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North

@North@chaos.social

Electrical Engineer and Pansexual Menace (He/They) (Ham: KE0MKA) Electron-Gun-Slinger. Toots about Electronics and Socialism. Wife-"guy" in training.

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I've been thinking about the times in my life when I felt the most alive/present/contented, and most of them have a feeling in common that I don't have a word for. It's like the opposite of the sort of numinous "I'm so small in the grand scheme of things" feeling. Like the world is not only metaphorically smaller but physically smaller. When I've felt this way in the past, I was more inclined to use terms like "nearby" or "right over there" to describe things that were quite far away...

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It's like space is conceptually collapsed. Tall buildings don't feel as tall, it seems like it would be easy to climb them. It seems reasonable to pick a point near the horizon and say "I think I'll go over there," small aircraft landing at a nearby airport make you keenly aware of how little distance is between you and them. Is there a word for this that isn't just... mania? Lol

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no instruction manual

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I left Autoplay on when I went to sleep last night and YTMusic took me on a late 90s/early oughts grunge and nu metal odyssey. The funniest dream I had was that our CTO was giving us a demo of a CAM plugin that he wanted us to use and it was godawful slow and he was like "maybe someone on the engineering team can fix it" and someone was like "yeah, I got it" and just turned on Duality by Slipknot and we all proceeded to mock his stupid plugin being like "Damn, this loading bar is sick!"

julia, to random

lil malloc

RE: https://woem.men/notes/9s1vn9cjzw212gx4

North,
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@julia I don't know if I vibe with Lil getHPPOSLLH

MLE_online, to random
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Weird that Tony Soprano was supposed to be 41. I am 40 and I am not the head of a crime family with a wife, mistresses, and two kids

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@MLE_online gayer! more crimes!

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I'm tempted

North,
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@MLE_online That's a good pitch

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If you take a bite of a "Bon Appetit" brand Blueberry Cream Danish and take a big gulp of bad truckstop decaf afterward, it tastes like a blueberry blunt wrap in a good(?) way

North,
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Also, probably don't bother with their Lemon Cheese Cake Donuts. I had to buy them because of their unnatural color, and I was prepared for an appropriately wild flavor... but they basically taste like if you sprayed a pine board with lemon Pledge and then cut it on a table saw.

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my roommate has sent me this from twitterland and it feels worth sharing

North,
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@joeycastillo I saw this meme for literally years before realizing that it was made by Nathan and Caldwell from Drawfee. One of my favorites. Putting Kroger on there was genius.

jacqueline, to random
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finding an australian voice training coach so u can sound like a sick cunt

North,
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@jacqueline fuckin sick as

North, to random
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Lol found eclipse glasses buried in a box in the lab

North,
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It's probably gonna be too cloudy here to see it but... just in case!

North, to random
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Before you learn a bunch of esoteric technical minutiae, you should find out whether you're the kind of person who gets really upset over people being wrong. You deserve to be happy and, frankly, we don't need more.

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Today, I'm going to get my neglected greenhouse ready for the season

North,
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I left this container of soil out and accidentally grew kind of an amazing moss garden

North,
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Getting fucking preserved smoking that diaphanous pack

North,
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@chipperdoodles meet your roommate

North,
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Okay, reset complete. Time to start some things for this season!

North,
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Seeds sown!

North, to random
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[Stream framerate is faster than local framerate on any computer you've ever owned]
Zoomers in chat: "FRRRAAMES PLZ????? SLIDESHOW F F F F RIP"

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Before you give a piece of advice to literally everyone, consider whether it falls into the category of "advice that everyone already agrees with in principle, but does not think applies to their thing" because you are most likely not uniquely possessed of insight, you just disagree with other people's judgement.

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i.e. very little is fixed if I say: "Attention Internet: do not do things which are bad." Because very few people will disagree with this advice, but my problem isn't actually with the people who disagree. It's with the people who have a different opinion of what's "bad"

lethalbit, to random
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Debating if it would be worth the trouble to put Squishy through OSHW certification or not, hmm.

North,
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@lethalbit There's not much to it, luckily

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serious question, how do USians do physics in school? is it in metric?

North,
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@pirateguillermo @elsie I know this pain just from having simultaneously owned and worked on an American truck and a Japanese motorcycle. Good times, lol

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