@dinsmore

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Tiny Apocalyptic Time Tip 🌐✨

If you too feel uneasy about
the state of the world,
and you too worry about losing access to one of the greatest knowledge treasure of the internet,

Know that you can download an
offline copy of Wikipedia!

Here's how 📚👇

1. Download the free and open source software Kiwix (this will be your reader): https://kiwix.org/en/applications/

2. If you want smaller versions of Wikipedia, you can download them within Kiwix.

Within the app, go to "Categories" in the menu on the left, then browse to a topic/version you want. Scroll to the bottom for Wikipedia mini, for example. Click on it then click "Download" on the right  

3. Once you have downloaded a database, click on "Opened" on the left > database you want to search > "Open Main Page" on the right.

4. You can use the Search field on the upper-right to find topics like on online Wikipedia! 🔍

5. If you want the full English version of Wikipedia (110GB), you might want to download it from the torrent file instead. Install a torrent client of your choice (I use Transmission).

Then, go to this page, click on "Download - 109.89 GB" blue button on the first result (size may vary overtime), then select "Torrent file": https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia

6. Once you have the torrent file, open it with your torrent client to start the download. This is BIG! Be patient! 📦

7. Once the download is completed, open your Wikipedia `.zim` file with Kiwix!

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Extra Tip: You can download many other awesome knowledge files from the Kiwix Library! Personally, I also got the iFixit knowledge base! ⚒️  

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@dcjohnson I agree we should also do that. However, you said you can't punish a corp, which isn't totally true - we just choose not to in our current enforcement system.

Regarding punishing shareholders, it's going to happen one way or another. Shareholders cannot (and should not) be completely insulated against the bad actions of their companies / executives.

@dcjohnson Or start revoking charters and/or seizing assets in lieu of fines. MSFT would comply real quick with enforcement actions if several server farms were seized and shut down.

@marcoarment Totally agree. Would be a shame if something were to happen to the primaries...

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/30/florida-democrats-dean-phillips-election-00129403

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-will-be-only-democratic-candidate-in-north-carolina-s-primary-state-election-board-decides/ar-AA1mn5H0

But who needs primaries anyways, at least there was a robust debate within the democratic party and the majority of democratic voters saw that Biden was the best of all the options!

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-do-democrats-plan-cancel-presidential-primary-debates-1796585

Thank god our elites are out there choosing what's best for us.

Florida Democrats plan to cancel presidential primary, enraging Dean Phillips’ campaign

The representative says the state party has deliberately moved to keep him off the ballot. Florida Dems say he is acting “unbecoming.”

POLITICO
Palestinian lives matter
@rbreich Biden promised that union busting companies would not get federal contracts, yet continues to do business with Amazon. That is a much bigger deal, and he didn't even need to use antitrust law. https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-tells-biden-cut-federal-contracts-anti-union-amazon-2022-4?op=1
Bernie Sanders tells Biden to cut off federal contracts with 'anti-union' Amazon

Sanders is an outspoken labor advocate, and joined Amazon Labor Union workers at a rally last weekend.

Insider

lol get fucked

i didn't expect to see the Hague Invasion Act be tested in my lifetime

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/internationaal/10545882/vs-dreigt-met-maatregelen-tegen-strafhof-den-haag

‘VS dreigt met wraak tegen Strafhof Den Haag’

Het Internationaal Strafhof in Den Haag (ICC) kan maatregelen verwachten vanuit de Verenigde Staten mochten er arrestatiebevelen komen voor Israëlische functionarissen. Zowel de Democraten als de Republikeinen uit het Congres hebben het Strafhof daarvoor gewaarschuwd, meldt Axios. ‘Het ICC heeft geen jurisdictie in deze situatie en we steunen zijn onderzoek niet’, liet het Witte Huis weten.

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@mloxton Palestinians need food, medicine, and to not be bombed.

You claim that what we need to do is protect Biden, who is supplying those bombs and allowing Israel to block food and medicine from reaching Palestinians.

We are looking at a situation where nearly everyone in the Gaza strip is starving and being bombed to bits. Biden has the power here. Biden could have stopped this AT ANY TIME, and STILL COULD. And we should protect Biden because... something about Iran?