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Does anyone have any recommendations for a personal budgeting app? I’ve been using a manual spreadsheet for a while but would appreciate something more connected/automatic with my accounts so I can track actual spend more easily.
Something like what Mint used to be before Intuit killed it. I tried YNAB a several years ago and hated it, so unless it’s changed dramatically, that’s probably not the one for me.
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@ibwatson was it the Envelope method that YNAB used? It's a lot to get used to.
I'm using a self-hosted app that I think works without a server, it's called Actual Budget. It has some YNAB influences but you can turn off the envelope method
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@motoridersd It was a while ago so I can’t fully recall if it was their method itself, but the memory I have was finding the UI incredibly clunky and hard to actually understand how to use. But maybe it was the envelope method? 🤷🏼♂️
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@ibwatson yeah it requires you to budget in the future and to assign a "job" to every dollar, so it feels very clunky and counterproductive if you only want to track things.
Actual Budget lets you tag and categorize transactions and connects to things through SimpleFin, which is a paid service, but pretty affordable (waaaay cheaper than YNAB).
I do like the privacy/local data focus though!
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@ibwatson yeah that's very nice. You will need to use some cloud thing to automatically or easily sync things, but you can also always do manual downloads
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@ibwatson I’ve been using Copilot (https://copilot.money/) for a year plus now and it does a good job with connecting to nearly all of my accounts for automatic updates. (Before that I used Banktivity for Mac but it was having trouble updating my accounts consistently so I switched. Because manual entry is not the vibe.)
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@ryanhg @ibwatson I’ve been using this one too. It’s an adjustment from Mint because it’s feature heavy. I like that it has auto sync with Apple Card. I got used to tracking recurring payments but am still toying with labeling and organizing my monthly budgets between the main categories and wtv sub category I need.
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Boy, I am going to need some translation services for this sewing pattern. Fabric descriptions do not match any of the stuff I snagged at the JoAnns going out of business sale, and I am totally unfamiliar with what they are. #sewing
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Sewing pattern with different descriptions of fabric
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broadcloth think heavier button down oxford shirt fabric.
chambray, think jean looking work shirts you see on every cowboy in a movie.
madras is for madras shirts, those loose shirts you see on folks in india.
all usually cotton or cotton blend.
i'd avoid rayon. too sweaty and snags.
be careful on madras that it's not also seersucker. first project my mom taught me to use sewing machine on was a seersucker apron. she obviously wanted me to suffer.
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@paul_ipv6 LOL thanks for the tips, I have so far managed to pick the WRONG FABRIC for everything, so appreciated. I clearly never learned about different fabrics growing up.
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my mom was a theatre major and did costumes and sewed much of our clothes when i was a kid.
my sister is a professional theatre costumer.
i was unable to escape fabric knowledge or basic sewing. ;)
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@paul_ipv6 Good for you! My dad says my mom couldn't sew. Totally was NOT taught to sew when she was growing up because that was "servant work" 🙄
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we weren't "poor" but never had too much extra money, so our houses were always fixer-ups, some clothes home made, repairs we could do, we did ourselves.
i learned to do drywall/spackle/painting before i was 10, over years, learned basic plumbing/electrical, carpentry.
my gaps are auto mechanic and fancy plumbing. still avoid both of these.
still kinda suck at elaborate machine sewing but my hand sewing is quite credible.
did go deep on metal/wood from learning to build/repair guitars and jewelry fabrication. both will be welcome hobbies when i retire.
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as a kid, you just get used to how you're living but as i've gotten older, i bemoan the lack of repairability of so many things, houses and the stuff in them.
it amazes me how many of my very technical and intelligent coworkers have no idea how to "fix" much of anything.
the "right to repair" trend is a step in the right direction, as is some of the EU effort to cut down on dead software, ewaste, etc.
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@paul_ipv6 Yes, this drives me crazy. People who are (supposedly) technical folks, but can't fix a darn thing.
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@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr I grew up similarly. There's not much I can't do (aside: I despise plumbing). Taught myself BASIC at 6 on a TI 99/A (interesting but longish story). Started roofing at 7 (Uncle owned the company, journeyman by 10, also hate roofing). Also at ten found myself at NASA/Navy Base where I learned to electronics/RF and solder small things instead of gutter seams (thanks US Navy!)
Done construction off and on when our industry crashes occasionally.
I like other polymaths. You rock.
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@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr Plumbing includes sewer ... in Santa Cruz mountains lots of septic tanks from concrete/redwood/poly tanks, built or fixed them all. Black water. (It's near lunch time for me, don't want to dwell on it.)
Mea Madre's house's sewer lateral collapsed while I was visiting (1929 cast iron piping). She made me stay and fix it (think backhoe through her yard). Took months to build and mate old systems to new. Also bought her a garbage disposal that can eat engine blocks.
Okay, now that people have described it, I suspect this would work for a test run. I am sure not robust enough to last, it is marked "craft cotton" and was originally $2.00 a yard, but I got it at I think 50 cents a yard LOL. But perhaps a good way to fumble myself through a shirt? (Am I wrong?!?) #sewing
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Black dog pattern says "Craft Cotton"
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Here is sizing info. I need to buy some measuring tape, had to borrow the spouse's. Chest size is 41.5, which apparently isn't actually in the sizing range🤔 (obviously will to to the large, but why do they skip?!?!?) #sewing
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Okay. Now to decipher how much fabric needed. Looks like these are in yards base on width of fabric... so I need 2 3/4 yards. But the fabric here is 43 inches, not 45. 🤔 #sewing
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@ai6yr they never warned us how much math was coming 😆
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This! Daughter chose to study fashion. High school sciences teacher publicly humiliated her, trying to pressure her to choose science.
In her employment, she is doing math in her head from morning to night. We don’t realize what is involved in getting clothing, shoes, accessories to market.
You should see what she makes for herself at home.😮 Designer couture. The math involved? Mind blowing.
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yeah. my sister does her own patterns. in high school, she patterned and made a velvet doublet, the pierced twisted sleeves, whole bit.
i laugh every time she says she can't do math. she's way talented.
A yard of fabric is 36 inches. Luckily the kids had an old long folding measuring stick. (Yes, yes, upgrading my fabric scissors is next on the list). #sewing
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Dog pattern and a measuring tape with 3 folds for 3 yards, little kids scissors but extremely sharp being used to cut fabric
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i have one pair of gingher shears, used for nothing but fabric.
i still have mental scars from when mom found me using her good fabric scissors on paper... pretty sure her yell exceeded all the OSHA work place dB limits.
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@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr Touch my fabric scissors, and prepare for severe punishment.
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I have a tag affixed to mine that says: These might cut you, but if you touch them, I will definitely cut you.
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🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr haha just posted about this. Hell hath no fury like a mom finding out you used the “good scissors” on paper.
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@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr I mean, understandable if she actually had the nice stuff.
Oh wow, the dog fabric just came out of the dryer, and it has SHRUNK. 👀
Will have to take a photo, but it's significant.
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It may not be very clear, but the dogs.om the left (washed and dried) are visibly smaller than the unwashed fabric.
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Dog patterned fabric, left side washed, the right side unwashed
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Hmm, I had no idea ironing was such a big part of sewing. I mean, it makes sense. But had no idea. #sewing
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especially with cottons, prewashing, then ironing makes a huge difference. much better to do all that settling before you lay out pattern and cut.
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@paul_ipv6 Thanks... just did that. Next up, when I get time maybe later, is cutting the pattern (which I see I have to also iron, LOL)
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i'm weird. i actually like ironing. ;) and sanding/buffing/polishing.
but you wouldn't do a woodworking project without sanding, squaring, etc. the wood before you measure, mark, and cut. washing/ironing is the same thing.
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@paul_ipv6 Oh, I don't mind the ironing, just didn't realize that was also required (makes sense... crinkly material and all).
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Do you have a big table?
Mark the width by laying down a ruler, or tape down some string.
Layout the pattern. Do you need more fabric? 1-2 inches hardly ever makes a difference. You can't cheat if the big pieces don't fit.
Always use the straight grain (along the selvage), unless the pattern calls for a bias (45° angle).
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@EugestShirley No big table, but I have an empty floor (well, mostly empty) that I can lay this out on. Except when the rabbits or the spouse's Roomba is wandering around there.
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@ai6yr @EugestShirley WAIT - what happened to that teak table you scavenged from the curb?? That's the perfect size for laying out pieces. Just tape some clean flat cardboard on top.
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It is currently hosting potted plants, on the patio.
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@EugestShirley @ai6yr *sigh*
I will put it out to the cosmos that the next item needed in the 3-sewing-machine multiple bunny 'hood is a folding work table for pattern cutting and other projects.
May one manifest at a curbside before the next sewing project. So mote it be.
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@femme_mal @EugestShirley Okay, another dumb sewing question. When I am cutting out the pattern, do I use the fabric scissors or should I be using a different pair of scissors, because they are paper?
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@ai6yr I am late to this party but:
FABRIC SCISSORS ARE ONLY! ONLY! ONLY! FOR FABRIC.
do not ever use them to cut something that isn't fabric or string.
(rope, even cotton rope, or rope trim or whatever, does not count as string. I'd avoid using main fabric scissors for heavy upholstery fabric, that needs its own stronger pair of fabric scissors.)
if my mother caught me using the ginghers for anything other than fabric I think I would still—at 34 years old and bigger and stronger than my aging mother—get a thrashing, or at least the verbal beat-down that would make me wish it was just a thrashing.
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@camilla @ai6yr Fortunately I have the ability to sharpen scissors since my wife has no respect for any sharp object. I bought her a $150 knife for Christmas in hope that it would frighten her out of throwing it in the sink. Major fail. Perhaps if I teach her to sharpen knives it will build some respect. 🙄
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@ai6yr scissors sharpening is hard and I suspect you'll probably have to start from a grinding wheel, depending on what the current conditions of it are. I've been sharpening knives using both water and oil stones since I was about nine years old. I still cannot reliably sharpen a pair scissors except trivially with a sharpening rod.
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In Finland, charging fees for tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids, which means rich families had to make sure the schools the kid went to were good, which meant the rich were prompted to invest in public schools. Finland, take a bow.
#schools #finland #public #education #sticker
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In Finland, charging fees for tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids, which means rich families had to make sure the schools the kid went to were good, which meant the rich were prompted to invest in public schools. Finland, take a bow.
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are you using the new command? it's in unetconfd. it's literally on sysptkm. it's configurable via xchwnt. it's literally under /usr/share/pnetdx2. you can probably grep for the qvjconf. you can update it via bungpkg. update via bungpkg. fetch it with bungpkg. you can bungpkg it. bungpkg has it for you. bungpkg has it for you.
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I had Brandon add my Costco Credit Card to his Apple Wallet and I did not know that iOS lets you use NFC to add it. You tap the card, and that's it. Unlike Android which requires taking a photo of the card to read the information.
What did surprise me is that Citi did not ask to confirm the addition with an SMS code... I did get an e-mail notification that the card was added.
So, easy and quick, but all it takes is physical access to a credit card (at least a Citi card) to have it added? That doesn't sound right
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@motoridersd What I think is funny is for Apple’s Credit card you have to tap it to the phone to activate it but you absolutely can NOT tap to pay with the physical card 🤷♂️ 🤣
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@Furball whattt that's asinine LMAO
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@motoridersd They really really want you to use Apple Pay. But I use the physical card equally as much I think. I always have to say “it doesn’t tap!”
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@robert this is a credit card though
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(Of course, I was using my phone for NFC versus the card itself ... perhaps that was the difference. And if so, why can't I use my iPhone or Apple Watch as my card at Citi's ATM like I can at Chase?
First World Problems, I know)
The not-so-glamorous side of having a hot tub and doing all the work yourself. The water gets nasty and this should ideally be done every 6-8 months depending on usage.
I also have to do this on a weekend when power is cheap so I can heat up all this water again for less.
We need a Pool Boy 😏
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Any #grammar folk here?
Bearing in mind I am British English, -- and this is my frame of reference for my question -- what's with the following construct?
"How Does This Even Work?"
It's the word "even" here which I find superfluous and odd. Had it been me, I would have said:
"How Does This Work?"
"Even" is unnecessary, adds nothing, and seems superfluous.
Can anyone explain even why to me, how or why, even, etc, why or even how we even have this? ;)
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@thomasadam imho "even" is used as an emphasis, indicating that this is a surprise and that it shouldn't work; rather than being a mild question or even a request for information.
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@phessler OK, I can understand that, but "why would you even bother?" with the distinction? I mean, you can have breakfast with me tomorrow -- and I can offer you a Cumberland sausage; Would you ask me: "What even is a Cumberland sausage?" I doubt it. You might ask: "What is a Cumberland sausage?", to which I'd give you an answer.
BTW, if you've never heard of one, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_sausage
Speech vs Writing -- to me, there's no need for the emphasis at all.
(And if you find otherwise, I would love to hear why.)
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@robert I am sure if I looked I might (even) find otherwise.
But academically, were I to check over the past ten to fifteen years, I bet I wouldn't (even) find the phrase in any University papers.
Not that I'm (even) suggesting such phrases are limited to that.
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got dressed for a patio brunch
then I went outside
it was raining
no patio brunch for me ☹️
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@kf OK but this is a fantastic top though
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Satan from South Park at a podium angrily saying, "I will be suing SouthPark for $50M. Showing Trump in bed with me has done irreparable harm to my reputation"
Friend: "I wanna do drugs this weekend but I also planned to move from Bazzite to Fedora proper on my desktop."
Me: "I love that you think doing a fresh Linux install and doing drugs are mutually exclusive and not the norm."
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ICE is now the largest law enforcement agency in the history of our country.
Democratic governors, mayors, and lawmakers have the power to stop secret police tactics like abductions by masked ICE agents: https://www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-police
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Women-founded companies generate 78¢ of revenue for every $1 raised vs 31¢ for male-founded startups. They burn 15% less capital--in 2024 $270K/month vs US startups $320K/month. Yet female founded startups received only 2.1% of venture capital in 2024. https://www.inc.com/annabel-burba/female-founders-outperform-their-male-counterparts-but-receive-much-less-funding-study-finds/91212886
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Sustainable Kaiju. #grickledoodle #godzilla #kaiju #sustainable #climatechange #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
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@grickle dump isa terrorist. He cantstand when people speak truth so his filthy corrupt regime attacks. Musk is the same kind of monster and together they try to destroy a y entity that doesn't agree with their terrorism. Facebook is also in that category. We need to eradicate them all
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The victims of climate change are not it's cause.
The victims of climate change are not its cause.
Being washed out of homes does not lessen CO2. Burning forests does not end climate change. Dying from heat does not slow climate collapse.
Burning Carbon causes climate change.
👉 BURNING CARBON is climate change👈
The victims of climate change are not it's cause.
Killing people will not reduce climate warming.
Exxon is guilty.
End Carbon, save kids.
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I have been feeding fake data about myself into every system I encounter since I was a teenager.
A data broker's portrait of me as a sixty-something businesswoman who drinks bud light proves that my history is a useless, contradictory mess as a result.
It's shitposting elevated to performance art.
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Twice in the past week, I’ve received an edit notification about a post I’d previously boosted where the edit corrected bad or incomplete information. In both cases, I boosted the correction.
I’ve long wished for social media misinformation policy to be “If you saw the bad info, you see the correction.” Mastodon comes closer to that than anything I’ve previously encountered.
There’s been a lot of theoretical hand-wringing about allowing edits on social media. In practice, this aspect at least seems like a huge success.
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The world is being held hostage by Scooby Doo villains.
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Shaggy sits forlorn under a streetlight.
Every mystery we solve brings me closer to the realization that the only monsters in this world are pathetic old men trying to steal as much money as they can.
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#3119 - Flettner Rotor
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New rule: Men who seek advice from chatgpt are no longer allowed to make fun of women who are into tarot or astrology.
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As a Meta employee, I can honestly tell you what we know, and I do not know how we obtain all of it.
* Your full name
* Your full home address
* Your phone number
* Your e-mail
* Your government ID
* Your consumer report history
* The name of every family member
* The name of every friend
* The name of their family / friends
* Your marital status
* If you are faithful to your partner
* Your work history (all of it)
* Your education history (all of it)
* Your travel history (going back years)
* Your birth gender
* Your gender ID
* Your sexuality
* Your sexual preferences
* How often you're having sex
* Your partner's details (all the above)
* Your political ideology
* Your involvement with any group
* If you protest, we know
* If you're unhappy, we know
The amount of information we collect on you is insane. And we do it all for supposedly marketing and yes, we help the government since they have access to all this too.
So when someone says they want to avoid META or GOOGLE - respect.
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Tired of being a bird?
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A pigeon approaches a poster low down on a pole. The poster shows a picture of a pigeon and says "tired of being a bird?" There are tear-odd strips at the bottom that might have phone numbers on them.
The pigeon tears off one of the strips and holds it in her beak.
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Happy Spoonerism Day to all those who belly crate.
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The Bad Salad of William Archibald Spooner
Why do I always watch my birds?
I know that statement sounds absurd
but today I reached an all-lime toe
when I received a blushing crow.
It’s wetting gorse – and here’s the crunch:
my conversation packs a lunch.
I’m not sure when all this began
but I think I need a plaster man
to help me when my stouth gets muck.
I should sit, perhaps, and bead a rook,
fight a liar, or flick some powers.
No, I think I’ll go and shake a tower.
Brian Bilston
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#sciencebitches #ShitIFind #mightbeuseful
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"Can I Lick It?"
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...my safeword? hang on, I've got it saved in my password manager.
wait, I need my Yubikey to unlock it, lemme get my trousers back real quick...
th-that's awkward, it seems that the database didn't sync haha, can I have your WiFi password?
oh my, it looks like your network is blocking my VPN, I'm so sorry, it's never happened before, I swear
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Take a long hard look at this graphic, the longest continuous direct measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide. This is the famous Keeling Curve from the station atop Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
Trump and the GOP are closing the observatory.
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/bluemoon/co2_400/mlo_full_record.png
Anything below 10% in a DNA test is margin of error so stop bringing it up.
Also, white people obsessed with "ancestry*. Stop. You don't have to bring it up every fucking time.
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@motoridersd
DNA ancestry will always have a stink of "purity" racism.
I wonder how many of those people obsessed with tracking their "ancestry" via DNA have bothered to find the person in their extended family that has actually been documenting their family's history (there's always one) or, gods forbid, actually talk to their surviving elders about their life story and their own knowledge of their unique family history.
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@James @motoridersd I feel like there are non-toxic reasons for being curious about your ancestry regardless of one's skin color.
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And while ancestry.com has access to amazing amounts of data, there is another library with amazing records, too. The Mormon Church has one of the most extensive genealogical libraries, and is available to the public; if you are ever in SLC and curious about your history, it's a physical and tangible way to connect with your past, even if neither you nor anyone in your line are Mormon.)
@robert @thickurt
Yes! I feel like there's been a generalization assumed in my statement earlier, but I might be reading too much into it. I wasn't at all saying that genealogy or tracing is just done for purity's sake, but relying on just DNA ancestry to determine where one comes from misses the humanity of it and reduces a family's story to scientific data points. This reductionism is where the problem lies, not in the building of a family tree and shared history
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More to the point, I find DNA ancestry to be too fickle and inaccurate. Also, why the hell would you send your genetic data to a private company who is likely re-selling it to companies and governments without your knowledge?!‽ (I would like to think the recent "threat" of the sell-off of 23 and Me's data would have been a wake up call!)
Also, maybe those looking for the purity of the Aryan race should remember that the Aryans were Persian/Iranian and Indian, not Germanic/Teutonic.
@James @motoridersd I'm spending time today with my 96 year old grandmother, we are celebrating my step dads 75th birthday. My grandmother was born in Ireland and my stepdad was born in England.
Good call for the reminder to ask the elders in my family about their heritage and their history.
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They’re putting blue food coloring in everything
"Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently.
"Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explained.
But I didn't want my burger to be blue.
↫ Luna Winters
"Blue" food isn't food.
https://www.osnews.com/story/142847/theyre-putting-blue-food-coloring-in-everything/
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@osnews Met up with some of my wife's friends this weekend and I ended up having some very similar thoughts. :(
Embrace blue food or be left behind.
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ICE is offering a $132K to $185K per year for supervisory roles & $306K per year to concentration camp managers. Both jobs have ZERO education requirement.
Meanwhile the average starting salary is $46,526 for teachers and $68,485 for nurses. Both jobs require a Bachelors degree & often a graduate degree.
It's a lie that we can't pay teachers & nurses. An uneducated and sick populace is easier to control, creates higher crime rates, and feeds the prison industrial complex. This is by design.
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You have been warned yet again, the US cannot be trusted...
Microsoft, under oath, admits the possibility that EU‑hosted data can be accessed by US agencies without any notifications
In sworn French‑Senate testimony, Microsoft’s legal chief for France(M. Anton Carniaux) conceded he cannot guarantee that data on French citizens stored wholly in EU Microsoft datacenters is safe from U.S. silent access and acknowledged that French or any EU authorities might not even be notified if access occurs.
Delivered under oath, this statement is an official legal recognition of the silent‑access risk inherent in relying on Microsoft’s infrastructure.
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Recent comic: It's time to update the old binaries.
#cartoon #comic #uspol #science #humanrights
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TERMS for our TIMES
LET'S FACE IT: THESE OLD BINARIES HAVE BECOME TIRED AND VAGUE.
EVIDENCE-BASED vs. PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC
CONSTITUTIONAL VS. UNCONSTITUTIONAL
CORRUPT VS. FAIR
IMAGINE IF THESE TERMS WERE INSERTED INTO TYPICAL HORSE RACE NEWS COVERAGE.
Anchorman: THE CONSTITUTION IS DOWN IN THE POLLS. CAN IT APPEAL TO SWING VOTERS?
TV reporter with Ice agent hauling away older woman in background: AND ANOTHER SETBACK FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TODAY.
Pundit: PSEUDOSCIENCE IS VERY POPULAR AND WILL BE KEY TO WINNING THE MIDTERMS.
Reporter: SOME SAY BARBARISM HAS BEEN WRONGLY EXCLUDED FROM OUR INSTITUTIONS.CONSERVATIVES VS. LIBERALS RIGHT VS. LEFT
DEMOCRATS VS. REPUBLICANS
MAYBE WE SHOULD TRY THESE INSTEAD:
AUTHORITARIANISM VS. DEMOCRACY
HUMAN RIGHTS VS. BARBARISM
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@jensorensen Many times I see "anarchy" and "barbarism" used as meaning chaos and mayhem (anarchy) and behavior that violates human rights or is violent (barbarism.) "Barbarians" were, in Roman times, likely the freest people in Europe. They lived in a state of anarchy, that is, they had no rulers or emperors, they lived freely and made their own decisions. Of course, the Romans hated this and treated barbarians as if they were primitive and backward when it was really the Romans who were behaving abominably toward other human beings. So, "barbarism" should be removed from any list of terms that have to do with violent or abusive behavior.
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@jensorensen we need to get rid of the whole binary concept that you are left or right. Let’s go with the idea that you are human with many characteristics
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@jensorensen Regarding the last ah-fuck-I'm-forgetting-the-word-little-box-that's-part-of-a-comic, someone needs to learn history cause barbarism has almost (if not actually) NEVER been excluded. it took us almost 200 years to get STARTED on criminalizing marital rape. STARTED. As in, one (1) state criminalizing it.
EDIT: I'm forgetting the WORD not the WORLD
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@jensorensen
There are two kinds of people in the world: exploiters and victims. And that continuum follows a normal distribution. We are all somewhere on that curve depending on which criteria we choose to measure ourselves by, and the degree to which it is appropriate to apply those criteria.
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@jensorensen
#WordsDoMeanThings
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DOUBLE ENTENDRE! - 2014 EDITION
WORDS DO MEAN THINGS
for
MEANIES
DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU USE THE WORDS YOU USE?!
THINK BEFORE YOU (MIS)SPEAK!
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@jensorensen Unfortunately it's hard for people to agree on definitions of the terms in the top right box.
Here's just one example. If embryonic and fetal humans are given legal personhood and the same protection from violence that humans in later life stages have under the law, is that "human rights" or "barbarism"?
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@jensorensen I like to measure the distance from being humane. The closer you are trying to get to that singular point, the more I like and support you.
#KurtVonnegut said “we are healthy to the extent our ideas are humane”
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@jensorensen hello, France here. We use those in the media. All the time. It doesn't work in a post-truth era.
Peaceful protesters are defined as barbarians, environment-friendly proposals are qualified as "authoritarian", even as terrorism. The gov regularly pushes unconstitutional laws and when they are rejected by the authority in charge of protecting it, the gov says the constitution needs changing.
You can use more words, it doesn't matter if you don't care about their meaning.
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648: Part of the Movement
https://atp.fm/648
Jeff Williams' retirement, Liquid Glass revisions, and our review of F1® The Movie. While supplies last. Terms apply.
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@atpfm @caseyliss @siracusa did you see f1 on IMAX or in a normal theater? I feel it makes a big difference in the improvement in quality vs a TV.
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@atpfm do all Americans pronounce “ph” like “p” instead of “f” as in “amPitheater” instead of “amFitheater” for “amphitheater”, or is it just @caseyliss ?
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@mluisbrown I’ve never knowingly heard anyone pronounce it with a F sound
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@caseyliss @mluisbrown wait, what? Isn’t always an F sound?! Like phone or pharmacy?! What about alphabet? 🤔
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@hsousa @mluisbrown those are Fs.
Amphitheater is not.
English makes about as much sense as °C does. Or inches/feet/miles.
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@caseyliss @hsousa @mluisbrown definitely more common to say "amP" in the US. I do it, even though I know it is /technically/ wrong. Like, an English teacher or a Theater teacher might use the F way. If you're not in such a role, the F way can make you sound highfalutin.
It's just because many similar words use P or B. "amplitude", "ambiguous", but not "amphibious"!
You can hear it in the Greek here:
https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=el&text=amphitheater&op=translate
@caseyliss @hsousa in UK English Amphitheatre is pronounced with an F like all other “ph”s, but it seems like the P version is not uncommon in US English.
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@robert @mluisbrown :) A choice. This is "diction" as described in the dictionary. We don't expect John Stewart to sound like Kendrick Lamar, but both are experts and leave some details out.
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(And a current web search shows no immediate results for midwestbroadcast in this context, but I know I have some references in old linguistic textbooks to this. Language is a living thing and constantly in flux.)
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@robert@cornershop.network @robert You are correct about the dialect you refer to. I speak it natively. Here, you mean the green "Midland" dialect that also goes quite far into what they call "Western". This is what Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, or Warren Buffett sound like. I think most people do understand it, if only for lack of slang.
So, I had to learn "Boston", "Texas", "New York", "Upstate", "Chicago" etc. But the pronunciation detail is diction in each dialect.
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@robert@cornershop.network @robert A little bit of anecdata on this: when I moved to New York and Boston, people would frequently remark that I sounded "fake" or "from TV"
@mluisbrown The link between English spelling and pronunciation is wildly inconsistent. You just have to memorize a lot of words. I'm pretty sure pronouncing the "ph" in "amphitheater" as an "f" sound is not a valid pronunciation, even though you might expect it to be. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amphitheater
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@siracusa @mluisbrown well, it's an "f" sound in that link (you can play the sound), but I agree it's usually a "p" in the US. That's the "also" pronunciation in this link.
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@sayrer @mluisbrown Not in the version of the web page that I get served. There's no "f" sound in the audio I get: https://media.merriam-webster.com/audio/prons/en/us/mp3/a/amphit01.mp3
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@sayrer @mluisbrown (I'll grant that the audio is of such poor quality that a "p" and an "f" sound might sound similar, but it sounds more towards "p" to me.)
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@siracusa @mluisbrown that is wild to me, I only hear the faintest hint of a "p" in the sense that there is a quick transition (not like "amphibious"), but still mostly "f". But I say it like you do--I would say it such that the word requires a "puh" sound from the lips, but I think the word only requires an "f" like the second "f" in "fifth".
Try this one:
https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=el&text=amphitheater&op=translate
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@sayrer @siracusa @mluisbrown This Canadian would emit a pretty pure F sound for this and nearly all occurrences of "ph".
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@timbray @siracusa @mluisbrown Yes, in the US, I use the pronunciation John has, so that when I say "hey, do you want to see the rock show at the amphitheater?" it doesn't sound like I'm inviting someone to see Shakespeare.
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@siracusa @mluisbrown Obviously not the same language, but since all PH sounds come from the Greek letter “phi” in French, we 100% pronounce all PH sounds as F. Much like all similar PH words with a correspondence in English: amphithéâtre, éléphant, euphorie, amphibien, périphérie, phase, sphère, pharmacie, phalanges, amphores, éphémère, etc.
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@mluisbrown sounds like using an “f” is dropping the “p”. The “h” is effectively silent here. I can imagine “amph” on its own being a homonym to “amp”. But I haven’t listened to the episode yet.
@atpfm @caseyliss
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@mluisbrown I thought about this more overnight and realized that I never actually realized “amphitheater” had an “h” in it. @atpfm @caseyliss
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@atpfm It’s funny how @caseyliss has Callsheet, which is an app for movie lovers, but he’s so fragile that he blocked me when I called him out for using his phone at the theater.
Class act.
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@atpfm did I miss the F1 spoilery review bits in the overtime? listened to the beginning and end of the section and didn’t hear it
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Anyone using Molly instead of Signal?
I think I've tried it before, but wondered what the real-world benefits are.
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Encrypted database, fully FOSS variant are the main advatages to me.
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payment processors must be killed in the revolution I'm afraid, for the crime of putting their weird USian puritanism all over everything, and forcing people out of making a living doing things that aren't sanctioned by their weirdo fascist morality
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because of the world's reliance on US-based payment processors like mastercard etc, they have the ability to extend their weirdo puritanism across the globe by denying to process payments for things like sex work, porn, and any other activities they don't approve of; sex workers have been talking about stuff like this for years and nobody bloody listens
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That's 5D-educational chess.
#FuckGenAI #ChatGPT #GenAIsucksCamelDong
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Al's Biggest Threat: Young People W...
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trying to circumvent students using ai, which is
impossible, she made assignments by going "ask
ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and
then research how and why it's wrong".
Not only did the students discover that chatGPT
is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead
them to realize that they should not use it as a
primary source.
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🏳️🌈🖖🏽The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.
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@georgetakei Second only to video conferences that never have compatibility problems, and where nobody ever causes echo or forgets to unmute themselves
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When I was working any meeting I held was 30 minutes max, agenda had to be sent beforehand, no discussion of things that weren't on the agenda and the meeting must have cookies.
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@georgetakei
How many hours of meetings the production team must have had for that 3 minute meeting scene!
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@georgetakei probably the reason they live in a utopia is precisely because they mastered the 3 minute meeting.
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We shouldn't have to keep doing this over and over for every single one of your images, @georgetakei! Stop being lazy! 😠
#AltText4You
A social media post from "Comrade Sisko" says "At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes," with a screenshot from one of the Star Trek series wirth the captain and his staff sitting around a table.
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Evern stranger ,everyone listens and allows others to make a contribution before making a decision!
That's how we know it's Science Fiction and a Morality Tale 😁🖖
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@georgetakei This is why Discovery had site-to-site transporters. The engineers were tired of spending more time on the turbolift getting to the ready room than they did in the meeting.
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they are so advanced, they can hold productive meetings between two commercial breaks!
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@georgetakei Imagine description:
At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes.
Video still of Picard and crew around a conference table
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@georgetakei Some military briefings don't take more than that and keep in mind that their environment was technically a military organization.
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Do they build brand new seats for these sets, or do they get them from Office Max and spray paint them?
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@georgetakei they do not have consultants with management jargon to inflict on workers and this captain actually listens. And engineers keep their technoballe in minimum.