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cainmark

@cainmark@mstdn.social

Bicycles are transportation. Enjoy stories in many formats. Comic books and animation (2d, 3d, & stop motion) are favorite mediums. Former academic library staff. Enjoy most organizations that sees value in objects and works. Accession is an important step before curating and archiving.

I believe in Diversity, equity, and inclusion.

He/Him who believe in the rights of LGBTQ people.

Your right to speak and post like a jerk does not absolve you of bad consequences.

#BikeTooter #nobridge

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RickiTarr, to random
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What is the thing(s) that attracts you to a person romantically or otherwise?

cainmark,
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@RickiTarr

Curiosity.

RickiTarr, to random
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So, what's the thing, what's the big thing no one can help you with? How do you cope with it?

cainmark,
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@RickiTarr

That there's an entire generation that believe they're always right and that what other people think is always more important than what I (or my generation and those following) think or feel because they believe empathy is a weakness.

I bicycle. I walk. I can sometimes be very silly. On purpose.

ascentale, to random
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@sam wonders how to respond after a bad driver interaction:

Q6. When you have a dangerous interaction with a driver that doesn't involve a crash (drivers throwing things, pulling in front of you and getting out of their car and attempting to stop your bike, etc.) do you call the police, file a report later, get away and then do nothing, or something else? What factors go into making your decision?

cainmark,
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@sam @moira @ascentale

That's why I still report if it's really bad, because those reports can show the same abusive behavior to different people over time. I know one guy lost his license because he kept intentionally terrifying people cycling on the same quiet country road with his distinctive white pickup truck.

cainmark, to random
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So far, out of more than 100 protests asking for divestment from the Israel state, York in the UK and Brown in the U.S. are the only ones who've agreed to divest.

There should be more than that. Hope there are, or will be.

cainmark, to random
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Trying to setup a computer without internet (not for security reasons, distraction from working on stuff reasons) is far harder than I thought it would be. This computer is on another location away from wifi and ethernet and I don't want either.

Several distributions work live from cd DVD USB or microwave-- but none install to this 2018 Dell XPS desktop.

Again, this "air-gapped" computer isn't for security reasons.

So far, void linux and knoppix work the best live.

#qa_computer

cainmark,
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@RL_Dane

Yep. Won't install. Tried secure boot off to finally get it to livecd part. Used gparted to check partitions. Finally got past pcie error issue. Livecd works Still won't install.

cainmark,
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@RL_Dane

That, and each distribution has a different problem. I'd understand if they all had the same issue, that would make sense and I could figure it out.

cainmark,
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@RL_Dane

Sigh, yep.

Part of my frustration is that this machine still seems new to me. I can't afford to buy new machines that often. 2006 GNU/Linux Debian based Ubuntu saved my dead Windows computer that suddenly decided it didn't like to display graphics. It was glorious.

Unfortunately, I think in 10-15 year replacements while the industry thinks in 6 months to 2 year replacements.

skinnylatte, to food
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Genuinely I believe that most people (including me a few years ago) think they can’t bake or make bread because there are so many awful recipes on the internet.

Use a good book, or a great resource like King Arthur’s Recipes, AND a scale, and things get so much easier

cainmark,
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@skinnylatte

Yeah, there is no way to make delicious Southern cooking better by changing the ingredients to make them healthy.

You'll have something, but it won't taste good. There are delicious recipes, but you change a Southern recipe --it's not Southern anymore.

futurebird, to random
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When people talk about the days of mass media in the form of the evening news, Dan Rather, everyone "on the same page" with wistful longing... I get why. The current landscape is chaotic.

But, that period of more centralized media left a lot of people out. It made certain perspectives impossible to contemplate.

Like during the early days of the Gulf War: the antiwar movement was invisible.

cainmark,
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@justafrog @futurebird

Yup. The difference between things posted about Ferguson from people who were there were vastly different from the mainstream media when they finally acknowledged it.

ai6yr, (edited ) to H5N1

Bird flu virus found in grocery milk as officials say supply still safe (Gift Link, thanks @firefly !) https://wapo.st/3JxBHpf

cainmark,
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@mjf_pro @CStamp @tiamat271 @ai6yr @firefly

Absolutely. I was surprised when I recently found out one of my favorite comic book artists (Don Newton) died that way.

RickiTarr, to random
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If you could have one new skill starting right now, what would it be?

cainmark,
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@RickiTarr

Sing on key with a proper beat.

My inability at this hampered a lot of regional theater acting opportunities I know I would have enjoyed.

RickiTarr, to random
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What kind of high-school experience did you have? Were you in a clique? Were you popular, unpopular, the coolest kid in your Homeschool? Did you have a sweet jean jacket with patches, or maybe a leather vest? Were you an evil villain or a Mary Sue?

cainmark,
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@RickiTarr

I was desperate to be liked, but wouldn't commit petty crimes or bully others. Got bullied verbally a lot but didn't realize it until decades later.

Even though I got a going away party when moving to another country, no one thought about how I was getting home. Walked the 2 hours home. One letter of apology 2 years later. One.

Reunions not really desired after that.

ElleGray, to random
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in my mind every one of these cows is a muppet. and they sing

cainmark,
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@ElleGray

Moo moo mah moo-ah

ajroach42, to random
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One of the Fugs, just before he died, said "Nobody who lived through the '50s thought the '60s could've existed. So there's always hope."

cainmark,
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@ajroach42

Living through the 1980s I was sure there wasn't going to be a 1990s or past it for humans. Kind of glad to be wrong, but boy did the U.S. take some other types of mind-boggingly stupid turns in this timeline.

TerryHancock, to random
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Chose eclipse-appropriate movies for today:

Started with "When Worlds Collide" (1951) this morning. And now watching "Ladyhawke" (1985).

cainmark,
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@TerryHancock

I like both, they're 2 very different movies to me, despite having the same source material.

RickiTarr, to random
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You are Entangled with someone, you'll see them throughout your life. You are connected in some way that always brings you back to this person. There's a good chance you don't like each other at all.

cainmark,
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@RickiTarr

Seeing younger people not only look, but dress and behave the same as people I knew in my past is a constant now, no matter where I am geographically. No lo ger freak out about it, just resigned to it often happening.

Yet I still feel like an extra in everyone else's main character lives.

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay now, pick this up and eat it like a sandwich. I want to see it eaten like a sandwich.

cainmark,
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@RickiTarr

As a taco, maybe. As a sandwich most people would end up wearing it.

RickiTarr, to random
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Who is the best Batman villain and why?

cainmark,
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@RickiTarr

Ace (from Batman the Animated Series) because she really didn't want to be a villain but was one.

cainmark, to StarTrek
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"Chekhov's gun" should be updated to "Pavel's phaser" if it hasn't already been done.

#pn_tv #StarTrek #television

ascentale, to random
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Next question is about wheel sizes from @SRLevine

Q2.For people who keep track of trends: do you think the "new" 650b/27.5" size on road/gravel bikes will ever over take the more common 700c? It seems to be getting more popular, but maybe just because I wasn't looking at all for a while...

(And for those who don't know much about it, can you tell us why this new size has become a "thing"?)

cainmark,
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@billyjoebowers @ascentale @SRLevine

I intentionally went with 26" because they could be replaced anywhere (until the pandemic played havoc with supply chains and so any other people took up bicycling during the lockdown).

#BikeNite

cainmark,
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@billyjoebowers @ascentale @SRLevine

I have a long torso, but short legs. I really have to have things set right for me, not a long legged athlete.

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm what many people would call an optimist, but I don't subscribe to an unrealistic view of the world, what I try to look for is the root of reality. I think truly evil people are a very small part of the world, they are unfortunately the kind of people who seek power, and their goal is to turn people against each other. After disasters, people tend to come together, they donate food, water, money, blood, and time, but something always sets in, the Elite hate when people organize, and remember they control the media. After Katrina, suddenly there were reports of gangs roaming in the Thunderdome, people being raped and murdered, the reality is that never happened, people formed gangs, but to help each other, making sure women were protected, that children got food, and people got medicine. What happened was suddenly upper-class people got worried about their stuff and grabbed guns, a similar thing happened in Ferguson, saying people were "breaking" into their neighborhoods. Yes, there are people with bad motives who want to hurt you, but mostly those people are the elites. Tragedy moves towards Socialism, and they will literally make stuff up to stop this.

cainmark,
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@RickiTarr

Despite the previous years of criminality by mob rule of my nation I was still an optimist until late March 2020. I had thought on March 10th, 2020 that people of all kinds step up and help each other no matter what in disasters. Then by March 30th we had a very loud vocal minority of people screaming about not wanting to wear a mask, one of the easiest things they could do to help each other. Now they scream about vaccines. 30%. fascists worldwide.

But I still have some hope.

cainmark, to animals
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This is my buddy, my current best non-human friend. 17 great years of company.

Hooey short for Houdini loves to just lay on my shoulder and be praised. Lying beside me and between my feet are his next favorite positions until he wants to be left alone.

I'm not allowed to by him, but my spouse can pet him, rub his ears, even his belly sometimes until the tail starts twitching--then it's fightcat time. With scratching and biting action.


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RickiTarr, to random
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Are you the person you always thought you would be?

cainmark,
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@RickiTarr

No, I'm still alive. So much better.

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