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City fines Montreal church for hosting MAGA-affiliated singer Sean Feucht
Montreal fined a local church $2.5K for hosting U.S. Christian singer Sean Feucht, whose MAGA ties sparked protests and permit cancellations across Canada.globalnewsdigital (Global News)
Mary Kay goes electric with new Pink Cadillac OPTIQ (cue the music)
Mark Kay's iconic Pink Cadillac awards are driving into the future for 2025. Meet the company's first-ever electric Pink Cadillac OPTIQ.Jo Borrรกs (Electrek)
Mullin Says Obama Was President During Epstein Plea Deal (He Wasn't)
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Mullin Says Obama Was President During Epstein Plea Deal (He Wasn't)
Sen. Markwayne Mullin repeatedly blamed Obama for the sweetheart plea deal Jeffrey Epstein got in 2008, when George W. Bush was president.Peter Wade (Rolling Stone)
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The image is a two-panel political cartoon. In the first panel, a man labeled "THE RICH" is seated at a table with a plate in front of him, smiling widely. A large elephant, dressed as a waiter, is holding a plate with a piggy bank labeled "TAX CUTS" on it. The second panel shows a family labeled "WORKING CLASS" at the same table, with a shocked expression on their faces. The elephant waiter is now holding a plate with a yellow bird labeled "PBS" on it. The family is screaming "AAAAAAHHH!" The cartoon uses visual metaphors to comment on tax cuts and their impact on different social classes.
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The image is a political cartoon depicting a scene with several elements. In the foreground, a character resembling Donald Trump, dressed in a blue suit and red tie, is holding a torch and pointing towards the Statue of Liberty. He is shouting, "SHE'S A WITCH...!" The Statue of Liberty is shown bound with ropes, with a baseball bat strapped to its back, and the pedestal labeled "DEMOCRACY." In the background, a group of people, some wearing red caps, are marching with torches, suggesting a protest or rally. The cartoon uses symbolism to convey a message about political figures and democracy.
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Bat Ponies Were Planned for MLP G5
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The cleaning continues
So when cleaning my husband's desks (work and home) and bag, I've been finding some money...
Yeah, coins, paper, foreign as well as US, savings bonds, gift cards and certificates, and credit/bank cards. Need to figure out if'n there's anything valuable here and what to do with the foreign currency, any ideas? Paper currency's current stack is over $200, plus what I have in my wallet, and what little bit I've spent so far.
I also really need help sorting here, I've collected 9 collapsible cube storage bins worth of stuff that needs further sorting, and I'm not done yet, though I am running out of places to put stuff. Anyone in #STL up for a sorting party, especially someone who wants to take a lead on figuring out how best to further sort this stuff? I'll pay for the pizza, and within reason, anyone what helps can take what they want.
I've got help to deal with the comics, I've made 3 short boxes from his desks so far, and I think I've found all the loose ones, but there's still this downstairs:
Some stuff has already been set aside to figure out what to do with it, like his collection of fountain pens and ink, I've given a shout on Messenger to the STL Pen Show in hopes that they can help me figure out what to do with those. Craft stuff I'm giving his family first dibs. Ditto for clothes, after that...
Anyone in the furry community want to help with that side of things? We've got prints around here as well as MFM memorabilia, and possibly other stuff.
#STL #Mo #missouri #help #fountainpen
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Generally good, but a few painful points in it.
Like his explanation of why we use command line...
it's not "because legacy" and such. However he phrased that gist.
It's because (among many reasons), it's easier to share help how to do something as a command, than a sequence of steps to go through with a gui, that may not even be a very universally used gui.
And easier to follow the help as a command (... generally can merely copy & paste).
And from having the command, you are then given more avenues to explore deeper understanding of what it's doing more up front (e.g. can run man, or tldr, or info, or whereis, or whatis, or apropos, and so on, on the command(s) and its(/their) various parts, or even try a -h or --help option after the command... reading the fun manual is good).
With Command Line Interface (cli), rather than Graphical User Interface (gui), the distance to being empowered and learning more, is far shorter, with far fewer hurdles in the way. I know it seems like the gui's the easier way, but it's only easy at the initial shallow front it offers, and it's surprisingly not faster ... "but i click, it does it, just one click, no typing" ha! how many clicks can you do, how much nuance of control is there in your click... only what the gui provides? no depth of potential to create whatever possibilities the linguistic nature of stringing commands together. And how much resources are used~ is the gui always responsive, like the command line is?
[If you were to] Try to get to a similar level of depth of capability and competence with a gui as availed in the command line, then you're going the hard long way around, having to reprogram your gui (probably in something like C, or maybe rust, and needing to know about all kinds of graphical toolkits, libraries and whatever system inner workings doodads and things). Which would indeed be great. Do that. Build and adapt guis to your liking and share them. Great contribution, great learning experience. But I'll carry on taking the easier, more expedient path, and keep using the command line. ;)
Little by little it grows, and before you know it, you're quite proficient with the command line, and no longer even want to do things through the gui, because you can do it faster and easier on the command line.
Even more so when using a shell like fish, or have run "oh-my-zsh" or "oh-my-bash" to spruce up your zsh or bash shell configurations, to have all kinds of pleasant auto-completion wonders to really expedite completing commands, way faster than typing, even faster than mere tab-completion... the wonders in store for the newcomers... they just dont know, yet. :)
Why do we tend towards cli preference over gui?
"Text is a universal interface" -- Doug McIlroy (paraphrased reduction), as part of the unix philosophy.
... Call that "because legacy" if you like, I think the "because" of it has nothing to do with legacy, and [the philosophy] is true, new, today, as it was then. "Do one thing well", too.
Not that everything need follow this philosophy, and of course many things don't, and that's the beauty of freedom. But it is very nice when there's that deep interoperability. :)
Baltimore Shows You Can Bring Down Murder Rates Without Throwing More Cops At The Problem
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![The image shows two tweets from a user named Michael Kofi A., with the handle [@]MikeKofiA. The tweets are displayed on a black background with white text.</p><p>The first tweet reads: "Fun Fact: The founders of this country had no intention of letting anybody outside of their class vote. White men who did not own land could not participate in the democratic process until 1856."</p><p>The second tweet states: "The revolution was not a war of liberation it was a change in management from the British aristocracy to the American bourgeoisie."](https://blog.taursnd.haus/photo/832940891868842809a0c7c341553188-0.jpeg "The image shows two tweets from a user named Michael Kofi A., with the handle [@]MikeKofiA. The tweets are displayed on a black background with white text.</p><p>The first tweet reads: \"Fun Fact: The founders of this country had no intention of letting anybody outside of their class vote. White men who did not own land could not participate in the democratic process until 1856.\"</p><p>The second tweet states: \"The revolution was not a war of liberation it was a change in management from the British aristocracy to the American bourgeoisie.\"")
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Some CharacTaur commissions!ย People seem to really like the dragon-themed ones. โ @deesketchs on Tumblr
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![The image shows a social media post by Samuel Sinyangwe, whose Twitter handle is [@]samswey. The post features a profile picture of a man with a beard, wearing a dark shirt, and a blue verification checkmark next to his name. The text of the post reads: "1 in every 3 people killed by a stranger is killed by a police officer. So you might think the biggest threat to your life is some random shooter or gang. But the one organized group that is most likely to shoot and kill you is the police, and it's not even close." The background of the post is white, and the text is in black font.](https://blog.taursnd.haus/photo/2433127235688418f9e7ac4295369179-0.jpeg "The image shows a social media post by Samuel Sinyangwe, whose Twitter handle is [@]samswey. The post features a profile picture of a man with a beard, wearing a dark shirt, and a blue verification checkmark next to his name. The text of the post reads: \"1 in every 3 people killed by a stranger is killed by a police officer. So you might think the biggest threat to your life is some random shooter or gang. But the one organized group that is most likely to shoot and kill you is the police, and it's not even close.\" The background of the post is white, and the text is in black font.")
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100K ice cream bars recalled in 23 states, including N.J. due to listeria - nj.com
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Ice cream recalled nationwide: Donโt eat these 10 ice cream bars
More than 100,000 ice cream bars are being recalled in 23 states including New Jersey.Katherine Rodriguez | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com (nj)
Over half of MPs suspected by NABU backed law curbing anti-corruption agency's independence
More than half of the #Ukrainian lawmakers named in #corruption probes by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) voted in favor of a controversial law dismantling the #independence of the bureau, ZN.UA reported on July 23.Civil society groups, opposition lawmakers, and international partners have condemned the move, calling it a threat to Ukraine's #anti-corruption gains and #EU integration path.
According to public records:
- 31 sitting or former members of the current parliament are suspected of corruption by NABU
- Of those:
-- 18 voted in favor of the law
-- 2 abstained or did not vote
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Over half of MPs suspected by NABU backed law curbing anti-corruption agency's independence
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) suspects 31 sitting or former members of the current parliament of corruption.Tim Zadorozhnyy (The Kyiv Independent)
![The image features a tweet from Robert Reich, verified on Bsky, with the handle [@]rbreich.bsky.social. The tweet contains a quote from Harry Truman, dated 1952, which reads: "Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people." The text is presented in a simple, black font on a white background, with the quote attributed to Harry Truman at the bottom.](https://blog.taursnd.haus/photo/77189863716882c28246c2d087599530-1.jpeg "The image features a tweet from Robert Reich, verified on Bsky, with the handle [@]rbreich.bsky.social. The tweet contains a quote from Harry Truman, dated 1952, which reads: \"Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.\" The text is presented in a simple, black font on a white background, with the quote attributed to Harry Truman at the bottom.")
Thousands of KโCups Recalled Due to Potential Health RisksโHere's What Keurig Users Should Look For
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Thousands of KโCups Recalled Due to Potential Health RisksโHere's What Keurig Users Should Look For
New Mexico Pinon Coffee Dark Blend K-Cups were recalled due to a seal issue that could result in label dye leaking into the coffee. Learn which K-cups were affected by the FDA recall, and what to do if you have the product.Lisa Milbrand (Real Simple)
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The image is a two-panel political cartoon comparing the policies and actions of two political figures, labeled "BIDEN" and "TRUMP." The left panel, titled "BIDEN," shows a man in a suit holding a large scroll with the titles of various acts and plans, including the "CHIPS AND SCIENCE ACT," "AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN," "INFLATION REDUCTION ACT," "CHILD TAX CREDIT," "PACT ACT," and "BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL." The background is a simple blue sky, and the text below reads "WORKED FOR THE GREATER GOOD."
The right panel, titled "TRUMP," depicts a man in a suit holding several large bags labeled with various financial activities, such as "REAL ESTATE DEALS," "TARIFF SCAMS," "MERCH SALES," "PARDONS $$$," "MEME COINS $$$," "GOLDEN VISAS $$$," "Bribes $$$," and "LEGAL AND MEDIA SHAKEDOWNS $$$." The background transitions from red to orange, and the text below reads "WORKS FOR THE GREATER GRIFT."
The cartoon uses contrasting imagery and text to suggest differing impacts of the two figures' actions, with Biden's actions portrayed as beneficial and Trump's as self-serving. The source of the image is credited to "RAGINGPENCILS.COM" and the artist is "MIKE STANFILL."
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Well that's a headline I never thought I'd see in my life
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LeBron James' Lawyers Send Cease-and-Desist to AI Company Making Pregnant Videos of Him
Viral Instagram accounts making LeBron 'brainrot' videos have also been banned.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
Nearly 6,000 Packages of Popular Tea Were Just Recalled Nationwide | The Healthy
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Nearly 6,000 Packages of Popular Tea Were Just Recalled Nationwide
It's not one you typically find in the grocery store, yet it's from a company whose name you might recognize.Molly Jasinski (The Healthy)
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