The Wall Street Journal had reported that Ukraine had given in to pressure from the White House to stop bombing Russian energy infrastructure.

Ukrainian officials, however, told the Kyiv Independent newspaper that they never agreed to a demand from Jared Kushner, the US president’s son-in-law, to pause refinery strikes for 30 days. The raids on Russia restarted on Friday, Kremlin officials said, complaining that Kyiv was now “simply ignoring” US wishes.

Trump has blamed the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for the rise in global fuel prices, and last month lifted US sanctions on Russian diesel.

Guess what? People go to bathrooms to use the toilet, fix their makeup, fix their hair or just be alone. Normal human things like that, not to cause anyone any trouble...

We should have a global Land Value Tax on the top 1%.

We should have a global Land Value Tax on the top 1%.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/53805489

Oof, I think I might have messed up on the actors' ID's above, so let me try again:

Patrick Stewart : Lord Leo de Grance
Helen Mirren : Morgana le Fey
Liam Neeson : Sir Gawain

Movie moment: the freshly-minted King Arthur (Nigel Terry) dramatically saves de Grance's castle, life and kin via one of the most unbelievable movie moments ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAIeh0YarFs

I tried for about twenty minutes to come up with an image that would be completely and perfectly symmetrical. However, the frustrating thing is that the building is symmetrical in suggestion only. Everything about it is off by a couple centimeters, no matter how carefully I set the tripod and how perfectly I lined it up.

At some point, between the construction of the building and the shutter snapping, a mistake was made, at least one.

And I will just have to live with imperfections, and that’s okay.

Thanks for seeing my work!

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We should have a global Land Value Tax on the top 1%.

Russia has opened a terrorism case over a Ukrainian attack on an industrial facility in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

Earlier, the region's governor said an unnamed facility had sustained "significant damage" after a "massive" drone attack.

Ukrainian media reported the attack had hit the Kstovo oil refinery, calling it "one of Russia's largest".

From betraying Ukraine and dispatching masked agents who killed Americans to deporting US citizens and pulling out of accords controlling climate change and Iranian nuclear weapons, the list of Donald Trump’s abuses is long and growing still longer, seemingly by the day.

Looking back decades from now, historians will see that at the top of this shameful list is Trump’s utter abuse of his pardon power. It started on the first day of his second term, when he pardoned more than 1,500 insurrectionists who, on 6 January 2021, had stormed the US Capitol.

More recently, as documented in astonishing accounts by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and 60 Minutes, Trump has overseen a robust pardons market in which friends or relatives of criminals offer to pay millions for presidential clemency.

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Github redlib thread still unfolding. From reddit shareholder letter,

And a key piece of work to retain new audiences is shifting Reddit to a logged-in-only experience.

Most on lemmy know the privacy and bot-infested dumpster fire reddit is. So it's very easy to think good riddance. But that misses an important point. IMO.

Inspite of the dumpster fire, it also contains a huge body of knowledge not found anywhere else. Example. Many times I have searched for a super obscure error message and the only good hits were a reddit thread in a tech sub. This is formerly open knowledge, accessible privately, now being closed and locked behind logins.

In old web forum days, weird niche info was distributed all over. That made it robust. Big tech social media displaced most of that world. It all got centralized. No matter hjow awful their algorithms are, no matter how toxic, those sites do have riches of knowledge.

We ARE losing something, if open access to niche info created by normal ppl is cut off.

"Ppl will figure a way around" you may say. There is no way to win that fight in the long run.