picofarad

Don't let me get charged up

primarily to interact
ostensibly to microblog, the format is interesting.

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2026-09-06 05:23:54 UTC

you're supposed to take zofran an hour before whatever makes you nauseous, but what if you haven't been able to track what actually makes you nauseous?
it is an SSRI, so taking it like, before a potential nausea inducing event every time is probably not the best idea.

2026-08-27 23:07:45 UTC

i'm watching law and order. again. I sort of want to watch star trek TOS and TNG but i don't have them. yet.
guess i'll start looking at ebay >.<

2026-08-25 17:09:21 UTC

my cat keeps jumping on my keyboard and losing my place so i guess i am done here for a while...

2026-08-25 16:53:49 UTC

oh my blood work was 100% normal. Guess the new dietary restrictions i imposed on myself are working. gunna pick the chart up later and compare to the last two to see what i did.

2026-08-24 16:58:52 UTC

why does mastodon say "2 repliies" when it's a hellthread that is at least 15 pages long?
is this vibe coded?
https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/117/151/545/412/561/447/original/cf8aa68a0b09fae9.jpg

2026-08-22 03:53:15 UTC

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@nprofile…3eqn you all don't have third parties there, like "underdog" parties? that's who i vote for in the US because i have always lived in right or left wing states and my vote is wasted if i *don't* vote third party. My vote might lead to a shake-out, it probably won't, but it might.
I've said this for decades at this point.

2026-08-22 03:06:23 UTC

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@nprofile…7ypj my MF was $16k delivered, but i had to have the engine replaced because they forgot to sand the contacts for the ground wires so the main bearing spun out.
The reseller didn't want to fix it until i called the manufacturer, and then the reseller was like "what did you do that for?"
Like, you told me to pound sand, what else could I do?
had bucket and backhow, AWD, locking rear diff, it's fairly decent now.

2026-08-22 00:42:44 UTC

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@nprofile…7ypj No belly mower though :-(

2026-08-22 00:42:33 UTC

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@nprofile…7ypj i got a huge fuckin mower for my PTO 3 point but when i took the backhoe off i realized i don't have anywhere flat to do such things, so i gave the mower to my neighbor who probably sold it for cheap to someone who needed it.
I concur with your assessment.
Wallymart has backhoes for $5000, which might be about what a backhoe attachment costs? idk. my small massie ferguson came with a loader and a backhoe installed.

2026-08-21 15:41:54 UTC

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@nprofile…z0u6 it's backed by work of miners. and therefore electricity.
I know it's not the same as gold, but it is "backed" by something, *the miners*. the miners mine because they get paid in BTC to do so.
Mining is a misnomer, miners try to sign the current ledger with new additions by causing a SHA256(SHA256(ledger)) to result in a specific amount of leading zeros. The number of 0s is called the "difficulty".

2026-08-21 13:58:33 UTC

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@nprofile…gaa4 no key, it activates it with no key, yes

2026-08-21 00:11:20 UTC

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@nprofile…2cv9 the tech was from 2010, there's at least 1 paper. Comcast couldn't deploy it that fast (November 2025), you know what i mean? they're a huge company.

2026-08-20 23:48:49 UTC

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@nprofile…gaa4 on windows https://massgrave.dev/
run the powershell command (windows key, type "powershell" and hit enter)
it will walk you through activation. If your computer doesn't already have office installed (i think home edition might not), there's a download link either on that site or in the tool.
if you need more help let me know

2026-08-20 23:45:29 UTC

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@nprofile…2cv9 you don't say

2026-08-20 23:44:58 UTC

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@nprofile…gaa4 also why are all these in english?

2026-08-20 23:43:12 UTC

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@nprofile…xr6j @nprofile…gaa4 i bet male genital mutilation is just fine, though
https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/117/130/486/010/140/071/original/fdc255a37e8a0ca1.jpg

2026-08-20 22:42:29 UTC

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@nprofile…29y7 @nprofile…p4t6 are we still happy with the drag?
The only thing i'd change is to ranked voting. My Ph.D. friend did his dissertation on various voting schemes.
I would like to vote for 3 people in ranked order, instead of for or against whomever.
I'm not really like, well-versed in the voting scheme, though. He made it sound excellent, though, and mentioned a few countries where they do it with ranked voting, rather than first past the post.

2026-08-20 22:31:18 UTC

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@nprofile…n6x4 master? SLAVE? CANCELLED

2026-08-20 22:27:49 UTC

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@nprofile…29y7 @nprofile…p4t6 wasn't that the point of the electoral college?
https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/117/130/190/275/330/788/original/f6ba0a83ccf272ff.mp3

2026-08-20 22:16:26 UTC

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@nprofile…amhl no offense to larry and darren but they're not doing "No Agenda", they lean real heavily anti-liberal; in a way adam and jcd didn't. they laughed at everyone, and it just so happened that the left is easier to laugh at.
Larry and Darren work "the left" into lots of things and it makes it hard to listen to.
Then again i was kinda getting sick of the show starting in january of this year, like i was growing out of it.
or my medicine is working
yum medicine.

2026-08-20 22:10:14 UTC

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@nprofile…p4t6 i got my wife a subaru because i also enjoy throwing a car around corners like i'm in a video game. I really don't care what people think about me, i'll just go offroad at high speeds.
Besides i also have an obnoxious v8 sedan

2026-08-17 16:05:31 UTC

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@nprofile…p4t6 i might try to get on the equivalent of the county board or city council and just nay-say any surveillance tech.
we pay our cops enough to do actual work, not just sit on a computer/cellphone all day. Like, we over-pay our cops. Let's let them work for it.

2026-08-17 15:58:19 UTC

i'm not advocating for this, but i thought it was funny
https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/117/111/671/640/879/099/original/986b1ee5ed90f257.jpg

2026-08-17 15:52:39 UTC

my cat is broken
https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/117/111/648/793/175/869/original/c58f173bbf99d20a.jpg

2026-08-16 04:18:38 UTC

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@nprofile…rkpm wtf 50TB isn't even that much, what kind of idiot.... Disney did this same thing, they had the resources to do stuff in house but they paid millions to third parties to do stuff like literally ffmpeg.
50TB, i have twice that just on my local crappy network.

2026-08-15 18:13:32 UTC

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@nprofile…gaa4 @nprofile…rq7v maybe it's in the meat, like Slater's 50-50 has 50% bacon mixed in the 50% beef

2026-08-14 15:16:42 UTC

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@nprofile…fk8u should be barred from running again

2026-08-14 14:58:00 UTC

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@nprofile…q8z5 good ol' stable diffusion trained on square images forced to make 9:16 images

2026-08-13 21:04:36 UTC

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@nprofile…p4t6 @nprofile…d58x oof, i wonder.
I don't think curry wants to stop interacting with the NA crowd, as annoying as they are.
Is he on the whole show today or just part? i didn't tune in because bleidner's voice grates me

2026-08-11 19:19:54 UTC

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@nprofile…v2v2 i just spent a little while looking through tropes, and i don't see one for this. I can make it if it doesn't exist. What should/shall it be called?
The witcher 2 is even more egregious since you can import a witcher save and get the top tier weapons as your starting weapons, but they're still nerfed weapons and will be replaced relatively quickly. The tropes page doesn't have a pothole link for this, which either means it doesn't exist or the troper didn't know about it.

2026-08-10 16:40:21 UTC

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@nprofile…l4kz shit i was literally typing "i'll believe it when..."
when i scrolled up and saw.
I don't believe it at all.
Microsoft just laid off more americans to bring in 50% more indians. like a week ago.

2026-08-10 15:59:00 UTC

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@nprofile…mj5g WHY IS GLASS SO GOOD
This is beautiful in a way i wasn't expecting, even though i know Glass' stuff well.

2026-08-10 15:53:34 UTC

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@nprofile…c2ja there's some phrase that people use when talking about poor/poverty, where it's how much effort, time, and money everything takes, that rich(er) people don't have to deal with.
but it completely escapes me.
but it's *an* answer to "just eat healthier" or "get more exercise" or "just buy rice and beans to save money"
Like that last one, you gotta cook em, obviously, but that's more mental and actual load to take on.

2026-08-10 15:43:03 UTC

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@nprofile…rq7v even if somehow aliens came down and stole all the flock cameras, Axon is trying to make a database using 90,000 CCTV cameras in the US
and i'm sure other startups will as well.
in fact my business partner as it were said we should make a flock-like and sell it at $2000/yr just to undercut flock and get bought out.
I have this ethical thing where it makes my head hurt if i contemplate doing unethical things for money.
it's one of the reasons i am broke.

2026-08-10 15:25:27 UTC

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@nprofile…s2sp i'm functionally stupid with gentoo even though i used it for twenty years. Does the virtual flags actually count? Or is this circular, where if you add the two it wants to sys-libs/zlib it'll throw an error that it should just have minizip?
basically i hate portage, but i make that everyone else's problem, since everyone else made systemd my problem.

2026-08-10 04:44:41 UTC

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@nprofile…kf5x they don't put temperatures. They're scared that billions of people will laugh in their faces if they actually put the temperature and humidity for these "heat waves" that "pummel" regions.
of course the average air temp is going up, we keep using thermometers too close to buildings, blacktop, brick walls, and other things they're not designed to be near.
only a handful of rural stations have long records. a *handful*.
everything else is cities/urban.

2026-08-09 17:39:11 UTC

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@nprofile…al6u was his nose edited or did he start hitting the booze really hard

2026-08-09 17:35:23 UTC

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@nprofile…hqna i don't have an oven anymore. I have a small toaster oven where the glass broke out of it that i got refunded on, i could fix that i guess.
I don't have the room or aircon for oven usage, though.
I will miss my wife and kid making a cake a few times a year "just because".
I also don't have a microwave. this house is abject chaos.

2026-08-07 17:05:41 UTC

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@nprofile…al6u it's genetic!

2026-08-07 15:42:58 UTC

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@nprofile…al6u more or less than schools and hospitals still standing in Gaza?

2026-08-07 15:24:56 UTC

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@nprofile…alxm @nprofile…qr25 i've noticed some latency but i think it's because i am using flask. i should rejigger it in a real language instead of python.
I have tens of thousands of subtitle files that i put in sqlite3 and use FTS in/on. if there's a lot of results, it can seem like the page is hung for some seconds.
Probably python's fault.
I've used mongo, too, but not for this.

2026-08-07 13:24:10 UTC

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@nprofile…fsu6 the web was released 35 years ago... in 1991...

2026-08-07 01:59:01 UTC

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@nprofile…u7u7 be aware that "one step at a time" leads to
"Oh no, i shouldn't have told you to run that command. oh dear."

2026-08-06 22:47:15 UTC

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@nprofile…la83 did she survive?

2026-08-06 22:39:16 UTC

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@nprofile…gur5 good, may i recommend Devuan if you like debian-likes? It doesnt have systemd, so it won't tax an older system as much
And i hate systemd a lot.

2026-08-06 22:15:33 UTC

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@nprofile…gur5 idk about the 6000 series but the 3000 and the 7000 were fine (i have 2 i3-7350k that still run windows *just fine*, for example).
new fan time?

2026-08-06 15:37:36 UTC

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@nprofile…al6u what, why?
If you want a "large, linked repeater system" those exist, they're called 2 meter and 70cm repeaters and they can be linked nationwide.
The difference is GMRS is $80 for a license with no test (afaik), and ham requires a test but is only like $25.
I don't care one way or the other, but it's against the part rules so whatever.

2026-08-05 14:36:14 UTC

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@nprofile…p4t6 those don't overwinter for me (not hardy, just normal), i wonder where i can get the hardy ones to test. My neighbor just got a bunch of short ones, i wonder if those are hardy?
i want hibiscus because it is a good tea and good for you and prevents covid.

2026-08-05 01:14:09 UTC

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@nprofile…7sj9 geese are the same way for fowl and i would assume rabbits and stuff

2026-08-05 00:10:38 UTC

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@nprofile…xsvf why, who do you share a border with?

2026-08-04 20:44:24 UTC

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@nprofile…6k9q @nprofile…p4t6 have they fixed rooster sauce yet (i am assuming you mean huy fong's sriracha, but polite name?)
it went off during the pandemic and i haven't found the same flavor since. i heard their supplier dropped them so they're not even using the same peppers or something?

2026-08-04 19:43:19 UTC

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@nprofile…p4t6 it wasn't in my book at hand, although this implies that shot came from scot (schot) and scotch whisky has been a thing for a while i imagine, at least 100 years.
I'd need a book from about 1929 to actually figure out where it came from.
https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/117/038/943/281/410/937/original/c6c839c78b665da9.jpg

2026-08-04 19:39:16 UTC

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@nprofile…p4t6 gosh darnit now i gotta look it up.
> Another original meaning, "payment" (perhaps literally "money thrown down") is preserved in scot-free; also see scot (n.). The notion of "throwing down" might have led to the meaning "a drink," first attested 1670s; the more precise meaning "small drink of straight liquor" is by 1928.
1928!
I've also heard it called a slug, so it seems it is completely unrelated to pistol rounds ;-)

2026-08-04 18:42:21 UTC

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@nprofile…p4t6 that's a bit, right? well 2 bits is a quarter, so it is a bit off. I find it pretty hard to believe that a single bullet was 12 cents, though. Possible.
gumball machines used to be a penny and i am sure the parents giving up a penny for a gumball thought that was outrageous at the time.

2026-08-04 18:18:34 UTC

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@nprofile…p288 looks good, wish i cared enough to cook more complex things like this

2026-08-04 16:47:58 UTC

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@nprofile…m8u2 my wife had to undergo 100% of her cancer treatment, red death, radiation, completely alone because of covid. they would barely let me in to wait for her.
She has PTSD driving past the hospital now, it's gotten better, but still.
I'll never forget all the awful things everyone did and said during those 3 years.

2026-08-04 05:47:17 UTC

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@nprofile…s0e2 are the images generated, too?

2026-08-04 05:08:36 UTC

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@nprofile…al6u who would assassinate him and why? or is this like, metaphorical?

2026-08-04 03:45:17 UTC

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@nprofile…5fvr it's paint what difference does it make
- them, probably

2026-07-29 23:40:10 UTC

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@nprofile…7r0z what a weenie

2026-07-29 23:39:24 UTC

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@nprofile…07t3 @nprofile…amhl @nprofile…l4kz if void for whatever reason can't or won't host, i will, it can't be that much bandwidth and we have more than enough.
i just double checked and we can handle the highest mp3 stream numbers at 320kbit/s so yeah, lol.
however, Nick the Rat will have to apologize for banning me for harasssing robots. of course.

2026-07-29 21:46:54 UTC

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@nprofile…zfce $400,000 per annum to afford a house in southern california
or just get 4 families together, i guess

2026-07-29 21:43:16 UTC

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@nprofile…dlsx i have never really liked any of the star wars films/media. I liked Knights of the Old Republic, that's about it. The old movies are old and long and old, the 2000s ones are long and dumb, and the new ones, who cares about disney milking an IP they bought.
There's infinite expanded universe novels if someone gets a hankering.

2026-07-29 21:28:27 UTC

i thought if you had immunity you could not take the fifth as there was no self incrimination, then. at least this is the way they spin it on television. any lawyer-adjacent people?

2026-07-29 20:59:33 UTC

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@nprofile…amhl i was already on the fence, i'm not really sure why anymore, but if it isn't mimi and adam i forsee donations petering out as soon as the grief goes away.

2026-07-27 16:15:31 UTC

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@nprofile…6k9q @nprofile…p4t6 i guess that's just fear mongering, not real. however apparently 66% of the US lives within 100 air miles of a border, so that part is true.

2026-07-27 16:08:01 UTC

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@nprofile…6k9q @nprofile…p4t6 it's a majority of the population, i know that much. and i was also led to believe international airports counted, too. but that appears wrong according to this map.

2026-07-27 03:19:09 UTC

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@nprofile…w4wg @nprofile…v48s from Reseda, give it up for Raven!

2026-07-26 20:31:29 UTC

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@nprofile…p4t6 that's easy, just get a new phone, set it up, and wipe it at the border.
I didn't know "there was nothing illegal on my device so it was illegal to search it and legal for me to wipe it" was a thing, but here we are.
The interesting thing is what constitutes a "border" in the US.

2026-07-26 18:53:26 UTC

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@nprofile…p4t6 right, i understand all of that. but if some border agent asks for "my pin" and i give them a "pin" that wipes my phone, i don't see anything illegal about that.
Maybe they claim there's a legal obligation to preserve evidence or something, but there's no indictment or supposition of illegality prior to the request for a pin.

2026-07-26 18:34:53 UTC

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@nprofile…p4t6 secure in my papers and effects, if i want to destroy my papers, why is that illegal?

2026-07-26 18:20:18 UTC

why is it illegal to wipe my phone?

2026-07-24 18:22:37 UTC

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@nprofile…l5m0 @nprofile…t42d it looks very early 90s

2026-07-24 06:15:17 UTC

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@nprofile…07lq @nprofile…4p2j @nprofile…hjy6 eat fiber, kids

2026-07-22 03:45:08 UTC

what is microcheating? No, seriously, why are people like this?

2026-07-22 01:34:21 UTC

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@nprofile…2cv9 there's a difference between running it "run as administrator"
And literally logging into your computer as the administrator.
You may not have an administrator account, in which case, does anything show up in device manager when you plug it in?

2026-07-21 19:51:13 UTC

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@nprofile…eqfl august they can run someone in a midterm, before then the governor gets to pick the replacement. Something like that. Gov is Dem.

2026-07-21 18:28:42 UTC

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@nprofile…2cv9 you have to run zadig as an actual administrator, maybe
https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/3fx5t4/windows_10_and_rtl2832r820t_quick_and_frustration/
This was an issue on some machines when windows 10 came out

2026-07-20 19:16:57 UTC

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@nprofile…72y8 samegame? or a different one? i love samegame

2026-07-20 18:23:46 UTC

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@nprofile…zfce i'm starting to notice a pattern of who is attacking what

2026-07-20 17:35:31 UTC

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@nprofile…l4kz like this clown is mad because he looked up the owner and saw red?

2026-07-20 17:35:10 UTC

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@nprofile…l4kz i thought the CDC said Talyor Farms wasn't to blame? did they walk that back?

2026-07-17 23:50:53 UTC

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@nprofile…72y8 what do you use it for? also why asahi? is that because apple hardware?
I really liked that syncthing always worked but the UX was super painful on my phone.
Nextcloud really works. I stopped updating mine and it still works. i might update it someday.
I stopped using syncthing because the server it was hosted on didn't survive the datacenter migration (there were two in a year)

2026-07-17 22:20:40 UTC

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@nprofile…7ypj have you tried suing whoever is in charge of forestry in Canada?

2026-07-17 21:25:57 UTC

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@nprofile…jxja wait so "trust me i can [eat here]" doesn't work for olive garden but it works for voting?
This just tells me that pasta at olive garden has more importance than my vote.
and that's true, so, good work everyone.

2026-07-17 21:21:42 UTC

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@nprofile…r4e5 will CBN work

2026-07-17 05:44:22 UTC

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@nprofile…7sj9 you know in california there were drive through "Dairies" that sold beer as well. I got to louisiana and was like ... oh, mixed drinks in the drive through... smart.

2026-07-17 05:00:20 UTC

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@nprofile…7sj9 if i dig down 8 inches i get water. ain't nothing going underground here. Now geothermal, that's possible, but i don't have enough pipe yet.

2026-07-12 16:50:23 UTC

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@nprofile…w4wg have enough ammo to get more, is what i always say

2026-07-12 02:22:03 UTC

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@nprofile…w4wg so Dezis? right?

2026-07-10 15:54:30 UTC

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@nprofile…cz7d all of that is on message so i don't see what's shocking. I don't see how any of it would work, but if that's what the majority want, because the US is a democracy, right?

2026-07-09 19:58:33 UTC

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@nprofile…jlkz @nprofile…a8ww i had a single user instance with a lot of follows and it was *hundreds* of gigs. You sure you can't host it at home?

2026-07-08 16:25:33 UTC

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@nprofile…p49c i'm drinking a k-cup of their espresso coffee, not espresso. pretty good, yes. I like their espresso for making cold brew, too. Mostly because it's the only espresso i can get without going in to town...

2026-07-04 19:05:40 UTC

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@nprofile…cz7d https://nitter.poast.org/mazemoore/status/2073207271841050869

2026-07-04 17:59:21 UTC

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@nprofile…c2ja is it because of cellphones?

2026-07-04 17:39:47 UTC

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@nprofile…29y7 Venezuela quake last week was 631 times stronger than the Upland quake.
I don't think it matters what sort of "ground" you're on. cars were *jumping* around.

2026-07-04 02:33:45 UTC

I experienced a 5.9Mw and a 6.7Mw earthquake (moment magnitude wave). this is 160 times and 40 times less than the earthquake that hit Venezuela.
Poke yourself gently like you're getting your attention, with your finger tip. Now punch yourself with 34 pounds of force (1 vs 150 newtons). that's the difference between the smaller of the two and the Venezuela quake.
I punched my hand with ~150 newtons and it still hurts. i should have punched a pilla

2026-07-03 22:19:57 UTC

Low Dose (0.5 to 3 mg) Naloxone
stops cancer from growing
for multiple years.
doesn't cure or eliminate it, but stops it from spreading and getting worse.

2026-07-03 16:25:58 UTC

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@nprofile…j3y3 is that
worse
than the people
who do
this

2026-07-03 16:23:13 UTC

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@nprofile…kc93 you have no use for an additional device near you? you can make it a security camera, a weather dashboard near your door, a webserver (maybe, probably not with apple), e-reader with all your books on it.
My old phones are plugged in around my house and do things, one of them has an ir blaster so that sits on my desk so i can remote control things without finding the remote.
Another one sits on my decent small speaker set for music playback, that's it!
stuff like this?