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vpermar

@vpermar@mastodon.online

Editor of trailers, films and other editable things. Science groupie. Thought I was a nerd, but I might be a dork.

I am also at @vinc, where I post about weird cars.

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vpermar, to movies
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Every year, right about when one is getting fed up with LA life and the film industry… here comes John Williams to the Hollywood Bowl and makes you fall in love all over again.

ai6yr, to random
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These "must take all" ads on are a hoot. I mean, I could see someone wanting one Volkswagen seat, but not someone looking for 30

vpermar,
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@ai6yr looks like a challenge for and

pbump, to random
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Somehow, a lot of Republicans have recently become more convinced that a majority of SCOTUS was appointed by Democratic presidents. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/05/americans-polling-supreme-court/

vpermar,
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@pbump lost in these kind of studies might be the fact that the percentage of voters who self identify as “Republicans” keeps falling. In a way, they are becoming a self selecting group, which may distort the results.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-number-of-americans-identifying-as-republican-is-the-lowest-its-been-in-a-decade-gallup-poll-11617812129

daringfireball, to random
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Allison Johnson Reviews the $1,800 Google Pixel Fold
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/26/pixel-fold-review

vpermar,
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@daringfireball not a fan of flip phones either, but I still wish this tech was more directed towards creating easily pocketable phones, rather than portable tablets. The phone goes in my pocket multiple times a day. The tablet leaves my house a few times a year.

w7voa, to Russia
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President Putin is to make a statement Monday evening. https://ria.ru/20230626/putin-1880585158.html

vpermar,
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@w7voa I can’t stop myself from doing a live adaptation of all these events to American history equivalents, and they get more hilarious by the hour…

“President Bush says Blackwater Group fighters can join the US military or move to Canada”

AbandonedAmerica, to random
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Never make the mistake of thinking the enemy of your enemy is your friend - but, if it's any consolation, watching two of your enemies tear chunks out of each other is still pretty awesome.

vpermar,
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@AbandonedAmerica imagine that Blackwater had decided in 2005 that they knew how to handle the Irak war better than the Pentagon, and they were marching over Florida on their way to DC.

I don’t know how a government comes back from that…

chrismessina, to random
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Probably the dumbest day to blow the whistle about the US's secret possession of "intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin". 👽

'Grusch said it was dangerous for this “eighty-year arms race” to continue in secrecy because it “further inhibits the world populace to be prepared for an unexpected, non-human intelligence contact scenario.”'

https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/

vpermar,
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@chrismessina it took about a year for a kid to spill the beans on the war in Ukraine through a gaming chat group, and we have been collecting alien technology for decades totally under the radar.

Yeah, I am sure it is all true…

augieray, to random
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“While society yawns, impatient to move on from the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans still play disability roulette. About 1 in 10 of the 110,000 people who catch COVID this week in the United States… No longer a mass death event, is an ongoing mass disability event. Every seven days, 25,000 more people join the 10 million in our country suffering memory loss, heart problems, dizziness, extreme fatigue, and more owing to the virus.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/26/opinion/long-covid-turns-three-americans-play-disability-roulette/

vpermar,
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@augieray I finally came down with COVID last week. Fortunately, and thanks to the vaccination, I barely noticed it. To the point that I almost did not test. A cold last month was way, way, way worse. This, plus how proactive one has to be now in order to report a positive, makes me very weary of the official case figures.

paul, to random
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I’ve run out of room in the monitor box closet.

vpermar,
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@paul you might have to start moving them to the monitor box garage…

paul, to random
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Any reason to not scrub and recycle all my <= 2TB 3.5" SATA spinners? I generally keep old hardware forever but just can't imagine me ever using any of those again.

vpermar,
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@paul as my spinners get old I buy cases like the ones below and keep them for long term storage of projects that are not crucial, but worth keeping around just in case.

ORICO 5 Packs 3.5inch Hard Drive Case Protective Box Storage Case Cover Organization Shell for Shockproof Slashproof and Dustproof for Gray-PHI-5S https://a.co/d/cz6SHPH

vpermar,
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@paul your city will likely have a drive through drop off point for e-waste. Give google a try. Many are only on weekends, at least in Los Angeles.

mastodonmigration, to random
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Update

According to Variety (https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-removes-legacy-blue-check-marks-celebrities-1235589174/), these celebrities lost their blue check: Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Selena Gomez, Bill Gates, Justin Timberlake, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé, and Donald Trump.

Still blue checked: Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Ellen DeGeneres, Miley Cyrus, LeBron James and Tim Cook. Unclear who's ponied up the $8 for this dubious honor.

vpermar,
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@mastodonmigration some managers are going to be calling some agents…

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