A new budget by a large and influential group of House Republicans calls for raising the Social Security retirement age for future retirees and restructuring Medicare....
Gen Millennial here. I can assist you on your suicide that day for a hot meal so I can at least eat on that day. Maybe someone from Gen Z can assist my suicide if I leave him my blanket then.
We have heard from Vladimir Putin if there is this continued strength in the war in Ukraine if the U.S. and all the countries continue to contribute, he has continued to raise the possibility of a nuclear threat. Is that one that you take seriously or worried about?
[Kallas] Of course, we have to take everything seriously, what he says. He has been threatening with the nuclear war for quite some time, but it has been only words. He’s very good in sowing fear within our societies and really listening what we are afraid of and giving you the fears that you have, [ okay, you are afraid of the nuclear war, so I’m giving out this kind of signals and the public goes, oh wow, we can’t do that. It is a trap, a trap of self deterrence, ] because if we are afraid, then we start to self-deter, and that is what Putin wants. [ So we also have to think what Putin is afraid of, and he is actually afraid of going to war with NATO. So he doesn’t want that, and we of course don’t want that either, but it is to understand the messages that he’s giving out ] so that we would be afraid and refrain from the decisions that we would otherwise make.
Emphasis mine.
Putin is such a psycho. If he were just a citizen, he would need therapy. But as a despot of a country, Vladimir will kill half- to one-million people before therapy comes finally to him. Either by age or by the blade. There is no concept of peaceful transfer of powers in a dictatorship. In a Monarchy he could at least make one of his children with his affairs be a prince, but he never groomed one of his children into a successor like his Friend Kim did. Vladimir was always a loner on a horse without a shirt. I guess he will also die like that.
Dude, that was just an example she made. There are so many fears he controlled in the last 10 years. How many microtargeted messages over facebook did putins trollfactories and Cambridge Analytica transmissioned? You have to understand that it goes down to the fears of single persons. Someone is afraid of foreigners and immigrants, there was a playbook and memes for these people. You have the fear of economical outlook, there was a folder with images to post for that. Your fear is democrats in the white house? Fear of black people looting cities? Caravans at the border? Socialists in the Government? President takes away your guns? Homosexuals? Nuclear War? There was a playbook do target all these people to cook a vast part of the society crazy and made them afraid of their own fears coming true - even if reality was not like that and they were concerted fed confirmation bias by anecdotal evidence, but amplified.
Those polling places are not worth the ashes anyway. I can understand why people set fire to them. They are an insult to every russian who has not completly gelatinized his brain with state TV.
Global service provider Keywords, which recently worked on acclaimed projects like Alan Wake 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, and The Legends of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, conducted an experiment last year....
The 50’s, where every utensil from car to ovens will have it’s own nuclear reactor in the future
The 60’s, where Mankind soon will travel through starsystems and vacations on the moon are possible
The 70’s, where people thought that in a few years Neutron-Brains will be created that work just like the human brain
The 80’s, where it was said that in the year 2000 we will have flying cars and hoverboards
The 90’s, where the internet took off and soon nobody will ever send letters again
The 00’s, that soon self driving cars will take over all transport business
The 10’s, where a magical working all-knowing Siri/Alexa/Cortana voice will be the way people will interact with at home and on the go
Now the 20’s, where AI will be able to recreate talent and come up with genuine new ideas never before seen by mankind
I do not think AI can recreate talent or art. AI can imitate art and copy already existing art and melt it to something new. But an Artist-AI can not take two noses of coke, one bottle of vodka and come up with a novel new concept of creative work. Sure it will come up with things never seen before, but will it resonate with people or will it just be weird, quirky or empty? It is not enough to render an image of a diamond skull, you actually have to build it like Damien Hirst. Artist of the type of Banksy, Dali and Francis Bacon will not get replaced by AI. AI will not stand in the streets spraying walls, AI will not get off board off a ship in New York holding a human-long bread and AI will certainly not be able to draw triptychs of pain and suffering based on the death of his friend. AI will copy something that looks like it, but it will not have the “Talent” or the depth to make it believable and knit a story around it and know the people to communicate to. It most certainly will be used to subvert people on social media to vote against their interests and radicalize opinions. That is it’s talent.
A real perpetrator will have a local LLM running like stable diffusion and will not need Midjourneys SAAS. Alone for opsec reasons will no adversary use a US hosted platform to create their propaganda. This will stop domestic jokers, but will not stop concerted foreign operations in any way.
will seek the dissolution of a pro-reform party that won the most votes in last year’s election, saying there is evidence the party “undermines the democratic system with the king as the head of state”.
You have to read this again and again. The King does not want the reforms the poeple voted for democratically. Why even have democratic votes if in the end a king (in tank tops) will dissolve the democratic voted party.
He did a piss poor job of being a leader. Imagine you are 20 years in your dictatorship and the country is in the condition russia is right now. He could have done sooo much more. He could have been a beacon of light. But he chooses to be a pile of shit. So when ever he seems others struggling, he will add oil to the fire to make them more miserable. He can not stand how every other country around him progressed and grew and was successful, but he was not able to because of his bad leadership. He will drag down everyone around him, so nobody can see how low he is. It is a distraction at this point. If he can not be a successful and loved leader, nobody should. The russian way to deal with complexes. And Trump is the same. They love destroying things if they can not get praise for their low efforts.
A Hays County man has been sentenced to 410 years in prison after pleading guilty to 65 counts of continuous sexual abuse of multiple children and possession of child pornography with intent to promote, according to county prosecutors....
In her appeal, Maxwell’s lawyers said prosecutors scapegoated her because Epstein was dead and “public outrage” demanded that prosecutors pin blame somewhere....
I am sure trump will pardon her. One last gesture for the good times sake. Old Friendship between them both and their common good Friend Jeffrey. When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.
Trump was a wakeup call for me back then. As a teenager in the 90s I always thought that the US has a robust democratic system with a strong militaristic core/underbelly/deepstate that would never compromise the stand of the US. I thought that some three letter agency would always have a plan for everything already drawn up and that action behind the scenes would be taken to ensure the stability and actionability of the states by always being one step ahead of the adversary. For the first Trump year I thought it would be a controlled trick of one of the agencies to trick china/russia into a trap. It must be. The US killed people in other countries around the world to make the US get out on top. No way that bought ads on Facebook can get unrecognized by these agencies to subvert millions.
My worldview about the US today is absolutely shattered. I do not believe that any three letter agency in the US is capable of steering or controlling anything. That Russia and China are able to influence so many people without any agency confronting these efforts was a wake up call for me. And that there is a chance that trump might have a second term is downright devastating for my assurance in the US. As a child I thought about moving to the US one day. I would have taken the risk of getting shot or struggling with bad healthcare. But now that the believe in the protective stable leading system is gone… what is left? Unleashed capitalism and rampant racism? I can find this everywhere in the world.
I can only see three incidents with 787 on wikipedia:
2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding
2024 TCAS incident over Somalia
LATAM Airlines Flight 800
This does not looks like a repeating pattern. The Flight 800 was a 300ft drop midair with around 30 to 40 people hitting the ceiling of the cabin and landing in Auckland without further problems. This does not sound 787 related. Just keep your seatbelts on.
The 2024 TCAS incident reads like a near collision based on miscommunication by air traffic control. Not related to the 787 series.
And well the 2013 787 grounding was based on lithium-ion batteries problems and has now been fixed (?).
I would say relax and keep your seatbelts buckled (disregarding what airframe you are on).
True, as it says in the wikipedia I linked. But is has nothing do to with the 787. This could happen to any plane and in fact does happen on many planes in the past and future. A drop because of airpocket and turbulence are very common.
Rishi Sunak will call a snap general election if 10 Conservative MPs defect to Reform UK, a top Tory with close links to Downing Street has claimed....
Senior fährt mit 450-PS-Auto in Zahnarztpraxis (www.swr.de) German
Trump is broke. That's bad news for the GOP. (www.publicnotice.co)
House Republican budget calls for raising the retirement age for Social Security (www.nbcnews.com)
A new budget by a large and influential group of House Republicans calls for raising the Social Security retirement age for future retirees and restructuring Medicare....
An outmaneuvered Lauren Boebert will face more obstacles in 2024 elections (www.theguardian.com)
Colorado congressman Ken Buck’s abrupt resignation has left the far-right member with two tough choices, upsetting her re-election plans...
40-year-old homeowner says economy doesn’t add up: ‘I’m making the most money I’ve ever made, and I’m still living paycheck to paycheck’ (fortune.com)
“There’s this wild disconnect between what people are experiencing and what economists are experiencing,” says Nikki Cimino, a recruiter in Denver.
Putin ‘wins’ rigged Russian election with 88% of the vote, early results show (www.politico.eu)
Estonian prime minister says Putin is "afraid" of war with Nato --- (video, 2 min) (www.bbc.com)
Estonia’s Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas, has told the BBC that Russia’s Vladimir Putin is “afraid” of a war with Nato....
Mike Pence will not endorse Donald Trump’s presidential campaign (www.theguardian.com)
Former Indiana governor and candidate for Republican nomination tells Fox News decision ‘should come as no surprise’...
Russians Set Fire to At Least 3 Polling Stations on First Day of Election (www.themoscowtimes.com)
Keywords tried to make a game using GenAI but said the tech was 'unable to replace talent' (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Global service provider Keywords, which recently worked on acclaimed projects like Alan Wake 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, and The Legends of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, conducted an experiment last year....
AI image-generator Midjourney blocks images of Biden and Trump as election looms (www.pbs.org)
Thailand election body seeks to dissolve progressive party that won 2023 vote (www.theguardian.com)
Move comes after court found that efforts to amend lese majeste laws by Move Forward party were unconstitutional...
Japan's first private-sector rocket launch attempt has exploded shortly after takeoff (www.independent.co.uk)
A rocket touted as Japan’s first from the private sector to go into orbit exploded shortly after takeoff...
Putin says Donald Trump discussed presidential election with him (www.newsweek.com)
Pete Buttigieg forced to explain that lead is poisonous to obtuse Republican (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Drinking lead can damage people’s brains, but Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach opposes a plan to remove lead water pipes....
[former precinct chair and sergeant-at-arms for the Hays County Republican Party,] Hays County man sentenced to 410 years for sexually abusing children (cbsaustin.com)
A Hays County man has been sentenced to 410 years in prison after pleading guilty to 65 counts of continuous sexual abuse of multiple children and possession of child pornography with intent to promote, according to county prosecutors....
Ghislaine Maxwell seeks to overturn sex trafficking conviction (www.reuters.com)
In her appeal, Maxwell’s lawyers said prosecutors scapegoated her because Epstein was dead and “public outrage” demanded that prosecutors pin blame somewhere....
Team Trump Begs Him to Keep His Mouth Shut at NYC Criminal Trial (www.rollingstone.com)
CIA chief urges Congress to pass Ukraine aid package (tvpworld.com)
New Zealand to seize black boxes from LATAM Boeing 787 as passengers recount incident (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act. (www.ghacks.net)
These changes are only applicable to users in the EEA. For those outside the region, Windows will continue to function as it is!...
How Not to Become the Target of the Next Microsoft Hack (www.darkreading.com)
Nothing fancy or new on this article, but the basics should prevent tears:...
Rishi Sunak will call snap election if 10 Conservative MPs defect to Reform UK, top Tory claims (news.sky.com)
Rishi Sunak will call a snap general election if 10 Conservative MPs defect to Reform UK, a top Tory with close links to Downing Street has claimed....