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Azuaron

@Azuaron@hachyderm.io

Educational web developer and vivarium enthusiast. he/him

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NotImpressed , to palestine group
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@palestine

"...anonymous US officials informed it that the Biden administration views the increasing strikes by Israel’s military on southern Lebanon as the precursor of a full-scale invasion of the country and war with it. Such an event, the officials said, would require the US to intervene and directly support Israel in order to help it win the conflict"

Israel not interested in ceasefire, far from. More interested in a wider war.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240616-biden-administration-concerned-israel-will-drag-us-into-war-with-lebanon-officials-reveal/

Azuaron ,
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@NotImpressed @palestine Hypothesis: the point of starting a war in Lebanon is to get the US involved on Israel's side and distract from the Palestine endgame.

futurebird , to random
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I decided to find out if any progress had been made on the science behind why some ants are attracted to electrical fields. After filtering out exterminators (it's so demoralizing to search for information on creatures you love and find nothing but people who know nothing about them boasting about how they will kill them all) I found what looked like a blog. But, who the heck is "James Brown"? Never heard of the dude. Maybe he could be my new friend if he likes ants enough to blog about them!

Azuaron ,
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@aral @futurebird @mistergibson @wa7iut @wmd I do believe there was literally a big criminal bust in Brazil regarding a carbon offsets company that was using the money dedicated to carbon offsets to log the rainforest.

Azuaron ,
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@futurebird @mistergibson @wa7iut @wmd Definitely be skeptical, there's a ton of outright scams.

However, my understanding of what Ecosia's doing--unless they're outright lying--is that they partner with different local ecological organizations that specifically aim to rebuild biodiversity in damaged environments. One of their efforts in Brazil is even more about "fighting illegally set fires by ranchers that want to turn forests into grazing land" than it is "plant a bunch of trees".

saddestrobots , to random
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modern programming is like,

"if you're using bongo.rs to parse http headers, you will need to also install bepis to get buffered read support. but please note that bepis switched to using sasquatch for parallel tokenization as of version 0.0.67, so you will need the bongo-sasquatch extension crate as well."

old-time programming is like,

"i made a typo in this function in 1993. theo de raadt got so angry he punched a wall when he saw it. for ABI compatibility reasons, we shan't fix the typo."

Azuaron ,
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@saddestrobots Ten years ago, I worked for a company with "Reimbursement" in the name of the company. We had a DB table column where it was spelled: reimbrusment

It's in the name of the god damn company, and someone couldn't spell it right. And since it was in a vital (and quite large) table, we couldn't just fix it without massive database downtime.

I bet it still hasn't been fixed.

futurebird , to random
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What is the point of littering the feed with "upcoming" videos on youTube? All I ever think is "oh I want to watch that... oh I can't"

Do people really watch youTube like... like it's broadcast TV and IDK plan to turn it on at a ... time... like you have a little thing in your schedule and you have to do it like it's a chore?

I don't get this.

I'm drifting away from youTube anyways. Going back to the newspaper and audiobook lifestyle. Only the ants keep me there...

Azuaron ,
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@futurebird I suspect this is a "pivot to video" move, aka, something being pushed by YouTube management without actual evidence that people want it (or with fraudulent evidence) to the detriment of how people actually want to use the service.

But then again, tons of people love livestreams and I just don't get that, either, so maybe it's the children who are wrong.

rbreich , to random
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Wall Street tycoon Stephen Schwarzman endorsed Trump yesterday.

He joins a growing list of billionaires who once condemned the former president but are now flocking to his campaign.

Never underestimate how quickly billionaires will sell out our democracy for tax cuts.

Azuaron ,
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@rbreich Bold you think they're onboard because of the tax cuts and not the destruction of our democracy.

futurebird , to random
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What is this "Right ear bible (Chinese) left ear Mozart (2x speed)" nonsense I keep getting recommended? I can tell it's some meme but I'm frankly scared to either click or try to look it up so can someone just gently tell me?

Azuaron ,
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@futurebird It's apparently an It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia reference that became a meme.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/right-ear-the-bible-chinese-left-ear-mozart-2x-speed

Azuaron ,
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@futurebird Yeah, I'm pretty numb to internet nonsense so I wasn't TOO worried, but that's certainly an example of a disturbingly overengineered human.

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