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GustavinoBevilacqua

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Don't take that as a personal thing, but if you are on threads don't waste your time asking to become a follower.

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GustavinoBevilacqua , to random
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Since no one has the courage to say it, I'll say it.

The desire for AI and robotics is nothing more than the desire to exercise one's power over the activity of something else.

Simply put, slavery.

GottaLaff , to random
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Rudy #Giuliani Told by Creditors to Sell Apartments 'as Soon as Possible'

“Lawyers allege Giuliani using his expenditure on upkeep of apartments as an excuse to keep spending $ that legally belongs to creditors. They said that he wrongly alleged that he was keeping "equity in his 2 apartments for the benefit of creditors."

The filing also says that Giuliani has shown a "blatant disregard" for a court order to reveal his income and assets to the creditors” https://www.newsweek.com/rudy-giuliani-must-sell-apartments-asap-bankruptcy-1912833

GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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@GottaLaff

So, where is the problem for Rudy to move to a trailer park?

Millions of Americans live there.

ElleGray , to random
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so. in January I was in a bad car accident. fractured spine, ruptured discs, cracked pelvis, broken arm. last 4 months have been v hard. tonight though I'm going back to my adult dance class for the first time. I wasn't sure I'd ever even walk properly again so this is a moment for me. a good one

GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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@ElleGray

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MicroSFF , to random
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"Fairy tales are more than true," the princess read. "Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

The dragon considered this. "What of kings?"

"What of them?"

"Do fairy tales say how kings can be beaten?"

"Yes. By dragons..."


(With apologies and thanks to Neil Gaiman and G.K. Chesterton.)

GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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@MicroSFF

I misread "dragons can be eaten" :blobfacepalm:

dillyd , to random
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I was dismayed to see "common" in the name of this plant when I looked it up. Common borage is uncommonly beautiful.

GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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@dillyd

Not just beautiful, but tasty 😋

GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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@dillyd

Both!

dillyd , to random
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Golden chain tree

GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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@dillyd

We call it "maggiociondolo", which could be translated as "May pendant".

It was prized as firewood, because it burns slowly.

GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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@dillyd

Yes, on the Alps it's easy to see the cascade of yellow flowers in the woods.

The duramen is very dark and hard, like the Robinia pseudoacacia.

GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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@dillyd

I found a good photo of the wood here, along with many nice others:

https://www.actaplantarum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11628

GustavinoBevilacqua , to random Italian
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Questa farà ridere solo chi conosce gli impianti elettrici.

GustavinoBevilacqua , to random Italian
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Fediversooo!

Per favore, suggeritemi un sito sul quale trovare punte Forstner di qualità medio-alta (tipo Freud, Bosch o DeWalt) a prezzi abbordabili e che non abbia nulla a che fare con un fiume brasiliano.

Se poi fosse un negozio fatto di mattoni (ma vanno bene anche capannoni prefabbricati!) in provincia di Cuneo sarebbe pure meglio, così ci vado di persona la prossima volta che faccio un formagg-tour.

in Liguria non chiedo neppure.

GustavinoBevilacqua , to random Italian
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Spero ci sia qualcuna delle persone che si occupano della traduzione dell'interfaccia wed di Mastodon.

Volevo segnalare che, sotto ai sondaggi, il "2 ore left" fa un po' rabbrividire.

Lo sanno tutti che la forma giusta sarebbe "2 ore a sinistra"!

futurebird , to random
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Found a queen ant on Park Ave. Looks like Prenolepis imparis, or the american winter ant. You can spot queens by their distinctive waddle. She was hustling along the side walk as if on her way to the Chanel store. Now she’s in one of my luxury ant condos— but don’t tell her I’ve moved her out to the Bronx.

GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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@futurebird

Holly!

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_(novella)

dillyd , to random
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    GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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    @dillyd

    OMFG!
    It took me a while to understand it's not a painting!

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    GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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    @dillyd

    "My doctor told I've tuberculosis C, highly transmissible. 7 of 10 persons infected got it as a simple cold, but the other 3 will croak in less than a week. Of course, if you annoyed by my mask, I can remove it…»

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    GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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    @dillyd

    Dunes, in green version 😄

    GustavinoBevilacqua , to random Italian
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    Le AI per le traduzioni, come potremmo farne a meno?

    GustavinoBevilacqua OP ,
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    @dillyd

    They were calling the AI 🤣

    breadandcircuses , to random
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    Are you old enough, like me, to remember the Exxon Valdez catastrophe, a disastrous oil spill off the coast of Alaska in 1989?

    Here's some important info about that event from Greg Palast...

    "Don’t Buy Exxon’s Fable of the Drunken Captain"

    The true cause of the Exxon Valdez catastrophe was the oil giant breaking their promises, cynically and disastrously, in the 15 years leading up to the spill.

    As for Captain Joe Hazelwood, he was below decks, sleeping off his bender. At the helm, the third mate would never have collided with Bligh Reef had he looked at his Raycas radar.

    But the radar was not turned on. In fact, the tanker’s radar was left broken and disabled for more than a year before the disaster, and Exxon management knew it. It was just too expensive to fix and operate.

    Today, three decades after the oil washed over the Alaskan beaches, you can kick over a rock and it will smell like an old gas station.

    The Fable of the Drunken Captain serves the oil industry well. It falsely presents America’s greatest environmental disaster as a tale of human frailty, a one-time accident. But broken radar, missing equipment, phantom spill teams, faked tests — the profit-driven disregard of the law — made the spill an inevitability, not an accident.

    FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.gregpalast.com/dont-buy-exxons-fable-of-the-drunken-captain-2/

    GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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    In 1967 the Torrey Canyon ran aground the SW UK coast, spilling an estimated 25–36 million gallons (94–164 million litres) of crude oil¹.

    A $0.05 red light showing CLEARLY the steering system was in autopilot mode rather than on manual would have prevented that.

    Since the captain had a mental crash all the blame went on him, but who was to blame for that unplanned warning light?

    Whole article: https://archive.org/details/PopularMechanics1969/Popular%20Mechanics-04-1969/page/n137/mode/2up

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    ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrey_Canyon_oil_spill

    In desperation, Rugiati leaped for the telephone and dialed the engine room. In his haste, however, he misdialed, His call got him through to the officers' dining room. A solicitous steward answered his frantic call. "Captain,” the steward said politely, ‘‘are you ready for breakfast?” Rugiati cursed and slammed the phone down, He was redialing when his fingers halted. From where he stood he had a clear view of the steering control panel. "Porco Dio,'’ he swore. The steering lever was not in “manual,” it was in “control.” Torrey Canyon could not turn. Her wheel was disengaged. Later Rugiati would explain what happened next. “I rushed to the wheel and pulled the lever back to "hand” and after saying something which I don’t remember, I helped the helmsman take the wheel hard to port.” Looking forward, Coccio could see the bow start its turn to port. The ship reached a heading of 350° but it was too late. She was slamming into the Seven Stones at a speed of 15.75 knots. Coccio felt the ship shudder at 8; 50 a.m.
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    GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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    @ElleGray

    At industrial level this was be done since… uh, let me think… since the sale of olive oil was invented.

    And it's not mafia, or other organized crime associations: in the most of the cases this is dona by just greedy people.

    GustavinoBevilacqua , to random
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    Have you ever read "Snow Crash"?

    No?

    Then read it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

    rbreich , to random
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    “We want to make sure that we’re not leaving any pricing on the table. We want to take as much as we can.”

    —CFO of Constellation Brands, producer of popular beers like Corona and Modelo

    Corporate price gouging has gotten so bad that they aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

    GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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    @rbreich

    Sooner or later the companies will ask the government to decriminalize the shooting of their competitors.

    dillyd , to random
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    I wonder who designed this pattern and how long ago. It’s lovely.

    GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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    @riversidebryan @dillyd

    There is even people printing manholes on t-shirts.

    https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=0iJ0bNWRZH0

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    It annoys me how people talk about using social media like it's a vice. And a female-coded one at that.

    "Spend less time on social media" is trotted out a virtuous in the same way that "not eating a pint of ice cream" is.

    Imagine if in the early days of movable type, there were people going around saying "don't read pamphlets, they are full of misinformation"

    Social media is the primary way news is disseminated. It is superseding newspapers and TV as the primary vector of mass media. 1/

    GustavinoBevilacqua ,
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    @futurebird

    In 1400 a dominican predicator told about writing: "Est virgo heac penna, meretrix est stampificata" (it is a virgin if made with a pen, a whore if printed).

    Some contemporary people has the same point of view about social media.

    Italian article here:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20160326143855/blog.marsilioeditori.it/2012/06/25/maledetti-libri/

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