Tangurena2

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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
As a state employee, even more of my info is online. One of my coworkers pointed this page out to me: https://transparency.ky.gov/search/Pages/SalarySearch.aspx#/... > and work underground for cash My si
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
> Because these businesses have to register as CMRAs and you have to sign a notarized form for them to legally receive mail for you, some services will still detect it and not let you use the address That's exposed in the USPS API
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
Also known as Poe's Law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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Until it gets outlawed for not telling websites what age you are.
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And the hillside on Windows XP is also a photo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_(photograph)#
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I remember from one of my art history courses that it was more a rejection of Hitler & Stalin. Those 2 loved representational art so much that "the art world" took decades before representational art was acceptable.
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> Who's behind the transgender psy-op? Right wing nutjobs who think the most important thing in the world is what exists between your legs. A few years ago there were news stories about a family that decided to raise their child &
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
If you watch YouTube interviews/documentaries about the CIA, one of the things that all of them point out is the disguise division, which makes some fascinating facemasks and other disguises.
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by Tangurena2 1mo ago
I think the first time that was brought to my attention was one of our host's essays: The Submarine . https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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Both Hitler and Stalin only respected/allowed representational art. They both hated abstract art. Any promotion of non-representational art was in effect a rejection of Stalin (and Mao and Kim). Socialist Realism was the name for the r
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by Tangurena2 2mo ago
I'm cheering for the San Ti. They can't be worse than what we currently have.
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Many early cars used a hand crank to start the motor. If you don't do it correctly, it was possible to break your arm. My grandmother was impressed by the (female) movie stars who had chauffeurs. As a consequence she refused to drive (
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My parents were nudists. So I spent a bunch of 60s % 70s getting sunburn. I bet that even baby oil would have cut some of that down.
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That's mostly due to social pressures and expectations - women are expected/demanded/forced to perform most of the child care duties. Which is why when a man does child care (in the US at least), he is seen as "helping o
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by Tangurena2 2mo ago
I suggest having a BBQ with your neighbors. That should minimize the pre-launch problems. If you use a steel ball bearing like he originally thought, that bullet will be the start of your legal problems.
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Amazon purchased all of the companies/sites that handled the used book market. You cannot escape the clutches of Amazon if you're a book nerd like me.
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As bad as Google's searches have become, they still do a better job finding the book on Amazon when Amazon's search can't find a book when I put in the title and author's last name. It is common for "sponsored resul
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by Tangurena2 2mo ago
> Is this the first case of a company's data being sold at bankruptcy for a significant sum? No. I seem to remember that when pets.com failed, in 2000, their customer data was to be sold.
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There is a vaccine available for TBE. I got it. It is expensive, and my insurance won't cover "travel vaccines". https://www.cdc.gov/tick-borne-encephalitis/prevention/tick-...
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> How can such data be sold without the consent of all involved parties? In the US, whoever owns the computer owns the data on it. Courts have routinely ruled that you have no say in what other people collect about you. The goal of ban
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If there are only 3 copies, then each copy is going to cost thousands of dollars. Sample: > Thou shalt commit adultery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible
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by Tangurena2 2mo ago
In the 1800s, there were a lot of fraternal organizations. Some of them were social clubs [0], some provided for funeral arrangements [1]. About the only remaining one of these is (are?) Freemasonry. One should remember that the US had very
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by Tangurena2 2mo ago
> Do American people ever wonder "are we the baddies"? Any American who ponders this out loud is quickly silenced with "America! Love it or leave it!". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-term
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> continue to earn USD for oil? Iraq started taking Euros for oil. Shortly after that, they were invaded. Venezuela started selling oil for Yuan. Shortly after that, their president was kidnapped by American troops. Iran is selling oil
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> I store my belongings with a storage company. They rent facilities from a property owner. The storage company goes under while my stuff is still in the storage unit. I go to the property owner and say my stuff was in there. They say,
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It was 70 years of video that they had broadcast to the public. This isn't anything remotely proprietary.
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> 10 years ago, this was a lot of data. And this data is 70 years of video.
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Their contract said that they had 30 days to get the data when OSS went bust. Instead, IM cut them off immediately. They need the court order to make IM comply with existing contracts.
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> 50 TiB is so little. Still, it is 70 years of video from that PBS station.
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NASA stored all the data from space missions on tape - those old reel to reel mag tapes like you see in old SF movies. Decades of using floor buffers ended up erasing the bottom 2 rows of tapes. https://www.ibm.com/history&#

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