Futurology Today

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/49331636

Dgar— Mastodon.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/45247186

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The incidents took place amid this week’s large-scale Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, Poland’s eastern neighbour. They also came two weeks after another drone – later confirmed to be Russian – exploded in eastern Poland.

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However, [Polish defence minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz] added that the drones had been constantly tracked over Polish territory by “both national and…allied resources” and later left Poland’s airspace without causing any damage, reports broadcaster TVN.

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[It was not revealed] what types of drones had been detected, their origin, nor where the incidents had taken place [as] one reason for not providing more details was that “the recipient of this type of information is Russia [and] we don’t want to make their work easier”.

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Funders include treasurer Nick Candy, who promised Farage’s party a seven-figure sum when he took the role

Geneva (AFP) – The World Trade Organization and the International Labour Organization told AFP on Thursday that they no longer figured among entities targeted in the White House's latest round of foreign aid cuts.

US President Donald Trump's Republican administration announced last Friday that it was cancelling $4.9 billion of congressionally-approved foreign aid, sparking outrage among Democrats.

In a memo detailing the cuts, the administration said it was "committed to getting America’s fiscal house in order by cutting government spending that is woke, weaponised, and wasteful".

Trump, who has already effectively dismantled USAID -- the world's largest humanitarian aid agency -- since taking office again in January, listed a number of international organisations among the targeted entities.

The list originally included $107 million in cuts to ILO funding and another $29 million in slashed funding to the WTO.

But by Wednesday, the WTO had disappeared from the list, and on Thursday the ILO had also vanished.

"We are aware of the removal of the International Labour Organization from a US administration memo released on 29 August," the agency told AFP.

"We are seeking more information on what this latest development means for the ILO."

The WTO also confirmed to AFP that it was "not on the funding cut list any more."

There was no immediate explanation for why the two Geneva-based organisations had been quietly removed from the official White House document.

The UN labour agency told AFP earlier this week that after Trump's earlier executive orders slashing foreign funding, "the majority of ILO projects funded by the USA were given closure orders".

Of the 229 ILO staff who had been working on projects funded by Washington, 190 initially received a pink slip, but in the end more than half of them were reassigned to other projects, a spokeswoman said.

The United States remains the largest contributor to the WTO's budget, pitching in 23 million Swiss francs ($28.5 million) this year, or 11.4 percent of the total.

US backing had meanwhile covered 22 percent of the ILO's regular budget.

But Washington has so far not paid its contributions for 2024 or 2025 to either organisation, with such delays quite common among member countries.

No surprises that Wes Streeting, who took away trans people's right to healthcare, is siding with the guy who says of trans women "punch him in the balls" if one dares use the toilet with a W on the door. I'm not even trans and I can see straight through this twat. He really needs to take his history degree and get out of the health secretary role.

The ouroboros eats itself.

They face deportation to a Venezuela in crisis amid widespread poverty along with Trump’s tariffs and threats of force.

Lately, the more time I spend in online games I’ve been (more frequently than before) coming across players that essentially don’t play games to their fullest extent. I’m not talking about grinding meta builds, sweating off in ranked game modes or combing through online forums for the best way to play. I am talking about ,for example, playing R6S and never participating in the drone phase, never using your operator’s abilities and never creating rotation holes. I don’t mind players not knowing what these things are or not playing the game optimally. I do mind simply turning your brain off and just run around to try and farm kills. This is a player not wanting to play R6 as they refuse to interact with what sets it apart and I can only wonder if this is because they are forcing themselves to play/like the game either because it has the “tactical” tag to it or because a popular streamer played it recently. Said players would be happier just playing another faster paced game. I am using R6 as the main example but there are multiple games when that also applies, like tanks in MMOs not marking enemies, people in BFs not spotting hostiles and drivers in racing sims refusing to let go of the gas pedal to take a corner. That’s it though from me I just wanted to blow off some steam and get my words out. GG

Edit: Peole are misunderstanding my post. I don’t care if people don’t sweat their balls off in a game. I’m not that good in most online games that I play either and I almost exclusively play single player RPGs. My point is that people that DO play a game in ranked for example, a pretty difficult co-op game or a survival hardcore sim and don’t interact with the game mechanics is an ongoing pandemic in gaming. If you play a game like HD2 and ignore your team and just treat it like COD zombies you are not going to win. Your team is going to lose and you won’t get any points for upgrading your gear or buying new stuff. You have to meet the game itself halfway. You have to interact with its mechanics that set it apart. You don’t need to play in the hardest difficulty, when you play games like R6S you don’t need to climb the ranked ladder- hop on quick play or unranked (once upon a time we used to have Terrorist Hunt). I mean to say that a lot of people buy into those games and they decide instead of playing the game the way they want to they play it the way need to. “I like to play the game casually” then play it casually- don’t hop on the most competitive modes of the game because YOU aren’t going to have fun. If you like chiller more arcade-y games then play chiller more arcade-y games there is no need to buy a game that by design is not for your tastes.

Edit (2): This is fun I like talking to you guys about this stuff!

• Trump shares video showing speedboat exploding
• US officials say boat was carrying illegal narcotics
• Strike comes amid increased deployment of warships to Caribbean

WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. military killed 11 people on Tuesday in a strike on a vessel from Venezuela allegedly carrying illegal narcotics, President Donald Trump said, in the first known operation since his administration's recent deployment of warships to the southern Caribbean.

Trump told reporters at the White House: "We just, over the last few minutes, literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat."

They said this was going to create a rift among chuds. I was told I was being a bad leftist for not giving them the benefit of the doubt and seeing their humanity.

[... Lumo] is the least open "open" AI assistant that we have ever added to our index. One of our reasons for inclusion is an openness claim: a model provider that calls their system "open" or "open source" or a variation on that. Lumo is "open" in that sense (Proton calls it open source) but in no other way. Nothing about it is currently open. [...]

Es ging darum aus einem Logo die Wolken die da drin waren zu entfernen. Der hat das ernsthaft mit Mikroweich Fensters Bilder Anwendung gemacht, wodrin man mit KI Hintergründe entfernen kann. Das wären literarlisch 10 Klicks (maximal) in GIMP gewesen. Der meinte nachher, dass der nicht mal GIMP installiert hat (wer hat bitte kein gescheites Bild Bearbeitungsprogramm installiert)