Tangurena2

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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
You can change your credit card number. You cannot change your face. And because REAL ID requires mailing your DL/ID to you (in order to prove you live at that address), the address will not change (most states require you to get a new
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
Our lobbyists have more money than your lobbyists.
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To abuse that requires physically going to a file cabinet. People in that office are going to question you. If something happens, it is isolated to a single office, limiting suspects to a small number. Putting it online makes it vulnerable
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
The GDPR comes from a different direction - you own the data about yourself, no matter where it is stored. In the US, courts have ruled that the compiler of data owns all that data - you have no control about data about yourself (except in
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
> The fear of a national ID isn’t just about tracking and privacy, but that an individual cannot participate in society or survive if the government decides to revoke the id. This is because the US made a critical flaw by tying the aut
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
In the Heartland data breach, the custom malware that hackers wrote copied the mag stripe as it passed through the payment system. I got a new credit card after that broke (also after Target's breach was reported). Heartland did not st
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
Estonia has done several versions of this. One is a "digital nomad" visa that includes a card with digital keys to do business in Estonia while not living there. https://www.e-resident.gov.ee/nomadvisa/ The
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
Heh, like my 100MHz scope used for audio signals.
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
I hope you're aware of the TekWiki: https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/Main_Page Mine is a TDS224. Cheap, but I only use it for keeping my Eurorack synth going. 100MHz is overkill for audio. Although some modules
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
The US was fighting the wrong war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese wanted independence since the 1920s. The US didn't. The French didn't (the second time). The Japanese didn't. The French didn't (the first time).
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
I've watched some videos showing UNREP and they're fascinating. It takes a lot of skill to keep the ships parallel. There was a collision earlier this year between the resupply ship and the recipient. Analysis: https://
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
As a country, we sure do think it is our mission/duty from god to "save the world from communism" (or whatever it gets called today). I think one movie that shows this is High Noon . That 70+ year old movie shows that it is
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
I think that the V-Chip shows that when parental controls are available, most parents will not use them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-chip#Usage
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
> I wonder also whether there's something about towns/cities that makes birds flourish, compared to other wild animals. Their predators are more scared of humans, enough to avoid urban areas. Most suburbs are kept in unnatura
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
Pigeons were domesticated by humans. And abandoned. They hang around us because we bent their nature to like us. When we stop eating goat & cattle, they'll hang around us and poop all over our lawns & sidewalks.
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
Bad. There are Pacific islands where birds have become extinct due to cat predation. In the US, I went to a university (sarcastically referred to as find another university ) where the mascot was the burrowing owl. They build nests in the
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
Danish furniture started being fashionable (among the young adult market) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. That was veneered with actual wood. I still have my kitchen table that I bought in the mid 80s. Later styles adopted laminated Mela
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
> Burglars wear masks. Around here, they wear hoodies and keep their hood up to obscure their face.
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
Clinton, being a lawyer, asked for a definition of "sex". The definition given to him did not include oral sex. When a lawyer asks you for a definition of a word, then you are getting screwed.
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
Steve Bannon, who advised the 45 administration, called that tactic "flood the zone with shit". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone https://archive.ph/BfuVs
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
Congress is supposed to hold the Executive branch accountable. They deliberately refuse to do so because keeping their cult in power is all that matters to them.
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
There are several treaties with Canada ending the War of 1812. They include things like limits on the size of weapons on naval vessels that can be on the Great Lakes. I suspect that it will also require Congress to reauthorize the Great Lak
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
Only a few species of mosquitos can carry the parasite. None of them live in that part of Europe. The swamps around the city of Rome were historically infested with those skeeters which is why we use the Italian word for the disease (which
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
If the airport workers had travelled to another country, their doctors would have looked for tropical/travel diseases. Usually, it is through shipping containers where unwanted insects cross borders. That's how murder hornets and
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
> Globally in 2024, there were an estimated 282 million malaria cases and 610,000 malaria deaths in 80 countries https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria One question that gets asked is &
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
I used to read small/tiny/hobby farming blogs. Several of them were complaining about upgraded regulations that ended up closing the small slaughtering shops that they had been using.
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
In my state, when a data center needs a lot of new electricity generation, the way utilities are regulated, the existing customers pay for the new generation capacity. The new customer doesn't get the bill. Bills at the state legislatu
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
My favorite Dolly story that she sometimes tells in talk shows was when she heard about a Dolly Parton Look Alike contest and entered it. She came in second place.
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
> Why do you need my address to receive my money? Because of the volume of stolen credit card numbers. If you have the address, you are much less likely to be someone using stolen CCs. Seriously, most of the crooks are that lazy. So th
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
We stopped paying for a USPS PO Box when the price of the smallest one passed $150/year.

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