You can rest assured, it’s not fake.

Hyalinobatrachium dianae, also known as Diane’s bare-hearted glass frog or Kermit frog, is a species of Costa Rican glass frog in the family Centrolenidae

Due to the frog’s resemblance to Kermit, the discovery attracted a substantial amount of attention in popular media. Tweets and news articles comparing H. dianae to Kermit helped images of the frog go viral. The attention prompted Disney to release an official interview where Kermit talked about H. dianae, saying, for example, “Googly eyes run in our family.”.

What Fritz doesn’t understand is that you can be very much in favor of the existence of the state of Israel, without supporting the current genocidal Israeli government. That one can be very much in favor of jewish life and culture all over the world, but support a two-state solution. That one can agree that Israel is an apartheid-state and still want to preserve it, only differently. That one can absolutely blame HAMAS for their violence and terrorism and at the same time support palestinian autonomy.

I’m sorry, every time I read a comparison between secret police and plain clothes officers, I feel obligated to post this rant:

If you believe that “plainclothes officers” are the same as secret police, you know jack shit about the Gestapo, the Stasi and MSS or even ICE, all of which are undoubtedly secret police forces.

Officers in plain clothes are just that, they are a part of the normal law-enforcement operation, operate under the law and report to normal chiefs, normal prosecutors and normal courts, inside constitutional limits. Even if the justice system is rigged, racist, out of whack, and heavily skewed, they still operate inside of it, they’re just sneaky about it.

Secret police on the other hand are often embedded as special units in organizations that otherwise operate as intelligence services and are therefore not easily recognizable to outsiders. A secret police force is an entirely different animal than just a couple of sneaky police officers. They are a quintessential feature of authoritarian regimes. Either de facto or even de jure unbound by constitutional limits, they are a tool of political repression and preemptive, unlawful violence. They are the ones who disappear people, they often run their own secret prisons and interrogation centers.

The fact that ICE is more and more morphing into a secret police service is FAR more alarming than the existence of plain clothes officers in the US.

I believe it’s the most common cause of death for old whales (for all whales it’s sadly collisions with ships). They become too weak to swim to the surface and then just sink into the deep… horrible way to go.

Did you know:

Whales don’t have to strain to hold their breath, they have no drowning-reflex and don’t breath automatically, they can only breath consciously. So while land mammals usually will start gasping for air when still underwater for too long. Whales will not.

This means whales don’t drown (because drowning means inhaling water), they rather asphyxiate underwater if they can not reach the surface.

Because the servers are subject to their respective national laws and regulations and the governments are all to happy to take down uppity servers full of people who are opposed to those governments.

The rules regulating speech on our servers are not there to protect the rich or the system, they are there to protect the servers, so we can continue to call for direct action, even if we can’t outright call for violence.

It’s either regulated speech or no speech at all.

depends on your Distro, for Linux Mint it’s just the Driver Manager.

To access the Driver Manager in Linux Mint, follow these steps:

1. Click on the Menu (Taskbar) in the lower-left corner of your screen.
2. Navigate to Administration.
3. Click on Driver Manager.

Once you have opened the Driver Manager, follow these steps to install the Nvidia drivers:

1. The Driver Manager will prompt you for your password. Enter your password and click on Authenticate.
2. The Driver Manager will scan your system for available drivers. Once the scanning is complete, you will see a list of available drivers for your graphics card.
3. Select the recommended Nvidia driver from the list.
4. Click on Apply Changes to start the installation process.

Then reboot.

source

For most problems you can really just google stuff like “Linux Mint Nvidia Drivers”

Haha, oops

Boeing: “All those damn regulations exist only to keep us out of the european market!”

The regulations: “Plane must fly safe”

I’m so glad I don’t drink coffee…

Mjam, leave it in there for the weekend to ripen!

I remember a seldom used office coffee machine that everyone complained made the coffee taste “funny”, they got the message about the necessary cleaning after maggots started crawling out. 🤢🤮

Holy shit… when the Browser itself becomes the Man-in-the-Middle attack

What you cannot turn off are the homophobic views of Brendan Eich, Braves CEO and co-founder.

Criminals absolutely do use Signal! Sometimes they even invite journalists to group chats.

Because it lacks the ability to digest a Union with over 14 times its population.

Like eating an entire pack of Mentos and then downing a gallon of coke.

That entirely depends on the other parties.

As long as they have less than 50% the other parties could (in theory) band together against them and create a coalition government.

The problem arises when that coalition has to become more diverse. As you can imagine the populist right would rather work together with the far right than with the populist left, so the coalition becomes shaky, paralyzed because they cannot come to agreements. The common denominator will be so small that basically nothing gets done, and the oppositional party will profit from that.

Shaky coalition governments can lead to government breakups and snap elections which in combination with the resulting loss of trust and inability to do anything of the government will likely lead to an even stronger opposition and even more shaky governments or right out majority for the plurality party.

Also, the leader of the opposition usually chairs important committees like the Budget Committee, the opposition also gets important roles in the committees for Foreign Affairs, Internal Affairs and Defense. It also gets priority in debates, which is usually a good thing, since this works as a check and balance to hold government accountable, but when this role is in the hands of populists, they will certainly use it to further their own narrative.

Chick Publications has produced over 250 different titles, about 100 of which are still in print and available in over 100 languages.

Millions of these are getting printed every year.

Chick Tracts have successfully created a very real current of evangelical hostility vs. Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Muslims and other faiths, but especially against women, the poor, social liberalism, queerness, modernity, science, scepticism, atheism, freemasonry, and racial equality, but also rock music, D&D, the british, immigrants and (of course) Europe in general.

yes, they are called Chick Tracts

If ever I get the chance to relieve myself on Jack Chicks grave…