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@futurebird@sauropods.win this post reminded me to watch again this video of a fellow who built a robot for stealing pop cans from vending machines. I love how expensive this surely was compared to just buying a few drinks, and how enthusiastic he is (fun even if you don't speak French) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TLXXLY7zewo

@torf@c.im @redsad@ohai.social Perpetually relevant American Chopper meme

@StevenSavage@sfba.social @gwynnion@mastodon.social if the coach thinks Larry isn't on the team, the team needs a new coach.

Poppies! #bloomscrolling

@MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social and if it does have a tail, observe which end the tail is at - they're not mouse *buttons* they're mouse *buttocks*

Now that the UCP has introduced a form to let people complain about bike lanes - and ONLY complain about them, definitely not support them - maybe consider using Bike Edmonton's form to speak in support of bike lanes https://bikeedmonton.ca/bikelanes #yegbike #yycbike

@Silversnapples@mastodonapp.uk Not the head of child safety - that's someone named Ravi Sinha - but someone who would probably have reported up to the head of child safety.

@stephanie@ottawa.place @stux@mstdn.social Sure, the madness is that they built a massive stadium and shopping mall, in a spot that's surrounded on three sides by a river and a canal, built highways all around it, bridges over the river and the canal, a tram line to it - and didn't put sidewalks on ANY of the bridges or roads approaching it. All the car infrastructure (and even the tram tracks) were built as fortifications against pedestrian access.

@evacide@hachyderm.io The /share/ directory isn't listable (and I surely hope they got at least that much right from the get-go). That ought to mean Google bot can't directly crawl those interactions, and needs a starting hint to find each one, right? So someone must have placed the share link in something google-indexable... Does Google use links in people's gmail mailboxes as starting points to crawl websites or something?

@pwloftus@pwl.farted.net @courtcan@mastodon.social crypto

@hakona@im.alstadheim.no @doctormo@floss.social it depends if you had to buy a car because the public transit got underfunded into uselessness.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Shotguns are also, if I'm not mistaken, a lot less dangerous to shoot off in populated areas if the appropriate birdshot shells are used. Not that shooting any kind of gun is safe to do in a populated area. But I think bird shot fired at a sharp upward angle shouldn't come down at potentially lethal speeds someplace random, the way a pistol or rifle bullet would...

@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world i think it's starting - Oracle got its credit downgraded specifically because it's too much of an AI company and its stock is down 50% in like the last 45 days. SpaceX which is mostly xAI is down to below what it opened its IPO at. Even Nvidia is down some from a few months ago. OpenAI and Anthropic are showing some signs of panic about their upcoming IPOs.

@SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz @foone@digipres.club oh that's a good point! My dad is getting over shingles right now, which really has me thinking "I've gotta get me that" about the shingles vaccine, which I have to wait 2 more years for.

@the5thColumnist@ottawa.place @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @salixsericea@mastodon.social @dbattistella@mstdn.ca There is apparently work on developing a yeast that can break down cellulose into glucose and ferment it... https://academic.oup.com/femsyr/article/20/1/foz089/5698803?login=false

@emily_s@mastodon.me.uk @davidho@mastodon.world let the air out of their tires and get a ride with the tow truck driver.

@nwbt@social.nearerandfarther.com I mean - have you tried installing BSD on a cucumber? The driver support is pretty bad.

@0xabad1dea I love the warriors sitting between the kid and Aqualung-era Ian Anderson - two staring straight ahead "we're gonna get through this, just think about the fishing trip, that'll be fun, he will stop singing at some point and on Tuesday we go fishing", one's given up hope, and one is still engaging enough with the lyrics to give the musician side-eye over what he just sang with a child present.

@bhoutlook@mstdn.ca also "shreds paper"

@idren@mstdn.ca I was looking around for what instance to join, in particular I didn't want to put a bunch of time on someone's hobby instance that they study away from maintaining and it just goes away one morning. An organization that started running a gopher service when it was cutting edge and is still running it now seemed like a pretty solid basis...

@idren@mstdn.ca Fantastic, thank you! It's not a term I'd ever heard of - but I'm very much not religious so I guess it's not surprising.

@LunaDragofelis@void.lgbt @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @ratsnakegames@mastodon.social In any election, the minimum voting age should be that of the youngest person criminally sentenced as an adult in that jurisdiction in the last 5 years.

@sarahtaber@mastodon.online I really support legal weed, so to reverse this we should ban something else. Maybe bread. No more going to an impersonal bakery or - heaven forbid - the alienating bread aisle in a supermarket. Text your local bread guy "can I stop by for a coffee in an hour?", carefully not mentioning what you actually want to buy. Arrive, hoping to get some sourdough rye. All he has today is ciabatta and brioche. Make the requisite small talk, hide your bread under your coat and leave.

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I picked up Sid Meier's Pirates! a while ago, and it sounds like that is the 0% serious counterpart to what your husband is playing (remove the spreadsheets, add an 18th century social dance and governor's-daughter-romancing mini game).

@Canageek@wandering.shop @xgranade@wandering.shop @neckspike@indiepocalypse.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place maaaaybe the first year and that's being generous. The first big open letter imploring the WHO to acknowledge the by then already compelling evidence for airborne transmission was in July 2020.

@LunaDragofelis@void.lgbt @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @ratsnakegames@mastodon.social I think that's entirely as it should be. Where I live, that could be as young as 14. Which I think is disgusting, but when a judge does sentence a 14 year old as an adult, it should at least mean the voting age in the country is lowered to 14 for the next 5 years.

@pluralistic@mamot.fr no oppressive paternalistic "piano tuner" tells the self determining, radically independent, keys in an anarchist piano what note they ought to play. As an anarchist piano player it's your job to learn what note each key has chosen for itself.

@cstross@wandering.shop wow the language quoted in that article, really seems written to be shouted from a podium - gesticulating wildly, pounding the lectern, maybe with a little narrow moustache...

@darkling@mstdn.social @ckeen@social.vernunftzentrum.de @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social (Ozymandias leaves the Starbucks, just as a traveler from an antique land enters. They bump into each other) A warm and lidless cup of paper lies on the ground. . . Near it, into the mat, Half sunk, a pricey coffee soaks, whose roast, And oaten milk and shot of caramel, Tell that the barista well that order read Which yet survives, stamped on a till receipt, The order number, and the tip amount And on the paper cup, this word appears: "Ozzy"

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange @unlofl@mstdn.social @alice@lgbtqia.space there's a Canadian company building computer-free tractors. Apparently they're selling them as fast as they can build them. https://tractorevolution.com/tractor-news/ursa-ag-introduces-low-cost-mechanical-tractors-with-12-valve-cummins-engines-and-minimal-electronics/

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io I just looked up Singaporean coffee - that sounds really good, I want to try some now!

@bazcook@mas.to @avilewis@mstdn.ca if she did that she probably be out as Premier PDQ - the separatists are a minority of Albertans, but a majority of people with UCP memberships. They put her in the Premier's seat, they can take her back out.

@critakitty@wetdry.world Between Earth and Sky trilogy by Rebecca Roanhorse (first book is Black Sun) Radiance by Catherynne Valente Black Water Sister by Zen Cho Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey (I can only recommend SFF because it's about all I read)

@the_etrain Person who uses a frogtograph to send frogtograms.

@MLE_online I do sometimes want the formatting - like 1 time in 10 that I copy and paste something (and it usually messes up the formatting in some way that requires intervention anyway). Pasting in the formatting should always be the extra optional thing, not the default.

@SnoopJ @MLE_online That's better than Edge - you copy the URL, paste it into something that supports formatting (chat window, word processor, spreadsheet) and you get the *page title* as a link that points to the URL.

@AutisticInnovator I had to put that through a currency converter for the full mind boggling effect. For the pre discount price of a little 200g snack bag of chips from Walmart I could get a whole-ass restaurant meal here.

@eivind (it will jack up your car and steal the wheels)

@whvholst@eupolicy.social @foone@digipres.club that is really amazing - my daughter recently showed me that, translating some product packaging, IIRC from Japanese, by just pointing her camera phone at it.

@infobeautiful@vis.social did a penguin make this map projection?

@idren@mstdn.ca Sorry, what's the "4 to 14 sliding window" - if I do a web search for that in quotes I get zero results, if I search it without quotes I get manufacturers and retailers of window and door hardware.

@xinit@mastodon.coffee @tod@hci.social it's not a *healthy* meal, but it's more meal then snack.

@jamestwebber@mas.to @evacide@hachyderm.io I was more wondering, regardless of motive, *how* did they find the transcripts in the first place. The security mechanism of those sharing URLs is that guessing a correct URL is as hard as guessing a correct encryption key.

@mgeist@mas.to Canada's cocaine strategy is hampered by low cocaine addiction er adoption rates - we need to get more Canadians on the marching powder lest we be left behind!

@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca @tod@hci.social a butter tart is snackable - small, portable, eatable without cutlery. If you're not eating them as snacks, that's a choice you've made

@infobeautiful@vis.social OK but aside from the alt text being useless, what do the colours mean? Presumably green means something different from orange? Or is it just one colour per country?

@OohOkayKay@beige.party I marked "not keeping track so my partner doesn't find out" but it is my partner not keeping track and me not finding out.

@ratsnakegames@mastodon.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place We've built our environment such that not being able to drive deprives people of full participation - access to work, medical care, education, leisure, social contact. Which means taking away someone's ability to drive is a harsh punishment. So, when someone hasn't done anything wrong, they're just innocently and with the best of intentions unable to safely operate a car - we just let them keep doing it, on the principle that we shouldn't punish the innocent.