shekinahcancook

pixelartdragon, 3 hours ago to random

Read! The! Docs! Saves! You! Headache!
Or also could just be "actually check how you're supposed to do something instead of relying on your own memory of something you haven't actually done in around 5 years!"
This toot brought to you by an hour of trying to figure out why OpenGL wasn't rendering my texture, when what was happening was that my texture was fine, and 99% of the code to render the texture was fine too. But instead of setting the texture's uniform value as 0, since I only have one texture, I was setting it to be the OpenGL ID of the texture. Understandably, OpenGL was confused. And when I finally switched my code around to pass 0 instead, suddenly everything worked!

shekinahcancook, 5 hours ago to sustainability

PODCAST: Levke Caesar: “Oceanic Slowdown: Decoding the AMOC”

By Nate Hagens, originally published by The Great Simplification May 24, 2024

"...Nate is joined by climate physicist Levke Caesar for a comprehensive overview of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and its connections to broader planetary systems. Amid a complex...interconnected climate system, the AMOC is a powerful force for regulating temps between the Northern & Southern Hemispheres along the Atlantic Ocean – yet it’s estimated to have slowed down by about 15% over the last few decades. What are the possible domino effects of this slowing oceanic powerhouse at a regional & global scale? How well do we understand what drives the AMOC, its cyclical patterns, and connections with other currents? ...how does the AMOC interact with other biospheric mechanisms that have shaped our stable, life-supporting planetary home?"

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-05-24/levke-caesar-oceanic-slowdown-decoding-the-amoc/

#Oceanography #Resilience #Sustainability #ClimateCrisis #Podcast

shekinahcancook, 5 hours ago (edited 2 hours ago) to sustainability

Târ y donc a tori – Lessons on the Subversive Nature of Transmission, from a Stubborn Welshman

By Adèle Pautrat, originally published by ARC2020 on May 24, 2024

"...There is no effective way of obtaining concrete information about old varieties and the people still growing them, which contributes to their progressive disappearance.

Without a doubt, hindering the exchange of seeds between farmers has had disastrous consequences for the preservation of agro-bio-diversity. There are gene banks and seed collections, but it is on farms that the most beautiful treasures are often unearthed...

Highly critical of legislation that prevent people from accessing and exchanging old grains, Gerald has committed to doing his bit. He has joined the Gaïa Foundation’s ‘Seed Sovereignty’ initiative to safeguard cereal varieties, while as a seed grower he has always made sure to share these with other farmers..."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-05-24/tar-y-donc-a-tori-lessons-on-the-subversive-nature-of-transmission-from-a-stubborn-welshman/

#Sustainability #SeedSaver #SavingSeeds #Farming #Gardening

shekinahcancook, 5 hours ago to random

Seriously, who thought live bees and honey lollipops in a museum was a good idea?

"Museums are reflections of everything we’ve created and accomplished up until now on this planet. These are really giant selfies. While researching museums, I heard literally hundreds of stories from museum lovers, museum curators, and tourists. Here are my top 10 weirdest and most fascinating museum stories..."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-museum-stories-bob-eckstein

#Museum #Exhibit #WeirdTales #BadIdea #WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong

shekinahcancook, 5 hours ago to random

These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books - If you decide to see more, click on this story. by Sarah Laskow June 13, 2017

"...The last installment of the original “Choose Your Own Adventure” series came out in 1998, but since 2004, Chooseco, founded by one of the series’ original authors, R.A. Montgomery, has been republishing classic volumes, as well as new riffs on the form of interactive fiction that seemed ubiquitous in the 1980s and ’90s. The new editions also carry an additional feature—maps of the hidden structure of each book..."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cyoa-choose-your-own-adventure-maps

#Bookstodon #ChildrensBooks #Cartography #FlowCharts

shekinahcancook, 5 hours ago to mentalhealth

How Modern America Is Optimized for Loneliness, Misery and Poor Health by David Friedlander May 24, 2024

"...What do housing, transit and lifestyle statistics have to do with loneliness and unhappiness, you might ask. Well...separating people physically also leads to emotional and psychological separation. Moreover, the implements that make sprawl-induced physical separation work on a societal level — cars to contract long distances and digital media to ameliorate the effects of social isolation — deepen loneliness and unhappiness on the personal level. These implements also make people sedentary, directly relating to the fact that 73% of the total American population is overweight and 42% is obese, per the CDC.

One of the biggest issues is population density. At the risk of oversimplifying, it’s a lot harder to socially isolate when there are people around you..."

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/5/24/how-modern-america-is-optimized-for-loneliness-misery-and-poor-health

#MentalHealth #Sociology #Urbanism #CityPlanning #Zoning #SelfCare #Psychology

kolev, 5 hours ago to tea

Drinking honeysuckle white #tea. https://www.shangtea.com/tea/p/honeysuckle-white-tea #KC

wolfsbruder, 5 hours ago to random

woohoo....
I will owe child support/

They can't take more than 50% of my SSI, but the court starts at 30% and determines if I will pay more from there!!

I am so fucked.

I am trying hard not to panic right now. No matter what, I won't be able to afford a place to live, even with Sec-8 and enough food to eat. or the med supplies I need to pay out of pocket for.

shekinahcancook, 1 day ago to random

Made a gallon of homemade tea made from mint in our garden to go with lamb steaks grilled by my son Reuben. Nice healthy organic salad. We did eat indoors, though, due to the stiff wind. Will have to have our inaugural summer meal on the patio some other day.

ai6yr, 1 day ago to random

Fort Worth 😬

#TXwx #hail

"National Weather Service: SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING in effect for this area until 8:00 PM CDT for DESTRUCTIVE baseball size hail. Take shelter in a sturdy building, away from windows. People and animals outdoors will be severely injured. "

SharonCummingsArt, 1 day ago to Flowers

the cocoons have burst
a Spring butterfly party
flowers celebrate!

#dailyhaikuprompt - cocoon

#flower #flowers #flowerart #colorful #colorfulflowers #nature #colorfulart #art #artwork #fediart #mastoart #fun #cute #happy #happiness #poetry #haiku #shortpoems #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #poet #poem #homedecor #fedigiftshop #buyintoart #garden #gardening #gardens #gardener #spring #springtime #summer #whimsical #sweet

shekinahcancook, 1 day ago to random

Today we cleaned up the patio area and got the shade sails up, but it's too windy to eat dinner outside.

I feel like I should have got a lot more done today. But I just don't have the energy.

swarming, 1 day ago to random

I want to apologise for the framing and phrasing of the posts I made yesterday. I intended by them to try and work out, almost as I posted, the problem that Europe today faces a crisis, from collapsing birthrates to spiraling mental health conditions, which I think can be resolved, at least in part, by acknowledging Europe's Christian roots, by engaging in local congregations and prayer, and also in confronting both Europe's despicable history of antisemitism and perhaps charting a way forwards.

I did a truly terrible job of this. It was also poorly judged given that I was posting those from/on an explicitly Jewish server, where I acknowledge that many, many of you are here simply because you’re seeking shelter from the seemingly endless barrage of antisemitic attacks, demands, accusations and imperatives.

And, no matter how close my bond with many fellow members here, it's really not the place to start litigating that historical or political relationship.

I’m sorry, and I’ll do better.

quinn, 1 day ago to random

Young people are waking up every day to media about war, genocides, dead children. They are unsure of being able to make a living, scared by debt, violence, addiction, homelessness. They are unsure if the burning planet will even support their lives. They are struggling for secure basic housing after having their lives upended by a pandemic...

meanwhile the NYT:

philip_cardella, 1 day ago to random

The constant low level #antisemitism on here is nauseating.

I know I've only recently started to recognize it and I apologize to my Jewish brothers, sisters and family here.

shekinahcancook, 1 day ago to linguistics

Why Do Dwarves Sound Scottish and Elves Sound Like Royalty?
Blame Tolkien and time - by Eric Grundhauser December 7, 2016

"...Tolkien would create languages first, then write cultures & histories to speak them... In the case of the ever-present Elvish in his works, Tolkien took inspiration from Finnish and Welsh. As the race of men & hobbits got their language from the elves in Tolkien’s universe, their language was portrayed as similarly Euro-centric in flavor.

For the dwarves, who were meant to have evolved from an entirely separate lineage, he took inspiration from Semitic languages for their speech, resulting in dwarven place names like Khazad-dûm & Moria.

“When dwarves actually talk, they don’t sound Scottish at all,” says Olsen. “They sound like Arabic or Hebrew.”...As radio & film adaptations of Tolkien’s works were released in later decades, you can see the slow evolution of the dwarven accent..."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-dwarves-sound-scottish-and-elves-sound-like-royalty

#Linguistics #Tolkien #Dwarves #Elves #Fantasy #Language

CartyBoston, 1 day ago to random

Welp, it's time for me to get serious about where he will deport me to. Naples, I think, my people are from Ischia.

Douche.

dugartogo, 1 day ago to random German

Wir regen uns hier ja gerne auf über #Parkdruck durch drei umgewidmete Parkplätze etc. 😉
Aber wisst ihr, was richtig krass ist: US-Städte mit mehr Parkplätzen als Häusern.
Finde, für solche Orte braucht es ein anderes Wort als "Stadt", denn wenn man aussteigt - da ist ja nichts und niemand.

Wie wäre es mit "Autoausstellung"?

'They paved paradise, over and over again'

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/parking-lots-in-cities-usa

via @shekinahcancook #urbanism #verkehrswende #autogerecht

kevinrns, 2 days ago to climate

"Mexico is about to experience its 'highest temperatures ever recorded' as death toll climbs"

The extreme heat smothering much of Mexico has killed dozens of people across multiple states
··· Reuters · Posted: May 24, 2024
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This is the result of delaying the building and installation of wind and sun, the new energy.

The dead are victims of that delay.

Victims

Its not just Mexico, or Brazil or Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mexico-heat-wave-1.7214308

#climate #klima #climat #victims