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jonas_trostle

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He/him. Unofficial baby Rollo. Robby, the robot stan

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Teri_Kanefield, to random
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I am going to answer this question for everyone:

https://mastodon.social/@timothyjohnson@mastodon.sdf.org/112349635246409685

My answer is here:

https://mastodon.social/

Remember:

There were possible crimes, but tax and reporting crimes are not election interference.

There is also a circular thing with Cohen and Pecker telling the court that they expected Trump to pay back the hush money payments.

If they expected to get paid back, it was a loan to Trump and not a contribution. Right?

jonas_trostle,
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@Teri_Kanefield yeah, it sounds like they're trying to make the "conspired together to make a campaign finance violation" into "election interference," which sure, is an illegal act to influence an election, but that's stretching the term "election interference" as far as it can go

Bam, to random
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Moving up one spot is always fascinating to watch.

jonas_trostle,
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@Bam Yep, Broncos and Raiders were presumably offering a weak trade up, but it's hard to match the deal of some free draft material + whomever you were going to get anyway, guaranteed

glennf, to random
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Never ever ever ever ever ever ever trust what caller ID says. Never do anything that someone who calls you and claims to be from a company or government organization tells you to do. Never give cash to anyone who claims they represent a company, a lawyer, or the government, and they need the cash to help you out. No legitimate organization works solely with cash. https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html

jonas_trostle,
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@glennf yes to all except maybe the last one, because I think most (marijuana) dispensaries have to take cash because of federal banking laws.

electrek, to random
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A Native American tribe is building a $1B solar farm in Colorado https://electrek.co/2024/02/16/native-american-ute-mountain-ute-tribe-solar-farm-colorado/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

jonas_trostle,
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@electrek For those who skim headlines, it's the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe

bourgwick, to random
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kris kristofferson vs. toby keith, 2003, as told by ethan hawke in rolling stone.

part 2 of text block

jonas_trostle,
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@bourgwick full article is here, for those interested: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/kris-kristofferson-last-outlaw-poet-ethan-hawke-interview-714098/

LuciferMorningstar, to random

It's a good question, really

jonas_trostle,
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@mattblaze @dr2chase @LuciferMorningstar in universe the gods aren't supernatural though. They are nature, so it's more like doubting a scientist or a mathematician than doubting a modern day psychic

snarkysteff, to random
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Every time I see a “Dogs, please don’t ‘water’ our plants” sign in a garden, I think the same thing:

Dogs can’t read.

jonas_trostle,
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@snarkysteff https://youtu.be/Bw21dO_0ZEM?feature=shared

TechConnectify, to random
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A kettle idea for 'muricans:

I can't believe it took me this long to realize that since I bought a single-burner induction cooktop, I could just dedicate that to the space my plug-in kettle sits on the countertop and use a stovetop kettle with it.

That will boil water in the kettle just as quickly, and then I'll have an extra (and faster!) burner whenever that will come in handy while hardly taking up any more counter space.

Plus, kettles that scream at you are more charming!

jonas_trostle,
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@TechConnectify I've been doing it for years and it's been working out great. I use the kettle for coffee each morning and then move the kettle to the stove (which I don't use) when it comes time to make dinner

archaeohistories, to random
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The Royal Game of Ur (2600 BC), also known as the 'Game of Twenty Squares', refers to an ancient game represented by two game boards found in Royal Tombs of Ur in Iraq, by Sir Leonard Woolley in the 1920s.

British Museum

jonas_trostle,
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@archaeohistories the British Museum has a video of Tom Scott and Irving Finkel playing: https://youtu.be/WZskjLq040I?feature=shared

mattblaze, to random
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TIL that gold bars are prominently stamped with traceable serial numbers.

In unrelated news, I will no longer be accepting gold bars as payment for bribes. I apologize for any inconvenience.

jonas_trostle,
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@mattblaze the true American melting pot is just a cauldron full of melted down gold bars

deviantollam, (edited ) to random

Penn Jillette has remarked that one of the best ways to truly appreciate the USA is to partake in international travel. I definitely concur.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love being other places, seeing new sights, experiencing other cultures, and eating other foods.

But — and you can try to fight me on this even though you'll lose — the most dogshit Best Western hotel in bumfuck Ohio will still top whatever Europeans offer up as luxury lodging.

Things that every piece of shit US hotel can manage to figure out:

  1. Air Conditioning
  2. Passably working WiFi
  3. Making the room fucking dark

All of these are like some mystery, utterly unknown to even expensive European properties.

jonas_trostle,
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@deviantollam This may be an exception, but I stayed at a Motel One in Edinburgh and they were heavenly. Highly recommend

stux, to random
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Many people still don't like the fact that Pluto is now classified as a dwaft-planet instead of a 'full' planet but it makes sense, otherwise we would have a lot more 'planets' in our solar system

Here are some objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region where Pluto is and as you see many of them are as 'large' as Pluto itself

(Image: NASA - https://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Arrokoth/About-the-Kuiper-Belt.php)

jonas_trostle,
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@stux My quibble is that they could have gone with

  1. is in orbit around the Sun
  2. has sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round shape)
  3. has an atmosphere

and had all the same planets as before. Instead they went with "clearing the neighbourhood" specifically to exclude Pluto.

Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    jonas_trostle,
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    @Teri_Kanefield "Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians..." I'm not a historian, but I don't think that's 100% right

    rbreich, to random
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    The IRS pulled in $3.18 for each dollar spent auditing the top 1%, and $6.29 for the top 0.1%.

    There’s one reason and one reason only the GOP wants to defund the IRS: to protect their wealthy mega-donors.

    All in all, the GOP’s IRS cuts will cost $40 billion in lost revenue.

    jonas_trostle,
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    @rbreich $2.18, right? At least according to Boning, Hendren, Sprung-Keyser, and Stuart (https://doi.org/10.3386/w31376), which is the most recent estimate I know

    Popehat, to random

    German word for mixed feelings when you create a satirical document but a whole bunch of people took it literally but they shouldn’t in part because there are several typos

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    @Popehat

    popsci, to random

    In a new study, deepfaked movie clips altered around half of participants' recollection of the film. https://t.co/eqEKZfsdZ8

    jonas_trostle,
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    @popsci "... [Using] deepfakes to misrepresent the past did not appear to be any more effective than simply reading ... textual recaps of imaginary movies."

    Sounds like it's just a new (and probably easier) delivery mechanism, not an existential threat.

    ct_bergstrom, to random
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    When it imploded, the Titan was at way higher pressures than Venus's 92 ATM so I'd totally trust this longtermist dipshit to keep me safe in a 900 degree F sulfuric acid sea thirty million miles from earth.

    jonas_trostle,
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    @ct_bergstrom

    Reminds me of this clip:
    https://youtu.be/O4RLOo6bchU

    "How many atmospheres [of pressure] can the ship withstand?"

    "Well, it's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one."

    jamesthomson, to random
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    Adult life mostly consists of exclaiming “christ, that happened ten years ago!” about a variety of different events until you die.

    jonas_trostle,
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    @jamesthomson released their last album 10 years ago

    ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random
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    As best as I can tell this story merely reprises a blog post about a conference presentation. I don’t want to minimize AI risks in any form but this one feels off. I’ll go out on a limb and predict that most likely the story will turn out to be highly inaccurate—even beyond the fact it the story doesn't make it easy to see it was just a computer simulation.

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a33gj/ai-controlled-drone-goes-rogue-kills-human-operator-in-usaf-simulated-test

    jonas_trostle,
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    @ct_bergstrom I don't think it's inaccurate per se, just really horribly framed. The simulated AI (probably not an LLM, but something more basic) killed a simulated human.

    I'm guessing it's just regular misspecification (like https://youtu.be/nKJlF-olKmg) blown out of proportion because of "military drones"

    jay, to random
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    Just 100%'d Spyro Trilogy Reignited on my . While I enjoyed it for the most part, it's painfully clear that much of the game's design has aged like milk, even in this remake.

    jonas_trostle,
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    @jay I only made it through the first one (it's the only one I have nostalgia for). I like the core gameplay loop of the first one, but which parts do you think aged badly?

    daisy, (edited ) to random

    recently started again, so I thought it would be nice to share some links and free resources 😊

    It all began with the Substack newsletter: Dracula is an epistolary novel that starts on May 3rd through November 7th and if you subscribe to Daily Dracula they'll send you emails with the content of the book on that specific day!
    🔗https://draculadaily.substack.com/about

    If you prefer the audio format, I have two podcasts/audiobooks for you:
    🧛 Re: Dracula, which I discovered yesterday thanks to @weirdwriter (🔗https://shows.acast.com/re-dracula),
    🧛 and the Dracula RadioPlay Experience by Cryptic Canticles (🔗https://crypticcanticles.com/dracula/). I listened to this one last year and it was very enjoyable.

    IMO they're both really good, there's backgroung music and different voice actors. Re: Dracula has content warnings at the start of each day, it's nice.

    Finally, if you'd rather have the entire book in your hands to follow along, you can grab the print version or you can download the free ebook from the Project Gutenberg website, since Bram Stoker's Dracula is public domain.
    🔗https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345

    That's all I can think about for now. Feel free to share more resources if you have them! 😊

    ❗Edit: I just discovered there's also a Fediverse bot that will delivery your daily dose of Dracula directly on your home feed! Here it is: @DraculaDaily

    jonas_trostle,
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    @daisy @weirdwriter @DraculaDaily There's also the Standard Ebooks version of the text. It's just like the Gutenberg version, but with extra care taken in the formatting. https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/bram-stoker/dracula

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