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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
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@WorkingFamilies I’ve had a gun pointed in my face exactly once… by a police officer. Solving the violence in our society will require a lot more than just laws to limit civilian access to guns.
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In other news, 27 states have banded together to sue Dungeons & Dragons for promoting witchcraft, 35 states have banded together to sue "rock & roll" music for "promoting impure thoughts and glamorizing drug use", and Boston & Cleveland have banded together to sue "all sports" for "intentionally dividing the nation."
Thirty-three states have banded together to sue Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, accusing it of building and operating platforms that...
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MEGA FACTCHECK
EVs are “likely crucial” for tackling transport CO2, says the IPCC – and sales are rocketing
But EVs still face relentless hostile media coverage
So, I spent the past few months debunking 21 (!) of the most common EV myths
Here it is 🧵
https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21-misleading-myths-about-electric-vehicles/
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i think what's missing from so many narratives right now is that rampant and ongoing antisemitism does not erase the massive power imbalance between voices representing Israel & Palestine's interests.
antisemitism is painful and ongoing, but Israel is backed by the most powerful military, media, and state apparatuses on the planet, and has been for decades. acknowledge how this power imbalance transforms perceptions about the lives and stories of Palestinian human beings
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"Ohai, this is Windows. You may have noticed that I killed all the long-running jobs that you left going overnight and restarted your computer so that I could inject some AI-flavored bullshit you never asked for into your (*) operating system. You're welcome!!!”
(*) “It's not actually yours, of course. The OS now works for our Marketing Department rather than you. kthxbai.”
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When we talk about Palestinian responsibility in Hamas attacks, it's important to note that not only are half too young to vote, but no one has had the chance to vote in 16 years.
The vast majority Gazans have never been enfranchised in their lives. They've never known a government that represented them.
It's like blaming Afghan women for the Taliban, and then bombing them to make the Taliban do something different. We're just piling more pain on oppressed people without helping anything.
#SecretProjectFour from the #YearOfSanderson arrived at my door while I was at work yesterday. #BrandonSanderson wrote this novel during Covid so I think it is fitting that I finished it on one day while I was stuck on the couch too feverish to do anything else thanks to yesterday's on-two punch of Covid and Seasonal flu #vaccines.
Now the question is what will I do tomorrow. If the pattern from my last booster holds, I will still be calling in with a fever on Monday. #covidsucks
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To protect your privacy and shield yourself against 0-days and malicious advertisers, an adblocker is an important part of your security stance.
The FBI, NSA, CISA, and UK National Cyber Security Centre all recommend adblocking as a protective measure.
You'd never disable your firewall or antivirus because a site asked you to. NEVER DO THIS WITH YOUR ADBLOCKER.
That's the only pertinent point here. Everything else is noise.
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I just want to say thanks to the majority here who seem to use alt text on their images.
It's made things so much better and it's not something that's happening on every site.
It's a little effort, I know, but it's noticed.
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OTD, two major victories for the US in the Revolutionary War:
1777: British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga to Horatio Gates. The victory convinces France to join the war on the side of the US.
1781: British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington at Yorktown (although surrender negotiations would last two days). The victory essentially ends the war in favor of the US.
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I know I don’t have much reach here, but figured I’d try anyway.
I’m looking for someone to help with payroll data entry, Accounts Payable, and light HR work for a rapidly expanding hospitality company.
Fully remote. $20-25/hour.
if anyone knows anyone interested, please let me know.
@USConst_Amend_I it is important to remind people that your protection from government over reach is not a mere theoretical possibility, but a actual occurrence in places where speech is not subject to the most rigorous level of protection - even when those place are "advanced western democracies" like the state of Israel.
Meanwhile, the communications minister of #Israel is proposing emergency regulations that would allow police to arrest citizens and journalists who...
“If you're an oil and gas company, in a way, talking about hydrogen is kind of a two-way bet because if it works, then you're embedded in the hydrogen industry — but if it doesn't work, you've delayed the transition to the thing you don't make, which is electricity,” he tells Recharge. “So why wouldn't you promote hydrogen for inappropriate use? [...]"
History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.
Thinking about #israel and #palestine at war, it rhymes with the United States wars with American Indian Nations during the 19th century.
What we witnessed last week was by Hamas was the parallel of Custer's last stand. Israel has a claim to their land that fits well with the nationalist religious zeal that was Manifest Destiny.
I suspect that over the next generation Palestinians will like American Indian be pushed into ever smaller and poorer reservations with little true autonomy, and that in 4 generations good well meaning Israelis will be starting their lectures Wil an acknowledgement that the land the are on once belong to someone else and was taken by force, but not really ready to go beyond those words.
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It is simply not possible to evacuate over one million people in 24 hours from the zone of attack in Gaza. The answer to horrific atrocities by Hamas cannot be collective punishment upon an entire population, 50 percent of which are children.
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I love the simple FidoNet BBS rules. There are only two:
• Don't be excessively annoying.
• Don't be easily annoyed.
I was a FidoNet Sysop in the mid 90s and I can verify that the rules worked. Word to live by.
I got [Nerd Sniped](https://xkcd.com/356/) this afternoon when a co-worker asked if I could explain the difference between a test and an experiment.
Anyone want to weigh in?
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I used to be a functional programmer like you, but then I took a monoid in the category of profunctors to the knee
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Just a reminder, #Israel (along witht he hamas) both have a well recorded history of using children as human shields during military conflicts, targeting civilian populations recklessly, enacting punishment intentionally on civilians, and generally engaging in terrorism.
These arent speculation, they have been called out many many times by Amnesty International, the UN and many other international bodies...
If you want to be appaled at terrorism in Israel you cant do so objectively if you forgive either side.
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Share of electric cars on 🇳🇴 Oslo's roads now 40%, expected to reach 50% by autumn 2025 (half a year earlier than expected last year)
Heavy electric vehicles have doubled their share, mainly due to the influx of more electric buses.
Post-pandemic growth in road use appears to be leveling off.
(via @Halsevesenet)
https://www.fjellinjen.no/aktuelt/40-prosent-elektrisk-på-veiene-i-oslo
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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
