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  • European alternatives to Tile trackers?

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  • I've used Chipolo tags and they work well enough, but keep in mind that virtually all Bluetooth tracking tags - including Chipolo - use either Google or Apple's tracking network so it's hard to divest yourself of them entirely.

    My experience of Chipolo tags that use Google's network is that they work just as well the Pixel tag and AirTag for finding objects nearby, but because there are so many more Android Things than iThings about both Chipolo and Pixel tags are way better than AirTags for tracking down things in the wild.

  • From Isis recruit to influencer: ‘People think: you’re that evil girl who ran away’

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  • Well, TikTok Influencer is not at all like ISIS Recruiter. One is a person who works for a nefarious group of conspirators to manipulate impressionable bystanders to promote their sinister ends for personal profit with no regards for the damage they're doing to their targets specifically and society as a while, while the other...

  • Umm, where do you put the oil?

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  • If the head gasket is fucked enough you can put it in the same place as the coolant.

  • The forbidden fourth leche

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  • More milk per milk.

  • If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars?

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    Oooooh, now I get it.

  • The End of an Era

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  • Can I tell you a funny joke? Regardless of the Nader voters, Gore actually won in Florida and by a margin of a few thousand votes - still close, but an order of magnitude greater than the few hundred by which Dubya quote-won-unquote - but because of batshit ballot designs, unfair winner-takes-all methodology for awarding electoral college votes, endless bad-faith legal fights and a complete refusal/inability to shift the date of the inauguration, this was only agreed upon after it was too late to do anything about it.

    In 2000, the people of Florida and the United States as a whole voted for Al Gore for President, but their intent was stolen from them and the power to decide upon the direction and tone of the following twenty years was given to Bush instead.

    Oh, sorry, did I say "funny joke"? I meant something else.

  • Do you still listen to the radio?

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  • I listen to BBC Radio because it's still excellent. BBC Radio 6 is my go-to daily station which specialises in new music and has DJs who are passionate and have a lot of freedom, but the station also follows John Peel's A-B-C format which keeps things nice and grounded. Also, BBC Radio 3 for jazz and classical (unlike Classic FM, which only plays movie soundtracks) and BBC Radio 3 Chill which is self-explanatory.

    ABC's Triple-J deserves an honourable mention. Student radio can be good as well.

    The local commercial stations are all homogeneous slurry, lowest common denominator saccharin slop where every shred of character and local identity has been eradicated. I grew up listening to Rock FM (Lancashire) and Trent FM (Nottingham), both were cheesy but authentic local pop stations that have been thoroughly Borged into ultra-branded and means tested chaff. It's adverts, relentlessly forced-cheery sponsored segments disguises as 'banter', desperately insincere attempts at audience engagement, and, occasionally, heavily edited and shortened versions of the same dozen songs.

  • The End of an Era

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  • Plus you've got nippes so you can be milked.

  • The End of an Era

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  • Hérë, håvē ßòmê mõrè.

  • The End of an Era

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  • Can you imagine how extraordinary different our lives would be today if Al Gore was the President on 9/11 so Dubya couldn't use it as an excuse to reboot his Daddy's war? Fuck every single irredeemable fucktard involved in that deliberate choice.

  • If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars?

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  • Yeah, but the people in the Volvo get to walk away.

  • Alright let's see pictures of your super nice rack-mounted, professionally installed labs. I'll start 🙃

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  • I'm on a variable rate electricity tariff and I use Home Assistant and iLO to power things on and off automatically, so most of the time it pulls 30-50W. At peak it pulls north of 1.5KW but that's really rare.

  • Alright let's see pictures of your super nice rack-mounted, professionally installed labs. I'll start 🙃

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  • Makes mine look boring.

  • VLC got to the moon before bitcoin or gamestop

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  • "How many pornos does a woman need for a week in space? One? A thousand?" - Someone at NASA, probably

  • VLC got to the moon before bitcoin or gamestop

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  • In the next Andy Weir book, I bet that's how he calculates acceleration in zero G.

    "I just happened to remember that semen has a viscosity of 93 Penrose and that a palladium vibrates at 6.3e⁷ portisheads per waneshaft when exposed to bicurious voltage. So by spunking on a metal ruler and shorting out a 9v battery on it I made a rudimentary McGlochlon Scale!"

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  • Years ago I ran a pub quiz and one of the categories was "Name the song from this description of the lyrics":

    A low-level government employee abuses his access to national infrastructure to secretly spy on a woman he is obsessed with. He acknowledges that he has a unhealthy obsession and that he really should back off, but quickly managed to convince himself to carry on, assuring the audience that he is still spying on her.

  • Given that twins/triplets etc. are generally not born simultaneously, there must be some twins with different birthdays

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  • The two most extreme time zones are 26 hours apart, so it's possible to have a twin born an hour after the other with a birthday two days earlier. With a little planning, that is.

  • Pennsylvania, USA is trying to stop HOAs from banning native plant gardens.

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  • Red and white clover, provided you live in an area where they're native. They introduce nitrogen to the soil and pollinating insects love it, and it nice to lie on. You can grow clover mixed in with grass: because grass is more tolerant to being regularly walked on than clover, it creates nice natural-lookint pathways.

  • Pennsylvania, USA is trying to stop HOAs from banning native plant gardens.

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  • Oh, shit, right, so I get to share something I learned fairly recently.

    For much of human history, wealth could be measured many ways but by far the most powerful currency was land. Land meant resources, and the land's value was determined by what respirce it produced: fertile floodplains meant crops, lakes for fishing, forests for hunting, and, worst-case scenario, moorland could be used for grazing livestock. But what if that wasn't enough? What if you had huge tracts of land but your narcissism and insecurity were so overwhelming that you just needed to prove yourself even more?

    Enter: lawns. Lawns are fields of grass, which is a useless crop that can only really be used for grazing. But the grass is kept so short that livestock can't graze on it. But grass like that can only be grown on plains that are ideal for crops, so you need to get rid of the crops. And short grass needs tending, tending with more care than any crop, so you need to have workers dedicated to it. That's what a lawn is: it's bragging, it's saying "not only do I have loads of top-quality land and an army of workers, I can afford to piss away huge swathes of it for absolutely no reason other than to prove that I can." It's hard to image a greater and more grotesque display of boujee excess than the lawn.

    Of course, this is what makes the modern lawn all the more pathetic: that neatly parcelled-out vast tract of land you can afford to squander as a display of your immeasurable wealth is, like, a few meters across. It's like the Stamford apes experiment: they know what they must do, but not why they're doing it and, if they knew what a lawn really was and where it came from, I can't imagine many would be quite so attached. Then again, maybe they would be. Maybe they really do think their home is a castle and that they live in a kingdom they can walk around in thirty second.