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one sane person in this thread (suggesting that print on demand could be an option). everyone else just commielarping because "capitalism bad ™️"

note that everyone is talking about the poor poor authors who have to receive moar royalties. not about that the workers producing, transporting, and the workers recycling the books DO get paid. these people only care for their own intelligenzija class.

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Every year, millions of books are pulped by the book industry’s big distribution companies when they are returned by retail outlets and on-line sto...
Crowdstrike software is doing its job beautifully; computers that can't boot can't get hacked :blobcatsmug:

I send an email once a month for work and include a corny joke to get people to actually open it. I saw this one @sundogplanets and thought of you:

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As I was driving to work one day, I spotted a woman standing out in a large field next to a telescope. She wasn't using the scope, just standing next to it.

On my way home the same woman is there, just standing in a large field with a telescope.

This scene repeated itself for a few more days, every time I drove past this large field.

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@Czerion @DCR habs aber 1:5 mit anderem öl verdünnt, sonst ists zu doll glaub ich :D

@DCR @Czerion hab jetzt zitroneneukalyptusöl getestet gegen stechende und beissende tierchen, scheint zu funktionieren!

What I'm hearing is that the entire crowd went on strike today.

Inside the 'Nightmare' #Health Crisis of a #Texas Bitcoin Town
time.com/6982015/bitcoin-minin
“The European Environmental Agency tells us that everything above 55 decibels is making us #sick,” [Dr. Thomas Münzel, a German cardiologist who is a leader in the growing field of scientific researchers measuring the impact of urban and industrial #noise on humans,] says. The fact that the #Granbury #Bitcoin mine is emitting 70 or even 90 decibels on a nightly basis is “like #torture,” he says.

@homlett but infrasound from wind turbines is supposed to be completely harmless! :)

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>Several plural forms of Unix are used casually to refer to multiple brands of Unix and Unix-like systems. Most common is the conventional Unixes, but Unices, treating Unix as a Latin noun of the third declension, is also popular. The pseudo-Anglo-Saxon plural form Unixen is not common, although occasionally seen. Sun Microsystems, developer of the Solaris variant, has asserted that the term Unix is itself plural, referencing its many implementations.

@icedquinn because for higher frequencies you need higher rpm or tape speeds.

imagine the needle wobbling in the groove, you need a certain speed to be able to create a high frequency wobble.

@icedquinn i can't give you a formula, but rpm ahould be the rough equivalent

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