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Dianora

@Dianora@ottawa.place

live in #Ottawa, #Canada (Unceded territory of the #Anishinaabe #Algonquin Nation) My Background is #Programmer #RealTime #Embedded some #ScientificProgramming Hobbies? ;) #FreeBSD dev. #amateurRadio, #Musician #Baking (I love to bake Universes) #Cooking some Uni. #Maths #Physics #Linguistics now interested in #Philosophy #Propaganda #CriticalThinking If you know who I am, you know.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, this might sound weird, but this is what I'm thinking of today. I'm assuming most of you know the idiom, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." I know it's about looking at the horse's teeth to check it's age and health, but in my heart I have an alternate history where it's about The Trojan Horse, which doesn't really even make much sense, but it's still living there rent free.

So, does anyone else do this, make up alternate histories for words or phrases? If you do, I'd love examples!

Dianora,
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@RickiTarr eggcorns might interest you then. https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/Mondegreens are similar but applied usually to misheard song lyrics.

Dianora, to Catroventos
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"We have challenges" is one of the most used phrases for "We screwed up and have a problem. Sometimes "challenges" is a legitimate term but it's still far overused. Overuse dilutes meaning.

NunavutBirder, to worldwithoutus
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So, this was released today. My third stamp with Canada Post. Qarlinngua (The pants). And technically my second stamp with a family member in it, as the tiny figure in it is my son Travis. Now for one with Hilary in it.

I’ve very proud of all of these, beyond the cache. They are about my home, and family. And also my family has a long history with the Post Office, 101 years. My grandfather, father, and brother were all postmasters in Roblin.

Dianora,
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@NunavutBirder This is beautiful!

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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One of the things that has fallen to the way side with the past few years is the idea of brand loyalty. Yes for certain items I have a preference (I’ve had some clothing etc for 5-10+ yrs) in terms of durability and quality but beside that? Fuck no. Price. Patagonia? Nope. Canadian brands? Not really. If it’s not on sale then won’t even bother. I have mostly had the same clothes for the past five years, repairing them, maintaining, which I’ve always done but now with earnest

Dianora,
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@grivettcarnac I patch my jeans a lot using newly made cut-off jeans as patch material.

Dianora,
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@grivettcarnac I keep the good clothes for concerts etc. There is no point wearing out brand new jeans working in the garden or whatever. ;)

Dianora, to Ottawa
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Bach choir concert tonight was very good. I would have voted for Bach too over the others. ;)

kdorse, to Ottawa
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So we are going to have public servants downtown 3+ days a week now. Okay. How is Ottawa and the province helping them get in and out? On my way home on a ho-hum Wednesday afternoon I was walking faster than the line of personal vehicles trapped on O'Connor. Can we not provide better, more affordable transit first?

Dianora,
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@kdorse All that extra CO2 as well.

Dianora, to Canada
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Pierre Poilievre Wants a Carbon Tax Election
The policies of carbon pricing have been twisted and maligned—and they could decide our next prime minister

https://thewalrus.ca/pierre-poilievre-wants-a-carbon-tax-election/

P.S. The Walrus is a great magazine. You should join eh? 😀

Dianora, to Ottawa
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Anyone else remember Jane Perry who was the music director at the Unitarian church? She would introduce the musicians for the concerts the Unitarian church put on. I was very surprised to see her obituary only today.
https://ottawacitizen.remembering.ca/obituary/jane-perry-1089656472

ai6yr, to random

T-shirt seen today at our radio club.

Dianora,
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@WastelandWandrr @ai6yr @paninid I ran a UUCP node at home with a SUN 3/60....

Dianora,
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@ai6yr @WastelandWandrr @paninid heh they were ok until the lines got damaged
and until the pad fell off the desk
and of course were never quite big enough
You are right they were terrible.

Dianora, to Ottawa
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We had some whipped cream left over so that’s my excuse.

Dianora, to Ottawa
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I don't know who this grey haired expert on CBC news finance is but he said the words "Since the pandemic" as if it was over.

Dianora, to random
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Years ago when that other social media platform wasn't a fascist platform, I resolved to never argue on it. That is my policy here as well. Discourse on the Internet or email or even in snail mail is extraordinarily difficult. (Yes there are records of flame wars from snail mail writers in the past!)
Over a beer or coffee is one thing but in text is quite another I am unwilling to partake in.

Dianora, to Ottawa
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Anyone else notice how tulips with their salacious perfume desire bees perform frottage on them?

Dianora, to Ottawa
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dang I love the way Mastodon doesn't filter by language unless you ask it to. Learning German and brushing up my french? I'm here for it.

Dianora, to random
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%% Summertime, and the gasoline is expensive, Driving less and walking more....

johnefrancis, to Ottawa
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I'm a bit confused why police describe the murder of a 53yo badminton coach as a "targeted killing".

Targeted by whom? The bagmimton mafia?

Dianora,
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@johnefrancis Selling ping pong balls on the black market. nod nod
whistles innocently

More likely he was engaged in a drug sideline..

Dianora,
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@johnefrancis Honestly it's not the drugs that bother me as much as the guns.

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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    Dianora,
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    @grivettcarnac Ugh. Years ago I was walking on Shillington to a bus stop to get home. Dog and owner on thick chain (deliberate) despite my wide berth the damn dog put a few teeth through my thick winter coat. Dog ended up in quarantine I ended up getting treated for dog bite at the Civic up the street... That dog needs reporting.

    FoodieKenobi, to Ottawa
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    Dunno what to wear in this cold in the morning but warm in the afternoon weather!

    Dianora,
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    @FoodieKenobi Layers all the way down. ;)

    fkamiah17, (edited ) to random
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    @dgar Thought you'd enjoy this protest outside the White House a few days ago while the Japanese Prime Minister was visiting 😂

    Dianora,
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    @fkamiah17 @dgar This is great! Pity about the Alt Text though.

    dgar, to random
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    I will no longer be fighting my inner demons.

    We’re friends now.

    Dianora,
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    @dgar Hang on if I can trust you with a PM and PM'd webpage

    chemoelectric, (edited ) to random
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    The introduction of quantum mechanical methods for solving physics problems is probably the worst thing that ever happened in the history of the mathematical sciences.

    It has brought fundamental progress to a practical halt for an entire century, with no end in sight. It is now also visibly hindering the progress of technologies.

    The content-free nature of math means ANY physics problem can be solved by ANY means. So QM ‘finality’ and ‘spookiness’ are superstitions, not science.

    Dianora,
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    @chemoelectric What I find annoying is the popular press opinion that "Einstein was wrong!" about QM - it's worse when his Nobel is not mentioned. Einstein was right all along.

    Dianora,
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    @chemoelectric That's what I was alluding to ;) To me pilot wave theory is very compelling.
    Yes photons are discrete so yes we furiously agree so far.

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