@SmudgeTheInsultCat Uh, talking to nobody is not an upside. I've about reached the point of putting a face on a volleyball and giving it a name. That's not good.
while i was goofing around with #globalTalk, I ended up searching for some old Simpsons icons for my classic Macintosh (an LC 475), and stumbled upon an entry on the garden called Banned Simpsons Icons. (Who could resist downloading something with a title like that?)
They were called the "Banned Simpsons Icons" because Fox once sent the artist - Jeanette Foshee - a cease & desist letter for her uncannily perfect renderings of the copyrighted characters. they planned on suing her for every penny she made ($0.00) on them. this was back in 1995.
i thought - hell, what a wild story. why don't I get a hold of the artist - jeanette - and find out more about her banned icon set?
what i stumbled upon broke my heart, and i ended up spending a week digitally preserving what i could find.
Context: This is data from my mom and dad's new cold climate heat pump. While the system has been calling for heat continuously during this time, it has only needed to kick on the backup resistive heating in the deepest of cold, and even then only for a couple of hours overnight.
For those of you who speak metric, -13°F is -25°C, and their desired setpoint is 21°C
@Teri_Kanefield The question is whether or not your kid was born at the first 1:30 or the second 1:30, assuming it was a "fall back" day on his original birthday.
The NASA Juno spacecraft will make its 55th flyby of Jupiter (Perijove 55) today around 7:00 a.m. EDT (11:00 UTC) Oct 15, 2023.
A few hours earlier, around 2:40 a.m. EDT (06:40 UTC), it will observe the Galilean moon Io from a distance of ~11,000 km, the closest it has been to Io so far.
@marcelias I'm having a hard time with this one. I lived in Chaves County (Roswell) growing up, and a lot of family is there. It's been rather conservative since the 70s and probably before, if only because of the air base that was a target during the early Cold War. The courts are saying the county is now gerrymandered but not illegally gerrymandered?? That's not much of a win for democracy. And, yes, the Congressional seat keeps flipping parties as a result.
Elon lied about the monkeys — and he shouldn't be trusted to put his Neuralink chips in human brains.
"They are claiming they are going to put a safe device on the market, and that's why you should invest," Ryan Merkley at the Physicians Committee, told Wired. "And we see his lie as a way to whitewash what happened in these exploratory studies."
Really heartbreaking reading what happened to the monkeys.
People quite rightly think of Elizabeth Holmes as a fraud for making false medical claims about what the Theranos machines could do. So why aren't Elon's claims at Neuralink being held to the same level of scrutiny?
@KanaMauna Yeah I don't get the urge to clean surfaces. It matters, yes, but masks are not a new thing and ought to be highly recommended to help everybody show up to school.