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@ceruleanspark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGfROOMYhik Saw this the other day, seems up your alley
Thursday, 06-Oct-22 18:39:46 UTC from web -
Sometimes I wonder if I am insane or the world is insane.
Sunday, 25-Sep-22 19:55:12 UTC from web-
@adiwan We're currently going through the once-a-century social hysteria so at least one of them is true, the other requires more study.
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I-66 coming out of Washington had a bunch of construction being done on it tonight which meant I couldn’t get into any of the exits leading home. The result is that I had to drive through the dying rural part of Northern Virginia to get home. Two lanes, one in each direction, on a winding, narrow, wooded road in a “The Hills Have Eyes” looking area, critters everywhere, ominous glimpses of dilapidated ranch-style homes with pickups and Trump 2024 signage, and just when you thought it couldn’t get any spookier, a decapitated deer laying in a pool of its own blood that I had to avoid running over. Jordan Peele couldn’t have depicted a more uncomfortable drive.
Thursday, 29-Sep-22 07:26:11 UTC from web-
@zeldatra this sounds like a genuinely exciting roadtrip, it needs spoopy music
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Nothing quite so uniquely sucks as waking up with the same headache with which one went to bed
Monday, 30-May-22 15:36:29 UTC from web-
@scribus (straight male boomer comedian voice) Sounds like my wife!!!!
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@thelastgherkin Dang that was a good one
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talking kiwi on a Disney movie gets you ratio’d harder than saying something racist
Saturday, 14-May-22 00:40:37 UTC from web-
@scribus Out of nowhere I remembered the ""Injun"" song from Peter Pan for the first time in twenty years and on a rewatch, oh man. Oh man
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@thelastgherkin Well you inspired me to go back and take a look at it. I always wondered why people weren't more offended, but I still forgot half of how bad it is.
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Who is paying to keep this site running and more importantly who is paying for that person’s mental healthcare
Thursday, 14-Apr-22 19:49:32 UTC from web -
it is kind of a long shot, but are any of you nerds good with that Julia programing language?
Wednesday, 30-Mar-22 14:17:33 UTC from web-
@mushi I know a guy who's been using it for a few years. What do you need?
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@vernandex i literally need everything xD.
I accidentally ended up on a course on it and it is my first contact with coding and i'm screwed xD -
@mushi ...well, here's everything: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/. Have fun with programming, I guess.
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Nowadays I'm pretty much #HorseFamous on twitter http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/763113
Friday, 06-Jun-14 06:58:51 UTC from web-
@lyokotravels the context for this post didn't age well has it.
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@lyokotravels Most things don't age well beyond a certain point. Fruits, vegetables, one's own body....
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Whatever DID happen to Grimey?
Monday, 20-Sep-21 22:01:29 UTC from web -
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anyway, i bouth my 18th console recently. I usually dont like digital only stuff, but this gens been looking rater boring so far, so i only wanted a cheap gamepass machine. currently playing bug fables http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875991
Thursday, 02-Sep-21 23:30:36 UTC from web-
@scribus ew, i hate games
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Long horse is loooong !art #giraffe http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875964
Saturday, 24-Jul-21 19:30:04 UTC from web -
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So, i'm in my PhD now, i got a cotutelle scholarship with the university of Lorraine, in france (i speak nearly nothing of french tho, so my first time going to france qas a hell of an adventure. Brazil is even messier than before and i might have gotten even more reclusive than before (though now i'm much more well paid :'v )
Friday, 11-Jun-21 01:55:19 UTC from web-
@scribus yeah,maybe i can even get vaccinated when i go to france again in september xD
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My bois
Thursday, 10-Jun-21 04:33:09 UTC from web-
@zeldatra same tbh
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So you know how they've got those nigh-pornographic art models with the poseable skeletons and all that jazz? Do they make them in non-human? Looking for a mouse or a rat... uh, also non-lewd. I don't need a sexy mouse. Not yet....
Saturday, 27-Mar-21 20:26:28 UTC from web-
@adiwan I dunno, lol. This is really probably just Perfectionism stepping on Productivity's toes. Mostly I just was looking for a reliable way to check if something I would write would be physically plausible. But I've already taken pages of notes on "The Secret of NIMH" and other cartoons and actual live animal footage, so I probably don't *need* anything at all.
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@thelastgherkin Dude I've seen that before! And it is a good idea... um, in the context of trying to make an anatomical/biomechanical model. heh
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@scribus I think it's cheaper to buy a real mouse and not bother trying to replicate the skeleton in order to see if a pose is even possible. Yeah... It'd bite back but still cheaper time-wise and financially. I don't think pet shops allow anybody willy-nilly to grab a mouse and contort it.
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So it seems to me that if Kyubey's goal in Madoka is then
Friday, 19-Mar-21 06:48:30 UTC from web-
@scribus yeah but she saved the universe despite the kyubey's intention
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@princelypublictimeline And yet, I feel like there has to be a solid Taoist reading to this show... lol
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glad to see this is still around
Tuesday, 16-Mar-21 01:50:47 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@scribus if anything I am the forgotten one lol
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@princelypublictimeline Don't feel too bad, I'm always forgetting crap. Yesterday, I found out that I forgot I had Yelp installed!
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@scribus no one remembers yelp lol
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@riddhik Bring it on I love black magic
Tuesday, 03-Nov-20 02:43:58 UTC from web -
Was anyone on here named Adam Hussein?
Tuesday, 27-Oct-20 23:53:32 UTC from web-
@oracle No, Saddam posted for a bit under his post-fake-death identity but hasn't been around in a bit, he's old now.
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Naruto: Five Characters That Joe Biden Could Beat (& Five He Couldn’t)
Sunday, 25-Oct-20 08:29:23 UTC from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@mrmattimation What level of sharingan Biden are we talking about? is he pre or post timeskip? does he have access to malarkey senjutsu?
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Damn. I bought another 3D printer.
Wednesday, 14-Oct-20 10:06:10 UTC from web-
@adiwan @scribus Not much of a point either, since we already have metal 3D printing in the shape of 4+ axis mills. You just put in a sufficiently big piece of metal and load the 3D model to the CNC software and let it work.
Mill of hot extrusion, metal printing will stay too dangerous and expensive for domestic use for at least a few decades I think. Most homes don't even have the space to fit the machinery or the wiring to run it. -
@nerthos Oops, *mill OR hot extrusion
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Meanwhile, in Murrica: "The seven-day average of new cases has climbed above 56,000, a level not seen in the past 12 weeks, and is 14% higher week over week, according to John Hopkins data." https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/19/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html
Monday, 19-Oct-20 16:40:08 UTC from web-
@scribus Majority infection will be the eventual outcome, slower or quicker.
There are two ways to beat a virus: you either completely isolate every infected individual and anyone who is physically capable of contracting it for at least twice the lifespan of the virus, and I'm talking full lockdown, napalmed when opening the door; or you wait until almost the entire population has been infected and developed herd immunity, at which point new infections become very rare if the virus survives at all to mutate over following years.
Full lockdown wasn't done in time and in any case it is impossible considering the social paradigms of any western country, so the option that remains is the latter. Containment can only be reasonably used to slow spread to a rate to which the health system can handle it, but won't stop the spread, no matter how much a government insists on it. And it also vastly increases the number of deaths from existing conditions untreated due to lockdown.
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Shape your watermelon. Shape the young watermelon
Wednesday, 10-Jun-20 14:06:08 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Are pumpkins an acceptable substitute?
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@scribus I'll allow it http://rainbowdash.net/url/875539
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And I feel like the asshole for sitting here and watching them, after first shouting, then yelling, then cursing, then fuming, then apologizing, but I swear to god I have tried to grow something for years with setback after bullbanana failure and right now these goddamned gourds are about the only thing I have going for me in my life and I swear if anything happens to them I will jump in the pool wearing ankle weights
Saturday, 30-May-20 15:24:13 UTC from web-
@scribus Do this with a few wooden poles or metal tubes and some wire. You can also use it as a support to lay a nylon or wire mesh on top if you expect hail. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875532
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@nerthos Yeah, I'd thought about it for shade, but it didn't turn up necessary. Now that they're done, I expect that's it. They basically butchered the trees. :-/
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@nerthos But ultimately, the question is, is it so goddamned hard to look where you're dropping kiwi? Or keep your customer's mess in their yard? Basic respect. Show one move's worth of forethought for those around you.
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Good morning, everypony! I hope you have a super duper luper day!! It's 2011
Wednesday, 01-Apr-20 08:28:03 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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Like I said - I have no reason to believe I’ve got it other than this cold, which is also going around right now. No fever, no headaches, nothing. Just congestion.
Thursday, 19-Mar-20 19:31:33 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser But, the Carnegie and Rockefeller and all those families, they used to do public works and stuff. They may have been hoarding the wealth, but not damn *all* of it. Their flash contest was at least servicing the greater good as a side effect of the ostentation. This new crop seems more about raw, bigly yuge numbers, and hoarding, like a dragon (or a priapism). But, again, this is all coming around to perception. . . .
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@scribus I mean, there's Bill Gates and whatnot. On the other hand you get people like this guy, who think it's an okay idea to keep making electric cars at a moderately high risk of illness to his employees with no one to buy them. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875471
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@thismightbeauser @scribus That is indeed the case, a lot of rich people have middle class cars and discrete houses and do their best to keep people from knowing how rich they are, due to the general sentiment of "wealth equals evil"
You can't blame them really, if the mob will hate you just for managing to make good decisions and earning your family big money. I'd probably do the same if I couldn't simply relocate to a fortified compound with a minefield around it. It makes no sense to feel empathy for a group that has none for you, for whom you'll always be the bad guy regardless of what you do or don't do, that openly talks about how good it'd be if you died.
The ones that show off are the sociopaths, politicians and entertainment industry guys, who by default are crooks as that whole industry is built on crime and debauchery.
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So, no. I do not have goddamned nginx figured out, and no, the Pleroma 2.0 launch has not made this any less goddamned infuriating.
Sunday, 15-Mar-20 04:19:48 UTC from web-
@scribus The installation of Pleroma comes with an NGINX config file located at /opt/pleroma/installation/pleroma.nginx copy it to the NGINX sites-available directory, change your server names, then symbolically link it to the sites-enabled path
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@oracle I had done that previously and it still wasn't working. The directions said to name it a certain thing, which was not the usual Nginx method of naming it the same as the URL is supposed to be. Might that have been my problem? The second time around, I did try modifying a default, instead of copying the provided one, so obviously that was the error, there. :p Thanks.
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@thismightbeauser Well, my latest (balls-deep-in-failure) attempt is on Ubuntu 20.04, and nginx is 1.17.10 (Ubuntu)
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!vgp https://shp.itch.io/ Several fun games made by @shpuld@shpposter.club, give them a try
Friday, 13-Mar-20 14:40:02 UTC from web -
That said, I keep meaning to launch a Pleroma instance for myself.... Just keep having problems with nginx.
Thursday, 05-Mar-20 18:36:42 UTC from web-
@nerthos Also the dev team is releasing 2.0 stable next weekend so you might want to wait for that.
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@nerthos @scribus Rin seems to be the dev dealing with nginx https://patch.cx/notice/9snOdafVWNXv6Q8R4y
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@scribus Carcino sends his regards http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875456
Thursday, 05-Mar-20 05:49:32 UTC from web -
I'm sure it's not nearly so simple in reality, but I feel like conquering climate change is a simple matter of banning some of the bad stuff with obvious alternatives (gas vs electric consumer vehicles, for example) and watching the market self-correct. But everyone is afraid to pull that lever because it could be political suicide.
Monday, 02-Mar-20 05:01:17 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser An actual solution to the issue is deglobalization of economies and achieving food and industry autonomy in every relevant country, but good luck cutting the flow of shekel just like that. There is a reason any sort of nationalism is treated as evil incarnate by mainstream political parties and economic groups, a global market that depends on countries not being self-sufficient is extremely profitable, no one can stop buying or selling or their internal situation crumbles within months.
A secondary effect of this, while a positive from an environmental point of view, is that a lot of countries simply don't have the capacity to achieve food autonomy due to having bigger populations than their fertile land can sustain. Take Nigeria for example, <1 million km2 of surface with a rapidly growing population at 190 million right now. Without world trade the country would starve, and lead to open war in the region. -
@thismightbeauser So you not only need to completely reshape the economy of most countries but also need to regulate the population of each to levels their own land can sustain (without further destroying the environment to grow more crops)
Some countries have a food surplus of 10 times their internal consumption, so they can keep their current populations without issue. But what happens with a country that has a food deficit of say, 50% of consumption? the population has to be cut in half or starve. Either way, you have a disaster in your hands with no clean way to solve it. You can pick between genocide, mass starvation or civil war, neither acceptable by any humanitarian standard. And you can be sure it'll spill to neighbouring regions.
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@nerthos I think some of this makes sense, but I have a hard time believing that the world's current population level isn't sustainable, just that we haven't figured things out yet. There's a lot of junk produced that isn't necessary, or made in inefficient ways that could be cut out. I get what you're saying about deglobalization and the whole "buy local" slogan that environmentalists have been pushing kind of points back to that. Where do you draw the line though? Even goods shipped within larger countries like the US or China can travel vast distances before reaching their destination. Do those countries have to be split into regions then? People would probably be freaking out about that. No more California oranges in PA? No way! Probably not a great example due to Florida being closer, but still.
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