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badtux

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A black and white and yellow penguin currently afloat somewhere near Sacramento CA

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badtux, to random
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Sigh.

shoq, to random
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It astounds me how effective the plastics industry was at duping the public as far back as the “crying indian” ad. We are a nation of suckers. We always were.

“Plastic experts say recycling is a scam. Should we even do it anymore?”

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/plastic-experts-say-recycling-is-a-scam-should-we-even-do-it-anymore/

badtux,
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@shoq I just toss plastics into the trash these days since that's where it ends up anyhow. Cardboard and paper recycling, however, is not a scam -- most cardboard boxes and brown paper bags include significant amounts of recycled fibers.

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@shoq I just toss plastics into the trash these days since that's where it ends up anyhow. Cardboard and paper recycling, however, is not a scam -- most cardboard boxes and brown paper bags include significant amounts of recycled fibers.

emptywheel, to random
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Hunter Biden's lawyers confirm (and cite) my reporting: David Weiss claimed that Keith Ablow's sawdust was Hunter Biden's cocaine.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82796/gov.uscourts.ded.82796.89.0.pdf

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@emptywheel "Mistaking sawdust for cocaine sounds more like a story line from a 1980s Police Academy comedy than what should be expected from a high-profile prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice." LOL @ sick burn by Hunter Biden's lawyers.

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Personally I'm running a $140 UHF/VHF aerial for my 40 watt mobile base in my house but mostly from laziness. I could have built just as good an antenna from aluminum tubing.

darnell, to threads
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So is slowly killing off , & Shop is spamming users to the point they are reopening ‽ I can not wait to introduce people to ! 🕺🏾

👉🏾 Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching the top 10; X falls to No. 36 https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/30/instagram-threads-triples-downloads-in-december-reaching-the-top-10-x-falls-to-no-36/

badtux,
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@darnell I have checked into Threads twice. Once I logged in, looked around, and logged out. The second time I logged in, accepted a friend request from a long-time friend, and logged out. Mastodon seems to work better for me, except for the problem that you can't do a news feed on Mastodon about a specific breaking news item because it has no global search function.

knittingknots2, to random
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Suspect in father’s decapitation ‘went off the rails’ in college, those who knew him say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-fathers-decapitation-went-rails-college-knew-say-rcna136647

badtux,
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@knittingknots2 Let's put it bluntly: This kid was radicalized by right-wing media until he committed a terrorist act against a Federal worker. This isn't a pure "went off the rails" situation. This is preachers of radicalization taking advantage of a vulnerable person to radicalize him into a terrorist murderer. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-fathers-decapitation-went-rails-college-knew-say-rcna136647

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    badtux,
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    @AlSweigart A friend had a cat that taught himself to use the toilet. That is the only scenario I can think of where a cat using a toilet is acceptable. The cat's name was Reuben. He had an artist paint a portrait of the cat while the cat was still alive, which hung in his hallway for years after Reuben died of old age. He never got another cat because he claimed that there would never be another cat as smart as Reuben.

    badtux, to random
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    I miss real newspapers and their buildings. Every hometown newspaper of everywhere I lived in the past 50 years has been taken over by vulture capital funds and stripped, with their buildings being the first thing to go.

    TonyStark, to random
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    81% of GOP primary voters think Hitler had a point.

    Trump is a wannabe dictator with no actual governmental power right now outside of what damage he’s already done. Let’s not give him any more.

    Please vote. Not registered? Register here: https://vote.gov/

    Talk to like minded family and friends and take them with you.

    And support Joe Biden because that’s the choice.

    badtux,
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    @TonyStark What the literal fuck is wrong with 47% of Americans? I mean, yeah, it's good that 53% of Americans disagree with Trump Hitler but fuck. 47%? As for 81% of Republican primary voters agreeing with Trump Hitler, well, Republicans gotta Republican.

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    Yes, my cat has turn-down service. No, he's not spoiled. Seriously.

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    The only way a Christmas tree would survive in my house.

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    "At the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies the fact that both peoples are historically indigenous and neither has anywhere else to go, even as delusional dreams persist on both sides of the disappearance of the other." -- Roger Cohen

    badtux, to infosec
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    It's always DNS.

    badtux, to random
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    Heated cat beds are catnip to Mia. She is an old lady with achey bones.

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    Buddies.

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    @Tengrain LOL Chuck does look a bit ominous there but he is a shy boy who is thinking more about where he can flee if I get closer to him.

    badtux, to Cats
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    Q: So what do cats want to be?
    A: Cats. Because every cat knows that they are perfect with no reason to be anything other than what they are. Arrogant little bastards they be.

    Kubi, to random
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    I say this every chance I get, but the coming AI apocalypse I’m worried about isn’t sentient machines causing wars or something, it’s customer service being increasingly outsourced to algorithms that are arbitrary, impossible to understand and offer no recourse for folks impacted by their decisions.

    Case in point, these poor souls who had their banking accounts shut down for no reason with no explanation of why and no recourse. Fucking infuriating.

    [gift link]

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/business/banks-accounts-close-suddenly.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8Ew.qhSj.-7zDTa2U4Q8I&smid=url-share

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    @peterbutler @Kubi The Fortune 500 already uses computers to evaluate resumes and job applications. The vast majority of applicants for engineering and IT positions get robo-rejected before the resume or application is ever seen by a human. Sorry, computer says no job for you!

    arstechnica, to random
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    No, Okta, senior management, not an errant employee, caused you to get hacked

    If a transgression by a single employee breaches your network, you're doing it wrong.

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/no-okta-senior-management-not-an-errant-employee-caused-you-to-get-hacked/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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    @kcarruthers @arstechnica I briefly looked at using Octa for SSO for a product, but quickly realized that Keycloak did everything we needed for free. I honestly don't understand why Octa has so many big business customers despite not really adding that much value. Especially for Office365 customers who already have Azure AD or whatever Microsoft is calling it this week.

    AbandonedAmerica, to random
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    The abandoned Eastalco Alcoa Works aluminum plant in Adamstown, MD, which produced 8% of the total aluminum used in the US when open.

    Gallery/info: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/eastalco-alcoa-works

    badtux,
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    @AbandonedAmerica When it's cheaper to close down the factory and build a new one where electrical rates are lower is when you know that electricity is too darn expensive.

    badtux, to random
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    A Jewish friend of mine calculated how many Palestinians who voted for Hamas back in 2006 could still be alive and then what percentage of the current Palestinians that would be. It worked out to maybe 11%.

    The notion that all Gaza Palestinians deserve to be killed by Israel because they voted for Hamas is ridiculous.

    https://wordpress.com/view/snarkypenguin.wordpress.com

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    Once more, for those in the back:

    Being "non-racist" is not a state of being for which you get a gold star. It's a process which requires continual self-examination. You can't just start with the assumption that you are "not racist" - you have to put in your work, and keep doing so.

    And don't do it because you crave "recognition" for your efforts, but because it's a basic part of being a decent human being.

    badtux,
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    @juergen_hubert The best thing to do is assume that you are racist and try not to be. Because most people have their implicit biases that they don’t recognize immediately and need to watch out for, because we grow up in a society, and the society we grow up in is full of implicit and institutional biases.

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    This feral cat is so obviously stressed out from living indoors.

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    @Tengrain LOL yeah.

    He just walks around my house with his tail in happy position, like "huh, this is good!" enjoying treats, brushies, ear scritches, good food, and buddies. And cat beds and cat trees and so forth. He is home.

    He is such a happy cat, and that makes me happy.

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