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2024-07-27 22:10:33

Finally watching The Acolyte. How does Sol not sense that the person posing as his former Padawan isn't actually his former Padawan??
At least the bipedal ratling smells the difference.
#StarWars

2024-07-26 21:00:36

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@npub1cmg…rzd2
The first instance I found, there's only one review, and that ain't it.

2024-07-22 20:55:56

I'd have assumed appliances used embedded #Linux
https://evil.social/files/744a910f-68f7-4b92-811a-e39185992f08

2024-06-28 22:20:51

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@npub1tps…9rmt
No, but some states would like to put preachers into schools.

2024-06-19 20:22:57

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@npub1ecp…59pq
Update your boilerplate to "You spent over $40Bn for something that can't figure out this shit is beyond stale? Lulz."

2024-05-22 01:18:06

"Woke will kill the military"
Rewind a few years. "Letting gays (openly or otherwise) serve will kill the military"
Rewind a few years. "Letting women serve (as anything but nurses) will kill the military".
Why, when they ask about "military members'" opinions, it's prominently of the grey-haired dudes at the VFW or American Legion club (yeah, I know: giving an opinion to a reporter while you're still in uniform is how you get disciplined)?

2024-05-17 04:49:46

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@npub16uk…pv7k
Similarly, a lot of organizations are light on IT staff and not looking to be self managed for many things (see: O365, gSuite, etc.)

2024-05-17 04:46:39

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@npub16uk…pv7k
Don't forget "we're going to give your data to our AI" terms modifications.

2024-05-15 18:15:11

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@npub1vcl…k6t3
What's the AI equivalent of a sabot?

2024-05-14 00:35:24

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@npub15te…wdn7
Those head wrinkles remind me if my tan staffy

2024-04-26 07:25:02

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@npub1fuh…3kut
And yet, the Federal government is putting some of their most significant eggs into the O365 and Azure baskets.

2024-04-18 16:37:12

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
I love how so many people's gut reaction to " has " seems to be "then stop using " rather than "then why don't you improve ".

2024-03-30 16:48:44

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@npub1nn8…8sed
Movie was total camp. A lot of the movies I watch as a teen in the 80s were, though.

2024-03-27 22:26:31

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@npub1aq2…4nfw
Hopefully this whole thing was just a successful attempt to extort DC. Potomac Yards is no place for a sports complex.

2024-03-01 20:53:12

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@npub17vj…g088
#TooSoon?

2024-02-17 02:35:52

In Marge's world, if I got into a fatal car accident on the way home from getting vaccinated, my dear would be considered to be caused by the vaccine.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0griuXY56sM&si=k-aQ2oSMHCerSRtl

2024-02-11 23:34:30

The thing that's especially galling about this latest proclamation is that what Trump most likely actually meant was "paid me" rather than merely "met the NATO-prescribed defense spending targets".
RE: https://press.coop/users/BBCWorld/statuses/111915154521687271
#note1w85…grkj

2024-02-06 18:53:06

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@npub1hvz…mle9 Seems like it would depend on whether you use British or American pronunciation for "herb"?

2024-02-02 15:10:15

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 Potentially, even more helpful, "how to find broken symlinks". That was what undwedged me, yesterday, from an unexpected problem with RPMs relying on an external process (that worked on EL7 and EL9 but not EL8).

2024-01-26 01:14:02

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@npub1khh…lk2m
Yertle's used to holding up government functions on behalf of his party's ability to ramrod shit through in subsequent terms, though.

2024-01-23 00:59:07

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@npub1trd…ussx
Unfortunately, when using a device for work, you're kind of constrained by the sites you need to work with. Especially in 2009, Linux as a desktop (particularly laptop) OS was a nonstarter when having to regularly interact with Workplace tools and websites designed for a Windows-using community.

2024-01-22 22:58:11

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@npub1trd…ussx
The only reason I switched to Chrome, back in 2009, was it was lightweight compared to Firefox and the laptop I was carrying at the time didn't have the juice for Firefox.

2024-01-18 02:44:24

Why is it that whenever I receive out if the blue:We received a request to reset your Facebook password.Emails from Facebook, they always come in groups of three?

2023-12-30 02:11:50

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@npub1ye6…6a2z
How about James Burke's Connections?

2023-12-29 01:02:47

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@npub1tps…9rmt @npub18pp…ltf7 @npub1eus…md49
Looks like you probably can?
https://evil.social/files/2f82667e-adaa-49a5-9b83-d24ff8559e41

2023-12-28 04:46:00

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@npub1tps…9rmt Can a Waymo (etc. Al.) programmer be put in jail for vehicular manslaughter if the code he wrote lead to a death? Seems like a gap.
Overall, seems like if any vehicle is in autonomous mode, accident liability should be with the manufacturer rather than the human owner of the individual vehicle.

2023-12-15 17:29:50

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@npub1nn8…8sed
You observe #whamaggedon?

2023-12-14 16:57:28

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@npub18vm…we4a @npub1hyk…3p33
Is that "blogger" as in the generic term or "Blogger" as in the specific, branded writing-platform?

2023-12-06 05:32:15

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@npub1dts…6798 They cocked up the proportions on that bomber.

2023-11-30 23:44:24

Holiday fruitcakes are now in the oven.
Fruit in these cakes having been soaked in bourbon since last week.
https://evil.social/files/webpublic-c30c15aa-859e-4d13-a4a9-e1203fff5897

2023-11-29 03:05:09

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@npub1cdp…qvzq @npub18lj…80hq
I'm reminded Steven Wright's sketch about naming his dog "Stay".

2023-11-28 02:28:16

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@npub1d8y…g8p7 Rocky updating their repos for 8.9 (RHEL 8.9 was just released the week before Thanksgiving week)?

2023-11-28 02:02:53

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@npub1d0s…egda
It's like the "Streisand Effect" wasn't a thing before Elmo got his panties in a wad.
Judge needs to dismiss with prejudice and award Media Matters a recoupment of any legal fees this incurred for them

2023-11-15 23:21:55

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@npub1hyk…3p33
"Incentives matter" ...maybe liability shields for the C-suite' and boardmembers need to be removed to better incentivise making safe operations a higher priority than mere rent-taking is?

2023-11-05 08:48:26

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@npub1q0f…rdcz
And was a good gateway to other, crunchier industrial and aggrotech.

2023-11-05 06:52:23

Reminds me of coming back from the clubs in the early 2000s and dropping by the (then) 24hr grocery store near our house to pick up Hit Pockets or other snacks.
https://evil.social/files/webpublic-65728aca-bea9-4b8b-9370-8b10082358c4

2023-11-04 17:25:50

Local farm store was having a sale on pumpkins: you pay $10 and get as many pumpkins as you can fit in a little red cart (and still able to pull it 10' across a bumpy gravel path without anything falling out).

2023-11-02 00:43:22

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@npub1tps…9rmt
Ultimately, if they're commenting they're effectively boosting since their followers will see your post as the up-thread of their reply-comment. So, it really makes no sense for them to chastise because the chastising is subverting their claimed "I'm not boosting".
/shrug

2023-10-27 17:35:22

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@npub1hyk…3p33
You need to use a fedi-host that has a greater character-limit for posts (one I'm on allows 3000). That way, even though your threads would be no shorter, you'd need fewer chunks to accommodate the thread-length.

2023-10-27 03:56:59

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@npub1lnm…624t
I imagine insurers would work on stronger actuarial tables, and might force things like annual mental health assessments, better gun storage, etc. as conditions of (cheaper premiums for) coverage. Those would all be good side effects that conservative courts might not strike down. Overall, though, it still comes down to, if the the rate per-owner of claimable incidents is low enough that you won't magically have a cost basis that prevents carriers from undercutting each other.
Overall, if insurance premiums are too expensive, you'll simply have people owning at-risk, much like they do for other coverage types. I also suspect the same courts reluctant to place explicit limits on gun ownership are unlikely to uphold implicit limits that take the form of compulsory insurance legislation.

2023-10-27 03:27:16

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@npub1lnm…624t
Insurance rates are based on size and frequency of payouts. You don't have near the number of fatalities and, especially, injuries from guns as you do cars nor the levels of litigation. Similarly, gun claims' size and frequency would be significantly lower than climate-related insurance and other types of property claims that are (somewhat) covered by High-Premium policies. And, if you compare against health insurance, the relative claims costs for guns are tiny. The low risk of many and/or large payouts-events means insurers could easily afford to compete on pricing low enough to still be able to attract enough never-claim customers to have a money machine.

2023-10-24 16:48:28

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
@npub1vxs…esc9 is a good site to follow. Got them in my "news" list (them and several @npub1pak…jkzf accounts).

2023-10-24 15:56:30

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
https://newsie.social/@politico/111290315769082116
And now Ellis…
#DominosFalling
#KeepFlipping

2023-10-24 13:25:51

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@npub1tps…9rmt @npub17gr…y24g
Things getting boring over in Elmo-land that they're finally coming to Fedi?

2023-10-21 18:27:16

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@npub1r7v…qwpu
Only got to see them live once, back in the mid-90s. Was a great show.

2023-10-20 23:00:36

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 And now Cheseboro...
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/20/1207417000/kenneth-chesebro-guilty-plea-georgia

2023-10-19 18:55:52

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
Nobody wants to go to jail (or spend more then the least amount of time in jail) for someone that would never go to jail for them.
https://evil.social/files/fc7342a5-3276-4f27-8db5-fb4677ed27c5

2023-09-27 18:53:16

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@npub1tra…npqw @npub1hyk…3p33
The same thing happened to Marketplace that happened to eBay: overrun with Chinese knockoffs and a search engine that actively thwarts a user from finding the genuine things that they're looking for.
The best part of all the knockoffs is you get letter-salad brand-names, because that's how they game the system to get their shit into the Marketplace (in addition to all the faux-reviews to obscure the fact that the items are absolute garbage).
Recently, I bought something that had like 4.8 stars with 500+ reviews. The item was garbage. When I went back and re-read the reviews, all of the 4- and 5-star ratings were now marked as having been left by "Vine" users while all the 1- and 2-star ratings were marked as having been left by verified purchasers. I mean, kudos that they're doing that, but, they probably need to weight the stars from the two sources (because, frankly, someone that didn't have to pay for something are always going to be more-charitable than reviews from people that actually laid out good money for something). Not that there haven't been rating-gaming schemes used to snag the "verified purchaser" reviews.

2023-09-26 23:30:03

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@npub1ccz…7l0l
The first three Pfizer vaccines didn't really cause me anything noticeable. The three Modernas each beat me up.

2023-09-23 18:09:31

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@npub1gl8…q5y9
From the picture, seared-rare, not quite blue (center doesn't look completely uncooked). But, the test would be to see if the center was still quite cool to the touch. If still cool, then it'd be "blue".

2023-09-21 01:35:54

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@npub1u3t…c6ug
A bit sad that a donation-request link posted to fedi allows me to share an "I gave" link to Twitter and Facebook but not fedi.

2023-09-21 00:33:56

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@npub10ey…yx0s @npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1nqz…838y
I tend to think caps and floors are less ideal than indexed thresholds and associated taxation multipliers.

2023-09-13 04:34:45

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@npub15fg…stlj
And, much like people had kids to be farm hands, our parents had us to be remotes for changing the channels and volume and adjust the antenna.
And messing with the horizontal or vertical holds or the contrast or tint controls was a great prank.

2023-09-09 23:16:17

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@npub189n…satx We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective– Kurt Vonnegut

2023-09-03 05:12:15

Kinda cheating (giving him fries) on the #bleptember thing
https://evil.social/files/743fea84-42d4-4ba4-ae91-6ac41bae99a3

2023-08-26 16:06:29

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@npub1qzc…yetl @npub14uk…2erc @npub1rre…vl0r Safe to assume you're not a rabid Fox News watcher, then?

2023-08-20 05:10:38

So.... New daig has figured out how to unlatch the kiddy gate that separates the living room from the kitchen part of the house: he opened it three times, today.
#staffy
#butthead
#dogs
#DogsOfMastodon
https://evil.social/files/3913585b-80a3-4c63-8d19-15e3be5d7153

2023-08-18 03:16:22

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@npub189n…satx
End stage profiteering: maximizing wealth while economies still exist.

2023-08-11 13:30:31

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
As deep as a fresh spit on an Arizona sidewalk.

2023-08-04 06:09:40

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@npub17sh…6e06
We lost a dog at the beginning of July. She was a hip-barnacle for a dozen years. So, I missed that. And it's very nice that, his first night with 7s, he's been in my lap when not exploring.

2023-08-04 05:17:10

65lbs of lap dog.
#DogsOfMastodon
#dogs
#staffy
https://evil.social/files/webpublic-9f9aead8-c64b-48a5-940e-003dfcb41f2f

2023-07-18 05:44:23

"Common sense" only exists in theory, though.
RE: https://mostr.pub/objects/d11c4f7f636a24f9530c80ead9fc8929cf8ec64cfb4c600320f3fc4526ff4182
#note16yw…7zft

2023-07-14 00:17:18

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 No matter how well you play, everyone loses.

2023-06-29 22:08:13

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@npub1qzc…yetl
The funny thing is, energy is (can be) hugely profitable. That we're sacrificing billions of human lives and the continued human-habitability of the planet towards one _sector's_ means of making energy-related money just makes no fucking sense.

2023-06-29 19:59:57

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@npub150a…0f9r @npub1jpp…u59l
Reminds me of all the people just starting to use email in the late 90s and early 2000s. Those of us who'd been using text-based email since before the Internet got commercialized used inline-replies. All of the people who'd never used anything to read/write email but graphical tools like Outlook were top-posters (then there was the whole plain-text vs. rich-text vs html wars).

2023-06-28 01:31:04

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@npub1200…aqy2
Wife and rest of the bridal party wore self-made Renaissance dresses.
Groom's party wore kilts and associated jackets (etc). Most were wearing custom-made ones in their respective family tartans.
Still cosplay, I guess.

2023-06-17 17:46:36

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@npub1lnm…624t @npub1mmp…azq4
Wonder if Joe McCarthy would throw his lot in with the modern GQP?