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- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
Joined Apr 2022
@show Food is hard. It would be a good start to require state and county health department regulations to provide specific alternatives to single use packaging for food. So often when I ask about not using plastic packaging the response I get is, "We are required to use it by the health inspector."
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"Everyone needs to touch the stove"
Happy to tell them it is hot. And how heat works. Ways to identify and avoid touching hot stoves.
But 99.99% of that will be ignored.
Until they touch the stove, scream in agony, and out of their own will and insight, re-stumble upon a thing that was said to them a dozen times. But now they are seeing it with fresh eyes.
Even then, they'll understand 20% and fill in the rest with some batshit theory of their own. Which is a vast improvement!
@flexghost That far too many voters have come to the conclusion that every politician everywhere is crooked and corrupt. That the best you can hope for is finding a crooked politician that will send graft towards you instead of from you. That US politics is a team sport and party is the only thing that matter regardless of candidate. That it is hopeless and nothing they do will make any difference anyhow. #USPol
@hammerhead Based on my current experience that seems pretty cheap. I mean not for the fish, but I am $12,000 in cleaning and repairs from a tenant's dogs. 5 doors destroyed including the solid oak front door. 8 screens including both sliding doors with frames destroyed and needing to be replaced. 500 board feet of base boards chewed and urine soaked. tile floors required $1000 in steam cleaning to remove pet stains and odor. The entire set of lower cupboard doors in the kitchen needed to be replaced. The most I can do is take their $1500 deposit. Given this experience I think an extra deposit and a few extra buck a month is not unreasonable.
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Everyone: Hello, we would like society to improve.
Billionaires: Too bad, go scream into the void instead.
Everyone: Okay.
Billionaires: Also, we have bought all the voids. It now costs $100 to scream into the void.
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Gerontocracy has failed us. Let us kill it with fire and not look back.
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Everyone: Let's use this worldwide communication network to download all the movies and TV show we could ever want.
Hollywood Execs: But that would be piracy!
Everyone: So what?
Hollywood: If you pirate these movies, the people that make them won't get paid for doing so.
Everyone: So if we get the movies through you, they will get paid?
Hollywood:
Hollywood: I never said that.
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If you're sharing scientific research, have you ever thought about why you're sharing it, or who you hope will see it?
I attended a grad-level #science communication class this past spring, and I've turned the basics into a short #SciComm planning guide for scientists.
It's meant to help you design the way you share your research by prompting you to consider your message, goals, and audience.
You can read the guide here: https://medium.com/@gregorymanni/the-scientists-quick-start-guide-to-science-communication-7efe61bb4d90
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I was never much of a country fan, but my god 911 really upped the fascism ante.
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This line from The New York Times this morning kind of blew my mind:
"The game industry now accounts for significant chunks of the economy. It is larger than music, U.S. book publishing and North American sports COMBINED. Microsoft’s game division and Activision Blizzard *each* make more money annually than all U.S. movie theaters."
(Emphasis mine)
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According to the WSJ, “Ford, GM, Rivian, Volvo, Polestar and Mercedes-Benz have announced plans to adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard, making it possible for their products to access Tesla’s vast and growing network of Supercharger stations.”
NACS reminds me of what USB did for the computer industry in standardizing hardware interconnects.
@JamesBoag have you ever seen a shell shop not by the seashore?
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@telnetephant not just you, and it was considered a feature not a bug. The founders of #mastodon didn't like trolls searching key words and then shitposting so they decided that only #hashtags would be searchable.
A quick walk around the lake this morning to remind myself that moving is worth the struggle. #Atascadero #MovingSucks
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Does boosting a post from a new instance help the server federate? Boost this post to find out!
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Retrieved a large wine fridge from someone’s trash. No compressor which is okay. Looking to convert it to a #raspberryPi managed environment controlled storage unit for some 1870 Carlo Ponti #megalethoscope slides. Thoughts, ideas, link, suggestions… I’m all ears. Never done something like this before. https://megalethoscope.com
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Dear boss,
Apologies for not responding to any messages today.
I was too busy sharing 1 thought relevant to our company on 83 different platforms with slightly different writing constraints.
- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
Joined Apr 2022
