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Infoseepage

@Infoseepage@mastodon.social

Interests:
-Castles and British history
-Vintage computing
-Gadgets
-Photography
-Horror films
-Snorkeling

I'm a Covid cautious person doing my best to avoid plague carriers. Splitting my plague era between Maui and the PNW.

I've been a one man tech support guru for ages. I mostly do managed solutions / sysadmin type stuff for small businesses and remote tech support for end users, chiefly in the greater Seattle area. I like being exposed to a wide range of technical challenges.

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mekkaokereke, to random
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"Always connect to an external, low voltage power supply before opening a door when the vehicle has no power," Tesla says, "to avoid breaking a window."

How is this a real sentence?

Infoseepage,
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@mekkaokereke Tesla has some AMAZINGLY unsafe engineering especially when it comes to having to get out in an emergency when you are without power. In most cases, the doors are electronically actuated, so if things have gone to shit, you're left with some extremely hacky ways to get out, particularly if you are in the back seats of most vehicles.

One model - no joke - requires you to remove a speaker grill to push on a particular piece of the door frame.

blogdiva, to random
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there are D.C. scum calling "pro-HAMAS protests". the minute anybody in the admin parrots that shit, all bets are off with .

so all liberals on here screaming no matter who, y'all better get your asses in gear and tell every single person in the White House to drop that shit immediately.

am not some magical Cassandra. i have +30 years experience with the treachery of Democrats against antiwar activists.

don't wanna lose in November? PAY ATTENTION.

Infoseepage,
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@blogdiva

The whole "vote for Biden or you'll get fascism" thing only works if the alternative isn't also fascist.

Infoseepage, to random
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The IDF has killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers traveling in a convoy of three vehicles. World Central Kitchen aid workers are clearly identified by their clothing and their vehicles always contain highly visible large logos. This isn't imo a mistake. They were targeted.

https://wck.org/news/gaza-team-update

World Central Kitchen is pausing all operations in the region.

#gaza

Infoseepage,
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This is a genocide by intentional starvation.

The seven killed are from Australia, Poland, UK, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, and Palestine.

Tomorrow, I'm making phone calls to my federal representatives asking them to end our complicity in Israel's war crimes and end all arms shipments.

Today, US supplied arms likely killed a US citizen.

#gaza

Infoseepage,
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@mikewaghorne The US has ~600 rear cargo door heavy lift aircraft like C-130s & C-17s. We've never used more than 4 of them on a single day for the airdrop operation and never dropped more than 50,000 meals. We've never flown more than a single flight a day despite the airbase in Jordan being ~140 miles away.

We're also dropping MREs instead of Humanitarian Daily Rations, which is bad for a number of reasons.

We're sending Israel an endless stream of bombs and next to no food for Gaza.

Infoseepage,
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When I say they plaster their name and logo on everything, I really do mean anything. Most of the air workers out in public have three articles of clothing identifying them as an aid worker front and back. They drap their trucks/ships with giant tarps and they make sure the logo is visible from all sides/angles. They even label individual meals so that it is clear that what they're carrying is food.

#gaza

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Infoseepage,
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See this woman on the left? Her name is Lalzawmi "Zomi" Frankcom. She was killed today by an IDF airstrike on her convoy of clearly labeled vehicles. They'd just finished transferring more than a hundred tons of aid from World Central Kitchen's maritime relief effort, which I tooted about earlier today. Here last act was to bring almost as much food to staving Palestinians as the entire US airdrop effort.

#gaza

Infoseepage, to random
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Rafah has twice the population density of the Warsaw Ghetto at its peak during WWII and Israel is telling people to evacuate or its not their fault if they die. Actually it is, Rafah is right up against the Egyptian border and there's nowhere left in Gaza that hasn't been substantially bombed by Israel.

55% of the buildings in the whole of Gaza are damaged or destroyed.

This is genocide.

#gaza

Infoseepage, to random
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A veterinary epidemiologist named Andrew Bowman at Ohio State was impatient with the FDA and lack of data on the H5N1 outbreak, so he took a road trip and bought milk in 10 states. 58 of the 150 commercial milk products contained enough traces of viral RNA to light up a PCR test, which suggests the H5N1 outbreak is far more widespread than the US government is letting on.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/25/h5n1-bird-flu-cows-outbreak-likely-widespread/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

RickiTarr, to random
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Have you ever met someone who lies all the time, but doesn't seem to realize they are lying?

Infoseepage,
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@RickiTarr There is a "fill in the blanks to make the story make sense" aspect to it that is pretty interesting to see. It really isn't lying, as most people understand it. They genuinely don't realize they're just making stuff up. Craziest Mad Libs ever.

Infoseepage,
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@RickiTarr Confabulation is often tied to dementia. Seen it a few times in elderly people I've known.

Infoseepage,
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@RickiTarr Oliver Sacks has some interesting anecdotes about it in "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat." Well worth a read.

DrALJONES, to random
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    Infoseepage,
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    @DrALJONES Just a reminder to everyone - these false accusations resulted in countries cutting aid funding to one of the biggest organizations providing aid in Gaza.

    It is not far reaching to say that Israel manufactured evidence (through torture) to try to reduce aid going to feeding people in Gaza.

    You can make individual donations here:

    https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/~my-donation?_cv=1

    Infoseepage, to random
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    So, basically World Central Kitchen worked with the IDF for weeks to ensure inspection of their cargo, arrive, offload and transport the first hundred tons to their warehouse and are promptly killed by the IDF. That is basically the timeline at this point.

    WCK appears to have ready to leave Cyprus with their ships loaded with food as early as the 16th. Then they just anamolously stopped for two weeks (indicative of a Israeli imposed obstacle).

    https://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news/national/24225831.ships-leave-gaza-240-tons-undelivered-aid-cyprus-says/

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Okay, so last night I was on a date, and I asked hubs what he was up to at work, and he told me he learned Python, so he could write a program to help people troubleshoot computer problems on their own.

    I ask him, "You're creating a program to replace yourself?"

    Apparently, just the boring easy stuff he doesn't want to deal with, because he has better ideas about how he wants to use his time at work.

    Is this what you smart people do all day?!

    Infoseepage,
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    @RickiTarr I once heard computer nerds described as "People who will go to fantastically great expenditures of time and effort to avoid doing some simple thing repeatedly."

    Trust me, it drives us nuts to have these sorts of conversations constantly:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2F1rFmyQmY

    w7voa, to random
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    U.S. military C-130 cargo planes drop food in pallets over Gaza. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-military-aircraft-airdrop-thousands-of-meals-into-gaza/

    Infoseepage,
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    @w7voa Any journalist covering this needs to be asking real questions about this token effort.

    The Berlin airlift reached a peak daily delivery of 12,941 tons per day, with about 2/3 of the gross weight being fuel. That would work out to 4,270 tons of food per day to feed 2.5 million people. So, ~3,400 tons to feed Gaza daily? A single C130 can airlift ~21 tons per trip according to a brief search. They sent 3 of them.

    You'd need ~54 trips daily with three planes to actually feed Gaza.

    Infoseepage, to Iceland
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    Looks like some journalists were allowed into Grindavik yesterday during daytime hours under S&R escort. Some neat footage. AS the journalist said, a lot depends on how long the eruption lasts.

    #Iceland #Eruption #Volcano #Magma

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syn51N16_2g

    Infoseepage, to pnw
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    Some of the birds I saw today while on my daily walk through Bellevue's wetlands. Lots of blue and green herons seen today, one soaring osprey and a decent number of wood ducks. I especially liked one blue heron which was wading unusually deep. It almost looked like a goose if you squinted at it just right. Not usual behavior.

    #pnw #bellevue #birds #birding #birdphotography

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    BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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    What can the fediverse do to support Palestinians?

    Infoseepage,
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    @BlackAzizAnansi Donate to UN RWA and publicly oppose measures which would transfer further arms to Israel. Write, call and plant yourself in the offices of elected representatives. Support the handful of federal representatives that have staunchly taken principled stands against this genocide.

    Infoseepage, to random
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    Watching Israel horrifically kill 45 people in a nothing-but-tents "safe zone" refugee camp and then say "well, there were these Hamas guys" and the US response is "Israel said there were some Hamas guys" is just breaking me today. This was a flat out war crime. There is a principal in international law that requires the least minimal action to achieve an objective. Dropping a giant bomb to kill a soldier while killing or injuring hundreds is not justified under international law.

    #gaza

    Infoseepage, to random
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    Biden is now in the position of unconditionally supporting a Israel regime which:

    1. Thought launching an airstrike against an Iranian embassy was a thing to do.
    2. Continues to limit supplies to North Gaza.
    3. Assassinated 7 clearly identified foreign aid workers on a highly coordinated aid mission.
    4. Destroyed a major hospital complex.
    5. Stands back and lets Settlers commit mob violence in the West Bank and blocks ambulances.
    6. Massacres hundreds of people attempting to get flour.

    #gaza

    fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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    "So you've never had a piece of paper in front of you by a Foreign Office lawyer that says Israel is in breach of its humanitarian commitments under international humanitarian law?"
    "Look, the reason for not answering this question is I can't recall every single piece of paper that's been put in front of me."
    David Cameron at the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, 23rd March 2024.

    https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1775433842645508600

    Infoseepage,
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    @fkamiah17 Both the US and UK are transferring arms to Israel in ways which run contrary to their own laws. The US laws governing arms transfers explicitly say that they can't be made to nations which are blocking US humanitarian aid. It is incredibly clearly worded and direct and leaves no wiggle room for interpretation. 8 US Senators (7 from his own party) wrote President Biden a public letter to that effect, because the law requires that he be notified of violations. They've notified him.

    Infoseepage, to random
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    According to US Centcom press releases, the US has only made three airdrops over Gaza in the last week.

    Infoseepage,
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    Israel has dropped tens of thousands of bombs on Gaza. We gave them to them. How do you think those people feel about us now?

    Bombing the rubble until the rubble stops complaining isn't just contrary to international law, but it is ineffective as policy.

    Infoseepage, to Iceland
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    For once I missed the start of the eruption. That will teach me to go to sleep!

    Here is the multi-view camera stream if you want to watch too:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg

    #iceland #eruption #volcano #magma

    Infoseepage,
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    This is what the ground deformation data looked like from space immediately prior to the eruption, with over a quarter meter of bulge in the central area. As I said yesterday, the land was positively pregnant and ready to pop.

    Infoseepage, to random
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    US Centcom already failed to acknowledge how its drops earlier this week along the beach zone in Gaza led to a number of deaths to drowning/chute entanglement and trampling.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/aid-drop-off-gaza-beach-leads-drownings-local-authorities-say-2024-03-26/

    Now, it looks like they've maybe done it again, with 26 pallet loads dropping into the sea:

    https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-View/Article/3725225/march-29-uscentcom-conducts-humanitarian-airdrops-into-gaza/

    Infoseepage,
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    This is by way of a reminder that the Humanitarian Daily Ration floats and can be individually dropped over sea and land without parachute or pallet. No entanglement risk. No risk of a thousand pounds strapped to a pallet going through a roof.

    Also, I'm back to eating nothing but HDRs to make people more aware of its existence and the fact that the US has millions of them. They're specifically made for this sort of challenging aid work environment and we're dropping MREs instead.

    #gaza

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