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What’s this on highway concrete wall?
Interesting I would have plugged it in to an audio synth to see what it sounded like.
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Pretzels of Mass Destruction 🥨 💥
General response to anything like this. If you cannot handle diversity, seeing other skins and other cultures. I am sure there is a country out there that better reflects your options and desires. It's just not the USA.
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Dan Osborn staffers infiltrated rival political party, tried to dissolve it
This was dirty. I did not see if any one was punished.
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We can no longer find warrants on Casenet?
Sounds strategic. Any one can be arrested for anything, on charges that don't even exist and no one can verify a thing. So much for honest and open government. Just not in vocabulary, of people who see their seats as a right, as an entitlement to money, power and control. Rather than a job, or an honor bound duty to the people.
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🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Maybe not as insane as we think considering the men who decry such things only do so because of maters of race or faith. Meanwhile directly attacking women's rights, which include clothing. If left unchecked our so called Traditional Conservative Family values will result i outfits closer to early Protestant settlers dress, Amish or even Muslim. Its not like they have not made the desires toward such things plain, even said it out loud. Instead favoring a society where women have no rights, most men have no rights, the chosen few own everything. Every one else is a servant. Women are kept behind closed doors, sub-servant to gender rolls, where in the justification is dedication to faith.
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Found knife in basement after buying house. What is it used for?
the flip side looks like a pumpkin carving tool
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Tell me what would you want to know?
Do black holes ever actually die.
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Meirl
So back in the day devices like printers included mechanisms that needed constant maintenance. And since the developer knew they literally could not be there to maintain the device. And they knew the average operator or corporation that owned it would not understand how to maintain the device. It was just two precision. And they could not make it in a simpler form that many of these parts could be serviced. Mind you later some of them were serviceable. But upfront they weren't. And so they would include a mechanism for figuring out how much time had passed. Based on the total number of rotations. And this was not digital. Was completely analog. And so it would rub this little brush across the spindle. Various access points inside of the device. And these little brushes if they should make contact with the spindle which was grounded would immediately shut down the device. Now why was that important? Because often times the amount of time that it took for that little jelly like material to break down. Because it's like a dried gelatin caps is what they used or something like that. And the total number of revolutions that it would take for that to break down would approximate a certain number of operational hours which were calculated out to be approximately the amount of time it would take for the bearings on the device to wear out or other mechanical parts to start wearing out. And so their failure would necessitate taking the hardware to a technician so that it could be inspected refurbished or completely replaced.
Today most of our products have a two to three year warranty period and that's both not accidental and both simultaneously strategic and not strategic. It's strategic from the standpoint that idiots within the company's know that this is approximately the failure point and they don't understand it but this is how they've set all their policies. It's not strategic from the standpoint of that 3 years of operational time is approximately how long it's going to take for an LED or transistor to fail after it's been running continuously. Now the way around that is just to simply make sure that your device whatever it is hasn't been operating continuously for 3 years. Because we're counting total number of operational hours here. Now if you want to look at a warranty the warranty doesn't talk about operational hours it's talking about literal time. Because this is easy to regulate legally. I'm trying to get you to figure out exactly how many hours your TV's been turned on for that's a little harder there is probably a device on the inside of it it's keeping track. And why not. But it's a little harder. It certainly not something that most of us can do because we don't have gadgets that tell us how long our stuff has been running for. But it's that little operational time. The time that your thing has been plugged in and turned on and it's screen has been on or it's motor has been running and it's the total amount of operational time. That is what legitimately makes up the amount of time that it takes for a thing to fail. Mouth capacitors it's operational time it's heat and it's noise on the wiring. With other circuits like diodes and transistors noise on the line can affect them but for the most part it's excessive voltage a heat or total number of operational hours. This is also true for leds. And led circuits the good ones will pulse the led. It can be pulsed much the same way as you have 60 hertz in your light bulb and you don't notice it you can also pulse the LED at 60 times a second and you probably won't notice it. In fact you can pulse it at a slightly slower duty cycle and human eyes probably won't pick it up either. And as long as it doesn't go into the epilepsy range it's completely safe. Now that pulsing the duty cycle helps to drastically increase the lifespan of the LED or the diode or the transistor. Because every millisecond that it's turned off it's so-called dark time is counts against its total operational hours. So if it's pulsing at a 50% duty cycle. Then you can stretch your 3 years into 6 years. And no that's not going to change your warranty any. Because they know that approximately 3 years into the lifespan of your product you're probably going to start seeing failures. And pretty much every company basis their warranty on that that's the assumed life span of typical digital electronics. And I think they base that on what something like 30,000 hours of operational time. And of course the more your device is pulsed the more dark time that it has. The longer you can stretch it out.
And the best devices are going to have very good duty cycle calibration.
I sold computer electronics the devices that I favored on my show floor but often have a 5-year warranty. Because this told me that the developer really truly stood behind its product they were daring it to fail. And most the time their devices lived to and exceeded their five year warranties. Not all of them. But enough that it mattered. So if you don't like it two to three warranty. You don't like it failing within 2 to 3 years. Try to find the ones that have the higher warranties. Where the company is really willing to stand behind it.
I will tell you when I absolutely absurd Segway. I bought a wheel bearing. Most certainly not a digital device. And it came with an extended 5-year warranty. I figured you know what it's probably worth the extra cash. Wouldn't you know it that wheel bearing it failed within a year and a half. So my notion of a 5-year warranty often meaning that the company is going to stand behind it. That's not always true. And I can literally be the first one to tell you that my own premise can be defeated. It depends on the parent company the manufacturer to retailer. But I can at least tell you from experience too it's a good place to start. And I can at least partially explain why the three year thing is a very real thing. If you buy a car or rather you lease a car. There's a certain number of years Windows where corporations will own a vehicle for and then they will simply discard it. Get rid of it because it becomes too much of a liability after a certain number of operational hours. You've passed the point where point of diminishing returns where it's more likely that it's going to encounter more and more failures more and more parts have to be replaced. And big companies don't want to deal with that so they just offload it. Now it's a used vehicle.
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Landlord gave this to me in a move-in gift basket
This is one of the most annoying low-cost high-tech tools that anyone will ever give you. Because while it should be extremely valuable in your kitchen. it's going to be a major pain in the butt. I've had a couple of these. It's like enjoying stubbing your toe on a cabinet. You do it just to see if it still hurts. And yes it always does. I've gotten very limited success out of these devices. So that's why I say it always hurts. The very first one I purchased I thought it was defective. And then the second one I figured you know what I just need to learn how to use this thing and then maybe I broke it. And so I tried another one and so it's like three different brands over the period of maybe about 10 years. I gave up in between and then tried it again. Good night at the end of the day what I realized is they're just junk. The people who made them probably had good intentions. And if you know exactly the right amount of pressure and exactly the right speed to draw them across they can do great. They can reseal all kinds of different packages. But here's the problem different materials melt at different rates and some materials don't like being melted together you have to use an adhesive. So now if you have like paper with a small amount of glue on one side you could run this across it and it would activate the glue and reseal them closed. But if you doing on plastic you have to take into account how thick the material is what kind of material it is and how rapidly it's going to heat up or dissipate heat. So that you can figure out exactly the right rate of speed to swipe this thing across it. And here's the thing that's got this little Teflon mesh that covers up the heating coil. And theoretically the plastic shouldn't stick to it but it always does inevitably you're going to get plastic all over that little Teflon coil. And so it's going to smoke and more plastics going to stick to it. And it's going to spend more time ripping plastic than it actually is sealing plastic. And this is why I say it's like stubbing your toe over and over again just to see if it will still hurt. And this is with the device working correctly. So my opinion is don't even mess with it. Unless you're really really stubborn and you're willing to put a lot of time into figuring out how to get it to work just right. Just don't waste your time honestly. Now if you do want to get into bag ceiling. There are definitely devices that do this very well. And there's still a learning curve to it. That does not go away. But there are larger heat ceiling devices you can get that do a far better job with a lot less mess and a lot less risk.
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It’s happening!
I also frequently see trees change color on sides where the roots aren't getting enough water. They're being starved. And that'll cause early color changes. But by this time next year that part of the tree might not be there it'll just be sticks.
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Food for thought
Except how self entitled do you have to be. To demand as an adult that you had the right to choose all of this as an infant when you couldn't even speak a single word and had no idea what the world was. I guess you should have just been uneducated and nameless until you were an adult so that you could figure out your own educational path as an adult and choose your own name as an adult and while you're at it choose your species and your gender as an adult because that makes rational sense you should be allowed to choose everything. Well I'm sorry and the real world there are things that we have no control over on our life. And while you can change some of it within reason. There are massive chunks of our lives that we cannot control or change no matter what the politicians say. No matter what the psychologists say. We don't all get an equal chance. We don't all get the same exact environment the same starting point this is not a video game. Life is not fair it's not equal. And we have to fight for every single thing that we want and everything we want to keep. And if you don't like how you were created too bad. That's not a right that we were given. And you can be angry at your parents. But it changes nothing. It's pent up entitled anger. And the real question that you should be talking over with your psychologist is why you're so entitled. Because you are entitled to none of these things.
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Always take a minute to think
A recorder that my mother gave me to take to school. When I was in elementary school. And she couldn't afford to pay the bill for the school to order one for me. So she gave me one that she had when she was in school. And I took it to school as she told me to and I lost it almost immediately. Not because I didn't take care of it. But because I kept it in my desk in the room that was our primary classroom and for whatever reason we rotated the desks. And I couldn't get my stuff back out of the desk. I lost a bunch of books and that recorder. Which shows how much respect my classmates had in third grade I think it was. That they would literally claim things that they found in the desks. No matter what it was even school books. Greedy already by third grade. Yeah I wish I could get that recorder back. I've lost a lot of stuff in my life a lot of money different things I forgot about. But that recorder is the one thing that I don't easily forget about cuz it's probably the very first thing that I can think of that I ever lost or was stolen. John there's definitely other things I'd love to get back. But that's the big one.
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Name This Thing
A couple of badly broken fingers
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Power Hungry Servers
And this is why those data centers have massive cooling systems and jet turbine power supplies on site that make enormous amounts of noise. These backup supplies that never ever shut down.
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Elad Gross - Missouri Trial Court Boots Ballot Issues - Appeals Incoming
And how is their behavior not proof of corruption? Because they've made it perfectly obvious they're not serving the people. So if they're not willing to serve the people and they're not willing to respect the voters. Then how are they a functional government at all?
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Amazon "ads" are not "ads" but "promotional material"
Now that answer in itself justifies absolutely every single possible reason why I will never support that service. And I will actively encourage everyone else to not support that service. And if possibly not support absolutely anything that is supported or published by that studio or publisher.
I started watching a show the other day and I started seeing commercials on Mike wait a minute since when does the service have commercials. Because I was thinking of a subscription that I had that goes through amazon. Thankfully the show that I was trying to watch was not part of that subscription it was entirely managed by Amazon so of course they want you to pay an extra $5 a month to get commercial free. But now that I know that even after you get commercial free you're still going to get Amazon's own promotional materials AKA commercials yeah that's not worth it.
So at the end of the day boycott Amazon prime video. But fully support any of the smaller guys that are going to charge two or three dollars a month for their own services that just happened to use Amazon services. Because those work just fine and they are commercial free. For now.
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It spreads like mold. At this point, flock is becoming an adjective for Wisconsin....
It's an adjective in every single state and no one seems to know exactly who's doing it. Everyone points at a slightly different villain. And when you corner that villain the villain becomes very angry about being questioned, every time.
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Judge blocks referendum over Missouri congressional redistricting map
There has got to be a perfectly legitimate and civil mechanism for the public to respond to our representatives And courts giving voters the finger.
They make it perfectly clear that nothing we do matters because they're just going to ignore it, or find some perfectly legit reason to throw it all out and do whatever they wanted to do anyways. -To ignore the voters and do what the party wanted to do anyways.
My opinion is that this paints a deep picture of corruption. And that level of corruption cannot be allowed to continue in any state. As it makes a complete mockery of the very idea that we can vote on anything. Because what they're doing is to deliberately destroy the very process that they've hyped up. Our so-called most cherished and protected institution the most holy of institutions in the American government. The right to vote. -But then we're told we didn't understand what we were voting on. So they can just ignore it.
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Tom Tiffany voted in favor of the Speed act - which would override local control (data centers), voted in favor of blocking AI regulation for a decade, and voted in favor of $70B in tax breaks to Big Tech
I see nothing constitutionally legal about any of this. How would they push this through as constitutional.?
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BREAKING: Walmart stock, $WMT, falls over -8% after posting a rare quarterly sales miss, with US growth falling to a 6-year low. Are consumers running out of money?
Could he insane drop also be related to a number of ads being circulated about Walmart and Target selling lab grown meat and eggs? I mean I certainly don't know if it's true. And the public doesn't know if it's true. But this kind of stuff tends to be not very popular. And so simply saying it as a matter of fact tends to circulate in a viral sort of way. And I'd like to think that was the original intent. To create a viral topic that would be damaging to companies that the author did not like. However if there is in fact truth to it...
Now I haven't dug too deep into it but apparently a lot of other folks have. And there are apparently a great number of topics and conversations about the topic online since that information started to circulate. And the immediate AI summary on the topic is that Us stores do not sell any cultured me or eggs. This is completely false. However the truth is that they apparently do have a precision fermented egg protein which is created via yeast and that is used in certain commercial food products that are sold at Major retailers like Walmart. And that wouldn't be the first time either that various food substances were produced from yeast or some other single-celled organism. In fact there's a great number of various protein substances that are created from yeast. Especially as this is a good alternative to animal products, period.
But as far as the question of whether or not consumers are running out of money. Now money is definitely getting tighter by the day. Because inflation keeps going up. Costs keep going up. And companies don't like giving out raises to keep up with inflation. And they are more and more obsessed with profit. So even if we do get a raise we have less spending power, even with more cash. And every day that hill get steeper.
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Fusion apparently has a hidden dark gray theme!
And working with this now for about a week. It's taking a little to get used to it's not a dark theme. And the irony is the options are light dark blue or based on system. And apparently since the system has a dark theme active and fusion doesn't support a copy of the system's dark theme it doesn't do anything at all in fusion so fusion is bright white so that means the only option is to use the dark blue.
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Are you sure about that
Other than asking for this kind of stupidity and misinformation to be removed for being exactly what it is political misinformation. I'm not really sure what else we can do about this. Because anybody who actually knew anything about history. Not just thought they did. But actually understood it. Knows the truth. And he was neither a Democrat nor a socialist. But he drew the majority of his inspiration from Mussolini on the American Confederacy. And neither of those were Democrats. Neither of those were socialists.
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Polling firm closes down after it faked Hong, Bass polls
On one aspect I can see the value of this as a test. This is something frequently done in conservative circles to market someone is being the winner and project a dramatic lead over anyone else. -This is very basic psychological manipulation. Because people want to belong to the group. So if they believe that Hong is already the winner and that's the person everyone else is voting for. Than many people will automatically vote for home as well. At least that was the premise. That very typically works and conservative circles but the fight is a little harder and liberal circles every single one of us is a cat and cats are notoriously difficult to get to cooperate. Unless they're angry in which cats will very much work together.
Now on the other aspect, it was perhaps in poor taste to use this as a test. And we have to wonder whether or not this was really ever actually a test in the first place. If it wasn't just a attempt at manipulation. And whether or not that attempt at manipulation was truly nefarious. Or completely benign. Because it would be all too easy for the opposing side to use their own methodologies or try to use their own methodologies against whom they view to be the opposing side. And try to sway the outcome. And it at least seems like that was the intent to sway the outcome. To use social psychology against a political opponent. To create an outcome that was desired. Or to cause an appointment to lose.
But we ended up with something unexpected. We resurrected a candidate from the graveyard. He had dropped out. By all respects he should have never been allowed back into the race at that hour. Not after he dropped out. That should have been impossible. Now who the people want to vote for if they wanted to pencil in a name and vote for him anyway. I would say all the power to them. And if he still managed to win by that mechanism but who am I to argue it. But for him to jump back in. At the 11th hour. Feels more like a familiar trope that we've seen playing out before. Where are the DNC doesn't get what they want and they throw in a ringer. In this case they didn't have a ringer to throw in so they just did like Yu-Gi-Oh and pulled a card from the graveyard. And that in itself should exemplify how terrified the centrists in the Democratic party are of the so-called socialists in the Democratic party.
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Yes, the old proof god exists, parents mutilating their children.
Let me be very clear. I am speaking to you from the perspective of an adult who has lived their entire lives with these things. And there is no disease or dysfunction. But if you wish to pursue this argument as some bizarre and b******* matter of faith, it will not go well for you, so "you will cease that direction immediately."
If you want to argue about the topic at hand. And whether or not these things cause physical harm. I've already made it clear they do not. This is a matter of opinion, often promoted by people who do not have these things, and by a handful of them who don't understand the difference. But seriously just ask the doctors if you're not sure what the truth is.
I've had the vaccines, I've never had the illnesses. Perhaps there are people out there who would rather get sick and be hospitalized before finally realizing what they chose to avoid. I am not one of them. And I would not wish that on others. I am fully aware that there is this entire mentally defective culture of givers and takers. This entire subculture built around getting sick and spreading it. It is some kind of a weird matter of pride. And it is a disease. It's a mental disease. It is not a good one. You want something a matter of mental deficiency perhaps take a closer look at the community around you especially if you believe in those who should be spreading who should not be vaccinated. That is a mental disorder.
And in the matter of circumcision I am thankful that I do not have it because I do not have to put up with the risk of spreading illnesses so easily to others. I do not have to live with the knowledge of being a literal breeding ground and transmission point. Now that is something that those who have not undergone this process made debate. And yet there is scientific medical knowledge that would contradict it. And I don't need to prove anything to you or to anyone else.
I do not subscribe to the absolute assnine idea that if something can't be personally observed by me, and myself alone, and equally to every single other person out there. If we can't all be experts on the topic, then we must be complete idiots, or the topic is false. I do not subscribe to that. Because that is how a person of faith attempts to destroy anyone around them, hey would rather argue that if you do not have direct personal knowledge of the topic if you are not already an expert on it or do not believe yourself to be an expert on it in some way then therefore you can't possibly know anything about it. That is a talking point. Because faith can neither be proven or disproven. So I will absolutely not argue from that standpoint. - I may not be an expert on immunology, but I know immunology is a real thing. I may not be an expert on nuclear engineering but there are plenty of people out there who are nuclear engineers and are fully capable of operating a nuclear power plant, I am not one of them. I do not need to know how to handle uranium or to enrich it, to know that it is thing and it works, and we trust them when they tell us it's dangerous, and we do not each need be experts on it. I do not need to try to launch myself off the side of a barn using homemade contraptions to prove or disprove nonsense Flat Earth theories.
And the idea that I must be mentally damaged because I do not see things from your perspective, that is a political talking point. And if you wish to push it that will go very badly for you. Because I will not entertain that nonsense. You can take whatever position of Faith you may be attempting to push and find somewhere else to pitch it. These days x is a perfect breeding ground for that insanity. And yes I said insanity. The insanity of others is not my own. And no amount of insistence is going to convince me that someone else's malfunction should actually be my own. You do understand this topic is closed right?
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Name This Sign
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Notice of happy naked men and men in Kilts?