wait, they still cling to it?!!

If you want to help yourself and be more useful as news source, do not preset "opinions". Present facts. MSM turned into shit exactly because they stopped giving news and started giving opinions. To you or anyone willing to be news source, give us data, let us form our own opinions.

Almost burned my weekend house down like that when i was young. Wooden house, full oak wood, with setup similar to this. Chimney was not going straight up but bit up and than into the wall (and that short length was almost our downfall) and than up on another side. It was in the middle of the winter, snow falling outside, and we came there after night out and no one was in for more than a month so inside was very cold too. We fired it up, filled it up with wood and fell asleep. Close to morning my friend woke me up coughing (it was lucky for us that he was breathing trough his mouth and not nose so smoke irritated his throat). Long story short, chimney got so hot that it heated up wooden wall around it so hard that wood turned into....don't know....like red hot coal. Luck was that we had plaster on the walls which prevented oxygen coming inside the wall so no open fire started. That wall was like red hot coal which released ton of smoke. We ran out, called firefighters who lucky for us came fast, prepared whole thing, broke of plaster from one side of the wall and sprayed it with foam never letting open fire ignite so house was saved and basically nothing major happened. Whole house was full of smoke, some things were destroyed and wall had to be rebuilt. Looks as cool as hell but it can be dangerous if not properly build like in our case.

X down again. NOSTR working, Bitcoin ticking away, zaps zapping....

As usual, short TikTok videas not telling whole story.

We live in society. Those that live in the middle of nowhere, without connection to society, that do not use anything from society, can't earn much really. Best they can hope to do is to be self sufficient and hope for best in extreme situations (drought, fire, flood etc.) You don't see many millionaires (or equivalent of) that came out of the woods with a lot of wealth that they created while being disconnected from society. That's simply not how world works. And when you use society, than you do own something to it. How much? It's hard thing to define. Best i can do is : "it depends on how much society you live in gives to you". So it's not one fixed amount or percentage. It depends on society you live in. If it offers a lot, you own them more than if it does not offers a lot. So same percentage (let's say 20% of what you make) can be way way way too much, or way way way too little. For example, i am not glad we (my countryman) have to pay 38% of average paycheck to my country. I think it should be less. Not because i think that 38% is too big number, but because i think that my country does not offer enough to warrant those 38%. It's not far, but i think it's too much. On the other hand, there are certain countries where i would be glad to pay 50% or even bit more and there are certain countries i would not be happy to pay even 10% and there are some that would have to pay to me to live there. So answer to question, "what is fair share" would be "depends".

My 3D printing game just got serious upgrade

Trump said so multiple times himself. No one in government cares about national debt. What they do care is to fill their own pockets and pockets of people that got them to power and they will do so with largest reserves on earth under their control. And it's not all about money. What politicians love, maybe more than money? Power. This gives them power over some countries. Saudis can not run she show anymore.

So, he bluffed, his bluff was called, now he's gonna do what he could do from day one, and he and his followers are announcing huge win. What a world we live in.....zero self respect.

crazy AI

I propose they make a trade. "Piece of ice" for "piece of sand" (Texas). I'm sure citizens of Texas would be glad....what do they care.....it's just sand.....right? It's not like you love your sand / ice. It's not like your family has history in that place or anything like that. It's just a transaction.

LoL! To think that you have to be clueless about USSR governance or about EU or, which is more probably both. USSR had one party democracy which is something you can not compare to EU or US (US has representative democracy....even more representative than EU). In US and EU, voter has a choice, in USSR there was none.

low IQ people from place that is not even a country stol19B from US.......well....i'm not sure he understands implications. Or better said, his voters do not understand implications of what he is saying.

I am not playing with words. Representative democracy is all over the world on different levels of government. It's in parts of government of US, it's in EU, it's in EU countries themselves. EU citizens put names of representatives that chose her in ballots and that gives them (representatives) and her (chosen by those representatives) legitimacy. Just google "representative democracy" and see list of institutions and governments that use it. It's not my opinion, or "play with words". Only one who is playing with words are JD Vance, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and rest of shitheads that want to spread this narrative that she has no legitimacy. Facts: - In every EU country, the head of government is chosen indirectly. Citizens vote in parliamentary elections for parties. The legislature (parliament) or the majority coalition selects and confirms the prime minister or equivalent leader. - Heads of State (Presidents/Monarchs). Germany, Estonia, Italy, Hungary, Latvia and Malta are some of examples where the president is elected by parliament or a special assembly. - US citizens vote for electors pledged to a candidate. Those electors form the Electroal Collage. Electroral collage formally elects the president. US president is voted in by representative democracy. - Because of representative democracy in place, US citizens do not have 1 voter 1 vote system. Cirizen in one state has more voting power than citizen in another state. - In US, candidate can win without winning popular vote. This has happened multiple times. In that sense US is even more indirect than EU is.. So....please tell me how am i "playing with words"? Show me some facts, that will counter mine, not some random thought of what someone else think, those do not have bigger weight than facts.

All EU member states hold elections where citizens vote for their European Parliament representatives. That is a legal requirement of EU membership. So, yes you did vote for your representative. Maybe you voted for someone else, but that's not an issue. Whoever your representatives are, they were voted by your countryman and they have legitimacy, so does she as she was voted in by representatives of all EU countries.

She is elected by people that citizens elected. It's representative democracy, which every democratic country in the world has in one way or another, on one level or another. Saying that she has never been elected is misleading. Claiming she was “never elected” ignores how democratic systems actually function and relies on a deliberately false standard that is never applied consistently elsewhere.

You know what? I don't really think it's grooming or anything like that. I think it's not understanding how whole thing works. Why are they seeing certain content and that what they see is not good representation of the world they live in. Current X algo is pure fishing for reaction. It will throw at you most disturbing thing, no matter if you follow that content / creators or not just to get an reaction out of you. It doesn't care about anything else in this world. I came there for tech, Tesla FSD, Bitcoin and similar forward looking stuff. I'm European so i expect to get mix content, bit of international, bit local. What do i get? 1% Tesla FSD, 1% Bitcoin, 1% tech, 97% current US politics outrage. Muting and blocking helps a little bit, but as soon as something new happens, i get it force fed by algo and i have to block and mote again. For example, when that police agent shot that woman in a car, i got screen after screen of videos, screenshots and comments about it. And i got both side, not only one side. It's not like it is pushing only one side, like it pushed before (for example when US elections laster, all i could see is Rep / MAGA posts). No....both side, one below other, but what i realized is that i got most ludicrous posts from both sides out there. Posts that are dragging your fingers to comment, to try to reason or tell how you interpret video that was posted. Absolutely zero posts that would say: "It's shame what happened, pray for her family, put video recording on those guys like on cops, investigate what happened and act accordingly." No....only rage and baits from both side. Before that, it's screen after screen of Trump and Greenland, before that Maduro etc. And again, i repeat....i'm European who is following people that talk about tech. Not following single American, European or even local politician. Not even mayor of my town! But X algo doesn't care for what i want. It just wants to trigger me, to write anything to anyone. It doesn't care what i write ether. I could b swearing one side or another and it will show me that side even more just to get as much reaction as it can. And i'm sure 99.9% of users do not understand that. They see certain topic, they react, algo starts pushing it to them, and they think that it's end of the world, that everyone and their dog is talking about that topic because they do not see anything else for pages upon pages of content. They have no idea that they are being played and that they are not seeing real picture, real representation of what average people around them think. All they see is extreme of one side arguing with extreme of another side (of whichever topic) and no middle ground which in reality is most of population. 70-80% of population (i plucked those numbers out of my ass, it's just for illustration of what i want to say) is not represented in the feed. "Worlds town square" my ass. Most of loud morons would be chased off that square if it was real place where you have to look the other side in the eyes. And with that warped image that X is offering it's users, it has negative impact on society because people get wrong idea about what is important and what is not. And i won't even talk about bots.....jesus christ....bots.....bots everywhere. God forbid that you heared some news about for example Ukraine, that something happened there.....once algo thinks you are interested in it.....jesus christ....bots.....from everywhere....username_123123123, post after post with flags of countries in their names and when you see what is their location, it's on the other side of the world or on opposite side of what they pretend to be etc. Twitter was far from good, really far from it, but you could at least tell it what you want, and it would give it to you. If you wanted politics, sure you would get it, but if you did not, than it would mix it up in your feed here and there just to check up on you and your needs (because they change). But it did not force feed you....waterboard you with it.

If you think that individual talking on TV is attack or assault than you have WAY bigger problems than you think you have.

Reality is always more complicated than one sentence or word. I tend to explain my positions and do not let others make my positions up.