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Imagine you’re a humble #beaver , doing your beaver thing. Then you get kidnapped (beavernapped?), placed in a box, and dropped from an airplane into an unknown land.

earthsky.org/earth/parachuting

When I was a child and a teen,
I was called a monster, an alien, and a weirdo by strangers.

At an age when I needed so much to belong, these words hurt more than swords.

It tuned me down overtime. It desaturated my personality. I learned that I could not both be myself and be accepted.

Now that I am older, I am trying to find back who I really was meant to be. Being myself isn’t just an instinct, it is a vital need. I cannot be with people whom I cannot be myself with anymore. It has become unbearable.

I know many of you here have had similar experiences and much worse.

I just wanted to tell you that
I see you
and you are not alone :rainbow_heart:

This is a communal orchard around here - the yellow ribbon means that picking fruit is free. Besides apple trees I found pear, cherry, plum, mirabelle and chestnut trees. The location of the trees was published on mundraub.org - that's how we found them.
#gardening #orchards #sharing #germany

@EricLawton @nf3xn @rrwo @szescstopni @Threadbane this is a very interesting insight.

I studied computer engineering two decades later, we were told that SQL had been around since 1974, and most of us assumed that Codd came down the Mount Sinai with the foundations of relational algebra set in stone, and everybody embraced it immediately.

Working on some legacy systems at the beginning of my career, I actually also noticed that DB2 and friends weren't fully embraced until at least the second half of the 1980s.

Same goes for C++ - most of the post-2000 students assumed that after Stroustrup's initial draft C++ and its object oriented paradigm came as a tidal wave on software development, but later on I noticed that most of the software up to at least mid-1990s was still written in earlier languages.

@John @nf3xn @blacklight @rrwo @szescstopni
In 1984 I was getting radiation for lymphoma and the machine that was delivering the dose, some sort of Roentgen device I think, was computer controlled. During one of the treatments (everybody left the room of course), I reached over and turned the screen toward me and as the commands scrolled by the hair on the nape of my neck stood up. It was a BASIC *interpreter* running off an 8" floppy! AIEEEE!! 8^)

@blacklight

I wasn't taught SQL in my comp sci database courses in 1981, just hierarchical databases, because "relational is cool theory but not practical for commercial apps".

Ironically, I never used a hierarchical database but 5 years later, got a contract writing parsers for IMS, COBOL and PL/1 to generate SQL DDL and migrate data to DB2.

@nf3xn @rrwo @szescstopni @Threadbane

That x on my home screen is the final nudge to switch fully over, and dedicate myself to rebuilding my network here. Looking for #FollowFriday recommendations for #CitizenScience #OpenScience #ScientistRebellion #ClimateAction

@nf3xn @rrwo @szescstopni @Threadbane SQL has been around since Codd's original paper in 1974, so it's about as old as Voyager :)

As an SQL and relational algebra geek there's nothing worse I could hear than "SQL has only a limited range of applications". Both relational and non-relational databases can be amazing tools for storing data - when used properly for the right use case.

Nie jestem anglojęzyczna (szok, c'nie?). I dlatego na #Mastodon mam problem. W TT jest automatyczne tłumaczenie tweetów. Dało mi to szansę śledzenia kont w tym języku. A tu - kiszka. Nie umiem sobie poradzić. Czytam Masto w komórce. Mam appkę Mastodon i w niej nie ma takiej opcji. Nie widzę też wpisów znajomych, którzy mają konta w innych instancjach. Albo są nieaktywni, albo coś robię nie tak. Może powinnam przenieść konto na inną instancję? 🧑‍🦳🤔
Helpunku #pomocy #pomocpl

I spent the whole day, from early morning till now in my garden. I am exhausted, but I planted a field of lupine for aftercrop, a few flowers between my beans, and finally some dill for autumn pickling of cucumbers. #gardening #gardensofmastodon

No, your body cannot build tolerance to endless extreme heat. Unless you’re a soulless capitalist right-wing fascists ghoul. The shite these ghouls try to peddle in late-stage capitalism to the masses just beggars belief.

Oil and gas sector's low compliance with methane regulations jeopardizes Canada's net-zero goals

This is a common problem with environmental regulations.

Government can look good to the public by announcing "green" laws and regulations, while appeasing business by doing nothing to enforce them.

theconversation.com/oil-and-ga

smoothie question, boosts appreciated 

Is there anything I can do against my smoothie's tendency to separate into juice below and semi-solid foam gunk above? Especially milk-based smoothies (as opposed to juice-based).

I just toss all the ingredients and the liquid base into the blender and run it at top speed until it seems sufficiently mixed. Anything I should change about that?

My smoothies usually contain some mixture of banana, raspberry, blueberry, strawberry, and blackberry, on a base of either milk or orange juice. Sometimes slight seasoning (some sugar, some cocoa, some coffee, some honey, whatever I feel like). Are any of these ingredients particularly foam-causing?

3/n aborcyjnego po tym jak prawo odmówiło aborjcji zgwałconej czternastolatce.

W 1997 roku musiała odwołać występ w Jerozolimie bo ortodoksyjni Żydzi zagrozili, że ja zabiją.

Była też aresztowana podczas proaborcyjnych protestów w czasie których ze sceny dyktowała nr telefonu do brytyjskich organizacji pomagających w aborcji.

Idk, nie wiem co mam napisać. Chyba strasznie mnie wkurwia, że 30 lat później wiemy, że miała 100% racji, ale była wtedy dla jebanych dziadów "rozwydżoną gówniarą"

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Over many years, I have been gradually replacing all of the paragraphs in the Ship of Theseus Wikipedia article.

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