Between 2001 and 2021, under four U.S. presidents, the United States spent approximately $2.3 trillion, with 2,459 American military fatalities and up to 360,000 estimated Afghan civilian deaths.
After the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, approximately $7.12 billion worth of military equipment was left behind, according to a 2022 Department of Defense report. This equipment, transferred to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) from 2005 to 2021, included:
Weapons: Over 300,000 of 427,300 weapons, including rifles like M4s and M16s.
Vehicles: More than 40,000 of 96,000 military vehicles, including 12,000 Humvees and 1,000 armored vehicles.
Aircraft: 78 aircraft, valued at $923.3 million, left at Hamid Karzai International Airport, all demilitarized and rendered inoperable.
Munitions: 9,524 air-to-ground munitions worth $6.54 million, mostly non-precision.
Communications and Specialized Equipment: Nearly all communications gear (e.g., radios, encryption devices) and 42,000 pieces of night vision, surveillance, biometric, and positioning equipment.
The total equipment provided to the ANDSF was valued at $18.6 billion, with the $7.12 billion figure representing what remained after the withdrawal. Much of this equipment is now under Taliban control, though its operational capability is limited due to the need for specialized maintenance and technical expertise.
The United States has provided at least $93.41 billion in total aid to Afghanistan since 2001. This includes:
Military Aid (2001–2020): Approximately $72.7 billion (in current dollars), primarily through the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund ($71.7 billion) and other programs like International Military Education and Training, Foreign Military Financing, and Peacekeeping Operations ($1 billion combined).
Humanitarian and Reconstruction Aid (2001–2025): Around $20.71 billion, including $3 billion in humanitarian and development aid post-2021 and $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan assets transferred to the Afghan Fund in 2022. Pre-2021 reconstruction and humanitarian aid (e.g., $174 million in 2001 and $300 million pledged in 2002) adds to this, though exact figures for the full period are less clear.
And yet, I've seen people on here criticize the withdrawal. Like, how much longer did you wanna stay, dawg? Another 20 years so the proxy we set up would last another week?
We have 10,000 troops permanently stationed in the UK. Another 12,000 permanently stationed in Italy. Another 25,000 permanently stationed in Korea. 35,000 permanently stationed in Germany. 52,000 permanently stationed in Japan.
We should have established a similar, permanent presence in Afghanistan. Come back to me in 80 years, after their economy looks like South Korea's, and we can start to discuss a drawdown.
On the one hand, props for putting a number to it, on the other, Jesus Fucking Christ.
You realize that all the countries' governments you listed have at least consented to us being there, whereas Afghanistan specifically said they wanted us gone?
Just going full Genghis Khan over here. As if the brazen conquest wasn't bad enough, you want to condemn our grandkids to the continued subjugation of their grandkids. Absolutely insane.
Ehhh kinda. For many of those countries, the troops were a leftover of occupation, it was a choice but kind of a forced one, you don't want to upset your overlords.
In the EU, with the increased independence as the organization grew, calls to send the American troops home became stronger and stronger.
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The Abandon Harris movement was huge in the Biden sphere. They got a large amount of people to not vote for Harris because she refused to fulfill their demands of stopping the genocide in Gaza.
And instead of doing a pity regret dance they now use their proven determination to threaten Trump to cave to their demand or face electorale backlash for it.
The people who might opt to not vote for Biden or Harris aren't people who would have voted for trump in the first place, so I don't see them having a lot of leverage.
I can't tell you what code to follow, but the whole thing reeks of people who didn't get the memo that trump doesn't need them to bleed votes from the Dems anymore.
They told voters to abandon Biden and Harris because of their genocide.They didn't tell peoppe to vote for Trump, because Trump refused to be anti-genocide as well.
Abandon Harris subsequently endorsed Jill Stein, the most popular anti-genocide candidate.
The whole thing sends an extremely clear and important message for politicians to not support war and genocide.
And then Jill Stein won, and the genocide stopped, right?
Like I said, I don't question the intention or code of ethics for the people involved, but there's a reason they and people like them get a lot of support from the RNC. They aren't voters who are realistically going to vote Republican, so the best they can do is be diverted to a spoiler candidate.
Thinking that that translates to political leverage against the Republicans is just naive though. They didn't vote for them in the first place, so it's an empty threat.
No because there's too many genocide supporters. At least Democrats learnt that there are people who unlike Democrat and Republican voters have morals and will not tolerate genocide no matter how hard they fearmonger.
Thinking that that translates to political leverage against the Republicans is just naive though.
Because Republicans were not the one doing the genocide at that time, whereas Democrats were. Now they Abandon Harris applies consistent morals and use their leverage to oppose Trump.
They didn’t vote for them in the first place, so it’s an empty threat.
Surprisingly Red MAGA is providing a lot more opposition to the Iran invasion the Blue MAGA ever has. I was almost shocked to find out that the Democratic party is a bigger cult than Republicans. This momentum can certainly be translated into a campaign opposing Trump.
It took a massive propaganda campaign, likely including their, efforts, to get Trump elected. If they were to dedicate resources to actually trying to help make the world a better place, it could assist in achieving his removal and prosecution.
Single-issue voters suddenly started caring about a genocide that's been going on for nearly 80 years that they previously didn't give two shits about (because of right-wing influence campaigns and bourgeoisie-owned media). They decided that the best course of action was to engage in purely performative, pseudo-political wankery that was only ever going to result in enabling fascists, as was easily seen in all extant historical election data from FPTP systems, so that they could pretend that they were doing something meaningful and stoke their egos by claiming that they had anything resembling moral high-ground.
Sorry, the world isn't black and white. It takes consistent, strategic engagement to effect positive change and these people chose instead to inflict greater suffering on humanity and pat themselves on the back for a job well done, while also doing fuck all in the way of direct action or attempting anything to meaningfully improve the human condition.
Oh! And to add to that, I'm regularly seeing the same people deriding anyone engaging in non-violent action as "shitlibs", specifically as it is not involving violence, while still doing absolutely nothing but be up themselves on the Internet. Want violence? Stop being a coward and do it yourself, rather than trying to pressure people into it on the online or engaging in the amoral religion that is accelerationism.
Both the genocidal neolibs and the egocentric protest non-voters are significant contributors in this. And before you try saying that I'm going easy on the nazis in order to deflect, no. Just stop with the dishonesty.
Holy shit, the post title is damn near unintelligible. After reading it over a few times, I'm pretty sure this is what the title is trying to say:
"The Abandon Harris movement threatens to launch a massive campaign against Trump, as they did against Harris, if he joins Israel's war of aggression against Iran."
ROME, June 17. /TASS/. Israel attacked Iran to help US interests in the Middle East as it loses its grip on global power amid the shift to multipolarity, former Italian envoy to Tehran and Beijing Alberto Bradanini said.
In his opinion, Israel's aggression, carried out under the pretext that Iran will soon have an atomic bomb, is actually aimed at bringing this energy-rich country to heel.
"The United States, though approaching its sunset, is still an empire, waging imperial wars in Europe against Russia through Ukraine, which is paying a huge price. The task of fighting Iran, which refuses to bend to America’s will, has been assigned to Israel, whose interests in this case coincide with its own colonial interests in relation to the lands of the Palestinians, as well as Lebanon and Syria," Bradanini told TASS in an interview.
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When the Iranians targeted the Weizmann Institute early Sunday morning, they destroyed labs that will have to be rebuilt from scratch and set back research by many years
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"It felt like we were in a war zone," he recalls. "You can't step on the floor. Everything is full of broken glass. It was unbelievable. In the vicinity of my lab, three floors had collapsed. There was no trace of the lab. It's incomprehensible."
That's a daily life for Palestinians if they get to live at all.
The Department of Defense is spending billions modernizing the IT systems it uses for everything from health care and human capital needs to logistics and contracting.
Spanish authorities say the massive power outage in April across Spain and Portugal was due to technical and planning errors that led to a cascade of failures in the grid.
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Oscar winner accuses political leadership of ‘incompetence’ and ‘destructive decision-making’ in handling of anti-ICE protests and wildfires earlier this year
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Six hours after Israel’s air strikes in Iran last Friday, farmers in Iraq could have looked up and seen Iranian drones traveling west: more than 100 of them flew on a 1,700-kilometer journey to Israel, with their propellers buzzing like Weedwackers.
Among them was the Shahed-136. Composed mostly of foam and plywood, each Shahed-136 drone is 3.5 meters long and has a 2.5-meter wingspan and a 40- to 50-kilogram warhead at its nose. The drone’s “brain,” a sensor the size of a cough drop, measures every movement while a credit-card-sized GPS onboard listens for microwave chirps from navigation satellites. The Shahed’s route (its waypoints in latitude, longitude and altitude) is uploaded before a booster rocket fires it into the sky. And it is loud: its 50-horsepower motor is slightly more potent than that of a 1960s Volkswagen Beetle and would be as noisy as a lawn mower or a moped at full throttle—now multiplied by 100 in what military strategists sometimes refer to as a rudimentary swarm.
Iran’s recent launch of drones at Israel—or Russia’s use of them against Ukraine, where Shahed drones are nicknamed “flying mopeds”—the swarm’s power is in its numbers. One missile with a similar range can cost upward of $1 million, but a Shahed can be knocked together for $20,000 to $50,000. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fires them from portable rails or from racks on trucks, and the small pulse rocket on the bottom of each drone slams it to cruise speed before falling off. The Center for Strategic and International Studies describes such drone salvos as tools “used as much to saturate air defenses as they are to attack targets, cluttering radar screens and forcing command centers to make decisions about where to fire their more capable surface-to-air missiles,” exactly the situation Israel faced.
Last Friday, as the more than 100 Iranian drones flocked toward Tel Aviv and were shot down by fighter jets, Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system and a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Mediterranean, they couldn’t adjust their course based on what was happening on the battlefield.
The Shahed, which means “Witness” in Persian, is generally a “fire and forget” drone: it cannot transmit information back or receive updated trajectories (though it is often modeled in different ways, and some Shahed drones used by Russia have reportedly had communication equipment). Rather the swarmlike power of such attacks is based in their cost: in the one late last week, the IRGC could afford to fire drones in a wave so dense that fighter pilots, radar operators and Iron Dome crews had to sort through a moving cloud of identical radar blips.
Iranian Shahed drones, Ukrainian quadcopters and the U.S.’s Golden Horde program reveal three paths to massed autonomy, and each rewrites the rules of air defense
Max mara sotto accusa: sciopero delle lavoratrici il 22 e 23 maggio: “Ci chiamano grasse.” Nel cuore del lusso italiano si nasconde una contraddizione inquietante. Mentre Max Mara è celebrata per la sua eleganza senza tempo e i cappotti impeccabili, le lavoratrici dietro al marchio, perlopiù donne, rompono il silenzio denunciando una realtà dura: regole rigide, esaurimento fisico, salari rubati e promozioni bloccate.
L’ultima protesta arriva dallo stabilimento di San Maurizio a Reggio Emilia, dove 220 lavoratrici hanno scioperato con il supporto del sindacato Filctem-CGIL Le loro richieste? La fine di “condizioni di lavoro inaccettabili” che, a loro dire, appartengono agli anni ‘80, non all’Italia di oggi.
Le lavoratrici di Max Mara: “Ci chiamavano grasse. Contavano le pause bagno”
All’interno della fabbrica, le dipendenti descrivono un ambiente disumanizzante:
Body-shaming: “Ci chiamavano vacche da mungere. Ci dicevano che eravamo troppo grasse, suggerendoci persino esercizi per dimagrire.” Salari da sfruttamento: “Siamo pagate a cottimo, come macchine su una catena di montaggio.” Controllo e umiliazione: “Contano le pause bagno, nonostante siamo donne con il ciclo.” Erica Morelli, segretaria generale di Filctem-CGIL Reggio Emilia, ha condannato l’immobilismo dell’azienda: “Max Mara ha costruito un muro. Questo sciopero è la nostra ultima risorsa per ottenere rispetto.”
Marco Grimaldi, vicecapogruppo di AVS alla Camera, è intervenuto sulla vicenda presentando un’interrogazione parlamentare: “Il colosso Max Mara non applica nemmeno il contratto collettivo nazionale del tessile (CCNL), né offre alcuna trasparenza su emissioni e tutela climatica.”
Moda di lusso, realtà da sweatshop
Non si tratta di un caso isolato. Max Mara si aggiunge a una lunga lista di marchi della moda segnati da abusi lavorativi. Indagini hanno rivelato l’esistenza di laboratori in subappalto — le cosiddette “fabbriche dormitorio” vicino a Milano e Bergamo — dove lavoratori cinesi cuciono borse di lusso a 2€/ora. Le stesse borse vengono poi vendute a 1.800–3.000€.
Facciamo due conti:
• Costo di produzione per borsa: 40–90€
• Prezzo al dettaglio: fino al 3.000% di ricarico
• Quota del lavoratore: meno dell’1% del prezzo finale
In breve, i colossi del lusso fanno affari sulla pelle delle persone e del pianeta.
La moda genera il 5% del PIL italiano, ma si basa su un sistema di schiavitù moderna. Questo è inaccettabile.
Considerazioni finali: la verità scomoda del capitalismo
Max Mara sotto accusa rivela il volto scomodo del lusso. L’industria della moda è lo specchio del capitalismo: glamour in superficie, sfruttamento dietro le quinte. Infatti, dietro la patina del lusso si nasconde un sistema fondato sulla compressione del lavoro per massimizzare i profitti. Eppure, come affermano i sindacati, aumentare il compenso di appena 1–5€ per capo potrebbe cambiare radicalmente la vita dei lavoratori.
Le testimonianze delle lavoratrici Max Mara rivelano quanto sia marcio l’intero sistema economico. Ma può davvero l’industria della moda continuare a esistere umiliando proprio chi la sostiene?
In definitiva, si possono mettere cerotti — soluzioni che sembrano funzionare — con la mediazione di sindacati, forze dell’ordine o altri attori. Ma finché non si affronterà la causa profonda ( cioè il sistema economico stesso), nulla cambierà davvero.
Se vuoi altri approfondimenti su moda, sostenibilità e cultura, trovi tutto sul blog indipendente suite123:
“Il governo non resti in silenzio. È bufera dopo lo sciopero indetto nei giorni scorsi alla Manifattura San Maurizio dalla Filctem Cgil Avs e M5s chiedono al ministro Calderone un’informativa urgente in merito ai “gravi episodi”
Body-shaming: “Ci chiamavano vacche da mungere. Ci dicevano che eravamo troppo grasse, suggerendoci persino esercizi per dimagrire.” Salari da sfruttamento: “Siamo pagate a cottimo, come macchine su una catena di montaggio.” Controllo e umiliazione: “Contano le pause bagno, nonostante siamo donne con il ciclo.” Erica Morelli, segretaria generale di Filctem-CGIL Reggio Emilia, ha condannato l’immobilismo dell’azienda: “Max Mara ha costruito un muro. Questo sciopero è la nostra ultima risorsa per ottenere rispetto.”
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Il Grand Tour delle Marche fa tappa a Castelraimondo (MC) per l’Infiorata del Corpus Domini, evento ormai consolidato nel circuito promosso da Tipicità ed ANCI Marche. Dal 19 al 22 giugno, la città si trasforma per la 33esima edizione della manifestazione, dedicata quest’anno al tema del “Giubileo”. Un appuntamento profondamente radicato nella devozione popolare, reso possibile dalla partecipazione corale della comunità e di centinaia di volontari.
Ricco il programma di eventi collaterali. Si parte giovedì 19 giugno alle 20:30 in Piazza Dante con il tradizionale taglio dei fiori. Alle 21:00 doppio appuntamento: in Largo Rotabella, AIDO-AVIS-ADMO incontrano i giovani con musica live, mentre in Piazza Dante il Gruppo Folkloristico propone il 1° Festival dei Giovani.
Il clou è tra venerdì 20 e sabato 21: Corso Italia diventa un cantiere creativo dove, nel corso della notte, nascono ventuno tappeti floreali a tema religioso, una fiabesca galleria d’arte a cielo aperto. In contemporanea, alle 21:15 in Piazza della Repubblica, il Corpo Bandistico “Ugo Bottacchiari” si esibirà nel “Concerto per l’Infiorata”, diretto da Thierry Deleruelle.
Sabato sera, alle 21:00 in Piazza della Repubblica, Cesare Bocci porta in scena “Lucio Battisti Emozioni…!”. Alle 22:00 in Piazza Dante, omaggio agli 883 con lo show “883 Volte Max”.
Domenica 22, dalle 10:00 alle 13:00 in Piazza della Repubblica, “Laboratorio Infiorata” a cura degli Scout di Camerino. Alle 17:30, Santa Messa nella Chiesa della Sacra Famiglia e Solenne Processione del Corpus Domini. Gran finale alle 21:00 al Campo sportivo comunale con il “Premio Ravera” e l’estrazione della lotteria.
Durante i quattro giorni si segnalano anche la “Mostra di modellismo statico e ferroviario” alla primaria E. De Amicis e “Fantasia di colori e argilla”, mostra di pittura e ceramica in Piazza della Repubblica.
L’Infiorata è organizzata dalla Pro Loco con il Comitato “Infiorata Corpus Domini” e l’Amministrazione comunale.
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This is my blog about my experience at the first Fort Walton Beach, Florida (FWB) No Kings Day celebration. I heard about it from my dad, who mentioned going out there on a Saturday just to see if anyone showed up. I was surprised by the turnout, roughly 200 people showed up in this deep red area, and it was fun. I assume it’s how people feel attending concerts.
By the way, I’m not sure whether to call it a celebration, protest, or demonstration.
Preface: I didn’t prepare much. I brought a folding stool, a Palestinian flag, a painter's mask, and shooter earmuffs. I showed up over an hour late. Luckily, there were people handing out water and signs. Of course, the cops were present. I’ll link the only news coverage on the FWB event to provide more context. I wasn’t interviewed. FWB News Coverage
Part 1: The Assembly in the Park
When I arrived at the park where the celebration started, I recorded someone who looked like local PD, just in case they were aggressive (they weren’t, and nothing came of it). As I listened to the organizers give their instructions, I set up my protest attire by pulling out my Palestinian flag, still in its wrapping. I zip-tied one end to my backpack so I could grab another corner to hold it up like an ad-hoc flagstaff, allowing the flag to hang next to me. I never put on the painter's mask.
When I displayed the flag, another attendee with a flag complimented us on our willingness to be there (of course, I was still overwhelmed and excited to be in public).
As the crowd gathered, I walked around looking at kiosks, people, and signs. Among the more interesting attendees was a small group of Trump supporters, about five people (the reporter said one, but I can confirm two since I saw two holding the same flag), a topless lady with googly eyes over her nipples, and some people holding the trans flag. I visited a kiosk that was handing out "No Kings" signs (about 1' by 2', painted on one side) and asked if he had a trash can, giving him a plastic coat hanger. The first thing I did with the "No Kings" sign was place it next to the Trump supporters' sign that read "Trump is Your King" (approximation) and then moved away, telling those who saw, "You have to have fun at these events." I took a few pictures and videos of the event to read the signs after the celebration was over. Yes, I unintentionally got the topless lady in frame but didn’t get a clear picture of the googly eyes.
Before the march started, I saw an older white man holding a Trump flag. I approached him, wearing my Palestinian flag, and commented, "It must suck to have your political opinion in a crowd that disagrees with you." The older gentleman muttered and walked away to help someone who dropped something. As he did that, I thanked him for looking out for the protesters. I did this to signal to him that he’s not the only one with a hated and unpopular position. Maybe he will consider that his devotion to Trump is comparable to my stance on Palestine.
Part 2: The March (The Interesting Part)
I will preface this by saying that my car said it was 91°F (32.8°C) with 70% humidity and clear skies, so I can blame how I acted and why I waited to write this blog on that.
I came alone to the celebration, making it easy to find a spot next to people. The route of the demonstration was along the sidewalks on Highway 98 (I can affirm this is a major part of the county because it’s the primary way to move east-west).
The first people I walked with asked about my flag, thinking it was a Jordanian flag. I blurted out that it was Palestinian and mentioned that there is a Palestinian state in Jordan that was attacked by Israel in the '70s. As I walked with them, car drivers were handing out bottles of water, and some had decorated their cars with Trump paraphernalia.
Later on, I saw a man in his 30s holding the same Trump flag participating in the march. I audibly muttered, "I can be a troll," and got in front of him to hide his flag with the flag of true heroes who died saving babies from rubble—Palestine. The Trump supporter calmly approached me to talk about Palestine, claiming he had intel on the conflict and that I could ask him any questions. I affirmed that I had no questions. I pointed out that conversations about the Israeli genocide often lead straight to Hamas, and I never commented on it. The points I remember making are that baby rape is bad and that Israel is wrong for rounding up children and abusing them in concentration camps (in response to him saying Palestine or Hamas rapes babies), and that Israel is wrong for intentionally shooting babies. I mentioned that I’m an atheist but can stand with Palestinian Christians, Jews, and Muslims being slaughtered by Israel. I asked how I felt about a new government in Palestine, and I told him I’d have to research it, but it would be like here if Democrats or Republicans came into power—things would still suck; they’re "two flavors of shit," and Trump works for oligarchs. Eventually, he backed off to end the conversation.
I fell behind because my backpack fell apart, and other protesters helped me collect my stuff. People assured me that I should take my portable stool with me for the rest of the march. The cops told me to pick it up, so I blamed the heat for leaving it behind and picked it up. This put me next to an awesome older lady carrying her oxygen concentrator and her sign through the march. She commented on the topless lady with googly eyes as something indecent and objectionable. In my honesty, I said, "I found it hilarious." Later, she said, "That is gay," and I sat there confused. She later confirmed that was about Valimont, the Democrat who ran against Matt Gaetz, known for a sex trafficking scandal and who lost.
As we approached the crosswalk, the police put their vehicle in the intersection so we could cross. As I crossed, I thanked the cop for their service, which made them pause mid-order. I heard protesters behind me also thank the police. Of course, this is controversial, but I thanked the cops to make them more sympathetic to left-wing movements so they wouldn’t throw tear gas at a later protest. I was at a BLM protest in Beavercreek, Ohio, where we got gassed, and they pulled out shields and batons, surrounding us. I wouldn’t mind getting more leeway for leftist movements from the police.
I found someone wearing a red cross and said, "Always good to see first aid" (of course, I meant first responders). The awesome lady went as far as she could but complained about the heat. I offered her my stool and made sure she was okay. Other protesters and I fanned her down using our signs to provide shade. She asked one of the policemen to escort her across the highway to her car. Later, I heard there was a medical emergency and even saw an ambulance on the highway. I continued with the protest because I believe the people around are capable of helping.
I had fun with hecklers, like the teens making sounds, and I asked them for their best goat sounds. . Another heckler shouted, "Viva la Mexico!" and I repeated, "Viva la Mexico!" because "Viva la Mexico" is a great phrase to live by. Then I was told not to engage with hecklers.
Someone told me to go back to Palestine, and I reaffirmed, "I still stand with Palestine."
The Trump supporter was getting pushback from people who didn’t want him there. I stated my position that we can be inclusive and that "he's fine." When he mentioned our conversation, I told everyone that I told him, "I oppose the Israeli genocide."
Part 3: Rally and Returning to My Car
When we finished the loop, there was a rally by the local Democrat running for office. I stood to show off the Palestinian flag (as much as the heat sucks, Palestinians have it worse) and called on my current Republican House representative to protect Medicare and Medicaid, following the rally's instructions before leaving. Someone from Food Not Bombs approached me during the rally to fix my flag so it wasn’t in my hat. I assured them that I was experimenting with different placements and that they could use their discretion; that’s why the flag was like a cape. I made sure the Palestinian flag was in the shot of any camera I saw.
Luckily, I saw that awesome lady one last time, and she confirmed she was alright. I told her I was worried about her since I heard there was a medical emergency.
The heat really started to get to me, and I forgot where I parked my car (it’s like trying to find where you parked at Walmart but you’re more exhausted). I rested for a minute before placing my sign next to a chain-link fence next to the highway and returned to my car.
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pazzia topastica, pensando e facendo tomi nella mia marciscenza
Forse sarà semplicemente il caldo, o forse sarà più probabilmente il fatto che la mia relativa vecchiaia terribilmente e costantemente avanzante mi rende a poco a poco sempre più insofferente nei confronti dell’esistenza mia stessa già di per sé pesante oltre ogni accettabile grado, ma… ultimi e ultimissimi giorni, e sto davvero impazzendo e marcendo più del solito. Non ancora al punto da decompormi per davvero, e di questo ovviamente un po’ me ne dispiaccio, ma comunque ho l’acqua stagnante nella testa, che è un po’ ops. 💧
Tra tutto, i tomi, in questo inizio settimana che sa come al solito anche da weekend lungo a causa del mio ineluttabile stato di disoccupazione, mi stanno dando in particolar modo alla testa. I fottuti tomi! Eh si, purtroppo, perché l’altra giornata [è ruotata] esclusivamente [attorno al] sito [dei] tomi, oggi [sono accadute e/o mi sono concessa] solo cose di margine coi tomi — che magari tangono o forse non c’entrano con il principio cardine di questa mia tomomania; tra cui il semplicemente mettermi sul lettino con qualche tomo cartaceo in mano per più tempo del solito, sperando o che arrivi la notte o che il mio temporaneo gusto del marcire passi — e invece, nel mezzo… 🐸
Ero talmente fuori di testa — evidentemente molto più di oggi — quando ieri tra mattina e pomeriggio mi è venuta questa idea, priva di alcun senso pratico, davvero soltanto perché il mio cervello ha sul momento pensato che la cosa facesse ridere… e ora che tale stronzata esiste davvero non mi capacito di come io abbia mai potuto pensare qualcosa del genere. Tra il mio classico perdere tempo e le altre cose che ho fatto, ieri ho dato solo l’idea all’LLM, mi sono fatta dare la scaletta, e gli ho fatto scrivere i primi 3 capitoli; stamattina invece gli ho fatto generare il resto, ho giusto sistemato gli heading e rimosso le emoji a caso che all’IA piace inserire, e ne è dunque uscito fuori un PDF di quasi 100 pagine in formato ISO B5: “Un Tomo sui Tomi“. Non l’ho ovviamente letto affatto, e mai lo farò, era giusto per generare spazzatura. 😈
Quindi boh, questo è tutto. La mia anima è insomma al momento presa interamente in ostaggio da ciò che i tomi rappresentano, la mia mente è stata completamente divorata dalla parola tomo (o meglio, dal lemma tomo, per rimanere sulla stessa lunghezza d’onda di disagio linguistico-esistenziale) e dai concetti ad essa associati, e le mie viscere sentono il bisogno assoluto del contatto perenne con la cellulosa. Tempo uno o due ulteriori giorni in questa condizione tragicamente psicotica, e vi giurerò di voler diventare a mia volta un tomo, un blocco rettangolare e robusto di carta e cartone, l’oggetto fisico che più accuratamente può sintetizzare la mia stessa essenza vitale in confronto al noioso default di ossa e carne. 💥
The original? Or maybe as in insulting to remix a resistance fighter song? I've heard the latter take before but that version was pretty popular in Italy too.
The Trump Organization has launched Trump Mobile and plans to release the T1, a smartphone that it says is "made in USA" at the same time that the iPhone 17 will launch. The problem is, the phone was made in China.
Marking ten years after the launch of Donald Trump's original presidential campaign, the Trump Organization has decided to launch its own mobile phone network. Dubbed Trump Mobile, it is a network that is being promoted as an All-American service," and heavily leaning on the Trump brand.
While the launch of a new mobile phone network will certainly draw an audience of Trump followers, it feels more like a cash-in on the Trump brand rather than a real attempt to take on the U.S. mobile market.
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is set to report to federal prison on Tuesday to begin serving an 11-year sentence for accepting bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt. The New Jersey Democrat has been mocked for the crimes as “Gold Bar Bob,” according to his own lawyer.
Menendez’s lawyers revealed in court papers last month that he is expected to be housed at a facility in eastern Pennsylvania that has both a medium-security prison and a minimum-security prison camp. Given the white-collar nature of his crimes, it’s likely he’ll end up in the camp.
Pleading for leniency, Menendez told a judge at his sentencing in January: “I am far from a perfect man. I have made more than my share of mistakes and bad decisions. I’ve done far more good than bad.”
Menendez has also appeared to be angling for a pardon from President Donald Trump, aligning himself with the Republican’s criticisms of the judicial system, particularly in New York City.
For some chronic illnesses. Yeah. But imagine that for life. And that’s the best you feel. It can get worse. Sometimes for long periods, you don’t know if you will get back even to the that “shitty best you feel”. And even at your best, you barely feel a fraction as good as a healthy person.
You don’t get to feel okay your birthday, or on christmas, or when you need to do something special. You just feel ill, like a bad hangover or bad flu, in perpetuity.
That’s the reality for a lot of severe chronic illnesses.
"While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE," Lander's wife, Meg Barnette, wrote on X.
A new law adds to a string of GOP-run states that have undercut direct democracy by piling on onerous new regulations and raising the threshold for signatures.
Cock.li confirmed the validity of the breach based on sample data and column structure, stating that the exposed dataset includes roughly 1,023,800 user records. The compromised fields include email addresses, timestamps of first and last webmail logins, failed login attempt data, language preferences, and serialized Roundcube user settings such as webmail signatures and interface configurations. Additionally, approximately 93,000 contact entries associated with around 10,400 users were leaked, containing names, email addresses, comments, and vCard data.
Not sure why people ever trusted a meme email provider in the first place...
Despite this exposure, Cock.li emphasizes that no passwords, email message contents, or IP addresses were included in the breach. Passwords were stored in a separate sessions table, which was not among the leaked assets. The breach only affects users who accessed their accounts via Roundcube’s webmail interface at any point between 2016 and the feature’s deprecation earlier this month. Cock.li administrators sent targeted notifications to users with contact data included in the leak.
After Israel’s surprise drone attack on Iranian nuclear targets, many are concerned that China could be preparing for something similar in the United States.
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geneva_convenience
in reply to rodneyck • • •OBJECTION!
in reply to rodneyck • • •Rivalarrival
in reply to OBJECTION! • • •We have 10,000 troops permanently stationed in the UK. Another 12,000 permanently stationed in Italy. Another 25,000 permanently stationed in Korea. 35,000 permanently stationed in Germany. 52,000 permanently stationed in Japan.
We should have established a similar, permanent presence in Afghanistan. Come back to me in 80 years, after their economy looks like South Korea's, and we can start to discuss a drawdown.
OBJECTION!
in reply to Rivalarrival • • •On the one hand, props for putting a number to it, on the other, Jesus Fucking Christ.
You realize that all the countries' governments you listed have at least consented to us being there, whereas Afghanistan specifically said they wanted us gone?
Just going full Genghis Khan over here. As if the brazen conquest wasn't bad enough, you want to condemn our grandkids to the continued subjugation of their grandkids. Absolutely insane.
Damage
in reply to OBJECTION! • • •Ehhh kinda. For many of those countries, the troops were a leftover of occupation, it was a choice but kind of a forced one, you don't want to upset your overlords.
In the EU, with the increased independence as the organization grew, calls to send the American troops home became stronger and stronger.