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Old Missile Bunker for sale, ex-US Air Force 

12 Acres of desert land near Tucson, Arizona, USA, including a Cold War era Titan II missile silo underground.

Asking price, USD$395 K

theguardian.com/us-news/2019/n

A bit of a Fixer Upper, but you can see a pristine one at the Titan II Museum nearby :

titanmissilemuseum.org/

Yes Album cover by Roger Dean.

Loved the group. Back when music was more than the sound you heard, album art being trippy like this.

70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/92

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More great album art.

Uriah Heep, Demons and Wizards. Listened to this a lot! 😏

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BlueStacks Version Upgrade! #Android on #Windows 

And then, once you isntalled and start using it for the first time, in a few minutes a crash. 😞

...and you realize you FORGOT the cautious ways of sys admin people who rather not be trying to Fix What Ain't Broken.

A good thing to keep in mind.

Was using ~14% processor power without any Android app in use at the time - just for BlueStacks environment. That is lots.

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To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
-Voltaire

"San Francisco saw a 17% increase in its homeless population since its last homeless count, with numbers rising to levels that haven’t been recorded on these streets in 17 years."

theguardian.com/us-news/2019/m

@Sadiqkazi It is, and I'm cautiously optimistic about a return to decentralised networks. Though I'm concerned that many on Mastodon don't realise we're being hosted by individuals who put in time, effort and their own cash to keep their servers and instances running.

Getting off corporate-run Internet services also means returning to a community-run model, which depends on volunteers to donate/ moderate/ help out. I hope we can all step up more in the future.

+ I'm old enough to remember the Web of the 1990s/ 2000s.
It was a maze. You followed hypertext links, stumbled into forums and early troll-caves, used Slashdot and GoTo, experimented with LiveJournal and Blogger.

It wasn't safe, it was filled with weirdness, appealed heavily to geeks and loners. Being on the web in that era was a serious trip.

But it wasn't corporate. It wasn't the tool of major governments, yet. It was defiantly decentralised, and when you were online...

... you felt free.

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Majority of Americans know they're under constant surveillance, don't trust the companies doing it, and feel helpless to stop it
boingboing.net/2019/11/16/ripe

Mirrored from Twitter 

RT @torproject
What is Tor?

Well played, Emma. #Jeopardy #TournamentOfChampions

@TheSecularOne

1. QOTO is run by a computer scientist !! @freemo

2. It offers a 60k charachter limit, so you can rant as much as you want.

3.It is pro free speech and doesn't moderate without warnings.

4. It has other technical features as well, eg- search works differently.

@inditoot is amazing as well, It is pro-free speech and I believe the admin depends on contributions to keep the instance alive.

Both Qoto and inditoot have great relations and I think a no-ban policy as well.

Friendly diplomatic relations.

Would advise people to move out of Mastodon.social though. It is getting overloaded anyway.

friendly reminder that some people have been to hell and back, sit and listen to them, they have stories, wisdom and truth for you
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QOTO: Question Others to Teach Ourselves
An inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance
All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.