❝ Sin la necesidad de una convocatoria oficial en el BOE ni la publicación de un anuncio colorido en las redes antisociales.… el macroscópico Carmelo Sanjuán me alertaba de la victoria sin paliativos de la manipulación informativa con un término nítido y brillante: el trumpantojo… técnica de falseamiento constante de la realidad, millones de ciudadanos estadounidenses validaron la legitimidad de la mentira como medio para ocupar el poder…

https://www.diariodesevilla.es/blogs/sindromes-expresivos/palabra-ano-2024_0_2003004702.html

https://www.europesays.com/1706834/ France’s Macron backs Ethiopia’s debt restructuring efforts #DebtRestructuring #EmmanuelMacron #ethiopia #france #InternationalMonetaryFund #SwiftResolution

⚡️🇺🇦CMU supported resolution “Weapons of Victory” (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3940629-cmu-supported-resolution-weapons-of-victory.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

Happy #caturday

"TeNnEsSeE DoEsN't bElOnG iN tHe pLayOfFs" - or do they get a different treatment than Indiana?

https://www.europesays.com/1706832/ François Bayrou déjà sous la menace d’une censure par la gauche #france #Nouvelles

⚠️🇺🇦Russian invaders fired 42 times on border of Sumy region during day (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3940758-russians-fired-42-times-on-border-of-sumy-region-during-day.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

⛔️🇺🇦Shelling in Donetsk region: Russian terrorists killed man, wounded woman in Pokrovsk and its area (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3940754-shelling-in-donetsk-region-russians-killed-man-wounded-woman-in-pokrovsk-and-its-area.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

https://www.europesays.com/?p=1706830 Germany’s divided stance on Israel: Navigating history and demographics #germany #GermanyAndIsrael #Holocaust #Israel

https://www.europesays.com/1706828/ Boris Herrmann kentert, Spitzentrio jagt Rekord #BorisHerrmann #CharlieDalin #deutschland #germany #JustineMettraux #MaliziaSeaexplorer #Nachrichten #SebastienSimon #VendéeGlobe #VendéeGlobe2024 #YoannRichomme

🇵🇱🇺🇦Poland gives Ukraine 3 helicopters for pilot training (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3940750-poland-gives-ukraine-3-helicopters-for-pilot-training.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #Poland #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

‼️🇺🇦AFU set up metal “Christmas tree” near Donetsk stele (VIDEO and more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3940747-afu-set-up-metal-christmas-tree-near-donetsk-stele.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

https://www.europesays.com/1706826/ Tilman Fertitta Nominated as Ambassador to Italy #BillionDollarBuyer #CNBC #italy #television #TilmanFertitta

Hot centaurs describing themselves as JRHNBR

‼️🇺🇦President Zelensky commends rescuers, police officers for helping Ukrainians (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3940736-zelensky-commends-rescuers-police-officers-for-helping-ukrainians.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

⚠️🇺🇦Civilian injured as Russian invaders shell Bilozerka in Kherson region (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3940735-man-injured-as-russian-forces-shell-bilozerka-in-kherson-region.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

https://www.europesays.com/1706824/ proprietario degli Houston Rockets, ha origini siciliane #DonaldTrump #Italia #italy #notizie #StatiUniti #TilmanFertitta

Y’all, the restaurant I’m in just switched from the David Bowie/Bing Crosby duet of “Little Drummer Boy” mid pa rum pum pum pum to go to some country Christmas station. Their Yelp review shall suffer. #Christmas

🇵🇱🇺🇦New Nyzhankovychi-Malhowice checkpoint to ease border traffic - Ukrainian ambassador (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-economy/3940730-new-nyzhankovychimalhowice-checkpoint-to-ease-border-traffic-ukrainian-ambassador.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #Poland #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

#Alabama profits off #prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for #parole

"No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a sprawling labor system that dates back more than 150 years — including the brutal #ConvictLeasing era that replaced #slavery — it has constructed a template for the #commercialization of #MassIncarceration."

By ROBIN MCDOWELL and MARGIE MASON
Updated 5:10 PM EST, December 20, 2024

DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to companies like Home Depot and Wayfair. It didn’t matter that Jake Jones once had escaped or that he had failed two drug and alcohol tests while in lockup — he was unsupervised and technically in charge.

By the time Jones was driving back to the work release center with six other incarcerated workers, it was pelting rain. Jones had a reputation for driving fast and some of his passengers said he was racing along the country road, jamming to music in his earbuds. Suddenly, the transport van hit a dip and swerved on the wet pavement, slamming into a tree."

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-alabama-3b2c7e414c681ba545dc1d0ad30bfaf5

#USPol #HumanRights #Prisoners #ForProfitPrisons #USPenalSystem

https://www.europesays.com/1706822/ Spain Soccer La Liga | Pro Sports #free #ProfessionalSports #Soccer #spain #sports #xlaligax

https://www.europesays.com/1706820/ El mapa de los municipios ganadores y perdedores de población en el siglo XXI en España #España #ganadores #municipios #noticias #perdedores #Población #siglo #spain #XXI

What Trump's role in spending fight tells us about the next four years | AP News

https://apnews.com/article/trump-budget-debt-ceiling-shutdown-musk-johnson-e0258d31a9018c7af09afc11a8634707

Wonkette continues to outpace Big Journalism in covering the danger that South Africa born Elon Musk represents to democracy everywhere, not just in the United States.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/elon-musk-boosting-german-fascists

Best line: "Musk’s politics have never been particularly mysterious, unless you are a political reporter for The New York Times."

A little while ago I looked outside and lo and behold, a Grey Partridge in my little city garden! For awhile it was digging and scratching and picking, apparently going after the native grasses I planted (and didn't mow in the fall) under the snow. Good wildlife gardening practices brings in the creatures! It is still there, having settled down for a siesta in the snow.

#greypartridge #wildlifegardening #winterbirds #backyardbirds #nativeplants #yxe

Rickey Henderson, baseball’s “Man of Steal,” has died. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/sports/mlb/rickey-henderson-obituary-death/3742487/

Lara Trump, the president-elect’s daughter-in-law, says she is withdrawing her name from the short list of those under consideration by Florida’s governor to be appointed to fill the US Senate seat Marco Rubio is to vacate.

Exploded in a burst of joyful, painful, grateful tears at the end of this book.

Never done that.

One might not expect 12th Century Yemen/Indian ocean to be the sort of liberatory setting where gender norms, classism, & misogyny are specifically tackled with such effectiveness & beauty.

But, and I say this as someone who has had trans patients having been harassed by Chaiya Raichik:

What an incredible journey & ending I did not see coming (though I really should have).

A lovely fantasy fiction tale historically placed by an author whose career as a Historian of the Middle East was derailed by the 2008 Great Recession.

#AdventuresOfAminaAlSirafi
#bookstodon
#lgbtqia #transgender

the oldest trick in the book 😅

https://www.europesays.com/1706816/ Man neergeschoten in Rotterdam-IJsselmonde, slachtoffer naar ziekenhuis – RTV Rijnmond #112 #Nederland #netherlands #Nieuws #Rotterdam

Notes on climate change, 2024. It was not until December 21 that I felt compelled to put aside my summer hat for my winter hat

This isn’t a road. This is the minuteman bike path in Arlington today.

Hey Koreans, why are you hiding your video game masterpieces from the rest of the world – as though they’re prized kimchi recipes?! Seriously, what gives? You can’t keep Jang Pung 3 for the SEGA Master System locked up forever – the world deserves to know about the greatest 8-bit fighting game of all time. Yeah, I said it. Not just “pretty good” or “surprisingly decent.” The greatest.

And yet, this gem is so obscure it makes Bigfoot look overexposed. Despite being mostly in English, it never left South Korea, possibly because it dropped in 1994, when the Master System was practically a fossil. By then, North Americans were too busy trying to make CD-ROMs a thing to notice, and consequently, most emulators today still choke on this game. Let me repeat: this wasn’t some basement-dweller homebrew – this was a legit release! What gives?!

“But wait!” You might be thinking, “I thought that Koreans were all about PC gaming, not console games!” Well, sure. But back in the day, Samsung did their part to “Koreanize” the Master System, rebranding it as the Samsung Gam-Boy (with a better controller, no less – ergonomic and classy). Few Korean games made it to consoles, but Jang Pun 3 stands tall among them. As for Jang Pung 1 and 2? Yeah, good luck finding those. They’re either myths or the world most committed inside joke. This might be the only real Jang Pung game.

And what a game it is. The plot? Completely bonkers. Here’s the literal intro text from the beginning of the game:

Nazi followers have decided to conquer the world, and constructed a horrendous machine for that goal: a cyborg named Sell. To defeat him, the best fighters from different countries of the world hold a tournament that will determine which one of them should venture to Leipzig and destroy Sell in a one-on-one battle.

Yes, you read that right. Nazis? Cyborgs? Leipzig? Sure, why not. This is the kind of Cold War fever dream I live for – so I’m eating this up.

The gameplay itself? Unbelievably good. You won’t find any guides or special move instructions on the Internet because this game is barely known at all – so you’ll have to discover them by trial and error. But things are smooth, and it largely helps that the Master System controller only has two action buttons: one for punch, and one for kick.

Just looking at this screenshot, the level of detail in both sprites and backgrounds is astounding. This isn’t something the NES or C64 could pull off – at least not without an enhancement chip. In terms of looks, you might even mistake this for a 16-bit game. Sure, there’s some flicker here and there, but let’s cut the Master System’s poor CPU some slack. It’s doing God’s work.

Sound is excellent as well. Okay, it doesn’t support FM audio (a missed opportunity), but the SN76489 chip pulls off some insanely catchy tunes that’ll lodge themselves into your brain. The sound effects? Crunchy, punchy, and exactly what you’d want in a fighting game.

Open Production developed Jang Pung 3. Between 1993-97, they made seven games, four of them for the Master System. This includes Toto World 3 and Dallyeora Piguwang, both which I’m dying to check out.

So yeah, if you’ve got a working Master System (or Gam-Boy for you lucky Koreans), track this down. Jang Pung 3 is no mere fighting game – it’s a technical miracle and a piece of forgotten history. Now, can sommeone tell me why the rest of us had to wait decades to find out about it? Seriously, Koreans. Share the love.

https://www.europesays.com/1706814/ Rome ouvre la cause de béatification du roi Baudouin de Belgique #België #belgien #Belgique #belgium #Nachrichten #Nieuws #Nouvelles

The Global Hunt for Putin’s ‘Sleeper Agents’ Once a soviet spy, and public toilet robber always a ruska kurwa.

Remember, Putin kurwa is kgb.

The Kremlin called these foot soldiers Vladimir Putin’s “invisible front,” an army of agents living false lives on foreign passports and second languages. Identifying one, American spy catchers would complain, was like finding a needle hiding in a needle stack. Few would prove as well-concealed as Kadivnik’s target.

🔗 https://archive.md/TIBXS#selection-2463.0-2463.317

#usa #Ukraine #EU #Europe #Nato

I feel like I'm in the rough part of my Computer science degree. Last 2-3 terms I've gotten nothing but classes I have no interest in because of their system limiting what classes you are able to grab each term. It's online classes while I work full time so my life doesn't revolve around it, but it's frustrating working, then having the two classes I got for a particular term be busy work classes.

The House is voting now on the 3rd version of the spending bill that would avert a government shutdown.

The bill does not include lifting the debt ceiling.

Democrats seem to support the bill. Apparently, so does president-elect musk.

Draft of the revised bill at https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241216/ARA%2012.20.pdf
Webcast at https://www.c-span.org/event/us-house-of-representatives/us-house-of-representatives/429757
Live coverage at https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/20/government-shutdown-bill-house-trump-musk/
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Hold up! Is that a SunOS?! This bad boy's been working alone for 25 years running some critical app?! Those ancient 36GB SCSI drives are practically museum artifacts! And with only 4GB of RAM? My Android phone has more memory! 😂 This thing makes a Raspberry Pi look like a supercomputer. They sure don't build 'em like they used to...I must admit, Sun Microsystems had some serious engineering and reliability back in the day. I guess it will still work for another decade or so ☺️