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- Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:34 pm
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Presidential Election of 2024
- Replies: 105
- Views: 53404
Re: The Presidential Election of 2024
This is just daft, it really is. Biden ‘not sure he’d be running’ in 2024 if Trump wasn’t: ‘We cannot let him win’ President spoke about risks Trump poses to democracy at event amid fears a second term would be far more autocratic https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/05/biden-running-trump-2...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:45 am
- Forum: Computers Internet
- Topic: Flatpak
- Replies: 1
- Views: 978
Flatpak
This is a helpful pick list for new Linux installations - please add or comment as needed. flatpak history | grep install Jul 18 23:26:33 deploy install org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 22.08 system flathub Jul 18 23:26:34 deploy install org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 22.08-extra system flat...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 6:12 am
- Forum: The Internet
- Topic: Intelligent conversation
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9754
Re: Intelligent conversation
Human: How does an ambient temperature of 8°C affect human blood circulation? The desk in the study is experiencing a cold snap this weekend, it's lower now than last winter... https://forumgarden.com/forums/ext/dmzx/imageupload/img-files/286/59d5280/648eaa4/c6caa2c413f17b225df6839b9ece7047.jpg
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 6:42 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Ukraine and Russia
- Replies: 63
- Views: 4804
Re: Ukraine and Russia
The weather in Ukraine has got sufficiently cold that the fighting has switched to winter mode, which last year involved staying in place and waiting for Easter. Whether it stops movement this winter is still to be seen but I'd have thought that likely. The highly anticipated counteroffensive, power...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 10:43 am
- Forum: News and Announcements
- Topic: Heads up, ForumGarden is going down for a half hour, on the hour
- Replies: 100
- Views: 51409
Re: Heads up, ForumGarden is going down for a half hour, on the hour
phpBB 3.3.11 Release Re: Sun Oct 22, 2023 12:48 pm This version is a maintenance release of the 3.3.x branch which increases the minimum required PHP version, adds a new search index progress bar with added statistics, optimizes our support for PHP 8.2, and adds further security hardening. - https:/...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 6:07 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
According to the Government Media Office, as of 18:00 on 23 November, more than 14,800 people have been killed in Gaza, including about 6,000 children and 4,000 women. This office, which is under the de facto authorities in Gaza, has been reporting casualties since the Ministry of Health in Gaza st...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 9:20 am
- Forum: The Internet
- Topic: Intelligent conversation
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9754
Re: Intelligent conversation
I need to understand the process by which universal rights are established. I am not sure what rights currently fall into that category or how they became enshrined. I have a list of new categories I intend to establish on the same basis. The establishment of universal rights is a complex process t...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 6:53 am
- Forum: Earth Changes
- Topic: Net Zero
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6814
Re: Net Zero
I note the following Guardian news item: The jet set: 200 celebrities’ aircraft have flown for combined total of 11 years since 2022 Jets belonging to entertainers, CEOs, oligarchs and billionaires produce equivalent to emissions of almost 40,000 Britons Private jets belonging to 200 celebrities, CE...
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 8:44 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Random Thoughts
- Replies: 282
- Views: 140592
Re: Random Thoughts
a biographer of Napoleon, Patrice Gueniffey in Le Point magazine, attacked the film as a "very anti-French and very pro-British" rewrite of history. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/18/jeremy-corbyn-calls-hamas-terrorist-group-after-previous-demurral The claim is an impossibi...
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 6:15 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
I have another observation I think worth making, though it is not necessarily a helpful one to make. It stems from Jeremy Corbyn's quote and the article in the Guardian: Corbyn wrote that he “deplore[d] the targeting of all civilians”, including Hamas’s killing of about 1,200 people in Israel on 7 O...
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 1:57 pm
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
People will note there has been very little to say about the Gaza Strip over the last two weeks. The British public have protested in large numbers to try to embarrass British politicians into attempting to do something political internationally. Britain's politicians have refused, so no difference ...
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:14 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Reunion?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2605
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 6:19 am
- Forum: Health Care
- Topic: Short-sighted lawyers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2049
Re: Short-sighted lawyers
Hi, I have seen the news and that was terrible as lawyer union attacked doctors as they had issue with some of the doctors in cardiology hospital Lahore, Doctor's are also guilty in this case , If I have issue with a doctor, dentist, police officer or criminal kingpin, I would carefully never say s...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 1:08 pm
- Forum: Computers Internet
- Topic: Forumgarden backup arrangements
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1006
Re: Forumgarden backup arrangements
root@forumgarden:~# neofetch _,met$$$$$gg. root@forumgarden.com ,g$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$P. -------------------- ,g$$P" """Y$$.". OS: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) x86_64 ,$$P' `$$$. Host: Droplet <removed> ',$$P ,ggs. `$$b: Kernel: 5.10.0-21-amd64 `d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Uptime: 2...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 1:13 am
- Forum: Travel Vacation
- Topic: Saint's Wellfleet, Cape Cod Trip 2023
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2509
Re: Saint's Wellfleet, Cape Cod Trip 2023
Lots of sand. Is it cheaper to fly like that and rent a car than to just pack sandwiches and a Vacuum-Insulated Beverage Bottle (once known as a Thermos), drive East and follow the signposts? I'm trying to recall where I was reading recently about US lighthouses with mercury basins. It wasn't a book...
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 11:13 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
I should, I suppose, document the present setback to the political career of Israel's heritage minister Amichai Eliyahu. Should I? Any encouragement there from the back of the circle? Let's. Israel’s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu was suspended indefinitely after he said in an interview that drop...
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 10:16 am
- Forum: General Music
- Topic: What are you listening to right now
- Replies: 3157
- Views: 13292661
Re: What are you listening to right now
Oddly enough, I played Sha Na Na quite a lot in the 70s.
Mostly at other people's parties.
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 6:19 am
- Forum: General Music
- Topic: Rap, an AI view
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1552
Rap, an AI view
Excuse me if I start the thread with a conversation with an AI from a couple of hours ago. This is with Claude-2 from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/chat Partly it's because Saint just showed up and I'm interested to hear what he thinks of conversational AI strength and weaknesses. Partly it's that I'...
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 6:11 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hi! I'm New!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3623
Re: Hi! I'm New!
While, I've got you here...there used to be a "New Posts"button to see just the threads that are active. Is it still there? I can't find it. Yo, big J, dude. If you drag-drop this to your bookmarks ribbon (Internet Explorer didn't call them bookmarks though. What was it. Favorites) it wil...
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 7:54 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
There have been over a thousand deaths reported so far. Only an incurable optimist would think the figure will stop short of five figures by November. The preponderance of the dead are civilians and that proportion will only increase. The quoted text was posted in this thread's OP on October 8th. T...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 4:15 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Unintelligibly illiterate BBC News article link text
- Replies: 783
- Views: 195470
Re: Unintelligibly illiterate BBC News article link text
I'm quite puzzled by the label against the following photo at https://www.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... -off-stage
The Globe theatre in the days of Shakespeare. Photograph: Bettmann Archive
The Globe theatre in the days of Shakespeare. Photograph: Bettmann Archive
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 12:53 pm
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Presidential Election of 2024
- Replies: 105
- Views: 53404
Re: The Presidential Election of 2024
Mike Pence: Former US Vice President withdraws from 2024 presidential race
Someone clearly ran out of donations.
eta: we have additional comment - "after prayer and deliberation he concludes ‘it is not my time’". Christians really make my skin crawl on occasion.
Someone clearly ran out of donations.
eta: we have additional comment - "after prayer and deliberation he concludes ‘it is not my time’". Christians really make my skin crawl on occasion.
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 1:44 pm
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
UN General Assembly votes to call for immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza The UN’s general assembly has overwhelmingly called for an immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza. The resolution, drafted by Arab states, passed with 120 votes in favor, while 45 abstained and 14 - including Israel and the US...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 1:37 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
More than 250 British lawyers, including eminent KCs and professors of law, have called on the UK government to press for a ceasefire in Gaza, saying serious breaches of international law are being committed. The lawyers have written to the prime minister, Rishi Sunak; James Cleverly, the foreign s...
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 12:07 pm
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
In this time of war, the health ministry in Gaza has been given its own health warning. Joe Biden has questioned the reliability of its reporting of the number of people killed and wounded during the Israeli assault on Gaza – because the health ministry is run by Hamas. “I have no notion that the P...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 12:39 pm
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: Voting for the New Speaker
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2461
Re: Voting for the New Speaker
Election denier, climate skeptic and anti-abortion: meet the new US House speaker Mike Johnson https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/who-is-mike-johnson-house-speaker-election-denier-climate-anti-abortion I'm not sure he can push his advocacy for these odd notions he espouses, but perhaps...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 4:29 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, has called on UN secretary-general, António Guterres, to resign after his remarks earlier today saying the “appalling attacks” by Hamas inside Israel on 7 October cannot justify the “collective punishment of the Palestinian people”. And a further comment ...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 1:52 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Unintelligibly illiterate BBC News article link text
- Replies: 783
- Views: 195470
Re: Unintelligibly illiterate BBC News article link text
Curry ‘getting support’ after receiving threats following racial slur allegation https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/oct/24/tom-curry-getting-support-after-receiving-threats-following-racial-slur-allegation-england-rugby-world-cup Tim Curry? Declan Curry? Jedidiah Curry? Why on earth do news sub...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 1:58 pm
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
Here we have Admiral John Kirby, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, speaking to the press today: In a breathtaking admission that more civilians would be killed in this conflict, Kirby said: I wish that that wasn’t going to happen. But it is. It is going to happen. A...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:17 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Ukraine and Russia
- Replies: 63
- Views: 4804
Re: Ukraine and Russia
For those who may have forgotten, this is President Biden reported on February 7th 2022, directly threatening to terminate Nord Stream 2 following a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Do please say if you think I'm twisting his words. Biden said should there be a Russian invasion, which he defined as “tan...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 10:52 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
Posters went up online overnight calling for religious Jewish settlers to go to pray at the sacred enclosure around the Al-Aqsa mosque, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, a provocative act that has the potential for triggering unrest in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. https://www.theguardian.com/...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 10:25 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
1. UN chief says humanitarian law being broken in Gaza Let's look back at more of the remarks of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York earlier. He said: "The protection of civilians is paramount in any armed conflict. Protecting civilians can never mean using them as human shields. ...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 1:06 pm
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: Megasthenes
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2623
Megasthenes
Reconsidering crime rates with Chat-GPT4 At the court of Chandragupta Maurya, Megasthenes reported local crime rates to be very low. If you can discuss that I'd be grateful, but it's a bit obscure. Certainly! Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of the Maurya Empire in ancient India, reigning from c....
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:22 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
I'll offer a side-note to the Al-Ahli Arab hospital explosion on Tuesday, responsibility for which has been denied on all sides. I find it notable that there are two clusters of estimates for the number of dead, one provided by Arab sources, one by the IDF. The IDF estimate is between a quarter and...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 3:02 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
As an indication of how effective the targeting in the Gaza Strip has been so far, prior to the anticipated major ground attack, I offer the following sum. To date, 5087 people have been killed by strikes within the Gaza Strip during this month's event. 2055 of those are children (14 years and under...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 2:56 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
Israel is never held accountable and the world walks away: King Abdullah More from the Jordanian king: “Today Israel is literally starving civilians in Gaza but for decades Palestinians have been starved of hope, of freedom and of future. “Because when the bombs stop falling, Israel is never held a...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 2:50 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
Posters went up online overnight calling for religious Jewish settlers to go to pray at the sacred enclosure around the Al-Aqsa mosque, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, a provocative act that has the potential for triggering unrest in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. https://www.theguardian.com/...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 2:45 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
I think it is necessary, before the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip begins, for the international community to demand extreme care not to harm any civilian resident. My own impression is that the number of civilian dead is going to increase dramatically, and that this is in fact a policy decision ...
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 5:42 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
I'll offer a side-note to the Al-Ahli Arab hospital explosion on Tuesday, responsibility for which has been denied on all sides. I find it notable that there are two clusters of estimates for the number of dead, one provided by Arab sources, one by the IDF. The IDF estimate is between a quarter and ...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 2:13 am
- Forum: The Library
- Topic: The Mahabharata
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2349
Re: The Mahabharata
The question is, is this computer program creating a coherent set of ideas. Its output certainly generates additional comment from me when it's my turn to speak. The post has all the hallmarks of a conversation. Hmm, I think that it is still, basically just going about the business of "Connect...
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 11:37 am
- Forum: The Library
- Topic: The Mahabharata
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2349
Re: The Mahabharata
The question is, is this computer program creating a coherent set of ideas. Its output certainly generates additional comment from me when it's my turn to speak. The post has all the hallmarks of a conversation.
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 10:58 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
If for once I offer the thread a personal opinion as opposed to a quote from news outlet: I would not be surprised if the current desire of Israel is to empty the northern half and seal it off permanently so that nobody has access to the area, and that the whole of the population of the Gaza Strip ...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 5:27 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: Voting for the New Speaker
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2461
Re: Voting for the New Speaker
I may be misremembering from years ago but did we not decide at one point that the Speaker of the House didn't necessarily have to be a member? Might we not think that the House Republicans would unanimously vote President Trump into the office of Speaker if asked? Problem solved. Or my memory is as...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 1:07 am
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
I've just listened my way through the most unprofessional hissy fit I've heard in years on Radio 4. This was from Colonel Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, and it was effectively one long scream against anyone and everyone daring to quote Hamas with regard to a large explosio...
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 2:27 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Ukraine and Russia
- Replies: 63
- Views: 4804
Re: Ukraine and Russia
It was by no means clear until today whether damage to the Finland - Estonia gas and broadband link was deliberate. Today's news makes it clear that it was: A telecommunication cable connecting Sweden and Estonia has been damaged, Sweden’s civil defence minister has said. Carl-Oskar Bohlin said the ...
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 4:56 am
- Forum: Ancient Wisdom
- Topic: Divination
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1439
Re: Divination
Eight Concepts for Paired Perspective - collaborative design by Claude shaped by the I Ching Please provide eight concepts. Each is to be an aspect of reality. Consider a querent attempting to isolate the essential aspects of a matter. These concepts are intended to provide a perspective to adopt in...
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 1:14 pm
- Forum: Ancient Wisdom
- Topic: Divination
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1439
Divination
Please discuss the ways in which the range of information content in the following processes changed the form of response their practitioner could expound: Urim and Thummim, I Ching, Tarot, and Augury. Certainly, each of these methods has historical and cultural significance and has been used to se...
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 12:14 pm
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: The Region
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13242
Re: The Region
The USS Eisenhower carrier group ought to be joining the Gerald R Ford on station by Friday morning, having deployed out of Boston over the weekend. There will then be more uniformed Americans in theater than Hamas members.
- Sun Oct 15, 2023 3:57 pm
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Unintelligibly illiterate BBC News article link text
- Replies: 783
- Views: 195470
Re: Unintelligibly illiterate BBC News article link text
And the Yorkshire Post reports that train operator Northern has started to broadcast predatory hawk calls through speakers to deter defecating pigeons from Driffield Station in East Yorkshire. The paper says it's hoped the noises will give commuters some respite from pigeons who regularly carpet bo...
- Sun Oct 15, 2023 3:47 pm
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Unintelligibly illiterate BBC News article link text
- Replies: 783
- Views: 195470
Re: Unintelligibly illiterate BBC News article link text
Good lord, it's unstoppable. He was known as the titular hero of 1970s TV detective series Baretta and starred in the 1997 film Lost Highway, but his career struggled following his wife's 2001 fatal shooting. This following example is so strange it's utterly meaningless: Mehrjui, who studied in the...