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by h2odragon 2y ago
When an affinity group hires lobbyists, the activity they affine about is dying.
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by h2odragon 2y ago
In 1970, you could have 16 year olds swinging hammers and 12 year doing fetch and carry on a construction site. Almost everywhere one built had far less paperwork involved in every step of the process. TFA mentions "regulation" i
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by h2odragon 2y ago
Home building. Not only can you save insane amounts of money, you gain a confidence in the result that you cannot get any other way. You know what's in them walls, it's no big deal to go back into them when you need to. Often fu
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by h2odragon 2y ago
Revel in the "number go up" ness of it.
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by h2odragon 2y ago
You know what else happened at that venue? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqsikkkyy_s
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by h2odragon 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leather_Goddesses_of_Phobos
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by h2odragon 2y ago
68% of the land surface of the earth is in fact "northern". What percentage of scientific publications originate in the southern hemisphere? We should immediately classify all human knowledge by the geography of its originators an
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by h2odragon 2y ago
What should the punishment be? Should that apply to all the other people in the same technical circumstance?
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by h2odragon 2y ago
Remember "silence is violence" and "everybody has to stand with $CurrentThing" trends? Perhaps making tribal affiliation a requirement was a bad idea after all.
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by h2odragon 2y ago
The boys who cried "Russian disinformation": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_statement_on_the_Hunter...
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by h2odragon 2y ago
Author projects lack of depth and preference fro tribal affiliation over principle onto audience.
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by h2odragon 2y ago
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/25/2024/editor-resign-sub...
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by h2odragon 2y ago
Could this be politically motivated lies? Like "Hunter's laptop is Russian disinformation" was?
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by h2odragon 2y ago
as well. but where's the line? I've stuck 1in angle iron together and had it stay stuck under load. I count that as welding, with some pride. but then i've seen folks weld together an excavator that broke ( in half ) halfway
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by h2odragon 2y ago
yes but not quite to SMD levels. on the other hand I'm able to solder copper pipe for plumbing and stills and have successfully patched radiators and some some stuff that would count as "small welding" "delegate the sold
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Will climate change put Chicago at higher risk for hurricanes?(cbsnews.com)
3 points by h2odragon 2y ago|0 comments
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by h2odragon 2y ago
one of my favorites https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/sial/nist2387 dunno what the cannabis might cost https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/07/nists-new
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by h2odragon 2y ago
Its "Pray the Populism Away" conversion therapy.
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by h2odragon 2y ago
We're trained to assume that the prettier things are implemented by entities that care more for the pretty than the function the thing was supposed to preform. Uglier, less decorated things are expected to function better, with less ef
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by h2odragon 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
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by h2odragon 2y ago
think they do a cricket-ish thing rubbing wings together. they're using the hole as a horn bell for focus and tone. i think (i watch carpenter bees). ultrasound for body range communication will probably be subject to much interference
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by h2odragon 2y ago
Less Carbon, more carbon; the only thing we're really sure of is that it ain't right the way it is now.
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by h2odragon 2y ago
https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1847885968809906221
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by h2odragon 2y ago
tempts me to finally pick up dwarf fortress that will keep me away from new factorio for a sufficient time for that world to settle out and become safe, surely
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by h2odragon 2y ago
apologies for the confusion, i could have linked the first tweet but the further exploration was also interesting
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Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements(twitter.com)
385 points by h2odragon 2y ago|287 comments
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by h2odragon 2y ago
Odd they don't mention the Federal categories of "de-emphasized" posts.
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by h2odragon 2y ago
The "table of treatments" is great. conversion therapy / brainwashing / "pray the Republicanism away". https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh4764#T1
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by h2odragon 2y ago
Meanwhile we're stripping human leather off books: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/arts/books-human-skin-har...
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by h2odragon 2y ago
I think it goes deeper: a lot of the people who are likely to question their gender identity are likely to have other geek traits. Some of the very early stars in tech were seeking identity (more than gender), often to the point of their ow

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