Federal budget includes $141B in new spending — offset by cuts and savings as Ottawa slashes the bureaucracy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38339748

Just looking for direction, input, personal stories, anecdotes, links, infographics, literally anything on the topic.

Something to help one better themselves, manage their life and put some structure or control in place.

One is Michael Lyras, a 44-year-old American, who lives in Volusia County, near Orlando, in central Florida. Lyras studied addiction counseling in college but is currently disabled and receiving food stamps. He voted for Trump “all three times” but says he is upset with the way things are going: “I regret my last vote enormously,” he says.

“It was necessary to make changes, but not in this way, sacrificing our civil rights and liberties that are enshrined in our Constitution,” Lyras adds. “He [Trump] is turning this into a police state and he’s acting like an authoritarian. I didn’t vote for any of this”

Bushart’s case raised a firestorm of controversy after he was arrested, jailed, and slapped with a $2 million bail for a social media post. His supposed crime: making a threat of mass violence against a school in a neighboring county. In reality, all he had done was repost a meme. On Saturday, September 20, he had visited a community page, “What’s Happening in Perry County, TN,” and trolled a thread about an upcoming vigil honoring Charlie Kirk.

Bushart’s crime? Directly quoting Donald Trump on this Facebook page.

One of his posts was a photo of President Donald Trump, along with the quote “We have to get over it,” drawing from his response to a school shooting in Perry, Iowa, in 2024.

What can Australia learn from Norway's approach to taxing resources?

Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the moment. To honor “three decades of safeguarding the world’s online heritage,” the city of San Francisco declared October 22 to be “Internet Archive Day.” The Archive was also recently designated a federal depository library by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), who proclaimed the organization a “perfect fit” to expand “access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape.”

The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization, but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project. In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”

“We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars. “But it wiped out the Library.”

An Internet Archive spokesperson confirmed to Ars that the archive currently faces no major lawsuits and no active threats to its collections. Kahle thinks “the world became stupider” when the Open Library was gutted—but he’s moving forward with new ideas.

I created this for my personal use and decided to open source it in case it might be useful for anyone else.

The script to download and decrypt audible audiobooks can be used standalone without the RSS feed generation.

Archive: https://archive.is/PonDp

I'm not as familiar with this region, and so I was able to learn some things from this article. However, the author does also express his opinion on the matter in addition to the analysis. Please share any thoughts or concerns in the comments since, again, I'm not as familiar with the history of this topic. I'm also happy to delete my post if there are issues.

Author: Spyros A. Sofos | Assistant Professor in Global Humanities, Simon Fraser University

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In the recent Northern Cyprus presidential election, an overwhelming majority of the Turkish Cypriot electorate rejected incumbent Ersin Tatar, backed by the Turkish government, and his hard-line two-state rhetoric.

Opposition leader Tufan Erhürman’s landslide victory has revived hopes for a settlement on the divided island.

Cyprus is an independent country and a member of both the United Nations and the European Union. But it’s divided, with the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus in the south and a self-declared state in the north, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, recognized only by Turkey.

A two-state solution calls for the island to remain divided between Greek Cypriots in the south and Turkish Cypriots in the north instead of reunifying.

This division was the result of Turkey’s 1974 invasion of Cyprus that followed a coup orchestrated by the Greek junta aimed at uniting the island with Greece. Turkey intervened, ostensibly to protect the Turkish Cypriot minority.

Hi,

this is my first post on lemmy and I couldn't find another community that fits better for posting this project.

I saw this idea somewhere else and I wanted to build it for myself because I was fascinated by it. So I did. You can enter your nick name, a message (optional email address and image) and send it to me. It will print immediately and I will see your message. There's also an easter egg that you can discover. :)

I am using a Phomemo M02 Pro thermal printer. Made with Python (printer communication via bleak, phomemo_printer, PIL) and Node/Express.js. With my Python script I poll the data from the backend to print.

https://i.ibb.co/zwzGd4X/img.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/ZpFxbbRT/IMG-1502.jpg

The messages I already got are so funny and positive haha. I think I will cut them all out and scan them.

EDIT: I just woke up and saw all the messages. Thank you so much :)

EDIT2: I got a few messages that made me smile. Very original. Positive messages from all around the world. Since I got almost 200 messages and over 30 images, I think I will pick the most original and funny ones and post here an update

• https://i.ibb.co/Y4yMH706/IMG-1507.jpg
• https://i.ibb.co/PGZL5BZ8/IMG-1519.jpg
• https://i.ibb.co/CpYnnLmd/IMG-1518.jpg
• https://i.ibb.co/VY63Z0FV/IMG-1517.jpg
• https://i.ibb.co/zVsKwkF4/IMG-1516.jpg
• https://i.ibb.co/BVtk9N71/IMG-1515.jpg
• https://i.ibb.co/mr9GPnT4/IMG-1514.jpg
• https://i.ibb.co/C3qTyJWv/IMG-1513.jpg
• https://i.ibb.co/FGbS8pq/IMG-1512.jpg
• https://i.ibb.co/zz1dBtT/IMG-1511.jpg
• https://i.ibb.co/LzSZ2W71/IMG-1510.jpg
• https://i.ibb.co/ccy9HV8J/IMG-1509.jpg
• https://i.ibb.co/Q3qyG4PW/IMG-1508.jpg

EDIT3: I got a few messages saying that I should hook up a web cam and stream it. I'm thinking about it but since I'm moving to a new place, I think I'm going to do afterwards. Also I'd need something like this: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Soldering-Accessories-Helping-Jewellery-Workshop/dp/B0BHVJSRRN that I can order when I'm at my new place to place the Raspberry Pi Zero with the camera (OV3660) into the right position for streaming.

I - a complete Linux-illiterate - have spent the last seven months trying and mostly failing to get Linux to work on my desktop.

What went wrong? Well, you name it!