"Idiocracy" (2006) was so far ahead of the curve...😏 View quoted note →

The curse of awareness 🚬🤔

Ansar Allah Captures Red Sea Port City of Mocha, US Ramps Up Support for Saudis, and More

On 15 September 1931 Fascist Italy staged Omar al Mukhtar's trial and the next day it hanged the 73 year old before thousands of Libyans. In the courtroom the following dialogue occurred: Did you fight against the Italian state? Omar al-Mukhtar: Yes. Did you encourage people to fight against the Italian state? Omar al-Mukhtar: Yes. How many years did you fight against Italy? Omar al-Mukhtar: About 20 years. Do you regret what you did? Omar al-Mukhtar: No. Do you know that you will be executed? Omar al-Mukhtar: Yes. Surprised, the judge said: It is very sad for a man like you to meet such an end… Omar al-Mukhtar replied: On the contrary! This is the most beautiful way for my life to end. The judge then offered to acquit him and send him into exile if he wrote a declaration ordering the resistance fighters to end their struggle. Omar al-Mukhtar responded with his famous words: “These fingers, which testify in every prayer that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad (peace be upon him) is His Messenger, can never write anything false! We do not surrender: we either win or die. Even if we die, we win, while you lose. The bitter truth is that you will understand this only when you die, and by then, it will be of no use to you!”

Just in case you have no plans for the weekend, here is something to play with... "It's been over four years since the original release of Zenwalk 15.0 while released today is a new Zenwalk Current Milestone snapshot. This Slackware-based Linux distribution with a long history has an exciting update out for testing this weekend." https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zenwalk-2026-Current #linux #slackware

Creepy but true 😁

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"Ronald Sakolsky, an American teacher, once donated 5,000 dollars to Yin Yuzhen, a Chinese woman who fought desertification. 26 years later, his donation became 50,000 trees. This is not just a story of environmental protection, but also a story of Sino-US cooperation and friendship." https://thechinaacademy.org/5000-dollars-they-turned-desert-into-an-oasis/

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Hard to believe when you look at the long history of US/NATO terrorists targeting weddings... “The U.S. military never targets civilians, unlike the IRGC,” said U.S. Central Command spokesperson Tim Hawkins, in response to reports of the strike. However, the missile apparently used in the strike has been advertised as the U.S. Navy’s “most accurate weapon.” https://truthout.org/articles/us-fatally-bombs-wedding-in-iran-killing-4-including-children/#:~:text=Another%20wedding%20procession%20was%20a%20victim%20of,has%20struck%20at%20least%20eight%20wedding%20parties

A beautiful visualization what taxes, fees etc. do to your salary.

Having enough of the government tampering with the weather and the clouds? Build your own Cloudbuster! I mean the fact that the government put the inventor in prison and burned his books should be enough evidence that this thing works!

A good way to show how American democracy works? 🤔

"The voting is over and there is a winner now known in the much-debated Debian General Resolution voting over an AI policy for the Linux distribution." https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-Responsible-AI-Use #Debian #Linux

In Yemen they check if you brought your gun. Based.

Just a reminder 😌

"It’s very important to not be confused by who the enemies of civilization are. There is lots of confusion: is the enemy Israel, or maybe the enemy is China or maybe the enemy is Russia or maybe the enemy is the United States or the EU… or some maybe say that it is the right wing, billionaires or the left-wing billionaires…. Occam’s razor is the principal that should also be applied when investigating these topics. Often times we love to get sucked into very elaborate conspiracies, and then we think we know something because we can tie a string obsessively from one thing to the next. More than anything when we try to pigeonhole it and don’t actually look at the systemic mentality, the thought process of what defines the oligarchy, we get into finger pointing and a self-defeating mentality. Perfect when you consider from the standpoint of oligarchy that it’s always better to keep the masses controlled. Unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, human change is not fast, it is slow. Often times it is not our days or weeks, but measured in centuries and millennia. Therefore, I direct people to think about these things more systemically as opposed to their favorite bad guy of the moment. Go back to the Venetian Empire and the Serenissima Republica. A pillar of the oligarchical system is the family fortune, or fondo, as it is called in Italian. The continuity of the family fortune which earns money through usury and looting is often more important than the biological continuity across generations of the family that owns the fortune. In Venice, the largest fondo was the endowment of the Basilica of St. Mark, which was closely associated with the Venetian state treasury, and which absorbed the family fortunes of nobles who died without heirs. This fondo was administered by the procurers of St. Mark, whose position was one of the most powerful under the Venetian system. Around this central fondowere grouped the individual family fortunes of the great oligarchical families, such as the Mocenigo, the Cornaro, the Dandolo, the Contarini, the Morosini, the Zorzi, and the Tron. Until the end of the Eighteenth century, the dozen or so wealthiest Venetian families had holdings comparable or superior to the very wealthiest families anywhere in Europe. When the Venetian oligarchy transferred many of its families and assets to northern Europe, the Venetian fondi provided the nucleus of the great Bank of Amsterdam, which dominated Europe during the Seventeenth century, and of the Bank of England, which became the leading bank of the Eighteenth century. That is the grandfather of the system that runs the world today, regardless of the label, it is still centered in the city of London and Wall Street from the standpoint of the financial control. It’s literally the financial flow that run things. It’s the current financial system itself, which is dying that is fighting to keep itself in existence." (Source EastCalling)

"Europe is building a new payment system because it has learned that financial dependence can become political submission. Wero, a bank-backed service spreading through several European markets, is the most visible part of that effort. Its expansion is traceable, but much of its scale has been inherited through the closure or migration of payment services people already used; its rules remain largely in private hands, and some of the foreign dependencies Europe claims to be escaping still sit beneath the European name." https://21stcenturywire.com/2026/08/18/europes-new-payment-masters-the-banks-preparing-for-a-post-visa-europe/

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