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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/12/04/french-government-toppled-in-historic-no-confidence-vote_6735189_7.html

I watched it and now I'm chilling

As part of his anti-woke crusade, Vought has repeatedly defended and promoted Christian nationalism, at one point calling for an “army” of right-wing activists with “biblical worldview” to staff the next Republican administration.

I saw this building while hiking Limestone Gulch near Clifton, AZ. I'm guessing it's some sort of old mining building. Bonus pics:

For the first time I’ve put a tiny bit of effort into making a building look like… something. It ships in nitrogen, iron & copper ingots and alclad sheets, then ships out cooling systems and motors - I was making the motors for the cooling device alternate recipe anyway, so I figured I’d export half of them at the same time considering they’ll be going to the same place for the turbo motors & thermal propulsion rockets.

Usually I drop a bunch of foundations, spread out machines and clip conveyors through each other all over the place, put up some walls and never bother to light it, paint it or stick a ceiling on. This time I followed advice I’ve seen on this community and in Excrubulent’s videos. I’ve got blocks of machines which actually have space around them, conveyors are up on the ceilings & out of the way, and I’ve built upwards. I don’t have any better photos because I’m not on my gaming PC and this is just what I’d sent to a friend, but there you go.

If I were to redo it I’d have some changes to make to the way I connect the train platforms (like why the hell did I build it all the way over there instead of integrating the station into the ground floor?), and I’d have a dedicated conduit on one side of the building for sending items/power cables up and down rather than having lifts on either side of the main factory floor, but that’s what learning is all about. I like having 1-2 items produced per floor and shipping things up as needed, then dropping the final product from the top back down to the train.

I just have a couple of buildings left for Phase 4 (2 more project parts, but all of the components are produced in other factories and the only raw material I’ll need to process is the copper for the Nuclear Pasta, everything else can be achieved in 5 machines total). I was thinking in Phase 5 it’d be cool to build upwards like this then stick a drone platform on the roof for exports. I dunno.

Bonus pic from the train station you can see in the background:

Cross post worldnews

European officials report up to 100 Russian-linked “hybrid attacks” in 2023, including cyber-attacks, sabotage, and espionage.

NATO’s Brussels meeting focused on countering these threats, with measures like intelligence sharing and critical infrastructure protection.

Germany warns of heightened risks, including assassination plots, undersea cable sabotage, and incendiary devices. NATO may invoke Article 5 if attacks escalate.

Russia’s reliance on unconventional methods, after losing diplomatic spies in Ukraine war fallout, has intensified tensions. Analysts warn the West’s delayed response has left it vulnerable to Moscow’s increasingly bold tactics.

French lawmakers on Wednesday voted to oust the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier after just three months in office, a historic move which plunged the country further into political chaos.

At least 20 Palestinians were killed when Israeli airstrikes hit the Al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ area west of Khan Yunis city in south Gaza on 4 December.

The Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) reported that Israeli aircraft targeted the tents of displaced Palestinians and food storage facilities. “The occupation knows very well that there are only civilians in the Mawasi area,” Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal told Al Jazeera.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/trajectoid

Bonus panel

Good piece on the intersection between technology and politics, and the influence that the US government has on US-based technology companies.

Blocked users see content and interact with users that have blocked them which creates a potentially negative isolation. The approach of allowing blocked users to interact assumes all users have amenable intentions. It ultimately discourages eccentrics and creative individuals in favor of the lowest common denominator and mob avalanche behaviors. Blocking such user elements does nothing to ameliorate the problem. The persistence of said interactions is a slight negative bias advantage against positive well intentioned individuals. This negative bias places the burden of finding balance on the end user in potentially daily interactions. While the magnitude of the issue may be small, it still has a net negative impact on the lives of users and their interactions on Lemmy. Is this a solvable problem and one that is in the cards soon?

Likewise, when a user deletes a post, that post remains visible in their profile. Perhaps an interaction was abusive or some misunderstanding lead to a mob avalanche of negativity. The persistence of such a message in any form is an emotional tax on the person forced to view it.

While these issues may seem trivial to some people, there are users seeking social interaction at various states of mental health, life circumstances, and disabilities. These small elements of Lemmy may have a disproportionately negative impact on the lives of such individuals.

I bring up these issues as someone physically disabled and trapped in a situation of social isolation where these elements have become more of a concern with time and apparent shifting demographics on Lemmy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23222820

Fantastic Author too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin