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darren

@darren@c.im

Just me, living my life. A round-earther and curious technophile. Sharing a bit of life along the #Minnesota- #NorthDakota border. Amplifying a variety of interesting and passionate people.

#Vikings fan, #skol, #MNUFC, #sunsets, outdoors, #lakelife, #UpNorth #fishing, #iceFishing, #winter, #lakeLife, #mnastodon, former #Microsoft, dad to #actuallyautistic adult.

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darren, (edited ) to random
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Driving home late from a soccer game, just saw a enter over west central Minnesota, grow bright, then break into several pieces. Cool.

darren,
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Years ago I was lucky to see what became known as the Mifflin . Very bright, flashing, colorful. It traversed a long path. I will never forget it.

jmarthaler, to random
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Game story for the Star Tribune, as #MNUFC comes back for a 2-1 win against Portland.

https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-united-beats-portland-timbers-loons-sang-bin-jeong/600367047/

More analysis coming as well!

darren,
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@jmarthaler
Great recap Jon.

darren, to random
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Come on you Loons!

#mnufc #mnsports #mnufcVSPDX

darren, (edited )
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@ERBeckman Thought that whistle would never blow!!

ai6yr, to california

Interesting, California has a pilot program on an effort to charge drivers by the number of miles you drive, instead of through gas taxes. (to make up for lost revenues to EVs, which do not need gasoline). They are paying $400 in gift cards -- and a gas tax or EV registration fee credit -- for taking part in the pilot. https://caroadcharge.com/media/zehd2y5s/ca-sb-339_public-fact-sheet_final_remediated.pdf

darren,
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@ai6yr
Interesting. Do they assume your EV never leaves the state? My friend who just drove his EV from Palm Springs to his summer haunt in North Dakota would owe California road tax on those out of state miles.

darren, to random
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Treasure City in Royal, MN. Where young pirates get their souvenir gear.

darren,
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@HopelessDemigod when my kids were little, it was a required stop every trip.

darren, to random
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Heading to in hopes that will finally win a game for me. I have to travel 500 miles RT to watch the Loons. I see about 3 games per season. Havent seen them win in person in three years. If they don't win today, my miles-to-win ratio drops to 5,000/0.

darren,
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The curse is broken!

video/mp4

darren,
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@Kaptainkr I thought that game would never end. The ref did everything he could to thow it to Portland, but they won anyway.

natematias, to random
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"Some questions have earned their place in the landfills of science & society. Questions that toy with genocide, like those that dance around racial or gender inequality, should not be tolerated."

"If the leading voices in the field continue to ask these questions, then no matter the answer, everyone will... continue to wonder, they will continue to follow those lines of thought to terrible, terrible places."

John Slattery on the history of eugenics for America mag

https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2024/05/16/eugenics-legacy-100-years-247908

darren,
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@natematias "...and raising intelligent children to fulfill God’s vision."

There He is again. Always cropping up where evil is being inflicted on the poor, weak and despised for the benefit of the blessed.

darren, to Minnesota
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Sitting beneath the cherry tree and listening to the steady roar of the bees in the blossoms is one of the things I enjoy most about spring in .

darren, (edited ) to animals
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We lost our dog to old age 2 years ago, and I just recently started scrolling through PetFinder app. Wilcox suddenly appeared on my screen and had me lol'ing. I might have to check him out.

Centurion480, to random
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[S]uch simplistic trolling has become an essential part of the faux-tough-guy, vice-signaling discourse of the Trump era. It’s a tone Noem valiantly tries to emulate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/opinion/kristi-got-her-gun.html

darren,
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@Centurion480 Sorry, friend. Wrong state.
Blame for . Blame for .
Let's get this straight, people!
Ignorance of the two Dakotas may be convenient to most who simply fly over, but its alienating as hell to those of us who are living it on the ground.

darren, to Quotes
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"Its not so easy to play the clown when you have to run the circus, is it?"

--Major Margaret Houlihan. MASH 4077.

Hey_Beth, to random
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Nate Silver is now NYTing.

"The White House pulled off a great bluff. But they hold a bad hand, and today's debate gambit reveals it."

Why Biden's winning strategy is bad for Biden.

darren,
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@Hey_Beth Nate Silver is still a thing?

HopelessDemigod, to Minnesota
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Article 13, Section 7 of the Minnesota Constitution states

“No license required to peddle.

Any person may sell or peddle the products of the farm or garden occupied and cultivated by him without obtaining a license therefor.“

Because of this wording a group of Minnesotans is arguing the state constitution allows them to sell their home-grown marijuana — they’re legally growing — without a sales license and are asking a judge to weigh in.

https://kstp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Selling-Cannabis-Lawsuit.pdf

darren,
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@HopelessDemigod I like it!

AmishSuperModel, to random
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Just jamming to some music and thought I’d share a few faves.

https://youtu.be/dDnNr6lNxvc?si=_KEY4uCuBiUFzPzk

darren,
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@AmishSuperModel You are so fucking cool.

darren,
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@AmishSuperModel I do. I really do.

matthew, to Minnesota
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A fun (and extremely pragmatic) exploration of the new #Minnesota state flag "controversy":

https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/s/yC7gxafpSF

darren,
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@matthew Yes, thats a great comment.

Glad the old flag is dead though.

caseynewton, to random
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With today’s announcements at Google I/O, the web has entered a state of managed decline https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

darren,
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@caseynewton "...a company that once proudly served as an entry point to a web that it nourished with traffic and advertising revenue has begun to abstract that all away into an input for its large language models."

Curious to see if a LLM, once built, can sustain itself without new human generated content. Why build your new 'fields of dreams' on the web, if users are never going to come anyway.

jmarthaler, to random
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Saturday night’s all right for… Emanuel Reynoso news!

As many have noted from social media, he is indeed back in Minnesota. #mnufc has “outlined clear steps that he must complete before any reintegration with the first team,” according to a club spokesman.

darren,
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@jmarthaler Boo!

AFlyOnTheBall, to minnesotavikings
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Have you heard about Kirk Cousins' rap album featuring Minnesota Vikings diss tracks? These bars are hot.

https://aflyontheball.com/kirk-cousins-rap-album-leaks-vikings-diss-tracks/

darren,
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@AFlyOnTheBall Good riddance. Most expensive piece of dog shit we ever had to scrape off our snow boots.

analgesicsleep, to random
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Thanks for tuning in it really means a lot to know there’s other silent film lovers like me out there. Here’s the schedule for August. I hope ya’ll can make it then, as well. Get some sleep and have a safe & wonderful week, friends, I’ll see all y’all around💕

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darren,
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@analgesicsleep This looks like fun! following .

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