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Here I was thinking that I might actually have a couple hours of discretionary time this afternoon. Shoulda known better. Woke up early this morning to crashing noises and found that one of our “Santa Ana” winds had made a mess of the backyard and dumped a bunch of debris in the pool overnight. We also seem to be missing a patio chair. Have to go knocking on the neighbors’ doors in a bit I guess. Maybe start a load of laundry first however. Get that going while I work on coffee and breakfast. No rest for the weary.
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Hospital called. Mom’s been in for a couple weeks of treatment for pneumonia with IV antibiotics but she’s finally ready to be discharged. However, she also has aphasia (dementia) and after neurological evaluation she’s not well enough in the head to be cleared for anything but transfer to a skilled nursing / long term care facility.
Kind of a good news, bad news thing.
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Dementia certainly complicates things. My mother developed it as well & it got much worse after my dad passed. And likewise resulted in going into a long term care facility. I’m terrible at encouragement but just be there when you can & do what you can, but also realize there are limits to what a person can do on their own, so ask forhelp when you need it.
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How come all of a sudden all that side-channel crap (ad feeds, youtube "recommended", etc.) is showing me earthquake and disaster preparedness stuff. Stop it! It is Friday the 13th and you're making me nervous!
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I almost have to LOL whenever someone uses the term "based" these days. It's one of those overused words or phrases that swaps its slang meaning between generations. To my generation (graduated HS in the early 80s) the term "based" came from the term used for someone who was addicted to freebasing cocaine. These were typically wild, irrational people who would do anything for another hit and were typically about a half step from killing themselves with their addiction.
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I often have trouble understanding what teenagers are saying because they use words to mean different things to the meaning they had when I was their age. When I was a teenager saying someone was "sick" or "wicked" was a derogative insult or a negative comment about their attitude, now I'm led to believe it's a compliment.
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I can hardly wait! (Order status is still at "assembly".)
System76’s updated 15-inch Pangolin laptop ships with Ryzen 7 5700U CPU -
I can't believe that UPS is still doing the old, "nobody was home" schtick. EVERYBODY is home these days!
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I considered making Frieren my new favorite kuudere, but I think she's beyond dere, kuu or otherwise. I'll keep Korone as my number one.. for now.
Frieren joke:
Q: What sort of dere is Frieren?
A: Legendere.
(I will accept no other answer!
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I don't know about you all but personally.. 2020 sucked.
2021 isn't looking too good either. That's the year that the movie Children of Men was set in, and the year that Kyle Reese from Terminator says he joined the human resistance.
Then comes Soylent Green in 2022.
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I dooded the deed. Kind of pointless since I know either Biden or Trump will win but if I don't vote then I can't complain, right? Pitiful selection this time, as usual. I almost wrote-in the name of the guy with a boot on his head but since he didn't get the nomination I instead went for the guy whose running mate was initially the running mate of the guy with the boot on his head. I'd have voted Green again but I wrote to them last time about their stupid anti-nuclear stance and got back a nonsense reply so I went back to the other guys for this cycle.
All I can say is I hope SpaceX's Starship testing goes well. I need a few AU of hard vacuum and lethal radiation between me and D.C. ASAP.
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So totally with you one this. I blame mass media and whatever else. Like people don't realize that you don't have to vote for the two major parties and at the same I feel it's pointless but this is what I don't get if it really didn't matter why put the other parties on the ballot. I think if enough people actually voted for someone other than dem or rep maybe just maybe someone else could win. Idk really for sure but I feel everyone is so locked in on these two parties.
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People vote the way they're supposed to. For some it takes reverse psychology or other tricks. "Don't waste your vote" is just another one of the viral memes they use. If people thought about it for a couple seconds they'd realize it is BS, but they don't. In the end it amounts to most people voting the way they're told to vote.
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I haven't even paid for my car repairs yet and now I need a new refrigerator as well.
Got to do taxes sometime soon as well.
Just shoot me now.
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@Wodahs Already there. Not so much recently but I did spend a few years beating cancer that left me without a thyroid and on hormone replacement for the rest of my life. That was a rough patch but is now history, or at least stable and manageable.
My big problems now are my mother who is aphasic (degenerative frontal-lobe disease similar to Alzheimer’s) and my sister in law who is disabled and diabetic. My brother never really got the hang of the adulting thing and is .. not a big help. He has a part-time job but he and SIL can’t even meet their own expenses.
In the old days the social pact was you worked your ass off until you were 55, then you retired to enjoy the rest of your life on whatever pension and savings you’d been able to arrange. Instead I’m already 57 with no possibility of retirement in sight. My income is all we’ve got and I’m basically a single parent to 3 special-needs kids. Unless I manage to win the lottery I’m gonna have to work till I drop.
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I hereby nominate "necrobotics" as the word for the day..
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/inflating-spider-corpse-creates-robotic-claw-game-of-nightmares/ -
I just noticed the “NASA worm” logo on the underside of the awning over the balcony just outside the front door to the building at work. It’s only been there for nearly a year since the building renovations. Ok, so I’m a bit slow sometimes.
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I know this isn't the forum for this type of thing but for us out here in the southwestern US the region's water situation is getting critical. That's me so I'm thinking about this a lot. Full disclosure, I'm in a suburb of Los Angeles here in So. California. If you're also in the region, or know someone who is, get informed. Basically, several of the region's critical civil engineering systems related to water use and distribution are either having or going to have multi-mode failures over the next decade or so. At this point even a radical change in the weather severe enough to solve the water supply problem would itself create major issues of its own. We need to get ahead of the problems and come up with a plan to deal with all of them that can be implemented in the time available.
I'm actually glad to see this video. The cover/thumbnail image might be a bit click-baity but I think they kept the listed title and the content itself reasonable. Right now things are still status-quo in most people's minds. Showers work. There's water to drink. You flip the switch and the power still flows to light the lamp or brew the coffee. For anyone not paying attention nothing would seem to be wrong. The scariest scenario for me however would be if nobody paid attention until the faucets run dry, then everyone panics without knowing the situation or having a plan. The people who made this video seem to be normal folks throwing up a flag saying, "hey, something serious is happening here".
I especially like that they're making the food connection. Las Vegas golf courses are not really the problem here, though the mindset that says that's a good idea in the middle of the desert (and the politics that allows it) might be part of the reason we got to this point. Farming is by far the biggest issue. California farms supply a large fraction of the country's food. Of the world's in fact. Those farms also use about 80% of the water in the region. If you can't grow food because there's no water or can't transport it to the customers because fuel is too expensive then that's a serious problem all by itself, even for people outside of California, Nevada, etc.. The water is also used to generate electricity, and energy is a major input to and driver of any economy. Expensive energy and low revenues from exports is an economic disaster in the making for the region. And of course water is also used for drinking and sanitation. The amount of water used for this last is (relatively) tiny but obviously extremely critical. I doubt we'll ever run out of drinking water, but it might get extremely expensive, and/or take a while to build out an alternative supply system. Did I mention you'll be dealing with high energy prices, power problems, and an economy already staggering from the costs of a pandemic, bankster abuse, and political mismanagement while trying to implement your solution?
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I like being alone. I have control over my own shit. Therefore, in order to win me over, your presence has to feel better than my solitude. You're not competing with another person, you are competing with my comfort zones. — Horacio Jones
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I might actually get to work from home next week... finally!
Watch, next week they announce the vaccine.
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I spent far more time than I should have today at lunch proving to myself that all these balls are the same color.
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I think I found the original...
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@LonelyPoet I don’t think so either.
Still something of an ancient document tho.. the last time I was there was on a class field trip in 5th or 6th grade.
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I took the offer so next week it’s goodbye Peraton and real-time operations, hello JPL/Caltech and integration/test.
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I wish I were 12 years old again. SCI-FI Adventure Kit Teaches You Advanced Coding And Circuit Skills in only 30 Days
When I was that age we didn’t even have computers. It wasn’t until I was in middle school that personal computers like the Apple ][ were invented. All we had as educational toys were Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys. And Legos without all the interesting parts.
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I'd boycott Blizzard, but I already did that years ago.
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I'm always kind of sad to see a library close, especially one as historic and useful as this place. Got to be a clueless beancounter to decide that closing a well-used rocketry library is a good idea. Especially one established by no less a figure than Werner Von Braun himself! My dad used to work at Redstone way (way) back in the day, and I've actually been to this place so there's a personal connection as well, though I was way too young at the time to get any actual educational or professional use out of the place. At least some of the content is going/staying online...
https://www.al.com/news/2019/09/rocket-scientists-mourn-end-of-redstone-arsenals-risc-library.html
