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leeloo

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Software developer, keyboard player, kayaker, home cook. Casual gamer. Preferred games are no faster than Portal and less violent than chess. I need time to think.

C#, Swift, Javascript, C.

Windows for work, everything else at home. Keeping things separate.

Living in bicycle country. The one without blue in the flag.

I could add a bunch of flags here, but there’s no black, gray, white and purple emoji, and I don’t want pink, white and blue to feel lonely.

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leeloo , to random
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Maybe I'm missing something, but what's the point of boosting AND favoriting the same post on ?

The way I understand it, a boost is "I likr this and want my followers to see it", and a favorite is "I like this, but my followers probably aten't interested". Which makes doing both seem pointless to me, but I often see the same person doing both in my notifications, so what am I missing?

leeloo OP ,
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@BeAware
So why favorite and not bookmark?

Strandjunker , to random
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Love Hillary, hate Hillary, whatever. But during the 2016 debates, she called Trump Putin’s puppet and said he “encouraged espionage against our country”. She spoke the truth, in public, straight to his orange face.

Lots of people owe Hillary Clinton — and America — an apology.

leeloo ,
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@Strandjunker
Does she really deserve an apology, though, after handing the 2016 election to Donald Trump?

randahl , to random
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Judge Merchan today decided, the prosecution can refer to the Access Holywood hot mic moment in court — the situation where Trump said:
“I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”

The hot mic clip came out before the election in 2016, and this will demonstrate, why Trump wanted to pay off a porn star, to avoid more details about who he really is.

Via Popok

leeloo ,
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@randahl
Wait, that's the full quote? I've only heard the "you" second half, never the "I" first half, and thought he may not have been talking about himself.

And that's from people calling him a rapist. Why would they leave out the "I" part?

Learn something new every day I guess, though very late for that.

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" is even or ahead in the polls because millions of swing voters have no idea just how authoritarian a 2nd term would be

Blame the media's massive failure to pound the drums about 1/6 pardons, 'retribution' and looming dictatorship."

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...

https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/trump-47-second-term-dangers-authoritarianism-20240314.html#loaded

leeloo ,
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@GottaLaff @willbunch
And still the democrats stand behind the pro genocide guy, ready to compete with Trump for the votes from the maga crowd in their red hats, while those who will not vote for genocide are looking for a candidate to vote for.

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A top European auto safety body is releasing new rules that will require physical buttons and knobs for key vehicle features to receive a full five-star safety rating. I’d like to see the same in North America.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091043/euro-ncap-safety-rating-europe-2026-touchscreen-buttons-dials

leeloo ,
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@parismarx
About time they started figuring out why playing with your phone while driving is banned in most places.

Now, if only the law makers could figure out that to use a factory mounted touch screen, you need to take your eyes just ad much off the road as when playing on your phone. More if you lift your phone up to eye height (can't avoid looking when using the factory mounted touch screen).

The touch screen should not be allowed to be visible from the drivers seat.

elizabethtasker , to random
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The SLIM spacecraft was never designed to survive the lunar night, which is brutally cold and expected to irrevocably freeze all circuits.

But like Gandalf rising from the darkness of the mines of Moria, SLIM rose from the darkness as SLIM THE WHITE!

This is what SLIM now looks like on the Moon 😐 (By the incredibly talented science communicator, @bluerehn!)

leeloo ,
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@elizabethtasker @bluerehn
It rose? Isn't it still lying on its back?

revoluciana , to random
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The people who now say I'm not a girl are the same people who used to tell me I was such a girl before I told them that I actually am a girl.

I think they just don't like girls.

leeloo ,
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@anjune @revoluciana
"There are only two genders"

"You're not a real man"
"So I'm a woman?"
"No".

There are only two genders, for sufficiently large values of two.

Or maybe they count like Valve. 1, 2, 2e1, 2e2, Alyx.

breadandcircuses , to random
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What human industry has done since 1990, pumping nearly a trillion tons of CO2 into the air, has no precedent. Never before in Earth’s history has so much carbon dioxide been added to the atmosphere over such a short period of time.

Now our planet is heating up very fast, thanks to all these greenhouse gases in the air. That extra heat is not good for people, and it turns out it's ALSO not good for trees...

Trees are struggling to sequester heat-trapping carbon dioxide in warmer, drier climates, meaning that they may no longer serve as a solution for offsetting humanity's carbon footprint as the planet continues to warm, according to a new study.

"We found that trees in warmer, drier climates are essentially coughing instead of breathing," said Max Lloyd, assistant research professor of geosciences at Penn State. "They are sending CO2 right back into the atmosphere far more than trees in cooler, wetter conditions."

Through the process of photosynthesis, trees remove CO2 from the atmosphere to produce new growth. Yet, under stressful conditions, trees release CO2 back to the atmosphere, a process called photorespiration. With an analysis of a global dataset of tree tissue, the research team demonstrated that the rate of photorespiration is up to two times higher in warmer climates, especially when water is limited.

They found the threshold for this response in subtropical climates begins to be crossed when average daytime temperatures exceed roughly 68 degrees Fahrenheit [20.3C] and worsens as temperatures rise further.

The results complicate a widespread belief about the role of plants in helping to draw down carbon from the atmosphere, providing new insight into how plants could adapt to climate change. Importantly, the researchers noted that as the climate warms, their findings demonstrate that plants could be less able to draw CO2 out of the atmosphere and assimilate the carbon necessary to help the planet cool down.

"We have knocked this essential cycle off balance," Lloyd said. "Plants and climate are inextricably linked. The biggest draw-down of CO2 from our atmosphere is photosynthesizing organisms. It's a big knob on the composition of the atmosphere, so that means small changes have a large impact."

Plants currently absorb an estimated 25% of the CO2 emitted by human activities each year, but this percentage is likely to decrease in the future as the climate warms, Lloyd explained, especially if water is scarcer.

So, that's very bad. We used to think extra CO2 might make trees grow faster and absorb more CO2, but it turns that notion is wrong. It doesn't work that way.

And guess what — it also turns out that pumping a trillion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere in only a few decades was a terrible idea.

FULL STORY -- https://phys.org/news/2024-01-trees-struggle-climate.html

leeloo ,
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@breadandcircuses
Even those of us who thought trees would thrive with more CO2 were aware that would not solve climate change as long as we keep cutting down rain forests.

Most of us also have a rough idea about how many trees grow in the Sahara, so lack of water being a problem shouldn't come as a surprise. I would say that the smart ones expected the worlds deserts to grow, and that the rain forests would have to expand north and south to compensate, which means planting more rainforest, not cutting down the existing areas.

ajsadauskas , (edited ) to Technology
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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

@technology

leeloo ,
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@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology
"So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?"

Things improve.

Youtube does not have a monopoly because it's the only video app installed on your computer, but because it's the one everyone uses.

Plenty of people have tried to compete, but Youtube was good enough. Others had good reasons to try but concluded that Youtube was good enough.

When Youtube is no longer good enough, they get to show they can do it better.

Google search is worse, because it hasn't been good enough for a long time, but somehow every competitor has decided to be worse. Altavista 25 years ago beat what Google search is today, I can't imagine Microsoft being unable to afford to bring Bing up to Altavista levels.

leeloo ,
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@uienia
I was answering a question about what happens when it becomes unprofitable for "powerful actors that have a literal stranglehold on the market" to keep pumping money into maintaining that strangehold.

I expected it to be obvious that the first thing that happens is that they stop doing so. THEN there is room for others to improve things.

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