Wm.sonWell this is accurate as fuck, right?
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
To learn who rules over you, simply find out whom you are not allowed to criticize. -Voltaire, philosopher (21 Nov 1694-1778)
NihilistAmbush🍉
Thomas AdamIt's another post about #rulers -- well, of sorts.
I own a slide rule -- likely given to me by my dad. These would have been used a lot during schools and engineering bods alike. Until such time that the pocket calculator came along.
I ought to learn how to use it.
I own a copy of "The Slide Rule", by Burns Snodgrass, which is either a name, or an instruction, I'm not sure which...
Whilst I was rooting around, I came across these two gems:
The United Kingdom Slide Rule Circle: https://www.uksrc.org.uk
The International Sliderule Museum: https://www.sliderulemuseum.com
I really hope they're still being used somewhere, by some people.
Considering there's so many blooming different ones (some circular, for instance), it would be a shame these things were consigned to history.
As a follow-up to this conversation about #ded #console #rulers, Thomas Dickey had this to say (in response to an email I'd sent him):
It's a visual reminder of how far left/right I've scrolled, in either the directory listing, or in the built-in pager. If you're using the pager, the scrolling applies to that.
Neither of those wraps lines, and when I
began that (in 1987), had no other programs to do that sort of thing.
If I'm scrolling left/right, I want to know where I am. If I scroll too far the right, and the screen's blank, that helps :-)
I see it's in the initial version of dedview.c, in April 1992, which precedes any of the followup versions of #dired. In turn, that says it was split from ded.c, so... in that file I see a ruler (in showFILES), which is from November 1987. The 'Xbase' variable corresponds to left/right scrolling - but that's the initial version of ded.c (I don't recall if the intermediate version that I wrote beginning around December/January 1986 did that, but have a hunch that this was something that I did for the improved version, with the ring of active directories, etc).
I had modified the initial version seen here:
https://groups.google.com/g/net.sources/c/_lGkTpsqyPE/m/SwhkKsBuayIJ
to move its divider line up and down in late 1983, and incorporated a similar divider into the versions that I wrote from scratch. I don't recall if I added column numbers to my changes in the original dired, but may have, since it seems "obvious".
Thanks for that, Thomas!!
Chuck Anderson#Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the #rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise #authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your #servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Matthew 20:25-28 #biblicalauthority
WIST Quotations Has Moved!A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“History,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
More info about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/13455…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #history #humancondition #humanity #myth #rulers #soldiers
MissConstrueOk gang, real question that has led me down too many rabbit holes. Why does my T-square start at 3” (18cm), count down to 0, then begin counting up again?
#rulers #measurements #HowDoTheyEvenWork
#rulers #measurements #HowDoTheyEvenWork
DoomsdaysCWPutin envoy Dmitriev, Trump envoy Witkoff meet in Washington
April 2, 2025
WASHINGTON — "Russian President Vladimir #Putin's investment envoy #KirillDmitriev met with US officials in Washington on Wednesday (April 2) as the Trump administration continues to press Russia and Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire, two US officials familiar with the matter said.
"Dmitriev, a Stanford-educated former #GoldmanSachs investment banker, is one of the most US-savvy members of Russia's elite, with close relations to some key members of the Trump team. He is the highest-ranking Russian official to travel to the US on state business since Russia's 2022 expanded invasion of Ukraine.
"It was not clear what Dmitriev discussed with the US officials.
"But his visit comes after President Donald Trump expressed his frustration with the pace of ceasefire talks, saying on Sunday he was 'pissed off' with Putin and raising the possibility of imposing sanctions on those who buy Russian crude. Russia is the world's second largest exporter of crude after Saudi Arabia.
"#SteveWitkoff, a Trump envoy who has taken the lead on the Trump administration's contacts with the Kremlin, invited Dmitriev to the US last week, said the US officials. The White House directed the State Department to issue a short-term licence for Dmitriev to travel to the country, a necessary step as Dmitriev faces US sanctions, the officials said.
"Dmitriev may be key in repairing relations that were, until Trump's January inauguration, the worst between Moscow and Washington since the most dangerous junctures of the Cold War.
"The Russian envoy played a role in early contacts with the US when Trump was first elected president in 2016, as well as in building relations with #SaudiArabia, which led to an #oil price agreement under the expanded #OPEC+ producers' forum."
Read more:
https://www.asiaone.com/world/putin-envoy-dmitriev-trump-envoy-witkoff-meet-washington
Putin envoy Dmitriev, Trump envoy Witkoff meet in Washington
WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin's investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev met with US officials in Washington on Wednesday (April 2) as the Trump administration continues to press Russia and Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire, two US officials familiar with the matter said. Dmitriev, a Stanford-educated former Goldman Sachs investment banker, is one of the most US-savvy members of Russia's...
Stephen HayesRulers and authorities, territorial spirits, spiritual warfare
https://ondermynende.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/rulers-and-authorities-territorial-spirits-spiritual-warfare/
#power #powers #rulers #authority
https://ondermynende.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/rulers-and-authorities-territorial-spirits-spiritual-warfare/
#power #powers #rulers #authority
anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful #women who ever lived
Astonishing new archaeological finds and ancient DNA analysis leave no doubt that throughout #prehistory women were #rulers, #warriors, #hunters and #shamans
30 July 2025
The young man, no older than 25, had gone to the afterlife with an opulent assortment of grave goods, including an entire elephant tusk. Archaeologists who excavated his 5000-year-old remains in 2008 from a site near Seville, Spain,
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