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dragonfrog

@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org

Overcaffeinated bike riding psytrance stomping polyamory doing scruffy looking nerf herder; father and husband and son and whatnot.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Alright, lots of heavy discussions today, so let's talk about something silly!

What is a movie that always makes you laugh?

Personal pick:

Anything Mel Brooks, but Robin Hood: Men in Tights, it's just funny every time I watch it.

dragonfrog,
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@RickiTarr
I was just reminded of Robin Hood Men in Tights earlier today. I'll have to rewatch that one soon.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

The Producers

dgar, (edited ) to random
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I’m still not sure if I’ll do an “album” because I have too much fun sharing songs as I finish them, as singles. All the same, if I do, I’ll need a good name for it. So, just for fun…

https://on.soundcloud.com/6kQvAVc5wjgCHy1R7

dragonfrog,
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@dgar maybe some sort of jam based pun? E.g. "jams of Dgar" (cover art depicts jars of jam)

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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Lots of debate about this, so I'm curious about the consensus.

Should children be allowed to act professionally, as in having a full time acting job in movie/TV/stage? Feel free to elaborate in the comments.

dragonfrog,
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@ironclad_chomskyan @RickiTarr

One of the things that (well run, current) movie productions with child stars do, is have a full time teacher at the production location, so "when not in school" means "scenes with the kids in them have shortened filming days, to allow time for lessons", and doesn't have to mean "movies with child actors can only be set during a few months of the year and child actors from different hemispheres can never work together".

dragonfrog,
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@ironclad_chomskyan @RickiTarr

Again - this kid who was my neighbour had loads of good quality interactions with her friends - having them over, visiting them, bike rides, playing music together, getting ideas for projects and pursuing them, etc.

Her friends just weren't school friends like most of mine were at that age, they were friends from the neighbourhood, from karate lessons, swimming lessons, guitar lessons, and friends she met through those friends.

dragonfrog,
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@RickiTarr @ironclad_chomskyan

I'd argue that most full time school pupils get less than three hours of effective education a day. No fault of the teachers - it's just that teaching 20 kids limits how long you can give to each one.

My neighbour's kid years ago was home schooled. Far from being a big time commitment, as the only pupil in the class she easily cracked through the provincial curriculum at 2 hours a day, and had the rest of the day for swimming, karate, music, etc.

dragonfrog,
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@ironclad_chomskyan @RickiTarr

I can't speak to your experience Ricki, but IMO there's a broad spectrum between "home schooling" so the kid isn't exposed to ungodly influences like music with drums and girls who wear trousers, and "home schooling" so the kid has more time and freedom to pursue their own interests, projects, and friendships outside of the questionably healthy environment of a school.

And the former gives a bad name to the latter.

RickiTarr, to random
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America: You need to have health insurance!

Me: Cool, that makes sense, but it's going to cover my whole body, right?

America: Depends, do you use your teeth and eyes?

dragonfrog,
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@RickiTarr Teeth are optional luxury bones

mekkaokereke, to random
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Most BLM protesters were white people advocating for Black civil rights.♥️ All their lives, they thought that they had the 1st amendment right to protest, because they had seen white supremacists march without being beaten by cops. They didn't realize that the right to free speech depends heavily on what you are speaking about, and who you are speaking for.

Now I'm seeing college professors and students learn the same lesson about what US cops will do to you if you speak up for the wrong thing.

dragonfrog,
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@escarpment @mekkaokereke @psa ...and therefore he's not going to pretend that there is such a right, in the face of overwhelming evidence that there isn't.

dragonfrog,
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@escarpment @mekkaokereke @psa I don't think that is what he's saying. I mean, I'm pretty sure he believes it to be bad, but it's not the point he's making here.

The point is that there clearly isn't a "right" for black people to bear arms, no matter what the constitution says, when cops know and act in the knowledge that if they murder a black person, all they have to do to get away with it is make it look like their victim was exercising that "right".

mcc, to random
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Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgrade to Python 3.9 to run it

dragonfrog,
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@mcc I think that's entirely right. If you have a positive use for a tool, you boast about the use. If not, you boast about the tool.

It's like "gun culture" folks who will say "a gun is just a tool". A shovel is a tool but there aren't "shovel culture" folks, there are a gardeners. A handsaw is a tool but there aren't "handsaw culture" folks, there are carpenters.

You can tell the folks for whom a gun really is just a tool, because they talk about hunting trips.

MLE_online, to random
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I spent way too much time today disassembling two bicycle wheels, so that I could begin the process of transplanting this Sturmey Archer 3 speed hub into a 27 inch rim that will fit my road bike.

While I had the hub free of a wheel, I ended up partially disassembling it so I could clean it and grease it, since it felt pretty gunky and sticky when spinning.

I was too scared to take it completely apart because there are a lot of little pieces inside, but I took it apart enough to get it working well again. It looks much nicer now too

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dragonfrog,
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@MLE_online have you thought about going to a 700c rim? They're potentially a lot more easily available in the spoke count you need than 27". The real diameter is 622 mm compared to 630, so if there's room to move your brake pads 4 mm lower, you won't need to replace the brake calipers.

MLE_online, to random
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Figuring out the length of spokes I need to rebuild my Sturmey Archer hub into a different wheel is harder than I was expecting.

There are a lot of online calculators, sure, but you have to disassemble your wheel to get the measurement the calculator needs.

I don't want to disassemble my wheel until I have the spokes for rebuilding it!

dragonfrog,
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@MLE_online If the hub an is AW, you can use the spec sheet from Sturmey Archer's website. The AW you can buy new today is dimensionally identical where it matters to one from from immediately after WWII.

dragonfrog,
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@MLE_online

Oh I had missed that your rim was also in a wheel currently in use.

You can do it without fully disassembling the wheel - though you do have to take the tire and rim tape off so it's still a bit of a faff.

This video from the 5:20 mark does a good job of showing the method. He calculates the outside diameter by measuring the radius - usually you can get away with just adding 10 mm to the ERTRO bead seat diameter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEPVlD1TcfI

cs, to random
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I told I wanted an ASCII art of a volvo driving in Texas. It first told me I had to sign in to create images. I told it I wasn't asking for an image, but ASCII art. It then complied with something that doesn't look like a Volvo, and definitely has nothing that even stereotypically looks Texan.

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dragonfrog,
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@cs
I think that's what's left of Dallas after the owl Kaiju tramples all the tall buildings

dragonfrog,
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@cs

dragonfrog,
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@cs
Ooh that's quite good. This just inspired me to reinstall ASCIICam on my phone.

jpmens, to random
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    dragonfrog,
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    @ascherbaum @jpmens yeah I'm thinking it might already be achievable through root's bashrc or similar, but that's system wide.

    It would be nice to let users individually choose that through a sudorc rather than turning it on or off for root on a whole system.

    dragonfrog,
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    @jpmens changing background colour seems like bit a good idea and something that could pretty easily be accomplished with sudo.

    davidaugust, to random
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    Data visualization 📊

    dragonfrog,
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    @davidaugust might have to expand the Y axis

    grivettcarnac, to Alberta
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    dragonfrog,
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    @grivettcarnac it would probably be a good idea and also it would require the agreement of the senate, commons, and 7 provinces representing at least half the population.

    Quebec isn't going to give up authority to the feds ever, Alberta isn't going to agree to a measure designed to curb Alberta's abuse, and Ontario contains almost 40% of Canadians. So we'd need Ontario plus all but one other province.

    MLE_online, to random
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    Canned ball bearings make a delicious sandwich filling when mixed with mayo, chopped celery, and a dash of salt and pepper

    video/mp4

    dragonfrog,
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    @MLE_online it's really amazing that we can get ball bearings year round now not just when they're in season.

    dgar, to random
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    Them: Can you pick up milk?

    Me: picks up two litre bottle Yeah, easy.

    Them: I mean from the store.

    Me: I’d imagine it weighs the same at the…

    Them: GO GET SOME FUCKING MILK!

    dragonfrog,
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    @dgar
    Can you get a bottle of milk from the store please? And if the avocados are ripe, get 4.

    (returns from store with 4 bottles of milk) The avocados are ripe.

    anathema_device, to random
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    SO's name, which I type several times a day, has started to being autocorrected to a name for a pastry. This does not save me time :(

    People with commonly autocorrected names call for tech firms to fix problem | Technology | The Guardian

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/22/people-with-commonly-autocorrected-names-call-for-tech-firms-to-fix-problem

    dragonfrog,
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    @anathema_device it really seems like when you're texting someone who's in your contact list, their name should be a high ranking auto correct entry...

    dragonfrog, to random
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    I participated in a "vision zero" consultation on my neighbourhood - both the online and the in person parts.

    Just got the "what we heard" report in my email. Most of what I wrote isn't in there. I guess they didn't hear those parts.

    dragonfrog, to random
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    If we've accepted that Die Hard is a Christmas movie, what does it take to get 4'33" accepted as a Christmas song?

    Consider: it's mid December. You're at the grocery store. Every store has been playing ringle jingle holiday sappiness for over a month now. And then - silence! For four and a half blessed minutes, the store intercom doesn't blare anything, it's just the background sounds of people getting groceries.

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