@jalefkowit
Having inherited a Samsung fridge & read through this entire thread… it’s good to be warned… I especially like the Samsung advice to get a better power source & the discussion on attaching a UPS to prevent food safety issues…

#Samsung #consequences

All choices have consequences. Including symbolic action, and inaction.

@EdwinG

So, any MAGA / Trump-voter types out there, if you just had your long-held summer vacation flights cancelled out from under you, have fun booking new tickets now that ticket prices have doubled due to inflated fuel costs because Dipshit Donnie started the next forever war in the middle east. At least you know who to blame!

To any sane people out there also affected by this, you have my empathy.

#USPol #schadenfreude #DipshitDonnie #Trump #MangoMussolini #OilCrisis #Hormuz #war #Iran #FAFO #consequences #MAGA

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Essay (1881-08) “The Christian Religion,” “Is All of the Bible Inspired?” ch. 2, North American Review, Vol. 133, No. 297

More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #consequences #God #morality #natural #naturalselection #nature #outcomes #punishment #results #reward #causeandeffect

Ingersoll, Robert Green - Essay (1881-08) "The Christian Religion," "Is All of the Bible Inspired?" ch. 2, North American Review, Vol. 133, No. 297 | WIST Quotations

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences. Collected in Allen Thorndike Rice (ed.), The Christian Religion, ch. 1 (1882). See Longfellow (1857).

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A quotation from Mark Twain

   “You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory — must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
   “O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
   (After a pause.) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905), “The War Prayer”

More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/5637/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #warprayer #blood #consequences #defeat #destruction #devastation #divinewill #divinewrath #enemy #imprecation #intercession #killing #prayer #suffering #tragedy #unintendedconsequences #victory #violence #war #divineintercession #curse #divinelove

Twain, Mark - Story (1905), "The War Prayer" | WIST Quotations

"You heard these words: 'Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!' That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory -- must follow…

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Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-making-war-crimes-constitutional-would-be-good-for-business-2000695162

Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.

#Palantir #WarCrimes #BloodMoney #AlexKarp #Fascism #Consequences

"Ex-local leader of #Orbán’s party arrested at #Budapest airport over #fraud case"

https://tvpworld.com/92933472/hungary-ex-fidesz-leader-rdi-feriz-arrested-at-budapest-airport

#Elections have #consequences

The #vote has consequences

*Not* voting also has consequences: you reward #malice, you block #justice

Are you listening Americans?

Do you want #MAGA goons punished?

And how do we achieve that?

Are you going to put two plus two together in your mind and figure out that means four, and fucking vote?

"But I want perfect, waah"

😠😡🤬

#Hungary #USA

Ex-local leader of Orbán’s party arrested at Budapest airport over fraud case

Tax authorities had issued an arrest warrant for the politician.

Telewizja Polska S.A
Ukraine marks Chornobyl anniversary amid fears of history repeating due to Russia war
Ukraine commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster on Sunday, amid fears that Russia's four-year war could spark a repeat of the world's worst nuclear accident that led to thousands of deaths and devastating environmental consequences.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-40th-anniversary-chornobyl-disaster-9.7177979?cmp=rss

Palantir Goes Mask-Off For Fascism. It Won’t End Well.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/20/palantir-goes-mask-off-for-fascism-it-wont-end-well/

the company seems to be betting that Trumpist-flavored authoritarianism is a permanent feature of the American political landscape — and that going all-in on it will never, ever have any long-term consequences.…

#Palantir #MaskOff #Fascism #AllIn #Consequences #GlobalSurveillance #KillChain