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timesandseasons

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JWP-stan. Creature that emerged from the alkaline artemisia barrens ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

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timesandseasons, to random
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Spending part of my morning writing nastygrams to businesses nearby that don't have bicycle parking but should. So far I've got the liquor store, a grocery store, and the urgent care. I figure it doesn't hurt to ask.

timesandseasons,
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The liquor store says they'll get bike parking if the budget allows, which it better since a $200 staple or two is a drop in the bucket considering they brought in $236.12 million in "profit" last year.

timesandseasons, to random
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The American experience is biking through an intersection with 32 car lanes strewn with little bits of plastic and metal while a person sign-dances on a corner with a sign that says "Auto collision experts" while Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams plays.

timesandseasons, to random
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After spending a week in the UK I'm less interested in carrots for increasing active transportation and more interested in sticks to get people out of cars.

timesandseasons,
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@Reshirams_Rad_Slam They have sub-par bicycling and walking infrastructure by US standards and still have loads of people out on bikes and foot

timesandseasons, to random
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Airlines sure love building websites and customer support services that don't work.

timesandseasons,
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Delta's Android app sends you to an SMS thread for customer support and it has a fairly competent AI with an easy escape hatch to real people. Their iOS app has an in-app messaging thread with a garbage AI that tries to integrate with their garbage website (their log-in service is down today).

timesandseasons, to random
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I'm reading a blog and the author is using the pronoun "it" for corporations and Mitt Romney would be so disappointed.

timesandseasons, to random
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When the government wants to seize a golf course right next to a train station: ๐Ÿค 

...and replace it with a high speed road :pensive_cowboy:โ€‹

timesandseasons, to random
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A little bit of single-family-home brain I've been experiencing: the state drivers license division doesn't have a spot for apartment number in the address field when you apply for your state ID, and the county election division requires the apartment number on your voting registration, so if you live in an apartment you can't register to vote at the same time you get your state ID.

cshentrup, to random
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these clouds are all "leaking". i've never seen anything like this. what does meteorologist mastodon have to say?

timesandseasons,
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@jjjhs3000 @cshentrup Oh, yes, the Portlanders have been talking about that today.https://pdx.social/@ingalls/112202787726979755

timesandseasons, to random
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A "fun" tidbit from the local paper: the utility had to halt transition plans to clean energy because it's paying out so much in wildfire damage settlements that it has no money. So since it can't afford clean energy, it's burning more coal, making wildfire risk worse ๐Ÿ™ƒ

Inextinguishable_Ravings, to random
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@GuybrushFlowers @MrHandyMan @Mike_the_Cleric

This is a wierd question but I thinking of redoing linux dual boot. My wifi card is currently broken so I am connecting to the internet by using my phone as tether via USB. This works suprisingly well with windows. Can anyone speak to using tethering with Linux?
It is on the arch wiki and there is a good shot it works but I only have one laptop right now and I really don't want to run pure arch.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Android_tethering
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=276565

timesandseasons,
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@Inextinguishable_Ravings @GuybrushFlowers @MrHandyMan @Mike_the_Cleric Besides but related to the question, if you want to get a USB Wi-Fi antenna that isn't your phone, it's important to look up beforehand whether it works on Linux. Lots aren't in the kernel and compiling your own driver modules isn't fun.

timesandseasons, to random
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Apparently Ammon Bundy is Rep. Celeste Maloy's cousin lol

fivey, to random
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Visa and Mastercard agree to $30 billion settlement that will lower merchant fees

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/26/economy/visa-mastercard-swipe-fee-settlement/index.html

timesandseasons,
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@fivey > the settlement gives merchants the ability to impose surcharges on customers, depending on what kind of Visa or Mastercard card they use

Ew gross

timesandseasons, to random
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The local paper sent out a letter saying what their election strategy is going to be, and there's this tidbit I like:

At some point, voting started to be viewed as work (the stateโ€™s GOP caucus earlier this month didnโ€™t help).

โ€œGet out and vote.โ€

โ€œDo your duty.โ€

โ€œShow up.โ€

What a gift we have been given. Every year we get to choose.

timesandseasons,
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Also the election strategy seems pretty decent though a bit unambitious. First, all election coverage will not be paywalled. Second, they'll give their stories to smaller news outlets all across the state. Third, they're partnering with the local Telemundo station for Spanish translations. And fourth, they'll publish candidate scorecards on various issues based on workshops with neighbors.

timesandseasons, to random
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You'd think that for being a 27 year old product, Microsoft would have made it so Outlook doesn't crash all the time and opens without long delays on their own proprietary operating system, but, alas.

timesandseasons, to random
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The local paper has a story on a bunch of people opposing a proposed reservoir and, while I have no idea what the real pros and cons of the reservoir are, I have 0 empathy for these people because their neighborhood looks like this

timesandseasons, to random
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Planners designing a development that has neither adequate car nor bicycle parking

Ariana Grande saying It's equality.

Reshirams_Rad_Slam, to random
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Wonder if plants have more diversity than animals because they don't move especially in archipelagic settings. The converse with birds because it's the most mobile.

timesandseasons,
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@Reshirams_Rad_Slam Plant populations move lots. It's slower than animals but still far faster than the timescales evolution works at.

timesandseasons, to random
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Seen on a can from the grocery store

timesandseasons,
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@kindcat It's encouraged

jcphoenix, to apple
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After the EU went in, looks like it's the DoJ's turn.

U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/technology/apple-doj-lawsuit-antitrust.html?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.eU0.b_NE.7fKLrurKiY7a&smid=url-share

(gifted link)

timesandseasons,
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@MrHandyMan @jcphoenix Yeah, the closed ecosystem is the only thing keeping people like me away from Apple products. If they allowed applications like KDE Connect, true Firefox, launchers, app stores, file explorers, and SMS/MMS chat apps, then I'd be very likely to buy an iPhone.

Neblib, to Halloween
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Happy start of (or for those below the equator) everyone!

timesandseasons,
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@Neblib @Inextinguishable_Ravings Yeah, vernal and autumnal are just synonyms for spring and fall respectively. March equinox is the inclusive way to name it.

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