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EverydayMoggie

@EverydayMoggie@sfba.social

Stuff I like, in no particular order.
science • building computers • gaming • science fiction • mysteries • dogs • bicycles • cooking • writing • architecture • design • hiking

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drahardja, to random
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In-N-Out is serious business here in https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/111831446161458705

EverydayMoggie,
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Never mind that "levels of crime" is probably a flimsy excuse, and not the real cause. You'd think we'd have learned that with the store closures in SF that used the same excuse and were caught in a blatant lie.

@drahardja

RickiTarr, to random
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If you could kick something out of your life today, what would it be?

EverydayMoggie,
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Billionaires. But they'd need to be kicked out of everyone's lives.

@RickiTarr

drahardja, to tesla
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I know I like to rag on , but this behavior is becoming commonplace in the new world of over-the-air updated . You buy a car with a set of features, but it doesn’t ship with it. But worry not! It’s coming soon in a software update! One of these mornings you’ll wake up, and your car would have this brand new feature! It’s the FUTURE!

Except you’re not selling me a feature then; you’re selling me the hope of getting a feature that may come in a month, a year, or—in the case of Tesla FSD—probably never. But you are taking my money up front.

I feel this is something the FTC should be regulating. At the very least, require manufacturers to print up front a FIRM DATE on which they will either have delivered the promised feature, or refund the customer some agreed-upon amount of money. Otherwise, I feel like this is just permission for manufacturers to sell a stream of for real dollars.

“Tesla Cybertruck Owner Gets ‘Coming Soon’ Message When Trying to Lock Diff”

https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-owner-gets-coming-soon-message-when-trying-to-lock-diff

EverydayMoggie,
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Just wait until they start bricking cars remotely because the owner installed some sort of third-party accessory, or repaired something.

@drahardja

misc, to random
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Listen how do we get Trader Joe's to not be evil about unions? Like if I'm gonna boycott I need you all with me so we can break their back real quick and get this over with.

EverydayMoggie,
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Probably you get them to accept the union by taking them to court.

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EverydayMoggie,
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Yeah, but that's kind of the only option you have to fight them. Only a very small percentage of customers are willing to put their principles above their personal convenience. The rest will keep shopping there regardless.

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SrRochardBunson, to random

EverydayMoggie,
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Can a map be a dad joke?

@SrRochardBunson

drahardja, to random
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I wonder what new scammy horrors will come from this investment?

Don’t kid yourself. If a bunch of billionaire VC investors actually want to build a better city, they’d spend the money in existing cities to improve public goods. This is a moneymaking scam in some way or another, I guarantee it. It’s going to have a bunch of externalities that taxpayers are going to bear, and it’s going to crash and burn in a decade when they get bored.

Anyone want to take a guess at what the scam is going to be? NFTs (that’s so last year)? AI? Some kind of rent-seeking nonsense? Tax loophole?

“Billionaire-backed futuristic city no longer shrouded in secrecy. Here are the details”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-17/billionaires-collect-signatures-november-ballot-new-solano-county-city

EverydayMoggie,
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I'm more inclined to think the scam isn't money but political power. However, I also suspect reality is going to smack them in the face and this thing will never be completed.

@drahardja

EverydayMoggie,
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I mean, these are the same people who think they're just going to waltz in and set up colonies in space (no doubt using human beings as disposable commodities), so practical obstacles don't mean much to them. Maybe the idea is more like when startups just dumped thousands of scooters on the streets of SF overnight, without bothering to get any permits or follow any regulations. They're thinking people will just throw up their hands and surrender.

@drahardja

campuscodi, to random
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Ah... the disinformation and propaganda bots have arrived on Mastodon.

If you haven't been on Twitter, they've been pushing this narrative that "western media didn't cover South Africa's arguments" while literally sharing BBC and DW clips a day before on the same account.

It flooded Twitter to the point that any suggested tweet below infosec content was about this garbage.

The account is like 6-days old... let's see if it gets nuked. It will show me if Mastodon is worth my time anymore.

EverydayMoggie,
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You really need to report it to your instance's moderation if you want something done.

@campuscodi

gbraad, to ObsidianMD
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Q: Is there any print function in ?

A: No, it's missing. You have to export to PDF first.

A user. This sounds too basic to not include.

EverydayMoggie,
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Yeah, I found that out too. But exporting it worked ok.

@gbraad

drahardja, to random
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Jesus christ https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/111700295382453583

EverydayMoggie,
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Honestly, I'm not even surprised.

@drahardja

drahardja, (edited ) to random
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Ro Khanna’s birth name is Rohit. He probably changed his name to market himself better in politics.

All you folks criticizing Nikki Haley for changing her name for political reasons are also going to criticize Ro Khanna for doing the same, right?

Or maybe name-shaming isn’t a great idea after all, and we should focus on their actions and policies?

EverydayMoggie,
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There aren't all that many people of any ethnicity who are called by their full name. It's really weird to attack someone for using a simplified version of their name.

@drahardja

EverydayMoggie,
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Her political and policy choices are entirely fair game. And her actions do come across as suspect. But the name a person chooses to use should be a non-issue.

@mekkaokereke @drahardja

futurebird, to random
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A 12 percent drop in the US murder rate is wild. And I say that as someone who has been spitting stats and rolling my eyes at people who say "crime has gotten so bad..."

It hasn't been "bad" by any real metric since the late 90s and even when it was "bad" if you're middle class (and not at risk of domestic violence*) you have zero things to worry about even in 1989.

*domestic violence improved for a few decades but then stalled. But, when people fret about crime this isn't what they mean.

EverydayMoggie,
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I notice many women have been taught to be fearful of the world from infancy. So asking them to abandon that is pretty high-stakes; you're asking them to pull out one of the pieces that forms the foundation of their concept of self. You've got to convince them that the whole structure won't simply fall apart when they do that, or at least convince them to make a leap of faith.

@ignova @futurebird

EverydayMoggie,
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Sadly, that's not what girls get taught to fear, though.

@futurebird @ignova

HeavenlyPossum, to random
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Made a trip back to the US for the first time in a couple of years. A few things that stand out:

  • there are so many fucking ads everywhere

  • infrastructure is crumbling everywhere I look

  • cops cops cops cops cops. I saw more cops within a few hours of getting back to the states than I’ve seen in a few years of living abroad. Americans generally have no idea how hyper-policed they are.

EverydayMoggie,
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I wouldn't say we have no idea how overpoliced we are. Lots of us do know, but it's not as if we can do much about it, at least in the immediate term.

@HeavenlyPossum

futurebird, to random
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If people had less access to high voltage electricity, but many sources for low voltage DC (24V and under)

Would it still be possible to manufacture silicon conductors using more people and different machines?

Basically, could you do it with machines powered by small batteries?

eg. off the grid.

EverydayMoggie,
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I think the answer might depend on what you mean by silicon conductors. If you're talking about something like the chips that make our current generation of computers run, not a chance. The machinery needed is so complex there's literally one company in the world that makes it, and it takes a ridiculous amount of power.

@futurebird

luckytran, to random
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Good news: Masking has returned to hospitals and clinics in several counties in Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Massachusetts, Delaware, Washington, Indiana and New York.

Thanks to all the tireless organizers making progress happen. Keep going!

https://themessenger.com/health/covid-mask-mandates-at-hospitals-ny-california-illinois-delaware

EverydayMoggie,
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That has been my experience as well. My doctor and dentist facilities never stopped masking.

@thepoliticalcat @luckytran

EverydayMoggie,
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It now occurs to me that I'm not sure whether CA meant Canada or California. I'm in California.

@thepoliticalcat @luckytran

skinnylatte, to food
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One of the phrases that’s been popular in China this year according to this article: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1014370

For more context, people in China have been assembling plain white bread sandwiches to try to understand how we live in this part of the world, and they are posting through it (the idea of eating anything cold or raw, especially a vegetable, is seen as especially disgusting in the Chinese world, with some exceptions)

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/jun/15/lunch-of-suffering-plain-white-people-food-goes-viral-in-china

#Food #China #Language #Chinese #Mandarin

EverydayMoggie,
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If you have ever made bean curd from scratch (do not recommend, it's a ridiculous process) you'll know it's cooked while being made. So maybe served cold but certainly not raw.

@skinnylatte @grumpasaurus

elduvelle, to random
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What do people use nowadays as #RSSReaders? (Does the concept even still exist?)

It’s to keep track of relevant #ResearchPapers of interest as my main source used to be… Twitter and ResearchGate, which I’ll both be leaving before 2024

EverydayMoggie,
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I'm just using the one that's built into . It works and lets me customize how the text looks. My only gripe is that audio stops if the tab loses focus.

@elduvelle

EverydayMoggie,
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I'm afraid I don't know much about Firefox, sorry. The Vivaldi people are on Mastodon, should you need to ask them about their feature.

@elduvelle

RM_Transit, to random
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    EverydayMoggie,
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    You know what? The world could stand to do more to become friendlier to people in general.

    @RM_Transit

    futurebird, to random
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    Did anyone else think "farcical" was spelled "fartsical" when you were a kid?

    EverydayMoggie,
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    I didn't.

    But the first time I encountered the word "invalid" in the sense of a sick person, I sat there puzzling over why being ill would make someone not valid.

    @futurebird

    gregeganSF, to random
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    A thread on publications past, present and future.

    In 2023, I published three books: a novel, SCALE, and two collections: SLEEP AND THE SOUL, and PHORESIS AND OTHER JOURNEYS.

    Out now: a new story, “Death and the Gorgon”.

    Coming in 2024: a new novel, MORPHOTROPHIC.

    EverydayMoggie,
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    It was you who wrote Zendegi, right? Years have passed since I read that, but pieces of the memory still come back at times. It's left an indelible imprint on me.

    @gregeganSF

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