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2024-01-30 21:45:28

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@npub1k4q…3lsq Yes, but in some neighborhoods I suspect the local gang gets some respect that is not just fear. (I don't hang out in those areas, so I don't really know.)

2024-01-30 21:38:52

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@npub1k4q…3lsq Gazans are anti-Hamas…to a point. Compared to Israel they love Hamas. In my analogy they are a ruthless gang, and LA knows they are a ruthless gang. There is a limit to how much anyone can like being drilled by a corrupt and ruthless gang, one that has been running things pretty poorly, for years. But they are the enemy of LAs enemy…
Hanas is certainly not as competent, popular, and cudly as Hezbillah. Nor as hapless as the Palestinian Authority.

2024-01-30 21:06:58

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@npub1k4q…3lsq And don't forget: The people of LA largely LIKE the gang that hides among them. They completely hate the rest of California, and the rest of California hates the people of LA. The bad blood goes back a long time, Sacramento has done a lot of bad stuff over the decades, as has this and related gangs.
(That is, in this analogy. In reality California and LA love each other.)

2024-01-30 20:53:31

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@npub1k4q…3lsq No.
Imagine a ruthless gang has been running LA, for years. It attacked, say, the rest of California in brutal raids. So now LA is being bombed relentlessly. Attacking schools and hospitals and residences. Most structures have been damaged if not destroyed. Most residents have been displaced. Famine is setting in.
California is attacking everywhere in LA because the gang hides anywhere—in shools, in hospitals, in residences. Plus, LA people aren't really human, and should go to Mexico.

2024-01-23 01:29:16

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@npub1typ…c8hh I don't. I was screaming "It's the internet, stupidt!" at the TV and radio in those days.

2024-01-13 19:47:08

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@npub10fm…x0qg Is lycos.com on the side of good or evil?

2024-01-12 19:39:11

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@npub1zaw…tdg8 "will ultimately be successful" sounds an awful lot like "nothing really can be done about it, we're doing all we can".
I disagree, teaching users how to look at e-mail addresses is necessary. But in the security biz it is forbidden to take user education seriously, because that would be blaming the user. "We must have technical solutions!"
We teach about not being bilked in the REAL world, we do it from toddlerhood. But not in the virtual world, where we now spend most of our time.

2024-01-12 19:18:27

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@npub1zaw…tdg8 Sad that just because they sell nice hardware, doesn't mean they have people who can't spot e-mail with forged addresses.
To be fair the anti-phishing training I've been forced to take has ALL been about spotting superficial signs and NEVER tried to explain e-mail addresses and how to spot tricks crooks play. As far as I'm concerned reading e-mail address key…
#FrameworkLaptop

2024-01-04 20:13:35

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 There is a model for you, at least in recent years. But for the straight male being sensitive, bookish, and liking showtunes is a pretty empty social space to inhabit.

2024-01-04 17:20:37

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 Makes clear why most men like Trump: They were raised on a version of masculinity where being male means power over others, it hasn't turned out the way they had hoped, and Trump promises them power over others.
Since I was a kid, a very long time ago, I knew American masculinity was messed up. In recent years I've ranted about how this is a brewing problem. Only now am I seeing that women having rights is a big part of why we have Trump: Looking down on women was important to many.

2024-01-03 22:00:33

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@npub178r…qekt You probably don't donate free product design consulting by telling them why, either.

2023-12-29 19:48:13

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@npub19kr…8m4r My nearly 30-year old personal domain is a .org because it was predates personal domains being a thing, and if one reads the, um, fine print, describing what the original top level domains are for .org was the best (bad) fit.
It was also a nice TLD for my name.
(Did the Globe fix the story? Skimming I don't see the mention and their Android app won't let me search.)

2023-12-28 19:23:48

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@npub178r…qekt All true. But Adams did have something we mostly don't have anymore: a large format negative. I know size isn't the same as resolution, even if he used it that way. Do we now have as much resolution available as he did?

2023-12-20 18:59:50

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@npub1typ…c8hh I don't go out as much as I used to, that helps.

2023-11-27 17:45:42

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@npub1mmf…eknq Is this actually true…? Completely plausible, but any references? I can't repeat mere plausible from an account I don't know.
(I've see headlines, but after decades of following the news from that part of the world, I mostly don't have the energy to click on the stories…)

2023-11-19 16:29:25

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@npub178r…qekt Some of those send/receive frequencies are close together. It's an impressive duplexer or filtering that can keep them apart. I suppose a big oceanliner might put the two antennas on different ends of the ship, to shave off some of the first big heat-things-up transmit dBs from the received signal.
Wow. A lot of work, all part of helping civilians to this day not understand puch-to-talk.

2023-10-29 20:33:37

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@npub178r…qekt Except with SLRs, where resolution is limited by vibrations from the focal plane shutter detonating, I mean moving.
I swear, the highest resolution SLRs don't need an optical low-pass filter because there is no way to steady the camera enough, I know my Nikon D610 is hard to hold still. There always seems to be vibration low-pass filtering present, and it isn't that high resolution a sensor.
Unless I'm wrong.

2023-10-24 21:04:38

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@npub17sh…6e06 I have a phone or two that are 40-years old. Wired phones.
But my so-called "smartphone"? No way will get that far

2023-10-16 21:00:04

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@npub189n…satx It works for jury duty.

2023-10-15 19:59:55

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@npub1867…mfsf Why is it bigger in the middle? Artistic license, or something else I don't understand?

2023-10-07 21:58:39

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@npub1tps…9rmt I didn't say anything about "concentrates", I mentioned "inhaling concentrated smoke".
Your lifelong habit might have taken a greater toll than you know.

2023-09-27 02:55:59

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@npub14cq…k7mw And the perpetrators are NOT fine art nor public monuments. (That just changes the subject away from climate change and alienates supporters we need.)

2023-09-16 05:38:20

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@npub17sh…6e06 Been a long time.

2023-09-15 18:12:06

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@npub1ks7…eg5u @npub1kvn…hm73 I recently went to the new Motion Picture Academy Museum in #LosAngeles with my 9yo goddaughter. I was disappointed there was no exhibit that demonstrated the illusion of the moving image. The closest was some static displays of early artifacts, behind glass.
(She was also critical of how good a museum of the movies it could be that we saw not a single mention of Charlie Chaplin.)
#AcademyMuseum

2023-08-30 06:27:10

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@npub17sh…6e06 I didn't know that development shifted to USA, but I knew the Brits we innovators with radar.
As for "device that won the war", I can see that might be so.

2023-08-20 22:09:10

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@npub1q4n…6fcd Buy neat stuff you don't need and won't use! That's what I did last I was there.

2023-08-20 22:01:33

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@npub17sh…6e06 Geezers can be annoying. I'm sorry.

2023-08-20 21:15:33

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@npub17sh…6e06 I'm not even going to finish reading that screenshot. This is the kind of thing where the internet has long been good at spreading spurious nonsense, and now with LLM so-called "AI" bullshit out there it is only getting worse. I'm not going to go near it.
Besides, my need to know this very obscure "fun fact" is very limited.
#DoNotReadLLMOrOtherBullshitItPollutesTheMind

2023-08-18 06:29:01

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@npub17sh…6e06 Aren't you in Texas? Isn't Texas officially of the opinion that global warming doesn't exist? Doesn't that lower the temperature?

2023-08-13 08:05:02

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@npub18yv…xxyn Doesn't work on the two Android devices that are handy to me.

2023-08-12 23:57:12

@npub17sh…6e06 Geezer: Speaking of the '70s, do remember a campaign from back then to pretend that "morse code" was actually called "International Radio and Telegraph Code"?

2023-08-12 20:31:00

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@npub17sh…6e06 A couple years ago our goddaughter was on an annoying question kick. My trick for that is to try to actually answer the questions. On this day it was a "What is __ made of?"-pattern. I tricked her by usually having an answer (and being honest when I didn't). She would then take my answer and ask what *it* is made of. So I would answer again.
Etc.
My understanding of physics meant that I repeatedly came to a halt with "Quarks.", followed by "I don't know, I'm pretty sure no one does."

2023-08-12 08:13:44

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@npub17sh…6e06 Yes, in that radio is magic. But I don't like it, I want an explanation.

2023-08-12 05:40:06

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@npub17sh…6e06 I would like to know why, when I put 100W of AC power into an open (that just so happens to be a tuned dipole)…electrically it looks like a damn resistor! But one that doesn't heat up 100W worth, instead the power magically turns into "radio waves".
WHY? Why does it DO that? What is the mechanism?
As far as I know no one knows, it is merely accepted as so. Precisely characterized, sure*, but never explained: Why?
* Thank you James C. Maxwell and Oliver Heaviside.

2023-08-12 01:24:43

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@npub17sh…6e06 Radical: I take it as evidence the "æther" exists. I think æther is the medium through which radio waves travel, further it is an antenna's interaction with this medium that makes an antenna work. (How? I don't know, but asking the question seems better than "it just does". Other transducers have "how", why not antennas?)
Just because the æther isn't made of regular matter doesn't mean it isn't there.
I also suspect it is why innertia.

2023-08-11 23:03:46

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@npub17sh…6e06 I'm more amazed by particle-antiparticle pairs spontaneously coming into existence—in a complete vacuum!!
Only to annihilate each other a fraction of an instant later. (This part isn't so amazing, sure.)
Unless they are near the edge of a blackhole, in which case one might escape and the other gobbled up, thereby causing the blackhole to slightly evaporate because the extra particle must come from somewhere, so let's debit the blackhole, it won't lodge a complaint. (Amazing again.)

2023-08-11 22:15:21

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@npub1typ…c8hh If I know tons of off-beat stuff, and much of it is new to me…and if I mostly don't know what current memes and music stars are, does that mean I'm already plenty wild? Attention wise?
(The term is new to me.)

2023-08-11 07:55:09

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@npub17sh…6e06 Well "most" seems an exaggeration, but it is really wild to think that planets with no star to orbit are more numerous that are those with a star.
Or does it maybe just make sense? I'm not a cosmologist.

2023-08-06 21:32:42

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@npub1typ…c8hh That seems obvious. (What are the arguments against it?)

2023-07-19 18:40:08

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@npub1edc…0q44 I forgot about him and Sinema. Ugh.

2023-07-19 18:17:24

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@npub1edc…0q44 I don't know the details of his contract, but it is quite possible to be fully with ones rights, and still act stupidly. And he seems good at that.

2023-07-19 06:45:32

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@npub1edc…0q44 I used to like Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, but it seems he got too full of himself and got fired. I guess he had done it before, a rather full man.

2023-07-13 07:33:25

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1jv7…mncm SWR tells one a lot. Such as "I need some sort of matching here".

2023-07-13 02:32:27

@npub17sh…6e06 You xenophile, you. I see you boosting stuff, in ferin languages.

2023-06-25 06:08:04

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@npub17sh…6e06 Do you know the old Waylon and Willie song "Old Age and Treachery (Always Overcomes Youth and Skill)"?
I hum it frequently.