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narrative, so that they can agree to a stale mate without Putin losing too much face.
I thought his competitors would kill him off, but maybe Putin will choose to back down, and somehow will manage to utilize the force of his propagande to make it look like a victory.
It is interesting to note that Trump and Putin do have remarkablu similar strategies at times.
Good news about the ukrainian war! Russia is starting to work to alter their messaging about the war, to accomodate a stale mate. They are dropping the theme of de-nazification of Ukraine, and are now focusing their narrative that all along, it was only donbass that mattered. Nothing else.
The russian government is worrying that their more extreme bloggers will not swallow this and cause Putin to look weak.
But it is interesting that russia is now so weak that they are tring to shift the
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Google's captcha now requires android device with play services (or iPhone). Degoogled phones can't complete it anymore since you have to scan a QR code to attest your device. The big tech companies are taking steps towards authoritarianism where there will be no way to revert them anymore. Kicking out all the white males from the big corporations was a mistake and now we're paying for it with new authoritarian technologies designed to oppress the people.
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users
#security #censorship #technology #freespeech
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users
#security #censorship #technology #freespeech
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'Seems the left are taking Reform’s win well on TikTok 😂'
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British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer refuses to step down despite woeful local election results in England, Wales and Scotland.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-09/british-prime-minister-sir-keir-starmer-refuses-to-step-down/106661078
I loooooove old people! You can learn so much from their experience when talking with them!
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unitarian universalists" and lo and behold... I discovered that the UU have actually collapsed into a very left learning political organization, and they seem to have very little to do with spirituality any longer.
They seem to contradict their own principles, and very happy to eject republicans from their communities.
Searching for the quakers, they do seem much more accepting, and loathe to turn their religion into politics.
As regular readers of my posts know... I often dabble in exploring and creating my own philosophy of existence, and that also entails exploring the values of the worlds religions from time to time, without me calling myself religious.
The past week, I looked into the more modern versions of christianity such as the quakers and the unitarian universalists, and I discovered a very interesting test for how open and spiritual each community is.
I searched for "republican quakers" or "republican
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After today's local elections we will have a good idea how bad a mess the Labour Party is in (even if this also refracted through local issues).
This weekend will also see a tsunami of commentary about the Labour Party leadership for sure; but much of this will continue to treat politics as a soap opera that takes place in the Westminster village.
For many voters this is exactly the problem they see when the mainstream media & parties claim the 'insurgents' are not fit to govern...
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Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Milwaukee Lizard Things
An obscure cryptid, these dog-sized lizards are thought to dwell in the City of Milwaukee itself, either in or around the Milwaukee River. They are described as having bright, yellow eyes, and are said to make short, hideous yells.
An obscure cryptid, these dog-sized lizards are thought to dwell in the City of Milwaukee itself, either in or around the Milwaukee River. They are described as having bright, yellow eyes, and are said to make short, hideous yells.
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@wordshaper @mhoye There was this internship in 2001 where I replaced AIX on an obsolete RS/6000 with a hacked up Linux and ran a DNS server on it. That was all the experience I had with AIX.
The RS/6000 has a PowerPC 604e (PReP). At some point, I realized that the office printer *also* had a PPC 604e but a faster one 🤣
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_IPCC Admits Apocalyptic Climate Scenarios Are “Implausible” – Meaning Most Media Scare Stories Over Last 15 Years Are Officially Junk_
FTA: Activist climate scientists, journalists and Net Zero-obsessed politicians are in shock following an official admission from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that a set of key assumptions promoting a climate ‘crisis’ since 2011 are “implausible”. The notorious set of always-improbable RCP8.5 ‘pathway’ assumptions which fed into computer models trying to measure an unmeasurable climate are no more. Since around 2011, these ‘business as usual’ assumptions have produced outlandish claims of future climate catastrophe which have been lapped up by lap dog journalists and politicians. The influential writer Roger Pielke Jr. called RCP8.5’s demise, “the most significant development in climate research in decades”.
Others might observe that we have not heard the last of RCP8.5. Its gross misuse is likely to be given a starring, central role when the history of the Great Climate and Net Zero Scam comes to be written.
Pielke lays it out clearly what has happened:
"What matters today is that the group with official responsibility for developing climate scenarios for the IPCC and broader research community has now admitted that the scenarios that have dominated climate research, assessment and policy during the past two cycles of the IPCC assessment process are implausible. They describe impossible futures."
He goes on to note that tens of thousands of research papers have been and continue to be published using these scenarios. In addition, a similar number of media headlines have “amplified their findings”, while governments and international organisations have built these implausible scenarios into policy and regulation.
It cannot be over-emphasised how important this finding of implausibility is. It means that almost every fearmongering mainstream media climate headline and story that has been written over the last 15 years is junk. Of course it also explains why a growing band of sceptical commentators have refused to accept the political concept of ‘settled’ science and have engaged in widespread debunking. Shooting fish in a barrel is one way of describing this work. At times, with just a modicum of investigative scepticism, the stories can be seen as little more than an insult to average human intelligence.
When the RCP8.5 assumptions are loaded into computer models, they run politically-convenient red hot suggestions that the temperature in 2100 will rise by about 4°C from a 1850-1900 baseline – in other words, a rise of nearly 3°C in the next 80 years. Only the most deranged eco loons will claim such large short-term rises out loud, so the activist scientists quietly loaded garbage assumptions into their computers to arrive at their garbage-out Armageddon scares. The writing was on the wall for RCP8.5 last year when President Trump’s executive order titled ‘Restoring Gold Standard Science’ effectively banned the use of RCP8.5 for scientists on the United States federal payroll. It also noted one of the unrealistic RCP8.5 assumptions driving deliberate climate psychosis to be that end-of-century coal use will exceed estimates of recoverable reserves.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/05/ipcc-admits-apocalyptic-climate-scenarios-are-implausible-meaning-most-media-scare-stories-over-last-15-years-are-officially-junk/
FTA: Activist climate scientists, journalists and Net Zero-obsessed politicians are in shock following an official admission from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that a set of key assumptions promoting a climate ‘crisis’ since 2011 are “implausible”. The notorious set of always-improbable RCP8.5 ‘pathway’ assumptions which fed into computer models trying to measure an unmeasurable climate are no more. Since around 2011, these ‘business as usual’ assumptions have produced outlandish claims of future climate catastrophe which have been lapped up by lap dog journalists and politicians. The influential writer Roger Pielke Jr. called RCP8.5’s demise, “the most significant development in climate research in decades”.
Others might observe that we have not heard the last of RCP8.5. Its gross misuse is likely to be given a starring, central role when the history of the Great Climate and Net Zero Scam comes to be written.
Pielke lays it out clearly what has happened:
"What matters today is that the group with official responsibility for developing climate scenarios for the IPCC and broader research community has now admitted that the scenarios that have dominated climate research, assessment and policy during the past two cycles of the IPCC assessment process are implausible. They describe impossible futures."
He goes on to note that tens of thousands of research papers have been and continue to be published using these scenarios. In addition, a similar number of media headlines have “amplified their findings”, while governments and international organisations have built these implausible scenarios into policy and regulation.
It cannot be over-emphasised how important this finding of implausibility is. It means that almost every fearmongering mainstream media climate headline and story that has been written over the last 15 years is junk. Of course it also explains why a growing band of sceptical commentators have refused to accept the political concept of ‘settled’ science and have engaged in widespread debunking. Shooting fish in a barrel is one way of describing this work. At times, with just a modicum of investigative scepticism, the stories can be seen as little more than an insult to average human intelligence.
When the RCP8.5 assumptions are loaded into computer models, they run politically-convenient red hot suggestions that the temperature in 2100 will rise by about 4°C from a 1850-1900 baseline – in other words, a rise of nearly 3°C in the next 80 years. Only the most deranged eco loons will claim such large short-term rises out loud, so the activist scientists quietly loaded garbage assumptions into their computers to arrive at their garbage-out Armageddon scares. The writing was on the wall for RCP8.5 last year when President Trump’s executive order titled ‘Restoring Gold Standard Science’ effectively banned the use of RCP8.5 for scientists on the United States federal payroll. It also noted one of the unrealistic RCP8.5 assumptions driving deliberate climate psychosis to be that end-of-century coal use will exceed estimates of recoverable reserves.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/05/ipcc-admits-apocalyptic-climate-scenarios-are-implausible-meaning-most-media-scare-stories-over-last-15-years-are-officially-junk/
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