George Budd @Gbudd@social.cleverlibre.org

Next time you see an ambulance rush by, know that in Colorado, Paramedics (the highly trained life savers who give medication, read ECGs, and perform procedures in the ambulance) get paid $20-30/hr to work horrible hours. For comparison, McDonalds is offering $19.50/hr right now, and the new Buc Ee’s off I-25 is going to pay cashiers around $19/hr.

Pitch: the clone of ellen ripley is called in again by the corporation because a deep space colony has gone dark. When Ripley and the space marines arrive at the colony there are no xenomorph aliens there. The colony decided to shut down communications with Earth because everything coming out of there sounded bad. Ellen and the marines decide to settle down there and live in peace. The ship’s cat hunt space butterflies during the credits.

Anyone who has ever tried to untangle the cables in their junk drawer, and wondered how could such a complex snarl even form, ought to have no problem understanding how complex molecules, and life, arose from a junk tidepool and sunlight.

When the first “shambling cablemonster” report came in, it was presumed to be a prank, or a viral marketing stunt.

Eventually we worked out that putting microchips in USB and iPhone cables had accelerated the development of sentience in the cablebeasts.

It was too late to put the genie back in the bottle, current best advice remains to keep your junk drawers tidy and, should you be confronted by a cablebeast, to remain calm and use a broom or a chair to gently guide it outside, where it will harmlessly graze on the electromagnetic field of power lines. They are to some extent our children, and deserve peace.

#MicroFiction #Tootfic

Shane MacGowan, Pogues songwriter and Irish music legend, dies aged 65 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/30/shane-macgowan-pogues-singer-dies #music #poetry #Ireland

7 signs you're dealing with a micromanager

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@miiko @tml This one always comes to mind when I encouter mysterious tech problems. No recollection of the source or who the person in the video is, but they’re awesome to create such a funny clip. 😄

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If I wanted to buy a cheap yet reliable CNC for woodworking, up to maybe 50x50 cm work pieces, maybe only up to 30x30 cm... What manufacturers would I be looking at?

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has anyone made a read-only FUSE filesystem for a git repository where every commit is a folder and the folder contains all the files in that commit?

the idea is that you could just run `cd COMMIT_ID` and poke around instead of checking out the commit

I dunno who made this, but I love it nonetheless

happy Thanksgiving! hope everyone has something to be thankful for.
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Do I still need to add a rinse aid?