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skolima

@skolima@hachyderm.io

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GottaLaff, to DaftPunk
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passed a Republican-written bill that would tie $14.3 billion in military aid to for its war with Hamas to domestic spending cuts, defying a veto threat from President Biden and bipartisan opposition in the Senate.

Republicans pushed through the measure on a mostly party-line vote of 226 to 196

https://nyti.ms/3sn2DTG

skolima,
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@GottaLaff Non-paywall https://archive.ph/7VSKC

"House Passes Aid Bill for Israel but Not for Ukraine
The Republican-led House approved a $14.3 billion measure for Israel’s war with Hamas, tying the aid to spending cuts. The Senate does not plan to take it up."

ryanc, (edited ) to random

USB ports in wall sockets at home?

(boost for reach)

skolima,
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@cstross @Zeugs @dashdsrdash @ryanc @nf3xn Many modern builds will now have 3 outlets that can top 10kW, though: the air conditioning / heat pump, the induction hob (for very short bursts) and the car charging point (11 kW for 5-8 hours at a time). Those in EU use connectors and sockets with a 1960's design standard, but the power draw is not something that'd be expected in a house before the "electrify everything" push.

mattblaze, to random
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Every single time I see the name "Harlan Crow" come up in the news, I mistakenly think he must be a comic book supervillian, and then I remember, oh, right, that's actually correct.

skolima,
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@mattblaze Can't not see him running Harlan's World in Altered Carbon.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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Do any of y'all own a fully electric car? What has your experience been like?

skolima,
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@BlackAzizAnansi Got 5k km in a so far. Love it. It's bigger than I'd prefer, that's my only complaint. I mostly do motorway driving. Charging infra could be better (and marked on road signs) - I have to plan charging stops ahead instead of just pulling up at a station. But I tend to plan trips beforehand anyway. And it charges like a beast - can pull 240 kW current, fastest on the market right now.

jon, to random
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Good night from Santiago de Compostela

It’s still raining

I’m not religious, so I don’t get this place. But it’s beautiful in its way

skolima,
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@jon I'm an atheist, from a catholic background. Walking the pilgrimage trail to Santiago is one of my top planned things to do. One of the only routes in Europe where most of the infra for a pedestrian traveler remains in place.

skolima,
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@jon Not too bad either. Horseback would also be interesting, though quite likely the most expensive.

One of the designated routes starts from a XI century monastery in a small town where my family hails from (Mogilno) and I keep making plans...

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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Where were your eight great grandparents from?

skolima, (edited )
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@BlackAzizAnansi 4: Provinz Posen, Kingdom of Prussia. 1 each: Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in Austria-Hungary; Congress Poland in Russian Empire, Kyiv in Russian Empire, Vilnius in Russian Empire. They all spoke Polish and passed away in the Republic of Poland.

SecurityWriter, to random

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    skolima,
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    @SecurityWriter With low powered cars I've never noticed any difference. After a few tries, I've always stuck to the cheapest supported fuel.

    skolima,
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    @SecurityWriter All my petrol/diesel cars were very budget ones, so putting in more expensive fuel would have been counterproductive 😅 TBH, first time I'm seeing PS as power measure. I've had 47 kW, then 71 kW, then 103 kW. Now it's electric 168 kW and that hits differently - but no one is trying to sell me premium electricity for it 😉

    hanse_mina, to Ukraine
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    Magomed Musaev, the owner of Russian Forbes, claims to have purchased the entire Media Group, reports The Washington Post, referencing five audio and one video recording of the businessman talking about the deal during private conversations with his business partners.

    “You understand when you have in your hands the key to the most authoritative global brand, this key will give me access to anyone.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/20/forbes-sale-musaev-russia/

    skolima,
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    @hanse_mina paywall-free version https://archive.ph/tAyZA

    fox, to random
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    skolima, (edited )
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    @fox It's by now so ingrained in the American vernacular (and pop culture, including movies) that it is possibly only noticeable to outsiders.

    The Brits, however, especially Northerners, are likely to address an all-male group by "hey ladies!".

    Rhube, to random
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    Just heard a supposedly British man on a US TV show mispronounce Worcestershire Sauce and...

    I cannot.

    How can there still be people in the world - people studying an accent! - who don't know that we don't pronounce all the letters in our place names, and SPECIFICALLY that it's WOOSTER sauce when said in a British mouth??

    Hearing 'Worcestershire Sauce' in a British accent, with 4 syllables for the first word, sounds RIDICULOUS.

    skolima,
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    @cstross @djfiander @tempest @Rhube There's a street named after Reagan in most Polish cities. We locals always struggle to remember how to spell it.

    skolima, to poland
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    Raising a glass a bubbly to the initial results of the elections in .

    cstross, to random
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    Just checked Twitter (because reasons) and was prompted to post a 12th anniversary tweet: So I did, as follows (the first line was wet-farted automatically by Dilbert Stark's site):

    > Do you remember when you joined X? I do!

    And Fuck You, @elonmusk, for crashing the party and smearing shit on the walls.

    PS: I'll delete this account for good on the 1st anniversary of my arrival on Mastodon, November 5th.

    Follow me at @cstross

    skolima,
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    @cstross Deletion might be problematic. I've done it before musk killed API access, it still took 4 months of running a script. Most apps can only access the last 1000 tweets.

    ryanc, to random

    UK folks, how much downtime should I expect moving my mobile number to a new provider?

    skolima,
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    @ryanc Moving from Giffgaff to 3 used to take about 1h downtime. Granted, last time I've done it was 2014.

    futurebird, to random
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    Do you ever think about abandoned tech trees? Like how no one is working to design better drafting compasses or vellum? No one is perfecting vacuum tubes. No one is laser focused on methods to speed paint and accurate portrait by hand to send out for marriage proposals.

    Technological leaps make entire areas of research pointless— but

    What if just a bit further down the line on the old tech tree there was some bigger breakthrough we’ll never see? I think about this A LOT.

    skolima,
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    @steeph @OShaqHennessy @hybridhavoc @futurebird In Toyota cars circa 2005 it went as far as buffering the whole CD in a minute or two after it was loaded into the tray. No more spinning afterwards. And I think it buffered them onto a hard drive, I think I recall you could play back the last few CDs without putting them back into the media unit.

    mariatta, to TeslaMotors
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    Someone asked me how much it costs to charge our (Hyundai ). 🤔

    I just did some basic calculation today.

    After 4 months, we drove it for 3,431.5 km.
    3431.5 km x 14 kWh/100km = 481.41 kWh

    Energy rate from BCHydro: 9.75¢/kWh for the first 1350 kWh, and 14.08¢/ kWh after that.

    Assuming the higher rate:
    481.41 kwh x 14.08 ¢/kWh = 6778.25¢ = 67$ (CAD)

    Comparing if we still drove our RAV4:
    3431.5 km x 9.5 L/100 km x 2$/L = 651$ (CAD)

    skolima,
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    @mariatta Those are some really good numbers!

    After first 4 weeks with my (sibling model to yours), I've already got 3976 km. However, that's mostly motorway, long distance, so largely quick chargers. 848 kWh (measured by chargers) gives an average consumption of 21.75 kWh/100km. Total cost (home plus fast chargers) 1455 PLN, which would be 452 CAD. Cheaper than an ICE, but not by much.

    However, it's much more comfortable.

    jon, to random
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    Question ONLY for followers of mine using Android, Windows and Linux

    What apps are you using to access Mastodon? Are they free? And would you recommend them to others?

    And on Windows and Linux are the apps significantly better than the Mastodon advanced web interface for you?

    (I know the Mac / iOS app environment well already)

    skolima,
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    @jon @elk both on windows and on Android. I've tried several, none of them fit me. I do enjoy its look, which might be a big factor.

    There's some things that I have to drop back to the web interface for. Mute lists and posting big images come to mind.

    garius, to random
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    Ah yes. GOD FORBID we lose the massive local cultural landmark that is...

    ...the abandoned Texaco garage people keep flytipping at.

    skolima,
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    @kentindell @garius Come on, those really should be done underground by now.

    (sincerely, a Pole who called local road planning and the local councilor to make them re-issue fiber rollout permits with "under the ground only" condition - and TBH they're not supposed to be allowed on poles any more)

    fox, to random
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    skolima,
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    @fox Wait, the name is also a problem? Guess I shouldn't be surprised... Sincerely, Lezsek

    Lazarou, to random
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    But this was the Tories' intention all along, it's GOP style voter disenfranchisement right down to the Racism and Ableism.
    Can parochial Brit commentators see that or are they happy in their twee little island world, always surprised by what tricks the Tory party drops on them, having never looked beyond our shit stained waters?
    #UKPOL #Tories #VoterID
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/voter-id-in-england-led-to-racial-and-disability-discrimination-report-finds

    skolima,
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    @markusl @Lazarou Non-paywall link https://archive.ph/50dBi

    ZachWeinersmith, to random
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    BOY, sinfest got weird.

    skolima,
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    @ZachWeinersmith The fuck is wrong with this site.

    jon, to random
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    Welcome to Autumn 2023 Day 08, 8 Sep, London - Paris – Nuits-sous-Ravières

    Today I’m crossing these borders
    Calais-Fréthun 🇫🇷 - Ashford International 🇬🇧

    Map of today’s route
    https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-political-tour-autumn-2023_933893#7/50.145/1.369

    Today’s Live Blog
    https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-autumn-2023-day-08/

    skolima,
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    @jon I was going to ask if it ever did, but then I remembered before Brexit it even worked in the car train while it was under the Chanel.

    skolima,
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    @jon Different service for LeShuttle then? There's a 5 year gap between me being on that and me taking the Eurostar so I can't compare directly. But for LeShuttle the WiFi worked very well.

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    skolima,
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    @SecurityWriter @Adam_Cadmon1 Yup. But in the end, his motivations don't matter. His actions are the problem.

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