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"...was hit by a car and suffered fatal injuries while trying to cross a road in his birth village Beas Pind, near Jalandhar in Punjab, [India] ..."

RIP to an inspirational person. He only started distance running at 89!

Carbrains: "Where is parking? You want us to walk 10 minutes? That's crazy"

The right to be analog is a critical intrinsic enabler to the power to boycott.

Suppose you boycott Microsoft and Google. If you need to reach a gov office who uses MS or Google for email, then you are writing a snail mail letter. Denmark has eliminated the national postal service. The loss of an important analog option forces Danes to use the digital mechanism. No one in Denmark can say: “hold on, I am boycotting Microsoft, so I cannot be obligated to correspond with your office”.

No country gives its people either rights. That is, there is no country that gives you a right to boycott or the right be analog. In principle, we could loosely claim to derive those rights through the human rights to autonomy, dignity, and self-determination. But that won’t hold up in court, as human rights are generally disregarded in court. Abstract human rights like that are really a long-shot as well. Even if a court were to concede to human rights, you’ve already lost if you have to go to court because in Europe you cannot generally recover all damages even if the judge takes your side.

I believe a window of opportunity is passing us by. If we do not establish a right to be analog hard and fast, it will be too late once mechanisms supporting our analog refuge are gone.

Europe is quietly removing the cash option. Europeans are boiling frogs. They don’t see that they have already lost the option to be free from banks. Forced banking is already in force. This enables banks to gradually force you onto their enshitified digital platforms.

What I find most disturbing is how a vast majority are blind to this.

Original Article by Chris Walker , Truthout.

“The influence of climate change has [temperatures] up by several degrees,” the study’s lead author said.

Human-caused climate change was responsible for around 1,500 deaths during this year’s atypical heat wave across Europe, a newly published rapid study of mortality data suggests.

The study, conducted by scientists at Imperial College of London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, examined 2,300 heat-related deaths across 12 European cities during the heat wave from June 23 to July 2. About two-thirds of those deaths — approximately 1,500 — were directly attributable to additional warming caused by the climate crisis, scientists said.

Those deaths only happened “because of climate change,” said study co-author Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College. “They would not have died if it would not have been for our burning of oil, coal and gas in the last century.”

Temperatures across those 12 cities were 2 to 4 degrees Celsius above what would have naturally occurred if not for human-caused climate change, the scientists discovered.

Certain groups of people, particularly the elderly, were more affected by the rise in heat levels than others — indeed, 1,100 of those 1,500 deaths involved people who were 75 years of age or older.

Related Story Activists project flames and commentary on the side of the Trump International Hotel in protest of President Donald Trump's response to science and climate change in the face of devastating wildfires burning throughout the United States on October 21, 2020, in Washington, D.C. | The days of loudly debating the science have mostly given way to an effort to withhold the raw information itself. “The influence of climate change has [temperatures] up by several degrees and what that does is it brings certain groups of people more into dangerous territory. … For some people it’s still warm fine weather but for now a huge sector of the population it’s more dangerous,” said lead author of the study Ben Clarke of Imperial College.

The climate crisis also likely contributed to higher rates of wildfires seen across Europe. More than 200,000 hectares of land have burned across European Union member states since the start of the year, more than twice the average that has burned annually from 2006 to 2024. Around 1,118 wildfires have been detected across the EU, too — a 56 percent increase from last year.

While wildfires can be natural phenomena, scientists around the globe largely agree that the drying conditions leading to an increase in wildfires are caused by the climate crisis.

“The evidence connecting the climate crisis and extreme wildfires is clear. Increased global temperatures and reduced moisture lead to drier conditions and extended fire seasons,” an article from The Nature Conservancy published earlier this year explains. “Prolonged heatwaves can take what was once a natural event in the fire-cycle process and supercharge it into a maelstrom that devastates entire communities. And, crucially, worsening wildfires mean larger amounts of stored carbon are released into the atmosphere, further worsening climate change.”

With Trump’s fascist agenda driving the narrative, it’s the duty of independent media to disrupt corporate propaganda.

Yet, at such a pivotal moment, donations to Truthout have been declining. Why? Blatant political censorship from Big Tech.

As we face mounting repression, Truthout appeals for your support. Please donate during our fundraiser — we have 10 days left to raise $50,000.

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The British government provided ‘counter-terrorism’ training to officers in Azerbaijan’s brutal successor to the KGB, newly declassified files reveal.

Source: https://thejenkinscomic.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/programming-in-2035/

This time the example seems ironed out. It is not pretty, but it works.

https://github.com/Halfwake/guile-quad-tree/commit/295224563162839dbf8e5fec86c3fdb757a9ac87

I'm thinking of getting solar panels and a battery for our house.

What's your setup like, and is there anything you wish you'd set up differently if you were going to install it again? What supplier are you with?

A company extremely local to us is offering 12x Aiko Energy panels (465 watt), with a Sunsynk 5 kW inverter and a 5.32kWh battery. Octopus Energy are offering a similar set up for a similar price, but they're using 450 watt panels, so with using 12 panels I'd be potentially be losing 180 watts vs what the other company is offering. Is that a significant amount or would it basically not really amount to much additional power?

It's the art of the deal!

DOGE wasn't about saving money, that was only the ruse, it was about collecting enough information on people, the government, the state to fine-tune AI on, so it could be sold to well, the governments and security forces - just like Musk's AI is now. I remember calling it out and posting about it at the time DOGE was constantly in the news, only for (I presume) bot accounts to shoot me down.

Tariffs are not about Making American Great Again, another ruse, instead about insider trading. Manipulating the price of commodities like the reserve gold, copper tariffs make a predictable change to its price and attacking Europe / China hugely affects currencies and relevant stock in those markets.

This is where America is. Using the presidency as a position to make more money, not to lead a nation. It has been done subtly before for centuries with politicians taking sizeable back handers for certain favours, but now, this is on a whole new level and there is no turning back. The country is powerless to stop it.

A persons online world is shaped depending on which states' bots they read - and they're so manipulative people will end up believing them,

There is no fixing it. Each American government is about manipulation of the whole country and making more money for themselves and others.

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Es sei klar, dass Menschen übergewichtig würden, wenn sie mehr Kalorien aufnähmen, als sie verbrauchten, schreiben die Autoren. Bislang sei jedoch unklar gewesen, ob so viele Menschen übergewichtig seien, weil sie zu viele Kalorien zu sich nehmen – oder weil sie zu wenig Energie umsetzen, also sich nicht genug bewegen.

McGrosky und ihre Kollegen kommen zu einem eindeutigen Ergebnis: Eine erhöhte Energiezufuhr spiele für die Übergewichtskrise eine etwa zehnmal so große Rolle wie der Energieumsatz auf Grund körperlicher Aktivität.

A serious tower block fire in Bedford was prevented thanks to a sprinkler system.

Originally Posted By u/ermahgerdstermpernk At 2025-07-15 02:26:08 AM | Source

For the MAGA, Trump has become not just some political figure, he's become their savior. What does he save them from? Well, it's not poverty, or injustice, or inequality, or even oppression, because, let's face it, Trump wants to inflict all of those on his followers and the rest of the country for his own benefit.

No, for the MAGA, Trump is their savior from their own mediocrity, their own insanity and their own irrelevance. Most of the people who latched on to Trump were already "fringe" people. Conspiracy nuts, anti-government hotheads, and other people not counted in decent society, they all flocked to him because Trump gave them the one thing society at large never did: Validation.

Trump came on the scene and told them they were right for their hatreds, right for their conspiracy obsessions, right that they were the oppressed ones and that he was the only one who accepted them and was going to fight for them. He was going to "bring down the system" and bring back the "good old days". Unfortunately for these people, it was the system that was keeping them from starving to death or dying of disease and the good old days for someone like Trump were the days when workers had zero rights and were exploited by robber barons.

None of that mattered to the MAGA though, not one bit. All that mattered to them was Trump was a big, rich important guy and he was on their side. He kept promising them the world while giving them nothing and taking from them whatever he could grift, and they handed it all to him without any reservation.

Eventually, Trump promised them the granddaddy of all conspiracy bait: The Epstein Files. For years, right wing MAGA influencers and grifters have used the boogie man of the Epstein Files to get followers and bilk them for fame and fortune. Granted, most of them don't actually want the files to come out, nor do they care if they do, but they sure as heck acted like they did, talking tough, yelling, acting outraged and riling up the MAGA base. When Trump promised them full access to the files, they couldn't ride that train long enough.

But now, here we are. Pam Bondi said the client list was on her desk. Trump said he would release the whole kit and kaboodle. Kash Patel was all gung-ho to expose the deep state... and they delivered nothing. The Epstein Files Phase One was garbage already out on the public domain and heavily redacted and now the MAGA base are being told to move on, there is no list at all, and to never speak of Epstein again.

Usually, when "Dear Leader" tells the MAGA to move on, they obey, but in this instance, they aren't. Why? It's quite simple, really.

The Epstein Files are THE validation the right-wing has been creaming their jockeys over.

These files, in their 4chan addled brains, is the holy grail, the proof that validates all of their insane theories like Pizza Gate and the Democratic Baby Eating Cabals and Pedophile rings. They whole heartedly believe that it's full of Democratic elite and left-wing leaders that will prove all along that the GOP and right-wing were the good guys and so were they.

Essentially, they need this. Literally, like, an addiction. They NEED this to be released to make real their fantasies or else what was it all for? They debased themselves, alienated family and friends, said hateful and vile things, sent more and more money to a conman for his garbage merchandise, completely shaped their whole personalities around MAGA, basically devoted their lives to Trump.

Without the release of the Epstein Files and their final, ultimate validation from their savior, it will have all been for naught. At their core, they know this. They know that if Trump continues to cover this up, it means he's not the "Champion" they thought he was, that they were following a conman who is just as guilty as the people in the files (mostly because he IS in the files).

Right now, MAGA is on the cusp of being smacked down by the harshest thing in the world: Reality.

For far too long the MAGA have dodged, ignored or outright denied reality, but in doing so they forgot the most important, and harshest, lesson of all: Reality ALWAYS wins. Like Wile E. Coyote when he runs off of the cliff, floats in the air for a moment, then looks down and starts to fall, so too are the MAGA looking down and realizing they went off the deep end and now gravity wants its due. You can lie to yourself all you want, but eventually, in the end, reality comes back into play, and it plays for keeps.

The reality of the situation is that Trump is in the files. He assaulted underage girls with Epstein. The only reason he is covering this up is because he is in those files and on that client list, so are other prominent figures from both political parties and from other countries around the world. The Epstein Files could bring down a lot of people and even governments, but most importantly of all, they could bring down Trump.

The MAGA don't want to face this. They don't want to face reality, that all along they've been backing the bad guys, that they ARE the bad guys. For the MAGA, it means the end of their identity, their relevance, their validation. They will have to face the truth, that they are, in fact, losers, suckers and dopes who gave their all to a lying conman who took everything from them and ultimately left them with nothing. It means that everything everyone said to them, that they're being stupid, being played or are just straight up pieces of garbage and that they're following the devil himself is true.

For a MAGA, that's a fate worse than death, to have their own ineptitude, stupidity and gullibility thrown in their faces after screaming against reality with everything they had, only to have it all mean nothing.

So that is why they are so mad, and why they won't let Epstein go even with "Dear Leader" telling them to, because without this validation, it means they were all played for fools.

Originally Posted By u/AlanPublica At 2025-07-15 03:09:19 AM | Source

Malicious #VSCode extension in #CursorIDE led to $500K #crypto theft

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-vscode-extension-in-cursor-ide-led-to-500k-crypto-theft/

#cybersecurity

Originally Posted By u/chickuaua At 2025-07-15 02:45:22 AM | Source

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