Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org
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Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
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Republican expresses outrage that the White House doesn’t keep visitor logs for Biden’s home. Does the New York Times:
Check and discover that the White House has never kept visitor logs for the private home of any President or Vice President, so this pretend outrage doesn’t pass the laugh test? Or,
Carry the GOP’s water and amplify the fake outrage, declaring that it “highlights the political danger for the President.”
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Niche post for those interested in the impact of politics on religion ( usually the analysis is the other way around):
The ostentatiously Catholic ruling party in Poland is driving down church attendance at an accelerating rate. Only 28% of Poles still attend mass, down from 40% when PiS was first elected in 2015.
Politicization of the church turns out to be bad for the church
It's commonly held by well-meaning people that we must respect the beliefs of others.
This presupposes that any and all beliefs are respectable. No one thinks this; and if you think you do, I can establish with a very small number of questions that in fact you don't.
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Couldn't quite make it through all of Avatar. That corny 50's pig violence thing so stale and revolting. And, special gripe, why can't noble natives use contractions? I do not understand this thing.
On the question of AI and the future of humanity, I think Porno for Pyros pretty much called it.
So I assume the world's industries are still feeling clever about having outsourced all their manufacturing to China...
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"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."
--Walt Whitman
Sitting at a traffic light an hour ago, I saw a transfer-style sticker in the rear window of the SUV in front of me, that read
WHY ARE YOU WEARING A MASK IN YOUR CAR??
Two things came to mind:
1) Why are you so concerned about what other people do to protect themselves and others that you not only obsess over it but actually went to the trouble to obtain and apply this message to the back window of your car?
2. I often don't bother to pull my mask off right away when I get into the car. Sometimes I don't get around to taking it off at all between stops. Because unlike you, I don't like to imagine that my mask is hurting me, and I genuinely forget about it sometimes.
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Arguably the best single episode of the uber-classic "The Prisoner" television series was "A. B. and C." from 1967. In this episode, Number Two and a brilliant, rather sympathetic researcher manipulate Number Six's dreams while viewing them, in an attempt to determine (of course) why he resigned -- with predictably embarrassing results.
"The Prisoner" is currently free on #YouTube Movies & TV. You can watch this episode right now, right here! Be seeing you. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keGKsFqQUxc
When I'm in SF one of my favorite places to be is at one of those little tables in front of Orphan Andy's where the Market St streetcar turnaround happens. There's a live cam that points at it, it's very rainy there right now and it's creating a great ambience for my little PNW home office. Think I need to invest in a wall-sized TV for this sort of thing.
One of the most politic non-agreements I've ever heard came from a prominent doctor who served on a lot of boards and panels. He said:
"I do not share your confidence in that assertion, but it is a point of view."
I feel personally harmed by whatever you are or aren't doing right now, and I'm working on my medium.com post about just what it is that you and everybody else in the world owes me because of it.
Is there some reason why I can't immediately view a live video feed from any train anywhere in the world whenever I want to? Who do I complain to about this?
Does anyone know of a well-maintained, knowledge-focused Mastodon instance, large enough to have interesting local content? Say, 20,000-50,000 users?
The neighbor's cat is meowing plaintively at the door. Should I let him in?
Is it weird that when I see the word "outrage" I want to pronounce it "oo tra zhay"?
"Success has many fathers, but not as many as the original recording of 'Wipe Out' had rhythm guitarists."
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Poster encouraging public transport users to have the correct bus fare, 1971 (credit: London Transport Museum) #london
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‘Entrenched #CarCulture’ leaves millions in #transport #poverty: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/09/entrenched-car-culture-leaves-millions-of-britons-in-transport-poverty
"The solution is simple – building networks of safe, segregated cycle routes in towns and cities across the #UK would turn #cycling into a genuine option for millions of people, helping them break out of car dependence and the huge costs associated with that.”
Just found this on a shelf in my downstairs office. An unopened box of Necco Cyber Speak candy from the 1990s.
- Enthusiasms
- 🏍️ 🪂 🚀 🎷 🔬 🔭 🎞️ 🐧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
- Credit
- A Quinn-Martin Production
Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
