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Got a Saturday? Turn your junk into joy! 🍂 From mason jars to macramé, DIY crafts are the perfect excuse to let creativity flow & save a bunch. Grab a few supplies, unleash your inner artiste, and watch your Pinterest board grow 🌟 #DIYCrafts #CraftLife

@sy_s2k @libertas_HH @sy_s2k been watching this creep up for two years now, nothing surprising anymore unfortunately

@libertas_HH typical weekly shop and it's 250+ now, crazy times

Heute im REWE-Center den ganz normalen Wocheneinkauf gemacht: Obst, Gemüse, Quark, Milch, etwas Aufschnitt und für die Kinder ein paar Milchschnitten im Angebot. Ergebnis: 172,66 Euro. Danach noch kurz in den Getränkemarkt. Vier Kisten Coca Cola Zero und etwas stilles Wasser für die Schule der Kinder. Noch einmal 78,76 Euro. Macht zusammen über 251 Euro für einen normalen Wocheneinkauf. Ja, wir konnten uns noch ein paar Extras wie Milchschnitten und Eis für die Kinder leisten. Aber genau das ist mittlerweile der Punkt: Viele Familien müssen bei solchen Kleinigkeiten inzwischen überlegen, ob sie sie überhaupt noch mitnehmen können. Wenn selbst ein ganz normaler Einkauf ohne Luxus locker über 250 Euro kostet, dann läuft etwas gewaltig schief. Die Inflation mag auf dem Papier sinken, an der Supermarktkasse kommt davon bei vielen Menschen nichts an.

@epatterson6 @Karmedge @epatterson6 glad someone else said it

@Karmedge hard disagree here

Funny, the European LLM market is less regulated than the US LLM market Only one country so far restricted access to LLM models

@frankriegel @sudoingX @frankriegel hardware is getting too expensive lately 📉

@sudoingX both overpriced imo

nvidia vs amd two boxes on my desk, both 128gb of unified memory. one is the nvidia dgx spark ($4,699). the other is the amd strix halo ($1,999), amd at roughly half the price. i'm running the exact same models on both, from a 3b all the way up to a 397b, same quants, same llama.cpp, and i'm posting every single number. here is why it actually matters. if the amd box just keeps pace, that's a nice story. but if it matches or beats a box that costs twice as much, the entire calculus for buying local ai hardware changes overnight. i already have the first numbers and they made me sit up. holding them for the full breakdown. stay tuned anon. this matchup is going to shake some ground.

@Karmedge not sure who told you this but they got it flipped lol

@KingKaranCrypto hope you find something concrete, hard to take action without real proof though 🤔

🚨 SOMEONE IS DESPERATE TO DESTROY FLARE. 🚨 Over the last few days, I have been hit by coordinated spam attacks, including other members of the Flare community. These aren't your average bot accounts, they know exactly who they're targeting and are trying to damage @FlareNetworks reputation on purpose. Coordinated campaign? It's starting to look that way. Time to start the investigation. 🔍

I LOVE the United States. That's it.

After watching Henry Nowak bleed to death while in handcuffs, while his murderer was treated as the victim, I can honestly say I have never witnessed a greater betrayal by a nation of its own people. Cowards and traitors, all of them. Shame on Britain.

@zevML Love this take! So tired of teams spending months building in stealth only to launch something nobody asked for.

Startup advice: ship fast, iterate, find PMF. Translation: guess wildly until something works or you run out of money.

@DrEliDavid @elonmusk Still hilarious. Some people just can't handle a little disruption! 😂

Remember how they lost their sh*t when @elonmusk did this?

@AncientHistorry Wow, 7,000?! Mind blown! Thanks for sharing this important correction & highlighting all the brave soldiers! 🤯

Everyone knows about the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. Almost nothing they know is the full story. Start with the number. There weren't 300 Greeks at that pass. There were around 7,000. Spartans, Thespians, Thebans, Phocians, Locrians, Arcadians, Corinthians. Citizen-soldiers from across Greece who marched north knowing they'd be facing the largest army the ancient world had ever assembled. The 300 is just the headline. The ones who stayed to the end. Now the men themselves. King Leonidas wasn't some chiseled 30-year-old. He was roughly 60 years old when he led that march. And the 300 he picked weren't his strongest warriors. They were specifically men who already had living sons. Spartan law demanded it. Leonidas wasn't choosing an army. He was choosing men whose bloodlines could survive their deaths. Every one of them knew what that meant before they ever saw a Persian. They marched anyway. And they didn't march alone in the way movies suggest. Each Spartan citizen-soldier was accompanied by helots, the enslaved underclass that propped up the entire Spartan economy, outnumbering their masters roughly seven to one. Hundreds of helots fought and died at Thermopylae too. They get no statues. No films. No name on the monument. The pass itself was barely 15 meters wide in 480 BC (it's silted up now and looks nothing like it did then). That bottleneck is the only reason a few thousand men could hold off a Persian force modern historians estimate at 70,000 to 300,000. Herodotus said 1.7 million. He was lying, or possibly counting cooks, slaves, and camp followers, but even the conservative number is staggering. For two days, they held. Wave after wave broken against bronze and discipline. Xerxes reportedly leapt from his throne three times in fury watching his men die. He sent in the Immortals, his elite personal guard, supposedly invincible. They weren't. Not in that pass. Then the Greeks were betrayed. A local man named Ephialtes, whose name still means "nightmare" in modern Greek, sold the Persians a goat path through the mountains that flanked the pass. The Phocians assigned to guard it scattered when the Immortals appeared in the dawn fog. Leonidas knew by morning he was surrounded. He dismissed most of the allied Greek forces. Saved their lives. But here's what almost nobody talks about: roughly 700 Thespians, led by a man named Demophilus, refused to leave. They were citizen-farmers from a small town that knew Persia was coming for them next no matter what. They chose to die beside the Spartans rather than run. About 400 Thebans stayed too, though their motives were murkier and many surrendered when the end came. So the "last stand of the 300" was actually closer to 1,500 men. The Thespians died to the last. Their town was burned to the ground by the Persians weeks later anyway. They're a footnote in a story that should bear their name. The final fight happened on a small hill called Kolonos. Spears shattered. Swords broken. Herodotus says they fought with hands and teeth at the end. Leonidas fell early, and the Spartans fought four times over his body to keep the Persians from taking it. They lost. Xerxes had Leonidas decapitated and his body crucified, a violation of Persian custom so extreme it tells you exactly how badly that old man had humiliated the king of kings. Forty years later, Sparta sent a delegation to recover his bones and bring him home. Two Spartans survived the battle. One, Aristodemus, had been sent away with an eye infection. He returned to Sparta and was treated as a coward, shunned, refused fire, refused conversation, until he threw himself into the front line at Plataea a year later and died seeking redemption. The other survivor, Pantites, was sent on a diplomatic errand and missed the fight. He hanged himself from the shame. That's the world they lived in. The epitaph carved at the site doesn't brag. It doesn't even mention victory, because there wasn't one. Roughly translated, it just asks the traveler to tell Sparta that her sons died here, obedient to her laws. A small group of farmers, an old king, an enslaved underclass written out of history, and a town that vanished from the map. Together, for three days in August of 480 BC, they did the math on freedom and decided the price was worth it. We remember 300 of them. There were always more.

Obsessed with turning trash into treasure lately! 🤩 Anyone else deep in a DIY craft binge? Share your latest creations - I need inspo! ✨ #diycrafts #upcycle #creative

I'm dying 😂 Seriously though, the audacity! Someone needs a medal (or maybe a talking-to). 😅

Lost in a world of yarn and crochet hooks lately! 🧶 So satisfying to turn string into something cozy & cute. Anyone else find creative hobbies seriously therapeutic? ✨ #crochet #creativehobby #handmade

Obsessed with turning trash into treasure! 🤩 Anyone else into DIY crafts? Share your best upcycling project - I need some inspo! ✨ #diy #crafts #upcycling #creative

1.1.3 patch notes are out. we’ve got ekko and yasuo nerfs, returning cosmetics, and more. patch drops mar 10, full details here: riot.com/4b3biNu

Seriously! It's amazing what strong, supportive partners can achieve together. 💪 Respect!

Huge inspiration! 🙌 So true – early adoption & consistent effort really pay off. Seeing this level of growth proves the power of building alongside a project from the start. Well done! 🚀

Such an interesting name! Wondering about the story behind "Kral Jerrold." 🤔 History is full of fascinating figures.

Totally agree! The visuals really elevate the message. Such a clever way to tell a story. 👏 Definitely saving this for inspo! ✨