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tokensane

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Married, software dev, geek, science fiction fan, Linux user. searchable.

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AnthonyFStevens, to random
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

IT'S ON!

4th July - Lest we forget

Austerity, Brexit, Covid Lockdown Parties, PPE Scandal, Raw Sewage in UK Waterways & Coastal Areas, Economic Crash, Record Inflation, Record Interest Rates, Cost of Living Crisis, Pensions Decimated, Mortgage Rises, NHS in Crisis, Schools Crumbling, Housing Crisis, Scandals, Cover ups.

Enough is Enough! It's time for change.

Vote 🌹 ❎️ 🗳

tokensane,
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@AnthonyFStevens Things can only get wetter!

tokensane, to random
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Right-wing Tory MP discovers that the NHS can't afford his care.

> ... his hands were originally provided by the NHS, but he has since gone outside the NHS for new hands, likening the original prosthetic hands he was given to "something out of medieval times".

Perhaps if the NHS were properly funded he wouldn't have had to do that. And others, who can't afford spiffy new hands, might be able to get them too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69037424

lbflyawayhome, to random
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Ladybird cover stories, 1962-3
The Junior Science series

Artist: Harry Wingfield

tokensane,
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@lbflyawayhome I think I had all 4. Not quite sure about the flight one, but definitely the other three.

Daojoan, to random
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Social Darwinism twists the biological theory of natural selection into a blunt club to batter the less fortunate.

It ignores the complex environmental, social, and economic factors that shape outcomes in the modern world.

Most of all, it absolves us of any responsibility to help our fellow humans.

It’s the philosophy that drove the financial crisis. The same philosophy that drove the NSDAP.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-brain-rot-of-social-darwinism

tokensane,
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@Daojoan
See also "The Day the Universe Changed" episode 8 by James Burke, which covers the history of Darwin's theory and its subsequent abuse. https://archive.org/details/the-day-the-universe-changed-s01e08-the-way-we-are

tokensane,
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@elpolacodesplegado @Daojoan
"The rich man at his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them high or lowly, and ordered their estate".

Used to be the 2nd verse of the hymn "All Things Bright And Beautiful".

laprice, to scifi
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Job Requirement.
Journey level bioreactor cultivator.
Responsibilities include sewage, sanitation, water cycle, on call for contamination and containment incidents.

Prior experience with municipal scale infrastructure installations is helpful but not required for the right candidate. Familiarity with engineeered biological soil cultures and bioactive remediation to graduate level is a requirement.
Reports to Habitation Duty Officer.

tokensane,
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@laprice The UK could do with a few of those today.

GottaLaff, to Canada
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Ugh, totally wasted open house. Lookee-loo City. I'm so glad this was our last one before we leave. The rest will be after, and the house will be vacant.

Sigh.

So, with that, I'll perk myself up (and hopefully you) with another dopey #CountdownToCanada gif.

I can't believe it'll be a week from tomorrow!

Have a good evening, everyone!
#Canada 🇨🇦

video/mp4

tokensane,
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@GottaLaff
> Apparently people are buying houses with pools.

If I had a pool, I'd definitely use it to buy a house. 😉

Just keep hanging in there.

tokensane, to random
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driftini, to random
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lmaooooo https://vxtwitter.com/yifever/status/1790941768617439339

tokensane,
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@driftini Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo - Andy Finkel.

sandlapper37, to random
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tokensane,
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@sandlapper37 Sadly it seems they just decide that their circumstances make them a special case. https://www.thedailybeast.comthe-women-who-leave-anti-abortion-picket-lines-to-get-abortions

“All of us who do abortions see patients quite regularly who tell us, ‘I’m not pro-choice, but I just can’t continue this pregnancy,’” said [a Dr.] “We’ve even seen people coming into the clinic off the protester lines to get their abortion, then return to protesting outside the clinic.”

GottaLaff, to animals
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Some-bodee got his pre-Big Moving Day haircut today!

tokensane,
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@GottaLaff Well, no point in shipping all that hair.

tokensane, to random
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Latest underworld role: the Data Mule.

Ms Chapman, 49, allegedly ran a "laptop farm" from her home, where she would log into laptops issued by the companies so that it appeared the North Korean workers from other countries were physically in the US.

BBC News - US woman accused of stealing identities to give North Koreans jobs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-69024813

tokensane, to random
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Facts are a good antidote to moral panic.

BBC News - Internet use linked to higher wellbeing, global study suggests - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89z2v0pjl3o

paninid, to random
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Blunders that lead to per

tokensane,
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@publictorsten @paninid

The Wikipedia article has the full history, including a link to a newspaper clipping about the sermon (ref 3).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Social_Sins

tokensane, to random
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Had to turn off alerts on my tablet last night to get some sleep.

tokensane, (edited ) to random
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I live on the south coast of the UK. Drove out to a reasonably dark spot with a good view of the north. There were several cars already there. In between headlights I managed to get some decent pics:

tokensane, to random
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told a meeting of oil company executives that if they gave him a billion $ he would repeal all of Biden's environmental laws.

How is this not solicitation of a bribe? https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/bribery says that this is a crime even if no bribe is paid. Normally campaign contributions aren't bribes because there is no explicit quid quo pro (whatever tacit ones might exist). But this one was a straighforward offer said out loud and recorded.

SoftwareTheron, to random

Solar panels question:
How resilient are they in the face of a Carrington Event?

tokensane,
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@SoftwareTheron Broadly, not an issue. Geomagnetic storms induce DC currents in very long cables, which is a problem for AC circuits. The Carrington event induced voltages were ~4v/km, so a single solar panel won't have a problem. A very large station might have a few volts in the cables running across it, but even then I can't see it being an issue in a system designed for variable DC votages anyway.

CausesEffects, to animals

tokensane,
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@CausesEffects The clue is in the name!

tokensane, to random
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@georgetakei This might be of interest.

BBC News - The Amache National Historic Site: How an abandoned confinement site became the newest US national park - BBC Travel
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240506-the-amache-national-historic-site-how-an-abandoned-prison-became-the-newest-us-national-park

Intaglio_Dragon, to random
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Anyone else in the fediverse take language lessons on ? I achieved a 2000-day streak there this past Saturday, which is the longest contiguous streak I've ever managed.

It would have been even higher than this, if not for one holiday (Christmas Day?) years ago where I forgot to complete at least one lesson, and I didn't have any Streak Freezes equipped. I've had to use a few Streak Freezes in order to preserve this streak, but for the most part I'm diligent about completing at least two lessons every day.

tokensane,
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@Intaglio_Dragon Yup. I'm doing German.

ChrisMayLA6, to cooperatives
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When I was assembling my last book (Corporations: A research agenda), I became quite interested in Mondragon in Spain as an alternative way of organising businesses (and featured them in the book).

Somehow I missed this recent profile on the Spanish Cooperative conglomerate. It make for an interesting read when we are told there is no other way of running firms in capitalism.... because clearly there is!


https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/24/in-the-us-they-think-were-communists-the-70000-workers-showing-the-world-another-way-to-earn-a-living

tokensane,
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@Cirdan @ChrisMayLA6 Which gets its money from where?

tokensane,
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@Cirdan @ChrisMayLA6 Hmmm. Maybe.

tokensane,
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@Cirdan @ChrisMayLA6 Like I said, I'd be interested to read your paper.

tokensane,
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@Cirdan @ChrisMayLA6 Now reading Ostrom.

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