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laprice

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To create new modes of being in the world is the highest calling.

A #solarpunk future where resilience and stewardship of the ecosphere bring the earth to a new balance.

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The lower half of the house is a stout barge constructed of sturdy timbers. Resting on a frame that holds it ot the ground and serves as it's anchorage.

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mcc, to random
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Is this a good time to bring up my deeply held belief that people should be allowed to vote in elections even if they are convicted felons

laprice,
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@mcc we can only hope that one good thing at least will come of this.

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    laprice,
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    @Teri_Kanefield I m sorry. I think posting on your blog where you have control is a good idea.

    We would like to keep drive -by emotional terrorism like that away from your eyes.

    laprice, to random
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    As a semi-regular bird watcher and frequent visitor to wildlife refuges and migratory bird stopoversl...

    The distinct and noticeable decline in bird population this year is painful

    We are living through the silent spring and cannot notice because the noise of our civilization is too great.

    laprice, to random
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    Eww. LinkedIn, do not try to be hip.

    You are not hip, you are LinkedIn.

    laprice, to scifi
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    Job Requirement.
    Journey level bioreactor cultivator.
    Responsibilities include sewage, sanitation, water cycle, on call for contamination and containment incidents.

    Prior experience with municipal scale infrastructure installations is helpful but not required for the right candidate. Familiarity with engineeered biological soil cultures and bioactive remediation to graduate level is a requirement.
    Reports to Habitation Duty Officer.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    Pres. #Biden tweet:

    Donald #Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate.

    Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again.

    Well, make my day, pal.

    laprice,
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    @GottaLaff Let's hope he uses "I can't I'm in jail!" as his excuse.

    Urban_Hermit, to random
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    1/3

    I basically blocked a guy yesterday, in real life.

    I came back to my car from gathering mussels. And this other guy, fat, walking stick, bucket, big modern pickup - except for the nice vehicle he could have been me from the future, starts braying "are those for me?"

    It is his attempt at a joke, a conversation starter. He repeated it 3 times, increasingly louder. I ignored him. Okay Boomer, I don't have to talk to you if I don't want to (I'm 51 by the way).

    I know it will be me someday...

    laprice,
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    @Urban_Hermit I suspect that I know where you were harvesting because I grew up in a town with a historic bayfront and an iconic bridge.

    Can't say I blame you for gray rocking that guy, he sounded like an entitled blowhard.

    laprice, to random
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    Welp. I have now picked up both of my parents from the ER more times than they ever retrieved me from same.

    Not a great milestone.

    laprice, to random
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    Musk blowing up one of the most successful business units of his struggling flagship company because he got pushback from a female executive is just hilarious.

    laprice,
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    @FantasticalEconomics https://electrek.co/2024/05/01/elon-musk-throwing-weight-tesla-wrecking-ball/

    The woman whose job title was "Head of Charging" didn't want to decimate her team.

    So he fired her and her team as an example.

    Absolute leadership skills on his part /s

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    @WhippoorwillSong @FantasticalEconomics
    And yet still somehow an executive of a military contractor even after getting caught with his hand in the aiding the enemy of an ally cookie jar.

    Willing to bet that if Tesla is in trouble he somehow scores a contract to provide a "theater mobility solution" based on the cybertruck as a bailout.

    And he's got at least a couple of sponsors at the JSOC who are hooked on his space marines fantasy.

    laprice, to random
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    Republicans and dogs.

    Mitt Romney putting his dog in a crate on top of a vehicle for a road trip.

    Ted Cruz; leaving his dog in an unheated house while he waited out the Texas freeze in Cancun.

    Trump's absolute fear of being treated "like a dog".

    And now Kristi Noem is boasting of her willingness to kill a dog she lacked the patience to train.

    They are getting worse.

    laprice, to random
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    Real talk; the Supreme Court hearing on Presidential Immunity is the sort of thing that future historians will describe as an example of the decadence of American politics and the subversion of it's legal system during this era.

    laprice, to random
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    Forget the stupid shit; if Biden has absolute immunity he should start by taking out Leonard Leo and his bank accounts and systematically dismantle the Koch family and it's fortunes.

    Edent, to random
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    laprice,
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    @Edent @Flipboard
    yes, link is clickable.

    kevbob, (edited ) to oregon
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    laprice,
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    @kevbob could it be https://q-law.com/state-tax-withholding-nonresident-sellers-oregon-real-property/

    laprice, to random
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    So LLMs are running out of training data, especially data that is untainted by the output of other LLMs.

    This will inevitably lead to human presence being more valuable for it's novelty and educational value.

    laprice,
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    This does not mean that the humans whose person and presentation are being mined to feed the AI are going to be the ones getting paid fair value for their labor.

    But if all of a sudden your AI pal wants you to consent to doing a fulltime livestream; you might want to demand compensation for use of your likeness and behavioral data. Residuals even.

    peterdutoit, to climate
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    laprice,
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    @peterdutoit dehumidifiers are pretty key.

    The lowest deadliest temperatures happen at high humidities. If you can't lower the temperature you can at least dry the air and make room for sweat.

    Heat pumps are limited in their cooling power but can be used to cool a thermal battery that can act as a heat sink for a fair bit of residential space.

    Surviving killing temperatures for a few days is one thing, but some areas could face 90 days or more of deadly conditions.

    trochee, to random
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    You know what the current hits for "let's let an LLM do it!" really reminds me of? I just saw it!

    1950s Tom Swift stories.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift_Jr.

    I read the hell out of these during 1980s (no Internet!) summer visits to a small town where the best entertainment was the one-room public library and you could check out a book by telling the librarian which cottage you were staying in.

    1/n

    laprice,
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    @trochee I was quite the fan of those books at age 8 or 9
    and it really did a number on me when I discovered that the Caves of Nuclear Fire was based on a real location
    https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor

    laprice, to random
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    Dang; if I were an investor in Tesla I'd be asking why they let this guy run the place.

    As in, you would not hire this guy to supervise a loading dock much less a multinational manufacturing enterprise.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-didnt-want-his-latest-deposition-released-here-it-is_n_66133d2ce4b0d81853f9a766

    laprice, to random
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    Spotify should not exist.

    They are evil and hate

    https://djmag.com/news/spotify-officially-demonetises-all-tracks-under-1000-streams

    laprice, to random
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    Professional box occupier

    laprice, to oregon
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    The #oregon #wolverine is my new favorite cryptid.

    It was spotted this morning; not too far from my place.

    https://kval.com/news/local/watch-wolverine-sighted-in-eugene

    bagder, to random
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    ln -s [one] [two]

    the arguments are done in the same order as if you would have done it with cp.

    Yes, it really is that easy. You can stop worrying about it now.

    laprice,
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    @bagder a useful memnonic for both 'ln' and 'cp' is

    "What you want, where you want it."

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