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mikej

@mikej@mastodon.online

Mike J 👹🐀 🤘🏻
emmeyekayeee on twitter

(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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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 Except for the fact that most people can't/won't install a 150' tower to get into clean air, which was sort of the point of the video. Yes, it's less efficient, but it's more efficient than nothing which may be the alternative.

CelloMomOnCars, to iowa
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is a very red state. It’s also a powerhouse

"Iowa has been a wind energy behemoth for decades. Those spinning turbines powered 62% of Iowa’s electricity in 2022, according to the Energy Information Administration. It’s the second-largest producer of wind power in the country behind Texas, and it consumes the most wind power in the nation."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/13/politics/iowa-clean-energy-climate/index.html

mikej,
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@bluGill @CelloMomOnCars The Republican thinking on it is, "Democrats care more about fluffy little bunnies than people, so you can really stick it to those environmentalist weirdos by drilling for more oil and rolling coal."

There's no actual policy besides piss off dems.

glennf, to random
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Very excitedly upgraded to first class for free on Alaska tomorrow…in a tiny Embraer. I’ll take it!

mikej,
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@glennf The 175s aren't the tiny embraers you think of when you hear that name. A friend of mine used to drive one for Alaska (now works moving 737s around for Boeing.)

jef, to random
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Bench, bench, bench, Bench, Bench, BENCH https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/01/12/benches-bus-stops-berkeley-oakland-guerilla-makeshift-diy-activists

mikej,
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@jef They show one replaced with a homeless hostile metal bench with a divider.

Now we need guerilla cutting torch wielders. Welder wielders.

hacks4pancakes, to random

All packed up

mikej,
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@hacks4pancakes @rotopenguin My favorite line from BtVS is pretty much the reverse of that.

Buffy: Why don't I just put a stake through her heart?
Giles: She's not a vampire.
Buffy: Yeah? Well, you'd be surprised how many things that'll kill.

mathowie, to random
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I watched The Holdovers and it was a great slow burn of a movie, but what I loved most was it nailed the 1970s so perfectly, starting with fake audio pops in the background sound, a perfectly fake grainy film quality, a 4:3 like aspect ratio, and having characters smoking literally anywhere. Also, filming in Boston meant everything already looked old (I'm sure they CGI'd out billboards/signs).

Honestly, it nailed the period better than Tarantino did in the LA movie a few years back.

mikej,
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@mathowie So it emulates having a bad print, not 70s filmmaking.

mattferrell, to ChatGPT
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A clear sign of a company that has lost the thread: https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/press-releases/world-premiere-at-ces-volkswagen-integrates-chatgpt-into-its-vehicles-18048.

mikej,
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@mattferrell Don't worry they're probably going to fake it anyway, like they do everything else.

mattblaze, to random
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Currently blocking people piling on in replies to an 8 month old post of mine that was apparently just re-boosted by the Mastodon Scold Squad.

This is less fun than it sounds.

mikej,
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@mattblaze I'm much more annoyed by too many hashtags than not enough. Usually it's a mediocre artist who adds a hashtag for every single thing in the picture. I saw one in my timeline with 60 hashtags. Sixty! Better to have no hashtags than that many.

samlitzinger, to random
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Abcarian: Really young voters? You want to teach Democrats a lesson by letting Trump back into the White House?

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-01-03/polls-election-younger-voters-abortion-student-loan-climate-joe-biden-donald-trump

mikej,
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@MattFerrel @stylinstainless @samlitzinger And they've ignored it when he's used every lever of power he CAN use to get 75% of what they want. Look at student loan forgiveness.

georgetakei, to random

She’s almost there… just a little more thinking…

mikej,
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@Peternimmo @cathyginter @georgetakei I don't think she means a software developer. She's the person in the office who looks up the numeric code for the treatment given so the insurance company or government can pay the doctor/hospital.

mikej, to random
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Dear Republican candidates: do you believe each state should have the freedom to decide for itself if slavery or rape or murder or kidnapping should be against the law?

johnshirley2024, to random

Who knows indie record (as we used to call them) labels? What indie label might be interested in something that resembles Social Distortion, the Bad Seeds, Lou Reed, with a touch of southern rock? There's a new demo...

mikej,
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@kopper @johnshirley2024 Yes you CAN do it all yourself, the question is do you want to and is it worth your time and money?

It's really hard to just do it all yourself from the back of a van going to the next town to do a show.

Before you sign a contract you find out what they are giving you and what you give in return. Being able to think about music instead of trying to get your money out of paypal has an actual value. Just don't overpay for it.

johnshirley2024, to random

[I'm gloomy about this. The supreme court is overloaded with hard-right Catholics and that bunch has shown itself to be radically anti-abortion]

Supreme Court to decide whether abortion pill will remain widely available

The high court said it will hear a case brought by a conservative group opposed to the drug.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/13/supreme-court-to-decide-whether-abortion-pill-will-remain-widely-available-00131504

mikej,
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@johnshirley2024 It's good that they took these cases. It would be much worse had they not.

Case 1, ease of restrictions on getting mifepristone. A federal judge already ruled against making it easy to get. If it didn't go to the Supremes, that would be the last word on the subject. Thomas and Alito voted against hearing the case and thereby keeping stronger regulation.

damieng, (edited ) to 8bit
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Okay crowd.

What on earth is this machine?

It's not a KayPro 1/2/4, Northstar, TRS-80, Compaq, Osbourne, or Zenith.

Twin 5.25" full-height drives mounted either size of a small CRT. Almost portable form factor but not actually portable.

Some kind of forgotten S-100 clone from the early 80s? Closest seems to be an "Kaycomp II" prototype but still not 100%.

The image on the CRT is superimposed, almost certainly monochrome.

mikej,
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@gnutelephony @damieng Lugables

cs, (edited ) to random
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Do you use the word “tump”? As in: the ‘coons were chasing the ‘possum around the side yard and tumped over the garbage cans. Mildred didn’t care because it was Leroy’s job to get them to the curb.

mikej,
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@cs Used it a lot as a kid. Disappeared from my vocabulary about the same time "fixin' to" did.

brewsterkahle, to random
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⚡ 12 cents per mile ⚡ for electricity-- seems like a good deal.

(depending on how much power costs). Hooked a "watt meter" in the 110v cord to my 2014 electric smart car, and have been buzzing around San Francisco for a couple of days.

measured ~3 miles per kWh, and this site said 35cents/kWh in San Francisco last month. (2x national avg)

https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/averageenergyprices_sanfrancisco.htm

mikej,
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@jef @brewsterkahle Call it 1.5 kwh/hr to charge. That car has a 17.5kwh battery.

12ish hours?

RickiTarr, to random
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What is a word that you had read, but after hearing it spoken aloud, you realized you were pronouncing completely wrong in your head?

Mine is pretty Embarrassing, and is just one of many!

MISLED! I'm not even sure how to type this out for it to make sense, but it was something like:

Myz-ulled

mikej,
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@RickiTarr Mediocre, but I was 9 years old, so I cut myself some slack.

dell, to random
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SCOOP: An obscure White House program surveilling over a trillion US call records each year is under fire. Sen. Wyden is challenging its legality, urging DOJ to stop prohibiting him from disclosing info he says will "outrage" Congress.

https://www.wired.com/story/hemisphere-das-white-house-surveillance-trillions-us-call-records/

mikej,
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@dell He can't be prosecuted for anything he says on the floor of congress. There is literally nothing the DOJ can do to stop him.

When Republicans put revenge porn into the congressional record, why worry about what the DOJ has to say?

scalzi, to random
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Watched the first episode of a highly regarded television show that people I know and like thought was great and I was absolutely fucking bored with it, which goes to show that either individual tastes are ultimately idiosyncratic, or that all my friends and at least some television critic have shit taste in TV, honestly it's a coin flip which it is

mikej,
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@EvieAlways @scalzi I've think I've watched the first episode four times, but none of the rest of it.

I read the first two books and enjoyed them, but at that point I didn't feel a huge need to continue.

kboyd, (edited ) to Wyze
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Mulling my planned camera upgrade that is happening this month.

Body will be either a Canon R6 Mark II or R8.

Lenses… undecided. If I pick the R6 Mark II, I can only get the kit lens (RF 24-105mm f/4-7.1 IS STM, non-L-series)

If I pick the R8:

Choice 1: RF 24-50mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM, with a RF 100-400mm f/5.6-8 IS USM (neither are L series)

Choice 2: body only + RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM

Choice 3: body only + RF 14-35mm f/4 L IS USM

So many choices…

mikej,
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@kboyd The non profit I teach at is ~$250/yr for the dinghies, another ~$200 or so for keelboats. No day fee. And those prices are family membership.

So it is possible to sail cheaply, but we're pretty rare.

atrupar, to random
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New in Public Notice: Please get Vivek Ramaswamy off my TV, and other debate thoughts https://www.publicnotice.co/p/gop-debate-vivek-ramaswamy-annoying

mikej,
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@atrupar That fact that decent people recoil in disgust is seen as one of his positives.

mcc, to random
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Wild-eyed, polite-society-self-ostracizing take: What if the explanation for why Democrats are surging in local elections at the same time Joe Biden is tanking in the polls is that Joe Biden fucking sucks

mikej,
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@mcc I think he's pretty darned good. https://navigatorresearch.org/lowering-drug-prices-and-investing-in-infrastructure-are-most-popular-and-known-biden-accomplishments/

grammargirl, to Etymology
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I just heard someone say "chocker block" instead of "chock-a-block." That's a new one to me.

A chock is a piece or block of wood, and "chock-a-block" is a nautical term "said of two blocks of tackle run so closely that they touch," according to Etymonline.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/chock-full#etymonline_v_11300

Surprisingly, it doesn't look like it's from the same "chock" as "chock-full."

mikej,
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@grammargirl These days sailors say "two blocked" (which I've had people misunderstand as "tube locked").
Common on Laser sailboats going upwind with the main trimmed all the way in so the block on the boom is touching the block on the traveler.

molly0xfff, (edited ) to random
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• enter password for password manager
• verify from email that it's me signing in from a "new location" (VPN)
• use security key
• use password from manager to sign into actual service
• complete image CAPTCHA
• receive text message with 2FA code
• unlock phone with fingerprint to get code
• access service

mikej,
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@unlofl @molly0xfff And one thing you can never change if the service gets hacked. Try revoking your fingerprints.

mattblaze, to random
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It's election day in much of the US. Today we vote mostly on a motley variety of state and local contests, less high profile nationally, but often with profound impact on the lives of local voters.

Elections don't happen without an army of poll workers and county officials. Please thank them when you see them today. They're you're neighbors, giving up their day to make sure you have a voice.

mikej,
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@mattblaze Live cams of ballot counting in Seattle:
https://kingcounty.gov/en/legacy/depts/elections/about-us/security-and-accountability/watch-us-in-action

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