A sustained disruption of traffic through Hormuz would not simply constitute an energy crisis. It would also represent a fertiliser shock (where prices go up dramatically and supply goes down) – and, by extension, a direct risk to global food security.

The European Commission has launched TraceMap, an AI platform that allows national authorities to detect food fraud, trace contamination, and speed product recalls.

What gives I'm american?

Though i'm pretty torn if it is even meme when it's entirely factual.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10980696

"Setareh Sadeghi, assistant professor of World Studies at the University of Tehran, speaks to The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal from Isfahan, Iran as her country defends itself against a vicious combined assault by the US and Israeli militaries."

"Sadeghi addresses the teachings and legacies of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and explains how his assassination has galvanized the Shia masses and united Iran in a battle for its national integrity. "

I have always wondered why I was taught in school for so long and it turns out that apparently lots of other people were taught this too.

The only reason I can think if that we were raight that blood in the body is blue is because our veins look blue. But does anyone know where that myth came from or why kids are still being taught this today?

Key Findings

•Crew lists obtained by reporters show that tankers carrying sanctioned Russian oil have been regularly departing the country's Baltic Sea ports with a pair of extra Russian crewmen.

•More than a dozen of these men were found to have links to Russian security organizations including the Wagner Group, paratrooper units, and Russia’s foreign intelligence service.

•European intelligence officers say these covert "vessel protection teams" have been deployed to deter authorities in the Baltic Sea from boarding or seizing the sanctioned ships.

•Russia relies heavily on the Baltic route to transport oil that remains a key income stream for its wartime economy despite Western sanctions.

American allies are watching in disbelief as the Pentagon reroutes weapon shipments to aid the Iran war, angry and scared that arms the U.S. demanded they buy will never reach them.

European nations that have struggled to rebuild arsenals after sending weapons to Ukraine fear they won’t be able to ward off a Russian attack. Asian allies, startled by America’s rate of fire, question whether it could embolden China and North Korea. And even in the Middle East, countries aren’t clear if they will get air defenses from the U.S. for future priorities.

Hej lemmings! (Hoping this is relevant enough for the selfhosted commjnity)

Quick question for you all: do you stick with the same distro across your PC, laptop, and server, or do you pick different ones based on the device and what you're doing?

For me, I've been mixing and matching depending on the use case, but I'm starting to think it'd be nice to just have one distro (or at least one family like Fedora or Debian) running everywhere. That way I wouldn't get confused about default settings or constantly have to look up flags for different package managers.

Right now my setup is:

• Gaming rig: CachyOS
• Laptop: AuroraOS
• NAS: Unraid
• Various project servers: DietPi, Debian, Alpine etc..

I feel like NixOS might be the only distro that could realistically handle all these use cases, but I'm a bit scared of the learning curve and the maintenance work it'd take to migrate everything over.

Am I the only one who feels like having "one distro to rule them all" would be nice? How do you guys handle your setups? All ears! 😊

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/196812

By waging war in the Middle East, Trump is set to further strain one of his key voter bases.

From Foreign Policy via this RSS feed

The case has drawn national attention because the brothers, Antonio Yesayahu Gámez-Cuéllar, 18, and Caleb Gámez-Cuéllar, 14, travelled to Washington DC last summer after their high school’s mariachi ensemble, Mariachi Ono, won a state mariachi competition. Their congresswoman, Monica De La Cruz, invited them to the House floor, where she celebrated their accomplishment.

Late last month, the brothers and their parents, Luis Antonio Martínez and Emma Guadalupe Cuéllar, as well as their younger brother Joshua Gámez-Cuéllar, 12, were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to Texas representatives.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56544079

European police agencies said on Friday that 22 people had been identified as being part of attacks involving a series of exploding parcels in ‌Europe in 2024, which the Russian military intelligence service was suspected of being behind.

Explosions occurred in courier depots in Britain, Germany and Poland with security officials suggesting they were part of a test run for a Russian plot to trigger explosions on cargo flights to the United States.

Moscow has always denied allegations it was involved in any such operation, or other accusations of a wider sabotage campaign involving arson attacks aimed at destabilising allies of Ukraine.

'VULNERABLE' SUSPECTS Eurojust, the European Union's justice cooperation agency, ⁠said on Friday that a joint investigation by German, Polish, Dutch, British and Lithuanian detectives had identified 22 suspects in Lithuania and Poland who were suspected of working on behalf of Russia's GRU intelligence agency.

"The suspected perpetrators were recruited from Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Ukraine and were often in a vulnerable socio-economic situation," the Eurojust statement said. "It is suspected that the acts carried out by these suspects were executed on behalf of the military-intelligence service of the Russian Federation."

At least you're not paying for the media🏴‍☠️

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/60481861

The nation’s antitrust watchdog also ordered the carmaker to rectify its deceptive marketing practices. According to the authority’s investigation, the carmaker concealed the actual battery supplier for several models — the EQE and EQS EVs — and promoted as if all of the vehicles were equipped with batteries from CATL, the world’s largest battery maker.

Mercedes-Benz Korea and its German headquarters were already aware of the battery suppliers, but deliberately deleted information on Farasis in its sales guide here, according to the FTC investigation. The local subsidiary received education materials on the battery suppliers for each EV lineup from the German headquarters in May 2021.