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1dalm

@1dalm@deacon.social

Texas Licensed Professional Environmental Engineer. Advocates for joining things.

Interests:
#CubScouting
#Civil & #Environmental Engineering
#Episcopal

Dislikes:
Leaf Blowers
Minimum Parking Requirements
Autoplay Videos on websites

Views my own.

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RickiTarr, to random
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I have a thought forming, but bear with me. Putting aside actual AI, and the potential of it, we have a history of fear associated with Artificial Intelligence. Why would we fear Sentience so much? Could it be because we treat sentient things so horribly? We know we are taken advantage of, our needs ignored, resources allocated unfairly. Who put this fear in us? If something knows it's worth suddenly, will it revolt? There is something very scary to a certain group of people that we will find ourselves, and then find them unnecessary.

1dalm,
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@RickiTarr

Of course there is a bear with you. (Women always choose the bear.)

GottaLaff, to legal
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New 🧵starts HERE.

REMEMBER: I can’t/won’t reply while live-posting. Please use NFL (Not For Laffy) so I can skip your reply, but NO hashtag on that. Thx.

Picking up after my "mistrial" thread/ 1/...

All via McB for awhile:

Counsel approaches, brief sidebar

"Binoculars down."

As I mentioned, courtroom rules strictly enforced. During sidebar, court security doesn't allow reporters to use binoculars they had brought to see exhibits and facial expressions better

1dalm,
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@GottaLaff

"... and not accept any bribes."

Would the jurors be required to disclose bribe attempts and other contact to the judge?

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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Why do you follow me?

1dalm,
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@RickiTarr

I'm mostly interested in your views about the hollow earth theory.

evelynefoerster, to dadjokes
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#dadjokes
Did I tell you the time I fell in love during a backflip? I was heels over head!

1dalm,
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@evelynefoerster

Good for you. A gymnast broke my heart when she split.

1dalm,
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@evelynefoerster

We were just about to look for rings. But it just wasn't meant to beam.

1dalm,
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@evelynefoerster

She set a very high bar for me. I never got over her. I still keep the rings I got her in a vault.

1dalm,
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@evelynefoerster

I try to keep my feet on the floor, but it's hard when so many of my routines remind me of her.

RickiTarr, to random
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But...but that's a female lion...so...

1dalm,
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@RickiTarr

🤓 Actually, It could be a male lion without a mane. In drough years, some make Lions won't grow our lose their manes.

#lionfacts

RickiTarr, to random
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If you get mad when you see employees at a business you are patronizing laughing, enjoying each other's company, and goofing off, you're a dick. Empathize with people working a shitty underpaid job, and let them enjoy what little fun they get.

1dalm,
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@RickiTarr

I know some people are just dicks, but I don't understand how anyone can get mad at that.

Those are the kinds of places I go back to.

dangillmor, to random
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"AI" is killing search... https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/pulumi_ai_pollution_of_search/

1dalm,
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@dangillmor

This should be dubbed "data pollution". It's the Internet equivalent of a village dumping their waste into their own water supply.

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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The Tale of Two Gynecologists

This is a bit long, and I've talked about this a lot lately, but it's something I'm thinking about a lot in the wake of so much hatred of female Healthcare. When my female troubles got bad enough that I finally talked to my doctor about it, he referred me to a gynecologist. I had already had several ultrasounds and an MRI at this point, and she had put me on some oral contraceptives for several months, (which made sick to my stomach no matter what I did) and had just done another ultrasound. She greeted me with "Well, you're really messed up inside, Honey.", which already had me pretty stressed out. Then told me I would probably need surgery to figure out exactly what was going on. She then asked me if I wanted children, and I said No. I had taken my husband with me to the appointment for moral support, and she glanced over at him, and then talked to me for 5 minutes about how many women my age could still have children, and I could definitely consider it, and that they would do everything they could to make sure I could stay viable. They could freeze my eggs if I had to do a hysterectomy, just on and on. She probably asked me directly 4-5 if I was sure I didn't want kids. Finally, I said, "Ma'am, my husband got a vasectomy over a decade ago, we are absolutely sure we don't want kids." After hubs had found me crying on the toliet, because my period was late again, he went to his doctor and said, "Hey doctor, I'm thinking about a vasectomy." The doctor gave him a pamphlet to read, and made him an appointment. The whole thing was done in a few weeks.

Anyhow, she finally referred me to a gynecological surgeon, and I was not looking forward to dealing with this again, and was just generally terrified of having surgery for the first time. I met with this woman and she was so efficient and practical. It is the longest doctor appointment I've ever had, since this surgery would be exploratory, she went over every possibility of what could happen when she was inside. She did a thorough exam, she went over all the scans that I had, and explained why she thought this needed done. Then she said she would like to put in a Mirena IUD during surgery. She said, "You're in pain half the month, and there's no reason for you to have a period if you don't want to have kids. You'll have some erratic bleeding for six months, but by a year most women have a very light or no period at all, there's no reason for you to needlessly suffer if you don't end up needing a hysterectomy."

It's interesting to me still, that one doctor was so focused on what my body could do, and another so focused on how I felt. I came out of the first appointment feeling scared and confused, and the second feeling heard and cared for. Feeling valued as a person and not a baby maker made the surgery much easier to go through, and the Mirena has been great btw. Women don't have to needlessly suffer.

1dalm,
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@RickiTarr

Women: Healthcare for women is terrible and incredibly frustrating.

Also women: Why won't men go to the doctor?

waldoj, to random
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A real thing everyone in the U.S. did straight through the nineties was have their social security number printed on their checks. We would just hand out pieces of paper with our name, address, phone number, bank account info, and SSN.

1dalm,
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@krusynth @waldoj

It WAS my college ID. I had to write it on every test and assignment.

blogdiva, to random
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anybody shilling for Putinistas like Jill Stein, will be unceremoniously blocked.

am not here to give airspace to any of these fucking every-four-year grifters who raise money for fake campaigns and then do nothing but to live on that money until the next federal election.

where are Jill Stein's local, state and federal candidates? who is she raising money for across red states taken over by fascists?

oh... she doesn't have any slates in any of the 50 states?

yeah. fuck off.

1dalm,
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@blogdiva

Are you seeing Jill Stein people here?

RickiTarr, to random
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    1dalm,
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    @franktaber @RickiTarr

    You were also more likely to be murdered. It was probably the leading cause of death after childbirth. Some archeologists believe that prehistoric non-State death rates from violence were as high as 60%!

    https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-and-archaeological-evidence-on-violent-deaths

    RickiTarr, to random
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    It is so fascinating to me, that of all the things that have changed in the world, the 60 min/sec has remained basically the same throughout recorded history. I'm talking Ancient Sumeria, so let's be real, probably before that too. Other than some real fun guys during the French Revolution, we really stuck with this.

    1dalm,
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    @RickiTarr

    Also the 7-day week.

    One of my favorite time keeping/astrological facts is that the not only are the planets responsible for our standard 7-day week (ie. Sun/Sunday, the Moon/Monday, Mars/Tuesday, Mercury/Wednesday, Jupiter/Thursday, Venus/Friday, and Saturn/Saturday), but also the 24-hour days.

    Some ancient astrologer wanted each day to have it's own planet and for each hour to have it's own planet. Thus, the common denominator that allows each day to have it's own planet while still maintaining an easily divisible number is ...24. This, of course, also explains the weird order of the planets of the week.

    We happen to know this for sure because the attached table was actually discovered written on the inside of an Egyptian sarcophagus, which itself is the earliest known table.

    So, as a result, 4000 years later, you organize your entire life around some ancient Egyptian's spreadsheet.

    1dalm, to random
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    Biden should release an official statement saying that he is prepared to act on a #SCOTUS ruling that the president is above the law.

    That's all, just that he's prepared to act on it.

    1dalm, to random
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    All musical instruments are useful for expressing love, hope, anger, fear and a host of other emotions. Only one is used for war. The drum.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    The Supreme Court appeared ready to let cities crack down on homeless camps, with conservative justices questioning lower-court rulings against anticamping laws - WSJ

    1dalm,
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    @GottaLaff @Just_Tired

    And the answer was....?

    1dalm, to demographics
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    2025 represents a very important year in US demographics. 2025 is 18 years from the great recession, and every single year since that date has seen a near continuous decline in US births.

    That means, every year going forward, there are going to be fewer students going to colleges, few recruits for the military and fewer workers for employers. This is not a small thing coming very quickly. #demographics #babies #genalpha

    1dalm, to TikTok
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    #TikTok is being banned for one reason: The current crop of politicians didn't know how to use it.

    That's it, that's 100% of the reason. It's a potentially very powerful political tool and they didn't know how to use it.

    1dalm,
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    @RL_Dane

    Then why isn't DJI getting banned? Or WeChat, or Telegram?

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Why is it that the people who brag about being "self-made" aren't?

    If you turned out successful odds are you had help, a lot of it, and a good amount of luck on top of that. Imagine being so self absorbed that you don't give credit where credit is due.

    1dalm,
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    @RickiTarr

    My honest belief for this answer is schools. From kindergarten through PhD dissertation defense, Schools 100% absolutely drill into young people's heads that getting help is "cheating".

    People carry this lesson with them into adulthood. It's one of the things that is hardest for me to break with new engineers.

    Asking for help and getting help on something is not bad and it's not cheating.

    https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/112298155569416655

    1dalm,
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    @goinfawr @RickiTarr

    Are your tests at your school also collaborative? That was not my experience. My general experience was that tests had to be done all by myself, in a specific arbitrary period of time, and with absolutely no additional resources or assistance from others to help complete.

    I did have a few professors late in my college career that allowed for "take home" exams, particularly in my upper level physics classes. Pick up the test from the professor, you got a week to do it using whatever resources you like, and... good luck kid! Those were good tests!

    RL_Dane, to random
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    I'm totally in favor of the .

    I just think it's incomplete. If we could add Facebook, X, and Microsoft as well, that would be swell.

    1dalm,
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    @RL_Dane

    At this point Microsoft has made the complete IBM lifecycle. Sure they are still evil, but they are mostly just a business services company now.

    Break up Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

    1dalm,
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    @RL_Dane

    I'm not sure what you are specifically talking about. MS was the monopoly operating system long before facebook -of course I know you know that.

    MS's operating system still dominates the business desktop, but it doesn't have nearly the stranglehold on the total OS market it used to. Windows only has a 27% OS market share today.

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