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mikej

@mikej@mastodon.online

Mike J 👹🐀 🤘🏻
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(Demon rats, fuck yeah.)

Mots pressés, Mots sensés Mots qui disent la verité Mots maudits, Mots mentis Mots qui manquent le fruit d'esprit

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scalzi, to random
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Perhaps the Most American Headline of All Time, from Reason Magazine

mikej,
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@scalzi Which is stimulus spending.We've spent .5% of the DOJ budget to help destroy half of Russia's military and we're creating jobs to do it.

Sounds like a win/win.

sterophonick, to random
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The unbridled whimsy inside of me yearns for 3D Flowerbox, i must have it back, on my Arch Linux install with Wayland no less

mikej,
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@sterophonick From what @jwz has said about his wrangling with them, those people ain't got no whimsy. They don't seem to understand that it doesn't matter if screensavers are necessary.

mattblaze, to random
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Biden, who was in NYC for a campaign event, is taking an unusual route to Camp David this weekend according to the official schedule: Marine One helicopter from Manhattan to JFK, Air Force One (747) to Andrews, where he change planes to a different (probably 757) Air Force One to Hagerstown.

Usually they take Marine One from DC directly to Camp David. Unclear why they couldn't fly a smaller AF1 directly from JFK to Hagerstown. (I think Marine One lacks range to get from NYC to Camp David)

mikej,
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@mattblaze I think it (the helo) has the range, but it's slower and louder and generally more uncomfortable.

Are they still using Ospreys for DC->DE flights, or did somebody decide they were too dangerous? they certainly have the range.

What I don't understand is why they didn't just preposition the 757 at JFK.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Via Kyle Griffin:

The New York AG's $454 million civil fraud judgment against has been formally registered in Westchester County just outside Manhattan — a sign his properties in the area may be at risk of being seized if he fails to post an appeal bond. (per Bloomberg)

mikej,
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@billwixted @GottaLaff The jet is registered in Wilmington, DE. This is probably about his golf course.

arstechnica, to random
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Here’s BMW’s electric replacement for the X3—production starts in 2025

BMW has developed an all new EV platform with better efficiency and more tech.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/heres-bmws-electric-replacement-for-the-x3-production-starts-in-2025/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

mikej,
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@arstechnica BMW makes more efficient EV by diverting the power from the turn signals, which their drivers won't use anyway.

rwg, to mastodon
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I hope someone at the reads this:

https://www.ebu.ch/news/2024/03/public-broadcasters-of-europe-lets-all-join-mastodon

It's a clear explainer of , and the . It makes the case for public media to join the network. It mentions running a server versus joining an established one.

And above all, it's a public broadcaster walking the walking instead of just griping about X and then going back to X.

mikej,
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@rwg Annoying that @kcts9 joined and haven't posted since Jan 4. I expect they'll soon say the experiment was a failure.

GrimmReality, to random
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As someone who played SxSW multiple times and mostly enjoyed it, I would like to say bands should drop out of SxSW because it is in Texas and Greg Abbott is the governor and his party literally voted to greenlight alliances with Texas neo-Nazis because they, his party, are fucking neo-Nazis.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2024-03-12/sxsw-responds-to-artist-dropouts-following-tweet-from-greg-abbott/

mikej,
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@GrimmReality I'd say they shouldn't play SxSW because it's not really cool anymore AND it's in Texas. I saw a picture earlier today from the EU's delegation to SxSW. When governments go to music festivals, they aren't cool, not matter what government it is.

SxSW is for losers.

mikej, to random
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Illegal hotels told to not put spy cams in rooms.

BenCisco, to random
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“Does the Constitution of the USA set the president entirely above the law?” is not a question we should need to ask in court. It’s a question we should know the answer to already.

mikej,
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@BenCisco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZs3g3qIo

glennf, to random
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Bigots hate being called bigots https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/us/alito-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W00.DExy.pJKkRJ0aISn3&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

mikej,
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@glennf @Lyle I think you're still allowed to cast it as something shameful. You can think and say whatever you want about marriage. What you can't do it is deny that it is an actual lawful marriage.

Of course people can then call you a bigot in return. But nobody is stopping anybody from saying what they want about marriage equality.

ChrisPirillo, to random
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I reached into the back seat last night and sliced my thumb. Felt something jagged and couldn't figure out what it was. So, I reached back again at a different angle (so, at least my dumb ass was trying to be scientific about it). Someone - a nine-year-old who shall remain nameless - didn't tell daddy that she snapped off the metallic tip of a USB-C cable in the port and left it there. Have kids, they said.

mikej,
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@ChrisPirillo You stuck you hand in a usb and it didn't work so you flipped it over and stuck your hand back in. Did you have to go back to the way you held your hand the first time?

GossiTheDog, to random
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    mikej,
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    @GossiTheDog I saw someone post a 3 year old tweet of yours on imgur today.

    mikej,
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    @GossiTheDog https://imgur.com/gallery/qut40RN

    GottaLaff, to legal
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    I’ll be listening to arguments. MSNBC, for one, is carrying it live.

    I don’t know if I’ll live-post. I may just want to stay focused on the proceedings. We’ll see.

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    mikej,
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    @goinfawr @heidilifeldman @gdinwiddie @GottaLaff If they wrote in the name of a 20 year old do you think the electors should be allocated to the constitutionally ineligible candidate?

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    @goinfawr @heidilifeldman @gdinwiddie @GottaLaff I don't think the results matter. Ineligible candidates are ineligible.

    mikej,
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    @goinfawr @heidilifeldman @gdinwiddie @GottaLaff People can and do write in Mickey Mouse and it doesn't make him eligible to be president.

    mattferrell, to solar
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    Would you want to set up vertical solar panels where you live?

    Check out our video on it, here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LqizLQDi9BM&feature=youtu.be

    Or check out the page on our website, here: https://undecidedmf.com/have-we-been-doing-solar-wrong-all-along/

    mikej,
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    @mattferrell In some of the intro video, you showed tower mounted vertical installations. Of course they weren't bifacial, so they understandably didn't really come up again. They did seem interesting though, particularly if you could cover the exterior of a large building that has more vertical surface than horizontal.

    GrimmReality, to random
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    Truly nothing bespeaks the unbound, untetherable guerrilla spirit of gutty independent filmmakers who dare to tell stories the corporate media/industrial complex could never imagine telling more profoundly than the Independent Film Channel running a regular block of Everyone Loves Raymond episodes.

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    @GrimmReality I'm also unclear on why BBC America is showing Law and Order all day.

    Devilstower, to random
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    If you see someone walking around with their mouth hanging open, odds are they are an economic analyst. Because they always seem to be surprised.

    mikej,
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    @Sh4d0w_H34rt @Devilstower Lower than wage growth.

    mikaellundin, to random
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    Can we please go back to Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, Eudora and Netscape Gold?

    Write HTML with notepad.exe, with frameset and table layout. Upload to FTP with a CGI guestbook written in Perl.

    Delphi, or just plain Borland Pascal. Looking up programming concepts in books. Typing in some assembler code from a magazine that you’ve no idea how it works, but it makes a cool plasma pattern.

    Those were easier times.

    mikej,
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    @mikaellundin I'd love to see every computer come with a language and a 50 page book that assumes you're going to want to program it yourself. Make that language Visual Basic (or something that works like that: draw the window and hook up code, no writing code to draw UI unless/until you want to do more.)

    Nothing wrong with cli centered languages, but people like guis and it shouldn't be hard.)

    CultureDesk, to movies
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    Peter Benchley's bestselling novel, "Jaws," came out 50 years ago; the Steven Spielberg movie followed just a year later. Both were phenomenally successful and spawned the idea that sharks were malevolent creatures that preyed on unsuspecting swimmers. According to Gavin Naylor, Director of Florida Program for Shark Research at the University of Florida, the book and film also inspired a generation of scientists. Here's his story for @TheConversationUS.

    https://flip.it/LM.GUa

    #Movies #Books #Science #Sharks #Jaws @bookstodon

    mikej,
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    @CultureDesk @TheConversationUS @bookstodon Jaws is a complete refutation to the theory that the book is always better than the movie.

    mariyadelano, to Futurology
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    HELP: looking for sources on fascist aesthetics. Why fascists (Nazi Germany, other fascist countries, and current fascist movements) like minimalism, Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and architecture, and “elegant” beauty.

    And why they banned the kinds of art they banned.

    (PLEASE BOOST FOR REACH)

    mikej,
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    @mariyadelano When I moved to DC, the first exhibit I saw at the Smithsonian was the degenerate art exhibit. The got as much of the nazi version as they could and showed what Germany feared.

    We discussed it a lot in college too, when I took rhetoric. Spent a couple of weeks on Triumph of the Will and what the Nazis loved and hated.

    jef, to random
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    I've been watching a lot of old Westerns lately, and have noticed a trope: Pinkertons are heroes. Since this is the opposite of how most people see them today, it stands out. Makes me wonder if the Pinkerton Agency was paying people in Hollywood for good publicity.

    mikej,
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    @mina @jef Butch Cassidy wasn't born until 1866, so I don't think slave catching was what kept US marshals from chasing him.

    arstechnica, to random
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    Urban agriculture’s carbon footprint can be worse than that of large farms

    Saving on the emissions associated with shipping doesn't guarantee a lower footprint.

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/urban-agricultures-carbon-footprint-can-be-worse-than-that-of-large-farms/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    mikej,
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    @jann @timjan @arstechnica Maybe they were expecting people to read the first paragraph of the story before complaining about it.

    mattferrell, to renewableenergy
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    Residential wind has to have its moment someday, but when?

    Check out our video on it, here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SQKHJm7vd4E&feature=youtu.be

    Or check out the page on our website, here: https://undecidedmf.com/how-we-solved-the-home-wind-turbine-problem/

    mikej,
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    @bluGill @mattferrell This is not utility scale. It's not meant to be. Not everything is.

    For non utility, PV is always better today, but these people don't seem to be hurting anybody, they aren't taking anything away from stuff that works today, and perhaps they'll have something that that works in some cases and not in others.

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