I am late to the party, but finally, I am reading my first book by N. K. Jemisin, a SFF short story collection: "How Long 'til Black Future Month". The first story, "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" starts of with a seemingly utopia, but there is also a dystopia build in it. There are 22 short stories in this book.
The petrochemical industry looked at the global reaction to the damage caused by CFCs and leaded petrol, the entire planet moving to ban them and vowed 'never again'. Not to avoid releasing knowingly harmful chemicals into the atmosphere, but making sure they threw enough mud into the water and money to politicians to ensure that any effort to save the world or improve public health would be a matter for debate, fought along party lines. The only thing they care about is the number going up.
Bart Simpson and Martin Prince are running for class presidet. Martin warns class there are to many parts of dangerous asbestos in the air. Bart opposes him ...
if used on Joe Rogan does it work like a vaccine to cure him?
If coming from RFK Jr, then it's more likely to be something that would cause Rogain to hallucinate (more) or just blast his system like a shot of bleach
So I quit Duolingo around a year ago, and haven't really tried to learn any language since then But I would like to continue learning at some point. What apps do you use? It should be a somewhat gamified app, and it would be nice if it didn't cost too much
Sie hat die ganze Hörnchenmanie bei mir angezettelt, als sie immer wieder auf unserem Balkon auftauchte 🐿️😍. Vor einem Jahr hatten wir gerade das erste Futterhaus angebracht und sie fand es toll.
Happy (and a little proud) that my new website based on @getkirby is online as of this afternoon. Its main sections are - Portfolio - Albums (Galleries / Projects) - Singles (~daily posts) - Gear - About / Contact
Will migrate more content from my previous site during the coming weeks. 🙇♂️
@kev Hi Kev! Thanks so much for reaching out. I had actually found your article and made some progress based on it. But then I found that depending on what page elements in my Kirby Theme (ZOON) I'd use, I would, or would not, get php errors that were beyond what I was able to fix. The theme developer has indicated he'd consider RSS for a future update, so I'll just wait a bit. I wouldn't want to burden you going through a 3rd person's code. Thanks again!👊
"President Donald Trump on Sunday called for 'maximum fines and punishment' against CBS and its corporate parent, Paramount, over Sunday night’s '60 Minutes' broadcast."
Hab mich in Details verloren aber es ist das erste Mal seit Monaten dass ich es schaffe wieder richtig digital zu arbeiten und es gibt mir grad ganz viel 🥹
Flagging this up, maybe someone does or knows someone who does: I am in search of a tool steel maker who can replicate some parts. Specifically Leatherman has stopped making the Style PS, and I have a tendency to burn through the little screwdrivers / nail file on them something fierce.
My stashed supply of them is getting low, and replacements are well into "hey I bet I can find someone to make me a pile of parts" territory. So here's my ask: if you are a steel tool worker, or know someone who does and are willing to take a look at an existing part and replicate it as close as possible, possibly with some modifications, hit me up.
Boosts welcome, I'm not sure where to search for this one!
Ich brauche bitte mal Schwarmwissen: Seit dem Umstieg von iOS auf #grapheneos vermisse ich die Funktion, mit langem Druck auf die Leertaste den Cursor bewegen zu können. Mit HeliBoard kann ich den Cursor horizontal und vertikal bewegen, aber nicht so präzise. Kennt ihr eine Alternative?
Ich bin übrigens dagegen den Umgang mit Jens #Spahn zu normalisieren.
Jens Spahn ist ein rechtskippender Brandstifter, der immer wieder bewusst und kalkuliert rhetorisch die Axt an die Grundpfeiler unser offenen Demokratie legt.
Ich brauch Eure Kreativität. Ich hab drei Löcher in der Decke. Die sauber zuzuspachteln ist mir zu viel Arbeit; ich will da einfach etwas draufpappen. In das größte kommt Ceiling Cat rein, aber dann bleiben noch zwei, nämlich die hier. Ich dachte mir zuerst, ich tu da einen 3D-gedruckten Wasserspeier oder eine "Konsole" drauf (thx @ckeen !), aber vielleicht geht da noch was lustigeres? Ein kleines Hexenhäuschen, so in Richtung Booknooks? Fällt Euch was ein? Kennt Ihr da STLs?
@mwfc Dafür ist wahrscheinlich nicht genug Platz. Ich denke, ich bau da einfach etwas davor; so ein kleines umgedrehtes Hexenhaus. Vielleicht find ich noch Warhammer-Spielies, die mir beim Anmalen helfen...
@cyb3rrunn3r Der kann vielleicht schimpfen! 🙉😁 Wahrscheinlich ist der Schlafast wieder nich bequem genug. Und im Baum nebenan ist besetzt… irgenwas ist ja immer. 😬😆
Vor dem wahrscheinlich wieder üppigen Abendessen noch eine gemütliche Runde an der Weser. Dabei wurden die drei universellen Gesetze des Laufens wieder bestätigt:
1) Der Regen setzt nach der Hälfte der Strecke ein.
2) Irgendwann werden die Klamotten nicht mehr nasser.
I've been coping with a lot recently so decided to treat myself to a little something, The Spectrum , a 2024 console based on the original 48K Sinclair ZX Spectrum from 23rd April 1982, rubber keys and all. Like 2018's Spectrum Next this machine updated the firmware to a modern standard of presentation, and include modern ports for power and connectivity (1xUSB-C, 5xUSB-A).
Reader, I'm delighted with it. I've already had a bash at Horace Goes Skiing and it all came flooding back...how bad I was at Horace Goes Skiing.
Not only that but seller included a 16Gb USB that held hundreds of Mb of other speccy games - possibly all of them easily sourced from fan sites and less reputable channels - which you can access and play through the console's main menu. That's a catalogue of over 9000 titles NOT including the eye-openingly fantastic Homebrew games made by fans in the decades since. See you in 2201? 😁 LOAD""
Haben wir eigentlich brauchbare ZFS/TrueNAS spezis hier unter uns?
Ich bin grad dabei ein künftiges nas zu planen... basis wird so ein xeon basierter server mit 4x sata. da rein sollen 2x 500gig sata ssd fürs booten (mirrored) und tendentiell dann 4x 12tb nas platte.
Damit das passt kommt ein 8port hba dazu.. Es bleiben also 4 bis 6 freie sata ports.... macht es sinn da dann nochmal so 960gig SSDs ranzuhängen als cache/metadata/whatever?
Alles davon soll am ende nativ mit zfs laufen .. großartige spielereien drumherum will ich am system nicht mehr machen eigentlich .. nurnoch on top. ;)
Today marks a milestone for me: it took 898 days on the Fediverse to get a first attack against me. That's something for a woman on the internet (like, it took a really long time on here).
I was just called "absolutely despicable" for pointing out the incongruity between Carole Cadwalladr's brilliant TED Talk against the Broligarchy... & the fact she is using Bluesky as a social media platform & publishing on Substack.
I stand by my words AND I didn't mean any offense against CC. She's amazing
@FediWouter thanks and no worries! It was quite the eloquent, multi-paragraph attack that had some valid points.
Nothing compared to the time a MAGA-friendly actor unleashed thousands of trolls on me on Twitter 1.0 (RIP) when I dared write about a sexist incident at the Cannes Film Festival (he was not involved, I just irked him with my progressive stance).
In the interest of being constructive, maybe I can talk about my role models: people who speak truth to power and create content with financial support by readers.
@molly0xfff is my ultimate role model in this space.
She is on Mastodon, Bluesky and X and publishes content on her self-hosted Ghost blog (access is free but she accepts monthly donations).
She has eloquently explained many times how Substack would take a big cut of her earnings.
yup, I'd already communicated as much in that I pointed out I wanted to support her but not while SubStack was the mechanism in place, I also directed her to Molly's discussions of Ghost and her POSSE write up … so you are not the only one.
@craigmorgan bravo for pointing that out in an elegant way.
yeah I'm really surprised by her choice of Substack when so many negative stories about it are now well known and more and more independent journalists are picking Beehiiv and Ghost.
I would definitely do a paid subscription to her posts if she was not on Substack...
Your critique is absolutely correct and justified. Sorry that happened but take solace in pointing out the incongruity between her thesis and her actions. Both of these are poor choices by her IMHO.
I think my larger point - which I didn't adequately express - is that if even Carole Cadwalladr (who recognizes the problem, and speaks eloquently about it) ends up using centralized, VC-backed tech platforms, we're all f**ked (sorry for the language, it was for emphasis)
Yes, and as people like you have proven you don’t need Twitter to reach a wide range of eyeballs AND have meaningful exchanges with folks. People need to put their money where their mouth is so to speak.
Yeah, the way your comments were being responded to was depressingly familiar. I'm in no way surprised it coalesced into abuse.
I responded to one who I felt had crossed a line into outright sarcasm but the general tone was Correctile Dysfunction.
I'm also sorry this happened. I truly wish my gender would fucking wise up. This shit is exhausting for me to witness; I can only imagine what it's like for a woman.
@Uraael I promise this was really nothing! I was just surprised it took this long on the Fediverse...
After 14 years on Twitter 1.0 I think I have a relatively thick skin.
As I replied to someone else, it's nothing compared to the time an actor with millions of followers on Twitter 1.0 unleashed his right wing trolls on me 😅
@Uraael I used to get stalked and harassed by attack monkeys by someone who I vouched and stood up for when I felt he was being unfairly treated and needed a friend.
the attack (I looked it up) is indefensible, once you get to the name calling.
I'm not better. Yesterday I wrote something similar (ok, less strong. I said they are what's wrong with online discourse, which I regretted and deleted) because I am triggered by people constantly finding " impurities" in every positive message. Whataboutism that in one sentence seeks to invalidate everything good about the original message.
Your case was different. It's clear that you value Cadwalladr.
I will say this, although there are attacks on Mastodon, it's a lot fewer than you'd find on some of the other social media platforms. I am presuming that's because MAGA chuds have a hard time trying to spell the word Mastodon.
I enjoy reading your comments and journey with trying to set-up and use non-corporate tools and services. I am in the same process.
The comments regarding the TED talk will piss-off some people. I disagree with you but we both care about the same values: fluid conversational dialogues are good.
"I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me."
Well, I'd say your insight was not for that person, and the reaction was not for you either. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and providing a courageous example.
On Monday, the parliament is set to vote on a constitutional amendment that would strengthen the legal foundations for the prohibition of the Pride march.
Oh ja, hab ich vorhin auch gesehen. Wir hatten schon am ersten Tag die Info, dass man im Dunkeln besser nicht durch den Park geht. Man könnte meinen, da gäbe es einen Zusammenhang 🤔
und ich meine das Schild ist juristisch nicht korrekt. Es gibt kein "Waffenverbot" sondern eine "Verbot des Führen von Waffen" Der Transport ist nicht verboten
Wir haben mit ein paar netten Ms im #Vegefarm gefuttert. Vielleicht etwas lieblos angerichtet und die Wartezeit dürfte gerne kürzer sein, aber lecker war das Essen.
Die ToGo-Verpackung bei der Hauptspeise war allerdings ein echtes Missverständnis, da konnte das Personal nichts für.
@tantramar That's not quite true. If you have a farm, for instance, and you frequently need to transport a few cows in a trailer, you need a heavy and powerful vehicle. Judging by the looks of American streets, there are lots of farmers in the cities.
@cyb3rrunn3r nein. Polizei rufen, Abschleppdienst kommen lassen und den Halter verpflichten sämtliche Folgekosten für die Verspätung der Tram zu zahlen. War jemand unterwegs zu nem Einstellungsgespräch mit hoher Jahresvergütung? Tja, der hätte da wohl 20 Jahre gearbeitet, das Geld kridgt er jetzt nicht, das muß kompensiert werden.
I cannot fathom how car owners who disturb traffic like this even once don't have to pay a fine bigger that what they spent on their metal monstruosity
We hear from some Americans that they are frightened of driving in Europe "because the roads are so narrow". And they're talking about normal roads, not even Cornish lanes.
Great post but poor alt txt, which should describe the picture so people with impaired vision can understand your point. How about:
"Photo of a European street with a tram track and a small parking area where cars are parked perpendicular to the adjacent street. Most of the parked cars are fairly short and so don't proteude into the street, but one is a giant American SUV that is so long that its front end blocks the approaching streetcar."
looks like a Ram pickup truck, maybe long bed. In the US, the Raptor and Ram truck owners don't even try to fit in a single space...so at least this person gave it some effort!
Years ago we were on a sidestreet in New York and a fire engine appeared with blaring sirens and its way was blocked by a double-parked car. The fire engine had an enormous rubber fender on its front and we soon saw why. Without a moment's hesitation the fire engine driver shoved the double-parked car along in front of it till it came to a gap in the cars. There it shoved the double-parked car off the road. A man riding shotgun in the fire engine threw a piece of paper out onto the car.
Took a trip to Norway, then came home to an American city.
I went out shopping two weeks after getting home, and noticed I felt very nervous. Couldn't quite place why.
It was the proximity of the cars. Norway has huge swaths of streets that are pedestrian-only. In the US, we have streetside parking. I suddenly realized the low-grade survival scanning for people screwing up interacting with the curb had gotten switched off, and I was feeling it switch back on.
This happens a lot in Oslo too. I would be in favour of a policy to outfit the trams with solid enough bumpers that they could just force their way through and let the car owner deal with the damage.
This is probably not an example where that would be safe though. But there are many cases where pushing through would just inflict scratches and bumps.
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I would say rather this is why US cars don’t belong in Europe.
Consider this point: cities that do not allocate infrastructure to cars, save 90% of all the resources needed to make a car centric world possible.
Every city government must be made to understand this. A city without cars largely saves 90% of all the expense for itself and for its residents. Best of all city without cars invests a whole lot more money on businesses and people instead.
In America 🇺🇸 people are highly encouraged to buy large cars as they are safer in car accidents due to the presence of other large cars (smaller cars would get crushed against a larger car apparently).
It’s a weird slippery slope, but the larger cars also consume more energy (gas or electricity) & take up way more space in parking lots.
@darnell Of note, I recently read about another, related externality I had not previously considered: these giant vehicles don't just take up more space when parking, but also much more space on the road, so fewer cars can drive there. Traffic backs up, everything is made worse in every way.
I also respectfully suggest the phrase "arms race" here, as it more accurately describes the underlying idea: a bigger shield, a bigger hammer, escalating violence.
if one really needs such a big car for work or as ego enlargement, one cannot park it on a normal sized space. How fucked up.must one be to park like this? *rhetorical question*
He (it is most likely a he) should pay an extra fine for every passenger that is delayed on all affected lines. Let say 20€ per person.
<only partially sarcasm>: in the USA, with poor 'safety nets' one has to consider they may have to live in their vehicle one day. The problem with the vehicle shown is it is not stealthy enough to avoid notice of the local residents. There are reddits for this. One is reddit.com/r/urbancarliving/
We also don't need cars like that in the U.S., or at least parts of it - probably why I've never bought an American car - most are too big.
A few weeks ago, we saw a play in San Francisco. Our vehicles (we had two) were small, foldable electric scooters that we "parked" in coat check. After it ended, one of the ushers watched us unfold the scooters & gave us a thumbs up - it took ~15 seconds.. Then we rode to the train station, folded the scooters, and got on a train for the trip home.
sometime in the 00s I first noticed how cars got bigger and people would drive vehicles commonly used for dirt tracks in the hills or so, and I thought it so counter intuitive it matched idiocy I started being so ecoclimate aware that I supposed cars would reduce and get smaller to make space for everyone else!
agreed, we need them over here more. I drove a Yaris into a snowbank 10 years ago and had to have my landlord tow me out with his Chevy. I'll never go back to a eurosquatter ever again, thank you.
Although, to extend an olive branch to the big vehicles: nowadays the people have become more and more reckless in traffic. Just watch the tons of "car crash compilation" videos on YT. That's why i don't drive a small car. I want to have a decent amount of metal around me just for the case that some maniac runs a red and might hit me. And to all the "use the bus" people: screw you. I like to drive my car and i will continue doing it. But anyway, a normal car shouldn't exceed 5m in length.
can you add a bit more description to the alt text? Can you say something like "a large USA truck is in a standard ey parking spot, but it sticks out into the road so badly that it blocks the road and tram railway bringing public transit to a halt"? Otherwise, people who are blind or low vision don't get the context here.
did the owner pay the taxis for the people who couldn't get on with the streetcar? Because that's what they do in Germany with people who park their cars in the streetcar's way. All the people who are blocked in the streetcar get a taxi and the fares are billed to the guy (let's face it, it's always a man) who parked the car. As well as a fine and the cost for removing the car. And all of that money is payable before he can retrieve his car from the collection point.
I mean, the fact that it doesn't fit in the space is the owner's problem. The fact that they parked it there anyway makes THEM the problem — at least until it gets towed, in about ten minutes flat I should think…
or US tractors. Some dutch farmers buy ginormous tractors like they are farming in Manitoba, destroying all the trees along the pittoresque country roads designed for cargo bikes two hundred years ago.
I was trying to go shopping and some asshole with a giant SUV parked up and took over half the pavement due to the huge overhang of their shitbox’s massive front end. Like: “oh hey, love your compensation machine, that farted out a million metric tonnes of pollution into everyone’s airspace to drag your solitary lonely arse down to Lidls, such grace, so demure, definitely keying that thing like it’s a cybertruck when you aren’t looking.” But I didn’t.
Planning to travel to Donald Trump’s America? Think twice. You are neither a wanted nor welcome ...
"Eight hours later, after three interview teams and extensive examination of my laptop and iPhone, they decided I'd come on an unusual route to the US, namely from Australia via Asia ... Although there was no evidence of wrongdoing, I was sent back to Australia, meaning I was unable to join the cruise, valued at $15,000 and not refundable."
My God, this is some sick shit, Trump and his co-conspirators, minions are destroying our economy for HIS POWER GRAB. Just think, he’ll be King of the Ashes. 😳
One Australian traveller says he’s now $15,000 out of pocket after being denied entry to the US after “enhanced vetting”. His crime? Choosing a cheap fare.
Like Donald Trump, his entire govt now just makes shit up, at great cost to everyone. Has anyone at TSA, which sets these policies, ever traveled on a plane or had to pay for long-haul international travel tickets? FFS.
The USA are already uptight as hell and think Australians are clamouring to get in. For a time, I was going to move there on a partner visa. It wasn’t my first choice and he ended up migrating here. The questions in the visa application, my god. So arrogant. It’s a massive DOWNGRADE to move to America, you guys… get it through your thick heads….
they would prefer you leave your identity and buy a burner phone and laptop once you arrive. That way, when they label you (something horrific), they haveplausible deniability. It' lucky you're not Canadian. 😉
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- Let’s let the US fester in its own wound of self-chosen inadequacy and xenophobia, and stop visiting and doing business with it. It has a leader who wants USEXIT, let’s give it to them and see how long they actually survive.
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