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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/25/2258139/-J-D-Vance-Did-NOT-Have-Sex-With-a-Couch-I-Repeat-Vance-Did-NOT-Fornicate-With-the-Furniture?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=webJ. D. Vance Did NOT Have Sex With a Couch. I Repeat, Vance Did NOT Fornicate With the Furniture!
There is a bizarre rumor going around Twitter (Fuck you, Elmo, I ain’t callin’ it X) that J.D. Vance wrote in his book Shillbilly Eulogy (or whatever the fuck it was called) that Vance, when he was a teenager, had placed an inverted latex glove betwe…Daily Kos
Gen. Sir Roly Walker said he'd based his estimation on the "current rate of attrition of dead and wounded" faced by Moscow's forces in Ukraine, according to UK media. [...] "If they carry on as they are, it would probably take the Russians five years to grind their way to their minimum objectives of the four oblasts," he added, referring to Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia.
Gen. Sir Roly Walker said Russia's minimum goal of taking four oblasts would, based on current attrition rates, cost it more than 1.5 million troops.Matthew Loh (Yahoo News)
A Gaza, le calvaire d’un jeune trisomique tué par un chien de l’armée israélienne
#politique #Israël #génocide #crimes
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/07/26/a-gaza-le-calvaire-d-un-jeune-trisomique-tue-par-un-chien-de-l-armee-israelienne_6258427_3210.htmlA Gaza, le calvaire d’un jeune trisomique tué par un chien de l’armée israélienne
Après avoir été attaqué par l’animal au domicile de sa famille, Muhammed Bhar, un handicapé mental de 24 ans, a été abandonné dans une pièce de la maison, où il est décédé de ses blessures.Louis Imbert (Le Monde)
Russia's central bank on July 26 raised its key interest rate by 200 basis points to 18 percent from 16 percent, promising further tightening due to the ongoing inflation, which it estimated for 2024 by up to 7 percent, while previous estimate was 4 …RFE/RL's North.Realities (RFE/RL)
Polish lawmakers voted on July 26 in favor of a bill making it easier for security services to use weapons against migrants on the Belarus border, legislation that has public support but that critics say infringes human rights.Reuters (RFE/RL)
COVID rates are higher in certain states amid a nationwide summer wave, according to the CDC. COVID hot spot states include Florida, Oregon, Washington and more.Caroline Kee (TODAY)
Should authoritarian Russian ally Nicolas Maduro lose the presidency in a tense Venezuelan election on July 28, it would undermine Moscow’s power projection in the Western Hemisphere – but the Kremlin is likely to double down on efforts to exercise i…Todd Prince (RFE/RL)
#PearlsBeforeSwine by #StephanPastis for July 26, 2024 - GoComics
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Ms Samantha Barguss, now 30, has been banned from teaching for at least five years after a misconduct panel concluded that her secret life might even encourage pupils to turn to prostitutionDaily Star
"As policymakers and as scientists, we're trying to account for where carbon comes from and how that impacts the planet," climate scientist Lesley Ott said.Jess Thomson (Newsweek)
Besitzen UnternehmenserbInnen mehr als 26 Millionen Euro, müssen sie eigentlich Steuern zahlen. Ein Schlupfloch erlaubt ihnen, das zu umgehen.#Erbschaftssteuer #Milliardäre #Bundesverfassungsgericht #Steuerpolitik #SozialeGerechtigkeit #KolumneErnsthaft? #Deutschland #Politik #Serie
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4534The Moon from ISS
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Around 800,000 passengers are expected to be affected over the weekend as the damage is heavy and labor-intensive to repairAgence France-Presse (Voice of America (VOA News))
Those recipes were written to be cooked on a BBQ grill, but can usually be adapted for indoor use, as well.
Calcalist reveals the mechanism behind Cyberstarts’ amazing returns: points worth tens of thousands of dollars are awarded to CISOs of organizations for deepening relationships with the fund's portfolio companies, aiding their growth.Sophie Shulman and Meir Orbach (ctech)
A Russian military airfield in occupied Crimea was reportedly targeted by a missile strike that caused explosions and a fire early on July 26, while Ukrainian energy facilities were again struck by Russian shelling and drones.RFE/RL's Russian Service (RFE/RL)
[This is a twitter thread from @HeavenlyPossum in Sep. 2021 that I archived and am reposting here with their agreement. It is about property as a social construct.]
In his essay “Manners, Deference, and Private Property,” David Graeber made this point:
“A number of authors have pointed out how many languages lack any verb for unilateral ownership, simply identifying some object and some thing.”
This might come as a surprise to you if you’ve spent any time listening to libertarians, who have a habit of asserting that private property — what Graeber calls unilateral ownership — is a sort of self-evident, universal and transhistorical human default.
To support his claim, Graeber cites the anthropological work of Robert Firth on the Pacific island of Tikopia.
If you’ve read Jared Diamond’s “Collapse,” you’ll recall Tikopia among his examples of a society that achieved a sustainable approach to its environment.
In his work “We, the Tikopia,” Firth does indeed make the claim that Tikopians lacked a word for what we would consider ownership, instead using the same word, “tau,” to signify any kind of connection — between people and other people, between people and objects, etc.
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“And what does it matter to you by what way you descend to Hades? All roads are equal. But, if you want to hear the truth, the one that a tyrant sends you along is shorter. No tyrant ever too…How to Be a Stoic
I didn’t realise that Kate Beckinsale was the daughter of Richard Beckinsale – Are they any celeb connections…EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
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