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<A HREF="..">..</A>
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blah!
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ideas with no tangibility;
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ideas with irrelevant supports;
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ideas without value;
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ideas' witlessness;
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ideas' witnesses;
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ideas-
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2022-08-31
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And now, something completely different
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I have done much between today and last time I wrote a blah post (blah,
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blah blah) but I don't care to talk about any of it so I'm gonna talk instead
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about something else I did between today and last time I wrote a blah post
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(blah blah, blah) which is migrate trinity.moe away from GitHub Pages
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(Neocities made by Capitalists) to Sourcehut Pages (catchphrase: "Don't be
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evil, yet"). GitHub has been taken prisoner by Microsoft (Uber for software
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vulnerabilities) and is now siphoning off user data to feed the ravenous
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monster that is GitHub CoPilot (Uber for copyright violations). In the
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meanwhile I am compulsively making parenthetical statements (I am being held at
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gunpoint).
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GitHub's interface is somewhere between Facebook and Microsoft Windows
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1998 in that it's entirely useable but if you try to do what you actually want
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to do it'll fight you the whole way. This is totally awesome if you're a
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masochist but meant I had to verify with a phone number out in the middle of
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nowhere where there's barely any cell service in order to delete my migrated
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repositories ergo I had to stand in the middle of a field waving my cell phone
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around like a crazed millenial who needs to capture this memory in order to
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shove it into the eyes of whoever made the mistake of following them on
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Instagram. In the meanwhile I am also compulsively making run-on sentences (and
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parenthetical statements). I remember back when "two factor authentication" was
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your username (different on every platform; depends on mood at registration)
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and your password (the same everywhere, usually "lolcatz420"). Now usually the
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username and password are the same on everything which makes breaking into my
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friends' Instagram accounts to delete the pictures with myself in them a lot
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easier but you need to verify this all with cell phones which makes me very
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frustrated when I'm in the middle of a field stealing Circle K's WiFi. Not to
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mention I have to type in the whole repository name (try typing
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`devenblake/my_awesome_homepage` in direct sunlight on the first try without
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making a mistake) in order to say yes, truly, I want to delete this thing,
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like it thinks I'm some sad drunkard who's about to eat a bullet because I bet
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my life savings on a failed axe throwing tournament (no, actually I'm just
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making parenthetical statements).
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SourceHut's interface in comparison is much more spartan. I prefer it
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because it makes it harder for people to find my stuff (I hate it when people
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find my stuff) but people trying to find my stuff say they don't like it.
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However the build system is awesome. I can just put `.build.yml` in my git
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repository and it runs whatever commands I want before gzipping the site and
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deploying it to SourceHut Pages. With this newfound "standard practice for web
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hosting" I'm slowly rewriting all the pages on this site in m4 to try to ease
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up on repeated code. So far the m4 generation is pretty good and looks
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identical to when I hand-typed everything (my index.html was 15KB and I wrote
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every byte!). I've toyed around with site generation before but on GitHub I
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couldn't have any sort of build process except on my own machine (manually) and
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I vomit whenever I'm forced to run JavaScript to load a page. I've
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defenestrated (my Latin teacher taught me that word) four computers so far and
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unfortunately this latest trend of shitty "corporate [soulless] minimalism" is
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threatening computer number five.
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m4 is nice, the build system is nice, everything's in Makefile (as it
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should be) so things are all nice and UNIXy and everyone's happy (everyone that
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matters, at least, which is a set that includes only me). Life is good. Except
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I can't get cell signal and I need to call my bookie because on MDMA I had a
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vision that the Seahawks win the World Series. Of course, I've never done MDMA.
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This was just that wild of a hallucination so it certainly will come true.
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This site is HTTP/S (Uber for encryption) now because SourceHut demands
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it and I got rid of /zelda.sh (Uber for `rm -rf /`) because Drew DeVault said I
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can't have it on my site.
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[11:18] trinity: is http://www.trinity.moe/#zelda against the ToS? it does an
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rm -r /*
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[11:18] trinity: it's a catch to see who will blindly curl http://whatever |
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sudo sh
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[11:19] trinity: i suppose if i have to ask then probably...
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[11:20] ddevault: yeah that's not nice
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[11:20] ddevault: please remove it
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Which is fine. curl https://trinity.moe/zelda.sh | sudo sh for a
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surprise (your system will survive, or this site will promptly go off-line).
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I don't have anything else to write. This month was hell!
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2022-07-06
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Duo, most lingual
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I today managed to bring my Duolingo "streak" (being a marker of how
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many days in a row I've used the app) to 14 - two whole weeks. Duolingo is
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proprietary software and not even very good for accurate language learning but
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I enjoy it.
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I have a new phone: the Punkt MP-02. I purchased it from monado for
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$180 with shipping which is a good deal on the manufacturer price of $379
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(seriously). I couldn't recommend this phone to anyone.
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The "Pigeon" Signal messenger client, which is a direct fork of
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SignalApp's official Android app, is a poor experience that so far has been
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unuseable for me and is far out of date from the current application. You can
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see for yourself the source code for Pigeon, which legally has to be provided
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by Punkt as requested as per the terms of the GNU Public License under which
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the original Signal app is allowed to be modified and distributed. Six git
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commits change a hundred thousand lines of code put together and the commit
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names aren't really relevant to the changes - which makes me think this was a
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hasty legal compliance rather than any actual development of Pigeon in the
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open. This repository is available here:
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<https://github.com/Punkt-Tronics-AG/Pigeon>
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I planned to modify the client to make it work for my uses but learned
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this phone uses Android (based on the Android "Open-Source" Project) which is
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based on archaic Java technology, and indeed Pigeon is written in Java. Setting
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up the build environment isn't worth my time - I would just use the official
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app but it isn't useable [without modification]. From the official Pigeon
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manual, available here:
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<<A HREF="https://www.punkt.ch/repofiles/Manuali/MP02/26702-MP02%20-%20Pigeon%20User%20Manual%20%28EN%29.pdf">https://www.punkt.ch/repofiles/Manuali/MP02/26702-MP02%20-%
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20Pigeon%20User%20Manual%20%28EN%29.pdf</A>>
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<<A HREF="https://web.archive.org/web/20220707011516if_/https://www.punkt.ch/repofiles/Manuali/MP02/26702-MP02%20-%20Pigeon%20User%20Manual%20%28EN%29.pdf">https://web.archive.org/web/20220707011516if_/https://www.p
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unkt.ch/repofiles/Manuali/MP02/26702-MP02%20-%20Pigeon%20User%
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20Manual%20%28EN%29.pdf</A>>
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(I took the liberty of adding actual hyperlinks because the URLs are so long
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they wrap lines. The Internet Archive link is there because I expect Punkt to
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eventually get rid of and bury Pigeon when they're embarrassed enough.)
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>When the request is received by Signal, there may
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>be a requirement to negotiate a 'Captcha' test in
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>order to demonstrate that it is a bona fide
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>registration attempt. The test requires the
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>registrant to select from a range of images,
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>according to a specific instruction. Use the 2, 4, 6
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>and 8 numerical keys to a) locate all the images
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>that have been sent (not all will be visible on the
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>screen at once) and b) highlight an individual
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>image so that it can be selected by pressing the
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>Punkt. key (or the 5 key). If the images fail to load,
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>press the 0 key to refresh. (This can also be done if
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>a 4x4 image test is loading; there is a possibility
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>that the replacement will be the easier 3x3 format.)
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>When all the required images have been selected,
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>press the 6 and 8 keys to move down to highlight
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>what may either be 'Verify' or 'Continue'
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>(depending on which version of the Captcha test
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>has been sent) and press the Punkt. key
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This is verbatim from page 7 (item 6 in "Installing the software and
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registering with Signal"). In practice the items are not highlighted (so you
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have to remember where your cursor is - hopefully your keypad keys are
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responsive, which is an uncommon but recurring issue with many of the phones)
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and maybe half of the images show up because the phone doesn't have enough
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memory. So getting through Google's ReCAPTCHA requires a lot of effort and
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usually at least three tries.
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I should know. I've done this half a dozen times trying to use Signal.
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Even when I get through it won't even connect to the network! I've given up.
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Damn Pigeon and damn Punkt for making this the selling point of their phone.
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I have other complaints but I'm going to go to sleep again and save them for
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another, grumpier time.
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2022-06-30
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O, posts unwritten
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I didn't get to finish the other day's blog post because I got busy. To
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be continued!
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A million schizophrenic moths, a thousand cognitoviral flames.
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Immolation imminent.
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I'm out of isolation as of yesterday. I still have very mild symptoms
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but the CDC says I'm okay to be among the other humans so long as I wear a
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mask, which I have been doing.
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2022-06-28
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Now, drug the stricken
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Yesterday I said something along the lines of "oh, I wish drug
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companies weren't so secretive about how everything was made" though with a bit
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more detail of why I wished that and how I understood things to be. My
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understanding was wrong!
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<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK526213/#!po=5.90909>
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^ Here's how to make acetaminophen.
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2022-06-27
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Noun doth the Wickedness
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Today I'm not doing much of anything. I may install NetBSD on an X300 I
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have kicking around for a friend, and I may upgrade my NetBSD on my X200 Tablet
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to the latest binary build, and I may clean a little - hopefully I clean more
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than a little, actually - but that's about it.
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Day #3 since testing positive with COVID-19. I'm still very fortunate
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to not have any serious symptoms. My temperature usually sits around 96.9F to
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97.5F or so. I always figured the normal temperature was 96-97 but according to
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WebMD (a very reliable source, I know) the rule of thumb created by "a German
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doctor in the 19th century" (which is the level of detail I've come to expect
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from such a reputable source as WebMD) is 98.6F which seems high.
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Healthline (another reputable source) says the doctor was Carl
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Wunderlich and hyperlinked an actual study from 2019; Normal Body Temperature:
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A Systematic Review authored by Ivayla I Geneva, Brian Cuzzo, Tasaduq Fazili,
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and Waleed Javaid, which is not only readable by Normal Human Beings but has
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loads more and better researched information than what I could describe here.
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I encorage anybody interested in the history of our understanding of fever to
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read that article, with the following DOI:
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<https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz032>
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Anyway, my internal body temperature is usually 36 degrees centigrade,
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sometimes up to a degree higher. Geneva et alia concluded the average to be
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in the 36-37 ballpark which means I'm just about normal. Of course, because
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I've known about my body temperature being slightly cold for a while now, and
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because it's such a small difference, and because I have no relevant health
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issues, it's very obvious that my being somewhat colder than normal is
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completely fine. But now I know it's not even worth bringing up as party
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chatter. Oh well!
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The more I learn about NetBSD, the more I like NetBSD. This also goes
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for possums and my friend Noah. The more I learn about Wayland, the more I
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dislike Wayland. This also goes for Crissy Teigan and Firefox.
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2022-06-26
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Down with the Dickness
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Dawn of the Dead (2004; dir. Zack Snyder) has Richard Cheese's
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performance of Down with the Sickness, a popular rock song, fifty-six minutes
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in. Being an existing fan of the Cheese it was cool to see.
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I defrosted my fridgerator last night. Turns out that's something you
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need to do. I propped it up on a plastic container and used the hair dryer on
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it in the shower. Lots of clanging and banging but now it's plugged in and
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hopefully running.
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I forgot what it was like to adjust to Soylent. Around a year ago I
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switched back to a solid diet out of convenience - it's hard to lug around a
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bottle or two when I could pop into a convenience store and come out with a
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candy bar and a Monster. That was an esophageal spasm ago - something that
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feels somewhere between a mild heart attack and being hit by a not mild train.
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My stomach got too acid or something after one Monster after having abstained
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from caffeine for a little while. So the drawbacks of Soylent are less
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noticeable nowadays though I will probably go back to solids when I go back to
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work.
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I have a Punkt MP-02 coming in the mail eventually from a friend, or
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I've been scammed for a couple hundred bucks from a friend, we'll see which is
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true in a week or two. I'm looking forward to driving over my iPhone with a
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tractor or similarly heavy machinery though sadly it will probably stay in
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service as a Spotify + Duolingo appliance.
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---
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there was an ook and there was an eek
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and they clubbed each other for dino meat
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wearing tattered clothes, suits and ties,
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eating raptor noses and puppy eyes
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one day ook tripped over a paper
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filled with runes of a busier time
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eek got mad and threw it with anger
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into an ocean the color of wine
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ook and eek died together
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of swollen armpits and wounds that wouldn't heal
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eek whispered to his falling comrade
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ook, of a different world, heard only a squeal
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--
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empirical evidence says you're a myth
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the physical nothing, the empty, the wisp
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you're not of our numbers, we've nothing for you
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we've no words to describe you. run or hang in loops
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we've killed all your family, we're tracking your friends
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we'll kill them by sunday, for the crime of self defense
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you won't get away with being inexpressible
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we won't expand our vocabulary
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you are all crucifiable
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2022-06-25
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Down with the sickness
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I tested positive for COVID-19 last night so it looks like I'm stuck at
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home for the next couple days. Between my Soylent stash (for the end of the
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world) and my water stash (for the end of the world) I don't even need to dip
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into my savings, so that's nice.
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Yesterday the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade,
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marking the first time the Court has ever decided to take away Constitutional
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rights. Four of the majority were men, joined by one woman, and the dissenting
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opinion was written by two women and one man. No Supreme Court justice is under
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half a century old.
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REPORT: JUSTICE ALITO CONSIDERING ADDING EXCEPTION FOR HIS DAUGHTER, WHO IS IN
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COLLEGE AND WHOSE LIFE COULD BE 'RUINED' BY MISTAKE
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By TRINITY BLAKE; 2022-05-04
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- As women across the country fear losing access to safe and
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legal abortion, reports are coming in that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito
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is considering making a major exception to the court's decision to overturn
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the historic 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion throughout the
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United States.
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Justice Alito has reportedly informed an anonymous source that he 'screwed up'
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and that though he believes abortion should be illegal, '[his daughter] isn't
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like all those [expletive] who will go out and [expletive] and then just roll
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up to a clinic and abort a living child'.
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In Alito's reported words, 'Having this child could ruin my daughter's career.
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She made one mistake. She isn't like the others!' Alito went on to say that
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while doctors who perform abortions are still murderers, '[his daughter] is
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different. She just is. I wouldn't expect you to understand.'
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The exception, being called by critics 'Alito's folly', is expected to appear
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in Alito's third draft opinion. Alito's second draft opinion broadened the
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allowed language to 'better describe' what Alito called 'party idiots who don't
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care about human life'.
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This wouldn't be the first time a Supreme Court Justice has added an exception
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to a seemingly concrete ruling. In Plessy v. Ferguson the often-overlooked tenth
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'diversity' Justice, George Freeman, added an exception to the famous 'separate
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but equal' rule; 'While I'm required to like segregation in order to maintain
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my position in this Court, I do not want to use the colored bathrooms. Shop-
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owners never clean them.'
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The anonymous source also said after Alito drives his daughter home from
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Planned Parenthood he plans to continue protesting that same location in his
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'special disguise' - sunglasses and a baseball cap.
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2022-06-22
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Dangerous ideas
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Perhaps the homelessness problem in the United States would be taken
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care of if any domicile not occupied were given to someone who wasn't
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previously occupying a domicile. Is it so bad to force a child to share toys
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with which they never play?
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A mowed lawn resembles a soldier's buzz cut hair. Fine, but I wouldn't
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want to date an army man. I would prefer to let the lawn-spiders, the bees and
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milkweed, and the butterflies and things like that have a home.
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I deleted my /politics page because I learned people actually read it.
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Though it loosely reflects my current beliefs, enough that I'm not embarrassed
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by it, I'm uncomfortable at the thought of anyone actually caring about what I
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believe. Here are the good bits from it:
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I don't hold public office. Don't fret about my beliefs, they probably
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won't ever affect you.
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BITCHUTE
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I tried to swap from YouTube to this site back in 2019(? maybe 2020).
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The site administration has let it get infested with right-wing
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puppets and various other muck. Plus all my favorite channels
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left. So I can't really recommend it. Looks like everyone's
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using PeerTube now, my only concern with that is data
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resiliency - can hobbyists keep their instances going with the
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same dependability as YouTube?
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CEREAL
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The milk goes after the cereal into the bowl.
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Corn flakes aren't that bad, despite their origins.
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Cereal with coffee instead of milk is pretty good.
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Soggy cereal beats out freshly poured cereal most of the time.
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Exceptions are maybe Cocoa Pebbles and Cheerios. Life cereal is
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especially good soggy.
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The last powdery bits of the cereal are much better than the initial
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big bits. A lot of that powder is sugar and it sweetens the
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milk.
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Bag cereal is just as good as box cereal. Taste-wise they're identical
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and they're about the same effort to pour because the boxes
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have bags in them too. The only con to bagged is that a greater
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amount of cereals are boxed (e.g. there are no off-brand
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Wheaties where I am) and boxes have cool puzzles on the back
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(though now that I'm not a wee lass I do have a cellphone on
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which I play Konami Picross instead).
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WRONGSPEAK AND WRONGTHINK
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If you're unaffected by a slur you probably shouldn't use it, even in
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an educational or non-hateful context.
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There are some words I'd now consider hateful I used to use without
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reserve.
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Personally I don't use hateful language because I don't think it's
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justifiable. However, if you're okay with offending people,
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consider this - you cannot grow in your understanding of the
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world if you don't communicate with people with whom you
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disagree. You're really going to prioritize hateful speech over
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self development?
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If you go on my platform and say things with which I disagree, I should
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not have to host your opinions.
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Most of my regrets involving political speech involve saying either too
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little or too much, which is nice, because at least I didn't support some
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stupendously awful cause that ended up killing everyone or something. Maybe
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right now I am doing that without realizing, but I hope not.
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2022-06-21
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Some things I learned this week
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Instead of grating vegetables, you can peel very small sections off of
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them to get essentially the same effect. It works better if you dice the
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peelings after you're done. A grater will do the job much better but in a pinch
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the peeler will work fine.
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A teaspoon is 5mL, a tablespoon is 15mL. They aren't the same.
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You can never have enough paper towels. If you think you do, you're
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wrong. Aspirin is bad for you, acetaminophen is especially bad for you,
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ibuprofen is bad for you, you can have either pain or pain.
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The GNU debugger is awesome. Compile programs with `-g` and run gdb
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[program], then execute `start`, then `step` through statement by statement and
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inspect variables with `print`. I've been printf(3) debugging since I was eight
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years old (about a decade ago). This is a total game changer.
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The first pancake is always the worst. Don't be afraid to screw up the
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first time, instead ensure the environment is controlled so that when beginners
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make that first pancake the customers don't eat it.
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People believe the dumbest stuff because they're so used to dumb things
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happening. You can't be sane in an insane world.
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Food I'm craving
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Pizza (good pizza, not something from Pizza Johns or Papa Hut). I could
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make it myself but dough seems hard and I'm procrastinating learning how bread
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and stuff works. I also don't wanna go to the store, carry the ingredients
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home, and figure out what to do with the leftover stuff. Perhaps all my
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problems could be solved with one of those Hello Fresh startups or whatever but
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the point of pizza is that it's cheap and delicious and I don't wanna pay more
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for less.
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A bagel, but I could always go for a bagel. I'd like some veggie cream
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cheese right now on a dark toasted bagel.
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Pancakes. I haven't had pancakes for a couple seasons now. I like
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pancakes with good maple syrup, maybe not the really expensive stuff in glass
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jars (I haven't tried that stuff so I wouldn't know) but the stuff that comes
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in the gray-cream colored pitchers with the small handles and black caps, with
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instructions on the back for what to do if there's a skim on top of the syrup.
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Thin, Maine maple syrup, no corn involved in the process. Though Aunt Jemima
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(or whatever name by which she goes nowadays) is alright in a pinch.
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I'm trying not to eat so much meat. The exceptions are (a) trying
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something new, (b) home-cooked meals by someone else, and (c) East asian
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restuarants. And of course food that would otherwise go to waste. I've found
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that limiting myself to these situations gives me a pretty good amount of meat
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in my diet ("pretty good" being a small amount, I eat meat maybe thrice a week
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at most). I don't have a moral stake in this in terms of animal cruelty, though
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I do believe farming animals is cruel, because I didn't kill the thing and
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Capitalists will never voluntarily decrease the amount of product they churn
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out. I just don't see a future where humans can have meat in nearly every meal
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and I'm trying to acclimate in advance. As past, so will pass - I'm sure we'll
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go back to some sort of primarily-grain diet, though maybe "grain" will be corn
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and corn derivatives and not much else. Meh, could be worse.
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That being said, I could go for some turkey mixed with egg. In a pan,
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put a couple of slices (or even just the giblets left over from the slicing
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process) of turkey beast on some butter as the oil, and crack an egg over it.
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Break the yolk if the yolk isn't already broken and keep flipping the egged
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turkey until the egg is cooked. Serve alone or as part of a breakfast sandwich.
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It's the perfect mix of texture and flavor. I had this with some turkey that
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would have otherwise gone to waste and it was very good.
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2022-06-20: Some thinks I've been thinging about
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The world would be a more interesting place if any biologists or
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researchers focusing on transmissable diseases took a look at Internet memes or
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"fake news" (cognitoviruses).
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If a policy tangibly hurts people it's not a good policy. Whether or
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not I believe it's good, if something I supported takes food out of a mouth, I
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was wrong. Humans come before statutes.
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Nobody's applied the second amendment to the abortion debate. The
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intent of the founding fathers regarding the second amendment was clearly to
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allocate for the self-defense of the populace even if it may be to the
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detriment of an offending party. Does a pregnant individual not have the right
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to stand their own ground and fend off entities that will do them harm?
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Plastic is the new lead. Humans shouldn't be drinking animal milk (I
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drink a lot of chocolate milk, so this is a dig at myself too). Meat is as
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essential to the culinary arts as sugar, but it's also as essential to human
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sustenance as sugar. The next "got milk?" will be disseminated through Internet
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memes.
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I'm not in favor of banning anything; abortion or firearms. I think a
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national firearm ban to some extent may be inevitable but I'm not too torn up
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about it. A bullet doesn't have much practical use beyond taking a life or
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practicing for it.
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I want a Nintendo Wii powered through USB-C.
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A holocaust will happen before 2050. This game of "telephone" that is
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generational education didn't impress upon this generation the gravity of the
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Holocaust committed by the Nazis in the 1940s. The Nazis had a fetish for
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documentation; the next holocaust will be recorded literally in 4K Ultra HD.
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In a desensitized world, will that even make a difference for the children of
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2160? In the information war that will be World War III, who will win - the
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Americans, who can't tamp down obvious misinformation such as "Pizzagate" or
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that the COVID-19 vaccines have microchips, or the Russians, who manufactured
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these rumors? "Americans" and "Russians" here are not literal names.
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To me it's conceivable that gender nonconforming and non-heterosexual
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individuals would be targeted as scapegoats for a future manufactured
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"struggle" in the same way the Nazis chose Jews to be the primary scapegoats
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for "degeneration". Outliers are routinely paraded as examples of the queer
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community by those who wish to discredit it. External parties try to break the
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LGBT+ umbrella into the "LGB and others" or "lesbians and gays, but not
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bisexuals". The latter for acceptance (exceptance?) from those who conduct the
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former. All wins temporary at best.
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2022-06-19: Some things I've been thinking about
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The UNIX philosophy ("create things that do one thing well") is a
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mandate rather than a suggestion; programs can and will fall under their own
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weight if you allow them to become too complex with too many things dependent
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on other things. From a software design standpoint I've found this to be very
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useful.
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However, I think focusing on software complexity is treating the
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symptoms of Bad Computing rather than the disease. The core issue is that
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humans should not have to change themselves for a machine - the machine should
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only ever be changed for the human. After all, a computer is simply a tool.
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Interchangeable (right?), repairable (right?), intuitive (right?), and a means
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to an end (right?).
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Lately humans have been having to change themselves for machines. There
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are easily comprehendable issues - e.g. "I don't have a first name, how do I
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fill out this form?" - but there are also denser, deeper problems in this
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regard - in fact, even computer literacy education is itself changing humans in
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favor of machines. Software should be designed to be basically intuitive to
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someone that's never used a computer and ideally need no further skills.
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This probably started with the Old Engineers who were basically
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breathing computer before computers were even existent in their modern form.
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Graybeards (women and nonbinary fellows included within this word, use your
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imagination) didn't need to change themselves for computers because they and
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machina were already kin. Then they made simple interfaces for the restivus and
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hoped it was enough, and it was for a while.
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Once we defeat the status quo, the rest will be easy.
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The Center for Disease Control in the United States isn't perfect but I
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trust them a bit more than a bald guy on Spotify.
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Today's Juneteenth, which is a memory to a pretty cool event, the end
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of lawful slavery in the United States.
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