szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Life, uh… finds a way?

Idk, this corn stalk is just randomly growing out of the crack next to a storm drain like it’s living its best life?

Still hoping to touch base with someone that has knowledge or experience with small #septic systems and leach fields.

The immediate question is depth of the trenches. Our nonprofit has community members coming today and tomorrow to dig by hand while soil still moist from Hilary.

I’m leaning towards 18-24” & 40’ of leach pipe. Bad idea? https://www.infiltratorwater.com/blog/five-benefits-of-installing-shallow-onsite-wastewater-treatment-systems/

#permaculture #offgrid #greywater #design #homestead

"It's the little things that count." - Transistors. They're called transistors.

Our 10yr old has gotten ***REALLY*** into mechanical watches & clocks to the point he's on the verge of starting a side gig repairing them. He mentions his hobby to everyone, and a lot of folks have a not-quite-working item sitting around. He's fixed a number of them.

He has had a tough time with an civil war era pocket watch, but was finally able to salvage a compatible part from somewhere, and he got it ticking today. He was so proud, and wants to share with everyone.

#hobby #watchrepair

Left : London plane canopy.
Right: London plane leaves.

So looks like I'll be building my Fediverse presence from scratch now that I've lost my followers after moving instances (my fault entirely).

If you happen to see this, please boost so my old friends can see where I am!

I just wanted to visualize a waveform, randomly searched for "audacity like online", not expecting much... and by god, they did it. The maniacs.

https://wavacity.com/

@androcat Talked to a lady who worked for the tax authority here in Norway once. She told me straight away that welfare fraud is such a minor phenomenon that it has zero effect on the welfare budget. She followed that up by saying, "So we need to decide what kind of society we want - one where we're so afraid that someone might get some help they didn't qualify for, at the risk of depriving many others who need that help? Or one where we help folks through tough times and help them become tax payers again?"
A year or two later, I read a study that showed a significant amount of "welfare fraud" cases are folks who genuinely believed they qualified.
The more accessible benefits are, the better for everyone, ultimately.

Gentle reminder: Whenever someone is trying to sell you a story about welfare fraud, they're actually just trying to make it harder for deserving applicants to get the help they need.

Stories about welfare fraud are 100% about making it hard for people to get help.
Measures to combat fraud all amount to making the walls higher.
There is absolutely zero effort made to check whether it reduces valid applications, and also zero effort made to check whether it reduces fraudulent applications.

So, next time someone wants to tell you about "social scrounging" or whatever fancy-ass vocab they've made up for their bullshit, just tell them to go fuck themselves, in the nicest possible way.

Ten moment, kiedy wpada #dogzilla i strąca z planszy wszystkich chciwych landlordów.
Koniec zabawy w pazerny kapitalizm i na spacer!
#planszowki

10/ Final bit of #geoweirdness: Polish 🇵🇱 postal codes consist of five digits, but there is a dash between the 2nd and 3rd digits (example: "12-345"), which is good fun for software that assumes postcodes contain only alphanumeric characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Poland

See our guide to common misconceptions about postal codes:

https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-think-about-postcodes-and-geocoding

#geoweirdness

As you get older, you have less energy for everything. In theory, you get wisdom to compensate.

In theory. This week I had surgery for a hernia I gave myself by flinging around 25kg sacks of goose food after a different surgery. Don't do that.

Goose keeping community: "oh yeah, 25kg bags are the WORST."

Swiss doctor kindly speaking English: "your ovaries look... nice? Here's a photo."

Try to arrange your life so nobody shows you photos of your ovaries.

Anyway I am fine and recovering well.

Idk man instead of constantly changing the rules in hospitals about whether or not masking is required and confusing the shit out of people why not just do the easy thing that protects patients and require them forever. Then nobody ever has to wonder or get confused. They can just be like "oh, going to the hospital, better bring a mask"

"Za zabicie dorosłego wilka podczas polowania zbiorowego myśliwemu przysługiwała nagroda 500 zł. Za pozbawienie go życia w indywidualnym podejściu premia rosła do 1000 zł. Za wybrane z gniazda szczenię należało się 200 zł. A szczeniąt w gnieździe najczęściej było kilka. To znaczyło, że nakłucie trzech czy czterech na widły można było kupić roczny zapas wieprzowiny albo skrzynkę wódki. I mimo tego #wilk w Polsce ocalał. Obok żubra to najbardziej spektakularny powrót do polskiej przyrody. A kto wie, czy nie większy"

https://zielona.interia.pl/zwierzeta/news-wilki-w-polsce-cielo-sie-kosami-szczenieta-dusilo-a-jednak-p,nId,6981159

“AI is going to take our jobs!”

AI:

W związku z odgrażaniem się niektórym krajom przez rosjan przypomniała mi się taka historyjka.

Na pewnej uczelni, szkolącej przyszły personel dyplomatyczny, w ramach egzaminu studenci mieli wystosować odpowiedź na rosyjskie ultimatum w pewnej kwestii.

Po zakończeniu egzaminu przez jednego ze studentów, profesor ocenił: Merytoryka na piątkę, forma na piątkę, jednak mam dwie uwagi:
- „na chuj” piszemy przez „CH”;
- „ty ruska onuco” należy napisać z wielkiej litery - odpowiedź adresujemy do ministra, bądź co bądź.

#rosja

"CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs"

A claimed "9.8 CRITICAL" flaw in #curl that does not exist.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-everything-that-is-wrong-with-cves/