Gregory's Server
they called it trickle-down economics because 'financial waterboarding' didn't poll well with focus groups
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Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps. https://rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-places-to-organic-maps/ 
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  @rudo @organicmaps What?! When did google make this move?! I have been an Organic Maps user for the past year  @rudo @organicmaps wait what is google doing to organic maps? I have been recommending this to everyone in my motorcycle riding group but I don't use android. Microscopic wave-like patterns rippling a fruit fly embryo have taken the top spot in Nikonโs 2024 Small World in Motion competition. See all of the spectacularly close-up winners today on Colossal. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/09/nikon-small-world-in-motion-2024/
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 No Shortage of Gas or Profits โ Only Shortage of Tax https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/no-shortage-of-gas-or-profits-only-shortage-of-tax/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-shortage-of-gas-or-profits-only-shortage-of-tax #Auspol When they warned about this, I didnโt realize it was about COโ emissions from AI.
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@davidho 
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 Itโs funny how recognizing AI art nowadays is just the same old rules as recognizing the fae in old tales. โCount the fingers, count the knuckles, count the teeth, check the shadowsโฆโ โฆ and under NO circumstances should you make deals with their kind.
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 @erkhyan: One day, we'll get to make friends with AI. It'll be a lot harder if humans will have invented a lot of nasty fairy tales about AI not wanting to be friendly by then. I often go on long walks around my neighborhood for exercise. And I often see ridiculously huge trucks or SUVs parked on the street. These monstrosities are not only ugly, they're also extremely dangerous. But fortunately, Jen Sorenson (@jensorensen) has a solution!
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 @breadandcircuses @jensorensen I've owned and driven an SUV since 2005. The reason was because my wife started needing a wheelchair in 2004 and we needed a car into which it would fit along with our two kids. I don't need a monster truck, but... If you got rid of big vehicles, you would be impacting the disabled and light construction/service people.  @breadandcircuses The fact that *actual tanks* have shorter blind spots than these monstrosities is baffling. @breadandcircuses @jensorensen I'd feel a little safer if I knew the person driving the hunk of steel got their licence in it
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@RickiTarr this is literally the best description around this problem I've seen. Very well said.  @RickiTarr yes. This articulates a feeling I've held but never managed to turn into words. Quite some years ago (2006-08), we brought the #OLPC AKA the 100$ laptop to Ethiopia as pilot. A surprising thing happened. The laptops were often without battery power in the morning. A thing that wasnโt anticipated. It had two reasons. One was the keyboard LED (it was removed in later series). It was used by the parents to have a light at home. The other was a bigger surprise. The parents used the mesh networking to discuss market prices for their produce. Fascinating. 1/8
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@jwildeboer maybe it's time to revive it again? Cause nowadays hardware should be even cheaper and less energy consuming nor?  @jwildeboer I remember taking delivery of a pallet with 100 of them for linux.conf.au in 2008 and unboxing them all to upgrade them (to stop a bug breaking the conference wifi) and re-packing them to give them all away to developers :-)  @jwildeboer this is awesome. Are you aware of a similar mesh networking technology that's still available for current day computers? Sounds like this should get much more attention from the OS community.
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#alt3 Accidentally pee on 2 Jaguar's marked tree. Get chased by the jaguar for 3 weeks, might sound exciting, actually quite scary. #alt4 Baboons stole our last roll of toilet paper and used it to decorate a very very high tree.  My beliefs are simple, and hardly radical: Libraries are critical infrastructure. Access to information is a human right. When you buy a book you should truly own it. When a library buys a book, they should be able to lend it. Readers should be able to read without any third parties spying over their shoulders, or preventing them from accessing the materials they have legally obtained. @luckytran visiting my daughter's Kinder for the first time this week (she starts next year) I was shocked and pleasantly surprised to find not one but TWO fancy air purifiers! This is a small Kinder in rural Australia with a maximum 22 students: was already happy with the odds of low numbers, but this was just such an unexpected bonus. No idea why it has them, if the service provider is extra on the ball, or government grants, but I'm very thankful! In a study in Finnish daycare centers, researchers found that air purifiers decreased children's illnesses by as much as 18.2 percent. We must pass legislation that incentivizes and requires clean indoor air. https://yle-fi.translate.goog/a/74-20089670?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
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 @luckytran @luckytran @luckytran visiting my daughter's Kinder for the first time this week (she starts next year) I was shocked and pleasantly surprised to find not one but TWO fancy air purifiers! This is a small Kinder in rural Australia with a maximum 22 students: was already happy with the odds of low numbers, but this was just such an unexpected bonus. No idea why it has them, if the service provider is extra on the ball, or government grants, but I'm very thankful!  @LevZadov The Rapa Nui's story is the last one featured in Fall of Civilizations. It's a heartbreaking story of Europeans coming into contact with a culture they didn't understand or respect. The guns of the Dutch sailors who landed on the island on Easter Sunday in 1722 weren't the only deadly weapons they unleashed on the Rapa Nui, who had for 1K yrs existed and thrived there. The fallout was terrible & heart wrenching causing the islanders to turn on their gods who had failed to protect them. |
@Daojoan That's unfair. Trickle-down works fine.
Just don't ask what's trickling.
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Waterboarding, as in "Trickle-down interrogation"?
@Daojoan which reminds me...