MUNICH (AP) — A top European Union official on Sunday rejected the notion that Europe faces “civilizational erasure,” pushing back at criticism of the continent by the Trump administration. ...
Does alien life exist somewhere? Yes. Absolutely. It would be impossible for it not to given the size of the universe and the laws of probability.
Is that alien life multicellular? Again. Yes. For the same reason as above. In a functionally infinite universe, the roll of the dice is going to come up at least a few times.
Is that alien life intelligent? Maybe. But in my opinion, probably. Intelligent life arose here after many many stops and starts. It's probably that given enough kicks at the can, multicellular life can evolve intelligence on any planet where it arises if the conditions are right.
Has that intelligent life visited us? No. No intelligent life has ever left their own solar system except possibly in the form or a one-way generation ship.
Life evolves, either biologically or technologically, because of competition for resources. From the most basic amoeba competing for the heat from a steam vent at the bottom of an ocean, to humans competing for oil and minerals, life is about resources gathering.
So what happens when we finally are able to access the resources of the solar system, which are effectively limitless (at least from a human perspective)? Nothing. We stagnate. There's no impetus to go further than that. Scientists may want to. But pure science is a myth. People paying the bills are what drive us forward. and it's reasonable to assume that any life that evolves would do so facing the same pressures.
Thirty airstrikes by mid-February mark an unprecedented rate of US attacks in Somalia. President Trump launched a total of 124 airstrikes in Somalia in 2025, according to AFRICOM numbers, breaking the previous annual record for airstrikes in the country, which he set at 63 in 2019. If the current pace keeps up, Trump will ...
It legitimately took me a second for my brain to un-break itself when I looked at the photo. First thinking...something's not right here....and not for even a moment thinking it would be something as stupid as putting the heat-sink on the case fan... Then the realisation that yes...it really is something that stupid.
It absolutely sucks, but from a company perspective it's not about greed, it's about legal liability. If they provide food to a charity and someone gets sick from it, they are responsible for it. So the legal danger of giving away your "close to be expired" food is fraught with corporate danger.
Does it suck. Yes. Absolutely. But Joe opened them up to a potential lawsuit.
I don't know if things have changed, since I haven't used windows since Windows 7 and I've only sporadically touched macs, but the other day I dragged my clock from one side of my desktop to the other on Manjaro and a staff member looking over my shoulder freaked out like I was a warlock.
Vladimir Putin has no desire to halt Russia’s almost 4-year-old invasion of neighboring Ukraine and thinks he can “outsmart” the United States during talks with Washington about how to end the war, a senior European intelligence official told The Associated Press. ...
/e/OS is not bad as an alternative. The system wide ad and tracker blocking is nice.
I switched to e/os on a couple of motorolas that supported it and it's great so far.
The comparisons to GrapheneOS are fair to some degree, but also not. Graphene is meant to be privacy and security hardened, whereas e/OS, while it is more secure than regular android, is more concerned with privacy hardening. The biggest misconception people have seems to be thinking that privacy and security are the same thing; and while that is true on the surface level, security (a la GrapheneOS) goes much deeper.
So while my phone may not be as "hack resistant" as a GrapheneOS, it's degoogled and very protective of tracking, which is what I'm primarily concerned with. So I'm happy.
Good lord. People can talk a lot of shit about changing body standards, and how Marilyn would be overweight by today's standards and all that crap, but you know what? She's fucking timeless. She was and forever will be one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen.
Indirectly, yes. How is the infrastructure of your town/city maintained. Is it falling apart or is it in good condition. Do the richer neighbourhoods coincidentally see more city workers updating their plumbing while you sometimes have to flush twice to get it all down because of unmaintained pipes, and are therefore paying a higher water bill as a result?
But that's exactly the point. That would be what people who vote would look for in a local election. What's this politicians stance on spending money on ageing infrastructure. (For example)
We're not saying its "progressive" or "conservative" just that everything is political at the end of that day.
My father built our first house on an acreage in 1984. He chose to put in a wood furnace because we were surrounded by trees. One of my strongest memories is being in the basement stacking wood as he passed it down through a hatch he built into the wall of the garage.
Except that they're not wrong. Whoever this Jes Stanley is, back in 2014 he read the metaphorical room perfectly. Western culture will put up with anything as long as they keep getting shiny new toys every year.
Bitching and moaning on a website isn't productive. Going out a filming a weekend protest on the brand new iPhone you purchased that week isn't productive. It's literally the epitome of what this guy was talking about. The addiction to ephemeral trivialities.
You protest Trump and yell your slogans about Epstein and in the end it does nothing because the people you SHOULD be targetting is the oligarchs and billionaires that pay him.
Trump is just another distraction from the root of the problem; another rage-bait to keep you distracted.
Until we are dragging billionaires into the streets en-mass, your protests mean precisely fuck-all. But anything more than just marching with a sign would require putting people's creature comforts at risk, and that's anathema in the west.
That would be because I'm Canadian. And no, that's not bitching and moaning, that's rightfully pointing out that while Ukraine and Gaza are living in demolished homes and unheated homes without electricity because they're fighting fascists, Americans won't do anymore more than performative marching because it might mean they lose their creature comforts and shiny toys.
The country is already in a civil war. But only one side is fighting it. And that's why the body count is on their side.
Books themselves aren’t going anywhere, or so I keep telling myself and fervently hoping despite all the evidence humanity’s collective brains are dissolving into a stew of slop and influence.
For a very long time I've realised that my ebook reader didn't replace hardcover books for me. It just replaced those paperback books that you only intend to read once on an airplane; basically the bailiwick of mass-market-paperbacks.
So, sad as it is, it makes sense that paperbacks are seeing a steep decline. They're the most susceptible to ebooks.
At least not casually; flying between star systems at will, faster than light between star systems, etc...
I'm sure at some point, if scientists confirm the habitibility of a world orbiting a star relatively nearby, some group or other would probably get a Generation Ship concept going and head out. Musk or some other fucking billionaire looking for a world to conquer. So technically that is interstellar travel, but not really as it's just a one way point to point, not a taxi service.
That being said, being named after a dance is just one theory. Truth is no one remembers anymore.
Growing up in Saskatchewan, my brain almost naturally began to delineate a difference between hooded sweaters with a zipper (hoodie) and hooded sweaters without a zipper (bunny hug). It's a completely arbitrary naming convention that my brain decided to pull from its ass one day. But it stuck and I continue to use it.
While the New Mexico Department of Health said it can't pinpoint the baby's exact cause of death, officials believe it could have been linked to the mother's drinking raw milk during pregnancy. ...
This is survival of the poorly educated, poorly resourced, poorly connected communities.
Or this is the "find out" moment for a MAGA housewife who spent the last year cheering on RFK Junior and yellilng about the "woke agenda" of pasteurization.
The point is, we don't know. But since RAW milk is both more expensive AND more inconvenient to obtain, I'm going to go with my theory over a poor mother.
[ 2958.891985] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations module parameter is set. System Power Management attempted without driver procfs suspend interface. Please refer to the 'Configuring Power Management Support' section in the driver README.
PSU is 750. Heck, with the exception of the GPU it's the second most expensive part in the old girl. I upgraded it a few years back when I installed a more powerful fan for cooling.
its been more than enough for this setup for the last few years since then. Which basically confirms my suspicion that the PSU has crapped the bed.
The Department of Justice left multiple unredacted photos of fully nude women or girls exposed as part of Friday’s dump of more than 3.5 million pages of files related to the investigations and prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Unlike the majority of the images in the released files, both the nudity and ...
I don't disagree that they're incompetent. But in this particular case what they're doing isn't incompetent at all. Surely you've noticed that anything in there that has Trumps name next to it is all things that couldn't be corroborated. Or things that couldn't be followed up on for one reason it another.
They took his name off from anything that was potentially investigated and proven, and left the "she says.." statements that have had no investigative follow-up so they can say "look how honest we are. Yes he's in there but none of it is actually provable"
Its a greasy, and slimy and frankly pure evil scheme. But its not an incompetent one.
The only issue with Unions is a corporate system that has spent decades on a campaign of misinformation and vilification.
Never forget that its unions that gave you a five day work week, 8 hour days, and child labour laws.
Nothing is given by a corporation out of the kindness of their heart. And nothing makes them more gleeful than listening to people repeat their anti-union screed.
I get that government use needs to be stringently tested for security, and so things take a little longer. But really, there are PLENTY of good FOSS products in existence that can be used as a base framework and a head-start to things like this.
You don't have to re-invent the wheel when you could easily fork Jitsi-meet and harden it/secure it to your needs in the government.
Jitsi is one of my top 5 FOSS projects that are basically already mature enough to be used in a professional setting
There’s this meme from a while ago that observes the fact that the 80’s and early 90’s weren’t as colourful and flashy as most media make them out to be. In fact almost everything ranging from clothing to furniture to advertising was a drab shade ranging between dark brown to orange. ...
Chesterfield actually. "Davenport" was a name brand of chesterfiled-style-sofa that became popular enough to become synonymous (Like Kleenex became synonymous with tissues, or Chapagne became synonymous with almost any bubbly wine)
Europeans push back at US over claim they face ‘civilizational erasure’ ( apnews.com )
MUNICH (AP) — A top European Union official on Sunday rejected the notion that Europe faces “civilizational erasure,” pushing back at criticism of the continent by the Trump administration. ...
Barack Obama says aliens ‘are real’, but not in Area 51 ( www.newsweek.com )
US Bombs Somalia for 30th Time This Year ( news.antiwar.com )
Thirty airstrikes by mid-February mark an unprecedented rate of US attacks in Somalia. President Trump launched a total of 124 airstrikes in Somalia in 2025, according to AFRICOM numbers, breaking the previous annual record for airstrikes in the country, which he set at 63 in 2019. If the current pace keeps up, Trump will ...
Pokemon Go Dev Removes Pokestop From Epstein's Island ( www.gamespot.com )
Little Saint James no longer has a Pokestop after players called attention to its Jeffrey Epstein connections.
What member of a major musical group would be most helpful if you were together in a spaceship where something was going wrong?
DIY
10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town
MacOS is the worst Operating System
It can't do the literal entire thing an operating system is supposed to do: manage applications and their resulting windows, in a sensible way. ...
Putin thinks he can outsmart the US during Ukraine peace talks, a European intelligence chief says ( apnews.com )
Vladimir Putin has no desire to halt Russia’s almost 4-year-old invasion of neighboring Ukraine and thinks he can “outsmart” the United States during talks with Washington about how to end the war, a senior European intelligence official told The Associated Press. ...
I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too ( www.androidcentral.com )
Trump threatens to bar the new US-Canada bridge from opening, demands talks with Ottawa ( www.reuters.com )
Marilyn Monroe tries archery. Photo by Anthony Beauchamp, 1951.
What are your thoughts on apolitical people?
I chopped some wood today
When the quiet part comes out...
The death of the mass market paperback, the people’s books ( nikdirga.com )
Books themselves aren’t going anywhere, or so I keep telling myself and fervently hoping despite all the evidence humanity’s collective brains are dissolving into a stew of slop and influence.
Weather App of Choice?
Curious what everyone here uses for their weather app or website of choice ?
Do you think intergalactic travel will ever be possible?
The World Factbook (surprisingly useful reference provided by CIA, just suddenly closed without notice) ( en.wikipedia.org )
Why Saskatchewan calls a hooded sweatshirt a 'bunny hug' ( nationalpost.com )
Not new, but I looked it up today and thought you might find it interesting.
Epstein conspirator Steve Bannon: “We‘re gonna have ICE surround the polls…We’ll never again allow an election to be stolen.” ( cdn.social.linux.pizza )
Source
Mike Johnson Just Tried To Correct The Pope On The Bible. Seriously. ( www.huffpost.com )
New Mexico warns against consuming raw milk after newborn dies from listeria ( www.nbcnews.com )
While the New Mexico Department of Health said it can't pinpoint the baby's exact cause of death, officials believe it could have been linked to the mother's drinking raw milk during pregnancy. ...
Message to Epstein: "Thank you for a fun night... Your littlest girl was a little naughty." ( altmedia.house )
CPU spikes at rest causing the mouse to move in jerks and starts.
Need some advice. ...
DOJ Released Unredacted Nude Images in Epstein Files ( www.404media.co )
The Department of Justice left multiple unredacted photos of fully nude women or girls exposed as part of Friday’s dump of more than 3.5 million pages of files related to the investigations and prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Unlike the majority of the images in the released files, both the nudity and ...
Call of Duty microtransactions were pushed for by Jeffrey Epstein ( www.msn.com )
People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions.
You can't touch a single police officer without them throwing a hissy fit and shutting everything down.
It's 1:00am and Donald Trump is awake furiously posting on social media about the Grammys...
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Exclusive: Sean Astin Issues Major AI Warning – It’s a ‘Certainty’ That Actors Will Be ‘Injured’ by the Technology, the SAG-AFTRA President Says ( www.techradar.com )
France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom ( itsfoss.com )
La Suite Meet: https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet
Everything was indeed brown.
There’s this meme from a while ago that observes the fact that the 80’s and early 90’s weren’t as colourful and flashy as most media make them out to be. In fact almost everything ranging from clothing to furniture to advertising was a drab shade ranging between dark brown to orange. ...
NASA delays the first Artemis moonshot with astronauts because of extreme cold at the launch site ( phys.org )