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It’s a vicious cycle:
Pumping for groundwater is dehydrating our world.
And yet, people take more water from underground due to need, when climate-driven heat and drought are at their worst.
https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-gro…

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

Der erste #Rhabarber wurde übrigens längst liebevoll in #Streuselkuchen verwandelt. Natürlich wie immer mit fetten Streuseln. 😁
Mein #Rezept:

Sozen jetzt wieder mit Krokodilstränen auf Social Media unterwegs. Alles ganz schlimm mit dem #Familiennachzug.
Als ob diese rechte Scheißpartei vor dieser Scheißkoalition irgendwie anders gewesen wäre.
»Wir müssen endlich im großen Stil abschieben« meinte euer Cum-Ex Verbrecher 2023.
Geht endlich unter, niemand braucht euren Scheißladen.

#Stuttgart21, oder wie man einen Bahnhof unter die Erde verfrachtet, um (unter anderem) obendrauf Bauflächen zu haben, wie dann aber das #Eisenbahngesetz geändert wurde und die schönen Bauflächen plötzlich nicht mehr hätten bebaut werden dürfen, und wie das Eisenbahngesetz jetzt wieder g…

Bundestag beschließt Eisenbahngesetz-Änderung: 5.700 Wohnungen in Stuttgart könnten entstehen
Die Bundesregierung hat in der Nacht eine Reform des Eisenbahngesetzes verabschiedet. Damit könnten Wohnprojekte leichter auf alten Bahnflächen gebaut werden - wie in Stuttgart.

Ukraine will Russlands Bedingungen für Frieden sehen
Die Ukraine hat sich zu einem erneuten Treffen mit Unterhändlern Moskaus bereiterklärt, will aber vorher die russischen Bedingungen für einen Frieden sehen. Dies teilte der ukrainische Verhandlungsführer und Verteidigungsminister Rustem Umerow am Mittwochabend im Onlinedienst X mit.
"Die russische Seite hat noch mindestens vier Tage Zeit, um uns ihr Dokument zur Prüfung vo…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland schlägt neue Gespräche in Istanbul vor ++
Russland hat der Ukraine nach eigenen Angaben neue Friedensgespräche in Istanbul ab Montag vorgeschlagen. Deutschland wird der Ukraine weitere militärische Unterstützung in Höhe von rund fünf Milliarden Euro gewähren.

#TCRNo11Cap376a & #TCRNo11Cap376b sind für mich jetzt schon mit die größten Helden des #TCRNo11!
Bilder geklaut bei LostDot.

This wider action is not about porn. This is about building a system of tracking Internet use of everyone, adults or children.
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“Commission opens investigations to safeguard minors from pornographic content under the Digital Services Act”
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1339

How popular media gets love wrong
Had some thoughts in response to a post about loneliness on here. As the author emphasized, reassurances from people who got lucky are not terribly comforting to those who didn't, especially when the person who was lucky had structural factors in their favor that made their chances of success much higher than those is their audience. So: these are just my thoughts, and may not have any bearing on your life. I share them because my experience challenged a lot of the things I was taught to believe about love, and I think my current beliefs are both truer and would benefit others seeing companionship.
We're taught in many modern societies from an absurdly young age that love is not something under our control, and that dating should be a process of trying to kindle love with different people until we meet "the one" with whom it takes off. In the slightly-less-fairytale corners of modern popular media, we might fund an admission that it's possible to influence love, feeding & tending the fire in better or worse ways. But it's still modeled as an uncontrollable force of nature, to be occasionally influenced but never tamed. I'll call this the "fire" model of love.
We're also taught (and non-boys are taught more stringently) a second contradictory model of love: that in a relationship, we need to both do things and be things in order to make our partner love us, and that if we don't, our partner's love for us will wither, and (especially if you're not a boy) it will be our fault. I'll call this the "appeal" model of love.
Now obviously both of these cannot be totally true at once, and plenty of popular media centers this contradiction, but there are really very few competing models on offer.
In my experience, however, it's possible to have "pre-meditated" love. In other words, to decide you want to love someone (or at least, try loving them), commit to that idea, and then actually wind up in love with them (and them with you, although obviously this second part is not directly under your control). I'll call this the "engineered" model of love.
Now, I don't think that the "fire" and "appeal" models of love are totally wrong, but I do feel their shortcomings often suggest poor & self-destructive relationship strategies. I do think the "fire" model is a decent model for *infatuation*, which is something a lot of popular media blur into love, and which drives many (but not all) of the feelings we normally associate with love (even as those feelings have other possible drivers too). I definitely experienced strong infatuation early on in my engineered relationship (ugh that sounds terrible but I'll stick with it; I promise no deception was involved). I continue to experience mild infatuation years later that waxes and wanes. It's not a stable foundation for a relationship but it can be a useful component of one (this at least popular media depicts often).
I'll continue these thoughts in a reply, by it might take a bit to get to it.
#relationships

Encryption Is Not a Crime - Privacy Guides
Contrary to what some policymakers seem to believe, whether naively or maliciously, encryption is not a crime. Anyone asserting encryption is a tool for crime is either painfully misinformed or is attempting to manipulate legislators to gain oppressive power over the people. Encryption is not a crime, encryption is a shield.
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Encryption Is Not a Crime
Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects all of us. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.