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bluGill

@bluGill@kbin.social

A programmer with an interest in transit, making music, and building things of all types.

I have dysgraphia which makes writing difficult for me. I hope you can figure out what I mean despite my issues.

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The US military should know this. They should be able to build piers like this while under active fire. This is one of the things we need for a world war style invasion (think WWII d-day)

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Both are invalid - sure it needs to be fast - which is why they should practice this. Temporary means they plan to pick it up after practice. They should do yearly drills in different parts of the world (obviously with permission of the host country) just to prove they can.

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Exactly. Either you can tear it down before the storm hits (good weather prediction needed) then rebuild it fast afterwards; or you build it to withstand storms. I guess there is the just scrap it after every storm - but then you need to rebuild it fast and cheap which this wasn't.

Louisiana chemical plant threatens to shut down if EPA emissions deadline isn't relaxed (apnews.com)

A synthetic rubber manufacturer accused of increasing the cancer risk for the nearby majority-Black community in Louisiana told a federal appeals court it will have to shut down “likely permanently” if it’s forced to meet the Biden administration’s deadline to reduce emissions....

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They had all of Bidens presidency. They should have a plan in place already. If they can show the court the plan is reasonable and they have been working on it for a while and are making progress then fine I'll wait. But they need to show they were seriously trying.

bagder, (edited ) to windows
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users running stupid scanners now contact us for support regarding CVE-2023-46218 which the scanners say affects 8.4.0 shipped by Microsoft.

It would, if their version was built to use , a prereq for this CVE, which does not.

Security scanners. A snake oil business.

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-46218.html

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@bagder

@tbroyer Probably not worth it, but you could/should check with a lawyer about sending those scanners a cease and desist for bogus reports...

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"The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced today that it has awarded an $83.3 million grant to NJ TRANSIT to transform the historic Brick Church station in East Orange into a modern, fully accessible station that preserves historic features and improves the customer experience. Highlights include replacing the current low-level platforms with accessible high-level platforms and adding elevators."

https://www.njtransit.com/press-releases/nj-transit-receives-83-million-grant-fta-brick-church-station-modernization

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@capntransit What is historic about that station other than it is old? I've never heard of it before, so it can't be that historic. What are we losing by not tearing it down and rebuilding to modern standards?

RealJournalism, to iowa
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A new 9,000 panel array means that Grinnell College in will get one third of its energy from . https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/05/27/one-third-of-grinnell-college-power-to-come-from-solar-energy-with-new-solar-array/

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@RealJournalism Having been to Grinnell I can tell you they are already getting 100% of their energy from wind - the town is surrounded by large windmills.

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This is a remarkable graph.

You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.

That's not what's happening.

What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."

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@ShredderFeeder

@mhoye @CosmicTraveler @jannem while many people do trips like that doctors and highway safety engineers tell you not to. Take longes breaks for health and safety.

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I'm gonna share some completely anticlimactic TMI for the benefit of other middle-aged men:

The day before yesterday, I was very stressed and anxious for a variety of reasons, and we were moving some furniture out of a storage locker, and I was feeling lethargic and a little lightheaded and generally out of it, and then I began feeling nausea and indigestion and my jaw was tight and then my left arm and hand started feeling a little numb. Nothing terrible! Just: feeling meh, and those minor symptoms.

And then guess what crazy thing we did?

We went to the nearby emergency room.

Yep.

And they were very nice to me, and quickly administered an EKG and blood tests, and guess what?

I wasn't having a heart attack.

I was just stressed and tired and anxious. That's all.

But if I had been having a heart attack, going to the E.R. could have saved my life. And even though I wasn't, they were very nice to me. No one made fun of me. No one called me a whiner or a hypochondriac. My wife expressed gratitude that I took my survival seriously. And I was home again in less than two hours.

So this is for my fellow typical men, who are inclined to ignore health issues because: John Wayne or something, and fear of embarrassment:

Don't ignore stuff. Don't wait until you're sure. Be willing to overreact. Be willing to waste everyone's time. It's okay! The world won't end! (And you may even get to take a nap under a warm blanket, like I did!)

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@dango_ last time I went in for what turned out tobe nothin about 1. when I went in for what turned out to be something I had already met my deductable and so I don't care.

@msbellows

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Random observation:

On Facebook there seem to be a lot of Americans who think that using a or for the daily commute is a sign of poverty. 🧐

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@juergen_hubert Every city I've seen transit to work is only useful for the high paying jobs downtown - people who work poverty jobs don't work downtown. (people in poverty use transit for lots of other trips, but if you are going to work on transit that is a sign of a high paying job)

MoritzGiessmann, to keyboard
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Is there a vendor where I can get customized key caps where I can decide which text goes on the single keys?

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@MoritzGiessmann They seem to exist, but all I've found is places that print whatever you want - if you want something that won't wear off in a few months you need something that doesn't seem to be available.

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@MoritzGiessmann The best ways to make a key is mold the letter through the whole key. The molds to do this are thousands of each key, but once you have the mold it only costs a few pennies to make another key. This is why custom printing doesn't make sense - you need a lot of people to spread the cost of the molds. there are some effort to resin print keycaps which can work, but it is slow and resin is toxic enough that I won't allow it in my house. There are other options, but most are either low quality or don't like long.

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A scooter is great if you are taking transit for all long trips, but your walk from your front door to the transit stop is a little too long (or the walk from the transit stop to where you are going it too long.). A ebike is great if you are not taking transit it all, but I wouldn't want to get them on transit (I have a very low opinion on those front of bus bike racks - they might be full when you want them). Those are very different trip modes. The scooter is for trips where you could walk but it is bit far, while the ebike is for trips you wouldn't walk at all. Those are two different things and so we cannot give a correct answer.

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Sounds like every other party.

TheConversationUS, to music
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In the 1970s and 1980s, bands made money from album sales and concerts just promoted the album.

In the 2020s, bands make pennies from streams and rely on concerts to make money.

A industry scholar and former drummer looks at how this plays into the government’s antitrust lawsuit: https://theconversation.com/why-the-us-government-is-trying-to-break-up-live-nation-entertainment-a-music-industry-scholar-explains-230832

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@TheConversationUS only the larget. Most bands made their mondey from shows.

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"Dear Mr. Biden

We have been leveling cities, torturing, raping, killing, plundering and abducting children for so long, my army seriously needs a break, before all those western weapons arrive, and we lose the war.

Therefore, I think western countries should give us a breather, so I can replenish my troops and get back to full blown genocide in about 6-12 months.

From Russia with love ♥️

Vladimir Putin"

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@nicholas_saunders

@randahl @eva_chaos

what is wrong with the 1994 peace deal we have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

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The Apple II sold for $1298 in 1977. You can buy a mac mini for $599 today. Deflation is real in some markets and we are just fine.

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The other thing missing is you need to live somewhere now. You also have other considerations - if you are starting a family you typically will need to have a place for the family to live and that forces you to buy now. This is why most deflation arguments fail - people need to live, so they will buy food, and shelter (including clothing). People will replace their broken down car. People will buy toys if they can afford it.

Even if you can buy the house for $200k next year, you don't know that the price will go down - I've seen prices go down and then go back up more than once in my life. Maybe you get unlucky, but maybe you bought the bottom, you have no idea what inflation/deflation will do in 5 years and only educated guesses for next year.

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Does it? Are today's rates high, or are they finally returning to normal - never to go back down again. As someone else sitting on a low rate I'm going to keep it as long as I can. But if you are in the place in life where buying (moving) is looking like the right decision, today's rates are still good if you compare to history.

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Don't forget to account for the rent if you don't finance a house.

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Support for Windows 10 will end in October 2025. Rip goat. Would you upgrade to Win 11 ? Or something else? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-of-support

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@nixCraft I quit using windows on my personal machines when OS/2-warp was released. (actually a month before - I got OS/2 package with a free warp upgrade when it was released)

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Why are you blaming the minimum wage worker? It is everybody with a car which is the vast majority of the adult population. Poor, middle class, rich - all of them care about gas prices and scream when they go up.

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People have no options because everyone collectively hasn't created them. Sure a few people vote for transit, bike lanes and the like, but not many. (and the poor are not better than anyone else at this) . There are options - you can move closer to work, get a different job that is closer to where you live, get a bike, carpool, ride transit.... Those all bad options for most people but they exist and so they choose them.

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