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justafrog

@justafrog@mstdn.social

Full-time amphibian.

Strongly committed to treating all individuals of the most common primate species fully as valid persons as much as possible.

Concerned about covid19, climate destabilization and economic equality.

Likes complete information abstract board games which have been played for centuries, straight into this modern time.

Middling at chess, kind of okay at baduk. Into the second year of taking shogi seriously.

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eniko, to random
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wait. has the text in the steam app always been this fucking tiny? i feel like it got tinier...

justafrog,
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@eniko I basically just move it to a 1080p screen to read it.

eniko, to random
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pretty sure if you store your backups on the same service that houses your live data you don't actually have any backups https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-cloud-accidentally-nukes-customer-account-causes-two-weeks-of-downtime/

justafrog,
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@eniko Someone probably said "You have to keep it in at least one additional physical location." and they made a second volume on the cloud so it was okay.

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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(Having a lovely scroll through my timeline this morning)

The thing I love about the Fediverse is that it's a full and rich community full of vibrant and interesti...... I'm sorry, what the actual fuck? OK, burn it all down and bury the ashes.

justafrog,
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@DemocracySpot @TheBreadmonkey So basically, this system thrives on a multitude of iron isotopes.

StillIRise1963, to random
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For all the white people who say some of these folks “pretend to be racist for money,” please know that there is no such thing. The consequences of the behavior are real and the same, even if one were “pretending,” hence, there is no such thing as pretending.

justafrog,
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@StillIRise1963 If someone consistently punches people, we don't have this fuckface whispering contest about them.

Should be the same for racists.

CelloMomOnCars, to Futurology
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When the runs dry: Why is freaking out over a tiny Swiss dam

"Water-rich controls Western Europe’s taps — and wants it to stay that way. Its drought-ridden neighbors are getting nervous."

https://www.politico.eu/article/when-the-water-runs-dry-why-france-is-freaking-out-over-a-tiny-swiss-dam/

Reminders:

  1. Switzerland is not part of the EU.
  2. Switzerland will have serious water problems once the glaciers have melted.
justafrog,
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@CelloMomOnCars A lot of countries outside of Europe already have large-scale desalination to supplement the simple absence of sufficient fresh water.

It's going to have to happen in Europe too, now that 6-month droughts have become a fact of life.

justafrog,
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@CelloMomOnCars Spain actually does use it for agriculture already.

For example, there's a plant in Torrevieja producing 240'000 cubic meters a day, half of which goes into irrigation.

There are many smaller plants in operation in Spain, as well as more planned, with varying levels of irrigation use.

stux, to random
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I am still amazed by the fact has a liquid metallic hydrogen ocean :amaze:

Such extremes and basically so close by!

Space and everything in it is just amazingly incredible :blobhappy:

justafrog,
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@stux For very large values of "close".

714 million km on average.

stux, to random
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:bloblaugh: I remember jailbreaking my iPhone and going through amazing lenghts to get Siri working on my iPhone that wasn't supported!

Years later I'm looking for a way to completely remove Siri from my phone! :blobcatgiggle:

What a time :apple_inc:

justafrog,
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@stux Maybe if they were both smart like the Star Trek ship computer, and not in corporate control.

Until both of those are true, I'll keep on removing every attempt at "assisting" me.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I take my parents to doctors so often, I hate going for me.

justafrog,
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@StillIRise1963 Making an appointment for yourself and actually going is strangely difficult.

justafrog, to random
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Religion really is dying in the Netherlands.

The general trend is that religiosity is more common among old people, who don't manage to entice all of the next generation to stick to their faith.

Note that the graph is about "Are you religious, and if so which one?"

Weekly attendance is a lot lower, at only 18% of those who claim a religion. Catholics specifically have it at only 6%.

Source: https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2024/20/vooral-oudere-mensen-zeggen-deel-uit-te-maken-van-geloofsgemeenschap

futurebird, to random
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Quick Tulip update: Didn’t see her for a few days and started to worry since she getting up in years for an ant. Just spotted her in the lower chamber doing some patrolling around. She’s at least two years old. Still full of life.

Close up of Tulip, a very good looking ant: she has a wide head and six sturdy black legs.

justafrog,
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@futurebird Did you ever mark an ant around eclosing?

Kinda curious what the really young ones can show in distinct personality.

RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all I just made myself feel so old, hubs looked up top 100 music from 2001, 2011, 2021, and today and the amount of music I could recognize decreased by significantly. I recognized probably 70% of 2001 and decreasing as I went on. BUT I blame the internet, I can listen to exactly the kind of music I want with no dependence on the radio, but also I'm old!

justafrog,
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@RickiTarr Ever since I got liberated from radio, I just don't know recent popular acts at all.

I do know there's thousands of people releasing music I enjoy every year, though.

So what if they're obscure af? I'm having a good time!

msquebanh, to animals
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Asher, contemplating the meaning of life.

justafrog,
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@msquebanh Is it snacks?

I bet it's snacks.

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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Breaded fried tofu can get fucked

justafrog,
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@TheBreadmonkey @mentallyalex Fry it, roll in flour, roll in egg, roll in bread crumbs, and fry again?

justafrog,
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@TheBreadmonkey @mentallyalex .... that's reduced bean water from cooking chick peas?

Well, that was an unexpected learning moment.

justafrog,
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@TheBreadmonkey @mentallyalex Well, I always liked having chick peas in a stew because they do leak a fair bit of frothy stuff.

It makes sense.

But I don't think I would have come up with using it as breading glue on my own.

justafrog,
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@TheBreadmonkey @mentallyalex This also means I need to explore different reduced bean waters.

Every bean leaks differently, after all.

eniko, to random
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Implemented an entire boss fight today start to finish. Pretty pleased with that. Had two days budgeted for it

justafrog,
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@eniko It's better than the Mario Bros ones, isn't it?

ElleGray, to random
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so. in January I was in a bad car accident. fractured spine, ruptured discs, cracked pelvis, broken arm. last 4 months have been v hard. tonight though I'm going back to my adult dance class for the first time. I wasn't sure I'd ever even walk properly again so this is a moment for me. a good one

justafrog,
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@ElleGray It's good of you to share your joy.

futurebird, to random
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The ant “foot” consists of a tarsal claw with two toes and the several segments above that I suspect are simply… well…floppy. Basically, I’ve seen no evidence ants can wiggle their ankles at will, but rather they seem to adjust the floppiness, or tension of the lower leg. The claws, however, show signs of dexterity, ants can control how sticky the soft pad of their foot is, but also seem to be able to grip and release with their claws. (how exactly are the muscles arranged?)

Another view that includes the segments above which I suspect to be “floppy” the ant leg is often covered in hairs.

justafrog,
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@futurebird You don't have a copy of Grey's Antnatomy?

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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What advice would you give to someone just starting out in a relationship?

Mine might sound kind of dark in relation to the question, but here goes:

People change, and they should, it's part of being a person. Some people are lucky, and they change in the same direction, but some don't, and that's okay too. There's no shame in leaving a relationship or changing the nature of a relationship that no longer serves you. We are all taught that every relationship, whether romantic or friendship, is supposed to last forever, but nothing is forever, and forcing something that no longer works, just ends in anger and bitterness. Knowing when to let go is as important as knowing when to hold on through a rough patch, and how to know either of those things is the most cliché advice of all, COMMUNICATE.

justafrog,
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@RickiTarr Mine is so much shorter:

Enjoy the good times.

mentallyalex, to random
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By muppet bus, I mean a bus attended primarily by muppets.

The bus itself could be relatively common, however it will need to accommodate numerous individuals who experience muppety behaviors, ideas and mannerisms.

justafrog,
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@mentallyalex I'd just Kermitpanic up and down the bus.

Does that count as attending it?

StillIRise1963, to random
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In November, white Americans will decide if this whole democracy thing was just a lark.

justafrog,
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@StillIRise1963 White Americans are the only major demographic which goes majority R.

It's pretty stark.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship-by-race-ethnicity-and-education/

peterdutoit, (edited ) to random
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Jan 12, 2024, Hanson, Sato & Ruedy:

“We expect record monthly temperatures to continue into mid-2024 due to the present large planetary energy imbalance, with the 12-month running-mean global temperature reaching +1.6-1.7°C relative to 1880-1920 [already reached in the ERA5 & Berkeley Earth datasets] and…

1/2

Hausfather thread: https://bsky.app/profile/hausfath.bsky.social/post/3kskdf4xsg226

justafrog,
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@peterdutoit Projected to break 2.0 before 2050.

This is not reassuring.

msquebanh, to Birds
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People who complain about wild singing so hard in the morning - are not my friends. I'm DELIGHTED about early morning bird songs!

Their bird calls YellTell me - We are happy in our habitat here! It's another day we are alive!

Their early morning bird songs, remind me of the importance of feeling of being able to enjoy another morning, another day, to relish in the fact I'm still alive & able to receive many opportunities that the dead no longer have.

justafrog,
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@msquebanh I like some birds much more than others, but the silence of no birds at all is worse than any bird noise ever could be.

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