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Fractional CTO @ Bucket Listers. Follow for food thoughts with sprinkling of tech
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thomasfuchs , to random
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Don’t see that often in the store

grumpasaurus ,
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@futurebird @thomasfuchs if there's a shop that would be able to copy something to an apple formatTed floppy it would be on Northern Boulevard.

futurebird , to random
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We never made contact with the aliens. It was impossible. They were simply too far away. But everyone knew they were there, speculated about them. It wasn't a remarkable fact, so we thought the simulation it would be OK without them. We wanted to understand the history of Earth, after all. And it was an issue of processing power, memory. (The savings were huge.) And since we never made contact how much could it possibly change about their history?

It changed everything.

grumpasaurus ,
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@futurebird I think this is the plot to Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Hare Hare Yukai GIF

molly0xfff , to random
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The cryptocurrency industry Super PAC Fairshake is now #1 out of all Super PACs by total funds raised.

They've raised more than $175 million to influence upcoming elections in the US, and have more than $100 million of it still waiting to deploy.

Despite the relatively small size of the cryptocurrency industry, cryptocurrency-focused super PACs are among the most well-funded this election cycle. All super PACs Name Description Receipts Cash on hand 1 Fairshake supports cryptocurrency interests $177,877,738 $106,996,176 2 Never Back Down Inc. supports Ron DeSantis $145,482,418 $6,956,298 3 SMP supports Senate Democrats $122,904,784 $92,396,317 4 Make America Great Again Inc. supports Donald Trump $109,741,526 $34,459,354 5 Senate Leadership Fund supports Senate Republicans $63,887,538 $59,510,912 6 Democracy PAC George Soros' super PAC, supports Democrats $60,240,533 $38,980,191 7 United Democracy Project ('UDP') AIPAC-backed super PAC, supports Israel $53,274,582 $19,036,330 8 Club for Growth Action supports small-government conservatives $52,047,665 $10,024,220 9 LCV Victory Fund supports environmental issues $26,655,513 $19,078,389 10 Best of America PAC supports Doug Burgum $24,148,569 $183,181 11 Keystone Renewal PAC supports Pennsylvania Republicans $21,468,424 $17,965,490 12 Working for Working Americans - Federal United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners' super PAC $20,083,557 $4,785,234 13 Restoration PAC Dick Uihlen-backed super PAC, supports Republicans $15,783,790 $3,578,225 14 Fight Right Inc supports Ron DeSantis $14,739,207 $335,572 15 Defend American Jobs supports cryptocurrency interests $14,675,000 $97,800
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    grumpasaurus ,
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    @molly0xfff is it in hard dollars or in BTC?

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    That's so sweet.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @lowqualityfacts at least they weren't sanitation workers

    jerry , to random
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    The AC at my son’s house broke today and I’m so, so sad that his kittens have to come spend the night with me

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @jerry oh no. No cuddling. Not that. Oh no

    futurebird , to random
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    I’m old enough to remember professors who said learning CS wasn’t a part of a foundational education any more than learning to use a lathe was a part of interior design. I don’t think this is common today, thankfully. But, what aspects of computer science should be integrated into existing subjects (a word processor in English to write a paper) and the degree to which it is an independent subject remain nebulous.

    Thing is, understanding computers changes the way you think about everything.

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird the act of providing explicit instruction is fundamental to everything but is most apparent in computer science. My first summer camp where we mostly played Doom on the lan, the instructor had a student tell someone else to walk around the classroom (we ultimately did logo writer).

    Swordinthestone Tea GIF

    jerry , to random
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    People still talking like vim didn’t win the editor war

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @jerry you're just daring the emacs folk to come out of the woodwork
    https://youtu.be/3I0K-ymOTS4?si=zaFyzqPsSKOV73_R

    GottaLaff , to random
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    A railroad company must pay nearly $400 million to the Swinomish Tribe in state after finding that the company intentionally trespassed when it repeatedly ran 100-car trains carrying crude oil across its reservation - AP

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @GottaLaff practically a Western plot

    luckytran , to random
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    "I'm a strong supporter of the decision of stopping of masks on our subway system, masks in protest, and masks in other areas where it's not health related." - NYC Mayor Adams

    But you can get COVID everywhere. EVERYWHERE is health-related. A mask ban doesn't make sense.

    video/mp4

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @luckytran tell me ur a cop without telling me ur a cop

    ElleGray , to random
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    am being informed that breakfast is required, even on sunday mornings

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @ElleGray look what you're DOING

    alice , to random
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    The headbutts will continue until the breakfast is forthcoming.

    (belated)

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @alice do you secretly love the head butts and intentionally delay the feeding

    futurebird , to random
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    Exciting ant queen collecting trip in AZ. Why does it feel like all the coolest ants are in the South and South West. It's not fair.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV1CkkkKbOM

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird @aronow @errg @kechpaja newtons law. The more you push... You only have yourself to blame

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird @dotsandlines I think I watched an educational video on this in elementary school

    jerry , to random
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    Child 1 rebuilding the pitcher’s mound after tonight’s game

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @jerry @wittyyolo that's how they getcha. Hiring all the child_01s

    futurebird , to random
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    How Ankeepers Count:

    "I have 6 ants in the colony, including the queen."
    "Today there are now 7 ants! Welcome little one!"
    "The colony is 16 ants now."
    "It's about uh I think 30 ants?"
    "There are a lot of ants."
    "I tried to count it is definitely more than 200. Wow."
    "There are probably a few hundred in the outworld and IDK in the nest. 500? Who knows. They won't hold still."
    "I think they might weigh about a half pound?"
    "There is a human brain mass of ants."
    "SO MANY ANTS."

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird is this like some course 3 word problem

    futurebird , to random
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    She ate the ham out of my sandwich when I was on the phone.

    Removed it without moving the bread or other toppings.

    How can I go on living like this????

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird living that lower sodium life.

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird necessary clarification.

    pluralistic , (edited ) to random
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    For Father's Day next Sunday, my 16-y--o daughter has agreed to watch a movie of my choosing with me.

    I want to get her excited about one of the movies I love, but which she's been uninterested in watching thus far.

    Should it be:

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @pluralistic I take it your kid isn't a theater kid to not be interested in Rocky Horror?

    futurebird , to random
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    Square cube law? Square shumb law!

    Arthropods can get humongous. The main reason they don't is they are far too tempting targets for warm-blooded vertebrates.

    But about that? Why couldn't an arthropod also be warm-blooded? Maybe some were.

    And that thing you heard about "giant insects needed higher O2 levels" also questionable. Arthroplura was still around after the levels crashed... something else ended the golden age.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZoJyWxGi1A

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird Rorschach reaction
    https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxTf9QfOpDPBXzoAR37NIDCVN6EIUW0Shm?si=B88IRB_8IDn4eyFb

    futurebird , to random
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    The ice cream cone stand at the Belmont (which is in Saratoga for this year and the next, just to be confusing) is a haven for ants! Two carpenter ant species, two lasius, pavement ants (obviously) and one I couldn’t identify before they started glaring at me for taking too many photos of the ground behind the stand. I may buy a cone so I can hang around there some more after the big race. What if that was the elusive NY Phedolie?????

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird you want to know how you get ant ladies? That's how you get ant ladies.

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    … and the stupid wind took my hat. I didn’t even have it on I was holding it worried about the wind — pulled it right out of my hand. How did people live wearing hats all the time!?

    Maybe the MTA people have some kind of grabber??

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird 😫

    ai6yr , to random
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    It's a slug party,
    and I've bought them all a beer
    Let's invite them to come right over,
    and have a great cheer
    It was the cheapest beer they sell nearby
    But for a party it will fly
    The question is really,
    Will they just get drunk, or die?

    (human poem, mine)

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    grumpasaurus ,
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    @ai6yr @rolandelli did you get the Idea from a local wood rat

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @rolandelli @ai6yr needs some finger food. Slugs hate finger food.

    grumpasaurus , to random
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    4 food groups

    grumpasaurus OP ,
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    This is how thin sorpresatta should be sliced.

    grumpasaurus OP ,
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    @futurebird oh no don't eat the ants

    ElleGray , to random
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    morale in hospitals is currently very low and this is one of the reasons

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @ElleGray they should install a claw machine without the claw on the side

    jerry , to random
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    I am so, so, so terribly sad that I will not be around for my employer’s migration to MS Teams 😢

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @jerry you'd be surprised how often ux is more a result of lack of clarification and stress of a on deadline rather than explicit decision from a product designer.

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @jerry it's almost as if it's more comforting that there is someone sadistically making things bad vs things being bad just cuz that's how the cookie crumbled

    futurebird , to random
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    Is there a blog or person who explains science behind all of the claims speaker and earbud companies make about their software and hardware? What exactly is “3D sound” and “immersive sound?” I understand the basic idea of cancellation of a sound wave— detecting a periodic function, multiply it by -1 to zero it out. And the idea of setting the volume for different parts of a recording so they triangulate to different locations— but I want to know details. Any favorites?

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird Rorschach reaction
    https://youtu.be/eS8W8Q1p_u4?si=miDoHduZBNoTzLvs&t=1m

    futurebird , to random
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    Would you like to meet some cryptic army ants?

    These ants are hardly ever seen... since they live on the move... and underground.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv6dkJyVjc0

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird FOR THE VIEWS

    futurebird , to random
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    Lichen?
    pffft!
    I love'em!

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird hoooooof.

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    The bald eagle could have easily gone extinct. But we did all sorts of "woke" things protecting it legally, ran conservation and study programs, banned DDT (that was good for other reasons too) and in 2007 they were removed from the endangered species list.

    Likewise pine forests could be dead from acid rain.

    The ozone could have a huge hole.

    We CAN take care of nature when we want to. And the successes have been worth it.

    I feel like we forget this, you know?

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird if I were a conspiracy theorist, it's almost as if there's some cabal of people who saw all the work you mentioned and went NEVER AGAIN, and proceeded to embark on campaigns that we were never and aren't under any environmental threat and that all this work was for The Man to enact control of the populace

    jerry , to random
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    Lots of tornados lately. I blame traffic circles.

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @jerry they go round and round!

    futurebird , to random
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    OK this might be the right idea. You fill it with books, they don't get dusty... they go in the closet or deep in some storage nook.

    Then in 15 years you can look at them and maybe part with a few... I can do this!

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird lol. Part with a few. That's funny.

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    grumpasaurus ,
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    @ElleGray new dating app where profiles only list a retrospective and introspective

    futurebird , to random
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    Why is Trump saying "the prison populations are down all over the world"

    "they are emptying their insane asylums and sending them"

    ??

    This is just a pure 100 percent fabrication with nothing to even seem like it might, if you squinted, and read it backwards to back it up, right?

    I mean if he can just say any damn thing and people will buy it why not? Wow.

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird yep. It's always been the case. His fans won't listen to anyone calling him out

    futurebird , to random
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    Imagine being so “rich” you couldn’t have friends, or lovers or a family since the unnatural force of your wealth distorts all human relationships and interactions— turning kindness to suspected obsequiousness compliments to base spaniel fawning, love to a product worn for prestige— and the few who were not perturbed by the magnet of wealth come to hate you for all your suspicions.

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird I think generally at that stage it's the personality that helped you get that rich that may be the thing

    jerry , to random
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    It’s interesting that though the total number of fediverse users went up by 70000 in the past month, the number of monthly active users dropped by 60000. If I’m reading that right, 10% (130k) of all active accounts went inactive over the past month.

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @jerry anecdotally I think a lot went to threads

    futurebird , to random
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    the anti-fluoride people are back... I mean, if you like anti-vax stuff why not? It's the same swindle.

    "precious bodily fluids" and all that.

    I hate the taste of mint so I'm always looking for toothpaste that tastes better... I was horrified to discover that if you go of the beaten path with toothpaste there are 100s of brands with "no fluoride" which only a tiny number of people really need... Be careful if you use a "crunchy" brand ... fluoride is amazing.

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird whatever happened to that one toothpaste with the cartoon character with sunglasses

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Huh. Imagine that.

    👀
    IRS Audit of #Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million

    The tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @GottaLaff imagine how many taxi auditors that can pay for.

    futurebird , to random
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    "I should start writing my year end student reports." I think to myself... and so braced and alarmed by the earliness of this thought I decide to take the weekend off in celebration of daring to even think about planning so early.

    (From the chronicle of common teacher mishaps.)

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird add nap on every other line item

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    Okay, but when will Apple apologize for removing the 3.5mm headphone jack?

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird @docpop I only got noise cancelling ear buds because they came for free with my most recent phone purchase and oh man they're amazing on the plane

    theotherbrook , to random
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    This is so ambiguous.

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird @theotherbrook ur a distance

    jencmars , to random
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    Another small mystery wasp, standing on my thumbnail after I coaxed it off my camera.

    #insects #wasps #MacroPhotography

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @jencmars this is one of those images where some redditor is able to determine your diet from a close up pic of your nail.

    futurebird , to random
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    wicked mean delinquent children who are mean to their poor elderly teacher
    :( “what’s a modem?”

    “why would you need to go home to update a website?”

    It never ends.

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @jrconlin @futurebird @leadore "CAN YOU GUARANTEE MY SAFETY"

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @futurebird @linuxfiend @jrconlin @leadore emojis enabled on your server

    rbreich , to random
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    The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

    1950: 50%
    1990: 25%
    2020: 13%

    Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

    That is how we will pay for it.

    grumpasaurus ,
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    @rbreich wait when was mad men, again

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