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SoftMaker Office

I love it. Pictured: TextMaker. There are also modules for spreadsheets and presentations.
It's a lot more polished and professional than LibreOffice or OpenOffice, both of which I've been using for a very long time.
I'd recommend it especially to (ESL) researchers due to 100% MS Office compatibility, the integration of Zotero, DeepL, ChatGPT, Wikipedia and various thesauri. One-time or recurring fee. I am not affiliated to the company.

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This is why I care

People defending our values and standing up to the dismantling of democracy and human rights.
Protests top to bottom, left to right: Poland, Euromaidan, UK, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, Slovakia, Euromaidan, Slovakia.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

  • Join a pro-EU party.
  • Join rallies and marches pro-EU and against its adversaries.
  • Disentangle yourselves from non-European goods and services.
  • Sign a citizen's initiative.
  • Get an EU flag, lapel pins etc.
  • Don't feed the trolls.
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The fight for Europe is on – POLITICO

Two quotes that made my hair stand on end:
Vance’s message couldn’t have been clearer: Our way, or we’ll join Putin in hybrid warfare to roil your domestic politics — something billionaire Elon Musk has already done by boosting the prospects of the far-right Alternative for Germany party.
Kuleba: "In Paris, he literally said, 'Don’t try to compete with us on AI. Embrace our companies, remove all the obstacles, and then everything will be fine.' … Then he came here, and after attacking Europe’s economic model, he attacked its political model."

The fight for Europe is on – POLITICOhttps://www.politico.eu/article/europe-jd-vance-ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-political-divisions-maga/Open linkView original on sopuli.xyz
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What's the point of reading aloud the digits of the golden mean and recording the whole damn thing?

LibriVox is otherwise pretty normal, but this has me puzzled. The CD (!) case insert says: "Read by Justin Barrett, braindouche, Cow Nose the 50 Pound Cat, Sibella Denton, Esther, and Andrew Lebrun. Total running time: 00:54:13." Seems insane to me. Why put the whole reading on a CD? Why 5000 digits? Why are there no chapters? What if they made a mistake? Did they double-check the result? Who needs any of that anyway?

https://librivox.org/golden-mean-to-5000-digits-by-jerry-bonnell-and-robert-nemiroff/Open linkView original on sopuli.xyz
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