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DenOfEarth

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BirdSite expat, formerly at/o__________oo Proponent of #science, #climate, books, music, kindness, acceptance. Ally. Hello #WeirdCarMastodon and the gang.

Profile pic is of a small electric car. Banner pic is a field of yellow tall grasses on the shore of a very blue lake.

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sjvn, to random
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I love Elle Cordova and her clever, funny videos. This one is for all my writer and editor friends.

video/mp4

DenOfEarth,
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@sjvn
Mandatory:

capetaun, to random
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Me everytime I try to explain what is Mastodon

DenOfEarth,
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@capetaun
Click link to Mastodon: FULL CONTENT
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DenOfEarth, to random
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Helpful tips @MeanwhileinCanada

Un panneau avec un petit pingouin qui se lit ATTENTION GLISSANT MARCHEZ COMME UN PINGOUIN

futurebird, to random
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Just got a card from a student who has been having a rough year. She was having a great deal of trouble until I started showing her how to really USE a calculator. (It's algebra and geometry not arithmetic, and she knows the algorithms just makes SO MANY little mistakes)

Since then she's really taken off. I find very few people who could benefit from calculators know how to use them effectively, and there is a lot of snootiness and stigma in the way of this happening.

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DenOfEarth,
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@futurebird
I used to love math including algebra until we got to calculus, and specifically integrating functions. That we had reached a part of math that was essentially trial and error made no sense to me, and I hated it.

https://xkcd.com/2117/

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In other news, the value of existing keyboards without the co-pilot key has suddenly increased by 30%, and Kevin's vintage IBM with Cheetos crumbs between the keys will soon be going under the gravel at Sotheby's.
@pluralistic
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/ai-comes-for-your-pcs-keyboard-as-microsoft-adds-dedicated-copilot-key/

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Hello , thought you might like these automobile drawings from the 1950s by André Franquin, author of Spirou serial adventure comics (bande dessinée). Many are inspired by cars of the era, others are pure imagination. From a book I got for Christmas. Enjoy.

An open cockpit racecar being thrown into a corner. The front intake and hood vents suggest front engined layout, while the fenders extend aerodynamically in front of and behind each wheel but the top of the wheel is uncovered, due presumably to the large diameter tires (tyres for the commonwealth folks) being greater than the height of the entire chassis.
Quite a number of cars each in its own vignette. The bottom one looks very much like a Facel Vega
Yet more cars - the topmost appearing to be a Ford Thunderbird, with a very confident salesman nearby; below that possibly a Karmann Ghia; and below that still, two racecars lined up on offset pole positions

DenOfEarth, to cycling
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Hey, I found a cool classic repair shop and café on Sparks St in ! And they're licenced!!

DenOfEarth, to random
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Regarding the jump ships in Foundation
(Apple tv)

Has anyone else noticed that the jump engine rings look a lot like the alien machine in the 1997 movie Contact?

I hope the is satisfactory.
Ping @nyrath et le @TheSpaceshipper

A large machine built on earth based on alien plans sent to us via inter-galactic radio signal, about ten stories high, also consisting of nested rings in the manner of a gyroscope, into which is dropped Jodie Foster's character to be sent to meet said aliens

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Alas, the best crackers in the galaxy are no more
https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/01/stoned-wheat-thins-crackers-discontinued.html

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EELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor)

A versatile, snake-like robot designed for exploration of previously inaccessible terrain

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/robotics-at-jpl/eels

DenOfEarth,
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@isaackuo @nyrath
Reminds me of these things, which I think was probably Russian and did not catch on, like many soviet experimental vehicles, but is still cool.

This I imagine would be piloted like a tank, with two levers to apply forward or reverse to either side, ideally on very rough terrain such as snow or tall grass

A gif of a drawing of a vehicle about the size of a truck, with a forward control cabin, but whose propulsion consists of a large screw cylinder on either side.

Aaron_DeVries, to random
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Whenever I see "there is a planet in the habitable zone, but it's a gas giant" I always think gas giants can have rocky moons so it's still a viable candidate for habitability.

Finding a gas giant isn't a downer. I would even go so far as to say a large gas giant in the habitable zone potentially increases the possibilities of a habitable world. Even accounting for radiation belts. The number of moons they can have ups the dice rolls.

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@isaackuo @Aaron_DeVries @nyrath

Very cool! I am particularly stunned by Iapetus' equatorial ridge, which I never knew about.

I wonder if it was an inspiration for Kim Stanley Robinson's early work, A Short, Sharp Shock, in which a man with amnesia awakens on a world which consists only of a narrow strip of land around the center of a planet, separating two oceans.

The local people's creation myth was of a snake encircling the world.

DenOfEarth, to random
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Just heard this on the radio.

If it doesn't make you want to drop everything and go join (or start!) a Brazilian cover band, I give up.

O Telefone Tocou Novamente (1970)
Jorge Ben Jor

https://youtu.be/blYrXr-CwOA

geekysteven, to random
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I love how Trek is all about diplomacy and making enemies into friends and then they have episodes where the violence is indeed the answer

DenOfEarth,
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@nyrath @geekysteven

Dr M'Benga is one of my favourite characters of all time. Kind, heroic, funny, passionate, selfless... There should be more M'Bengas in our lives.

vulgalour, to Nostalgia
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We've all heard "My Dad had one of those" about cars.

I want to know what your Mum had as her car to get about. Wherever you are in the world, whatever time period. What vehicle did your Mum (or other maternal guardian) cherish and use and wax lyrical about?

I might be planning a little project...

My Mum had a moped, a Honda Cub I think (I'll have to dig out a photo), that was her freedom in the 70s.

DenOfEarth,
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@nyrath @vulgalour
My buddy's mom had a relative of the Olds Vista Cruiser - the Chevy Caprice Classic Wagon. I used to walk with him on his paper run, but sometimes when the weather was terrible (and this is Canada so you can imagine it had to be pretty awful), his mom would drive us slowly around the neighbourhood while we sat on the tailgate and threw papers roughly where they belonged. Good times...

MarSolRivas, to windows French
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Tu es sous W10 et tu veux y rester ?
➡️ Editeur de registre (RegEdit)

Sous :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

ajoute ça :

TargetReleaseVersion = 1 (dword)
TargetReleaseVersionInfo = "xxxx" avec ta version de W10, dans l'exemple c'est 22H2 (chaine)

#Windows #Tech #Hack

DenOfEarth,
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@MarSolRivas
Cool!
Par ailleurs:
https://saturation.social/@clive/112474182639448017

Basmitharts, to random
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Morning everyone.
Let's do a movie today.

What is the coolest actor/car combination in a movie?

DenOfEarth,
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@Basmitharts
Uma Thurman in her electric Citroën DS?

nyrath, to random
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Stirling E. Lanier, “Hiero’s Journey” & The Long Rumoured 3rd Book, “Hiero’s Answer”

https://reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1cd6eux/stirling_e_lanier_hieros_journey_the_long/

DenOfEarth,
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@nyrath
I remember that! Per Hiero Desteen, the intrepid yet helpful explorer!

nyrath, to random
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An old classic "what if" question is What scifi novel or movie would you like to live in?

Adult me is skeptical of most of them, they all have drawbacks.

Child me instantly knows my heart's desire.

DenOfEarth,
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@nyrath
I don't care how dystopian it was - Blade Runner.
And I would live not in Deckard's apartment,
but JF Sebastian's.

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    DenOfEarth,
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    @flockofnazguls
    Amen.
    Could someone please just dial it back a bit?

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    DenOfEarth,
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    @flockofnazguls
    CBC's organ music Thursdays was the best time to be driving around downtown with the sunroof open and the radio on full blast.

    nyrath, to random
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    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/robot-dogs-armed-with-ai-targeting-rifles-undergo-us-marines-special-ops-evaluation/

    DenOfEarth,
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    @nyrath
    "This is fine." :a_thisisfine:

    pootriarch, to random
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    'relax' is more than 40 years old. i'll be here in my rocker

    DenOfEarth,
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    @patrickworld @pootriarch @Binder

    Great, now got that song stuck in my head...
    Might as well dig out the vinyl and play it.

    shoq, to random
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    I guess I’d need a keyboard and monitor switcher to use both LInux and Windows simultaneously on two boxes, right?

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    @shoq @ZeKik
    My experience as Kiki says of being "deformed" by the Windows experience stems from a run-in I had years ago with the PIF Editor.

    My PIF will never be the same...

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    DenOfEarth,
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    @thepoliticalcat @Kierkegaanks Thanks, will try that!

    DenOfEarth,
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    @thepoliticalcat @Kierkegaanks
    Are there any tricks or tools to help know one's state of hydration and such balance as you say above? Like a glucose meter or smart watch or whatever? I feel like I never quite know how hydrated I am as I don't always feel thirsty when needed. I once went to give blood and passed out, then was scolded by the nurse for being dehydrated beforehand like it was my fault. I try to drink water as much as possible but it would be nice to have more data points.

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