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jhavok

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I don't know anything, but I can look it up.

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RickiTarr, to random
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This was a fun one, so let's do it again. What is something you've learned that seems unlikely, even though you know it's true? Here's one I think about a lot:

Sight, while being something something many people are born with, is not an innate ability, but something we learn to do. People who were born blind or were blind for a long time, who get sight, have to learn to see.

jhavok,
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@RickiTarr I had a friend who had to learn how to smell. She was hit by a car and got a head injury, losing her sense of smell and taste. After a couple of years, she began experiencing them in musical terms (she was a pianist) e.g. Chocolate was bluesy. After another couple of years of this synesthesia, she didn't even notice it, she just tasted and smelled as before.

RickiTarr, to random
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It's so weird that we are all supposed to be ashamed for burping and farting. I deeply apologize to everyone for keeping my body from literally exploding, so uncouth.

jhavok,
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@RickiTarr I've gone the other way. Farts are celebrated with a triumphant cry (mine or anyone else's), burps are extended as long as possible though I never think to say something with them until it's too late .

randahl, to random
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Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani: Indicted.

Trump's lawyer John Eastman: Indicted.

Trump's CFO Allen Weisselberg: Jailed.

Trump's adviser Peter Navarro: Jailed.

Trump's adviser Steve Bannon: Going to jail.

Trump's fixer Michael Cohen: Already went to jail.

— If you still think Trump is innocent, you are in for a surprise.

jhavok,
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@randahl Making MAGA come true: Make Attorneys Get Attorneys

gfarrell, to random
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jhavok,
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@gfarrell You left out one word: Republican. Everything a Democrat President does is illegal, right down to choosing his mustard.

RickiTarr, to random
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It's strange to me when I see people get upset about people doing good deeds, and posting it online.

"They're just doing it for attention!"

Yeah, so what? I'd much rather see people doing nice things for attention, than the people who do mean pranks or wasting food. A good deed is still good, even if it's done for the wrong reasons.

jhavok,
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@RickiTarr Those are people who feel guilty for being shitty, and blame the people who are being good for how shitty they feel.

renegadejade, to random
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Caught between “haha, get fucked fascists” and the reminder that simply using a restroom risks violence.

jhavok,
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@renegadejade This is the saving grace of fascists. They are so hungry for death they will kill each other.

RickiTarr, to random
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My brother and I were driving through this small decaying town called Barnett, Mo, and we passed this old mill that looked very old, and grown over. It was covered with cool old signage, and looked really interesting, but there were 5 older people sitting in front of it by a table, and a hand painted sign that says Toxic Club. So, we drive back around, because we had to know, so we pull in, and ask "What is the Toxic Club?", and they say they are just out there most days with coffee and donuts to make sure that people get something to eat, and drink and have someone to chat with. That doesn't sound toxic at all, it sounds lovely.

jhavok,
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@Pineywoozle @RickiTarr My wife and I did a drive from DC to Niagara Falls and back using an early GPS. We set it so it just pointed at Niagara and then took whatever road was closest to the arrow when we had a choice. We stumbled on the remnants of her mother's home town purely by accident, nothing but a post office, a general store and a huge equipment shed for the mine.

jhavok,
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@RickiTarr A month or so ago my wife and I skirted the western border of our state, staying as close as possible without crossing it for a few hours until we had to pee and headed back to civilization. Caught some cute little unpaved roads along the way.

Saltssaltgirl, (edited ) to EyeHealth
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If your significant other has worn the same pair of glasses for a year. How long would it take you to notice a new pair?

jhavok,
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@Saltssaltgirl I'm lucky, my wife will usually talk about getting a haircut for a few days before she gets one, so it doesnt sneak up on me.

jhavok,
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@Saltssaltgirl I would notice them instantly. No, you can't ask her.

I went all winter without shaving and developed quite a beard. Early in spring I shaved it off. Several days later she asked "did you do something with your hair???"

ben, to climate
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This hadn't really been on my radar: "Just one type of next generation geothermal — called superhot rock energy, where deep drilling reaches temperatures 400 degrees Celsius (752 degrees Fahrenheit) or hotter — is abundant enough to theoretically fulfill the world’s power requirements." https://grist.org/energy/the-us-aims-to-crack-the-code-on-scaling-up-geothermal-energy-production/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

jhavok,
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@ben Every single bit of technology to do this is available off the shelf. It wouldn't surprise me if existing boreholes for fracking could be used for this.

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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The problem isn’t just with Benjamin Netanyahu. It is with Zionist settler colonialism.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/no-senator-schumer-netanyahu-isnt-the-problem/


@palestine @israel

jhavok,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel Netanyahu is leveraging the existing ethnic nationalism to provide cover for his criminal behavior. Get rid of the criminal and the ethnic nationalism will still be there.

potus, to random

I am outraged and heartbroken by the deaths of seven humanitarian workers from World Central Kitchen, including one American, in Gaza yesterday.

Incidents like yesterday’s simply should not happen.

Here is my full statement.

jhavok,
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@potus Please divert the arms you are sending to Israel, the arms that they used for those murders, to Ukraine, where they can be used to protect civilization instead of destroy it. Empty words will not rein in Israel's aggression.

RickiTarr, to random
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Tell me a silly/funny childhood story!

I'll start:

One time in Sunday School, the teacher was talking about the difference between humans and animals, and mentioned that Animals had Tails and humans didn't. I let her know this was not true, because my Dad had a tail, just in the front, instead of the back. The teacher was silent for several seconds, and tried to correct me in a church appropriate way, but I doubled down, and insisted that my little brothers also had front tails too. This got so heated that the teacher had to go get my parents to take me out of Sunday School.

jhavok,
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@RickiTarr We lived in a small rural town, and my mother raised us with benign neglect. My best friend and I would romp around without restrictions until a cop would see us and take us home. We got very sharp at spotting the police before they saw us, and did some amazing things to avoid them, like jumping down from the sidewalk into a yard that was set more than head-high below the grade.

jhavok,
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@RickiTarr When I was 4ish (pretty sure it was before kindergarten) I went for a walk one day. I came to a house that I recognized as belonging to my mother's friend. She burst out the door, hustled me inside, and called my mother to come fetch me. I had no idea what the fuss was about, as I knew exactly where I was and how to get back home, I just wasn't done walking yet.

Looked at the area in Google maps and I'm pretty sure I found the house. It's a bit over a mile from where we lived.

Homoevolutis1, to random
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Fucking DE Joy!
ABC News: UPS to become the primary air cargo provider for the United States Postal Service
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ups-become-primary-air-cargo-provider-united-states-108704184

jhavok,
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@Homoevolutis1 The good news of this story is that USPS intends to move away from air freight in general. They need to be encouraged to shift back to rail.

fkamiah17, to random
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"The document says several UNRWA Palestinian staffers had been detained by the Israeli Army, and added that the ill-treatment and abuse they said they had experienced included severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/unrwa-report-says-israel-coerced-some-agency-employees-to-falsely-admit-hamas-links/

jhavok,
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@hannu_ikonen @fkamiah17 Glad to see so many Jewish voices coming out against Zio ist violence at last. I was at an ADA conference a couple of decades ago where a resolution was proposed condemning violence from both sides, and it was killed by a large Jewish faction who would not allow any criticism of Israel.

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to environment
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Really important article here about how big oil companies, including ExxonMobil, knew plastic recycling was BS since the'70s, but kept pushing the lie anyway.

"New research by the Center for Climate Integrity reveals that the plastics industry knew this plastic waste crisis was coming. And so petrochemical manufacturers worked hard to persuade the public that we could recycle our way out of the problem."

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4513908-big-oils-big-deception-that-plastics-are-recyclable/

This is in addition to them knowing about the dangers of carbon emissions since the 1970s, and deliberately delaying action: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

(Worth noting the plastic used in the synthetic rubber in tyres is a major source of plastic pollution: https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112009009421402914)

"Twenty petrochemical companies generate more than half of all the world’s single-use plastics. They include major oil and gas companies such as ExxonMobil, the world’s leading producer of single-use plastic waste.

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"Behind the scenes, however, they were admitting all along that such efforts were “virtually hopeless.” For more than 40 years, they knew that plastic recycling is not technically or economically feasible at scale. More than 90 percent of all plastic has ended up in landfills, ecosystems, or incinerators.

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"Since the 1970s, these companies, their trade associations, and their front groups promoted recycling “solutions” using misleading advertising, inaccurate educational materials, performative investments, and commitments that they knew they were unlikely to meet.

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"Internal documents reveal that the industry knew by 1986, for example, that “recycling cannot be considered a permanent solid waste solution [to plastics], as it merely prolongs the time until an item is disposed of.” In 1994, an Exxon employee warned staffers at the American Plastics Council that they did not “want paper floating around” saying they could not meet recycling goals, since the issue was “highly sensitive politically.” These compelling admissions and many more are grounds for a thorough investigation.

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"Plastics are a product made from fossil fuels. As the world moves away from fossil fuels in a race to avert climate catastrophe, journalists have shined a light on how oil companies promote recycling, in part because plastics are their 'Plan B.'"

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4513908-big-oils-big-deception-that-plastics-are-recyclable/

These days, the CEO of ExxonMobil likes to gaslight the public and blame activists:

"Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."

https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112009009421402914

Well, these same companies knew about the problems with toxic fossil fuel pollution since the 1970s. That's both greenhouse gas and microplastic pollution.

And they deliberately and knowingly lied to delay action.

@green #environment #plastic #pollution #ClimateChange #waste #CarbonEmissions

jhavok,
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@ajsadauskas @green Class action suit, everyone in the world is a member of the class.

jhavok, to random
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@RickiTarr Baaaad movie: Starhunter Redux

jhavok, to random
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Crows in the snow

atomicpoet, to random

Never buy movies or TV shows on a Sony platform.

Or better yet, if you want to actually buy something, make sure it’s in a physical format so that Sony can’t take it away from you.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/02/08/sonys-crunchyroll-erasure-of-funimation-anime-libraries-is-inexcusable/

jhavok,
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@atomicpoet Seems there should be a class-action suit in there. Someone said they "sold" things when they didn't.

jhavok, to random
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@GottaLaff always has informative commentary. Her digests of live-xitting from the Trump trials has been both informative and entertaining. Her blog EmptyWheel.net covers legal issues in an extremely clear manner.

jhavok, to news
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Can anyone recommend a good feed on Mastadon? I was happy practicing g my Fench with the Le Monde feed but for some reason it's become scarce in my timeline. KC Star seems to work on the "if it bleeds it leads" model so I hardly click through but I like the idea of getting a Midwest perspective.

jhavok, to random
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Encountered a Magat at work today. He walked over to my station, and as soon as he saw my mask he started crapping. Came up and asked me why I was wearing mask, I said "If I get sick I don't want to spread it to other people." He said "Even incompetent senile Joe Biden doesn't wear a mask blah blah blah..." so I said "How can I help you?" "I don't want a lunatic helping me, you're insane I don't want your help" "Then get the fk out" I said.
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jhavok, to random
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We've been running two fans in the bedroom due to the heat, and as long as both of them are on, I hear phantom music that sounds like a barely audible radio outside the window. I can tell the genre of the music, but can't pick out a tune or words. I've heard country western, male choral, blues, Van Halen, '70s classic rock...the other night with the classic rock I could very faintly hear the solos, first time any melodic content was audible.

It's a pleasant way to fall asleep.

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