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kilroy_was_here

@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town

Semi-human mutant.

Ham radio operator because I'm trying to contact my home. Sewist because I'm trying to make my experience around these alien freaks more comfortable. Writer because an account of what these strange beings are like may be useful to my people.

18+ only. Kids, I hate you.

Not here to debate.

1/3 caffeine, 1/3 asshole, 1/3 pastrami

The Keith Moon of ham radio

Janitor, pennycandy store beyond the El.

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freemo, to random
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Offered a few more elements in my bio. Thoughts, feeback, debate?

My stance on various issues:

Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
QT: https://qoto.org/@freemo/111591160522846121

kilroy_was_here,
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@freemo

I disagree with you on some of these points but I'll say that the way you presented them is interesting.

kilroy_was_here,
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@freemo

I have a flipped view of welfare and UBI, I think there should be a UBI and that welfare programs should be eliminated and their funding directed towards a UBI. Primarily because the administrative bloat of many disparate programs could be greatly reduced with a single program.

I'm not hard-set on any particular conception of a UBI, however I do like the concept of a negative income tax.

kilroy_was_here,
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@freemo

See, I think a UBI would help more people. Look at what happened during Covid where there was kind of a semi-UBI. Many people broke off and started their own businesses, started doing their own thing.

I want to see an explosion of local business rather than having all our eggs in one big corporate basket. We'd see some actual capitalism happening! Making it so people can try new ideas without going destitute would support this goal and we'd all be on a more solid economic footing.

freemo, to random
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Tater tots are the particle board of potatoes.

kilroy_was_here,
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@freemo

Dude, you missed a golden opportunity to say they're the packing peanuts of potatoes.

freemo, to chess
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My new board is here!

kilroy_was_here,
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@freemo

Is this the one with the magnets that'll move the pieces automatically?

kilroy_was_here, to random
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I have 429 ebooks in Calibre that need organised. I'd really like to NOT have to do it completely by hand. Are there any scripts or programs out there that can take some or all of the work out of the equation?

freemo, to random
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finally finished uploading my 750 or so ebooks to my e-paper tablet.. The hard part was going through and categorizing all of them. Cool to see though after a full day of constant use it is only at half battery. That includes with the backlight and wifi on.

kilroy_was_here,
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@freemo @bonifartius

I've been looking at Onyx Boox for when this Kindle finally gives out, thanks for the endorsement.

And no, I didn't buy the Kindle, somebody I know dropped theirs and messed up the finish and got a free replacement from Amazon. Amazon had them keep the old one and they gave me the old one. Still works fine many years later. I just use it with USB and Calibre, no wifi.

I've really gotta organise my ebooks in Calibre. With 429 of em might be a while though, lol.

kilroy_was_here,
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@freemo @bonifartius

I was looking at them for the ability to draw on the ebook too. Just a basic highlight function isn't enough in many cases, especially when it comes to reference material. Or sometimes I want to call something out temporarily with a circle or an arrow, that kind of thing.

kilroy_was_here,
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@freemo @bonifartius

It is, when I was originally looking into them I found this video. He writes on the document around the 3 min mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5HE01amvdc

freemo, to random
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Just a reminder, your average factory worker today can buy a pound of butter with only 20 minutes of labor, compared to only 100 years ago and that same amount of food would have taken 3 hours of labor to earn.
QT: https://qoto.org/@freemo/111550673521680041

kilroy_was_here,
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@VoxDei @freemo

The average price for a pound of butter in 1975 was $1.025.

The average gross hourly wage for a factory worker in 1975 was $4.81.

4.81/1.025=4.692 lb/hr

60/4.692=12.78 minutes to buy one pound of butter.

Sources:

Avg Wage (see chart 606): https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021301612&seq=406

Avg Prices:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008856711&seq=527

kilroy_was_here,
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@freemo @VoxDei

You underestimate how much I love butter. lol

kilroy_was_here,
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@freemo @VoxDei

Not to mention there have been huge advances in industrial safety over the past 50 years. Hell, even in the past 5 years.

Teaching is basically the same as it was in 1975 - get up and yell at those damn rugrats about their grades.

freemo, to random
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Well I decided to buy a 1TB sd card i found on amazon for 20$... taking bets on if it is a scam device or not...

kilroy_was_here,
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@freemo

Probably is, I've been looking at 1 TB microsd cards for my phone and they go for at least 5 times that.

kilroy_was_here, to random
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In a world of boring apartment blocks, be a Thirsty Beaver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirsty_Beaver

kilroy_was_here, to random
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They say that C is for cookie and that's good enough for me, but is it good enough for you? Take our quiz.

mrcompletely, to Beatles
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I will not be issuing any form of take at this or any later time. Thank you and let's all move on.

kilroy_was_here,
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@mrcompletely

I liked the new song personally. Sure, it doesn't have that youthful sound the Beatles became known for ...... but these guys aren't exactly young anymore either.

KeithDevlin, to cycling
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Weight-weenie insanity. Maybe if I were that close to being a national champion ... But these days, my body weight is the bigger factor to work on, by far 🙄 https://www.bikeradar.com/features/pro-bike/jason-holder-trek-emonda/

kilroy_was_here,
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@KeithDevlin

Reminds me of these insane backpackers I'd see back in my camping days. They'd try to get rid of every extra tenth of a gram they possibly could. Sawing toothbrushes in half, not using one to begin with, making their first aid kits and other safety equipment deficient. Just absolute craziness.

Meanwhile I always used old, heavy army surplus stuff because it was still cheap as hell back then. I had more fun than the insane backpackers.

TonyStark, to random
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Liberating the metal from the statue of a insurrectionist and racist for better purposes seems like a great idea to me. The Washington Post has some excellent photographs of this moment.

This article is a gift. It poses some great questions about how the past and the future are tied together. Probably a good read for people who seem to forget the “Unite the Right” rally.

Charlottesville’s Lee statue meets its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace-
https://wapo.st/3FEaVd3

kilroy_was_here,
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@TonyStark

I'm glad they kept the name of the metal shop secret. My concern was the shop it got chopped up in being turned into a pseudo-holy site or a magnet for conflict.

I was thinking they should've chopped it up, transferred the pieces to a secret ship, and dumped them in the ocean.

Alice, to random
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I still get carded whenever I go to magic shows.

kilroy_was_here,
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@Alice

I still get carded when I renew my driver's licence.

MsHearthWitch, to random
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It's always interesting to me when I see people talking about how much less engagement they get here vs their history on other places.

And then I look at their account and they hardly follow anyone, and rarely reply except to people who are responding to their posts.

Like, I don't wanna tell anyone how they should do social media... but my own observation is that this place is less a broadcast forum and more of a conversation. And folks don't like one-sided conversations.

kilroy_was_here,
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@MsHearthWitch

People are just used to having everything fed to them by an algorithm. On here you have to look for stuff.

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    kilroy_was_here,
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    @noellemitchell

    I can't wait for this era of the internet to be over. Decentralisation and creativity baby!

    freemo, to random
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    Note to hollywood producers... I know you probably dont know too much about guns.. but who told you guys guns go ::chrunch:: everytime someone pics one up to aim at a person.... thats not how guns work!

    kilroy_was_here,
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    @freemo

    The only time your weapon should go chrunch is when you're getting sand out of it. lol

    jasonetheridge, to random
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    This picture, courtesy of our national broadcaster, somehow captures the essence of being Australian. Voting is mandatory for all adults, is always on a Saturday, and can be done on the way to the beach.

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    @freemo @jasonetheridge

    Turns out different things work in diifferent countries, who could have guessed?

    Agree that while it may work well in other countries, it wouldn't reap the same benefits here in the States. Our system just runs different lol.

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    @freemo @jasonetheridge

    My thought exactly.

    freemo, to random
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    I refuse to call "Arkansas" as are-can-saw ... how the hell do you get "saw" out of "sas"... no it is ark-can-sass ... I will die on this hill.

    kilroy_was_here,
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    @freemo

    From Wikipedia:

    "The early Spanish or French explorers of the state gave it its name, which is probably a phonetic spelling of the Illinois tribe's name for the Quapaw people, who lived downriver from them."

    So, blame it on the French. Or the Spaniards. Or both!

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