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PeterLG

@PeterLG@theblower.au

Australian : Married, Nomad, Sarcast, Pyrrhonist, Irreligious Unbeliever, Democratic Socialist : Info/Comms Tech & Management, Fire fighter, Educator : He/Him : Born @ 316 ppm COโ‚‚

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GottaLaff, to comics
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Justโ€ฆ. Go.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/05/12

PeterLG,
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@GottaLaff

That's an "Ouch!"

I wonder if any of Trump's supporters will read this and go "Hmmm..."

But then, Trump supporters probablynstay well away from Doonsbury.

PeterLG, to scifi
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Why I'm not an author, Part LXXVII:

Reading a simple sci-fi space opera, humans against space spiders, mindless fun, and then ...

The protagonist's spaceship has to rendezvous with a space station orbiting Mercury. Fair enough. The narrator talks about how the station has to stay in the planet's shadow. OK, that makes sense. Summer's a bitch that close to good old Sol.

They then go on to say that Mercury is tidally-locked to the Sun. ARGH!

It's not. It's rotation period is โ…” of it's orbit period (88 days), meaning the planet slowly turns to toast it's whole surface. That's been known since the 1960's. Frown.

Then, more egregiously, states that the station orbits at around 1,000 km from the planet's surface. WTAF?

A geostationary orbit for Mercury (needed to stay in shadow) given it's mass and rotation period, would be 240,420 km from the surface. Angry grimace.

Anyway, ๐Ÿคฃ

PeterLG, to random
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Wow! No wonder the is going off!

The Kp index has topped out and indications show a G4 geomagnetic storm. Might be time to extend the scales?

Not a good time to be caught halfway to Mars.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index

lea, to random

these leftists with their woke ass units. im not using meters or feet the only unit i recognize is schloinkers. the kitten is 5 schloinkers long

PeterLG,
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@lea

Waydaminnit!

What's the next unit up? If the kitten is 5 schloinkers, that makes my motorhome ... um ... carry the 1 ... multiply by the invective ... 5s (20cm) x 5 = 25s (100cm) x 10 = 250s (1m) x 9 = 2,250s (9m) ...

2,250 schloinkers long. We need a way to talk about bigger numbers! Something involving odd numbers, of course, none of the even-number or decimal stuff

persagen, to random
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Wild orangutan treats wound with pain-relieving plant
A wild orangutan was observed applying a plant with known medicinal properties to a wound, a first for a wild animal
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240502113715.htm

Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-58988-7

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/orangutan-observed-treating-wound-using-medicinal-plant-in-world-first-1.6870817
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/orangutan-observed-treating-wound-using-medicinal-plant-in-world-first-1.6870817

PeterLG,
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@persagen

Knew what plant to use, how to use it, and when to use it. This outcome involved another ape teaching this ape, and this ape learning the lessons.

Yep. That's intelligence.

Now, could we please stop killing our distant cousins?

glennf, to random
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Not an ad for sex work but for prepress

PeterLG,
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@glennf

A single spotlight highlights their face, the rest of the lighting doing more to obscure their naked body than show it.

As the music starts its familiar bump and grind the spotlight widens and the backlighting brightens, showing the glistening skin. They slowly, sensually dress as the music plays seductively. The lights play across their skin, highlighting features which then slowly disappear under layers of soft cloth.

The music reaches a crescendo as the last button is fastened.

The audience sits silent for a moment before errupting in cheers and riotous applause, money falling on the stage like autumn leaves.

PeterLG, to australia
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Regarding the data breach involving clubs and venues in Australia:

A company called Outabox got a contract to do venue signin software. They contracted a Philoipines group to do the actual work, ensuring all data was stored outside of Australia. After 4 years they broke off the deal without payment and grabbed the gathered data and ran. The Australian running the scam has been arrested.

SOME of the venues where Outabox systems are installed:

Breakers Country Club
Bulahdelah Bowling Club
Central Coast Leagues Club
ClubMex Club Mayfield
RSLCity of Sydney RSL
DiggersEttalong diggers
East Maitland Bowling Club
East Cessnock Bowling Club
Fairfield RSL Club
Gwandalan Bowling Club
Halekulani Bowling Club
Hornsby RSL Club
Ingleburn RSL Club
Merivale
Club Old Bar
Club Terrigal
The Tradies Dickson
Erindale Vikings
West Tradies

For more information and to check to see if you are affected go to https://haveibeenoutaboxed.com/

PeterLG,
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@luciedigitalni

The list of clubs I gave is not comprehensive, and I imagine the list of names the clubs are using for notification probably include people that don't appear in the data breached.

Basically, it's a case of if you are contacted, you are at risk.

@HardBeingGreen

Mrfunkedude, to random
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The other day I read someoneโ€™s post who said that people on Mastodon are pompous, always going on about how great it is here.

Well duh.

PeterLG,
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@Mrfunkedude

Typical of the birds who escape the cage: always singing the praises of freedom, while those still in the cage fear flying out through the open door.

thisismissem, to mastodon
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โ€But Mastodon also has [...] a lot on its plate including integration with Threadsโ€œ

It's lines like this that makes me completely unable to take those calling for a hard fork of Mastodon seriously.

All Mastodon do for Threads is the same they for any fediverse developer having issues federating with them. (And there's certainly limits to that)

Along with perhaps writing more FEPs to standardize behaviour, which benefits everyone

PeterLG,
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@thisismissem

Thank you! Sick of the hyperbole.

Ulrich_the_Elder, to random
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According to the "Bible" life begins at first breath. First breath occurs very shortly after birth. There is no biblical justification for banning abortion. They just made that up.

PeterLG,
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@Ulrich_the_Elder

That's neither accurate nor relevant. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

"First breath" refers to the Abrahamic origin story, that of Adam. The control freaks can point to multiple passages that refer to life commencing at conception and claiming that personhood starts at that point.

It's all irrelevant, however. The bible is just an anthology of tribal stories, nothing more; stories developed by and for the benefit of the patriarchal society in which the tellers existed.

We don't use Grimm's Tales to dictate our life rules.

What IS relevant is what women want.

GottaLaff, to random
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MEANWHILE, at , via Ryan Reilly:

Supreme Court Trump immunity arguments underway.

"There can be no presidency as we know it" without presidential immunity, Trump lawyer John Sauer argues. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ

PeterLG,
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@GottaLaff

That's it. I'm going to bed. It's gone 4 AM, and the USA is beyond help at this point. Laffy, thanks for your efforts.

PeterLG, to australia
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Here we are, another ANZAC Day.

I refuse to praise the "glory" of war, though understand its occasional need. I decry the utter waste of human life and potential in the pursuit of power or glory. I spit on the leaders, politicians, and diplomats who would rather stand on "honour" than seek peace. I revile the media, which publish stories of "glorious" battles and lie about reality to appease their political and financial masters. I hate, truly hate, the military financial machine that seeks profit from death. I weep in memory of those who died for another man's glory.

Those who fell are not our "glorious" dead; they simply are our dead. Nothing more. Lost to us through other men's folly and hate.

I praise the bravery of men and women placed in untenable situations by those who have the power to not do so. I praise the protesters who stand up for truth against the machinations of their country's powerful.

That is my ANZAC Day.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-missing-emotion-that-needs-to-be-articulated-on-anzac-day-20240424-p5fmac.html

GottaLaff, to legal
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1/โ€ฆ๐Ÿงต

Letโ€™s start with this, via @darthstar, because NY has laws that govern . I heard the Legals on TV say the same thing as Sean here:

https://mastodon.online/@darthstar/112320741962522803

PeterLG,
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@GottaLaff

Laffy, thank you for doing this; we greatly appreciate it. Your sense of humour shines through while helping us slobs out here get an idea of what's happening. ๐Ÿ˜Š

dannotdaniel, to random
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May it cheese the court. ๐Ÿง€

PeterLG,
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@tootsnotreal

Surely Trump would be Blue Vain? ๐Ÿ˜‰

@dannotdaniel

cathywilcox, to random
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There we are.

My @smh @theage cartoon.

PeterLG,
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@cathywilcox

Oh, well done! The perfect encapsulation.

jtruk, to random
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Disgruntled Washbasin says hi

PeterLG,
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@jtruk

When your washbasin is silently judging you.

PeterLG, to random
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OK, so the child in me can't resist...

jwildeboer, to random
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Could y'all please add (paywalled) or ($) or (โ‚ฌ) when you post links here to content behind paywalls? It is really annoying to click through several "consent banners" and other popups, thus feeding gazillions of trackers, just to get the "to continue reading, please subscribe" message. #kthxbai

PeterLG,
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@jwildeboer

I agree wholeheartedly regarding flagging likns that can lead to a pay wall. I also like to point out when a pay wall can be overcome using reader mode as quite a few succumb to this simple "fix".

Point of order, though: GoatCounter provides analytics. For example, the majority of you readers recently have been from Spain, using Chrome on a Windows PC ... ๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐Ÿ˜

PeterLG,
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@jwildeboer

๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

amoroso, to VintageOSes
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It's been 50 years since Gary Kildall demonstrated the first working prototype of CP/M.

https://computerhistory.org/blog/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system

PeterLG,
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@amoroso

Okay, NOW I feel old.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Not sure how much I can post. Now my iPhone is slow. Via McBrien:

โ€ฆwaiting for the Sandoval hearing to begin, despite the tragedy that unfolded earlier this afternoon just outside the courtroom.

As Merchan said earlier, "We've come too far in this trial to jeopardize it now."

PeterLG,
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@GottaLaff

You're an absolute gem, Laffy. Thanks.

futurebird, to random
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I have no idea how you'd select a jury from New Yorkers. People here are a bunch of stubborn, idiosyncratic, weirdos.

I wouldn't worry about a "Secret Trump fan" on the jury I'd be worried about:

  1. Hustlers: genius who is going to sell their story for movie or something
  2. The Normal Except for ONE THING guy: Perfectly normal except ... they don't trust nurses.
  3. The TOO fair. A NYC liberal who is trying so hard to be fair they are biased the other way.
PeterLG,
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@3dogcouch

"According to reports" ... sorry, but we hear that too much. According to ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฉ reports?

@godofbiscuits @futurebird

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PeterLG,
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@jomo

If you can accurately tell the age of the person in that photo, you must be psychic.

@EU_Commission

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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    PeterLG,
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    @Teri_Kanefield

    That has to be one of the biggest things playing in the back of the prosecution's and the judge's minds: they KNOW Trump's team are going to appeal on any grounds they can think of, no matter what. The case presented, and accepted by the judge, has to be absolutely watertight.

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