JustZ

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[–] JustZ 1 points 8 hours ago

Man I wanted a post about fishing.

/c/fishing

If that link works?

 
[–] JustZ 1 points 17 hours ago

That's the entire purpose.

[–] JustZ 14 points 1 day ago

Doge is not even a real agency. As you said, it is the US digital service. The executive order Trump signed admits that Trump does not have the authority to rename an agency, and that Doge is only the "public, alternative name."

So fucking cringe.

 

This is an older article from propublica, but this is the explanation for anyone wondering why they are doing what they're doing to federal workers.

Trump and his team are purposely trying to break the government. And whatever bullshit reasons they give about a Marxist takeover or the deep state or whatever, the actual effect is that China and Russia will win the century and America will lose.

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so.

“We want to put them in trauma.”

[–] JustZ 1 points 1 day ago

I think you have to be very careful with that. My dog got a bad laceration one time, and luckily we were able to provide pressure and bring them straight to the vet which was close by, and while I was there I mentioned that I had thought about using super glue to close it, and they were mortified. Mortified. They said it would have made him extremely sick.

Apparently the glue they used to close wounds, which acts like super glue is very different than actual super glue.

[–] JustZ 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There is no liberal media.

It's all been consolidated by the right, or rather, their rich benefactors.

[–] JustZ 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Homes that's not a one-time thing. He's been fighting for that for years and still does.

He has said he has no interest or qualification for politics, that his role is as a comedian.

I think he's wrong. He is very qualified, as is Al Franken.

[–] JustZ 8 points 1 day ago

Comparison is the thief of all joy.

You have to take your own route through life.

[–] JustZ 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Gotta hit that THC infused fish.

[–] JustZ 4 points 2 days ago

I mean, short kids books. Dr. Suess and whatnot.

[–] JustZ 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I can relate to this. Zero interest in baseball, basketball, or football, because it was forced on me. I sucked at all of them. Never learned the basic rules. Although now, as a lawyer, one of my favorite things to watch on YouTube is videos of teams experiencing the application of obscure rules that most of the players don't seem to know. Like a bunch of videos in baseball where something will happen and the fielding team will think it's a dead ball, but someone on the at-bat team knows the subscure rule and for some reason it's not a dead ball, and they nonchalantly tap home base and then start celebrating as the other team all walks to the dugout.

[–] JustZ 1 points 2 days ago

I will definitely follow up on some of these. I have some limited experience with ADB. I have a PiHole for DNS; think I need a VPN, too? It definitely breaks some things for me, but when that happens I know I'm better off without it. Thanks for the reply.

[–] JustZ 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I agree most people hate fishing and find it boring. I am a diehard fly fisherman and fancy myself as an angler; I'm not fishing, hoping I might get lucky and catch something. I'm working an angle, trying to fool a fish. And given our relative brain size, if I can't fool a fish, I have bigger problems. There's no luck about it.

 

The kid's grandparents got him an Amazon Fire tablet and I loathe the thing. It teaches literally nothing about computing and the games they have for kids are barely even games, and are more focusing on advertising various IPs.

I'd like to get the kid started, as he learns to read, on something that will be more useful than detrimental, let that soft little brain soak up some actual computer science, literacy. I teach him about basic electrical circuits and how that translates to computing, if, and, or, xor, nor, etc. He's got some familiar with hex (colors) and the concept of binary (on/off).

But what to get for a first computer? I almost want to get him something Linux based and turn him loose. Is there anything like that, that would require him to learn some command prompt and basic computing skills?

Every time and try and Google it, I get a bunch of crap suggestions and ads.

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Orion Nebula (lemmy.world)
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Shot with Vaonis Vespera II smart scope. 30 minutes of observation.

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10/2024 Supermoon (lemmy.world)
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Taken with Vaonis Vespera II smart scope.

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C/2023 A3 (lemmy.world)
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Taken with Pixel phone over 4:00 minutes in Astro mode. RAW further edited in Snapseed.

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Scientists have unearthed the remnants of more than 1,700 viruses from deep inside a glacier in western China. Most of these viruses are new to science.

With this discovery, the number of ancient viruses recovered from glaciers has grown fiftyfold.The viruses, gathered from a 1,000-foot ice core taken from the sprawling Guliya Glacier on the Tibetan Plateau, date back 41,000 years and span three major shifts from cold to warm.

 

Vaonis Vespera II. 350 images or so over ~1.75 hours, stacked by the scope software. .

If you zoom in you can see some steaking and lines. Is that clouds or condensation?

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