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Bodling

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Retired librarian. Retired Lutheran pastor. Semi-retired Lutheran. Appalachian Trail hiker. Concordia graduate.

Probably the least important person on Mastodon at the moment.

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TonyStark, to random
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I already got one comment claiming solar power won’t work because “night” and another that made up nonsense about batteries.

Batteries are part of solidifying the renewable energy grid.

To those that say batteries aren’t clean or are costly, that might be partially true now, but they get cleaner and cheaper every year. Current deployments while maybe suboptimal are simply a step on the path. 1/2

Batteries are taking on gas plants to power California’s nights:
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/batteries-are-taking-on-gas-plants-to-power-californias-nights

Bodling,
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@TonyStark What if you told them "You know how most radios have that AM/FM switch? Well, solar panel systems work kinda like that, running off the sun during the day, and off the moon - which IS reflected sunlight, remember - at night."

We'd have to work out some explanation for how they still work just fine during the new moon, but if they took our part A, they'd probably take any part B.

evan, (edited ) to random
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How important is equality?

#EvanPoll #poll

Bodling,
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@evan Equally important

(which, yes, makes no sense; but it'd be anyway of smoking out the middle-of-the-road era who can't take a stand)

Bodling, to random
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In very broad terms, am I right that Ms Daniels's veracity and reliability as a witness isn't that huge a deal because the trial isn't about whether or not they had sex? The trial is about whether the defendant interfered with an election by falsifying business records.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Which major change would a time traveler from 1974 notice most about cities today?

Bodling,
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@evan In a city like Hanoi, the surprise would be the shops and factories with American dollars behind them.

In Lagos there'd now be way, way more people and way more pollution. Same in Mexico City.

In Durban or Johannesburg you'd notice that apartheid had vanished, and that - whoa! - Blacks are in charge.

In Gaza, you'd notice the recently destroyed buildings.

In Kharkiv you'd also notice recently bombed buildings.

So, certainly, it does depend on where the time traveler would look.

Bodling, to animals
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news story from Ukraine by way of Canadian Public Broadcasting

https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/for-60-days-this-cat-survived-on-the-7th-floor-of-a-destroyed-building-in-ukraine-1.7154964

tiffanycli, to random
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It happened to me: a student referred to an event that happened “in the late 1900s”

Bodling,
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@tiffanycli A while back my grandson told his parents they were old "because you were born back in the 19s".

CultureDesk, (edited ) to books
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"The pile beside my bed never shrinks; at the bottom of the stack are books I've been planning to crack open for months. My shelves remain full of lingering aspirations," writes the Walrus's Michelle Cyca. She looks at the problem of unread books, and the difficulty in offloading our libraries. What do you do with your unwanted books?

https://flip.it/aLVxC5

@bookstodon

Bodling,
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@CultureDesk @bookstodon I've left several in Little Free Libraries.

Bodling, to random
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Check the door bolts!

https://apnews.com/article/boeing-space-capsule-starliner-astronauts-nasa-4742d2759c51d63c0d2ec9cbf93fce25

mdmrn, to Pixelfed
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So, I have talked about how I've been doing a side-by-side comparison of stats for Instagram and Pixelfed by posting the same photos on both accounts.

Well, my pics tend to fall into certain well defined categories. So, I have been sorting the photos into the following and comparing average number of likes: Cats, Food, Flowers, Manga, and Selfies.

Based on these broad categories, I noticed a few hings. More info in the following toots.

Bodling,
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@mdmrn Going to start posting selfies that my cat takes.

I'll be spending her share of our income on cat toys.

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, a little mystery also for today. After the Toxic Club, my
brother and I got a strawberry limeade at a little drive inn, and drove around this Conservation Area, but then we start seeing this fence with these signs, it's like 8 foot tall with lots of the fence totally blacked out, and these signs placed on them that say:

Saline Valley Ranch, No Hunting, No Trespassing

This fence went for miles, and miles had to be incredibly pricey to put in, it reminded me of the fence they'd have at a minimum security prison, but we didn't see cows, horses, crops, nothing but woods and hills and miles and miles of giant fence.

We try to find information about what it is, but there's basically nothing. My husband looks it up on Google Earth, and finds Little Saline Ranch, and I look it up, and it says permanently closed, and even less information is available about that. Google Earth shows lots of wooded land, a lake, and a few open fields, but we couldn't see any buildings or animals, nothing like that.

So, looking up that I find this article about mysterious happenings in the area:

https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2018/10/31/hunting-ghosts-miller-county-other/9408986007

It mentions several people seeing a Bigfoot type cryptid in the area, so obviously the fence is to keep it in. My other guesses involve a government blacksite, as it isn't too far from and airforce base, or a doomsday cult, what do you all think?

Bodling,
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@RickiTarr M. Night Shyamalan did a documentary about that place back in 2004. I think it was called "The Village" or something like that.

andrew, to random
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I don’t know anything about anything but can we all agree that school buses need to have the back wheels moved back further? Just for aesthetics?

At speed the front bounces on the fulcrum of the back axle like a seesaw. I just find it very visually displeasing. Please resolve.

Bodling,
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@andrew What say we move the front wheels back somewhat and achieve a more balanced look that way?

ai6yr, to random

Hmm, would taking the garden hose (with a "lifetime warranty") I bought in 2011 because it has cactus spine holes in it back be abusing the system? 🤔

Bodling,
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@ai6yr "Oh, gee, sorry but in this case the hose's lifetime was only 10 years, so you've already exceeded it. But congrats on being able to use it past its lifetime."

Bodling, to Christianity
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"Now the great obstacle to mutual understanding between Christianity and Buddhism lies in the Western tendency to focus not on the Buddhist experience, which is essential, but on the explanation, which is accidental and which indeed Zen often regards as completely trivial and even misleading.

“Buddhist meditation, but above all that of Zen, seeks not to explain but to pay attention, to become aware, to be mindful, in other words to develop a certain kind of consciousness that is above and beyond deception by verbal formulas–or by emotional excitement.”

Merton, Thomas. “A Christian Looks at Zen.” (1967) in Selected Essays. Edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2013, p. 346.

Bodling, to random
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"Two railway workers in California were fired by Caltrain after the company realized they had quietly converted unused offices into secret apartments to avoid the area's brutal commutes."

Thing that gets me is that they were working for a local mass transit company. One that carries commuters. And they still thought it brutal.

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/10/railway-workers-built-secret-apartments-in-train-stations.html

Bodling, to Weather
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Those of you planning on heading to New Hampshire or Maine for the might want to work on your alternate plans.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/weather/power-outages-northeast-snow-storm-maine-new-hampshire/index.html

jerzone, to animals
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Trail run with a friend and her pup this morning. 40°F and more snow on the ground than expected, even more on the way over the next 24+ hours.

Bodling,
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@TimKStanton @jerzone First time I hiked that side of the mountain I did it northbound. Nearly killed myself coming down those wet rocks.

Second time I got a ride from the hostel and hiked it southbound. Going up that piece of trail was way easier than coming down. Worth considering, if you have a choice in the matter. (Of course it means 2 nights at the hostel....)

Bodling,
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@freeder23 @TimKStanton @jerzone All that said, there were plenty of people (mostly young whippersnappers) day hiking the north side of Moosilauke up from the parking lot and back down again on the same day without hurting themselves.

funnymonkey, to random
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The guy whose cars catch on fire and explode is paid billions of public dollars to shoot things into space that also catch on fire and explode.

Bodling,
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@funnymonkey Catching on fire and exploding is his niche. He also made a social media platform do that.

Bodling, to random
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"Then, while doing field work in Peru, the team got lucky: They saw numerous cicadas in a tree, peeing."

Important research being done at !

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240311173028.htm

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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This is probably my worst poll, but I'm curious, for science:

I have/had:

Bodling,
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@RickiTarr Was just thinking about this a couple days ago. Physically, it was fine. We were well fed, well clothed, firm roof over our heads, educated, taken on vacations, vaccinated, got regular dental and medical check ups. All that kind of stuff.

Not beaten, not locked in the basement, no alcoholism, no drug addiction. None of that kind of stuff.

But emotionally, or psychologically? I'm still working thru some of that, I guess. Late in life. For the rest of my life.

evan, (edited ) to random
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How often do you wear shoes without socks?

Bodling,
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@evan Do sandals count as shoes?

RickiTarr, to random
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Something I've noticed a lot lately, is that especially Boomer women, but honestly, women in general, don't seem to ask for what they want or need in a direct way. I notice this a lot with my Mom and her friends. Instead of just asking for what they need directly they tell a story, to ask in a roundabout way. For instance, my Mom needed help this morning, and Instead of just saying, "Hey, I dropped my remote, can you pick it up for me?" She tells a one minute story about what happened, no ask, and eventually I get the point, and then suggest that I come pick it up. Or if one of her friends wants to do something like have a birthday party for a friend, they don't say "We should have a party!" They say, It's Sarah's Birthday coming up, you know she likes surprises, what does everyone think we should do?"

I often wonder if this is why older people think younger women are rude and demanding, because younger people often just ask for what they want and need in a more direct way. But also it's probably just straight up sexism, because men are supposed to make decisions, and women are supposed to make suggestions.

What do you all think? Is this just me? Have you experienced something similar?

Bodling,
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@RickiTarr My own mother was even less direct than that. Somehow we were supposed to know and anticipate what she wanted. At least hearing a story you can divine a clue.

That, or I was really obtuse.

andrew, to law
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I am speechless. I am without speech.

"CAP includes all official, book-published state and federal United States case law — every volume or case designated as an official report of decisions by a court within the United States.

Our scope includes all state courts, federal courts, and territorial courts for American Samoa, Dakota Territory, Guam, Native American Courts, Navajo Nation, and the Northern Mariana Islands.”

@law

https://case.law

Bodling,
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@andrew @law "Our goal is to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law School Library." From 1658 through 2020, with new volumes rolling out art beginning of each year.

I'm amazed, too. Not a lawyer, but a librarian, and can affirm that this was a huge, huge labor to make all that available

Bodling, to Stoicism
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"To allow governments to pour more and more billions into weapons that almost immediately become obsolete, thereby necessitating more billions for newer and bigger weapons, is one of the most colossal injustices in the long history of man. While we are doing this, two-thirds of the world is starving, or living in conditions of subhuman destitution.”

Merton, Thomas. “Peace: a Religious Responsibility.” (1962) in Selected Essays. Edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2013, p. 139.

hawksquill, to bookstodon
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My 2024 reading thread is below!

Book 1: On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

5 stars

Stunning art, lovely found family, and a fun sci fi setting, all while managing to strike the perfect balance between cozy and yearning.

@bookstodon

Bodling,
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@hawksquill @bookstodon The depiction of University faculty internal politics is spot on.

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