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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago

I think he said that's Tor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I like the banana leaf plates.
Is this three or four different sources of carbs?
~Why?~

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I use my indignation as fuel to do good around me. The more I read sad news the more I want to contribute to positive projects.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not an historian, but to give some ideas, the Enlightenment thinkers were "progressive" nobles and bourgeois who succeeded without noble's privileged and obviously could explain why the system is unfair. It's tempting to have the romantic image of the little people rising by themselves, but it is not illiterate farmers that could have wrote about the philosophy of governance.
Voltaire had a lawyer father (bourgeois) and a low rank nobility mother.
Rousseau was born in the Republic of Genova (oligarchy with elections) of watchmaking family (bourgeois).
Beaumarchais was also the son of a renowned watchmaker (bourgeois).
Diderot was the son of a knife maker renowned for surgery blades (bourgeois).
D'Alembert was an abandoned child but taken care of by a knight (~noble privileges).
Montesquieu was from high nobility with administrative responsibilities (noble).
Lafayette was from military nobility (noble).

Another important point is that the early thinking was to promote an enlightened monarch, highly educated and aware of the issues of his people, so he could be a perfect leader for the people with some limitations and power balance. Some monarchists today still promote this kind of ideal. There was probably not too much problem to talk about better education in those salons and sharing more power with the other educated people.
Thinking about ending the monarchy came later and the beheading of the king was kind of an interplay of circumstances that was not planned by the early Revolution leaders.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago

Ten million people within 98 miles of the epicentre could have been sent Google's highest level alert - giving up to 35 seconds of warning to find safety. Instead, only 469 "Take Action" warnings were sent out for the first 7.8 magnitude quake. ... Google's system, named Android Earthquake Alerts (AEA), is able to detect shaking from a vast number of mobile phones that use the Android operating system. Because earthquakes move relatively slowly through the earth, a warning can then be sent out. ... Google says the system is supposed to be supplementary and is not a replacement for national systems. However some scientists worry countries are placing too much faith in tech that has not been fully tested.

It sounds like really great tech that could save many lives in the future but it should be developed by a public service not a foreign for-profit tech giant. The state is responsible for this lack of warning system.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Ça a quand même du sens puisqu'ils vont payer pour les transports, probablement de la nourriture et autre. Mais il faut mettre en face le bénéfice total et le bénéfice par visiteur pour mieux représenter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

J'y ai pensé indépendamment, mais quelqu'un l'avait déjà noté dans le calepin avant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Did you put an option on the order?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Comme tu le sais, on n’a pas encore trouvé d’autre nom aussi bien que Jlai.lu

Je trouve que onla.lu fonctionne bien, proche de jlai.lu, avec une touche communautaire plutôt qu'individualiste, et neutre.

Mais c'est peut-être mieux d'être en sous-domaine d'abord et de switcher ensuite, dans un an ou deux ans, quand l'instance Lemmy sera morte, passer Lemmy en sous domaine et PieFed en principal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Doesn't it take some years of study and then some years of practice with seniors to master it, just like a craft, except it is words instead of physical matter?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Jlaimallu, merci.

 
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By Eric Albert (Frankfurt, Germany, special correspondent) Published yesterday at 11:36 am (Paris)

LLM summary:

On March 12, 2025, Trump escalated the trade war by imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum, prompting the European Union to respond with its own tariffs. Despite the tensions, a sense of optimism emerged during a conference at Goethe University in Frankfurt, where economists and financial experts speculated that the euro could become a safe haven currency and a reserve currency, traditionally dominated by the US dollar. Klaus Adam, an economist, suggested that Trump's actions might undermine the dollar's "exorbitant privilege," leading to a shift in global currency dynamics.

Financial markets have reacted positively to this speculation, with the euro gaining value against the dollar. Economists are questioning the desirability of holding dollars given the uncertainties surrounding US economic policies and the independence of the Federal Reserve. Concerns have been raised about potential manipulation of the dollar by Trump and the implications for foreign investors. The upcoming appointment of a new Federal Reserve chair by Trump is seen as crucial, as it will determine the central bank's ability to resist political pressures.

While the eurozone faces its own challenges, including sluggish growth and geopolitical threats, there is a growing belief that it could strengthen its position as a reserve currency. Germany's plans for increased spending on infrastructure and defense could provide more secure assets for foreign investors, which is essential for the euro's status as a reserve currency. Although the dollar's dominance is not expected to end soon, there is a possibility that the euro could gain more significance in the global financial landscape, potentially leading to a multi-currency reserve system.

 

I like this one , I'll try to use it, it's more elegant than /s.

 

Le poteau apparaît dans mon historique de commentaires:

World [email protected] • Billionaire Carlos Slim cancels $22 billion in Starlink orders due to Elon Musk’s outburst

Edit: Je suppose que le poteau a été supprimé. Lemmy pourrait donner un message plus explicatif.

 

From the article:

The “atmosphere in the Oval Office reminded us of that which we remember well from interrogations” by Poland’s communist secret services and regime courts, the signatories said.

“The prosecutors and the judges, working on behalf of the omnipotent Communist party police, also told us that they held all the cards, and we held none,” they said.

“We are shocked that you treated Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the same way,” they said.

The full letter machine translated from Polish:

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Dear Mr. President,

We watched the account of your conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with horror and disgust. Your expectations regarding the expression of respect and gratitude for the material assistance provided by the United States to Ukraine, which is fighting against Russia, we consider offensive. Gratitude is owed to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who are shedding blood in defense of the values of the free world. They have been dying on the front lines for over 11 years in the name of these values and the independence of their homeland, which has been attacked by Putin's Russia.

We do not understand how a leader of a country that is a symbol of the free world can fail to see this.

Our horror was also triggered by the fact that the atmosphere in the Oval Office during this conversation reminded us of what we remember well from interrogations by the Security Service and from courtrooms in communist courts. Prosecutors and judges, at the behest of the all-powerful communist political police, also explained to us that they held all the cards, while we held none. They demanded that we cease our activities, arguing that thousands of innocent people were suffering because of us. They deprived us of our freedom and civil rights because we refused to cooperate with the authorities and did not show them gratitude. We are shocked that you treated President Volodymyr Zelensky in a similar manner.

The history of the 20th century shows that every time the United States wanted to maintain distance from democratic values and its European allies, it ended up posing a threat to themselves. President Woodrow Wilson understood this when he decided to join the United States in World War I in 1917. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood this when, after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he decided that the war in defense of America would be fought not only in the Pacific but also in Europe, in alliance with the countries attacked by the Third Reich.

We remember that without President Ronald Reagan and American financial engagement, it would not have been possible to bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union's empire. President Reagan was aware that millions of enslaved people were suffering in Soviet Russia and the countries it had conquered, including thousands of political prisoners who paid with their freedom for their sacrifice in defense of democratic values. His greatness lay, among other things, in the fact that he unhesitatingly called the USSR an 'Evil Empire' and waged a determined fight against it. We won, and a monument to President Ronald Reagan stands today in Warsaw opposite the US embassy.

Mr. President, material assistance—military and financial—cannot be an equivalent for the blood shed in the name of the independence and freedom of Ukraine, Europe, and the entire free world. Human life is priceless; its value cannot be measured in money. Gratitude is owed to those who make the sacrifice of blood and freedom. For us, the people of 'Solidarity,' former political prisoners of the communist regime serving Soviet Russia, this is obvious.

We appeal for the United States to fulfill the guarantees it provided along with Great Britain in the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, which explicitly stated the commitment to defend the inviolability of Ukraine's borders in exchange for its relinquishment of nuclear weapons. These guarantees are unconditional: there is not a word about treating such assistance as an economic exchange.

Lech Wałęsa, former political prisoner, leader of Solidarity, President of the Third Republic of Poland.


Signed by Wałęsa and more than 30 former Polish political prisoners held during the communist era.

 
 

Remarquez le design flatteur de la bouteille.

 

Magnus Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) was a German physician, sexologist and LGBTQ advocate, whose citizenship was later revoked by the Nazi government.[1] Hirschfeld was educated in philosophy, philology and medicine. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee and World League for Sexual Reform. He based his practice in Berlin-Charlottenburg during the Weimar period. Performance Studies and Rhetoric Professor Dustin Goltz characterized the committee as having carried out "the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights".[2]

Hirschfeld is regarded as one of the most influential sexologists of the 20th century.[3] He was targeted by early fascists and later the Nazis for being Jewish and gay. He was beaten by völkisch activists in 1920, and in 1933 his Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was looted and had its books burned by Nazis. Hirschfeld was forced into exile in France, where he died in 1935.

 

Historically, they have both been relying mostly on the Bing index, with Qwant building its own index for a while and serving a mix.

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John Hiromu Kitagawa ( October 23, 1931 – July 9, 2019) was a Japanese rapist, business magnate, promoter and record producer. He was best known as the founder of Johnny & Associates, a talent agency for numerous popular boy bands in Japan.

 
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