tacking on: https://european-alternatives.eu/
These are all digital services. Europe has strong data protection and privacy regulation. The US tech billionaires throwing in their lot with the Trump administration gives them plenty of leverage if push comes to shove.
p 698 of project 2025 document:
The federal income tax system heavily taxes capital and corporate income and discourages work, savings, and investment. The public finance literature is clear that a consumption tax would minimize government’s distortion of private economic decisions and thus be the least economically harmful way to raise federal tax revenues.
more riches to capital and corporations, consumers will pay for it. it's all in there
One of her arguments against the allegation of her spewing Russian talking points was that she doesn't follow Russian Propaganda.
Truthfulness aside, that argument is not the elegant dodge that she probably thinks it is. Because that speaks against her informedness. As someone applying for this job she should be interested or better yet well versed in what current Russian propaganda is, how it is disseminated, who the target audience is, how well it is working, and how it relates to the wider goals of the Russian regime.
Strangely enough Robert Kenney also made use of a similar defensive veil a couple of times. Well I'm not a medical expert, so I really couldn't tell you. 🙄 Bro, why are you applying for this position then?
Despite the header being framed as a question I'm glad that DW has 2 experts to essentially confirm it beyond doubt. In the face of extremism media outlets should not be afraid to call out the obvious. Let the extremists and demagogues accuse them of bias, they will do it no matter what; do not cater to bad faith agents.
Ach ja, Starcraft. Die ausgehenden 1990er Jahre zählen nicht umsonst zum golden age of gaming.🎉
I think in that scenario it's more likely that they would "buy the dip" then that they would up and leave. Some of the billionaires also want to found their own techno-fashist fiefdoms. This could be a good catalyst for that.
Saw a policy expert say it's a mixture of 3 things really:
Bei echt vielen online shops ist es mittlerweile möglich schnell und unkompliziert zu bestellen (dh ohne Anmeldung oder Konto). Das war für mich früher als oft eine kleine Hürde: noch einen Account, den man sich anlegen muss, noch ein Passwort zu verwalten, noch ein Newslettern abbestellen. Und übersichtlich gestaltete Seiten mit Suchfunktion sind auch gang und gebe geworden.
Amazing ist übrigens schon lange nicht mehr der günstigste Anbieter per se. Sie sind jetzt in der "squeeze" Phase in der sie ihre Marktmacht, Integration und die Trägheit der Kunden ausnutzen können.
I would not be surprised at all if the Trump team in time tried to reinstate many of those banned for malpractice by pressuring medieval boards. All they need to do is feign allegiance and fealty to MAGA.
There's so many parts and pieces that all failed to get to where we are today. Each time you reflect a moment and realize that we shouldn't be be here in the first place:
The list is not exhaustive and goes on and on...
And in the background there's all the systemic failures and problems that enabled this: terrible public education, ignoring a large chunk of the electorate for too long, citizens united, social media and outrage culture, rampant disinformation and propaganda disguised as news, the electoral college and de facto 2 party system, too few checks and balances being hard codified, obvious loop holes like presidential pardons, ...
Petty sure historians will analyze this for generations. If we will still live in a world where historians are allowed to about their work freely.
¿Remember how much Trump administration bungled the COVID response? Imagine again, but this time with his guy in charge. I see dead people.
Here's a more detailed description for those that like to read up: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-spiders-drugs-experiment/
Curiously enough when a similar experiment was first performed decades earlier the original intent was to get the spiders to weave their webs during different times of the day, rather than alter the pattern.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13844882
I'm often using the
Select by ColororFuzzy Selecttool. ¿Is there a quick way to increment the threshold with a keyboard shortcut, the mouse wheel, or similar?Take the following example:
Given the image of the GIMP mascot, I want to select only certain portions, for instance the outer white part.
To do this I activate the
Select by Coloror theFuzzy Selecttool. Set the threshold to a starting value (let's say 15), then click on a white part at the edges of the image. But I'm not quite satisfied with the resulting selection: it selects most of the area I want but not enough of the greyish shadow below the chin. So I adjust the threshold to 50 and click again. Still not enough, set to 90 and lick again. A bit too much, set to 80 and click another. Almost there, set to 85 and click. Set to 83 and finally voilá.That involved a lot of clicking and typing though. ¿Is there a quicker way to do this? Ideally I would like to see a live update of the selection as I change the threshold, so that I can simply drag the slider or scroll the mouse wheel until it's perfect.
Maybe I'm simply using the wrong tool and there's are completely different inroads to achieve this. I'd like to know about those as well.
I'm often using the Select by Color or Fuzzy Select tool. ¿Is there a quick way to increment the threshold with a keyboard shortcut, the mouse wheel, or similar?
Take the following example:
Given the image of the GIMP mascot, I want to select only certain portions, for instance the outer white part.
To do this I activate the Select by Color or the Fuzzy Select tool. Set the threshold to a starting value (let's say 15), then click on a white part at the edges of the image. But I'm not quite satisfied with the resulting selection: it selects most of the area I want but not enough of the greyish shadow below the chin. So I adjust the threshold to 50 and click again. Still not enough, set to 90 and lick again. A bit too much, set to 80 and click another. Almost there, set to 85 and click. Set to 83 and finally voilá.
That involved a lot of clicking and typing though. ¿Is there a quicker way to do this? Ideally I would like to see a live update of the selection as I change the threshold, so that I can simply drag the slider or scroll the mouse wheel until it's perfect.
Maybe I'm simply using the wrong tool and there's are completely different inroads to achieve this. I'd like to know about those as well.
It's crazy to think that while we now live in a globalized, interconnected society with billions of peoples yet Dunbar's hasn't changed from when we formed tribes and harmlets thousands of years ago.
A lot of the structures and institutions of modern society essentially center around somehow overcoming or side stepping Dunbar's number: to reliably interact with strangers, ease tensions and achieve greater things (from credit scores to spelling dictionaries to standard sized clothing to electing representatives to online wikis to opening hours, calendars and time zones; the list goes on an on).