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The Slovenian government claimed last year that since the start of the war in Gaza on October 7, it had halted entirely all defense purchases from Israel. However, according to official Slovenian data, the country purchased Israeli military equipment worth €828,000 (approximately $970,000, or ₪3,270,000) in 2024..

A closer look at Slovenia's anti-tank arsenal reveals an even clearer Israeli connection. The Slovenian army's anti-tank system relies on the "Spike" missile family, developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, a government-owned Israeli company. Slovenia purchased the systems from Eurospike – 80 percent of whose shares are held by two large German companies, Rheinmetall (40 percent) and Diehl Group (40 percent), while the remaining 20 percent is owned by Ercas B.V., a holding company wholly owned by Rafael, registered in the Netherlands and operating from the U.K.

Slovenia's Defense Ministry has allocated a total of approximately €35 million ($41 million, ₪140 million) for the purchase of Spike missile systems between 2022 and 2026. Last year, Slovenia invested €12 million in its anti-tank missile arsenal. This year, an investment of €8 million is planned, and in 2026, Slovenia will invest at least €3 million.

Prime Minister Mark Carney called the byelection in June after Conservative MP Damien Kurek stepped down from his seat so Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre could run.

Kurek's resignation came after he handily won the riding in April. The history of the riding and its previous incarnations indicate it has been one of the safest blue seats in the country.

Last week, Elections Canada released data from advance polls which revealed 14,454 people have already cast their ballots in the riding, more than the amount who showed up at advance polls in that riding for April's federal election.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Democrats who ended a walkout found themselves shadowed by law enforcement officers to keep them from repeating the protest that stalled Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts and fulfill President Donald Trump’s desire to reshape U.S. House maps.

Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to sign what the Democrats called “permission slips,” agreeing to around-the-clock surveillance by state Department of Public Safety officers to leave the floor. However, Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier, of Fort Worth, refused and remained on the House floor Monday night.

The Democrats’ return to Texas puts the Republican-run Legislature in position to satisfy Trump’s demands, possibly later this week, as California Democrats advance new congressional boundaries in retaliation.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/mxkaske on 2025-08-19 15:04:17+00:00.

Over the last months, we have been revamping our dashboard for openstatus. While we are open-source, it is difficult to just fork and reuse the dashboard app.

We worked on a template for us to quickly move forward (no backend involved) and to share it to our users to get feedback. And for you to reuse it.

Powered by:

• nextjs SPA (so BYO router)
• shadcn ui (install components via CLI)

Features components like:

• data-tables
• right/left sidebar
• charts
• metric cards
• …and much more high-level dashboard components

Inspired by:

• Vercel
• Tinybird
• Axiom

Share it, star it, fork it!

If you want to read more, check our latest blog post:

https://www.openstatus.dev/blog/new-dashboard-we-are-so-back

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The original was posted on /r/games by /u/RoseIshin0 on 2025-08-20 01:23:29+00:00.

First ill preface that I know i am REALLY spoiled to even have a wfh job. Im honestly amazed something like this exists.

Which leads me to my question. Im good at my job, its a great company, I get nothing but good feedback. But honestly, its easy. Really if anyone wanted to learn, they could do it. I feel guilty pretty much everyday at how easy it is. But the fact that its easy also makes it really difficult to put in 45 hours of real work. I try to use some of the time for educational videos or something related to work but honestly with my adhd mind, 9 hours is a lot unless im SUPER busy.

All my previous work has been jobs running around all day, fixing problems, managing people, which I dont want to go back to necessarily but sometimes I miss it. I work very well in chaos.

I have tried meds to zoink me out and they do work, but I prefer not to be dependent.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34919033

This talk is a polemic that distills the pessimistic side of my feelings about systems research these days. I won’t talk much about the optimistic side, since lots of others can do that for me; everyone’s excited about the computer industry. I may therefore present a picture somewhat darker than reality. However, I think the situation is genuinely bad and requires action.

• See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike for context

Guess I shouldn’t have poked the bear…

Anyways Hexbear banned me.

I had audacity to post my opinion as a leftist. Interesting there is no space for civil discourse in a USSR apologist community.

This comes from someone who is active in left organizing, political places, and listens to Chapo (way better when Matt C was there).

Anyways, these edgelords would get laughed out of any real leftist communities once they started regurgitating agit prop. Guess it’s good they have their safe space online - no loss

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Is there a limit to their callous cruelty and ignorance?

Nope!