Klye @khird@qoto.org
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Klye
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If you're blind:
Does it help if we tag abstract art images in toots with an "alt" description? What kind of description do you appreciate?
(my take is: I label abstract paintings with just "abstract painting" so as to make them easy to ignore but I don't try to describe them because it would be futile in my opinion much like summarizing poetry)
@mitch that's not unreasonable, I guess, for someone attempting to transcribe the name by ear.
@mitch I have not seen that one; do you know how they arrived at that spelling? There was a Canadian satirist who based a fictional Eastern cult called Boohooism on Abdu'l-Baha's visit to Montreal - that's the closest I've seen.
@mitch It's always fun to read stuff published in Abdu'l-Baha's time, before Shoghi Effendi standardised the transliterations. You get weird spellings like Baha O'llah, as if He were Irish.
@LouisIngenthron It might actually be pipes (well, the hydraulic hoses) making the noise. Low-cost carriers like Spirit tend to have fleets of very uniform composition, so if that model normally has loud landing gear you'd expect to hear that on nearly all their aircraft and a smaller proportion of mainline carriers'.
@freepeoplesfreepress I'd guess it's a [gopher snake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_gopher_snake). It's hard to tell scale from that photo, though; if it's much less than two feet I'm probably wrong.
> things that will immediately prove worthless for their intended purpose
Those are the things that don't get repair tutorials made because the guy who bought it either didn't keep it long enough to need repairs, or when it broke he said "good riddance" and rather than waste time repairing such a lemon he replaced it.
@peterdrake add a fourth R: reduce, repair, reuse, recycle. When you buy, evaluate it not only on recyclability and reusability but also reparability. If you can find a video of someone performing maintenance or repairs on the device you're considering buying, then you've learned not only how to do whatever he's teaching you, but also that someone with his technical chops thought it worth putting in the effort.
@freemo well I looked it up - this is a barn on the main road connecting Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland (our three biggest cities). Seems the guy is a Klan leader; there's apparently also a burned cross, but I've never noticed it.
I too have never *met* someone who flies it, to my knowledge, but they're pretty visible anyway.
@freemo any reason you restricted your sample to southerners? I see people around here (OH, which is *very* proud of its contribution to the Union war effort) paint it on their barns and I'm not really sure what message it's intended to send, if not support for the Confederate worldview.
@peterdrake the one between my ears ;)
@mitch Sure, I'm just gonna pop down to the arena and roll the cannon down to the fortifications on I-70. Should keep the PA crowd at bay
@mitch I beg your pardon?
> people can only access Google Maps over proprietary channels where Google dictates the rules
WDYM? I use Firefox and I've never had a problem accessing Google Maps through it. Google controls the backend, sure, but I don't think they own any part of the "channel" I'm using to reach it.
Don't get me wrong, I like Osmand~ too; it's the only map app I have on my (gApps-free) phone. It's just not usable as a standalone navigation tool, so I typically have to rely on Google for at least part of the workflow.
@mitch yeah. Dumping heat directly into the outdoors isn't going to be climate-friendly any way you slice it though, even if you're generating that heat from a green source of energy.
@mitch 10k BTU/hr is ~3kW. Even disregarding the price, you'd need to install high amperage wiring and a corresponding socket, because the typical US outlet maxes out at 1.8kW.
@freemo he asked about fixing the CORS headers for the instance. QOTO isn't working in the web client he wants to use, and he's been told it's due to our CORS configuration. I think this is also why the MathJax/LaTeX thing has been broken since forever, so might kill two birds with one stone here if you are able to fix it.
@LouisIngenthron yeah I can't even see what they're hoping for you to say there - sometimes you'll have multiple technically correct answers but it's clear which is the one they want to see. I'd guess (a)? Because you can have rain with calm winds, or wind events like derechos that result from movement of different-temperature masses of air but no significant heat transfer between them, but the barometer is a pretty reliable tool to predict weather changes.
@LouisIngenthron driver licensing tests, too - I think it might've been 75%, but the point stands. "What is the maximum possible penalty for someone convicted of drunk driving, if it's their second offence, and the first one was committed more than two years ago but less than five, and the first conviction was when they were a legal adult but still under the drinking age, and they blew 0.13 on the breathalyser, and..." Buddy, what I took from that section is that the law says *I* can't drive drunk. I'm not the judge, what the law says he can or can't do in any given situation is really not what I was studying.
@freemo ha I like to eat seitan, which is basically straight gluten. When the health fad started I was very confused considering it's something I actively sought out.
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