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PadreSJ

In Peru, a populist president attacked Congress & tried to violate the constitution.

He is now under arrest.

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In the US, a populist president attacked Congress & tried to violate the constitution.

We let him steal top-secret documents from the government & continue to attack both Congress & the constitution.

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Phil Landmeier

@steveumstead @shawnwegner A month ago the cross posting from Twitter was kind of cool. Now it's just annoying.

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Get On The Blower

In an unexpected turn, we've found ourselves blocking the official #RaspberryPi instance today, basically until they put an adult in charge of it.

If anyone really wants to learn how a relatively beloved and respected brand can burn a staggering amount of good will in record time, @aurynn has written up a very good case study of the event:
eiara.nz/posts/2022/Dec/09/a-c

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Phil Landmeier

@TruthSandwich@toad.social Oops. Sorry. I stopped at the end of mine. I missed the link to yours at the bottom of the page.

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Phil Landmeier

@freemo Yeah, I've long had some questions about this myself. I remember that movie when it came out.

Our digestive system is entirely dependent on the microbes that live in our gut. Our mouth and stomach add enzymes and acid, and mix it up to get the process moving. But the heavy lifting is done by our gut microbiome. We can't survive without it. So I've always been puzzled about the sterile environment thing. Maybe they're not counting gut bacteria as pathogens?

I'm an engineer. Maybe the answer is obvious to a microbiologist.

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Ben Maas

"Electric vehicles (eventually) send 87 to 91 percent of the energy in the battery to the wheels. I say "eventually" because 22 percent of that energy needs to be "recaptured" through regenerative braking. Put another way, 31 to 35 percent of the energy stored in the battery is lost for various reasons, but 22 percent can be regenerated by the "brakes.""

Comparatively, ICE (internal Combustion engines) send about 16 to 25 % of energy to the wheels.

As the article states, even if your electricity is 100% coal power, very unlikely anywhere in the U.S., that EVs are still better for you and the environment than ICE vehicles.

motortrend.com/features/truth-

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Phil Landmeier

@masbenmaas Yes, indeed. I wrote a somewhat technical article about this a while back.

shuttersparks.net/support-coal

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Jim Stewartson :toad:

Translated headline:
“After a decade of treason, including multiple coup attempts and a sustained psychological warfare campaign against the US population, Putin’s General walks into the American justice system long enough to flip the bird before leaving to continue trying to overthrow the government.”

I am so sick of this smug motherfucker walking free.
#ArrestMikeFlynn
ajc.com/news/ex-trump-advisor-

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Phil Landmeier

@lauren I suspect that restraining orders will be forthcoming.

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Lauren Weinstein

#Twitter Direct Messages and Musk

As far as I know, Musk has still not made a statement regarding the privacy and sanctity of the enormous collection of Direct Messages (DM) data that #Twitter presumably has maintained possibly since the feature was originally deployed many years ago.

This contains the personal discussions of individuals, firms, companies, and probably government agencies providing customer support via account numbers and other personal data, and much more.

Do we have any assurance whatsoever that Musk would not feel free to go rummaging through that mass of data and use and/or publicly expose anything and everything that he felt would be beneficial to his personal goals?

Given Musk's ongoing behavior, the question would be laughable if it wasn't so serious.

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Phil Landmeier

@alfredo_liberal@universeodon.com @dangillmor I'm sure that deleting your Twitter account doesn't actually delete it, just like Facebook. So as far as DMs, what's done is done. Just don't do any more.

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D. Elisabeth Glassco

Predictably, the RW mediasphere are engaged in a disinformation campaign that Biden only got her released because she’s black, and he’s beholden to “the Blacks.” Utter nonsense. Black Americans don’t get breaks. We SURVIVE.

Kudos to Paul Whelan and his family for taking the high road.

#BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BrittneyGriner #PaulWhelan

cnn.com/2022/12/08/politics/bi

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Phil Landmeier

@Jfrites @edwardchampion I hear you. I locked mine and left a couple weeks ago.

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Ethan Zuckerman

Interesting. I have been using a cross-poster to bring tweets between Twitter and Mastodon - crossposter.masto.donte.com.br - Mastodon posts no longer are allowed onto Twitter - Twitter is severely limiting third party tools. This is really, really bad news.

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Phil Landmeier

@notpike This happens. Why does that needle look like it was heated so hot it blued?

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Phil Landmeier

@CrimethInc Yes. The days of centralized monolithic social media may be over. They're too vulnerable to takeovers by bad actors. Now that people have been burned, they know.

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david roberts

Seems like a problem that lunatic right-wingers own an increasing majority of the avenues of public communication in the US. 🤷‍♂️

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Jake_Vig

"...But WAS Brandy actually a fine girl? Would she have made a good wife? Tonight, Dateline looks into some shocking allegations that could change everything..."

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Phil Landmeier

@SocraticEthics Nice! Japan makes top quality stuff when it comes to high voltage transmission line and substation hardware.

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BLUE

My crowning achievement thus far is becoming the lady that says weird stuff like "I didn't know Satan had a birthday," in the middle of the grocery store

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