George Clooney is an actor.
Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.
Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.
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"But one of the starkest findings of the report is that the ultra-rich 0.001% control three times the wealth of the poorest half of humanity. Not only that, their wealth is growing at a faster rate – close to 5%, compared with 3.4%. (...)
But to give an idea of the disparity, the image below shows how big the bottom half is. Each dot represents one stadium of 56,000 people."
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‘The 0.001%’: a quick visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people
About 56,000 people control three times as much wealth as half of humanity. Here’s one way to illustrate thatOliver Holmes (The Guardian)
The image is a solid field of small, repeating squares. The squares are primarily green, with a slightly darker shade interspersed throughout, creating a textured, grid-like pattern. The squares are arranged in a uniform manner, covering the entire image area with no visible borders or empty space. There are no other elements or text present in the image. It appears to be a digital pattern or texture fill.
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Ma no, che attacco. È solo un'operazione militare speciale (cit.)
Attacco USA Venezuela, la temperatura sale: gli scenari futuroprossimo.it/2025/12/atta…
Attacco USA Venezuela, la temperatura sale: gli scenari
Il Center for Strategic Studies calcola "molto probabile" un attacco missilistico USA al Venezuela. Proviamo a capire insieme.Gianluca Riccio (FuturoProssimo)
Ein Landschaftsbild, das durch einen Rahmen von grünen Blättern betrachtet wird. Im Vordergrund befindet sich eine Person, die mit dem Rücken zum Betrachter steht und auf eine Wiese blickt. Hinter der Person befindet sich ein großer Teich oder See, der von Hügeln und Bäumen umgeben ist. Im Hintergrund sind Berge zu sehen. Der Text auf dem Bild lautet: „The longer you spend in tech, the stronger the urge to buy a farm and never touch a computer again“.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 14th of December: Share how you tackle a first round of revisions.
The first round usually occurs when I'm copying a disjointed draft from a notebook onto my computer, and then I adjust as I go.
One sick motherfucker.
Trump Scraps Abolition Coins, Features Himself Instead
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Trump Scraps Abolition Coins, Features Himself Instead
The Trump administration nixed commemorative coins meant to honor abolitionists and women in favor of honoring more old white men.The New Republic
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Living conditions are better in the country regions near Montbrison than they are in Saint Etienne from which this family was transferred
#Montbrison #SaintEtienne #Photography #LewisHine #ChildLabour #ChildLabor
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Collettivo studentesco CRAVOS contro il ritorno della leva obbligatoria l Osservatorio contro la militarizzazione delle scuole e delle università
The richest man in the world, 500 years ago.
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How the world's first global trader, Jakob Fugger, got rich
Some 500 years ago, Jakob Fugger was the richest man alive. The German financed emperors and popes, and reshaped global trade and banking to set the economic course for the modern world.Thomas Kohlmann (Deutsche Welle)
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Sta tornando Pinochet? Il Cile decide oggi
Il Paese che sognava una nuova Costituzione ora rischia di consegnarsi alla destra più dura e guardare al passato più nero.AndreaCegna (Il Finestrino - lo sguardo sul mondo di e con Andrea Cegna)
'We ain't buying it': It's time for an all-out food fight with Trump
alternet.org/trump-food-fight/
#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #AmericanFascistParty #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
'We ain't buying it': It's time for an all-out food fight with Trump
Hunger has a funny way of concentrating the attention.The cost of food and cutbacks in the provision of food for those who need it have been drivers of mass protest throughout much of history: One of the events initiating the French Revolution was th…Jeremy Brecher (Alternet.org)
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
Dnipropetrovsk region governor shows damage from Russian attacks Shown in
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, drone and artillery strikes by Russian forces damaged homes, a business, and vehicles. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
Una storia di ejecta in Arabia Terra settentrionale
L'obiettivo è esaminare l'ejecta proveniente da un cratere ben conservato. Si tratta di un luogo ideale per l'acquisizione di immagini perché è poco coperto da polvere, quindi sono visibili molti dettagli.
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Una storia di ejecta in Arabia Terra settentrionale
L’obiettivo di questa osservazione è esaminare l’ejecta proveniente da un cratere ben conservato.umberto gaetani (La macchina del tempo)
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Dec-13: Calibri Too Woke
Ik blijf nog een beetje bij het wappie-regiem, dat in de USA de lakens uitdeelt. Een discipel van Mr T, Marco Rubio, heeft bedacht dat het lettertype calibri te woke is en dus vervangen moet worden…ximaar
I was trying to hide the description, what with it being Silent Sunday. It's also the only photo of me I'm likely to post on here (as it shows my fabulous knees).
Le metropolitane non possono più dipendere da norme speciali e deroghe.
A Mobilitiamo Roma, l’assessore Eugenio Patané chiede un sistema di finanziamenti strutturali e continuativi, indispensabili per programmare e completare la rete.
Un tema centrale per il futuro della mobilità romana.
🔗 odisseaquotidiana.com/2025/12/…
#Roma #Metropolitane #TrasportoPubblico @roma
Metropolitane: “Basta norme speciali, servono finanziamenti strutturali”
L'appello all’assessore Patané durante l’evento Mobilitiamo Roma. Ascolta "Metro C a rischio: Roma tra tagli, cantieri e tes...Andrea (Blogger)
Ein Bild zeigt eine Warnmeldung von „Qwant+“. Der Text lautet: „Sie wurden blockiert.“ Darunter steht: „Warum diese Blockade? Etwas im Verhalten des Browsers hat uns stutzig gemacht.“ Es folgen drei mögliche Ursachen: „Sie surfen und klicken mit übermenschlicher Geschwindigkeit“, „irgendetwas blockiert die Funktionsweise von JavaScript auf Ihrem Computer“ und „es befindet sich ein Roboter im selben Netzwerk (IP 196.245.151.215) wie Sie“. Unter dem Text befindet sich der Hinweis: „Probleme beim Zugriff auf die Website? Wenden Sie sich an den Support.“ Am unteren Rand befindet sich die ID: „0eea4f23-ac86-d10f-cbbb-b1c651693c8d“.
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I'm not quite sure how I'm feeling about my current mastodon instance. It's on v4.1.13 which is ancient, unsupported, and missing nice QoL features.
(What about security?)
I'm not complaining though, I know well enough how cumbersome and time-consuming it can be to keep self-hosted stuff moderately up-to-date. That's the main reason why I haven't tried (yet?) running my own instance.
So.... I don't know. Maybe I'll consider yet another migration. Which is one of the nicer features of Mastodon!
I'll probably slim it down by removing cache and messages older than 2 years as it seems most don't really care about keeping very old messages.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll be patient then. It's interesting to hear about the disk space required by a moderately small instance.
RIP my bookmarks. (No, I'm joking, they're not that important, and for my own posts I have even configured an auto-delete...)
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Certains de nos ami.e.s de la bande de Gaza rencontrent des problèmes avec le site Gofundme qui s'amuse à bloquer l'argent de leurs cagnottes... Certain.e.s préfèrent donc changer de site par sécurité, c'est le cas de mon amie @eslamradwan1_D_5 qui vient de migrer vers chuffed; son nouveau lien=>chuffed.org/project/161617-abdo
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I wasn't aware there was a problem with my
campaign link, and all donations got stuck.
I haven't received donations for the last week.
#SoSadAboutThat😔😭
I created a new link until the problem is fixed.
#Be_the_first_donor_here🙏🙏
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#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #israel #genocide #famine #mutualAid
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@ravensrodHelp my family live out of Gaza
I'm Islam Radwan from Gaza, I'm married to three children. In the 34 years of my life, I have witnessed 5 brutal wars and many escalations.Chuffed
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in reply to Mx. Eddie R • • •E.g. Donald Trump is a son of a billionaire in buildings sector...
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in reply to Mx. Eddie R • • •A counter-example (with actors stepping in and doing "the job") is Galaxy Quest.
That's a documentary film, right?
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in reply to Mx. Eddie R • • •Oh that's well said.
When you ask a pet parrot "Who's a pretty bird?" and the bird excitedly responds, "Pretty bird! Pretty bird!" you are having more of a real conversation with avian intelligence than you are with AI. But human beings are so easily fooled by good grammar and syntax that if you could teach a bird to respond, "You know, Sooz, I've thought about this a bit and it occurs to me that I am indeed a pretty bird," most humans would assume it understood exactly what it was saying. They would be blinded by eloquence.
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