.
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I think that may be a misapprehension, but I have no expertise on this, so here's a link to people saying it ain't so...
Yes, agreed - articles of association (in the UK) can include variety of payment options associated with Director pay, dividends and share issues and transfers, although it's usual for companies (cf. co-operatives or charities) to assume making an operating profit as standard and larger companies are often beholden to their shareholders to maximise profits and dividend payments.
My over-simplification.
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Very true that mammals, including humans, don't have the Shikimate pathway in their intrinsic biology, but you know what does?-- Microbes such as some of the 100 trillion ones in the human gastrointestinal tract.
@CynthesisToday sure, but to affect those, I'd have to ingest significant amounts of it which should never happen, when utilised correctly.
Experimental results on test species such as mice and in field exposures that farmworkers experience chronically are happening. The experimental chronic exposures are at levels established by the EPA as "safe", but when exposed over relative life cycles or in adolescent/young adult life phases, have negative effect. The farmworker exposures are the reality of diverse farm environments and fear in farmworkers.
Scholar.google search terms: chronic glyphosate exposure or chronic GBH exposure. "GBH"== glyphosate-based herbicides which include Roundup and Rodeo.
I think to the point of the OP and especially to the fact of the October 2026 "decision" of the US 47th administration's EPA regarding glyphosate-based herbicides, the possibility of increased population-wide chronic exposure is frightening. My hope is that Europe and Asia will continue their work on chronic exposure to allow for rebuttal of US research capture by US industry.
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A great video on glyphosate and related legal issues, how it was developed , it's links to dioxin, as well as much of the effort to hide the facts of known dangers.
It's technical but with cartoons to explain the science. This is well worth a watch. Roundup specific stuff starts 14 minutes in, but the beginning is really informative about how they got to Roundup and how ignoring the danger became part of the industrial culture.
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@KiwiTB This is true. The EU's latest assessment of glyphosate reviewed 733 literature papers.
I'm guessing they'd probably have come to similar conclusions if they'd only reviewed 732 of them.
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We live next to a railway line. Our well is within 10 m of an area of scrub on the track side that is cut back every four years.
The last time this area was cut back the leader of the team said that their work life was made harder when RoundUp was banned.
I will be writing to the track company to get assurances that herbicides containing glyphosate will not be used next to our well.
Our Second Born was treated for cancer for over two years.
I don't want glyphosate in our water.
Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming’s famed discovery.Asimov Press
Any mention of Monsanto requires me to quote @pluralistic
"You'll recall that Bayer merged with Monsanto in 2018, paying $66b in an all-cash deal and erasing the Monsanto name (apparently, they judged Bayer's association with Auschwitz to be preferable to Monsanto's association with Roundup)."
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here is a nice overview of recent glyphosate related work: spektrum.de/news/klaeranlagen-…
It's much more complicated.. spoiler: if I use detergent to get my laundry clean (and I do), I contribute to contamination with glyphosate. Folks, don't bash farmers, please. The majority of them are motivated to keep the planet alive.
Die Entdeckung wirft auch jenseits der Wissenschaft Fragen aufVerena Tang (Spektrum.de)
True. Parisians are rude to anyone who doesn't have a perfect Parisian accent, in my somewhat limited experience.
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@bytebro @John_Loader I have never met a rude Parisian.
Once they realise you are Irish and not English their demeanour changes completely
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I have the perfect response to any rude french person, I speak French to them, and my accent is so bad french dogs howl and cats yammer....
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Mate, I was born in NorthWest London.
Every time I go back there, I understand why I was so happy to leave
It's full of people who wouldn't give the time of day, even if they were wearing 3 watches.
Bristol, by comparison, is wonderful. You get off the bus and almost everyone says "cheers, drive!"
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I grew up in Bristol and Bath. Thought I hated it. Lived in NYC for a decade. Coming back home was BRILLIANT. Random banter with any random person you pass. Solidly good people.
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OMG I experienced that a tiny bit in Amsterdam, decades ago. (I've mentioned this before, so forgive me!) Obvs, the 'clever' people go to a cash-desk and change up whatever they have into whatever is needed locally - back then we were swapping UK Pounds into Dutch Guilders (before the Euro).
Then we went out to a lovely bar, probably long gone, and the inevitable loud American comes in, shouts to the bar-person "Do you take dollars?!" Kid says "Yes sir." Tourist opens the door and screams "Mabel, they take dollars!".
Later on I chatted with the kid behind the bar and told him he was very patient with the knobhead. He just smiled and said "Yes, but he has no idea what exchange rate I gave him!, so we're all up on this one. Get you a beer?!"
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My experience with north Americans - and I know many, and many are not bad - where I was quietly telephoning, and was asked what the background talking noise was, to which I replied there are some north Americans talking. It was suggested I ask them to talk quieter, to which I replied "they're not in this carriage."
I am told north Americans have Inside and Outside voices, and need to be told which to use.
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My French is essentially non-existent. And French is definitely not Spanish. I worked in London and Cambridge for a couple years and would also pop over for the weekend.
And, I too always found people friendly and helpful in France and in Paris.
My British coworkers would always tell me how rude and unpleasant Parisians were. No one in Paris ever talked to me about brits, but that mutual attitude might be shared by both sides...
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why would they stop being french to appease idiot tourists?
The world is not a disney theme park and entitled tourists are a blight on humanity.
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@lankohr @Thebratdragon @Kirsty @John_Loader @bytebro @spud You need to be good at bad French.
My father once got rid of a traffic cop who was shouting it him by saying in an appalling English accent "je suis anglais je ne comprends pas", at which point the cop swore at him some more and waved him on to go the way he wanted to go in the first place.
My father had a degree in French and was fluent.
When my wife and I had an interaction with French cops she (with her French degree and fluency) kept quiet and left me to handle it with my mostly-forgotten schoolboy French. Eventually the cops told us to piss off.
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Driving in Marseille with MrsD, we needed to get "over there" but that was down a one way street, the wrong way.
Stopped to ask a policeman in school girl French, MrsD's is better than mine. Policeman gave lots of directions but we couldn't follow them all. So, policeman led us, in his car, the wrong way down a one way street to get to where we had to be!
The French are not *all* rude and unhelpful.
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As we know, 'all generalisations are wrong, including these ones'.
There certainly is a perception in England in particular that the French are rude. As discussed up-thread, it seems that they simply don't get on with the English, which I guess I can understand 🤣
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Bretons are fine IME. When you walk into a conversation they switch from Breton to French so as to be nice to the English tourists.
Compare and contrast the Welsh, where if you walk into a shop or something they may switch from speaking English to speaking Welsh.
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True. Had that once in North Wales. What they sadly didn't clock was that my English buddy went to school in Anglesey. He shut them up in perfectly correct idiomatic Welsh, and then they apologised and we had a pleasant afternoon.
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I have no personal evidence that this is true, but years ago a Welsh friend told me that they had a school trip to Brittany. Allegedly, the locals (Breton) and the teacher (Welsh) could actually converse using their own languages, although they both thought that the others' accent was awful.
Is that plausible?
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Amazing!
I imagine it would be a tad harder in the Basque Country - isn't that a weird 'language isolate' with no known 'relatives'?
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Wonderful, thank you!
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oh that is brilliant, but then I like Albee.
Old English spoken is reasonably understandable, it is the written form as it makes no sense with the great vowel shift to come.
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doing it in a scottish accent is even better.
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Have a listen to us Kiwis saying DECK (yes it's on purpose and exaggerated)
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heeeeheee NZ with a sense of humour can really mess with you. I used to know quite a lot playing rugby.
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So you've been told gardening is illegal in NZ then? 😁
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heeeeheeee yes. I had the good fortune to play a reserves game against Buck Shelford, I only needed 13 stitches but he bought me a pint for each one.
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"Buck Shelford famously played with a severe groin injury, where he sustained a torn scrotum and lost four teeth during a match against France in the 1986 "Battle of Nantes"
Buck was made of different stuff from most of us
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he was indeed, but all round good bloke, and seeing him up close, what skill. He is on my list along with Gareth Edwards as greatest players.
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Yes for most Americans Kiwi/Aus accent sounds the same, but that's like for most Kiwis (not me) US and Canadian sound the same
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She'll be right is the country's motto
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great people once you realise that important things are never serious to them.
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I know a lot of amercians who can find saffer and aus to sound similar.
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I am pretty good, NZ is slightly more clipped than oz, and SA are in your face and loud, but that is not aggression, just them.
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I couldn't describe the difference but can tell the difference with SA accent (we have many here) Aussie is more nasal than even our nasal accent
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You know what POMs means?
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I am safe, I got adopted by a Maori for breaking his sons leg.
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Prisoners Of Mother England ie new arrivals to Aus when it was a prison colony
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the best is chat shows, Ewan McGegor and David Tennant, start with their acting accents, and they thicken as they keep talking.
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Wouldn't the pictures be in black and white? Or were they paintings?
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OK understand what you're saying 😁
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My "season" started last week. So, time to look back at last year.
My total exercise load was almost exactly the same as the last four years. Last year was slightly less because I was injured in September, sick in October, and sick again in November. Even last year the load was only 10% less than the others.
The almost identical numbers are interesting to me, since I don't look at totals of anything during the year. They just come out the same.
My #running distance this year was only about 600 miles; the lowest mileage total in five years and only 60% of last year. All this really means to me is that I had more control over my schedule and therefore biked and skied more. Running these days is more my last resort exercise, though I end up running close to every day.
I did three parkruns and bettered my time on each one. Enjoyed them all, though 5K is not something I have ever trained for. How can anyone not enjoy the #parkun experience!? I wish the US had more events.
I did a two-day gravel bike "race" with friends, without training. I did well -- mostly because my friends weren't as well-trained as they thought they were. 😀 The gravel "race" was the highlight of the exercise year. I'm just so familiar with the bike. In addition, being on gravel I wasn't constantly comparing my riding to past road racing, which is always depressing. 😀
I only raced once last season and was injured when I did it. This year, I'll do more races. Not so much to win, but because I enjoy the challenge.
It's clear -- knock on wood -- that the only sport in which I get injured is running. If I were wiser, and had more control over my schedule, I'd stop running and ski and bike instead. Slow build or not, as my running mileage increases, various and changing pains pop up and increase.
This year's solutions to getting injured while running are to do last year's solutions more intensely: more cushioned shoes, lose more weight, more strengthening exercise, and build even more slowly. The only thing I can add this year are trips to see an orthopod. I have one scheduled soon, and I plan to schedule one for closer to my "peak." Suggestions are welcome.
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Voltaire’s Candide, 1759.
"If this is the best of possible worlds, what are the others like?"
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@abslutebeginner
It's not genetics.
It's money.
@FaithinBones @abslutebeginner
Sure
But it's mostly money
@ClintonAnderson @FaithinBones @abslutebeginner
And also the photo is years old.
That made me look up more up-to-date photos – and OMG he's so old 😱
@ClintonAnderson How I'd love to be able to sing like him at 85... Genetics!
@iju Look at this... m.youtube.com/watch?v=qznKMg6s…
Unless the title isn't true, this is from some days ago.
@ClintonAnderson @wortezimmer @FaithinBones @MarkHoltom
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Jen Hanson (YouTube)
@ClintonAnderson Do you mean that he's paid for some more time of living? 🤭
Oh, how awesome! Paul's lookalike on the train!*
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*this is a joke.
@DrHyde @beecycling @mansr
...I don't think I've ever in my life sat next to someone in public transportation who I've found revolting.
People do think of others. And you don't enter ICE after days of drinking (etc) without a shower in between.
Honestly, the bigger problem is people who use smelly deodorants, or overuse fragrances.
I was living in the Bay Area circa 2000, and sometimes you'd just see Willie Brown, mayor of San Francisco, riding on the subway. You'd say hi to him, he'd say hi back, and you'd go on your way. It was a bit surreal.
(Please do not extrapolate this to the development level of the surrounding country.)
@alexadeswift I'm a (sort of) car enthusiast but I love living in a place where I can commute to work by public transit.
It allows me to skip boring drives in traffic when I'm more tired (early at the morning or right after a workday) and more prone to distractions and it frees me from the need of owning and maintaining a fuel efficient daily driver.
Instead of buying a car for doing 500km of tired/boring driving each week I can buy a fun car (I'm looking for a Mazda Miata) even if its slightly less fuel efficient, equip it with top of the line tyres and enjoy it in the nights and weekends when I go to do fun stuff with friends, public transit is not always available and I'm more in the mood for driving (est. 100km/week).
Sadly on Reddit and other platforms car enthusiasts and public transit enthusiasts pits themselves against eachother but I see it as a false dichotomy. Cars and public transit can be complementary.
...Vienna, where president Alexander Van der Bellen takes the subway to work....
(that's what you get when you elect an economics professor who ran for the green party)
There's also a Lenin quote, perhaps apocryphal, saying that he doesn't want to abolish the first class in trains, but the lower classes (as a response isn't it hypocritical to him chosing to sit in the best seats).
Took me some years to realize how real this was: the differences between the train classes are very much intentional differentiation of prices. It's not like seat cushions are that much more expensive (or better) than the wooden seats used in the cheaper carriages.
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"narco terrorism" isn't a real thing. What does that even mean. It's just two bad scary words strung together without coherence.
And yet, since some on the right have started using this phrase I'm hearing other people echo it uncritically.
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The Sackler family might want to push back against this kind of framing I suspect as well.
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Ok, but hear me out:
What about "islamofascist narco terrorism"?
that’s narcoleptic terrorism
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You can get the files here: instructables.com/CARDIAC-CARD…
And the original, shockingly technical manual here: archive.org/details/CardiacCar…
This wasn't just a fun toy to get a sense for how opcodes work, it was meant to be an entire intro computer science framework from before most classrooms could get access to a computer!
CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation) Replica: Back in the 1960's and early 70's Bell Labs made some very sophisticated educational kits available to high schools and colleges.Instructables
I had something **very** similar as a kid but lost it long ago. The colour scheme was different, but everything else is similar to what I recall, including the fixed value in the first cell to provide a bootstrap mechanism.
Thanks for sharing!
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 47 completed
Slicing and dicing the ways up to conquer the palace and the castle.
This was superb. There were some tricky rods on the turns that I had to keep jumping over and I actually tripped in one of them
This final stretch on the way to the Miradouro de Santa Eufemia after a back breaking climb is the cherry on top of the cake.
Today’s roller coaster
I don't recall 500 National Guard deployed when,
5 months ago, In June 2025, Minnesota state Rep. #MelissaHortman and her husband, Mark, were assassinated. The same man, Vance Boelter, shot and wounded Democratic state Sen. #JohnHoffman and his wife, Yvette, in a separate, politically motivated attack. #Boelter was later arrested and charged with murder and attempted murder.
Today the #POTUS threatens to harm more #NationalGuard deployments in #WashingtonDC
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Was für ein geiles Laufwetter war das bitte heute Morgen!!!
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Fire and ice sunset. Scoville Reservoir, Wolcott, Connecticut. January 30, 2021, 4:50 PM.
#hiking #photography #outdoors #landscapephotography #nature #Connecticut #winter #forest #snow #ice #trail #wintertime #sunset #sunsetphotography #lake
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@Disputatore
Well, that's a lot of overrating Trump. Witkoff is assigned, bc the whole gov want him to be assigned. They know well (whatever Trump might think) that he is not competent to negotiate a peace plan. Logic and experience tell us, that the US gov (as a whole) don't want a working peace plan. They want to do, what they did until now: let it simmer on small flame. A slow cooking. Until NATO is ready to expand it into an invasion of Russia.
The proxy war thing was well said in 2024 presidential election campaigns. Both sides, btw.
@John_Loader
The whole US economy is based on armament since 1935. 'Defense' gear is the only notable production there. Even the production of computer stuff has wandered to Asia. Nvidia makes a lot of GPU nobody actually needs. The TechBros created artificial demand of that gear by making up the useless AI bubble.
The US economy is distructive. By stopping USAID, the TechBros even ruined home agriculture.
@Disputatore
Lavrov clearly stated, what the objectives of Russian gov are: no NATO in Ukraine, no EU membership for EU.
They offered an agreement in Autumn 2022. Rishi Sunak intervented.
Right now, the Russian gov is negotiating, bc they always said, they would. I guess, they checking out, if there is an acceptable way to get out of the war. But, that's what I see, that military neutrality of Ukraine is essential.
The political situation in the US is kind of complicated, bc foreign politics of the gov must be acceptable to _three_ factions: MIC (pro war), Big Oil (pro war) and TechBros (who want state's money going into their profits). Now the Russian side (imo) tries to offer trading at least western part if Ukraine as an US colony in exchange with exclusion of EU and military neutrality of Ukraine.
Nobody can look inside heads. We got to judge things by actual deeds.
Ukraine is broke and it is near to military collapse. That collapse would be a major defeat of either EU and US interests. That is, what RUS gov is offering the US now: the half of the Ukraine for cheap. TechBros are tempted, while the other factions are not. The EU has the problem, that they would enter a war of attrition without US backing.
And: yet are the different EU states not ready for war politically. Germans and French didn't forget WW2.
You may not know this: in German cities they are still cleaning unexploded bombshells.
@wauz They certainly didn't force Ukraine to do it. So, that's one.
The reason why Russia is negotiating is not because they always said they would. It's funny how you describe Russia as this cuddly puppy that wants to do the right thing but nobody lets it. There have been many times when negotiation was on the table but Russia rejected it.
@Disputatore
Well, I looked up your other postings on the matter. You write, what every newspaper is telling too. All nice guys except the Russians and stuff.
Communists use to take a closer look at facts. And they are well aware, that RUS is not SU.
I don't think, I'm going to persuade of anything, bc you're nothing but a propaganda hooter. It's just counterspeaking to the public.
The big difference in looking for facts is, that communist regard class interests. And who is to suffer and die, while others fill their wallets.
"Unacceptable" is belonging to class interests. The Russian proposal would have been pretty acceptable who died in between.
Watch out, which stand you take! If you think, war should go on, get yourself into a trench. Go, tast the blood mixed with your own bloodn
Sonnet 038 - XXXVIII
How can my muse want subject to invent,
While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse
Thine own sweet argument, too excellent
For every vulgar paper to rehearse?
O! give thy self the thanks, if aught in me
Worthy perusal stand against thy sight;
For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,
When thou thy self dost give invention light?
Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth
Than those old nine which rhymers invocate;
And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth
Eternal numbers to outlive long date.
If my slight muse do please these curious days,
The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise.
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 46 completed
Watching the watch tower at the top.
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Some extra photos. It was a beautiful morning. Cold and windy at the top, but gorgeous.
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Incoming climb for #46 tomorrow. Visiting the watchtower.It's another respectable fun climb
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I made a miniature book featuring “Children’s Games” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
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So, these are all of the parts of those paintings that feature children? That's an amazing idea.
These books are one of a kind, right?
(trying to figure out how I can read your tiny books)
@futurebird You can see the full painting I used for the miniature book on the Wikipedia page below.
Pieter Bruegel depicted 80 different children’s games in one painting, some of which I selected for my mini book.
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This "ghost tapping" warning has the whiff of bullshit - or at the very least, overblowing something that is exceedingly rare. (A lot of local TV stations picked this up.)
What do you think, @briankrebs?
bbb.org/all/consumer/scam/how-…
Contactless payments are convenient, but scammers are using ghost tapping to steal from unsuspecting consumers. Find out how this tap-to-pay fraud works and how to stay safe.International Association of Better Business Bureaus
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It has been a while... so have some ants!
I believe these are Red Harvester Ants taken near Lake Hefner in Oklahoma
#Ants #Insects #Pogonomyrmex #barbatus #Oklahoma #Formicidae #Photography #Nature #Harvester
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El drama, hoy por hoy, es que nadie tiene la valentía toserle al emperador.
Yo diría “casi nadie” entre los con poder. Hay mucha gente del público, pero los líderes de las instituciones están fallándonos.
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#uspol #trump
La presidenta de la CE, Ursula von der Leyen, hace bien en coger un avión e irse a uno de los campos de golf que son propiedad de Donald Trump en Escocia para reunirseLa Vanguardia
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I sometimes look at the rented flat I live in and think, "this is a shithole"
but
I don't have bombs falling on me every day
i don't have strangers i can't even see firing guns at me every day
i have a roof over my head and a bed to sleep on
i have running water and plenty to drink
i have food, i don't have to scrabble around in the dirt hoping to get a few grains of flour
i am not sitting here with my own body slowly consuming itself because of not having food for days or weeks
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Runner’s gut is surprisingly common.The Conversation
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I had hoped the article would provide more better concrete actions you can take to reduce the problem, because my stomach suffers hard. I gotta go to the toilet before even a casual 10 k recovery run or risk needing to stop my run early.
My one marathon was severely impacted by a sore stomach, though thanks to the pacer being significantly positively split I still hit my target time.
I've done several triathlons of Olympic distance and of roughly 1.5x Olympic distance, and I don't think I've ever once had one where my stomach felt good on the run.
And both marathons and even more so triathlons are such a specific difficult load on your body, it's not really like it's something you can easily test on your average training runs. The combination of intensity and length just doesn't make for good training most of the time. So opportunities to play around with different nutrition etc. to try and find a working solution are so rare.
My usual 15km trail run, squeezed in today around lunchtime because it was pouring with rain before and after. On top of that, the temperature plummeted from almost 30°C at the weekend to 8°C today ... But what can you say, it's spring and after the rain the vegetation almost seems to explode ...
Some trails turn into a swamp, but after all, what's the point of having proper #TrailRunning equipment 😁
#Garmin #BeatYesterday #Running #Tirol #Laufen @running #RunnersOfMastodon
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Today, I only managed to do a shorter than usual 11 km trail run, as I had to pick up my wife from physio, where she got dry needling treatment. It's a bit like acupuncture for grown ups and, how can I put it, not for the faint hearted. Those needles!!! But apparently very effective 🤪
It's not even July yet, and even here at around 1,000m in the mountains, it's above 30°C... you can only run properly in the morning.
#garmin #BeatYesterday @running #RunnersOfMastodon #TrailRunning #Running
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Sonnet 133 - CXXXIII
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
For that deep wound it gives my friend and me!
Is't not enough to torture me alone,
But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?
Me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken,
And my next self thou harder hast engrossed:
Of him, myself, and thee I am forsaken;
A torment thrice three-fold thus to be crossed.
Prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward,
But then my friend's heart let my poor heart bail;
Whoe'er keeps me, let my heart be his guard;
Thou canst not then use rigour in my jail:
And yet thou wilt; for I, being pent in thee,
Perforce am thine, and all that is in me.
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