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MennoWolff

@MennoWolff@ohai.social

What to say here?
I'm a dad of two girls, married. Living in the Netherlands. Work for a high tech life sciences company. kind of a geek.

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NormanDunbar, to random
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Good morning fellow Mastos and hello Tuesday. Another warm but cloudy day forecast for today. Yesterday's was the same and it turned out to be blue skies, sunny and 6°C hotter than forecast!

Have an absolute belter of a day folks, enjoy what you do, have fun and stay safe. Bad puns and dad jokes are a bonus!

Today's random photo is from last week in the Strathclyde Country Park on the M74 motorway, near Motherwell. I called it "Chicken of the Woods? Maybe". See ALT for more.

MennoWolff,
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@NormanDunbar
Re alt text. Remember all fungi are edible. Some are just edible only once.

GottaLaff, to random
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FYI, is still trending on Xitter.

MennoWolff,
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@GottaLaff
Some guidance here please.
Is the actual hashtag trending, or did said turd say or do something which is now trending?

christianp, to random
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I've never seen this before on a climbing frame!

MennoWolff,
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@christianp
I wonder what's on the other side.

jon, to random
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To everyone pointing out trains aren’t good enough (latest today @jmovs & @Sustainable2050 examples), the question is: WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

Trains from France to Spain are crap. We know.

Does SNCF care? No
Renfe? No
French Government? Of course not
Spanish Government? No
EU? Very vaguely

I know what to fix. But the people who could fix it have weak or no motivation.

MennoWolff,
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@jon @jmovs @Sustainable2050
It's weird, because it's not like we lack the infrastructure or anything.
Sure, it's not perfect yet and a lot can be improved, but I can get from the Netherlands to the South of France without much trouble.
It just takes ages.
Problem is, it's just not commercially attractive for anyone to compete with the airlines.
We need political will to change that.

MennoWolff,
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@jon @jmovs @Sustainable2050 I don't understand how you get to that conclusion.
I don't know about the inland pricing of airlines vs trains in France, but here's a simple example: from Rotterdam to Marseille round trip end of May/early June is 404 eur by train. Amsterdam Marseille by plane is 212 eur. And only Air France KLM has that route.
Amsterdam Nice costs less, because there's are 3 airlines on that route.

MennoWolff,
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@jon @jmovs @Sustainable2050
Very nice.
So you agree the solution is in the will to make it so.
It's not attractive for Thalys to invest in more capacity, because it would lower their margin.
Still, a few weeks ago I was looking for an option to get to Toulon. I found a night train from Paris via Marseille and it seemed reasonably competitive with air fare, until I realized I still had to get to Paris.
There's just not enough competition.

MennoWolff,
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@jon @jmovs @Sustainable2050
I would love it if there were a night train from Rotterdam to Marseille or Toulon. Doesn't matter if it takes long, as long as I get there in the morning.
But sleeper services are practically non-existent in Europe.
I get it, there's no material to run these services, but it seems like there's hardly any interest in getting services going.

dgar, to random
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MennoWolff,
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@dgar
And their poop can have many different colors. This is where the story of the rainbow poop came from.
Alright it's usually just green or brown.

Skepticat, to random
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#SilentSunday

MennoWolff,
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@Skepticat
Very nice. Those are called mammatus clouds and if I'm not mistaken are quite rare.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud

RickiTarr, to random
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If people would just send me pictures of their homemade bread, I would both appreciate it, and be full of bread lust.

MennoWolff,
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@RickiTarr
What the heck,
Here's my sourdough fruit nut bread

MennoWolff,
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@RickiTarr
Super easy, if you know how to make bread (duh)
I've struggled with the consistency, but this last one rose quite well and has a good taste. I usually do 50/50 wholegrain flour and white.
I add seeds mix to my dough and usually some mixed nuts (unsalted) and whatever dried fruits I can get my hands on, such as apricot or just raisins.

MennoWolff,
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@NeadReport @RickiTarr
Lol!
Thanks. Corrected 😊
Indeed, it can be quite dense sometimes.

dgar, (edited ) to random
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Care to share Cher on a chair?

MennoWolff,
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@dgar
Can you Photoshop it so she's drinking sherry 🍸 and holding a cherry 🍒?

dgar, to random
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Got my first invoice from the Origami Society and don’t know what to make of it.

MennoWolff,
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@dgar
Just don't pay. They'll fold eventually.

mina, to random German
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Oh mein Gott!

Ich bin so aufgeregt.

Gerade hat mir ein Mitglied einer Königsfamilie eine Folgeanfrage geschickt!

MennoWolff,
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@mina
This one?
@KoninginMaxima

dgar, to random
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I can’t get the slack out of this rope, even with instruction.

I guess some things just can’t be taut.

MennoWolff,
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@dgar
Knot even funny by a long stretch.

RickiTarr, to random
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Chocolate Mousse is really just Chocolate Mayonnaise.

MennoWolff,
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@RickiTarr
Look, in order for it to be called chocolate mousse it has to be made in, and with ingredients from, a specific region in France.
Otherwise it's just sparkling chocolate mayonnaise.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Jesse Rodriguez:

has to be in the courtroom every day for the duration of his criminal trial.

"If you do not show up there will be an arrest," Judge Merchan said.

MennoWolff,
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@GottaLaff
Whatever happened to no cruel and unusual punishment?
The man isn't even convicted and he is ordered to sit through hours and hours of people babbling about legal this and financial that.
Doesn't the judge know that TFG has the attention span of a mosquito?
(Sorry mosquitos, that was mean)
I guess he does know and is doing it to torment him and we're all for it 😊

The Grinch Smirk GIF

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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ACAB includes Streethawk

https://youtu.be/6c_-KvMTOOc

MennoWolff,
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@TheBreadmonkey @DJDarren @That_Damn_Frank
Well, my car basically has stealth mode.
It's an EV, so by default it makes a soft electric humming noise when you drive slowly, so bikers and pedestrians hear you coming.
But there's a button to turn that off.
Very useful in the summer, when lots of tourists are in my town. When they walk in the middle of the road, it's so rewarding to sneak up on them and then HONK! 😉

mathling, to martialartsmemes
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MennoWolff,
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@JakeHarrison @mathling
Elephants
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld_(world)

dgar, to random
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Got a text from the boss last week saying they’re closed for good Friday.

I guess I’m looking for a new job.

MennoWolff,
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@dgar
Only to be magically resurrected a few days later....

dgar, to random
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I downloaded an add-free calculator app.

It’s okay, but I can only subtract, multiply, and divide.

MennoWolff,
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@dgar
Damn! I would like to just do that. Make an app and grey out the plus symbol. Advertise as the ad free calculator and just see how it goes.
Maybe add a pop-up for when people tap the plus sign: Adding is a subscription feature. It's just 1€ for 100 additions. 😁

dgar, to random
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I’m addicted to brake fluid,
but I can stop whenever I want.

MennoWolff,
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@dgar
I'm addicted to my ruler.
I sometimes do up to 10 lines in one go.

Rasta, to books
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"Mommy, what's a contradiction?

MennoWolff,
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@Rasta
You spelled hypocrisy wrong.

stfn, to RaspberryPi
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I made a new blog post, and in it I show how I build a device to monitor the voltage of a 12V battery and share it over the Internet. Something that might be useful for remote astrophotography rigs or when building off-grid power installations. I'm using a Raspberry Pi Pico and some basic circuitry to make it all work. Take a look!

https://stfn.pl/blog/22-pico-battery-level/

A Pi Pico, two electronic boards and a lot of cables in a small white box. From the box goes a bunch of cables ending with an XT60 plug. This is the finished device that measures the voltage of a 12v battery.

MennoWolff,
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@stfn
That's great 'n all, but who is going to monitor the voltage on the battery that powers your raspberry? 😜
But seriously, great work. If I had the time, I'd botch together a solar powered, remote programmable watering system, because I'm too cheap to buy one in the store. 😃
A monitor like this would be really great.

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