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hittitezombie

@hittitezombie@mastodon.me.uk

All I want is to read books now. Go away.

Who am I? Shouty SF reader, amateur radio tinkerer, dormant astronomy geek, he him.

Will curse, deal with with.

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TodayInTwitter, to random
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โ€œBut some people have a hard time accepting and respecting that some humans are different from others. Those fantasizing... that the heteronormative ideals they grew up with are absolute gospel sometimes take great offense at being asked to adjust their vocabulary to communicate respect for a community that has spent centuries forced to live in the shadows or risk safety due to the widespread pathologization of their identities.โ€

https://www.engadget.com/x-now-treats-the-term-cisgender-as-a-slur-211117779.html?src=rss

hittitezombie,
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@TodayInTwitter
Christ on a pogostick. He is not taking his daughter existing well, is he?

revk, to random
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I don't actually know which came first...

hittitezombie,
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@revk

According to my original research (AKA Googling as fast as I can) TNG wins this.

TNG:
S6.E8 -A Fistful of Datas
Episode aired Nov 7, 1992

Red Dwarf: Episode no: Series 6; Episode 3
Original air date: 21 October 1993

hittitezombie,
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@revk
You got to wonder how long each sat in development. I would love to have the Red Dwarf leading this but I guess won't happen.

mekkaokereke, to random
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If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! ๐Ÿคก

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

hittitezombie,
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@cshlan @mekkaokereke
USA does subsidize the car manufacturers massively, by providing very low cost fuel compared to the rest of the world.

hittitezombie, to random
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OK, this is accurate.

dorgaldir, to Autism Dutch
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I feel this so hard. Why can't people just be clear about what they want?
@actuallyautistic

hittitezombie,
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@dorgaldir @actuallyautistic
That is a 100% accurate answer, giving this a fail is a very wrong move.

insights, to drones
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We should protect Ukrainian skies - directly!

Look: British and American fighter jets are now shooting down Iranian () over , and . And yet they are not in a direct war with .

Why can't we shoot down exactly the same Shahed drones over , just like that - without a state of war?!

PS: is a terrorist state.

Dcs Sufa GIF

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@etherdiver @insights

That rule was never followed up since Korean war. Russians or Chinese pilots or weapons operators were always at hand in wars in the Middle or Far east.

mikemathia, to random
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hittitezombie,
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@mikemathia

  • 10 minutes later * Why are you still standing in front of me doing nothing?
BicycleBen, to random
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Why has the โ€˜15-minute cityโ€™ taken off in Paris but become a toxic idea in UK? https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2024/apr/06/why-has-15-minute-city-taken-off-paris-toxic-idea-uk-carlos-moreno?CMP=share_btn_url

hittitezombie,
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@BicycleBen
Our newspapers and hence politicians are run by evil people who are interested in creating a 'culture war' to benefit Tories.

That's it?

HeavenlyPossum, to random
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If we didnโ€™t have police, then who would checks notes murder kidnapped children?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/01/california-police-video-shooting-15-year-old-girl-savannah-graziano

hittitezombie,
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@HeavenlyPossum
American police should not be allowed to wield any weapons.

TodayInTwitter, to random
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World's most awkward interview right here: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/18/24104708/elon-musk-interview-don-lemon-show-canceled

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@TodayInTwitter
He is just a simple narcissistic racist spoiled man.

ComicContext, to random
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hittitezombie,
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@ComicContext This is exactly how I feel after my 3rd Covid infection in 4 years.

ComicContext, to random
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hittitezombie,
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@ComicContext this is good. What is the source material?

TodayInTwitter, to random
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Here's the story: Last week, X partially reinstated its deadnaming policy, this time saying that it would reduce the visibility of posts that misgendered or deadnamed a person โ€œpurposefully.โ€ It wouldn't remove them.

Right-wingers, like Libs of TikTok and Tim Pool, frantically tweeted Elon Musk to reverse the policy. So today, the policy has been updated to only apply in jurisdictions where it is required by law.

Full story by Matt Binder at Mashable: https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-changes-anti-trans-harassment-policy

hittitezombie,
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@TodayInTwitter What an arsehole!

cstross, to random
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'Proud' JK Rowling donates ยฃ70k to transphobic legal battle to block equalities legislation for transgender people

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/proud-jk-rowling-donates-70k-32149025.amp

(WARNING: Link goes to Daily Express)

... At this point she's about a year away from getting divorced and marrying Glinner, then going on X to rant about purity of bodily essence and the need for more Aryan babies.

hittitezombie,
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@petealexharris @cstross Didn't she write a child as cursed, then caused the child to be killed, then had to write a complete play to justify the child's death?

TodayInTwitter, to random
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Remember Matt Taibbi, that guy who Elon Musk leaked the Twitter Files to? Musk told him that he was โ€œdead to meโ€ and Taibbi has been complaining about how X is now โ€œworse than ever.โ€ Good fun: https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-files-journo-matt-taibbi-posts-unhinged-message-from-elon-musk

hittitezombie,
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@TodayInTwitter It's Leopards all the way down.

hittitezombie, to random
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Best thing Sunak can do right now is to call an election and get out on a high.

Longer he delays the election, worse it will be for the . I would totally enjoy their humiliation but it's not for the good of the country.

Call an election now, coward.

hittitezombie,
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@hobbitswife Relatively...

BBCRadio4, to Podcast
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๐Ÿ”Š Meet the next generation of audio creators - new podcasts on BBC Sounds.

BBC Sounds Audio Lab is a unique programme, the first of its kind from the BBC, that offers a comprehensive package of practical and professional training to new audio creators.

More about the podcasts and BBC Sounds Audio Lab on the web site: https://bbc.in/3UDeusJ

hittitezombie,
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@BBCRadio4 where are the RSS feeds?

hittitezombie,
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@BBCRadio4 Thank you! Podcasting w/o an RSS feed is senseless since it locks you to certain platforms.

AkaSci, (edited ) to random
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New radar imaging by ESA's Mars Express mission strongly suggests that a vast amount of ice, up to 3.7 km thick, lies beneath the surface near the equator. The ice if melted would cover Mars with an ocean 2.7 m deep.

Layers of ice and dust lie below a crust of hardened ash and dust 100s of meters thick.

The deposits are located in the Medusae Fossae Formation, a large geological formation ~5,000 km along the equator. See maps below.

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Buried_water_ice_at_Mars_s_equator
1/n

hittitezombie,
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@AkaSci that is no ocean, more a huge puddle.

TodayInTwitter, to random
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> The worldโ€™s wealthiest person has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, often at private parties around the world, where attendees sign nondisclosure agreements or give up their phones to enter, according to people who have witnessed his drug use and others with knowledge of it.

Concerning! Looking into it. ! https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e1

hittitezombie,
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@TodayInTwitter I don't like the Space Karen at all but this is stupid.

You will struggle to find a wealthy person who doesn't have a white powder problem. Space Karen is not the problem here, the uncontrolled abusive relationship the rich have with the rest of us is the issue.

cstross, to random
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Teleportation: if we ever get them, they absolutely MUST exhibit some behavioural commonalities with a relational databaseโ€”notably they must exhibit ACID properties: atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability.

If teleportation isn't ACID you ain't getting me in that booth!

hittitezombie,
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@cstross
OK, your local copy is only killed when your remote copy is verified as alive.

I'm not sure that's a big improvement in Ethics dept.

foone, to random
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I want a 90s raspberry pi.

like yeah I have plenty of actual 90s SBCs but a specifically raspberry pi would be amusing.

serial ports, VGA output, boots off a CF card. ethernet? no it's got an onboard 56k modem

hittitezombie,
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@foone @cstross do you have a hoarding problem like I have?

cstross, (edited ) to random
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I mean, with climate change we're going to NEED big-ass container ships that can go really fast, just to move food around between regions hit by drought/crop failure. And nuclear is obviously a smart bet (because it's carbon-neutral), and for a half-million-ton ship it's even reasonable. But why pick a fuel cycle that lends itself to weapons proliferation?

hittitezombie,
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@cstross Do we need ultra-big container ships? At some point loading/loading will take more time than at sea, or a significant fraction.

We should be looking at when the size is optimum, especially for intercontinental transfers, and then look for a suitable power source?

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