szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

My favorite pun at #ALAN2023 so far, by Matthew Hatfield from the University of Southampton.

"Very fishy" was also good.

Where I grew up in rural Indiana, we didn't get all the decades. We got the 50s and the 80s. We only found out about the other decades when we finally got cable TV in the late 1990s/early 2000s.

Astronomy professor Diane Turnshek says that in the most recent class she taught, only 11% of the students had *ever* seen the Milky Way in their life. #ALAN2023

@neil
Your post reminded me of this article that I enjoyed and that you might also enjoy: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops/
from @lowtechmagazine

To jest dla nas zdecydowanie jeden z najlepszych sposobów na spędzanie wolnego czasu 🤗☀️🦮 #psowerem #rower #cycling #rowercargo

"Shitposting" is an anagram of "Top Insights"

This is the last day of my Twitter account. I have over 52K followers there, but I can't remain on a platform that pays people like Andrew Tate to post. I do this knowing it significant limits my reach in the academic community, but the standard you walk past is the one you accept.

Six weeks ago, the rosinweed flowers stood tall above the foot-high grass - now they are barely visible. Tallgrass Prairies covered much if the Midwest where woodland systems transitioned to grasslands. Relying on regular fires and occasional intense grazing to maintain their biodiversity, they now usually require human intervention for maintenance.

#Grasslands #Prairie #NativePlants #TallGrass

Anyone know how to find very steep hiking routes like this? 🤔 I need training! 💪

I can write a programme to do it myself, but first try not to rewrite the wheel.

"Czy popierasz złupienie Krakowa przez wojska Złotej Ordy?"

Respect people who wear glasses.

They paid money to see you.

All the rain we've had means any bucket or container outside eventually fills up with water. Passed by one the wife used to bathe a chicken (long story) a while back and noticed movement. Those are mosquito larvae, aren't they?

#insects #mosquitodon

I am happy with modern storage solutions...

remember punch cards?

a terabyte is 1*10^12 bytes which translates to 1.25 * 10^10 cards, or 12.5 billion cards. This would take up 1,205,467 cubic feet of space and weight 34,097.5 tons

@JStatePost @CliffWade That actually raises an interesting point when it comes to bootable media durability.

USB media can be really convenient, but what about media used for hardware level recovery, especially if it's not needed for years at a time? I'd trust a decent quality DVD-R over a USB drive to be functional if I need it several years after initially writing to the media.

I'd be fine, using a secondary machine to prep fresh media if required, but not everyone has a second machine.

Does your computer have a CD/DVD drive in it currently?

Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the #Fediverse

#Poll #Polls #POTD #Computer #Laptop #CD #DVD #Drive #Tech #AllThingsTech

browsing in 2023 be like

#TIL that #GDR (East #Germany, #DDR) still exists. Well, in a way.

In early '70s Fidel Castro visited GDR. There was much kissing and hugging, and then leaders went on to serious business. Namely, #Cuba got access to GDR state-owned company Nordsternzucker VEB Halle, for re-export of Cuban sugar, and GDR... well, GDR got an island. Ernst-Thälmann-Insel, formerly Cayo Blanco del Sur.

Formally uninhabited, the island got one citizen, Ernst Thälmann himself, in form of a stone bust. A German singer Frank Schöbel recorded song “Insel im Golf von Cazones” (Island in Cazones Bay) there, and that would be it.

Twenty-something years later, Germany has reunited. Unification treaty was long, boring and detailed as only Germans can do.

It does not mention the island.

So, it was never “reunited” with West Germany and thus should remain the last GDR territory. Unfortunately, Cuba's stance now is that the gift was “purely symbolic” and GDR, well, does not feel well enough to put any claims...

#geography #history
Way: ‪Cayo Ernest Thaelmann‬ (‪37678145‬) | OpenStreetMap

@mkljczk zacytuję Annę Mierzyńską, która tak napisała na Twitterze:

"Gdyby to trzecie pytanie referendalne rozłożyć na techniki propagandy, cały tekst by powstał. 🤦🤦
1. Syndrom oblężonej twierdzy - budzenie poczucia zagrożenia
2. Hiperbola (wyolbrzymienie)
3. Podprogowe argumentum in terrorem (wykorzystanie strachu)
4. Celowe niejasności.
5. Dyktat (użycie słów, które wskazują, jaką decyzję należy podjąć)
6. Dysfemizm (zastęp. słowa neutralnego nacechowanym negatywnie)
7. Półprawda
8. Nadmierne uproszczenie
9. Wykorzystanie uprzedzeń
Wszystkie są w jednym tylko pytaniu!"

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