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The (forced) disappearance of cash continues, but I wonder what would happen if you turn up at a card only premises, eat their food & then only offer cash?

They will say card only, but you are offering legal tender;

They might say you have consumed food without the means to pay, but you have the legal means to pay.

Would they call the police & how would this be litigated I wonder?

Just needs a group to organise this sort of action, and we might find out?

#economics
theguardian.com/money/2025/mar…

in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

I'm one of the people who barely uses cash any more. I barely even use my actual cards, just my phone's payment app. But I still believe cash should be an option. For one thing not everyone wants their every transaction to be on the record. A teenager should be able to buy a book for cash.


How an obscure US government office has become a target of Elon Musk - theguardian.com/technology/202… only someone as stupid as #musk could misunderstand what 18F is and how it is funded.
#musk
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in reply to Glyn Moody

I will not be surprised if they are just asking Grok what to do and following its instructions like the morons these 'smart' people are.


Back to cash: life without money in your pocket is not the utopia Sweden hoped - theguardian.com/technology/202… “If no one pays with cash and no one accepts cash, cash will no longer be a real emergency solution once the crisis is upon us.” as many of us warned...
in reply to Glyn Moody

Cash is mainly necessary for dealing with strangers. In Ireland during a 6 month bank strike in 1970 people created their own cash in the form of endorsed cheques. Worked fine for trading with trusted parties.

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Oxford historian faces deportation from UK after doing research on India … in India - theguardian.com/education/2025… UK #HomeOffice remains an unfunny joke


At least 32 dead as monster storm system sweeps across US south with multiple tornadoes - theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m… "Chaotic weekend sees blizzard warnings in midwest, wildfires in southern plains and dust storms in Texas" welcome to the future, #murica #ClimateCrisis


ICE tortured a German green card holder living in New Hampshire to get him to give up his green card. He had no active issues in court. This is not the first person from a democracy to have disappeared. @EUCommission, you need to issue a travel warning, and you need to do it now.
in reply to E Rosalie

Keep in mind, that US citizens have rights at the border with ICE, foreigners don't have any of these rights.
It is the complete opposite of Europe, where everyone has the same rights, no matter which citizenship.
in reply to Stefanie Janine Stölting

No! Stop spreading misinformation.

Non US citizens have rights in the US and what the US state does is illegal on multiple levels.

Saying that non us citizens have no rights suggests that the US state is operating legally, which they are not. They are a Unrechtsstaat.

First of all all people in the US have human rights which the US has to follow.

And then you have here a good list of non us citizens rights:

> Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution.

aclu.org/know-your-rights/immi…


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TREITER-EN-TWISTTONEEL

Typische Trump-tactiek!
Toxische taksenstrijd:
tragische tweespalt toont
trieste teneur.

Thans tuchtigt tactloze
toornige-trollentaal
toppolitiek tot
tarieventerreur.

volkskrant.nl/economie/wat-te-…

#Ollekebolleke
#Trump

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in reply to Wim Gabriels

Even raden. Schelden en hetzelfde tarten van de economische logica zelfs nog met een erger graadje erbij humanitaire misdaden?

Dat iemand die non-logica' nou zou geloven kan ik nog volgen. Heel wat bedenkingen op maar men gelooft wel meer zotte zaken.

Maar hoe verdraait is men dat men enerzijds beweert dat het bij Trump zotheid is en anderzijds bij zichzelf wijsheid en de oplossing? Daar is helemaal niets logisch aan hoe men dat ook denkt te verantwoorden.



This was great! Playing a 2 hour set where we went through all kinda styles within #Jungle / #DrumandBass / #Footwork --call it whatever

Thanks for having me, thanks for dancing. I had a fantastic night out there!
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Mix is also on SC. Tracklist coming soon.

#earcandy



Es gibt ja ein Institut für Fotopsychologie.
Wer also etwas tiefer in das eine oder andere Thema eintauchen möchte und dazu eine methodisch aufbereitete Umfrage mit Analyse lesen möchte, der kann ja mal hier foto-psychologie.de/publikatio… vorbeisehen. Interessant ist es allemal.
Wenn man sich im Newsletter eintragen lässt, dann bekommt man auch die Umfragen geschickt und kann daran teilnehmen.



Trump closes down Radio Liberty which transmitted western news to dictatorships.

Putin wins again.

about.rferl.org/article/rfe-rl…

in reply to Randahl Fink

C’est un chouette symbole, pourtant, de couper les vivre à un média qui s’appelle « Radio Liberté », non ?
in reply to Randahl Fink

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime systematically targeted and reshaped key institutions—including healthcare, education, research, law, and civil service—to align with their ideology and consolidate control.

The Nazis didn’t just seize political power—they corrupted institutions to enforce totalitarianism. Parallels to modern threats often focus on how democratic safeguards (free press, independent courts, academic freedom) are eroded step by step.



Have a nice time on this rainy Sunday with a bit of filmed sun 😉

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#hofkollektiv #diy #farming #landwirtschaft #meingemuse #growyourown #silentsunday

in reply to ChaosHof

You can just flip the beam on the table saw and cut from both sides (using the same reference side against the fence). Works quite well 😀



Sometimes crystals form stacked 'worm' like shapes - this is pale green clinochlore on a dark sphalerite matrix from Wheal Charles, Porthtowan at the base of the steep valley underneath the much larger Tywarnhayle mine.

I got wet feet from a failed attempt at jumping over a stream for this one, but it was worth it.

#OrganisedAtoms



A mass rally against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was held in Budapest.

The protest was organized by the opposition Tisza party. The leader of the political force, Peter Magyar, announced a public movement—a survey of Hungarians with 12 questions. This is a response to Orbán’s 12 demands to Brussels. One of the conditions was “Union without Ukraine.”
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #hungary



Cool testing of Tesla’s vision-only system versus LiDAR, showing experimentally the superiority of the laser-based sensing technique.

Musk said “Anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed" but turns out that Waymo has a far superior track record than Tesla, and has entered commercial service with far superior technology. This claim was about margin preservation for Tesla (given price of LiDAR sensors), not safety.

youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDy…

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RFE/RL - EU, under pressure from Hungary and Slovakia, removing several Russians from its sanctions list. rferl.org/a/eu-russia-sanction…
in reply to Steve Herman

Republican billionaires have always hated the first Amendment and a free press.

nytimes.com/2025/03/03/magazin…

newyorker.com/news/news-desk/h…

poynter.org/ethics-trust/2025/…

progressive.org/magazine/the-q…

cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/trump…

democracynow.org/2025/2/10/elo…

middleeasteye.net/opinion/sout…

npr.org/2025/03/11/nx-s1-53245…

Why? Because it's profitable to the favored few. The rich & white get to enjoy a lifestyle built on injustice.

Building Putin's first colony in a century
pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article…

nytimes.com/2022/03/04/world/e…


in reply to Nazani

Fire hardening wooden tools?
youtu.be/6PI5ymqmAiM

Those distaffs are early versions of a Ma'Tok staff
stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Ma%27…
It is troubling that one appears to be passing through the body of a man in the background.

Another background character uses his robot arm to wield the staff

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in reply to Bornach

@bornach I'm familiar with fire-hardening & other basic paleo craft, but there's so much wrong here. AI image, presumably.


Canada:“…Urban Grocer [Victoria] has removed almost all…#US fruits & vegetables from its shelves, following a dip in the sale of American-grown products… “As soon as…Trump (tariffs) hit, it was like a light bulb went off...,” said the store…manager... “People are just pissed right off… Prior to all of this, one of our most popular spinach was Popeye Spinach. We used to sell 60-80 bags a day… In the last week that we had it, we sold 2 bags. That’s a message.” | SaanichNews saanichnews.com/local-news/us-…
#us


1.65 million people is a statistic…

"Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True." By @nickkristof nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0…

#musk #trump #uspol



UK, US Hold Private Talks in Bid to Calm Apple Encryption Feud | Bloomberg | …the UK IC’s demands are leaking like a sieve
alecmuffett.com/article/112801
#EndToEndEncryption #HomeOffice #apple #surveillance


A new Ant Lab video just came out the other day and it's amazing. If you have been trying to understand insect flight... or if you just want to see some beautiful slow motion it doesn't get any better than this.

youtube.com/watch?v=gDI5g3rd0L…



Die Venus wird vom Abendstern zum Morgenstern

An der Venus lässt sich im März beobachten, was die inneren Planeten ausmacht: Sie zieht zwischen Erde und Sonne hindurch, wird dadurch zur dünnen Sichel und wechselt vom Abend zum Morgen und von West nach Ost. Von Heike Westram.

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#Venus #Sternenhimmel #Planeten




i closely agree with lynch on "dark" textures, but i kinda wanna make a bonus list for "lighter" textures too!
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in reply to enargeia

Here is a guide to all of the important textures:

sauropods.win/@futurebird/1119…



While the Trump administration has prevented the UN and NATO from even using language that could offend Putin, Trump now orders a military attack of "overwhelming lethal force" against the Houthis, who are backed by Iran, who is Putin's ally — the guy who Trump thinks he has a "promising" dialog with and is very eager to meet.

If 2025 becomes the beginning of World War 3, it will be because of the unlimited ignorance of the MAGA God King.

in reply to Randahl Fink

Aмериканський президент, иди нахуй!
#AmericanPresidentGoFuckYourself
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in reply to Randahl Fink

3 months in, he still talks about Joe Biden.
Make Israel Great Again should be the name of his movement.


Solar panels become less effective the farther spacecraft travel from the Sun. For missions to the outer solar system and beyond, NASA uses RTGs - nuclear-powered batteries that can provide consistent electricity for decades. An astrophysicist explains: theconversation.com/radioisoto… 🛰️ #space
in reply to The Conversation U.S.

I want a nuclear battery that runs for decades; would be better than paying $200-$400 a month for electricity and having to run a generator every time it rains or snows.


A Hacker’s Approach to All Things Antenna

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Google are breaking my mittens - Sonofa. Twelve years ago I knitted a pair of “self-replicating mittens” (web-goddess.org/archive/14046) with a QR code that pointed you to the pattern for the mittens, and I entered them in the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I was pretty proud of my cleverness. In the blog post (web-goddess.org/archive/11192) where I talked about making the mittens, I said:

I wanted my code to be as simple as possible, so I needed to use a URL shortener to mask my intended address. I settled on using Google‘s, reasoning that it was likely to be around the longest. (Though who knows these days, right?)

You can guess what’s happened, right? Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available (developers.googleblog.com/en/g…) as of August this year.

Bastards are breaking my mittens. Perhaps I’ll have to add some embroidery. web-goddess.org/archive/56383

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