Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@spaei

Find the best prices for woods hybrids at: amazon.com/humans/pretending/to/be/bots?I-know_where-you-are-coming-from

@torresjrjr
I've never heard of adnano.co or sr.ht, (or the gemini protocol for that manner)

I've been in IT for over 40+ years. The tech space has become so vast lately you can't assume someone is familiar with a particular piece of it even if you've had your head into a portion of it for years and it seems like second nature to you.

Sorry, my toot reads a little abrupt. No disrespect intended.

@torresjrjr @mnmlsm

Some disambiguation would be helpful (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini)

(without having to hand over my IP to that site)

Another example of the problem of steaming audio pitch being shifted to an extremely low frequency from a completely different web source than my previous post. (I actually found several streaming sites that did this.)

Solution: The user agent in my browser had been changed to identify it as Win 7, Chrome. My browser is actually FireFox, Linux. (I had changed it in an attempt to get a misbehaving website to work and forgot to change it back.) The sites probably assumed I was using a different player or they used an incorrect audio codec.

#audio #pitch #codec
#PutTheLotionInTheBasket

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@mur2501

That's very cruel. Animals are subject to PTSD just like humans. Months from now the guy who did this will be wondering why his cat has scratched his eyes out.

@mur2501
In a north-up orientation, but without a scale reference:

Italy (boot), Chile (snake), Somalia ("7"), Afghanistan (panhandle)...

also, Vietnam ("J"), and Florida makes the US distinctive, but that's probably provincialism on my part...

Funny yet disturbing CSPAN video player problem...

I tried to play today's Washington Journal program at #CSPAN and found this #funny, yet disturbing problem with the CSPAN video player 2021/02/26 -- this is exactly how it played the video, I didn't alter this in any way.

(The release of this video does not violate national security law and is published here under the provisions of 17 U.S.C. § 107.)

#washingtonjournal #USPol
#disturbing
#PutTheLotionInTheBasket

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@FailForward
Basically the same story in the US. (poor leadership and mistrust of science)

@dv8
All of those sounds are actually from that NASA "Sounds of Mars" web site, so everything I said was (mostly) true, thus #truthbetold

I didn't mention that the sounds are actually Earth sounds that have been altered to sound like they would on Mars (which is what that site is all about).

@dv8
You need to listen to it to get the joke...

The Sounds of Mars

The Mars rover "Perseverance" has two microphones built into it.

Here are a series of six short sound segments from the NASA website "Sounds of Mars" at: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/participate/sounds/

The fourth one sounds exactly like an ocean and may provide additional evidence for life on Mars.

#Mars #Perseverance #SoundsOfMars #TruthBeTold

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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or mostly true), but seems to imply something that isn't true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies... or just for fun)

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@lucifargundam
The guy in the photo is a character from a 1960's American TV show called "My Favorite Martian". I think only baby-boomers and folks who are into old TV shows will get the joke.

@QueenoftheDeepRealm
Remove Martin the Martian from the photo and it's the actual 2nd image from the Perseverance rover.

Just two hours after the landing of the Perseverance rover on the planet, NASA believes they already have strong indications of life on Mars.

#perseverance #mars #NASA #JPL #Martin #RayWalston

Congratulations to the folks at JPL and NASA for a successful landing of the Perseverance rover in the Jezero crater on Mars.

#perseverance #image #mars #nasa #jpl #DerrickPitts

@freemo @Faket
The etymological roots of "sanction" are Latin > Middle French > English, so it makes sense.

One of my favorites is "fulsome" which can mean copious or cloying. It originally had the positive meaning and then acquired the negative during a time when subtlety was highly valued. Now it can mean either. "Fulsome" has the bonus of being a homophone of "Folsom", which is mostly associated with the prison.

@Beznell

Didn't work.

@rochelimit@mastodon.technology said "How did the US end up with a system in which there is no independent tribunal to judge a president's behaviour when their party decides that adhering to the law is for other people?"

Actually, when the American founders were writing the Constitutional impeachment clause, they were inspired by Cromwell, but instead of beheading the president, they only gave "parliament" the power to remove/disqualify a rogue leader.

Also, there were no political parties when they wrote the Constitution and they were actually more afraid of congress having too much power. They did not foresee a scenario where congress would rollover and abrogate their own authority.

#impeachment #USPol #congress #power

Here are the consequences of the precedent that congress has set by acquitting in the impeachment trial....

Any president whose party holds at least 1/3 of the senate has absolute power to do anything he wants, up to and including insurrection without fear of being removed from office.

Therefore...

Biden now has absolute power. He can do anything he wants. He can ignore any court ruling. He can have anyone arrested. He can print up as much money as he needs. He doesn't even need congressional legislation anymore -- EO's have no limit now.

There is nobody left who can stop him.

#civilwar #MyCountryIsTerminal #impeachment

Congress has just acquitted that bastard in the impeachment trial.

The message from congress is loud and clear..

"Violence is an acceptable means to pursue political ends."

(As long long as it's "peaceful" violence)

Hey, congress! FYI, Democrats own guns too.

Game on.

#civilwar #MyCountryIsTerminal #impeachment