Hi,

Sorry if this has been posted before but I'm looking at trying Usenet instead of torrents.

I've done some Googling and honestly, it's a little overwhelming knowing what Usenet provider to use, where to get quality indexers and which download client would be the best.

If anyone has any resources or advice to help me sail the Usenet sees I would be eternally grateful!

I love this color, too :)

In this letter, Dijkstra talks about readability and maintainability in a time where those topics were rarely talked about (1968). This letter was one of the main causes why modern programmers don't have to trouble themselves with goto statements. Older languages like Java and C# still have a (discouraged) goto statement, because they (mindlessly) copied it from C, which (mindlessly) copied it from Assembly, but more modern languages like Swift and Kotlin don't even have a goto statement anymore.

4 panel comic by War and Peas. 1. Panel shows two pirates, the first pirate speaks "Captain, our rivals have been calling us names again." 2. Panel: The pirate continues, "They said we were a bunch of handicaps." 3. Panel: The captain himself says, "That's ableism! And we don't tolerate that kind of talk here". 4.Panel: The ship in full from afar waving a bunch of flags, such as the pride flag, the pirate skull-and-crossbones, the human rights flag, the trans flag and more.

Periodical cicada nymphs from Brood XIII are crawling out of the earth and moulting on trees, leaving husks like in the picture. For the next several weeks they'll be everywhere in the affected area. Then they lay their eggs in young tree trunks and other such supple plant stems, which hatch later in the summer only to burrow back into the earth for 17 more years.

I may return with other cicada facts as more come out. Very curious to see if it's any different from the last time in 2007 due to climate change

'glastreppen :: stairs of glass' by stemerk44

Photograph by Katerina P.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi — often seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei— is missing after his helicopter went down in the northwest of the country on Sunday, officials said.

Iran’s Vice President Mohsen Mansouri said contact has been made with one of the helicopter passengers and one of the flight crew, although the connection had frequently been interrupted.

A report by official Iranian news agency IRNA says that it seems the incident was not serious, but does not provide an update on Raisi’s wellbeing or that of any other passengers. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was also reportedly on board the aircraft.

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DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident.

The official said the lives of Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were "at risk following the helicopter crash", which happened on the way back from a visit to the border with Azerbaijan in Iran's northwest.

'Nice - MAMAC' by Gilles Herbin

"A ideia é acabar com a tarifa social de energia elétrica ao substituí-la gradativamente por usinas solares para populações de baixa renda. 'Vamos diminuir a tarifa de energia para todos os consumidores, acabando com a tarifa social, e investir R$ 60 bilhões nos próximos 10 anos, gerando emprego no Brasil'. (...) Domingos Neto ressaltou que o projeto beneficia a população mais carente que terá acesso aos painéis, baixando o custo da sua energia e também os demais consumidores. “Os futuros reajustes da Aneel serão diminuídos porque o custo da tarifa social será suprido”, afirmou. De acordo com o texto, o Programa Renda Básica Energética (Rebe) pretende substituir gradativamente o subsídio destinado à TSEE pela energia gerada nessas centrais de energia solar fotovoltaica, beneficiando os consumidores de baixa renda com consumo até 220 kWh/mês".

Parece positivo, dá uma soberania energética à família (mesmo que ainda não estabeleça baterias na própria residência para de fato ela gerar energia para si próprias), além de gerar empregos de técnicos na área.

Floor796 is an ever-expanding animation scene showing the life of the 796th floor of the huge space station! The goal of the project is to create as huge animation as possible, with many references to movies, games, anime and memes.

Most of the characters are clickable: you can find out what kind of character and follow the link to the source. Non-clickable characters are fictional.

"Love is as varied as people are."

~Magnus Hirschfeld (date unknown)