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GhostOnTheHalfShell

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai

opinionated lurker of the intarwebs.

Used to write code, still do. c/c++, java, php, js, c#, gdscript, gnawed on sql, sparql, unix/windows etc etc billions of years ago.

tech, graphics, anything STEM
anything anthropology, history, linguistics
anything blender, gimp (although i scream using it), audacity
prefers not to be run over by cars

I drink Philz.

I do a (non-monetized) video or so a week on yt.

Tyranny and poverty are everywhere a mainstream economics phenomenon.

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br00t4c, to conservative
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Farage defends claim PM 'doesn't understand our culture'

#culture #reform

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx005vdgg5yo

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@br00t4c

Seven Bins shares the same culture of his masters, billionaires living in contempt of nation they see as mudsills. They are despots, contemptuous and hating despots purposely immiserating society into an underclass.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to space
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#NASA #neeto

3 min

seeing the microscopic from space

https://youtu.be/JyjjiEQq6uI

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to climate
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15 min

Interesting to sample. Ground water issues force water supply shut down. It certainly sucks. This is an example of erosion of existing capacity in potatoes.

your last french fry.

https://youtu.be/yD1yTqzj1Y4

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to BBC
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@BBC_News_Labs
5 min

The greatest shot in history.

It's insane. This is a testimony to the venerable Beeb and his own presentation skills.

https://youtu.be/c5a987U9Kdc

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Eka_FOOF_A @BBC_News_Labs

Kinda funny to remark on SpaceX. They make great, expensive sparklers.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to india
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4 min

https://youtu.be/lML9aM-Laig

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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@Karuna don’t forget to offer an introduction! hashtag introduction

you can pin it in your profile if you have a mind.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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If you’re ever in California, and you’re not a resident, and you’re in a store where you’re experiencing an earthquake, don’t panic until you see someone 45 or over seeking shelter.

If you’ve lived in California long enough, you get a sense of how to know a “bad earthquake” from a “not so bad earthquake”.

Just basically do whatever the OG’s do and you’ll be safer.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Mrfunkedude

We’re you around for ‘89? That one (in the bay area) was fun.

First a little “meh it’s 3.x something” .. … … wait a minute this is still goOOOOH SHIT DIVE UNDER DESK. Lights go out in building.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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I'm mortified because my cousin just told me that I got him into South Park when he was a kid lol.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@BlackAzizAnansi Warp them when they are young and impressionable.

Your work is done here I see. :blobfoxdevil:

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to ocean
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2 min

https://youtu.be/Lq2Ce2zTvDI

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to random
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@economics@a.gup.pe



Today 9am PST (in a little over 2 hours)

Should be interesting as Selgin is Mr Cato institute and also banks are intermediaries and when they are not it's the gubnit's fault (of course 🤪)

https://www.youtube.com/live/jbXcvv4_548

You can read the most stunning paper imaginable. :ablobwink:

https://www.cato.org/working-paper/banks-are-intermediaries-loanable-funds

GottaLaff, to random
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Omg.

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90
https://apnews.com/article/6d3800130ef4e67d761f96b328f7c263

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@GottaLaff

RIP and he died with his boots on. It’s amazing how transformative space can be, from Glenn to Shatner, people acutely feel just what our little planet does for us.

https://youtu.be/U8PvNOCNxts

Nonilex, to Electricvehicles
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The admin toughened vehicle mileage standards, part of a strategy to transform the auto market to one led by to fight .

The measure requires to achieve a 65 mpg avg for all car models by 2031.

experts say retiring the is critical to staving off the most deadly & costly effects of .


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/climate/biden-mileage-electric-vehicles.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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@Nonilex

I”d rather be free of car centricity. I wonder if it would be cheaper to focus on walkable cities than car standards.

The cheapest mitigation is the oil we never drill.

Nonilex, to earthquake
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Scientists have mapped one of the most hazardous spots on the globe in unprecedented detail: a 600-mile geologic boundary just off the #PacificNorthwest coast.
Along this fraught stretch, called the #CascadiaSubductionZone, 2 pieces of the #Earth’s crust slide against each other, building up stresses capable of unleashing a catastrophic 9.0-magnitude #earthquake & generating a #tsunami, w/waves as high as 40 feet.

#science #geology #climate
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/06/07/earthquake-tsunami-cascadia/

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Nonilex Yes, that fault system doesn’t blow often but when it does it’s mag 8 or 9 ish

auschwitzmuseum, to random
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7 June 1933 | An Italian Jewish girl, Nedda Segrè, was born in Venice.

In February 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@auschwitzmuseum

This is one of those days where my reaction is particularly visceral. Must be something about current affairs.

GottaLaff, to random
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Can’t get clearer than this:

Businessman Tells Jury He Bribed Senator With a Mercedes-Benz

Jose Uribe said he had provided the car to Senator Robert Menendez’s girlfriend in exchange for gaining his “power and influence.”

Gift: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/nyregion/jose-uribe-menendez-trial-bribery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x00.D3mX.Aw1T2m8WTe-c&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@GottaLaff

I have this weird idea. If you get caught bribing a politician, you’re on the hook to bribe each constituent with the same value. That man owes a lot of people a bunch of money.

rbreich, to random
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Conservatives say raising the minimum wage would drive up inflation.

But the federal minimum wage hasn't gone up since 2009.

Average CEO pay has gone up about 60% since 2009.

Who's pay is contributing to inflation?

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@economics@a.gup.pe @rbreich

this simply is not true. Empirical data demonstrates that a higher min wage increases profits. This is intuitively obvious because disposable income is business opportunity.

Beyond this, if I correctly understand Graziani comments, neither wages nor taxes impact companies’ (aggregate) profits. That said, it’s also obvious that competition between companies causes them to maim their own potential. In short, the math explains why.

🧵

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@economics@a.gup.pe @rbreich

I interpret this to suggest that employee ownership of a firm leads to far less dysfunctional behavior because owner incentives are categorically different.

evacide, to random
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Microsoft says they are making a bunch of changes to Recall to mitigate the many, many security and privacy problems that researchers have found over the last week:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@evacide

Em… uhhh, fuck them?

nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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Remembering Alan Turing, died on 7 June 1954, victim of prejudice and ignorance 💔 He was a mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist and is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artiticial intelligence. He was also homosexual in a time when homosexuality was illegal. After his conviction he was given a choice between chemical castration and prison. He chose chemical castration, and later chose to kill himself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@nixCraft

He also saved the lives of million of men with his work to break Enigma. Fucking British killed a war hero.

ExtinctionR, to random
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Do you know any of the names of the handful of people who control and profit from global food production?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-07/meet-the-mega-rich-families-controlling-the-us-food-system/103874576?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited )
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@ExtinctionR I know one of them

Cargill

Tyson maybe, but that might be brand only. Now let me check.

yup Cargill. The other names I mostly recognize, but think of Walton’s as retail only.

The face of Plutocracy. We live on their corporate manorial estates. We can thank M Friedman and Bork for ending a market economy, by eradicating hundreds of thousands of ranchers and farmers and certainly the markets they auction their food to. Now farmers and ranchers are serfs.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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@economics@a.gup.pe @dlakelan

stat nerd love, right?

@nerd4cities

18 min

https://youtu.be/NJ4T_BHFgt0

peterdrake, to drawing
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In the last year or two of learning to draw, I've accumulated a number of art books. Here are some particularly good ones for beginners.

Kistler, You Can Draw in 30 Days
Very friendly, exercises that don't take hours on end, and a concise list of drawing principles on pp. 2-3.

Dean, Animal Line Drawing
You can crank one of these out in a spare moment and it will look reasonable.

DeWilde, 30-Minute Drawing for Beginners
More short exercises and principles.

Howard, 101 Textures in Colored Pencil
This is more of a reference, but drawing these will get you in the habit of layering colored pencil to produce rich textures.

Bower, 101 Sketching Tips
A long list of clever tricks and observations for sketching from life.

The Sketch Encyclopedia
Some mediocre general advice followed by a HUGE catalog of things to sketch, each with four reasonable stages.

#MastoArt #drawing #sketching

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@peterdrake d

I would add Drawing on the Left Side of the Brain.

Karoli, to random
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More like this please, Joe Biden.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Karoli :ablobgrin:

Orange Man DOWN

GottaLaff, to random
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Unbelievable.

Via Rupar:

46 House Republicans voted to defund NATO two days before the 80th anniversary of D-Day

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@GottaLaff

I suspect Europe keenly feels just how deeply messed up a fascist US would be. Ultra right parties and EU elections are just as terrible. The wreckage they’d do.

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