Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software since 1968, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, scary fast Python jockey, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
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"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous amount of fumes and everything." --Donald Trump
Joined Nov 2022
@sysop408 It's hard to get good help these days.
@nwsmobile_bot Whoever named Burnt Corn had good foresight.
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@mmasnick Stupid people do stupid things.
@2m0sql Hahaha. Headset and footswitch helps enormously.
@gwynnion Indeed. Right-wingers have been working hard since the early 1960s to bring this about. It's no accident. It's not something that simply "happened". The civil rights movement is what set it off.
Evangelicals have been played. Turning abortion into a key issue was a conscious strategic decision made in the 1970s to distract public focus from the real goal, which is segregation. "We need an issue to keep the rubes engaged. Aha! Abortion." The Evangelicals were played like a violin and they're still oblivious to it.
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To recap: Supreme Court justices nominated by a president who lost the popular vote and confirmed by Senators representing far less than half the country have eliminated abortion rights, green-lighted anti-LGBTQ discrimination, and ended affirmative action.
In one year.
@fraying Yes, and now comes the blowback. Hahaha. It's legal to bar Trump supporters from your business.
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ChatGPT is now refusing to provide links to articles it says I wrote. This makes sense since I didn't write at least several of the ones it cited.
@pattykimura @MotherJones Also, I don't think Jack Smith is into that kind of deal. Donald Trump will die in prison, even if he lives for a very long time.
@KrissyKat So the whole thing is a scam to get a case before the USSC. That used to be illegal. (Courts take a very dim view of attempts to deceive the court. The judge will usually do really bad things to you.) It should also destroy any standing they have to bring the case at all.
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1/2 If you have seen the viral video of the NYC Drag March claiming they were chanting "We're coming for your children" just know it is bullshit. The only person chanting that was the provocateur who posted it. The real chant was "We're not going shopping" in opposition to "Rainbow capitalism" and corporations like Target who backtrack on their support because of backlash.
@ai6yr Ah, yes, the defenestration problem.
@Hypx @owen @danirabbit I make hydrogen in my intestines, but that doesn't make it economically feasible to power a vehicle. Yes, you can make it at home in dozens of ways, including electrolysis, none of them close to efficient. Cracking the hydrogen from hydrocarbons in the only cost-efficient way, which is why we make it that way now.
@owen That's exactly what it is. Well said.
If we had huge amounts of excess electricity to electrolyze water, yes. Hydrogen would be great (except for the dangers of handling it). But we don't. The way hydrogen will be implemented simply moves the pollution from the car's exhaust to the refinery where the hydrogen is produced.
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Something to keep in mind when hearing about hydrogen as a renewable or green fuel is that nearly half of hydrogen production, worldwide, comes from natural gas. Another 45% or so come from coal and oil sources. Renewable hydrogen - electrolysis, generally - is basically a blip.
Hydrogen is, in many cases, an attempt _by the fossil fuels industry_ to carry on business as usual in the face of carbon-reduction initiatives by putting the carbonaceous parts out of sight.
@Geoffberner Good for him that he had this attitude, given what happened. I'm not sure what the other passengers would have thought about being smashed into a blob of flesh and fat in a millisecond, then a millisecond later exploding into atoms. Good way to die, though.
@xtaldave Yes, long suspected to exist. They do!
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Found something remarkable (and also quite sad).
In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.
The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.
...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software since 1968, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, scary fast Python jockey, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#Birding
#BirdWatching
#eBird
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous amount of fumes and everything." --Donald Trump
Joined Nov 2022
