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daico

@daico@mas.to

Techie, leftie, science nerd, aspiring writer; he/him. Close personal friend of John Mastodon.

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daico, to random
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I was heading into work early last week and there were the most beautiful flowers in the boxes in the sidewalk next to the building. The sun was illuminating some of them but another building cast a shadow, so some were in shade. I wanted to take a picture.

daico,
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But I didn't feel like I had the time or energy, so I went into work, telling myself I would take a picture of them next time, maybe in a day or two.

But a couple days later I was walking by and I noticed the flowers were gone. They had been replaced by other plants. I have no idea why, or if these other plants are flowers which will bloom later.

daico,
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So it goes.

daico, to random
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"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield," Star Trek, S3E15, 1969
https://unfufadoo.net/@lolcats/112386210974619772

daico, to random
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Baby white shark, do do doo do do doo
https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/112296081111579580

daico,
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I have never even heard the song. I've only seen people referencing it on social media.

KissAnne, to Norway
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daico,
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@KissAnne it reminds me of these

Cats arranged as a water molecule with two labelled "Hydrogen" smooshing one labelled "Oxygen."

aeva, to random
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you ever think about how "copy" and "paste" don't have dedicated keys on most keyboards

daico,
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@lesley @aeva It's easy, just hit Esc :wq (I kid, I kid)

daico, to random
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Pretty sure I just heard gunfire.

25kV, to random
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everyone is celebrating the life of Peter Higgs but no-one gives Trevor Boson his due credit

daico,
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@25kV I know it's a joke, but: Sarendra Nath Bose

daico, to random
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Wordle 1,019 3/6

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rbreich, to random
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Don't sleep on this story: Trump is looking to rehire convicted felon Paul Manafort, who shared campaign polling data directly with Kremlin agents in the 2016 election and worked to undermine Ukrainian independence. Trump remains Putin's willing and loyal servant.

daico,
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@rbreich Wow!

Trump considers adding Paul Manafort to his campaign.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/trump-considers-adding-paul-manafort-a-grave-counterintelligence-threat-to-his-campaign/

VeryBadLlama, to random
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reasons to abolish daylight savings time:

  1. disrupts sleep cycles

  2. creates unnecessary confusion

  3. I am not an 18th-century wretch trying to conserve papa's precious stores of whale oil

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@VeryBadLlama

  1. The time on the clock should correspond, to the extent possible, to the position of the sun in the sky.

But... it's Daylight Saving Time. No S.

TonyStark, (edited ) to random
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“What good things has Joe Biden done?” is a question I see a lot. Here’s 30, including expanded overtime guarantees for millions, the first over-the-counter birth control pill hitting U.S. stores in 2024, gun violence prevention and gun safety got a boost, renewable power is the no. 2 source of electricity in the U.S. — and climbing, plus quite a few more.

30 Things Joe Biden Did as President You Might Have Missed-
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/02/joe-biden-30-policy-things-you-might-have-missed-00139046

daico,
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@TonyStark

Expended? Or extended?

Dianepatterson, to random
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Farming areas know perfectly well they need immigrants to do this work. They just don’t want brown people to have rights or security. American capitalism is based on slavery. https://civileats.com/2024/02/07/a-florida-immigration-law-is-turning-farm-towns-into-ghost-towns/

daico,
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@Dianepatterson

"[I]t requires medical providers to inquire about a patient’s immigration status."

Holy crap!

sfwrtr, (edited ) to 13thFloor
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2402.3 — Mammal

Her Certain Future

Technology and science wasn't magic, and Sharp Eye knew this more than ever. Five generations ago, Fleetmaster Running Talon had turned a portable cannon on his first Tyrannosaur, and ended their species rein of terror. Since that day, science and progress had ruled their world. Telescopes and the study of astronomy were unknown to her grandkin. The laws of orbital dynamics took a decade to render correctly, and her own grandmother had invented the slide math-relator that made verifying it all possible.

She lived in a world that promised her hatchlings steamships that could cross the Great Ocean between ports reliably, in days, because it need no sails. It offered /their/ hatchlings the possibility of powered flight using a lightweight heat engine. Literature discussed the not too fictional possibility of one day visiting the moon.

She ought have been happy with life and her grand future.

This wasn't the case. She turned the great telescopes with there photo capture plates toward the sky every night.

She'd found a streak.

Not a new planet. Something far smaller. Something far closer.

The rodent was very brazen outside the window. She'd been throwing the mammal bits of meat for the last month as she'd directed the telescopes, so of course he was. It chittered. With googly eyes, needle teeth, and the rotted smell of offal, the creature wiggled its pink nose and whiskers at her. It could see through a window! So smart. Its furry kind survived the freezing nights on the mountain, where despite her downy feathers, and a heavy parka, she could barely breathe the frigid night air. It burned her lungs.

She'd found a giant rock in space. A week later she confirmed it was two. The latest plate insisted she'd found a co-orbiting swarm, the biggest the size of a city or larger, the rest not that much smaller. Its mass made her think it was mostly iron-nickel. The length of the streaks on the plates grew smaller as the planet's gravity well influenced the orbit, sending it down on their heads.

Physics was physics. The ellipse calculations were irrefutable.

Between the constantly erupting volcano lands on the opposite side of the continent—which made sunset burn orange and purple, and sometimes caused snow to fall at the equator—and the dirt and dust that would be kicked out of the atmosphere by the meteor impact to rain down molten rock across the land, would it be that prolific mammal's descendants who'd inherit her decimated world?

Sharp Eye took a deep breath, inhaling the steam of her tea. The big question was: Did she announce her findings? While she had time?

Did it matter?

Who was she to break the world's ignorant bliss by announcing the inevitable? Fame didn't matter any more. How could it?

She sipped her tea and watched the soon to be victorious vermin nose through gravel, looking for roaches. She set the cup down, thinking how pleasant living only in the present was. She knew the future.

Then she thought, surely roaches would survive. Right?

[Author retains copyright (c)2024 RS.]

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daico,
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@sfwrtr crème

stux, to gamedev
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It still needs some work but we got some giant kitties roaming around the map killing players now :blobcatgiggle:

This is a still a sm0ll one but there are gonna be some giant cats dominating the game world 🤷

The player can now get killed and fight giant cats in my RPG game

daico,
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@mentallyalex @stux or catnip

grammargirl, to random
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Off the top of my head, podcast transcripts are good because they:

— Are Important for accessibility.
— Are required for your podcast to be used in a classroom.
— Can help you get more exposure if people find them through search.
— Can make your content easier to share. (If you have a friend you know won't listen to a podcast, you can still send the info.)
— Provide an entry point for people who aren't ready to commit to listening.

What else?

daico,
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@grammargirl
They're great if you're listening to a podcast in a language you're learning. Duolingo's French and Spanish podcasts have transcripts, which is great for learners.

selviano, to animals
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you can see the urgente-ness in their eyes

daico,
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@selviano
Reminds me of this

shoq, to random
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Good morning. Have you ever asked yourself why MAGAs smugly say stuff like “Do your research. America is not a democracy. It’s a Republic!” Obviously, they think it’s just owning you, but in their heads, what do you think they are thinking the meaningful distinctions really are, and why do they want to seem so prideful about it? (Can you imagine Kristen Welker, Katy Tur, or Jake Tapper asking them this question? I can’t.)

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@hakirsch @shoq pure or direct democracy, yes, but there aren't any of those and never really have been. A constitutional republic is a form of democracy.

daico, to iowa
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Here's the official site for results: https://results.iacaucus2024.com/

It took far too much work to find this among all the news site results so I'm sharing it here.

clive, to random
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Here's Alvin and the Chipmunks singing "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" ... except slowed down to 16 RPM:

https://soundcloud.com/alvin-thechipmunkson16sp/have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas

Make sure to read all the listener annotations on the song's timeline 😅

daico,
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@clive it bothers me that they said "Jesse's got himself a squirrel and I want to make her mine" but then they didn't follow through with it. The chorus should have been "I wish that I had Jesse's squirrel / Where can I find a rodent like that?"

shoq, to random
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I’ve been reading about guns and politics in the colonial period. I am a staunch supporter of gun control, but I’m a heretic when it comes to one particular premise for it. I cannot imagine a scenario in which the founders would have proposed the idea that the citizen militias (who won the revolution with many of their own weapons), would suddenly accept the idea that a new federal rule would limit their right to own a firearm for their own defense, or when called to militia duty to …

daico,
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@shoq Are you aware that various cities in the "wild west," like Dodge City, required people to turn their guns in for the duration of their stay?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/

“Today, you're allowed to carry a gun without a license or permit on Tombstone streets. Back in the 1880s, you weren't.”

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TRUMP CRIME FAMILY!

RNC head Ronna McDaniel could face bribery charges related to 2020 election: legal expert

Turns out MAGA is nothing more than a two-bit mafia crime ring!

Allowed to fester and grow by a political party shocked to its core by having a person of color as President!

https://www.rawstory.com/ronna-mcdaniel-trump-michigan/

daico,
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@Free_Press This is a terrible story. ONE professor CLAIMED that she COULD be INVESTIGATED ... Here you have solid, audio evidence that Trump attempted to directly intervene in the certification of Michigan's 2020 vote, and turn it into a nothing burger about McDaniel, about whom no one cares.

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Rudy Giuliani came to prominence in the 1980’s, when, as US Attorney, he led prosecutions credited with significantly weakening the Mafia, as well as against Wall Street fraud and corruption.

On the strength of those accomplishments, he was elected mayor of NYC, where, in the 1990’s, he focused his talents on the two most pressing problems then facing New Yorkers: guys with squeegees at intersections and people who own ferrets.

Today, he works as a rodeo clown in presidential elections.

daico,
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@VE2UWY @mattblaze he put the emergency response HQ in a place that had previously been the target of a terrorist attack by Al Qaida! The NYPD produced a detailed analysis in 1998 opposing plans by the city to locate its emergency command center in the World Trade Center.

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