https://www.europesays.com/1703638/ Poland recalls ambassador to Hungary over fugitive asylum case #Ambassador #hír #hungary #Magyarország #News #poland

Chris Murphy: Remember what this is all about: Trump wants Democrats to agree to raise the debt ceiling so he can pass his massive corporate and billionaire tax cut without a problem.

Shorter version: tax cuts for billionaires or the government shuts down for Christmas

(He evidently posted this on the musky place; I saw a graphic of it, and wanted to share what he said, so just retyped it rather than appropriate the image)

Images caught on Google Maps give police big clue in Spanish murder case
A man went missing in Spain last year. Now, Google Maps Street View images have unlocked a part of the investigation into his murder.
#investigation #murder #clue #Spain #Trending #World #GoogleMaps #googlemapscrime
https://globalnews.ca/news/10928097/google-maps-murder-case-spain/

¡Hola! Nos quitamos el abrigo y nos ponemos cómodos en este rinconcito.
Somos un blog sobre carnaval de Cádiz que lleva en línea desde 2006. Nuestro objetivo es difundir la fiesta dándole todo al protagonismo a las coplas. Tenemos recopiladas más de dos mil letras con sus vídeos y muchísimas horas de diferentes pódcast que grabamos desde 2007.
Sabemos (porque @aperalesf es un jartible mastodóntico) que aún no hay mucha presencia canravalera en el fediverso, pero hay que tomar decisiones.
Esta cuenta se dedicará principalmente a redifundir de manera automática los contenidos que publiquemos en el blog, algo que en el páharo dejó de tener sentido hace años.
Eso no quita que de vez en cuando nos dejaremos caer para demostrar que somos personas. ¡Encantados de empezar esta nueva aventurilla!

#Presentación #CarnavalDeCádiz #Blog #Pódcast #CarnavalDeCádiz2025 #COAC2025 #Carnaval2025 #PódcastCarnaval

https://www.europesays.com/1703484/ Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes He Has No Clue How to Govern. Musk is trying to backtrack on his previous demands to shut down the government. #Politics #U.S.Politics #UnitedStates

New York has a hotline for scared CEOs and the cops are breaking the Amazon strike, in case you're wondering what New York City thinks of the working class.

The Norwegian Order of Freemasons now accepts #transgender men as members. Since the order recognizes the legal gender of people, transitioning trans women who became members presenting as men will have to leave. The order also accepts gay men.

https://www.blikk.no/den-norske-frimurerorden-trans-transmann/transmenn-kan-bli-frimurere/259729

#lgbtq

Robert Smith Is Hoarding “Loads” of iPods, Doesn’t “Stream Music on Principle”

"They’ve all got stuff on them which suits my mood"

https://consequence.net/2024/12/robert-smith-ipod-doesnt-stream/

#Music #PhysicalMedia #iPod

Danish tree niss 2

https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3316860498531582485

#blip #blipfoto #photography #gimp #rawtherapee #niss #Denmark #xmas #advent #decoration

594 #Easy #ClimateSolutions #BalconySolar

"‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off"
by Stephen Burgen for The Guardian [Dec 18, 2024]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/18/if-a-million-germans-have-them-there-must-be-something-in-it-how-balcony-solar-is-taking-off

Quotes:
"Balcony solar panels can save 30% on a typical household’s electricity bill and, with vertical surface area in cities larger than roof space, the appeal is clear"

"They are easy to install, and knock chunks off electricity bills. It may not be Romeo and Juliet, but Spain’s balcony scene is heating up as the country embraces what has hitherto been a mainly German love affair with DIY plug-in solar panels."

"Manufacturers say that installing a couple of 300-watt panels will give a saving of up to 30% on a typical household’s electricity bill. With an outlay of €400-800 and with no installation cost, the panels could pay for themselves within six years."

"With solar balconies, no such consent is required unless the facade is listed as of historic interest or there is a specific prohibition from the residents’ association or the local authority. Furthermore, as long as the installation does not exceed 800 watts it doesn’t require certification, which can cost from €100 to €400, depending on the area."

"“The beauty of the solar balconies is they are flexible, cheap and plug straight into the domestic network via a converter, so you don’t have to pay for the installation,” says Santiago Vernetta, CEO of Tornasol Energy, one of Spain’s main suppliers."

"Raquel Paule, director of the Madrid-based Fundación Renovables, says../\..“Balcony power is another piece in the puzzle,” she says. “They are another step towards using the built environment to generate electricity.”

"Michael Schmela, director of market intelligence at SolarPower Europe: “What’s special about balcony power is it’s so versatile and you can install it as part of the building.
“This is the next step. The technology is there but the regulations and architects have to embrace it. There are so many solutions and balcony solar is the latest trend.”

"“Cities need to become more self-sufficient by generating more,” she says. “Energy transition involves a change from cities depending on a centralised system with big companies supplying electricity to a more widely distributed, more democratic and more participative model, and this is what the energy companies are scared of.”
“Big energy companies should be pushing for renewables because they’ve played a big part in getting us into this situation,” she says. “Instead of creating obstacles they should be facilitators by giving everyone access to the grid that they control.”

"Although balcony power is only a fraction of its solar energy capacity, Germany remains far and away the European leader in solar installation. It has set a target of sourcing 80% of electricity from renewables by 2030. The EU target is 42% , which Schmela believes will be achieved."

“If 1.5 million Germans have bought solar balcony kits there must be something in it,” he [Vernetta} says."

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown

SOMEONE SHOW ELON A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Ob ein Weihnachtsmenü für Obdachlose oder Supermarktwaren für mehr als eine halbe Million Euro: Spenden sind wichtig, es bräuchte aber etwas anderes. https://taz.de/!6052745

Kernaussage der Antwort #Linder |s an #Musk : Knapp daneben, Elon.

#FDP #AfD

Elon Musk Looks to Shake Up the U.K.

https://politicalwire.com/2024/12/20/elon-musk-looks-to-shake-up-the-u-k/

Gary observes that non-FOSS people don’t understand or care about licences. Chris admits that he too is somewhat clueless in this area so we try to explain the basics, and then get to the bottom of why “normal” people aren’t interested.

https://linuxafterdark.net/linux-after-dark-episode-85/

#linux #podcast #opensource #licensing

#Rewilding #Amazon #Rainforest #Ecuador

A climb, bees and much to learn... in the canopy.

"Our plan to reconnect the giants of the Amazon" [21:08 min]
by Mossy Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA4iNGYkuDA

Quote by ME:
"Dec 18, 2024
In this video we're heading 30 metres above the rainforest floor into the canopy, the most biodiverse yet least explored part of the Amazon rainforest.
🦜To support our work you can become a member here: -> mossy.earth <-

🔎 ABOUT THIS PROJECT
===============================
Back in August 2023 we purchased 194ha of land next to the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador, comprised of a mix of habitats from untouched rainforest to abandoned cattle pastures. Since then we have purchased an additional 15ha attached to our land, taking the total up to 209ha, and we've been working towards numerous ways to improve the habitat quality and monitor its health on our land and beyond ever since.
This video covers our efforts to set up ambient biodiversity monitoring systems using camera traps and bioacoustics, as well as our plan to test and develop canopy bridges to combat the effects of habitat fragmentation for arboreal animals
Read more about this project here: -> mossy.earth/projects/yasuni-rainforest <-

Time stamps
0:00 Intro
0:56 The first climb
5:00 Camera traps in the canopy
8:11 Sentinel trees
10:22 Bioacoustics
13:00 Camera trap results
15:45 Canopy bridges to combat fragmentation

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown

Donald Trump’s team has told European officials that the incoming US president will demand Nato member states increase defence spending to 5% of GDP, but plans to continue supplying military aid to Ukraine, per FT

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Look who still gets paid even if the U.S. government shuts down. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/why-do-politicians-and-judges-get-paid-during-a-government-shutdown

The United States is on the cusp of banning TikTok. Will it actually happen, and does it even make sense to do?

On #SystemCrash, @brianmerchant and I dug into those questions, then turned our focus to Amazon and some stories from the UK.

Full ep: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/episodes/16312447-the-looming-specter-of-the-tiktok-ban

#tech #tiktok #tiktokban #politics #socialmedia

#USpolitics #WomensRights #RapeClubPrison

Just stop this. They are not worthy to eran a living [that way]

""Rape Club" Prison in California: U.S. Gov't to Pay Record $116M to 103 Women Who Sued over Abuse" [12:25 min]
by Democracy Now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq7Cz9zcqk8

Quotes by DN!:
"Dec 19, 2024
"When you're in prison, the retaliation starts. … I don't think my judge sentenced me to go through this." The U.S. government has agreed to pay a record-breaking amount of nearly $116 million to settle lawsuits brought by 103 people who survived sexual abuse and assault at a federal women's prison in California. The facility, FCI Dublin, was shuttered earlier this year. Its former warden is now himself imprisoned after being convicted of sexually abusing incarcerated people under his care. Aimee Chavira, who was formerly incarcerated at FCI Dublin and is part of the class-action sexual abuse lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons, says the settlement, while welcomed, "doesn't change anything. No amount of money will change what was done to us and what did happen." Community organizer Courtney Hanson helped advocate for survivors with the Dublin Prison Solidarity Coalition. She calls for "policy changes to ensure that this type of staff sexual abuse stops happening" in prisons across the country."

#USbeware #CapitalismIsFailingYou

nuintari's rules of networking 0x01:

You will always need two of them.

1st Corollary:

If you engineer your redundancy poorly, having two of something may reduce your reliability.

From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en

‼️I think this is very important. Please help share this information.

A #Voice_of_America investigation has found that some #African countries are deliberately establishing ties with #Russian organizations that produce Shahed drones behind the recruitment program.

▪️ Recruitment under false pretences

The website of the #Russian program #Alabuga_Start portrays a bright future for #African women in #Tatarstan, #Russia.

Great post from @neil that echos some of the same reasons we still tend to stick to DVDs over streaming services. Add to his excellent list of reasons:

• commercial-free (all the streaming & cable services seem to have advertising, despite that absence being one of cable's selling points many decades ago). I'm bombarded by enough advertising elsewhere in life and don't need any more

• can check them out for free from our local library

https://neilzone.co.uk/2021/11/do-you-still-buy-or-watch-dvds-or-blu-ray-discs-why/

@davmac's Dinit is *really* nice. Came across it when (briefly) test driving Chimera Linux where it *is* the system init. Eagerly awaiting 1.0.

As is typical of good C++ projects, there is a neat little library for working with POSIXy event loops.

#USpolitics #HealthInsurance #CEO #Comedian

"UnitedHealthcare Speech | Dr. Glaucomflecken @ Chicago Improv" [4:58 min]
by The Glaucomfleckens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7L6fougtK8

Quote by TGf:
"Dec 18, 2024
We were thrilled to wrap up our life-changing “Wife & Death” 2024 tour at the Chicago Improv last weekend. That evening in a sold-out room with fans, friends, and family it felt important to talk about some of the feelings and questions so many of us are working through these days. Regardless of how each of us chooses to process the UnitedHealthcare shooting… you, your patients, and your family deserve to have your voices heard and safely advocate for positive change. Thank you everyone for all of the support this year. We and our awesome team hope to see you in 2025!"

#USbeware
#CapitalismIsFailingYou
#AbusiveHealthcare

#FridayWisdom

"How much longer is the @EUCommission waiting to stop this illegal election interference by a social media platform?
Shut this down." — @wblau on

Keeping an eye on
pyHanko, a CLI tool for signing and stamping PDF files.
https://github.com/MatthiasValvekens/pyHanko
> This project is currently in beta, and not yet production-ready

#pyhanko #pdf #note2self