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@neil It's a fallacy to only accept a perfect solution and thus never be able to move the needle in the right direction.
As it is, the only attestation services accepted by European medical and banking institutions are US controlled. Moving the needle to having them be EU consortium controlled is a valid good step that brings actual benefits.
Then we continue moving the needle further.
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Every child that a mother gives birth to is a battle she fights for the existence or non-existence of her people.
⚡️Atlantean Blood⚡️
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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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My wife threatened to divorce me if I didn't stop making Linkin Park references.
But In the end it doesn't even matter.
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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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Study: Brain differences between Paleolithic Humans and Neanderthals (separate species) are found to be smaller than those between contemporary Americans and Chinese (same species).
For seemingly ideological reasons, the authors declare that these differences are "not evolutionarily significant."
Obviously, there are evolutionarily significant cognitive differences between modern human populations, such as those that enabled Europeans to conquer ~85% of the Earth's surface from ~1490 to ~1920 AD, and those that prevented Sub-Saharan Africans from inventing the wheel.
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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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