I have returned home from Loma Linda hospital where for a while I was intubated in the ICU close to death with pneumonia encompassing entire right lung. Now on 2 liters of oxygen (down from 10). Lower 1/3 of right lung is still collapsed.
After extubation, whenever a new shift of nurses would come on they'd ask me questions to see if I was oriented, like name, month and year, and who is the President. I didn't ask what they do with patients who think Trump is president.
@weaselx86@danak6jq So glad you're doing better. Most of the responses I can think of to your Trump question don't seem appropriate just at the moment. Please take care. -L
E.g. page 64:
"The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge."
@Hawkmoon@GeorgeStyles@jwtraphagan
Yeah, I was never good at memorization of random facts. I learn and understand patterns. That's one reason I'm a math/computer guy and not a history guy.
I've heard there are patterns in history, too; but that's not how it's taught in grade school.
@feditips
The behavior on mastodon.social (using Firefox on Linux) changed yesterday and is still broken today. After drilling down into a post, when I return "Back" to my "Home" display it does not return me to where I was -- usually it goes to the very top (most recent posts) of the feed.
This despite me being in "slow mode" (it does still show me the "n new items" prompt at the top).
This is annoying because I have to then scroll down trying to find where I was.
If you're comfortable using github, you could give a thumbs up and/or post about your experiences in the thread? (I've just given it a thumbs up by the way.)
@lauren
I happened to see the ST-TOS Assignment Earth episode with Gary Seven last night, and noticed something: one of Seven's fake ID's was for the NSA, but IIRC the existence of the NSA was still classified until the mid-1970's, long after the episode first aired.
@lauren
Mark Kampe has a story about going to DC to install Data Secure Unix on a PDP-11. I think it was at NSA but I'm not sure.
He says they put him in the back of a windowless van and drove around the city for a while before arriving in the garage of the destination building.
When being escorted down the hallway inside the building, one of the escorts walked 20 feet ahead calling out "RED BADGE, RED BADGE", and doors from the hall into rooms along the way would slam shut ahead of them.
@feditips
On mastodon.social, after several hours away from my browser for sleep, I returned to see 51 new notifications pending. I clicked on that and a bunch of them appeared, but some were missing, replaced with "...".
When I reached the first "..." I clicked there and got some message at the bottom-left of my screen saying "Rate Limited, try back in [5 minutes]".
Why? Is that a bug? It seems pretty ridiculous to "rate limit" me for two clicks in eight hours...
@feditips
I tried to reproduce the problem last night (leaving the tab open and idle for several hours) with the console open including the "network" option enabled. It did not recur.
But today there were not any omitted ("...") posts, either, which was part of what happened yesterday. (I don't really think that is likely to have had anything to do with it, but I don't know)
Until it happens again I'll assume it was a transient problem, probably load-related.
@feditips
I figured out how to verify my mastodon account from my github profile page. There were two problems, solved thus:
(1) Just put the simple mastodon page URL into the github profile "webpage" field; do NOT use the html source mastodon gives you on the profile/verify page.
(2) After doing (1), delete the github URL from the mastodon profile and then re-add it, to force it to try again to find the link in the github page.
Yeah, I think github automatically has the rel="me" attribute on all its links to other profiles.
This was supposed to be the standard on the internet in order to aid cross-account verification, but many big players refused to use it.
The verification happens when you save your Mastodon profile, so you have to add your account to the github profile before you save the profile with the link to github.
Our experiment in democracy is at a critical juncture, brought by a demographic shift unprecedented in our history: from white majority, to white plurality without majority.
The next three years will determine the character of the United States for decades to come.
Until recently the demographic majority of voters here has been white.
Not coincidentally, under our system of elections by majority, most powers of office have historically been held in white hands.
1/12
So historically there was little dissonance between these two concepts of our nation:
(1) a nation guided by the will of the majority ("Democracy")
(2) a nation that mainly vests its power in white male leadership ("White Guys In Charge")
But as our demographics shift from white majority to white plurality, democracy no longer guarantees White Guys In Charge... which makes it an existential threat to the white supremacist way of life.
2/12
In the babbling madness
Of Insurrection Breath
Tweets the all time loser
Fearing ego death
Oh, his lawyers are going to prison
And he's feelin' like he'll drown
Old Donnie's lost his marbles
And the train it won't stop going
'Till the Beast's brought down
He sees his allies jumpin' off
Like rodents one by one
The watertight indictments
Have got them on the run
He glowers in the courtroom
His diaper filled with brown
Old Donnie's lost his marbles
And the train it won't stop going
'Till the Beast's brought down
He sees his numbers plummet
And as his party falls
He knows the special counsel
Has got him by the balls
Oh, the madman thinks he's driving
The biggest bus in town
Old Donnie's lost his marbles
And the train it won't stop going
'Till the Beast's brought down
@feditips
After clicking down from my Home page into a post, when I'm done and click the "Back" button, how do I get it to take me back where I was, rather than resetting me to the top of the (now updated) Home page?
You can switch on "slow mode". This stops automatic scrolling, and means you click at the top to see new posts. Just go to Preferences > Slow Mode, tick the box and click "Save Changes".