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🏥#MinistrulSănătății trimite Inspecția Sanitară de Stat în control la Institutul de Psihiatrie Socola, după apariția informațiilor despre ploșnițe.

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#Știri

Tangent from the tangent...

#October17 is one of my favourite songs, but even that wasn't right, just one of the #leastWrong against the very low bar set by the region...

and one of my other favourites is #6millionGermans an and that been one of the worst things a human has ever done, thankfully he failed to carry it out ... It's better as a song

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OK! now I'm in 'progress stun' state, changing the pot for an encoder and swapping the motor with the other one that already had the feedback hardware has just saved me *tones* of time AND I dont need to make an optical interrupter circuit (I do need to make a filter, these mechanical encoders are noise)

This elegant green lady (nearly 10cm/4in long) was on my jacket before I gently dropped her on the ground at a nearby municipal park.

#prayingMantis #NYC #Queens

10.25

#AllStarTrek @startrek

#StarTrekTOS (8ET) The Devil in the Dark s01e25 March 9, 1967
#StarTrekTNG (9ET) Parallels s07e11 November 29, 1993
#StarTrekDS9 (10ET) In the Hands of the Prophets s01e20 June 20, 1993
#StarTrekVOY (11ET) Demon s04e24 May 6, 1998
#StarTrekENT (12am) Bounty s02e25 May 14, 2003

No poster today. In the field, and don't have access to all my stuff.

1:1

You were warned what defeat would bring!

I couldn't care less about what the Lady Bone wants!

Galatasaray-Fenerbahçe derbisinde muhtemel 11'ler belli oldu! İşte kadrolar
https://abcgazetesi.com.tr/spor/galatasaray-fenerbahce-derbisinde-muhtemel-11ler-belli-oldu-iste-kadrolar-875414?_unique_id=6ade6486c64d5

There, your weapon's gone, it's over.

In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a sentence with words in
the proper order then why can't he?

Sit back and enjoy Trainspotters Without Heads

#johnpeel #johnpeelbandnames

ATMlib (2.1.2) for avr by TEAM a.r.g., Joeri Gantois aka JO3RI, Davey Taylor aka STG

➡️ https://github.com/T-arg/ATMlib

The Arduboy Tracker Music library.

#ArduinoLibs #ArduinoLibraries #avrLibraries

It's 11pm and you're still in the loop: type a prompt, wait, read the answer, type the next prompt, wait again.

https://theunhacked.com/auto-gpt-review-the-logic-of-agentic-task-execution-and-the-operationa/

#productivity #remotework

A YouTuber dissected an iPhone Duo and thinks he found the cause of crackgate https://www.theverge.com/tech/1018290/dissected-iphone-duo-crackgate-hinge-screen

Can Carrick survive Man United’s slump and Fernandes fallout? https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/10/25/can-carrick-survive-man-united-slump-and-fernandes-fallout?traffic_source=rss

New Benn Jordan video on domestic surveillance, Flock, and police malfeasance just dropped:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP5GDiLZ1Nw

👀 #i3wm

I swear to god if I see another 4 meme I'm gonna increment my private key to 5

Oh no! I won't upset the status quo
I'm in love with you
Do you think it shows?

Ministrul #Nazare nu exclude noi taxe și impozite în 2027: „Nu îmi doresc, dar avem nevoie de sustenabilitate”.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5LH1

#Știri #Economie

"Brazil’s Supreme Court rules to extend voting by two hours

Brazil’s Supreme Court, in a rare move, ruled to extend voting by two hours after complaints by Lula’s campaign about public transport issues."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/10/25/brazil-election-results-2026-live-polls-close-in-lula-bolsonaro-face-off
5/n

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. LA Times (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*. This means that freelancers like me who read the website would lose the right to sue the company if we got stiffed. #consenttheater #bindingarbitration #dickovers

I've been stalling a bit but I'm going out for a run now DAMN IT. #SlowBoizRunClub

ok, slight difference in length of the encoder vs the pot.
thank gosh I use up filament spool ends by printing a stock of washers!

Sidetrack of #murder being illegal

The thing I most disagree with #IsmailHaniyeh about is the death penalty, and that is why I disagree with him being executed before he even got to trial.

https://theconversation.com/assassination-is-always-unlawful-regardless-of-who-is-killed-and-on-whose-orders-236004

#Assassination is always unlawful − regardless of who is killed and on whose orders

Published: August 6, 2024 10.44pm AEST

Mary Ellen O'Connell, University of Notre Dame

Conclusion "While efforts may have been made to mount a defense of assassinations such as that of Hamas’ Haniyeh, there is a simple truth: Lethal force is highly restricted, and assassination is never legal."

Assassination is a particular form of murder. Regardless of who carries out the act, on whose orders or why, it is always unlawful.

This is the reason #VadimKrasikov was languishing behind bars in Germany prior to being released on Aug. 1, 2024, as part of a historic prisoner exchange.

Krasikov was serving a life sentence for killing exiled #Chechen
separatist #ZelimkhanKhangoshvili in a Berlin park in 2019.

The German court that sentenced him found that he was carrying out the Kremlin’s orders; his victim had fought Russian forces in the Chechen wars and was suspected of terrorist attacks in Moscow. But neither of these factors provide legal justification for the killing.

The same is true in the case of Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas political leader. He was killed on July 31, 2024, while in Tehran at the invitation of the Iranian government. The Israeli government, which is widely believed to be behind the killing, has repeatedly expressed a willingness to hunt down Hamas leadership around the world following the group’s deadly attack on Oct. 7, 2023. Israel has carried out many such assassinations in Iran, Lebanon and elsewhere over the years.

Despite these and other international cases, the term “assassination” is not defined under international law. Legal scholars like me rely on standard dictionary definitions where assassination is defined as “murder by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons.” But treaties and other international law do make clear that killing for political reasons by sudden or secret attack is unlawful.

The most important treaty on this question is the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – adopted in 1966 by the United Nations and binding today on 174 states, including Russia, Israel and the United States. The covenant affirms: “Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life.”

Treacherous acts
This does not mean that deliberate killing can never be justified. International law contains rules that determine when it is permissible to use deadly force.

In peacetime, it is lawful for police to use lethal force to save lives in immediate danger. Officers killed the man who shot at Donald Trump, for example, to prevent the gunman from shooting again, as lives were in immediate danger.

The use of military force against another state is regulated under the United Nations Charter. The Charter prohibits all uses of force, unless authorized by the U.N. Security Council or in a case of self-defense. The charter allows a state to use force in individual or collective self-defense “if an armed attack occurs” until the Security Council can act.

The U.N.’s International Court of Justice has further clarified that even when a state has the right of self-defense, military action in response must be necessary, proportionate and aimed at a sovereign state responsible for the initial armed attack. The court has repeated these principles in multiple decisions, most comprehensively in a case brought by Iran following lethal U.S. attacks on its oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.

Once an armed conflict has begun, parties to the fighting have the right to use lethal force to defeat the adversary. International humanitarian law permits intentional killing of enemy fighters within legally defined armed conflict hostilities. Even then, no one may be singled out for killing based on what they did in the past. And civilians not participating in the fighting may never be intentionally targeted.

A man in a blue hat shakes hands with a man in a suit with an airplane in the background.
Russian President Vladimir Putin greets convicted killer Vadim Krasikov after a prisoner swap with the West. Mikhail Voskresenskiy/AFP via Getty Images
Recent international decisions support the importance of the concept of restricting the killing of fighters to within active zones of hostilities. Outside such areas, the peacetime human right to life applies. The European Court of Human Rights has emphasized this point in a series of rulings, most recently in early 2021.

These decisions contradict an older view held by some in the U.S. military that political or military leaders of a wartime adversary may be killed wherever they are found.

As a political leader of a party at war with Israel in Gaza, Haniyeh might fit this older interpretation. However, it still would not extend to killing “treacherously or perfidiously,” as laid out in the binding regulations annexed to Hague Convention IV of 1907. To kill treacherously or perfidiously means to kill someone who has no expectation of being in danger of death. For example, a soldier who falsely raises a white flag of surrender to lure an enemy in close enough to kill them would be guilty of killing treacherously.

Haniyeh had such an expectation of safety in Tehran, and as such his killing can be seen as treacherous.

A double standard
All principles on the use of lethal force under international law rule out assassination. And yet, countries including Israel, Russia and the U.S. persist in using it. A few others – France, India, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom – have used it in a few infamous, high-profile cases.

Israel has acknowledged responsibility for assassinations dating to even before its founding.

The U.S. has joined the rest of the world in criticizing these killings. In 1988, for example, Israel assassinated a PLO leader named Khalil al-Wazir in Tunisia. The U.N. Security Council condemned the operation in a resolution that the U.S. refused to veto.

To try to mollify critics, Israel began referring in 2000 to its practice of assassination as “targeted killings.”

The term makes it sound more like the legitimate killing in wartime. In 2001, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk rejected Israel’s attempt to legitimize assassination when he said on Israeli television: “The United States government is very clearly on the record as against targeted assassinations. They are extrajudicial killings, and we do not support that.”

Then the Sept. 11 attacks occurred and the U.S. itself adopted the practice of targeted killing. The first known case was carried out by the CIA against six suspected members of al-Qaida in Yemen in November 2002. The killings were condemned as unlawful by a U.N. human rights expert soon after.

Yet, U.S. killings with drones and other means have continued to this day. All the while, the U.S. has consistently condemned Russian assassinations. What many international law experts, including me, see is a U.S. double standard when it comes to the use of lethal force, including its use in assassination.

While efforts may have been made to mount a defense of assassinations such as that of Hamas’ Haniyeh, there is a simple truth: Lethal force is highly restricted, and assassination is never legal.

Mary Ellen O'Connell, University of Notre Dame

https://theconversation.com/assassination-is-always-unlawful-regardless-of-who-is-killed-and-on-whose-orders-236004

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Picture this: a breathtaking torch descent illuminated by drones dancing across the Alpine sky in Fiss—this #NYE celebration in the heart of Austria is pure magic! 🔥 From torch-lit runs to spectacular fireworks painting the mountains, Serfaus Fiss Ladis delivers #Nightlife moments you'll never forget, with legendary bars like George Bar and BamBam ready to keep the energy soaring. ✨ This is the #TravelGoals moment every #Europe enthusiast needs ...

https://events.europa.tips/silvester-serfaus-fiss-ladis?lang=en

If you, or someone in your family, is using #BellCanada internet... They may have had their custom wifi settings reset to the default "whole home" configuration because of a software patch pushed through by headquarters.

After a call with an agent who was incredibly saccharine but apologetic and helpful, we're back to normal. But oh man was that experience unnecessary.

I’ve become a heretic because of assholes like this https://www.channel3000.com/news/milwaukee-archbishop-apologizes-after-video-of-prayer-with-trump-circulates/article_8b40e282-4c32-4f64-99ae-8b7769c6c234.html

You asked, I listened 🍝 My easy spaghetti ragù is here. Save it, cook it, post your plate and tag me — neat bowls and glorious pasta chaos both count! Full recipe: https://tradi-leni.blogspot.com #WorldPastaDay #CookWithLeni