Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
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#BirdWatching
#eBird
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#physics
#engineering
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"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
Joined Nov 2022
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The overturning of Roe v. Wade taught us that there is no such thing as “settled law” if the wrong people make it their life’s mission to take away your rights.
No one’s rights are safe.
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Radio Shack™: You've got questions, we've got... [checks notes] ...cellphones. Oh wait, now we're out of business. Never mind.
@woozle Exactly. My daughter used to manage two Radio Shack stores at once, and very successfully. She's been a ham radio operator since she was 14. One key to her success was continuing to cater to the electronics geeks despite the store turning into a cellphone store. They'd come from miles around because they knew she had what the needed. And then they went out of business.
Radio Shack management REALLY screwed up. When the modern electronic hobbyist boom took off, they were unprepared because the store was full of cellphones instead of Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, perf board, and parts.
@clacke My whole city here in West Virginia would have to be redesigned and rebuilt. It's car-centric and unfriendly to bicycles and pedestrians.
The newest addition (20 years ago) and the primary shopping area is a strip almost two miles long connected by a narrow, sharply curved winding street that's dangerous for cars. There are lots of accidents because of the blind curves and people driving way too fast. It would be extremely dangerous for a bicycle so there are none. And it's impossible on foot. There's no place to walk, no sidewalk. Here is where all the major stores and fast food places are located, Walmart, Lowes, Kohls, Sams, Kroger.
It's the darnedest design I've ever seen, intentionally designed to make it impossible to walk from one major retailer to another. You HAVE to drive a car or motorcycle.
@axios It's always seems disingenuous and weak to me when an aggressor uses the word "retaliate".
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Intrusive contact between the sedimentary, Eocene Claron Formation below and the quartz-monzonite Pine Valley Mountains laccolith above. The Pine Valley laccolith is the world's largest example of such a pluton. Around 21 million years ago, magma intruded within the Claron Formation at a depth of about 200 m, shallower than is typical for a laccolith, allowing the magma to spread far laterally and dome up higher than normal. #geology #geoscience #igneous #Utah #pluton #laccolith #naturalhistory
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This is pretty near:
Detect breaches with Canary credit cards!
TL;DR;
Today we’re releasing a new Canarytoken type: actual credit cards!
1. Head over to canarytokens.org;
2. We give you a valid credit card (number, expiration, and CVC);
3. If anyone ever attempts to use that card you’ll be notified.
https://blog.thinkst.com/2023/01/swipe-right-on-our-new-credit-card-tokens.html
Saran Wrap Isn't What It Used To Be
https://shuttersparks.net/saran-wrap-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/
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One of the most blissful moments of my life was when #DavidCrosby played "Tamalpais High," from his masterpiece "If I Could Only Remember My Name," live for only the third time in history, and dedicated it to me. ("This is for you, Steve," he says at the beginning.) Video by Patria Jacobs. https://youtu.be/n-3nA4hGbK8
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Facts, political
Republicans want you to pay their rich donors, likely your bosses, taxes for them at the counter with your groceries
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@alanferrier Meanwhile in the US: "People still get pensions?"
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Two million French folk take to the streets in a wave of strikes and protests against a proposal to raise the pension age from 62 to 64.
Meanwhile in the UK: "Mustn't grumble. When's 'Strictly' on?"
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Hannah Arendt observed of the Nazis that they didn't lie because they believed it, or even because they expected YOU to believe it. They lied to say what would have to be true to justify what they intended to do.
@purplepadma @jaz @fkamiah17 I should add that this doesn't matter. I use a server located in France that's operated by a USian.
@purplepadma @jaz @fkamiah17 Yeah, no. There are few servers in the US compared to other parts of the world.
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It’s been a while since I threw a boomerang, but after a few tries, it came back to me.
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This is genius Albert Einstein who refused to speak at white colleges and at the end of his life spoke exclusively at black universities
"The separation of races is not a disease of colored people but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.
@TheRaDR It is indeed garbage. I'm old and was raised by strict old-school German parents. In that culture, you ARE what you do. Your vocation is the most important thing -- doctor, truck driver, farmer. When introduced it's the first question. You're instantly judged on that basis and pigeonholed into "your place" in society. I lived the first 40 years of my life with that world-view and I can assure you that it's not a good way to live your life.
Fortunately, 30 years ago, I realized this attitude is flat wrong. It changed my life and I've lived accordingly ever since.
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Our culture constantly pushes the lie that your value as a human being comes from what you do or produce or offer to others.
That's garbage.
You matter no matter what.
You are sacred just for being.
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Shabbat Shalom.
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#Birding
#BirdWatching
#eBird
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
Joined Nov 2022
