Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

@trinsec @jeffdean Yeah, vertical farming is a thing. From what I've read it works really well.

@SexyCyborg It sure wasn't mild for the first 15 hours. I thought I might be in real trouble.

@lauren Strongly agree. So far I've seen a lot of helpfulness and no arrogance, but I don't get out as much as you do. Lol.

I've been observing and making notes with the idea to write a blog post containing tips, analogies, and explanations.

While computer geeks like me are way more common than we were in 1970, we're still nowhere near the mainstream. None of the people I work with, except two women, are facile with computers / smartphones. The two who are facile have zero understanding of how anything works. It's all pure magic. The rest hate their phones, cuss at their phones, and use them grudgingly because they have to in order to function in today's world.

So I see it as a big leap for people to get on social media at all and if we're lucky, and they try Mastodon, we ought to do our best to patiently walk them through it. Always bear in mind that they're not "computer geeks" so they won't make the intuitive jumps that a computer person would. I find that explanation with well-chosen analogies works well. After all, Mastodon is just a big fancy conversation between lots of people.

@lauren True. I would imagine the footage from all that stuff is uploaded to some facility in Utah or someplace, and processed there. The government has always known waaay more than they admit to. Usually, they can't use what they know to prosecute crimes because they'd have to reveal what they know. Haha.

@lauren I can't believe they're not doing it now, surreptitiously. You're scanned every time you walk past a federal building and by most police cars.

On the police cars here I count 8 cameras that are running all the time.

@jerryjdavis @N0ZB@mastodon.radio @Romston Hawaiian pizza is clashingly good, perhaps?

@ai6yr I completely agree. Perhaps the downplaying is intentional and possibly recommended by someone like the FBI.

After 9/11, I was involved in a little informal study where several engineers put their head together to think up vulnerabilities and how terrorists might attack easy targets that have large effects. We quickly came up with a lot of ideas, so many that it was disturbing to all of us. We also identified various ways foreign terrorists could get into the country undetected.

Since none of those things happened in the following years, we concluded that DHS is doing a pretty good job and that nobody is seriously trying. Domestic / home grown terrorism, on the other hand, is very different and a much worse problem.

Fine as kine not finest kind.

https://shuttersparks.net/fine-as-kine-not-finest-kind/

@ohmrun@mastodon.social @stonehenge Yeah, #oops could be a fun tag. I hope I don't see it too often in threads where surgeons hang out.

@TruthSandwich@toad.social @lauren I missed that episode. Didn't know he had blocked you. He is highly opinionated. Lol.

One thing I like about Mastodon is the timed blocking feature. Over the years on various platforms I've run into situations where a ruckus resulted in blocking, which is then forgotten. And the block sits there for years and nobody remembers how it got there. I just saw it again a couple of days ago on diaspora. A user became one of the rotating hosts of a check-in list I belong to. During the first couple of days he rather ungracefully discovered he had half a dozen people on the list blocked and no clue why. Lmao.