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mekkaokereke, to random
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"Trump is worse!" And then I'm blocked.

People get so cranky at Black folk for pointing out the irrefutable evidence that Biden's Covid policies got a lot of people long Covid, and caused a lot of other people to die of Covid unnecessarily.

You can get mad at me. You can yell "Trump is worse!" until your voice gets hoarse. I'm not talking about Trump. I'm talking about pandemic decisions made during this administration.

Y'all know I'm right.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112397660473954665

klausfiend,
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@jynersolives @mekkaokereke Oh, but it meshes so perfectly with our patterns of sports fandom!

lauren, to Youtube
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I had to check the end of about a dozen #YouTube "reaction" videos of Generation [N] watching Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" (1959) before I found one where they appeared to "get" the gag Hitch used as the very last shot in the film (the train into the tunnel). This is what comes of too much time on smartphones, one suspects.

klausfiend,
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@lauren Or it's a generation that doesn't take trains for long distance travel and has grown up watching film and TV that doesn't have to be coy about sex.

lauren, to random
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In an era when U.S. television series still showed married couples sleeping in separate beds, typically separated by a table of some sort, the first two series to clearly break this pattern and show the couples sharing beds were the 1960's programs "Bewitched" and "The Munsters" -- both series with supernatural elements. I've always found this fascinating.

klausfiend,
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@lauren Wasn't the Flintstones the first to show a couple sharing a bed?

klausfiend,
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@lauren I reject this consensus. At least as the Flintstones go, it was a prime time sitcom in its day.

carnage4life, to random
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CEO walks out into the rain and is surprised he gets wet.

klausfiend,
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@carnage4life That reads like a headline from the Onion.

klausfiend,
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@BugFajita @carnage4life It's the same kind of heartwarming "failing upward" story as David Zaslav getting paid $50M to help Warner post a $3B loss for 2023.

I might file this one away for the next time I'm in a conversation with someone who thinks minimum wage is too high and also thinks there should be no ceiling on C-suite pay.

RickiTarr, to random
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When you read Librarian Erotica and think it's real life:

klausfiend,
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@RickiTarr I have clearly been going to the wrong libraries. Fox News should know better than to tease me with a good time.

lauren, (edited ) to random
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A very good friend of mine many years ago had a close relative who was closely associated with Rod Serling. While I never met Rod, this did give me considerable insight into "The Twilight Zone" and other aspects of Rod than I otherwise would have had, to say the least.

When Rod needed a name for something when writing for "The Twilight Zone", he would often use whatever was at hand. For example, the classic 1960 episode "A Stop at Willoughby" -- Willoughby Ave. is very close by Paramount Studios in Hollywood where Rod had his office.

Even more amusingly, my friend's full name was specifically used by Rod as a character name in one episode. My friend also had one of the little "invader" props from the 1961 episode "The Invaders". Unfortunately, being made of foam rubber, it had significantly rotted away.

Still, quite fun.

klausfiend,
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@lauren I remember seeing a film years ago where one of the main characters played by Benicio del Toro shared a full name with an old roommate. It was kind of a weird one hearing famous strangers say a familiar name for a full 90 minutes.

lauren, to random
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The very brief IDF investigation of the IDF slaughter of World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza, though extremely brief, is already quite revealing, showing gross incompetence at various levels of the IDF, with the multiple attacks apparently triggered by the misidentification by a human observer of a single bag worn by a single worker. Ultimately, this all falls on Netanyahu and his cronies, as enormous protests continue to grow against them in Israel. Keep in mind that Netanyahu and his minions are keeping him in power just as Trump and MAGA wants to do here. There is no real difference.

klausfiend,
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@lauren I'm assuming this has crossed your transom? It may have had something to do with this incident:

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

lauren, (edited ) to random
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Does anyone know of a trustworthy Android 13+ SSH client app that can actually import private keys? It appears most of the clients that exist were never updated to deal with modern Android storage models so can't import. Bizarre. Thanks.

klausfiend,
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@lauren Pretty sure Termius does this on iOS, maybe there is an Android version?

klausfiend,
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@lauren That's a shame, I have come to really like the iOS version. I haven't run into the same concerns about permissions, though, I just deny the usual suspects (location data, access to Bluetooth, etc.)

timbray, to random
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1/2 Looking at one of the writeup, this struck my eye: “The release tarballs upstream publishes don't have the same code that GitHub has. This is common in C projects so that downstream consumers don't need to remember how to run autotools and autoconf.” Ah, GNU AutoHell, I remember it well. Tl;dr: With AutoHell, even if you're building for a 19-bit Multics variant from 1988, it’s got your back. Except for it’s just too hard to understand and use, thus the above.

klausfiend,
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@lauren @jbqueru @timbray The gross assumption that private industry can build entire product lines on top of free software, give nothing back to the community, and then complain when bugs happen -- that definitely needs to change.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Oakland Airport wants to rename itself "San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport?" Seriously?

What in the "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim yeah we're in Anaheim but nod-nod wink-wink think of us as LA but we're the red one not the blue one but we're better because we have Ohtani wait what do you mean he's a Dodger now whatever bro we're still claiming LA" is going on here?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W7IDRj5KUF4

Is this early April fools? Tell me this is a bit.

klausfiend,
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@mekkaokereke This "no, we're really LA, we swear" thing is an endless well from which to tease fans of the MLS team from Carson.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Stealing is wrong. Embezzlement is wrong. But can I say something?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/28/ex-caltrain-employee-contractor-charged-with-building-secret-homes-at-train-stations/

A Caltrain Deputy Director makes ~$175K/year. Take home check: ~$8.5K. Median rent in Burlingame is $2.8K / month. Median home is $2.7 million dollars. 🤯

https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/burlingame-ca/

https://www.zillow.com/home-values/17235/burlingame-ca/

If this dude lived out of his car or an RV, no one would bat an eye.

Yes, he stole from taxpayers, which is wrong. But he was mainly stealing a place to live. He's part of the "working homeless."

klausfiend,
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@mekkaokereke All things being equal, an nicely appointed apartment in a quaint and pretty train station sounds kind of romantic to me, in a Victorian era England kind of way.

lauren, to random
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It's certainly not the only reason, but a significant reason why so many people buy into these insane conspiracy theories about the bridge collapse is that schools for a generation have been spending most of their time teaching GARBAGE instead of actual math, science, and basic engineering principles. And by and large, home schooling is even worse. Generations of children growing up to be makeup influencers and reaction video creators.

klausfiend,
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@dalias @lauren @planettimmy IMO, choosing conspiracy theories is more a reflection of credulity and a desire for an "orderly" universe than gaps in education. Those help with credulity, obv, but I recall a guy (grad student in biotech) in my wife's lab who was apparently also a young earth creationist, and never examined the incongruity. Organized religion used to fill the credulity void, to debatable benefit.

klausfiend,
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@lauren @dalias @planettimmy Serious question: when has that ever been "better"? Folks like anti-vax cranks have existed since Jenner, I think the only thing that's really changed in our lifetimes is that the internet has made it possible for these folks to build communities where previously it was just a lone weirdo shouting on a street corner. A conspiracy theory is ultimately an appeal for meaning in an otherwise random, arbitrary, and chaotic universe, which our universe has always been.

klausfiend,
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@jmorris @lauren @dalias @planettimmy Ennh, that sounds a bit conspiratorial! (j/k) But even highly educated societies can fall victim to the worst demagogic excess, because a conspiracy theory is ultimately an appeal to emotion, not reason; some of this happens in the reptile part of the brain, which is itself very resistant to reason, because that resistance was instictive and key to survival for our prehistoric ancestors.

lauren, to random
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@klausfiend Huh, the name is in my copy. I just edited to remove it and put it in again. That's very odd.

klausfiend,
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@lauren Yeah, I thought it a curious oversight, and for the life of me couldn't remember his name. I ended up removing my original comment after your update posted. Maybe it was just federation-induced delay or something.

jwz, to random
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Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve hits 16-year low.

Experts link the shortage to both a rise in demand and warmer weather, which has disrupted production.

"The strategic reserve is holding its lowest amount of maple syrup since 2008," Simon...
https://jwz.org/b/ykOY

klausfiend,
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@jwz Hopefully this mentions the great maple syrup heist of .... '11 I think, where thieves made off with large volumes of the strategic reserve.

robpike, to random
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OK this is a surprise. I have a new Mac laptop with a notch and I CAN'T SEE ALL MY MENUBAR ITEMS I MEAN WHAT? WHAT????

How is this even an idea for a UI?

klausfiend,
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@lauren @robpike If nothing else I would like Chrome mobile stop defaulting to dark mode when I make two searches in the same window.

klausfiend,
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@lauren @robpike On iOS it happens constantly and it's maddening. I use incognito mode for 95% of searches and don't sign in, so it's just a user default setting, but the default sucks. It happens in sync with the prompt to sign in.

lauren, to Youtube
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Every so often suddenly surfaces something fascinating to me that has actually been there for many years and I just never knew about. Today it suddenly offered me a one hour 1970 audio speech by satirist/comedian Allan Sherman at UCLA, during the Vietnam War.

At one point, Sherman was a worldwide phenomenon for his songs like "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" [aka "Camp Granada"] in 1963. He was on television shows with some of the biggest stars of the time. Before this, he had created the classic game show "I've Got a Secret" and more. His life ended tragically only three years after this speech, at age 48.

I have never before heard him give a serious presentation like this. I didn't even know that it existed until earlier today. It's worth listening to, not only to learn more about the man, but to realize again how many issues today have changed so little since so many years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QtqfDAG6io

klausfiend,
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@lauren I've been an avid listener to Sherman the musician since I was a kid, and so I have some trepidation about listening to him talk politics for an hour out fear that he said something truly awful that compromises my willingness to enjoy his music. The comments on the YT page aren't helping! Thanks for sharing, though, I will still give this a spin.

DanielMenjivar, to random
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The GOP did Biden a huge favour during the by heckling. Without the heckling, he wouldn’t have had the opportunity to troll them.

klausfiend,
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@CStamp @lauren @DanielMenjivar Speaking of decorum, I noticed that a certain trio of conservative Justices seemed absent ... did anyone happen to spot Thomas, Alito, or Coney Barrett? Roberts was doing his best to be civil, as were Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. They sat together with Brown Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagan.

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to climate
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If you care about the planet, please make sure you sit down before you start reading this post about ExxonMobil.

So.

The CEO of ExxonMobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Who's the most influential voice on climate change? Who's to blame for inaction on climate change?

According to the CEO of ExxonMobil, it's environmental activists.

No, really:

"Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."

Oh, and the CEO of ExxonMobil also apparently thinks consumers are to blame for climate inaction:

"Today we have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon, but people aren’t willing to spend the money to do that."

Gets better.

He thinks unnamed 'people who generate emissions' should pay for it. (Rather than, say, major transnational oil companies.)

"People who are generating the emissions need to be aware of [it] and pay the price. That’s ultimately how you solve the problem."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Worth including a quick reminder here that Exxon-Mobil made a US$36 billion profit in 2023: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-beats-estimates-ends-2023-with-36-billion-profit-2024-02-02/#:~:text=HOUSTON%2C%20Feb%202%20(Reuters),higher%20oil%20and%20gas%20production.

Not gross revenue.

Profit.

So, remind me again. Who knew about climate change before most of the public?

"Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue... This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

And just who, exactly, stood in the way reducing emissions all these years?

"ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents...

"The new revelations are based on previously unreported documents subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general as part of an investigation into the company announced in 2015. They add to a slew of documents that record a decades-long misinformation campaign waged by Exxon, which are cited in a growing number of state and municipal lawsuits against big oil."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/exxonmobil-documents-wall-street-journal-climate-science

#oil #BigOil @fuck_cars #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #ClimateChange #environment #ExxonMobil #Exxon #business #economy #politics #capitalism #ClimateCrisis

klausfiend, (edited )
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@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Oh JFC, die in a fire, ExxonMobil. Preferrably one that resists conventional suppression techniques.

thisismissem, (edited ) to Instagram
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Okay, does someone wanna explain to me what fresh hell this is from ?

Please check the replies before replying, looks like this may be related to airplay or something, not that I'd ever want that.

klausfiend,
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@thisismissem I see this from all kinds of apps, and always say no, unless I know that I specifically require local connectivity to make the app work. It's insidious, and app developers never really make it clear why it's necessary.

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