Lemdro.id

An open pizza box showing a pizza being snatched by a cat’s paw reaching through a side hole in the box. Caption above reads: “So that’s what the holes in pizza boxes are for”

Picked these up on marketplace for $20 yesterday, planning on regluing as many joints as possible, sanding, and hitting them with some shellac.

So far, I've gotten the legs off one, but i THINK the round portion of the back is attached to the seat with wedged tenons, but it's hard to tell because of how old and beaten up the wood is.

If they are, any tips on disassembling wedged tenons?

I'm thinking if they're still adequately glued, too just leave them alone, because i can't think how I'd get a glued wedge out

Dining room chair for scale

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/47589341

Video Source

THE 2026 EUROVISION Song Contest was watched by 131 million viewers, organisers said Friday, down 35 million on the year before after Ireland and four other countries boycotted over Israel’s participation.

Bulgaria won the contest for the first time with Dara’s catchy floor-filler “Bangaranga” sweeping the 70th edition of the world’s biggest live televised music event, with Israel finishing in second place. The UK finished last.

RTÉ joined broadcasters in Spain, Slovenia, Iceland and the Netherlands in deciding not to send an act or air the contest in protest at Israel’s participation amid its war on Gaza.

The 2025 contest was watched by an average audience of 5.8 million people in Spain, and 3.5 million people in the Netherlands. In Ireland, RTÉ’s broadcast of last year’s contest garnered an average of 268,000 viewers.

This year’s Eurovision was held in Vienna, with the grand final taking place on 16 May.

Protests were held in Vienna over Israel’s participation, and chants of ‘stop of the genocide’ could be heard during Israel’s performance in the semi-final.

The contest is run by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the world’s biggest public-service media alliance.

“While some of our figures are naturally lower without those of our five members who chose not to participate this year, we remain committed to doing everything possible to find pathways back for them in 2027,” said Eurovision director Martin Green.

Big Nordic audiences

The biggest share of viewers watching Eurovision was recorded in Finland (93%), Sweden (86%), Norway (83%) and Denmark (79%).

Across the board in 35 measured TV markets, the grand final attracted an average viewing share of 42.6%.

The share for viewers aged 15 to 24 was higher, at 54.8%.

The EBU noted that viewing figures were down 3.8 million in Poland, 3.7 million in Britain and 3.3 million in France, compared to those for Eurovision 2025, held in the Swiss city of Basel.

Eurovision garnered more than a billion views for content on Instagram this year.

“It’s fantastic to see the impact the Eurovision Song Contest is having on young audiences globally,” said Green.

“The hundreds of millions reached via our digital platforms also underlines the Eurovision Song Contest’s 70-year evolution from a TV show to a true global, cultural, multi-platform phenomenon.”

People in 148 different countries and territories cast votes for their favourites.

Outside the 35 participating countries, the biggest votes were received from the United States, the Netherlands, Canada, Spain, Ireland, Slovakia and Turkey. Continue Reading - https://www.thejournal.ie/eurovision-viewers-down-israel-7062161-Jun2026/

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/47587372

The more of this type of behavior is allowed the worse the regime will act. Right now they’re testing what they can get away with

Video Source

At least six people have been killed in a Gaza City tent camp where a wedding was taking place, according to local medical sources.

Women and children are believed to be among the casualties, Mahmoud said, adding that the casualty toll is expected to rise.

“According to relatives at the wedding, the tent was packed,” Mahmoud said. “Within a few minutes, it turned from a happy occasion to something really sad and bloody.

The attack came amid continued Israeli violations of the so-called “ceasefire” agreement that took effect on October 10.

Trying loperamide (generic name for Imodium) to help with IBS. When I have to poop frequently and it always feels like there's more in there, it can ruin my day. So I finally went out and got some of this stuff and it seems to help.

I suppose I have IBS - got tested for everything else and it all came back negative. Thankfully, I'm not celiac as I love bread. Got blood tests, ultrasound, colonoscopy (horrible to prep for that), everything seems OK. Doctor shrugged and told me, "it's IBS I guess".

Hoping to learn to manage it because I'm trying to get in shape. Not being able to eat because I feel disgusting is derailing me.

Happy pooping, everybody.

https://xcancel.com/araghchi/status/2063105906217214010#m

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/06/06/769929/Iran-Esmaeil-Baghaei-says-Aoun-sells-those-stand-beside-Lebanon

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/2063128839429988842#m

At least six people have been killed in a Gaza City tent camp where a wedding was taking place, according to local medical sources.

Women and children are believed to be among the casualties, Mahmoud said, adding that the casualty toll is expected to rise.

“According to relatives at the wedding, the tent was packed,” Mahmoud said. “Within a few minutes, it turned from a happy occasion to something really sad and bloody.

The attack came amid continued Israeli violations of the so-called “ceasefire” agreement that took effect on October 10.

I've been working on degoogling. i got a fairphone 6 with e/os. its been a great push in the right direction because many google services i previously relied on. Such as google home.

no worries, ive always wanted to get better with Home Assistant. but devices dont generally advertise if theyre compatable with home assistant. so i got the matter controller for home assistant, great. just arrived yesterday, and tried to add a matter bulb to test it out.

home assistant says i need to be on official android with the home assistant companion app downloaded from the play store, not the fdroid version

🤕

In the culture wars over data centres, there is no space for the middle ground. But a realistic examination of the benefits and costs is what we need.

Ireland’s data centre debate is the latest culture war, pitching environmentalists against those who refer to “Ireland Inc” when making their pro-business arguments. While seemingly endless growth in the tech sector has underpinned official support for the growth in data centres over the past decade – providing a trump card against objectors – the latest wobbles in employment in the sector and challenges in energy generation change the backdrop a bit. Ireland has bent over backwards to accommodate the multinationals over the years, but what happens now? The debate is born out of Ireland’s outsize dependence on Big Tech for jobs, many of them well paid, and particularly for corporate tax revenues. Companies like Apple, Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet – Google’s parent – have been significant employers and taxpayers. The green light for data centres has been seen as part of the overall package attracting them to Ireland – and means that the State has a high proportion of European capacity, adjusting for its relatively small size.

Data centres consume around 22 per cent of the State’s electricity and, at a time of tight supply, are under the microscope. Ireland urgently needs a better roadmap here. Data centres are part of this. But so too is increasing energy supply more rapidly, primarily from renewables but also vital gas-fired generation. As well as housing and public transport, part of the failure of vital infrastructure development in recent years has been in energy. Ireland did not plan for higher energy demand across the board as the population and economy grew and data centres landed. Data centres, as part of the infrastructure of the tech sector, play a role in economic development. Just how much is a key argument. The Government has oversold the story this week, based on a report it commissioned from KPMG, with Minister for Finance Simon Harris referring in the Dáil to estimates the report contained that across six sectors €100 billion in annual gross value added (GVA), 875,000 jobs and €14.6 billion in annual employment related taxes were “enabled” by data centres capacity located in Ireland. The key word here is “enabled”. The report also says that data centres “underpin” these economic impacts. There is some consultant-speak going on here. What this means is that the companies in these sectors use and rely on data centres. But the attribution of so many jobs directly to the presence of data centres in Ireland is a stretch too far. Using it weakens the Government’s argument by giving critics a target to attack. The real case for data centres is more nuanced, but to be credible, Ministers need to be making it. [ Ireland’s data centre strain a ‘cautionary tale’ for rest of world, UN saysOpens in new window ] The question that is impossible to answer is: what exactly is the link between the presence of the data centres and the creation of jobs and wider economic activity by Big Tech? The central argument in the KPMG report is that the ability of Big Tech companies locating here to be able to establish their own data centres “has strengthened Ireland’s ability in retaining and existing and attracting new FDI [foreign direct investment] from big players”. In KPMG’s view, it creates “a sticky investment footprint”. This is the essential point in the pro data centre narrative. But it also requires balancing with a look at the costs involved. Friends of the Earth, the environmental lobby, put the opposite case this week in a report arguing that data centre demand pushes up costs to electricity consumers. Due to the structure of the energy market, it argues that households pay more because the system is close to capacity more often and thus has to rely to a greater extent on more expensive energy produced via gas-fired stations. In turn, this pushes up carbon emissions. The arguments about the structure of the energy market are complex and just as a report commissioned by the Government is always likely to take one side of the case, one commissioned by an environmental lobby will also advocate the other. In the culture wars, there is no space for the middle ground. But the allocation of costs across the electricity system – and how much data centres pay for power and their wider obligations about location and the use of renewables – are valid issues. As is the extent to which Irish industrial and planning policy should accommodate them. You can’t do without data centres in a digital economy, especially in the era of AI. But the rules of the game are important. There are also questions here about balancing growth with climate targets. The data in the KPMG report shows how the centres owned by the big so-called hyperscalers – including Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Google – are responsible for the bulk of electricity demand from Irish data centres. But the so-called “gigafactories” where massive computing power is based in data centres central to AI development, are in the US. This is a point of concern to the EU, which is aiming to develop five such facilities in the Europe at a cost of €20 billion to try to reduce tech reliance on Trump’s US. [ Data centres’ energy use being ‘managed appropriately’ by Government, Darragh O’Brien saysOpens in new window ] We are unlikely, given Ireland’s energy position, to see a gigafactory off the Naas Road any time soon. But the future of data centres will remain tied up with Ireland’s outsize dependence on US Big Tech and the trade off with the jobs and tax revenue this has created. This is the data centre trap and part of a live debate in policymaking circles about how to hold on to existing FDI and attract the next wave, at a time when the big firms are now being pushed to invest more in the US market. Those big companies will push for everything they can get. And Irish governments in the past have not been slow to meet their demands, at times excessively. These centres will remain part of economic investment in the AI era, but policy needs to recognise that Ireland has already contributed significantly in terms of international capacity. Ireland needs to decide its own priorities and central to this is a realistic analysis of likely energy supply in the years ahead.

Continue Reading Here - https://archive.ph/bmimf