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in reply to rulu

USA are a couple of presidents away to either fascism or back to regular life so "never" can't apply for the political reason I read here. I'd love to back, just not nowadays.

I traveled a bit and honestly there's no country I would not like to visit again. Some cities, maybe, but I can't say it about a whole country.





Shifter videos are in Peertube


Shifter, the cycle commuting channel is in Peertube too. Some the best cycling video content in the fediverse! (for now at least)
in reply to MasterBlaster

I'm not canadian either, but they are all valid high-quality channels, whose content is valid everywhere


in reply to LadyButterfly she/her

Counterpoint: I’m a twisty mofo and my adhd friend would often enough times respond to something he thought I was going to say instead of the thing I actually said (since I’m a twisty mofo) because he would be concentrating on not interrupting rather than listening.

I’m not placing blame, that’s adhd, just thought it was funny (except those times when it was just frustrating).

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In edicola il numero di Storica National Geographic


Mary Anning, la cacciatrice di fossili giurassici
Questa cacciatrice di fossili non ottenne mai il riconoscimento che le spettava.

Giochi secolari, le celebrazioni del secolo a Roma
Ogni secolo a Roma si celebrava una grande festa per avere il favore degli dei.

Il libro dei morti, un manuale egizio dell'oltretomba
Gli Egizi credevano che, al momento della morte, i defunti dovessero affrontare un cammino pericoloso, costellato di prove e culminante nel giudizio divino, prima di poter raggiungere la vita eterna. Per avere successo in questo viaggio, si affidavano alle Formule per far uscire l’anima alla luce del giorno, una raccolta di testi più nota come Libro dei Morti: un vero e proprio manuale che conteneva i sortilegi da recitare durante il viaggio nell’aldilà.

Emporion, la Grecia in Iberia
All’inizio del VI secolo a.C., coloni greci fondarono nel golfo di Roses la prima colonia greca della penisola iberica. Per secoli Emporion fu un fiorente centro commerciale, cresciuto intorno a un porto che l’archeologia ci consente oggi di conoscere con sempre maggior precisione.

Pompeo Magno, il generale dimenticato
Le sue vittoriose campagne in tutto il Mediterraneo – inclusa quella che pose fine alla minaccia dei pirati cilici – resero Pompeo il grande eroe di Roma, ma l’ascesa di Giulio Cesare ne segnò il declino.

Kublai Khan, l’imperatore mongolo della Cina
Mezzo secolo dopo la morte di Gengis Khan, suo nipote Kublai completò la conquista della Cina e fondò una nuova dinastia, caratterizzata dalla fusione delle culture cinese e mongola.

Il cammino verso Santiago: pellegrini del Medioevo
Sebbene i pellegrini medievali diretti a Santiago non seguissero un itinerario rigidamente definito, esistevano grandi percorsi che corrispondono a quelli oggi ufficialmente riconosciuti.

La caccia alle streghe in Europa, un'ossessione collecttiva
Tra il XVI e il XVII secolo si tennero grandi processi contro presunti stregoni e streghe, accusati di aver stretto patti con il demonio. Molti di questi processi si conclusero con l’esecuzione di decine di persone, per lo più donne.

Il tesoro di Varna
Le tombe di una necropoli in Bulgaria, contenevano migliaia di oggetti d’oro. 114 STORIA VISUALE Vietnam, una guerra senza fine Per vent’anni, gli Stati Uniti furono impegnati in un conflitto di larga scala in Asia.

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Storia ed economia: l'inflazione, che esisteva già dai tempi del baratto


Il primo caso d'inflazione della Storia avvenne in Mesopotamia attorno al 2200 a.C. Il grande impero degli Accadi era in declino, invaso da genti bellicose. Sotto forma di maledizione, un testo in lingua sumerica annunciò: "Il tuo oro sia venduto come argento, il tuo argento come metallo più vile, il tuo rame come piombo". All'origine della crisi fu la carestia. Come ha scritto l'archeologo Sabatino Moscati: «bastavano pochi raccolti andati male perché la parte povera della popolazione fosse costretta a forme pesanti d'indebitamento compresa la vendita dei familiari come schiavi, o in casi estremi a fenomeni di cannibalismo»


Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial




Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial


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Hold onto your butts, because one day you might be breathing through them.

Scientists have tested out enteral ventilation—a possible method of administering oxygen with a liquid delivered through the rectum that is then absorbed into the intestines—in humans for the first time. The trial demonstrated that this method of ventilation is safe and “paves the way for future studies to see if this technique can help patients with respiratory failure,” according to a study published on Monday in the journal Med.

“Enteral ventilation is not meant to replace mechanical ventilators or ECMO, but rather to serve as a complementary oxygenation route,” said Takanori Takebe, an expert in organoid medicine with appointments at both Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Osaka, in an email to 404 Media. The technique proves a backdoor “to provide partial oxygen support while allowing the lungs to rest,” he added.

But while this method is safe for humans, it hasn’t been experimentally shown to work on patients experiencing respiratory distress yet. If future trials show that enteral ventilation is also effective, it could potentially help newborns and premature infants who are struggling to establish lung function after birth, aid patients with severe respiratory failure or Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), or be applied in other situations in which temporary oxygen supplementation is needed.

“In such cases, intestinal oxygen delivery could serve as a ‘bridge’ therapy until normal respiration or full ventilatory support can be established,” Takebe said.
A figure outlining the first enteral ventilation trial in humans. Image: Fujii, Tasuku et al.
The team previously published a study in 2021 that showed enteral ventilation was effective in ameliorating respiratory failure in rats, mice, and pigs. This initial trial in humans involved 27 healthy male volunteers, who received a liquid called perfluorodecalin through their rectums in an enema-like process.

Since the trial was only intended to determine the safety of the procedure, rather than probe its efficacy in humans, the perfluorodecalin was not oxygenated and none of the volunteers were experiencing any respiratory distress during the course of the study.

“The results aligned closely with what we had anticipated from our preclinical data,” Takebe said. “We found that intrarectal administration of perfluorodecalin up to 1,000 mL was safe and well tolerated, with only mild and transient gastrointestinal symptoms such as bloating.”

“The next phase will involve testing ‘oxygenated’ perfluorodecalin (O₂-PFD) in patients with hypoxemia to evaluate actual oxygen transfer efficacy,” he added. “We are currently planning a Phase II trial in collaboration with clinical partners in Japan and the U.S.”

Takebe and his colleagues were inspired to develop this roundabout route by aquatic species, such as loaches, which absorb oxygen through their intestines to survive in low-oxygen environments. While the idea of rectally administering perfluorodecalin is relatively new, the use of oxygenated liquid for ventilation dates back decades. It even shows up in James Cameron’s 1989 thriller The Abyss, which includes a real scene of a rat breathing in a tank of liquid perfluorocarbon.

The technique may prove to be an effective means to alleviate respiratory distress in humans, but it’s also inspired its fair share of jokes because, well, it is about butt breath, after all.

In 2024, for instance, Takebe’s team received the Ig Nobel Prize, a satirical award that honors “achievements so surprising that they make people laugh, then think,” according to its website. Fellow Ig Nobel awardees include a team that levitated a frog in midair and another that investigated why pregnant women aren’t constantly tipping over.

“Receiving the Ig Nobel Prize was both humorous and humbling,” Takebe said. “It was a reminder that truly unconventional ideas often begin at the boundary between curiosity and skepticism.”

“While the prize is lighthearted in tone, I do believe it serves a serious purpose, encouraging the public to stay curious and to appreciate how even seemingly odd scientific questions can lead to meaningful innovations,” he concluded. “What began as a playful concept is now moving closer to a viable medical technology.”

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The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible


also I just realized that Brazil did NOT make a programming language entirely in Spanish and call it "Si" and that my professor was making a joke about C... god damn it

this post is probably too nieche but I feel like Lemmy is nerdy enough that enough people will get it lol

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in reply to edinbruh

C does one thing really well and that's everything fast with complete control. Python is cool for people just trying to bang out some scripts or learning to program but interpreted languages have no place in mainstream software. Devices are starting to become slower than computers 30 years ago because there is so much garbage being included in apps written in interpreted java and Python and other nonsense. It's not just bad for the user but it's bad for the planet. It shouldn't take a million times the energy to run a simple program because someone doesn't know how to write in a proper language. Python is okay for some things. The world has become too reliant on it though. Also just for purely selfish reasons if you are the type. Interpreted languages kill your battery life and ram and stuff. Modern android phones besides all their problems with Google ruining them like Microsoft are also just becoming incredibly slow and stupid. You can barely even open two apps without most android phones panicking and closing apps to save memory. A calculator app is 100 MBs now. The phone feels like it's going to catch on fire when you open a notepad.
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in reply to DarkAri

I like many of your points, but your comment is facetious.

You said it yourself, "it's good for someone trying to bang out scripts"... and that's it, that's the main point, that's the purpose of python. I will argue over my dead body that python is a trillion times better than sh/bash/zsh/fish/bat/powershell/whatever for writing scripts in all aspects except availability and if that's a concern, the only options are the old Unix shell and bat (even with powershell you never know if you are stuck ps 5 or can use ps 7).

I have a python script running 24/7 on a raspberry that listens on some mqtt topics and reacts accordingly asynchronously. It uses like 15kiB (literally less than 4 pages) of ram mostly for the interpreter, and it's plenty responsive. It uses about two minutes of CPU time a day. I could have written it in rust or go, I know enough of both to do it, it would have been faster and more efficient, but it would have taken three times the time to write, and it would have been a bitch to modify, I could have done it in C and it would have been even worse. For that little extra efficiency it makes no sense.

You argue it has no place in mainstream software, but that's not really a matter of python, more a matter of bad software engineers. Ok, cool that you recognise the issue, but I'd rather you went after the million people shipping a full browser in every GUI application, than to the guys wasting 10 kiB of your ram to run python. And even in that case, it's not an issue of JavaScript, but an issue of bad practices.

P.S. "does one thing well" is a smokescreen to hide doing less stuff, you shouldn't base your whole design philosophy on a quote from the 70s. That is the kind of shit SystemD hater shout, while running a display server that also manages input, opengl, a widget toolkit, remote desktop, and the entire printer stack. The more a high profile tool does, the less your janky glue code scripts need to do.



The Third Mind - Right Now! (2025)


The Third Mind con "Right Now!", sono al loro terzo album. Registrato dal vivo in quattro giorni nei Sound Recording Studio di Los Angeles. "Right Now!" è una combinazione di istinto e improvvisazione da parte di musicisti esperti che si incontrano in tempo reale per trovare le canzoni man mano che procedono... Continua a leggere...


Ryley Walker - Primrose Green (2015)


Il secondo disco dell'uomo di Chicago, Ryley Walker, era uno dei lavori più attesi di questo 2015, dopo il suo bellissimo album d'esordio, "All kinds of you". Walker ha un passato, nemmeno troppo lontano, di chitarrista acustico, sulle tracce dei vari Fahey, Basho e di tutta la Takoma family... Leggi e ascolta...


Ryley Walker - Primrose Green (2015)


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Il secondo disco dell'uomo di Chicago, Ryley Walker, era uno dei lavori più attesi di questo 2015, dopo il suo bellissimo album d'esordio, “All kinds of you”. Walker ha un passato, nemmeno troppo lontano, di chitarrista acustico, sulle tracce dei vari Fahey, Basho e di tutta la Takoma family. Nel 2011 erano uscite, in copie limitatissime, 2 cassette, una delle quali in compagnia di Daniel Bachman, altro virtuoso della sei corde acustica. Il suo primo album raccontava di un musicista ancorato ad un suono prettamente acustico, debitore di un suono recuperato da un grande come Bert Jansch, sia strumentalmente che vocalmente. Per il nuovo disco, “Primrose green” il giovane chitarrista ha arricchito in diverse tracce l'impasto musicale, facendosi accompagnare da uno stuolo di strumentisti fra i migliori in circolazione... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/04…


Ascolta il disco: album.link/i/951953607


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L'oscura nascita (e funzione?) di Facebook. Da brividi.


Nell'ottimo podcast di Simone Pieranni possiamo ascoltare un discorso che parte "alla lontana" ma arriva a farci capire chi è uno dei principali finanziatori di Facebook agli inizi.

Dal mio punto di vista, una ragione molto forte per non fidarci dei social network tradizionali, non tanto "per cosa sono diventati", ma per cosa sono sempre stati, fin dall'inizio.




in reply to tessa (they/them)

Factual reality. I recently installed w11 on a virtual machine (I was trying to write a cross-platform thing) and to create a local account I literally had to open a terminal during the first boot process, type a couple commands quickly (yes, timing is apparently important), unplug the (virtual) ethernet cable, and reboot.

And people still have the gall to tell me windows is easy.

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in reply to Stamets

Mercury rectifiers are one of the coolest thing I've ever seen (not in person unfortunately)



In viaggio per cambiare vita: una casa dove il cuore vuole stare.


Cosa spinge una persona a voler lasciare la propria famiglia, i propri amici, il posto fisso e la propria casa di proprietà per cercane una altrove, a più di 50 anni?

Ognuno potrebbe avere una risposta diversa. In questa puntata io ti dico la mia.

È stata una decisione sofferta ma anche spontanea. Oggi ne posso parlare avendo le idee chiare, ma non è maturata in un solo giorno: ci sono voluti anni.

Le patologie di cui soffro hanno dato la spinta più importante, ma non è stata l'unica componente.

In questo primo episodio di questo diario di viaggio inizio a cercare la mia meta finale, dove vivere un giorno.

Condivisione gradita.

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Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ?


It's proprietary, after all. I understand paid is fine, but even then, it usually better be open source.

So, why is Unraid an exception ?

Thanks

in reply to Lka1988

I know, I use myself, I was just poking fun. Lemmy's became so fucking unfunny lately.


My cat watching a fly inside my lamp


cross-posted from: feddit.it/post/22897801

Last night my cat was hunting a fly that flew inside my lamp. Eventually it flew out and my cat cought it.



My cat watching a fly inside my lamp


Last night my cat was hunting a fly that flew inside my lamp. Eventually it flew out and my cat cought it.



in reply to Damage

Still by far the least amount of necessary infrastructure needed for any means of transit except walking.


German media bias falsely inflates crime by foreigners


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My cat watching a fly inside my lamp


cross-posted from: feddit.it/post/22897801

Last night my cat was hunting a fly that flew inside my lamp. Eventually it flew out and my cat cought it.



My cat watching a fly inside my lamp


Last night my cat was hunting a fly that flew inside my lamp. Eventually it flew out and my cat cought it.


#Cat


My cat watching a fly inside my lamp


cross-posted from: feddit.it/post/22897801

Last night my cat was hunting a fly that flew inside my lamp. Eventually it flew out and my cat cought it.



My cat watching a fly inside my lamp


Last night my cat was hunting a fly that flew inside my lamp. Eventually it flew out and my cat cought it.


#aww


GIMP 3.0.6 su Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS


Buongiorno a tutti,
Ho installato GIMP 3.0.6 su Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS.
Il programma funziona perfettamente.
Ho scaricato il file gmic_3.6.3_gimp3.0_ubuntu25-04_plucky_amd64.zip dal sito G'MIC - GREYC's Magic for Image Computing: A Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing - Download .
Ho estratto il file zip e copiato la cartella “gmic_gimp_qt” nella directory: /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins.
La cartela gmic_gimp_qt contiene due file: gmic_gimp_qt (eseguibile) e README.txt.

Quando avvio GIMP non vedo i filtri GMIC

Aggiornamento 001:
Avviano gimp da riga di comando ricevo questi messaggio di errore:

user@lubuntu:~$ gimp
set device ‘bcm5974’ to mode: disabled
set device ‘Virtual core XTEST pointer’ to mode: disabled
/home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version GLIBCXX_3.4.32' not found (required by /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt) /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version CXXABI_1.3.15’ not found (required by /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt)
/home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38’ not found (required by /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt)
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): unexpected EOF

Da quello che ho capito vengono richieste delle librerie che sono presenti solamente su ubuntu.25, che sono le seguenti:

GLIBCXX_3.4.32 → disponibile solo con GCC 13+

CXXABI_1.3.15 → parte di libstdc++ aggiornata

GLIBC_2.38 → disponibile solo su Ubuntu 24.10+

Mentre su lubuntu 22 ho:

GLIBC_2.35

libstdc++ da GCC 11 o 12



GIMP 3.0.6 su Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS.


Buongiorno a tutti,
Ho installato GIMP 3.0.6 su Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS.
Il programma funziona perfettamente.
Ho scaricato il file gmic_3.6.3_gimp3.0_ubuntu25-04_plucky_amd64.zip dal sito G'MIC - GREYC's Magic for Image Computing: A Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing - Download .
Ho estratto il file zip e copiato la cartella “gmic_gimp_qt” nella directory: /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins.
La cartela gmic_gimp_qt contiene due file: gmic_gimp_qt (eseguibile) e README.txt.

Quando avvio GIMP non vedo i filtri GMIC

Aggiornamento 001:
Avviano gimp da riga di comando ricevo questi messaggio di errore:

user@lubuntu:~$ gimp
set device ‘bcm5974’ to mode: disabled
set device ‘Virtual core XTEST pointer’ to mode: disabled
/home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version GLIBCXX_3.4.32' not found (required by /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt) /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version CXXABI_1.3.15’ not found (required by /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt)
/home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38’ not found (required by /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt)
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): unexpected EOF

Da quello che ho capito vengono richieste delle librerie che sono presenti solamente su ubuntu.25, che sono le seguenti:

GLIBCXX_3.4.32 → disponibile solo con GCC 13+

CXXABI_1.3.15 → parte di libstdc++ aggiornata

GLIBC_2.38 → disponibile solo su Ubuntu 24.10+

Mentre su lubuntu 22 ho:

GLIBC_2.35

libstdc++ da GCC 11 o 12

#gimp


Bright Eyes - Kids Table (2025)


Dopo "Five Dice, All Threes", album viscerale e coinvolgente del 2024, questo EP si presenta sia come complice di quell'album sia come mondo autonomo a sé stante. Sebbene molte di queste nuove canzoni siano emerse dalle stesse sessioni di registrazione, non tutte si adattavano perfettamente alla coesione concisa di quell'album... Continua a leggere...


Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free (2015)


Southeastern, uscito nel 2013, mi era piaciuto così tanto da diventare non solo una sorta di mantra giornaliero che usciva dalle casse dello stereo, ma era stato in grado di asfaltare ogni concorrente e fregiarsi della palma del miglior disco del 2013... Leggi e ascolta...


Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free (2015)


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Southeastern, uscito nel 2013, mi era piaciuto così tanto da diventare non solo una sorta di mantra giornaliero che usciva dalle casse dello stereo, ma era stato in grado di asfaltare ogni concorrente e fregiarsi della palma del miglior disco del 2013. Un'opinione condivisa non solo da parte della critica italiana, soprattutto quella che guarda alla musica proveniente dagli States, ma anche dal pubblico americano, che premiò quell'album spingendolo alla posizione numero 23 della top 200 di Billboard. Southeastern ha rappresentato la rinascita artistica di un musicista che, dopo la militanza nei Drive- By Truckers, aveva smarrito la rotta, affogando il proprio tormento interiore in fiumi d'alcool e nebbie oppiacee... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/09…


Ascolta il disco: album.link/s/6A0bAjzeIl7JYaxDr…


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in reply to pewpew

I haven’t heard about those incidents before o_0. At least the code improved haha.



Karoline Leavitt says ‘Your mom’ when asked who picked Hungary for Putin-Trump talks


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/37519364

Top White House officials told a reporter, “Your mom,” when asked who picked the location for Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin.

Trump announced Thursday that he will soon meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. The choice has raised questions, because Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court. However, Hungary appears unlikely to cooperate with the warrant and is in the process of leaving the court, the Associated Press reports.

When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also followed up with, “Your mom,” the outlet reports.



Karoline Leavitt says ‘Your mom’ when asked who picked Hungary for Putin-Trump talks


Top White House officials told a reporter, “Your mom,” when asked who picked the location for Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin.

Trump announced Thursday that he will soon meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. The choice has raised questions, because Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court. However, Hungary appears unlikely to cooperate with the warrant and is in the process of leaving the court, the Associated Press reports.

When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also followed up with, “Your mom,” the outlet reports.


in reply to Viking_Hippie

My mum picked a EU country ruled by a far right wing politician who haa been attacking civil rights and political freedom?
in reply to Viking_Hippie

KKKaroline Leavitt was appointed only because she's the only one cruel and dumb enough to do that job.




'Uncharted territory': Ongoing shutdown threatens food aid for 42 million people


In just over a week, nearly 42 million people in the U.S. who get federal food assistance are in danger of seeing their benefits disappear because of the ongoing federal shutdown.

About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. One of those people is Shari Jablonowski. The 66-year-old widow, who lives outside Pittsburgh, is bracing to lose the $291 in food aid her disabled nephew gets each month. She raised her now-adult nephew and two nieces as her own, and even without this looming crisis, her budget is a tightrope.

"This month, I could not afford to pay … anything, gas or electric," she says. Instead she paid her monthly car payment, since she needs to drive to doctors' appointments, visit her mother, and one niece uses the car to get to work.