Whoever named that waypoint was not sufficiently online around the turn of the millennium.
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This article is great, and the list of "read more" articles underneath it is even better.
The sooner the crash comes, the better off we’re all going to be.
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social @alice@lgbtqia.space this is great. I occasionally find myself noticing something about someone that deserves a compliment but am exceedingly conscious of the risk of being creepy. In approximately 0% of these situations do I have any interest in it becoming flirty, but un-loaded compliments are nice. “Drop and run” seems like an ideal strategy.
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange @alice@lgbtqia.space “I’m getting no data at all.” “Dave, that’s the toaster.”
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@LoganFive@beige.party @Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org *sent by email. Please check your junk folder, and your three best friends’ junk folders.
Happy better-approximation-of-pi-and-in-a-format-understood-by-most-of-the-world day.
I realise I’m one of “today’s lucky 10,000”, but it took me until my 50s to learn it so I’ll share and maybe someone else can be in that 10,000 as well:
Being a middle-aged testosterone-having person, I have been bothered by the presence of more nose and ear hair than I’d like for some time now (I’m not a very hairy person, but these things are relative). For at least a decade, I have dealt with this by semi-regularly grabbing tweezers in one hand, smooshing various bits of cartilage around with the other hand, then trying (only partially effectively) to yank out the more bothersome hairs from said orifices.
Today, I finally tried an ear and nostril wax at a nearby waxing salon.
Holy shit you guys! (and I use the word “guys” advisedly) - it’s amazing! So quick and easy, not painful at all, gets every hair, and now I just don’t need to fuss with it for… I dunno, weeks at least, maybe longer? It was so straightforward that now I’m looking at what else they have on the menu - strongly considering getting my eyebrows done as well (not removed, just … tamed).
And yes, I realise lots and lots of people - especially those upon whom society puts more pressure to remove bodily hair - already know this to a “water is wet” degree of obviousness, but the contrast between what I had been doing, and what I’ll be doing henceforth, positively shook me.
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@jedsetter@aus.social @james@bne.social @futzle@old.mermaid.town it was late at night - nothing was open anyway!
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@jedsetter@aus.social @james@bne.social @futzle@old.mermaid.town wait WTF Broken Hill is on SA time but Silverton is on NSW time? I once drove to Silverton and back when on an overnight in Broken Hill, had no idea I’d crossed a time zone boundary!
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@jpm @ThermiteBeGiants fuck yes! We need to email the premier. Sheer brilliance. Imagine being able to say “we’ve reduced our reliance on oil for transportation, although admittedly our coal usage has seen a spike”
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town by also Spacesbetweenwords removing and Capitalletters on Nouns using, We could moregerman be.
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@ThermiteBeGiants it would be legendary if the Vic gov’t would step up to covering all fares on the Victorian Goldfields Railway as part of this. I know we don’t expect anything legendary - and rarely even anything positive - from this gov’t, but it’s nice to dream.
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town I discovered it by accident when spending a night at Madura on my way across the country a couple of days before Christmas 2004, and promptly had to figure out how to teach my MacBook about the new time zone.
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@leadegroot@bne.social @NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net a lot of people do follow HTV cards, but “compliance” (as I believe it’s called) varies by party preference. IIRC, the more traditional conservative the party of first preference, the more people follow the HTV cards. So Liberal and Labor HTVs have a stronger influence on actual votes cast than Green, independent or ON HTVs.
Can I send Sam Altman a bill for the extra $400 this cost?
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@layoutSubviews@mastodon.social I guess it is if your job is selling new tech. But… Opal in Sydney is considerably newer than those, so what are they talking about anyway?
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@JustJimWillDo the poll was intended in the context of the post up-thread: I’m looking for designs on T-shirts that aren’t just AI-powered rip-offs of someone else’s original idea. The consensus seems to be “probably none of them, but Threadless and Redbubble might still have some non-plagiarised content”. I don’t care so much about whether the ideas are licensed by original IP holders (go wild with riffing on anything Disney owns, for example), more whether the creativity in the design is original or just a glorified photocopy of someone else’s work.
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@cstross update: I bought one. It’s pretty nifty, and I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of measurements I get at work. It will also be interesting to see what it logs if (when) I fail to turn it off prior to sending my flight bag through the X-ray.
if anyone is still looking for Melbourne International Comedy Festival acts to see, you should go see Abby Wambaugh “The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows”. Four more shows left.
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@ThermiteBeGiants @daedalus So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
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@alice it’s me - I am the house fairy! Wait… does that mean when my family eats a meal I prepare, that they are thenceforth under an Obligation to me?
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@ThermiteBeGiants @jpm in that case, the Vic government probably can’t afford to subsidise it for long. Can the loco be retrofitted?
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@NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net these are people who voluntarily eat Taco Bell… but I don’t imagine GyG was matching the Taco Bell price point.
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@NewtonMark if Julie Inman Grant isn’t getting kickbacks from VPN providers, she’s even more of an idiot than I thought she was.
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@decryption@aus.social the full set of new tyres I just put on my ‘89 240 cost $600 fitted & balanced. And the nice new pushie I bought a few months ago cost $800. Sounds like I’m still ahead sticking with last century’s tech.
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Which of the following - if any - would you trust to host original content more often than not?
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@zuthal @azonenberg or we could react toblerol with tobleroic acid in the presence of concentrated sulfuric acid to yield tobleryl tobleroate. I wonder what kind of scent/flavour that could be used for.