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Donald Trump Jr., Charlie Kirk, and Sergio Gor's visit to Greenland, framed as a pro-Trump tourism trip, has been criticized as a staged political stunt.

Greenlandic politicians denounced the effort as misleading.

Reports reveal that the group allegedly recruited homeless individuals in Nuuk to wear MAGA hats for photo ops, promising them meals in return.

Local residents condemned the move as exploitative and deceptive, with critics accusing the group of manipulating vulnerable individuals to push a pro-U.S. narrative.

yes, not a unix os but rather unix-like, and i want to program all of it on python, is that possible?? even the kernel, i want it all python. i know most kernels use c++ or c* but maybe python has a library to turn c* into python?? i'm still sort of a beginner but thanks and i would appreciate the answers

OverNew data suggests a troubling new phase in the Kremlin’s tactics that directly threatens the lives of Europeans.

the past three years, Russia has waged an increasingly brazen campaign of sabotage and subversion against Ukraine’s European allies. In 2024, Moscow significantly escalated its tactics—turning to assassination, compromising water facilities across several European countries, and targeting civil aviation.

Just this week, Duma member Alexander Kazakov claimed Russian sabotage in the Baltic Sea was part of a military operation aimed at provoking NATO and enlarging Russia’s control over the area. While events such as the cutting of undersea cables have garnered substantial media attention, no systematic effort has been made to assess the full scope and nature of Russia’s actions against Europe. Analysis from Leiden University exposes how far Russia is willing to go to weaken its European adversaries and isolate Ukraine from vital support. It paints a chilling picture of the potential for Russian escalation below the nuclear threshold—and underlines the need for a concerted and assertive European response, which has been lacking so far.

When I see "the FDA has stated..." I automatically think it is probably a corrupt conclusion bought by some powerplayer to maximize their own profit instead of having to do with whether the statement is true or not. I've always viewed FDA as basically a council of a bunch of power players on boards of Big Capitalism companies like Pepsi that make decisions based on control and market share rather than health.

but I see posts now about how trump attacking FDA equals bad. So is my view of FDA wrong? Are they noncorrupt? Are they a necessary evil? Should they be thrown in a volcano and remade?

“It will involve escort duty on an aircraft to various countries to offload the human cargo and turn them over to authorities on the ground,” wrote Donald Albracht, the retired FBI agent who sent the email.

Albracht, whose LinkedIn page identifies him as the CEO of ASIT Consulting in Overland Park, Kansas, said in the email that he was sharing the job opportunity on behalf of retired FBI agent Ray Holcomb.

Holcomb is the president and managing director of 1st Watch Secure, a private security and risk management firm based in Delaware, according to the firm’s website. Albracht’s email said Holcomb needs to find a “stable” of personnel willing to do the deportation work before a government contract could be obtained.

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Original Title: New data from 2.5 million marathon finishers finds that subtle changes in air quality can affect your race time | An Analysis of Fine Particulate Matter's Impact on Finish Times in Nine Major US Marathons, 2003-2019

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I saw a comment yesterday about how IT admins have to restrict the privileges of other developers on their machines and was surprised by knowing this. I simply thought that employees in the software industry were essentially at equal parity in terms of their departments, and that the admin department was there just to centralise all the work done by other departments and keep track of the status of their systems. I did not think there would be a need to apply childlocks on other employees' systems as I assumed that a person working at an industry like this would have basic computer literacy to know what is safe and permissible by company policy to execute and what is not.

This may come off as being too naive of me, but I genuinely want to understand how the hierarchy in such a company is actually like. I always thought of workspaces in the software industry to divide labour laterally and there would be no need for administrative powers apart from the management to exist, at least in regard to regulating other workers' actions beyond normal workspace policies. It would be extremely kind of anyone to shed light on this matter.

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When I was little, my mom sent me to a private/religious school. My family isn’t religious, but they felt like I’d get a better education there (and when I switched to public school later I found they were right, I was pretty far ahead).

This school had uniforms: boys wore button down shirts with the school logo and blue slacks, girls wore jumpers.

My mom hated cleaning and ironing these white, button down shirts every day. I was one of 4 kids. Kids play and get grass stains. The shirts were taking up a lot of her time. Finally, she gave up and bought a bunch of white polo shirts and started sending us to school in those. Admin had a conniption fit about it, and brought her in for a meeting. They opened the dress code rulebook and pointed out that these shirts were missing the logo, so they were in violation. My mom looked over the rules and confirmed that the lack of a logo was the only violation. They said yes. She thanked them and left, and the school probably thought it was over. Just to be petty, they sent a school wide memo regarding the dress code.

My mom took every polo shirt and stitched a homemade school logo onto them. It wasn’t hard to do as the “logo” was just the school initials. Admin was furious, but during the next meeting realized their hands were tied.

The memo piqued the curiosity of other parents, and they started asking my mom where she got the “new school shirts.” Apparently she wasn’t the only one sick of ironing and getting grass stains out. Suddenly, I wasn’t the only one wearing a polo shirt to school.

The worst part for the school was that, despite tuition being pretty expensive, they also had a kickback deal going with a local clothing store for the uniforms. The store had a monopoly on the sale of those shirts. When business started lagging, the store made their own version of the polos for sale. Eventually the original shirts were phased out entirely.

That was over 30 years ago, and my mom still loves telling that story.

At best, the bill will simply lead companies to block all kinds of valuable speech to avoid having to fight about it in court. It would inevitably lead to overly cautious censorship in an attempt to avoid liability, doing real harm to free speech (including important speech around LGBTQ issues, health issues, and more).

I hate it when morons try to craft regulations on things they don’t understand (“it’s a series of tubes.”)

Program for skilled foreign workers pits Trump and Musk against Bannon – and progressive Bernie Sanders

Steve Bannon, one of the architects of Trumpism, is one the most influential voices on the right. Bernie Sanders, the veteran US senator from Vermont, is among the leading figures on the progressive left. In these divided times, they have found common ground.

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, a bitter row over H-1B visas – designed to bring skilled foreign workers to the US – has exposed the delicate threads that tie together his broad coalition – and that of the Democrats.

Trump’s appointment of Sriram Krishnan, an Indian American venture capitalist, as an adviser on artificial intelligence sparked a backlash from within his base – fueled in part by anti-Indian racism and criticism of Krishnan’s views on immigration. This was the stage for an acrimonious spat over the merits and pitfalls of the H-1B scheme.

Bought some soft wash brushes that fit on a electric drill. Cleaned the bathroom with it. It was so fast and easy that my knees and back didn't start hurting. I like a clean bathroom.