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[08:02 AM] Dutch Armed Forces fervently recruiting military doctors, nurses for war time

Defense is urgently looking for dozens of doctors and nurses to join the Dutch Armed Forces, either as professional soldiers or reservists.

nltimes.nl/2025/03/13/dutch-ar…

#dozens #theDutchArmedForces



Es ist unglaublich schwer, heutzutage noch Leute von ein #Orchester zu finden. Wir brauchen mehr Musiker! Spielt jemand ein Blasinstrument, #Bass, #Schlagzeug in #Langenhagen oder #Hannover? Ich weiß so langsam echt nicht mehr, wo wir suchen können! 😭

in reply to Coach Pāṇini ®

As someone wrote in a post AI is 90%hype and 10% useful. We have human intelligence. Using AI to compose a letter or write a book is sheer laziness and turning us into zombies. Apart from specialist data mining purposes AI serves little purpose.
in reply to iveyline

@iveyline
Where mindless form is required "AI" is just as well an answer as non-compliance. In other words, LLMs can be a high-tech tool of sabotage for Luddites in the socio-technological realm.

@paninid




so turns out the reason i feel like shit a lot and literally feel like im dying when i exert myself like at all is just high blood pressure

systolic of 143 at rest (mild hypertension) and went up another 30 after just walking up and down the stairs 4 times

and mind you, i only walked the stairs long enough to *start* feeling bad. most times i push myself way beyond that point (other times i only stop once i literally cant anymore and feel like like im about to pass out and/or throw up)

in reply to beanzip2

probably psychosomatic considering when its not triggered by exercise the agoraphobia tends to do the trick





G7-Außenminister - Hoffnung auf Einigkeit in Quebec

Freund oder Rivale? Beim G7-Außenministertreffen in Quebec liegen die Hoffnungen auf US-Außenminister Marco Rubio, weil man ihm noch Einfluss auf Trump zutraut.#KANADA #G7-Außenministertreffen #MarcoRubio #DonaldTrump



Hey smartwatchgebruikers! Dragen jullie 'm 's nachts? Waarom wel/niet? Zo ja, heeft het merkbaar nut? En wanneer laad je 'm dan op? En als je 'm niet 's nachts draagt, mis je gegevens? En algemeen, helpt een smartwatch je gezondheid vooruit? Ik zoek vooral ervaringen van mede-autisten, en vooral rondom Garmin smartwatches. Maar andere ervaringen zijn ook zeer welkom.

#smartwatch #garmin #autisme #gezondheid

in reply to Bart Groeneveld

Ja, alle functionaliteit lokaal op het horloge blijft uiteraard gewoon werken. Verder worden door Gadgetbridge ook al veel extra functies ondersteund, zoals weerberichtsynchronisatie, meldingen van de telefoon naar het horloge sturen en GPS-koppeling (verschilt per type Garmin).
in reply to Gadgetbridge

@gadgetbridge
Ik heb, zodra Gadgetbridge beschikbaar kwam voor Garmin devices, een Garmin Instinct aangeschaft (als upgrade van de PineTime) en ik ben er zeer content mee. Notificaties, weer en muziekbediening: koppelingen met de smartphone werken uitstekend.

Ik heb nooit de Garmin apps gebruikt, maar voor zover ik het kan overzien 'mis' je Garmin Pay en de Garmin LiveApp track feature. Beide zou ik om privacy redenen al sowieso niet willen gebruiken.

#gdgetbridge #smartwatch


in reply to Linux Is Best

wait is its birthday also the 13th?! (Same as my birthday?)
in reply to Natsura

Happy Birthday!

(The mascot's birthday was actually the 12th. I am only noticing this, now. lol)



We cannot fathom operating 2 separate bodies because 1 body is overwhelming as it is.


We operate our body with a single processor, the brain. Our organs are also managed by the brain. The brain is highly optimized to operate each of our organs, control motor functions, and allow us to think.

1 brain cannot control 2 bodies, there's simply too much going on. Likewise, 2 full brains cannot control the same body, they would fight for resources. Organs keep the brain alive, the brain keeps organs alive. It's a 1:1 ratio, sometimes less than 1, but never double (some have been born with extra controllable appendages but it's few and far between).

Therefore, only a higher, more generalized, processor could handle operating 2 or more distinct beings.

If only our cells could talk.

in reply to Oka

Until a certain brain body ratio - You can remove half of a brain and it can rewire itself to control the whole body. If you connect two brains to the same body what will likely happen is they will redistribute the work of controlling the body among themselves and work like one brain.

Neuroscientists of mastodon - What do you think?

#neuroscience #biology #showerthoughts



Verteidigungswende - Wie geht es weiter mit der Ukraine und der Sicherheit in Europa?

Eine Waffenruhe steht seit dem Treffen in Saudi-Arabien in Aussicht: Was bedeutet die Lage in der Ukraine für die Sicherheit in Europa?#UKRAINE #RUSSLAND #KRIEG #EUROPA #Waffenruhe #SICHERHEIT #VERTEIDIGUNG #Aufrüstung



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As Labour continues to plan on cutting benefits, a new National Institute of Economic & Social Research report concludes that the UK has one of the weakest social security 'safety nets' in the developed world... alongside a low-wage labour market, the economy ensures the poor stay poor. Now Labour plans to make that worse!

As Max Mosley, one of the reports author sums it up: 'We are neither delivering prosperity through high wages nor security through welfare'!

Disgraceful!

#politics
h/t FT



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グリダニアの都市内エーテの数すくねぇって
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#USDA HIRED BACK all employees fired by DOGE last week (about 6,000 of them) WITH BACK PAY.

All #DOGE did was cause #chaos, and pay 6,000 workers full wages to do nothing (except develop an ulcer) for a week.

#goodNews #agentKrasnov

usda.gov/about-usda/news/press…

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in reply to Dave Rahardja

I wonder how many will delay their start date at their new job long enough to collect back pay and then quit.


[07:41] LIVE | Automobilist bekneld bij ongeluk tussen Nijeveen en Wanneperveen en fietser naar ziekenhuis na val in sloot in Assen

Branden, ongelukken, files en vertragingen: met dit liveblog volg je het 112-nieuws in Drenthe en Groningen op de voet.

dvhn.nl/drenthe/Automobilist-b…

#112_nieuws #Drenthe #Groningen



[07:49] LIVE | Arabische landen blijven met VS onderhandelen over plan heropbouw Gaza

Israël en Hamas onderhandelen over een nieuw akkoord nu het eerste deel is verlopen. Of het staakt-het-vuren in Gaza standhoudt komende tijd is nog maar de vraag.

dvhn.nl/buitenland/LIVE-%E2%80…

#Israël #Hamas #eerste #Gaza



Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone. Hugs all round. Happy Thursday.

It looks like being a promising (if cold) day here today, which is a good thing for us as we have a family funeral to attend.
We will also be seeing the nephew who got married last summer, & who has already walked out on his new wife to have an affair with someone he met at his job. We don't know what we will say to him - all our sympathies are with his poor wife. She is a lovely young woman and doesn't deserve this.

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mastodon - Link to source
Lydia T. Pott
@AncTreat5358
Thank you. We can’t get our heads around it all. The next time we see the nephew will be Christmas. We want to tell him what an idiot he is, but it’s not our place to say it. That’s for his parents.
He didn’t even try to stick around & make it work. He will be a bad bet for anyone, going forward. And yet - in so many other ways we couldn’t think of a nicer, kinder young man. It’s confusing….
They must have spent many thousands on their big flashy wedding , & are now saddled with the debt & no marriage to show for it. And it will take his poor wife a long time before she can trust anyone again.



Kyoto ware incense box in shape of crouching #rabbit with seal of Nonomura Ninsei (Japan, active c. 1646-77)
Stoneware with enamels over clear glaze; H x W x D: 8.2 x 7.3 x 5.5 cm (3 1/4 x 2 7/8 x 2 3/16 in)
Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art F1904.203a-b asia.si.edu/explore-art-cultur…
#JapaneseArt


[07:38] Oproep voor broedseizoen: 'Houd je hond dichtbij'

Uit een peiling onder ruim duizend Nederlanders blijkt dat twee derde hun hond aangelijnd houdt. Het overige deel doet dat niet consequent.

rtvdrenthe.nl/nieuws/17308331/…

#duizend #Nederlanders #twee #derde



:tutut:​ ​:tutut:​ ​:tutut:​ 𝖎𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖔𝖓? ​:tutut:​ ​:tutut:​ ​:tutut:

Account got borked, only migration could save it... Partially anyways! ...maybe (🫳🪵 touch wood or tap a setto head)

But it's the same same Syndicate as you've known for 15 years, just a different URL. The internet is a Tibetan Sandmandala. We be drawing new ones, like we always have!

:boostRequest:​ Boosts appreciated so we can reconnect with y'all!

:explosion:​ Kabooooom!




サスタシャで5まとめぐらいされたんすけど。


The Blender team will be at @Official_GDC
in San Francisco next week and is organizing a "Blender Meetup" event on March 18. Learn more at blender.org/events/blender-at-… and RSVP at lu.ma/5faxy196 #b3d #GDC2025


[07:51] Putin orders swift defeat of Ukrainian forces in Kursk

Russian President Vladimir Putin, dressed in military fatigues, has ordered top commanders to defeat Ukrainian forces in the western region of Kursk as soon as possible after the United States asked him to consider a 30-day ceasefire proposal.

rte.ie/news/ukraine/2025/0313/…

#Russian #VladimirPutin #Ukrainian #Kursk #theUnitedStates #30_day




[07:37 AM] Dutch MP's agree to stronger approach to illegal trade in organs

The Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, supported a bill to better tackle illegal trade in organs from living or deceased persons, even though they had doubts about som

nltimes.nl/2025/03/13/dutch-mp…

#TheTweedeKamer #Dutch



[07:49] LIVE | Arabische landen blijven met VS onderhandelen over plan heropbouw Gaza

Israël en Hamas onderhandelen over een nieuw akkoord nu het eerste deel is verlopen. Of het staakt-het-vuren in Gaza standhoudt komende tijd is nog maar de vraag.

lc.nl/buitenland/LIVE-%E2%80%9…

#Israël #Hamas #eerste #Gaza



No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
"SPHEREx is going to produce an enormous three-dimensional map of the entire night sky."
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…

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"Joe Dominguez, CEO of Constellation Energy, talks about how a US trade war and tariffs could impact energy investments, deals in the energy sector, the future of power demand and the growth of nuclear power. He speaks with Bloomberg's Alix Steel at CERAWeek in Houston"

youtube.com/watch?v=JU6Vv7c6Xq…



A perfect example of good software. Enter email, enter password, welcome to federated encrypted chat messages. Simple. Easy adaptation too. Invite a friend using either a friendly invite URL (referral link) or Qr Code, they enter their email address, and password, done. This is easier to use than WhatsApp or Signal. It is called, Delta Chat, and it works with your own email. #WhatsApp #Signal #DeltaChat #Fediverse


I believe I can confirm that Vivaldi Webmail works with Delta Chat. 😇

CC: @delta @Vivaldi #Vivaldi #VivaldiWebMail #DeltaChat


in reply to Linux Is Best

The 1 thing I would change is when clicking on "new profile" is the option to use your own email, instead of signing up for a new Fedi provider, should be viewable right away, and not hidden under "other".

Make it transparent and obvious. It truly is the best feature. Keep this simple. You want someone's Grandma with zero technical skills to have this front and center.

@delta@chaos.social

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[07:52] Donderdag hagel en onweer verwacht, maar lenteweer keert snel terug

Donderdag wordt een dag waarop geregeld de zon schijnt, maar het ook tot enkele zware buien kan komen. Dat meldt Weeronline. Bij die buien kan het hagelen en onweren.

lc.nl/weer/Donderdag-hagel-en-…

#Donderdag #Weeronline