i feel like electronic components used to be more colorful 50 years ago. you still see the cyan zif sockets and the red dip switches sometimes. but what happened to all their friends? theyve all grown up and become boring. now instead of legs theyve got. balls?? its a strange world we're in now
Oh, would you look at that! Someone's been here before me and replaced with of these with a standard 7-segment. I'm pondering on borrowing two working segments from the 2-digit credit display and worrying about replacing them later when I can source some 7-segments that'll fit here.
Why are (new) UK houses so expensive but so badly built?
Well the simple answer is that around 70% of the value of the average house is in the land.
So no wonder they seem cheaply & badly made for the price; they are.
What this does suggest is that finding a way to massage down land prices over time would be the best way to slowly unwind the house price crisis along with a programme of both new houses where they are needed & bringing empty homes back into use.
Taxing housebuilders properly on their banked land would be a start.
They are however also very badly built because there is a massive shortage of labour (skilled or even slightly competent). That means the building companies will take pretty much anyone however dodgy their work is.
There's also another answer to some of it - we in the UK are really good at building portakabin villages for construction work. One or two councils are playing with this for emergency housing now
Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu’s Office to Spread Israeli #Propaganda
Israel’s advertising bureau, which reports to the prime minister’s office, has embarked on a mass advertising and public messaging effort to conceal the hunger crisis. The push includes a high-dollar spending spree on paid advertising, yielding tens of millions for #Google, #YouTube, #X, #Meta, and other tech platforms.
“There is food in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie,” asserted a propaganda video published by the #Israel foreign ministry to Google’s YouTube video platform and viewed more than 6 million times. Much of the video’s reach results from an ad placed during an ongoing and previously unreported $45M advertising campaign initiated between Google and Netanyahu’s office in June.
At least 367 Palestinians, including 131 children, have died as a result of hunger and malnutrition since the war began.
Datenschutz: Rekordstrafen gegen Google & Shein wegen Cookies und Inbox-Werbung
Google muss in Frankreich 325 Millionen, der Onlinehändler Shein 150 Millionen Euro zahlen. Beide haben keine ausreichende Zustimmung für Cookies eingeholt.
Budapest International Organ Festival. Zsolt Máté Mészáros, organ, and the Szolnok Béla Bartók Women's Choir conducted by Éva Molnár perform:
Gyula FEKETE: Pensieroso.
Viktor MOLNÁR...
Oh great, another newcomer asserting that fascism can be abolished through electoral means. As if electoralism changes anything, only the proletariat, through collective class struggle and revolutionary self-emancipation, can genuinely overthrow the capitalist system that sustains fascist and oppressive conditions.
BREAKING: Washington strikes back: D.C. sues Trump for “illegal” National Guard deployment, citing a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. A California judge already ruled against him. The fight over military on America’s streets just escalated. nbcnews.com/politics/politics-… #press
Brad Pitt ha trovato una nuova alcova. Si tratta di una villa sulle colline di Hollywood per la quale ha pagato 12 milioni di dollari, due milioni in meno rispetto al prezzo richiesto inizialmente. Lo riferisce il New York Times. (ANSA)
Between "boosts" and "favorites" Mastodon now shows the number of "quote" posts.
Is this new functionality to be rolled out? And is there any information on how to block or control this (as abuse via the badly implemented quote system is one of the things I disliked about Twitter).
Sei pazienti oncologici su dieci in Italia ricevono radioterapia durante il loro percorso terapeutico attraverso i circa 185 centri in cui si opera con apparecchiature sempre più moderne, grazie anche agli investimenti del Pnrr e a iniziative ministe…
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As to bruises, I nearly always have a few. They mean for me that I'm on blood thinners from stent surgery some time ago. Perhaps Trump is on blood thinners in hopes it will get some needed blood to his brain.
Trump's agenda out in the open (as if it ever wasn't).
Germany has been notably silent on US domestic politics, it's worth observing, whereas I'd doubt the reverse is true (substitute 'Western Europe' for 'Germany' if you like - works just as well).
Οι υποτακτικοί είναι κατάλληλοι για να καταπιέζουν.
Οι Αθηναίοι χρησιμοποιούσαν ως αστυνομικούς μόνο δούλους. Όποιος ασκεί την καταπίεση ως επάγγελμα, δεν μπορεί παρά να είναι ο ίδιος ένας υποδειγματικός καταπιεσμένος. Αυτή είναι η βαθύτερη αιτία που στον στρατό και στην αστυνομία η τυφλή υπακοή και η παράλογη εκπαίδευση παίζουν τόσο μεγάλο ρόλο. Όποιος έχει συνηθίσει να κάνει ερωτήσεις, είναι κακός, καταπιεσμένος και επομένως δεν κάνει για επιστάτης. Πώς μπορεί κάποιος που στοχάζεται γύρω από τη νομιμότητα των κατεστημένων κανόνων, να χτυπάει, να μαχαιρώνει ή να πυροβολεί εργάτες, όπως απαιτούν οι νόμοι έκτακτης ανάγκης σ’ ορισμένες περιπτώσεις; Η σημερινή εκπαίδευση που γίνεται στην αστυνομία και στον στρατό είναι μια επανάληψη της διαδικασίας μετατροπής των δούλων, σε φύλακες που προδίδουν τους συντρόφους τους.
Στα ναζιστικά στρατόπεδα συγκέντρωσης, μερικοί από τους πιο έμπιστους επόπτες ήταν κρατούμενοι. Ο εκδημοκρατισμός του στρατού δεν ελαττώνει τη δύναμη κρούσης του προς τα έξω σε περίπτωση αμυντικού πολέμου, αλλά την ελαττώνει σε περίπτωση επιθετικού πολέμου, ο εκδημοκρατισμός ελαττώνει, πάνω απ’ όλα, τη δύναμη κρούσης προς τα μέσα. Δεν υπάρχει ούτε μια γνωστή ανθρώπινη κοινωνία του παρελθόντος, στην οποία το κράτος να μην ήταν ένας μηχανισμός καταπίεσης της πλειοψηφίας από μια μειοψηφία. Έτσι ήταν στη δουλοκτητική κοινωνία της Αθήνας και της Ρώμης, έτσι ήταν σ’ όλες τις φεουδαλικές κοινωνίες.
Όταν οι δουλοπάροικοι χωρικοί επαναστάτησαν, ο ιδεολόγος των τότε αφεντάδων, Μαρτίνος Λούθηρος, έγραψε: «Όποιος μπορεί, πρέπει να τους συντρίψει, να τους στραγγαλίσει και να τους μαχαιρώσει, κρυφά και φανερά, όπως σκοτώνει κανείς ένα λυσσασμένο σκυλί!». Κι αυτό ακριβώς έκαναν οι ευσεβείς πρίγκιπες με τη βοήθεια του νόμου και της τάξης, των δικαστών, των δημίων, της αστυνομίας και των στρατιωτών. Ακόμα και σήμερα οι Εκκλησίες λένε ότι κάθε εξουσία πηγάζει από τον Θεό. Σωστότερο θα ήταν να πούμε ότι κάθε Θεός πηγάζει από την εξουσία
«Η κατασκευή υπηκόων – Πως κατασκευάζεται μια γνώμη σ’ ένα κεφάλι» του Ερνστ Αλεξάντερ Ράουτερ
I’ve been posting a lot of photos of Carolina chickadees (Poecile carolinensis) lately—there’s no shortage of them around here this year. It’s fascinating to watch them dart in and out of the forest, like punctuation marks in motion.
Step into a world where even the smallest moments—like the glint in a bird's eye—tell their own story.
This week on The Servitor, Abi reads AI 2027 and Ed Zitron's "How to argue with an AI booster" and tries to find reality.
Main conclusion: Possible end of world from AI in 2027 is an awfully short timeline for doom. Doom has a lot of work to do if it wants to make its deadline.
FBI is investigating John Bolton over whether or not he illegally gathered, transmitted or lost defense information or engaged in unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material, unsealed documents show #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
Trump's Classified Documents strewn over Mar-a-Lago
Ho deciso di creare la mia istanza. In fondo è un po' come avere un social tutto per sé. Non ho idea di cosa succederà, la cosa importante è divertirsi. Finché mi diverto va tutto bene.
@snow vabbé ho anche migrato... non avevo colto che i post rimanevano di là ma non il problema non sussiste, non ho scritto grandi verità di vite ecco 🤣
Nella mia vita ho fatto tante cose, ho cambiato vita almeno 4 volte, ho conosciuto molta gente, ho visto tante cose (sempre troppo poche) ma una cosa sola ho capito: Se sei felice sei nel posto giusto
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Salzburg Festival. Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin, and Joonas Ahonen, piano, play:
SCHÖNBERG: Fantasy for Violin and Piano, Op. 47.
SATIE: Right and Left Views (without glasses).
BEETHOVEN: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 8 in G major, Op....
E mentre valuto se cedere anch'io a Silksong al day 1, nel frattempo ho finito #Cyberpunk2077. Per due mesi ho giocato solo a quello ma alla fine mi sono deciso di lasciare andare la mia V netrunner invece di procrastinare il momento dell'addio facendo tutte le attività, pure le più inutili.
Al netto di tutto è stata una bella esperienza, e verrà anche il turno del V nomade pistolero un giorno - ma direi che lascerò passare un po' di tempo prima di farmi risucchiare di nuovo da Night City 😅
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