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Let's imagine a world where time machines are invented.

Hypothetically, what's stopping anyone from travelling to the past, where the dollar is much more valuable, and buying things at a much lower price? What if you then go back to the present, sell those things at a higher price and repeat the cycle? And wtf would happen if everyone there started doing that?

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Tasokare Hotel, episode 2

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“END THE MADNESS. Recall the committee. Defund the CBC.” Credit where it’s due to Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives for writing for radio, as I was taught at a CBC skills course many years ago: short and sharp, three beats, implied subject-verb-object.

The Tories are mad for this gimmick: axe the tax, build the homes, bring it home, fix the budget, stop the crime. It’s addictive and direct and Trumpy, apt to “win the vote” for them, and thus presenting, among other things, a direct existential threat to the CBC. It’s a threat that, starting this month, Catherine Tait, the outgoing president, CEO, and poster-person for bloated bureaucracy, gets to pass on to her successor, Marie-Philippe Bouchard, who hasn’t ticked off anyone significant—yet.

From the Kyiv community, I handed over to the fighters of the Third Assault Brigade a modernly equipped mobile school for training in FPV drone control.

As part of the city program “Defender of Kyiv”, the KP “Autotransport Enterprise of the City of Kyiv” implemented such a project for the first time — it renovated and converted an old MAZ bus into a mobile school.

The uniqueness of the bus lies in the autonomy of the equipment thanks to a powerful generator. This allows the training center to function anywhere without a stationary power grid.

Comfortable conditions were created inside: 9 workplaces, a sofa, a large TV for demonstrating educational materials, a coffee machine and a mini-kitchen.

The project was implemented in several stages, since the bus was not new at all. The metal structure was completely replaced, the electrical system was updated, and the design was performed. Artists painted the bus, and the furniture and branded materials were made to order.

We continue to help our defenders!

Glory to Ukraine and its Heroes!

https://t.me/vitaliy_klitschko/4004

According to findings announced by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and published in The Lancet journal, there were an estimated 64,260 “traumatic injury deaths” in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza put the figure at 37,877 at the time.

This means the ministry has underreported the death toll due to violence by approximately 41%, the researchers found. As of October, the number of Gazans killed by violence was thought to exceed 70,000, the study said, based on the estimated underreporting rate.

The total death toll attributable to Israel’s military campaign is likely to be higher still, it said, as its analysis doesn’t account for deaths caused by disruption to health care, insufficient food, clean water and sanitation, and disease outbreaks.

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I have a 'screenshots' folder on my laptop. I would like my steam deck to send the screenshots that I take on it to that same folder, or have it synchronized somehow. What is the best or most intuitive way of accomplishing this?

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It doesn't bother me, I'm of the opinion you should wipe until you see blood either way.

Paywall but basically he declassified stuff if it seemed to benefit Trump and although not mentioned in the article I'd assume hide stuff if it didn't. He also demanded loyalty to the Trump agenda when hiring and showed very clear partisan preferences.

Please call your senators and oppose the nomination of Kash Patel. https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

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As it turns out, sources have told Danish news outlet DR News that the supporters wearing fresh MAGA hats during a visit from Trump’s representatives Don Jr and Charlie Kirk were homeless and socially disadvantaged people who were bribed with hotel dinners:

“Several sources now tell DR that a portion of the people who appear in the video from Trump's campaign people …are homeless and socially disadvantaged, who often find themselves outside the Brugsen in Nuuk …which is located directly opposite Hotel Hans Egede.”

Don Jr and Charlie Kirk described the warm reception from what was described as a group of Greenlandic Trump supporters. MAGA accounts on social media used the footage of Trump talking on speaker phone to the group as evidence for his proposal to annex Greenland as part of the United States.

Now we learn the group support was likely transactional. DR reported:

“All they have to do is put on a cap and be in the Trump staff's videos. They are being bribed, and it is deeply distasteful.”

DR News reported on others who were able to identify individuals who traded support for a nice meal at a hotel. Trump's team found one of the men living under a bridge. This isn’t the first time Trump has staged events.

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Artificial Intelligence is the new pagan religion. Choose your hallucinogenic God: ChatGPT, Claude, Grok?

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