The MAGA representative is continuing her break with the Republican Party—and the president himself.
MAGA Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is still one of the few GOP members to rebuke Trump and his lies in any meaningful way.
Taylor Greene spoke freely in an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Thursday night. “The president says there’s virtually no inflation, and that grocery prices are going down,” Collins asked the Georgia representative. “Do you agree with him on that?”
“No, I go to the grocery store myself. Grocery prices remain high. Energy prices are high. My electricity bills are higher here in Washington, D.C., at my apartment, and they’re also higher at my house in Rome, Georgia, higher than they were a year ago,” MTG said. “Affordability is a problem, and I’m a mom. My kids are 22, 26, and 28. That’s the generation I worry about the most, and they’re having a very hard time.”
Wall Street Journal reports Kristi Noem arranged purchase to expand deportation flights and for personal travel
The secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem, reportedly authorized the purchase of Spirit Airlines jets before discovering the airline didn’t actually own the planes – and that the aircraft lacked engines.
The bizarre anecdote was contained in a Wall Street Journal report released on Friday, which recounted how Noem and Corey Lewandowski -- who managed Donald Trump's first winning presidential campaign -- had recently arranged to buy 10 Boeing 737 aircraft from Spirit Airlines. People familiar with the situation told the paper that the two intended to use the jets to expand deportation flights -- and for personal travel.
Those sources also claimed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials had cautioned them that buying planes would be far more expensive than simply expanding existing flight contracts.
The modern smartphone, laden with the corporate ecosystem pulsing underneath its screen, robs us of this feeling, conspires to keep us from “true” fullness. The swiping, the news cycles, the screaming, the idiocy — if anything destroys a muse, it’s this. If anything keeps you locked into a fetid loop of looking, looking, and looking once more at the train wreck, it’s this. I find it impossible to feel fullness, even in the slightest, after having spent just a bit of a day in the thralls of the algorithms.
The smartphone eradicates “space” in the mind. With that psychic loss of space, grace becomes impossible. You see the knock-on effects of this rippling out across the world politically.
Which is why these long walks of mine are so inspiring (to me), and I feel so compelled to head out on them, again and again: They are nothing if not “space generation” machines for the mind. They’re full-bodied reminders of what fullness is and how it can manifest. How close we are to it (it’s right there!!), every day, and how elusive it has become because of our digital habits, our diets of, mostly, garbage.
Falling in love with A.I. is no longer science fiction. A recent study found that one in five American adults has had an intimate encounter with a chatbot; on Reddit, r/MyBoyfriendisAI has more than 85,000 members championing human-A.I. connections, with many sharing giddy recollections of the day their chatbot proposed marriage.
How do you end up with an A.I. lover? Some turned to them during hard times in their real-world marriages, while others were working through past trauma. Though critics have sounded alarms about dangers like delusional thinking, research from M.I.T. has found that these relationships can be therapeutic, providing “always-available support” and significantly reducing loneliness.
We spoke with three people in their 40s and 50s about the wonders — and anxieties — of romance with a chatbot.
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They were tricked. Do they deserve to die because they believed a lie? I don't think so.
Human suffering is human suffering. In my experienced opinion, whether or not they brought it upon themselves through their own stupidity/ignorance/obstinacy, it is still human suffering. That is still a toll in human life measurable in mass graves, and saying they deserve to suffer, struggle, and die is sick.
Coal miners in Virginia are dying of black lung faster than their grandfathers did. Farms that feed us are collapsing because of tariffs--meaning your food is going to disappear too. Water, power, and electricity are going to disappear overnight. They are killing themselves faster than they're killing us.
Yes, because of shitbags they voted for. Many of them, they were lied to for their entire lives. If you were raised in any dogmatic belief and had to face the struggle against coming to terms with reality like I have, maybe you'd have a heart and at least give a damn about their lives. Maybe because, even if they're fools and they got what they voted for, they're human too.
Dehumanization is the first step to a purge. The same mental glitch that they have fallen victim to exists in your brain too. You are not immune to propaganda. Take it from someone who knows.
Overtaxed and unpaid air traffic controllers are resigning “every day” due to stress from the government shutdown.
“Controllers are resigning every day now because of the prolonged nature of the shutdown,” Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, told CNN.
“We hadn’t seen that before. And we’re also 400 controllers short—shorter than we were in the 2019 shutdown.”
Air traffic controllers are federal workers, which means they are part of the approximately 730,000 federal employees working without pay since the shutdown began on Oct. 1.
Alright so I'm both a physical media freak and a data hoarder, and I generally want to get into making my own torrents of very, very niche movies and TV shows. Trouble is, one BD is very flimsy and data can be even flimsier. I want to duplicate my BluRays and burn them onto other BluRay discs but I've heard that this generally makes the duplicate unreadable because of copy protection.
Is there any specific guide out there that does this or teaches it? I'm not really planning on becoming a bootlegger but a sneakernet of 50-100 disks in boxes is a hell of a lot less startup cost than LTO or even HDDs
I’ve had good success with makemkv for ripping both blu rays and dvs. I’ve not had good success making a duplicate disk though. It can be done but it’s been a very long time. I used to use handbrake in that chain but it got to be too much trouble. I resorted to ripping all my stuff, serving it up digitally, and only taking the disks out when nostalgia hit.
But ya - makemkv and handbrake used to get the job done a long time ago, you can search in that direction. Maybe there’s a newer better way.
File size doesn't matter. Both are portable and wouldn't be moved while in use. And yes, you do need a second cord to power a HDD. But they're still way Cheeper per GB, and potentially way bigger per drive than SSDs.
I have a HDD dock and 3 HDDs I use for backups every month. They work great as portable mass storage.
If you care about local data preservation and you’re storing remuxes you should probably be storing them on a nas, or really just on a raid array. This allows for error correction due to the parity stripes and everything, and provided tolerance for drive failure.
If you were really serious about it, you’d want a mirrored nas offsite, or you’d push encrypted backups to cloud storage or something. But if you care about storing data as long term as possible you absolutely should not be storing the stuff on a single ssd or external drive or anything.
Three copies (a raid mirror and a backup counts), two types of media (drive and tape), one off-site (where it won't be affected by fire, flood, tornado, earthquake).
A cloud backup gets you all but the local mirror in one go.
Also, it doesn't count as a backup until you've tested a restore and verified it works.
This doesn't make sense. You can't seed a torrent from a Blu-ray. I mean technically you could, but you'd only be able to do one per drive at a time.
And the storage density of a drive is much higher than a Blu-ray disc. You can fit far more movies on one hard drive.
Also keep in mind that burned discs have a much shorter lifespan than commercially pressed discs, like 10-30 years. Commercial pressed discs should last 100+.
I use BD to archive personal data. Then send it off site. The data is encrypted, so it can only be accessed with the correct authentication. What's wrong with that?
No idea why you would want to get precious data out of DRM-riddled physical media and then somehow devalue it again by putting it back into that format.
With regard to flimsiness, M-disc Blurays and DVDs are capable of serious long-term storage, but they are very expensive. They require an M-disc-capable burner.
Maybe look into the AVCHD format? It's a set specific rules for video files and a folder structure that allows a burned disc to be read by a conventional BluRay player.
Israel’s merciless slaughter of Palestinian civilians, which dates back decades but intensified after the Hamas attack of October 7, is remaking American politics on both the left and the right. As Kamala Harris acknowledges in her recent memoir, 107 Days, Joe Biden’s lack of empathy for Palestinians helped shatter the Democratic Party and was a constant anchor dragging down her campaign against Donald Trump. Even now, although more Democratic politicians are catching up with public opinion by criticizing Israel and eschewing AIPAC funding, left-of-center political leaders remain polarized. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer reportedly sees support for Israel as so core to his personal and political mission that he pointedly refused to endorse—or, by all available evidence, even vote for—New York City’s Democratic Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani due to Mamdani’s criticism of Israel.
The internecine fights on the left are mirrored by internal wrangling on the right, but with one crucial difference. Whereas the common labeling of leftist anti-Zionists as antisemites is usually a spurious accusation made to deflect from legitimate criticism of Israeli human rights abuses and war crimes, there is, in fact, a long history of anti-Zionism and antisemitism being linked on the right. There’s also a long history of conservatives who criticize Israel for perfectly legitimate, non-bigoted reasons—but these days, it’s the antisemitic wing of conservatism that seems to be in the ascendant.
The Heritage Foundation, the once-storied conservative think tank that spearheaded Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda, is now an epicenter for the right’s internal battle over Israel. On October 27, Tucker Carlson, who has long-standing ties with Heritage, conducted a lengthy and respectful interview with Nick Fuentes, an overt antisemite and Holocaust denier who opposes America’s alliance with Israel on both anti-Jewish and nationalist grounds. Three days later, Heritage president Kevin Roberts released a video affirming that Carlson would “always be a close friend” of the think tank, that his critics were part of a “globalist class,” and that “conservatives should feel no obligation to reflexively support any foreign government.” That last statement may seem uncontroversial, but in the context of Roberts’s other comments, and his defense of Carlson’s flirtation with virulent antisemitism, it rang alarm bells.
VPN company CyberGhost just sent Cloudflare a bogus DMCA takedown demand, claiming that our article about their last bogus copyright takedown demand, somehow violates their copyright.
I’m not sure I’d trust a VPN company that fucks up this badly.
There are a lot of sketchy VPN companies out there, and it’s sometimes tricky to tell which ones are legit, and which ones to be wary of. I would suggest that if your VPN company is running around sending totally bogus DMCA notices that’s a bad sign. But if your VPN company is sending bogus DMCA notices to take down stories about its bogus DMCA stories, well, then you really have found the worst of the worst.
Enter CyberGhost.
Almost exactly a year ago, we wrote about a bizarre copyright takedown involving CyberGhost. In that case, it had sent the takedown to Facebook because we had reposted the Daily Deal we had offered in 2016 for a CyberGhost subscription. As with all Techdirt posts, it had automatically reposted to our Facebook account.
For no clear reason, CyberGhost falsely claimed that Facebook post (but not our original post) violated its copyright (it does not). So yeah, this seemed like CyberGhost sending a copyright takedown of us running a promotion for their VPN from eight years earlier. How bizarre.
At the risk of sounding like a shill, Mullvad is the answer.
VPN company CyberGhost just sent Cloudflare a bogus DMCA takedown demand, claiming that our article about their last bogus copyright takedown demand, somehow violates their copyright. I’m not sure …
Worth noting ... the feds are coming for archival sites.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to unmask the operator of Archive.is, also known as Archive.today, a website that saves snapshots of webpages and is commonly used to bypass news paywalls.
The FBI sent a subpoena to domain registrar Tucows, seeking “subscriber information on [the] customer behind archive.today” in connection with “a federal criminal investigation being conducted by the FBI.” The subpoena tells Tucows that “your company is required to furnish this information.”
The subpoena is supposed to be secret, but the Archive.today X account posted the document on October 30, the same day the subpoena was issued. The X post contained a link to the PDF and the word “canary.”
“If you refuse to obey this subpoena, the United States Attorney General may invoke the aid of a United States District Court to compel compliance. Your failure to obey the resulting court order may be punished as contempt,” the document said. It gave a deadline of November 29.
Humanities scholars, artists, authors and computer scientists recently came together at the University of Toronto to explore how artificial intelligence will impact society.
In England’s schools, children are not only pupils but also data subjects. From the moment they are born, a digital record begins to take shape — one that will follow them through nursery, primary school, secondary education, and in many cases well i…
È morto Peppe Vessicchio, all’età di 69 anni. Il celebre direttore d’orchestra, arrangiatore e volto televisivo amatissimo dal pubblico italiano, si è spento questo pomeriggio all’ospedale San Camillo di Roma, dove era stato ricoverato a causa di una complicazione improvvisa.
“Omnibus. Il Dio del cielo”, si trova a fare i conti con eventi impensabili che emergono dal suo passato, trascinando con sé Dan e Meredith. Costretti a intraprendere un viaggio verso la Torre del Cielo, un luogo che credevano sepolto nei ricordi, i protagonisti si trovano a fronteggiare segreti che minacciano di sconvolgere il loro mondo. Ogni passo li avvicina a una verità che, forse, è sempre stata sotto i loro occhi. Un viaggio interiore ed esteriore, dove il coraggio e la scoperta si intrecciano in una trama avvincente e ricca di colpi di scena. Chi conosce davvero la verità? E quali conseguenze porterà alla luce? Preparati a un’avventura che cambia il destino di chi osa cercare
Omnibus – il Dio del cielo
Secondo volume della saga “Ignis, l’Arcangelo del Fuoco” di Massimiliano Gradante
Un fantasy che emoziona e fa riflettere
Con Omnibus – Il Dio del Cielo, Massimiliano Gradante ci conduce nuovamente in un universo fantasy intenso e intriso di sentimento. Un’opera che non si limita all’avventura o alla magia, ma che tocca le sfere più profonde dell’animo umano, esplorando amicizia, dolore e redenzione con una scrittura limpida e coinvolgente.
L’amicizia tra Omnibus e Ignis: un legame che segna il destino
Il secondo volume della saga ci conduce nel passato di Omnibus e Ignis: un umano e un arcangelo uniti da un’amicizia profonda, capace di sfidare i confini tra i mondi. Eppure, una domanda tormenta Omnibus: «Perché noi siamo i più deboli? Io voglio essere forte.»
È da questo desiderio che nasce la sua scelta, una decisione destinata a segnare per sempre la sua vita e quella del suo amico. Spinto dal bisogno di cambiare il proprio destino di umano, Omnibus si lascia attrarre da una voce suadente, una promessa di forza e potere. Nemmeno le parole della madre riescono a fermarlo. Quando lui le chiede se gli esseri umani potranno mai essere forti come gli arcangeli, lei gli risponde con dolcezza:
«C’è una cosa che noi abbiamo, ed è molto più grande di qualsiasi altro potere: il nostro cuore, piccolo mio. Il cuore che possediamo è talmente forte da superare la potenza di qualunque angelo o arcangelo.»
Frasi che restano
Le parole della madre di Omnibus mi hanno toccato profondamente. Perché è vero: il nostro cuore è grande, è forte. È capace di sopportare ogni dolore e di trasformarlo in un nuovo fiore. Il potere, la forza, non saranno mai grandi quanto il cuore di chi sa amare e perdonare, ma soprattutto di chi sa donare senza pretendere nulla in cambio. La forza del nostro cuore è qualcosa che nessuno potrà mai toglierci.
Il dolore di Meredith e Dan: la perdita come motore del cambiamento
Nel racconto emergono anche le storie di Meredith e Dan, due anime ferite dalla perdita. Entrambi hanno perso i propri fratelli troppo presto. Meredith è stata abbandonata dai genitori, incapaci di accettare la verità: il loro figlio è morto a causa di un evento extrasensoriale. Dan, invece, si trova a fare i conti con la morte del fratello e, successivamente, con quella del padre.
Due dolori che si sommano, generando in lui un bisogno disperato di forza, un desiderio di risvegliare poteri interiori rimasti dormienti.
Un viaggio tra speranza e disperazione
Il cammino di Dan e Meredith diventa un viaggio tra luce e ombra, tra speranza e dolore. Ritornano là dove tutto era cominciato nel primo volume, spinti dalla volontà di cambiare un destino che sembra già scritto.
Ed è proprio lì che Dan, travolto dall’amore e dalla paura di perdere ancora, decide di sacrificarsi per Meredith: «Non voglio perdere più nessuno».
Un atto estremo e commovente, che rappresenta la forza dell’amore nella sua forma più pura e disperata.
Uno stile limpido e intenso
Massimiliano Gradante conquista con una prosa pulita e delicata, capace di descrivere emozioni complesse con sorprendente semplicità. La sua scrittura accompagna il lettore dentro un mondo magico, ma incredibilmente reale per la sua umanità. Un romanzo che parla di perdita, rinascita e amicizia eterna.
Riflessione sulla perdita
La perdita non è soltanto assenza: è un vuoto che continua a parlare. Dal punto di vista psicologico, rappresenta quel delicato momento in cui mente e cuore cercano un nuovo equilibrio, accettando che qualcosa — o qualcuno — non farà più parte del nostro presente. Eppure, la presenza di chi amiamo resta viva nei ricordi, nei gesti e nei luoghi che continuano a custodire la sua essenza.
Il dolore del distacco, se accolto, può trasformarsi in una forza rigenerante: diventa occasione di introspezione, crescita e consapevolezza. Ogni ricordo diventa un sentiero nel bosco dell’anima, dove il passato non svanisce, ma cambia forma per continuare a camminare al nostro fianco.
Biografia
Massimiliano, ha sempre coltivato, fin dalla più tenera età, la passione per la scrittura. Già alle elementari si cimentava nella stesura di testi horror e fantasy.
A causa degli impegni della vita, tuttavia, ha dovuto accantonare questa passione per parecchi anni, riuscendo a riprenderla inizialmente nel 2016 ma poi, con più costanza, nel 2018 e fino ad oggi.Ha partecipato a concorsi di poesie e/o racconti, ottenendo anche numerosi riconoscimenti di cui ha un caro ricordo. Il suo obiettivo, da sempre, e trasmettere la sua passione ed emozione a ipotetici lettori, attraverso l’unico mezzo che ha imparato nel tempo ad amare e di cui, oggi, non può fare a meno: la scrittura.
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Russia strikes residential building in Dnipro, killing 1, injuring 11 -- AI soldiers: How deepfakes are manipulating Ukraine’s mobilization narrative -- Drones hit key Russian petrochemical plant in Republic of Bashkortostan -- Can the West win a ceasefir
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The aftermath of a Russian drone attack on a residential building in Dnipro overnight on Nov. 8, 2025. The attack killed one person and injured 11 others, including two children. (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Vladyslav Haivanenko/Telegram)
Russia launches ‘massive’ missileattackon Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, drone attack sparks fires in Kyiv. Russia launched yet another wide-ranging attack on Ukrainian cities overnight on Nov. 8, using a combination of drone and missiles to strike targets across the country.
Drones hit key Russianpetrochemicalplant in Republic of Bashkortostan, Ukraine’s HUR says. HUR claims that the drone strike on Nov. 6 led to a fire in the workshop producing an additive known as agidol, used for aviation fuel.
Ukraineestimatesits long-range weapon production at over $30 billion in 2026. In a closed-door briefing with journalists, Rustem Umerov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, and Oleksandr Kamyshin, an advisor on Strategic Industries to the President’s Office, said that the current production capacity (for this year) of the Ukrainain defense industry is around $35 billion per year.
Ukrainesecures300 million cubic meters of American LNG amid Russian attacks on gas production. Orlen will deliver three cargoes of American liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Ukraine in the first quarter of 2026.
Kremlin denies Lavrovfell outof favor with Putin after canceled Trump summit. “I will give you a brief answer: there is nothing true in these reports,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
‘Full sanctionsexemption‘ granted as Orban meets Trump in Washington to discuss Russian oil, war against Ukraine. The U.S. and Hungary are also planning to sign a “significant nuclear cooperation agreement,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said.
Zelensky blames ex-energy chief for grid’s failure to withstand Russian assaults amid talk ofscapegoating. “He was the head of a large system, and this system was supposed to ensure the security of our energy sector. He was obliged to do this — and he did not,” the president told journalists on Nov. 7.
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Ukraine war latest: Special Forces drones hit oil depots, trains, logistic facilities in Russian-occupied Crimea
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SSO) said on Nov. 7 that its long-range drones struck an oil depot and logistic facilities in the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea.
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Kyiv holdsfarewellfor 28-year-old Ukrainian photographer, soldier Huzenko. A farewell ceremony was held in Kyiv on Nov. 7 for for Kostiantyn Huzenko, a photographer-turned-soldier, killed in a Russian strike on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on Nov. 1.
Russia strikes residential building in Dnipro,killing1, injuring 11. Russia carried out a drone attack on the city of Dnipro overnight on Nov. 8, killing one person and injuring 11 others, including two children, officials reported.
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Gunvorwithdrawsbid for Russia’s Lukoil assets after US calls it ‘Kremlin’s puppet.’ Gunvor, which is registered in Cyprus and headquartered in Switzerland, was founded in 1997 by Gennady Timchenko, a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Swedish billionaire Torbjörn Törnqvist.
Sweden has helpedfund400 drones for Ukraine’s strike campaign on Russian oil refineries. Denys Shmyhal’s announcement comes as Ukraine aims to strike deeper into Russian territory in an attempt to disrupt its logistics and grind down its war machine from a distance.
EUtighteningvisa rules for Russian nationals, citing security risks. The European Commission adopted stricter rules on issuing visas to Russian citizens, who will be largely banned from receiving multi-entry visas, the EU announced on Nov. 7.
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Collins Dictionary has named "vibe coding" its 2025 word of the year -- a term coined by Andrej Karpathy for when a user makes an app or website by describing it to AI rather than writing programming code manually. The term, which is confusingly made up of two words, was "one of 10 words on a shortlist to reflect the mood, language and preoccupations of 2025," reports the BBC.
Thankfully, the Stop Killing Games movement isn’t stopping this time. YouTuber Ross Scott kicked the movement off in 2024 to generate political action around the disappearance of games that people had bought purely because the company that sold them decided to no longer support them or run backend infrastructure needed play them. While the movement found very little purchase at first, it resurfaced earlier this summer when Scott and a fellow YouTuber got into it over why the campaign failed to launch. That back and forth between them went somewhat viral, which in turn led at least one high-ranking EU politician to express interest in the movement.
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The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that trial judges must consider all available evidence, not only a complainant’s testimony, when deciding whether a person had the capacity to consent to sexual activity. The decision in R. v. Rioux clarified how courts should assess capacity and consent in cases involving intoxication, memory loss, or fragmented recollection.
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Nelle ultime 48 ore: - Baskonia e Virtus hanno sfilato a centrocampo a Vitoria con uno striscione dedicato a Polonara. Lunghissimi applausi e pubblico basco visibilmente commosso. - coach Paolo Galbiati si è presentato in diretta davanti alle telecamere di Eurolega con la maglia di Polonara, e ha chiesto di non parlare nè in spagnolo nè in inglese per dire "Achi, questa è la tua. Non vedo l'ora di rivederti in campo". - Efes e Milano hanno sfilato a centrocampo a Istanbul con uno striscione dedicato a Polonara. Tanti gli applausi da parte dei 9000 turchi. - lo Zalgiris ha proiettato sul cubo e sui maxischermi una foto ed un messaggio per Polonara, con diversi minuti di applausi da parte dei 15.000 lituani
Quello che sta accadendo in tutta Europa è meraviglioso. E, lo sappiamo per certo, è un'iniezione di fiducia importantissima di cui necessita Achille in questo periodo.
È davvero bellissimo vedere come il mondo al quale Polonara ha dato tanto in questi anni come giocatore, gli stia restituendo tutto.
Elisabetta Fratoni e i suoi musicisti accompagneranno la cena al Nebula Bar di Viterbo al ritmo del jazz 🎺
Sul progetto musicale
"Jazzy!" è un viaggio attraverso una galleria di composizioni originali e reinterpretazioni audaci, dove la solida base del jazz si fonde con ritmi irresistibilmente funky.
Ma non pensate che sia tutto ritmo e beat: troverete anche momenti di malinconia e riflessione in brani come Sassi dove l'abilità tecnica del gruppo e la sensibilità di Elisabetta si fanno sentire al massimo.
I componenti del trio:
Elisabetta Fratoni (🎤 voce e 🎸 basso) – Cantante dalla voce calda e bassista versatile, Elisabetta incanta con il suo talento e la capacità di creare atmosfere uniche.
Sandro Santilli (🎺 tromba) – Trombettista dal suono pulito ed espressivo, Sandro arricchisce il quartetto con una presenza musicale genuina e misurata.
Luciano Tellico (🎹 pianoforte) – Pianista dal tocco elegante, Luciano accompagna il quartetto con armonie raffinate e una grande sensibilità artistica.
Giuseppe Sala, membro del partito dei Verdi italiani e sindaco di Milano da quasi 10 anni, è stupito dal fatto che Giorgia Meloni, primo ministro di estrema destra dell'Italia, sia così poco presente. Secondo lui, è stata in città forse tre volte in altrettanti anni.
Tuttavia, ha espresso le sue preoccupazioni sulla natura “ideologica” del piano europeo Green Deal, che mira a rendere l'Europa il primo continente climaticamente neutrale entro il 2050.
Uno dei progetti che Sala ritiene possa essere di esempio per il resto d'Italia è una campagna chiamata “Io non spreco”, che prevede la distribuzione di borse riutilizzabili agli alunni delle scuole elementari per portare a casa il cibo avanzato dalla mensa scolastica. Secondo i calcoli del Comune, ogni mese si evitano così circa 10.000 panini, 9.000 pezzi di frutta e 1.000 dessert.
Ha anche introdotto a Milano una zona a basse emissioni, la più grande dell'UE, che vieta l'accesso alle auto non conformi. Milano rimane congestionata, ma la qualità dell'aria sta migliorando e, dopo un primo anno difficile, la misura è stata accettata dal pubblico, afferma.
Due mesi fa ha vietato completamente la circolazione dei veicoli privati nelle strade intorno a Via Monte Napoleone, il centro della moda della città. “Bisogna procedere sempre un passo alla volta”, afferma, anche se si aspetta che le elezioni comunali del 2027 saranno dominate da questo tema, con i suoi avversari che insistono: “Hai il diritto di guidare la tua auto dove vuoi”.
“Quindi quello sarà un buon momento per vedere se la sensibilità della gente potrà cambiare”, afferma.
Curioso che esattamente sotto tuo post ci fosse questo
Il 37% degli Italiani vorrebbe un candidato simile a Mamdani (Sindaco di New York) Percentuali maggiori nel Centrosinistra, ma anche tra 5 Stelle e Centro.
🔴 Sondaggio BiDiMedia 🗽 Il 37% degli Italiani vorrebbe un candidato simile a Mamdani (Sindaco di New York) 🔝Percentuali maggiori nel Centrosinistra, ma anche tra 5 Stelle e Centro.
Essendo straniero sicuramente non ho la vostra visione degli cambiamenti, ma sono rimasto con l'idea che con lui Milano è iniziata di essere una città abitabile (probabilmente peggiorando l'accesso per la gente dal hinterland). Ho visto come NoLo da un quartiere abbastanza triste è diventato proprio piacevole.
Dopo pensando di corso Indipendenza e Buenos Aires, le ciclabili hanno cambiato la viabilità.
È vero che una volta ho sentito un'accesora spiegare come non va bene che l'UE paga per gli progetti se dopo non paga per l'operazione e manutenzione, ma spero è solo lei un anima confusa.
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Kongar
in reply to 野麦さん • • •I’ve had good success with makemkv for ripping both blu rays and dvs. I’ve not had good success making a duplicate disk though. It can be done but it’s been a very long time. I used to use handbrake in that chain but it got to be too much trouble. I resorted to ripping all my stuff, serving it up digitally, and only taking the disks out when nostalgia hit.
But ya - makemkv and handbrake used to get the job done a long time ago, you can search in that direction. Maybe there’s a newer better way.
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DominusOfMegadeus
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Steve
in reply to DominusOfMegadeus • • •Movies don't need much speed at all. And HDDs have much better cost/GB than SSDs
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DominusOfMegadeus
in reply to Steve • • •Steve
in reply to DominusOfMegadeus • • •File size doesn't matter.
Both are portable and wouldn't be moved while in use.
And yes, you do need a second cord to power a HDD.
But they're still way Cheeper per GB, and potentially way bigger per drive than SSDs.
I have a HDD dock and 3 HDDs I use for backups every month. They work great as portable mass storage.
borari
in reply to DominusOfMegadeus • • •If you care about local data preservation and you’re storing remuxes you should probably be storing them on a nas, or really just on a raid array. This allows for error correction due to the parity stripes and everything, and provided tolerance for drive failure.
If you were really serious about it, you’d want a mirrored nas offsite, or you’d push encrypted backups to cloud storage or something. But if you care about storing data as long term as possible you absolutely should not be storing the stuff on a single ssd or external drive or anything.
frongt
in reply to borari • • •Three copies (a raid mirror and a backup counts), two types of media (drive and tape), one off-site (where it won't be affected by fire, flood, tornado, earthquake).
A cloud backup gets you all but the local mirror in one go.
Also, it doesn't count as a backup until you've tested a restore and verified it works.
frongt
in reply to 野麦さん • • •This doesn't make sense. You can't seed a torrent from a Blu-ray. I mean technically you could, but you'd only be able to do one per drive at a time.
And the storage density of a drive is much higher than a Blu-ray disc. You can fit far more movies on one hard drive.
Also keep in mind that burned discs have a much shorter lifespan than commercially pressed discs, like 10-30 years. Commercial pressed discs should last 100+.
metaStatic
in reply to frongt • • •stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]
in reply to 野麦さん • • •Wdym by this:
It’s not clear if you want to use bd as a backup to store data or as a way to bootleg physical media.
I have done both and can help you but the former is generally a bad idea.
IcePee
in reply to stupid_asshole69 [none/use name] • • •borari
in reply to IcePee • • •metaStatic
in reply to borari • • •boredsquirrel
in reply to 野麦さん • • •No idea why you would want to get precious data out of DRM-riddled physical media and then somehow devalue it again by putting it back into that format.
HDDs make more sense I suppose
Ildsaye [they/them]
in reply to 野麦さん • • •elver
in reply to 野麦さん • • •It's a set specific rules for video files and a folder structure that allows a burned disc to be read by a conventional BluRay player.