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If you want to know what "DEI firing" leads to, look at the amazing economic powerhouse that is Afghanistan under the Taliban since 2022!

Afghanistan's version of "DEI firing" was directed against women in public life.

It was motivated by religious bigotry (like Trump's anti-DEI bullshit) and it made everything worse, including the economy.
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"DEI firing" "A mass firing of all employees of an organisation as means of removing all employees who do not meet the criteria of "white male".
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In walking limbs, the range of motion and control decreases as you move away from the body. In limbs made for manipulation things are less consistent. The human shoulder is a lot like the coxa in ants, it allows a wide range of movements in multiple dimensions. The elbow only allows one dimension of motion.

Ants have many more joints after that but they are like a stiff chain, no fine control. However, ants can flex their claws and expand and retract their foot pads.

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Ants use their front two legs differently from the back legs. They may use these limbs to dig or hold objects in place when manipulating them with their mandibles. The coxa of the front leg is often longer while all of the other segments are shorter. Ants have a comb on their front legs which they use for groomingโ€”

I donโ€™t think the front legs are used for manipulation in enough ways to have that be their primary purpose but there is a distinction that makes them more like โ€œarmsโ€

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from what I know, humans are rather unusual among mammals in the flexibility of our shoulder joints; dogs, horses, cattle, deer, etc, don't have nearly as much flexibility. Mainly it's aboreal (and some scansorial) mammals that have as much shoulder flexibility as humans. (And also bats. And I don't know about aquatic mammals.) The same is true of wrist and ankle rotation.

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I think I need to mention that many ants dig just like dogs ... using their front limbs to fling sand or loose soil between their back legs. It's very frantic, but also effective. I have some videos of Dorymyrmex digging this way. When mammals dig this way is it a stereotyped action, or somehow learned? What about with ants?

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Men are โ€œsignificantly more romanticโ€ than women, says The Times. New research combining the findings of more than 50 studies found that men tend to fall in love faster and more often, while women instigate 65% of break-ups and are โ€œrelatively unsentimental in matters of the heartโ€.

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Dominic Lawson in The Sunday Times says the tide is turning on net zero. Trump has axed renewable energy subsidies, pulled out of the Paris climate agreement and โ€œdeclared he will do everything to maximise hydrocarbon outputโ€. China has increased wind and solar capacity last year, but its oil and gas output also hit a new peak and coal plant construction surged. BP announced it has stopped spending on new renewables, a massive U-turn on its 2020 policy. But our UK politicians remain unmoved.

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Sec State Rubio pays tribute to Holocaust victims during visit to Yad Vashem.

VPOTUS Vance meets with AfD leaders, who deny and minimize Holocaust history and rail against those who highlight Germanyโ€™s obligations and duty to remember.

POTUS floats ethnic cleansing for Gaza and forced annexation of new territories.

We are governed by a clique that pretends to respect human rights AND pretends not to pretend.

The free world will rightly turn their backs on this collapsed democracy.

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Say goodbye to the Rose Garden at Trumpโ€™s White House
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#SlovenianHooker #USPol

Say goodbye to the Rose Garden at Trumpโ€™s White House

When President Donald Trump isnโ€™t busy signing executive orders, gutting the federal government, or instigating trade wars, heโ€™s taking aim at another enemy: grass.๏ฟฝ Trump reportedly plans to ...
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One guy posted a panicked rant about losing his USDA job at 9 PM on Valentineโ€™s Day after 22 years of service. He still loves Trump but desperately wants his job back.

โ€œI voted for you, Sir, three times, and I still support you.โ€

Stop begging, dingus. Itโ€™s pathetic.

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Trump Voters Are Getting Fired By Trump

Stupid is as stupid votes.
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Like banning access to cancer information websites because some AI bot detected the word "breast" and put it in the p0rn category.
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#photography #nature #naturephotography #australia #sunset #goldenhour #apple #sydney #AlwayswasAlwayswillbe #nudebeach #aboriginalland #iphone14promax #littlecongwongbeach #bareisland

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We arenโ€™t just defending the right to read anymore. Weโ€™re defendingโ€ฆ *checks notes* facts. Great. Weโ€™re now defending facts. Theyโ€™re rewriting history before our eyes and theyโ€™re conveniently leaving out anything that makes white men look bad, like slavery. We all need to have a talk with ourselves and figure out how far we are each willing to go to preserve the truth.

clarksvillenow.com/local/booksโ€ฆ

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com

At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement and anything else related to diversity, equity anโ€ฆ
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The ad that the Washington Post refused to run.

If you don't have the balls to be a newspaper owner, don't.

#JeffBezos #WillLewis #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol

#journalism #uspol #freepress #jeffbezos #wapo #washingtonpost #boycottamazon #eatthebillionaires #boycottwholefoods #WillLewis
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Obviously Jeff Bezos never really understood the responsibilities & duties of the free press as an essential part of a democratically governed society.
And possibly arising conflicts of interests with his other businesses dependent on contracts with politically changing administrations.

#FreePress #UnfreePress #WaPo #JeffBezos #Cowardice #Cluelessness #Corruption #CivilCourage #Law #Justice #Freedom #Democracy #USPol #USPolitics

#justice #freedom #corruption #uspol #law #uspolitics #democracy #freepress #jeffbezos #wapo #cowardice #CivilCourage #unfreepress #cluelessness
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Seguridad! ยฟQuiรฉn estรก ahรญ?

#streetphotography #photography #street #photooftheday #photo #photographer #streetart #streetstyle #picoftheday #urbanphotography #life #streetphoto #streetphotography_bw #bnw_captures #fujistas #fujifilmxt5 #lovelystreets #huelva

#photography #photo #urbanphotography #photooftheday #photographer #picoftheday #streetphotography #street #life #streetart #streetphoto #bnw_captures #fujifilmxt5 #StreetStyle #huelva #fujistas #streetphotography_bw #lovelystreets

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Itโ€™s a shame I have neither the skill or inclination to grift as we are entering a true golden age of grifting.

*found on Reddit

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It wasnโ€™t just a few peopleโ€”it was the entire arena, sending a message loud and clear: America has lost the respect of the world.

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Canadians Booed the US Anthem And They Were Right To Do So

Americans should envy Canadian national unity.
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The #Trump administration has pressured Romanian authorities to lift travel restrictions on the self-described misogynist influencer Andrew Tate, a champion of the US president who is facing criminal charges in Bucharest โ€” Financial Times
#Trump
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My latest 'Field Notes' are out, with some of the places my adventures in sign painting have taken me recently on the world wide web.

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#FieldNotes #SignPainting #SignPainters #Lettering

Field Notes from BLAG: February 2025

Pounce wheels, backwards letters, Spanish sign painters, and more goods and goodness from the field.
Better Letters (BLAG Magazine: Adventures in Sign Painting Craft, Community & Culture)
#lettering #signpainting #signpainters #fieldnotes

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Hope so.

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With the Trump tariffs planned for this Spring we can already see a slow down in the sale of American made goods.

Companies like Coca Cola, McDonalds, Starbucks and AirBNB are also seeing a slow down. In the next few weeks, tourism is expected to decline as the rest of the world vacation elsewhere.

#tariffs #economy #trump #musk #MAGA #gop #LeavingMAGA #canada #mexico #china #tourism


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With the Trump tariffs planned for this Spring we can already see a slow down in the sale of American made goods.

Companies like Coca Cola, McDonalds, Starbucks and AirBNB are also seeing a slow down. In the next few weeks, tourism is expected to decline as the rest of the world vacation elsewhere.

#tariffs #economy #trump #musk #MAGA #gop #LeavingMAGA #canada #mexico #china #tourism

#canada #Musk #china #Trump #MAGA #Economy #mexico #gop #tariffs #tourism #leavingmaga
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Pretty morning but the wind overnight was fierce. Took down this white pine across several driveways.

Still windy โ€” not safe for running in the woods.

Be careful, wherever you are.

#photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #running #nature #trees #morning #winter #sunshine

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Morning Brew says US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent requested that Ukraine give the US about 50% of the ownership rights to its deposits of precious minerals, which are key ingredients in the manufacturing of hi-tech products.Trump reportedly framed the deal to reimburse the US for its financial support following Russiaโ€™s invasion in 2022.
Zelensky did not sign. A mineral deal could still materialise in some form. Zelensky left the door open for more negotiations.

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Elon Muskโ€™s DOGE wants access to the tax information of every American, and Trump plans to give it to him
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Elon Muskโ€™s DOGE wants access to the tax information of every American, and Trump plans to give it to him

Elon Muskโ€™s DOGE team is seeking access to sensitive taxpayer data held by the IRS. A 25-year-old staffer is reportedly set to gain access to it.
Beatrice Nolan (Fortune)
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Trump is handing the Kremlin a 'gift from the gods': Leading Putin critic
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Trump is handing the Kremlin a 'gift from the gods': Leading Putin critic

President Donald Trump made Russian President Vladimir Putin a very happy man last week, thanks to major U.S. concessions toward the war in Ukraine.
Jennifer Bowers Bahney (Raw Story)
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Okay, who voted for Claudia Tenney?!?

Claudia Tenney Introduces Bill To Make Trump's Birthday A National Holiday
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#ClaudiaTenney #TrumpCuck #NoRepublicansEverAgain #GOPBullshit #USPol

Claudia Tenney Introduces Bill To Make Trump's Birthday A National Holiday

North Korea here we come.
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#uspol #norepublicanseveragain #ClaudiaTenney #trumpcuck #gopbullshit

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#JKQ
Jung-Koch-Quentell charts have now their published wiki page!
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Heinrich Jung, allegedly painted all
the charts.

Von Koch was regarded an eccentric (and his family was really rich).

Quentell was a teetotaler and active in numerous associations.

I did not find any sources how they actually met and worked together.

@futurebird, @Limnobotanik, @Anke, @catselbow
@lavaeolus

Jung-Koch-Quentell Wall Charts - Wikipedia

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Mitch is out here trying to pretend he regrets the very monster he spent decades creating, and I, for one, am not buying it.

Oh, heโ€™s at the end of his life and wants to go to Heaven? TOO BAD! God sees through such childish tricks.

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Mitch McConnell Can Burn In Hell

Seriously.
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John Major: Trumpโ€™s US isolationism threatens global democracy theguardian.com/politics/2025/โ€ฆ #USforeignpolicy #Foreignpolicy #DonaldTrump #JohnMajor #Worldnews #Politics #JDVance #Russia #UKnews #USnews #Europe #China

John Major: Trumpโ€™s US isolationism threatens global democracy

Former UK prime minister says US may regret ceding world stage to China and condemns โ€˜hypocriticalโ€™ JD Vance speech
Peter Walker (The Guardian)
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Happy Presidents' Day to the 44 presidents who never tried to become a dictator!
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Ruins of Olderfleet Castle, Larne, Co. Antrim (ca. 1860-1883)
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It's time to stop sharing intelligence with the USA. As part of the "Five Eyes" alliance, they've shifted from ally to security threat.

#Trump and his administration now pose a significant risk to our national security

In reassessing our commitments, strengthening our independent intelligence capabilities has never been more crucial

Safeguarding our nation's security depends on updating our alliances to reflect current realities

Learn more: [Five Eyes] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyeโ€ฆ

Intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#Trump
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UK has several US intelligence ( why does that sound like an oxymoron nowadays?) including Menwith Hill and the Early Warning system at Fylingdales. Felt well used to be US as well. Also three air bases, Mildenhall, cargo and refuelling, Lakenheath, fighters and Fairford a transient base for B52s amongst others.
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