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Reading "Bitcoin & Black America", I'm not even halfway through, but I can see the expression of some ideas I already had. Some things the author says are still not accepted yet, but I'm leaning toward many of his ideas.
The two younger boys will receive a copy soon.
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Using two nails and some twine to keep a fan from falling off of a windowsill.
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Actually, I don't really trust the phone alerts. Since I carry the $EMPLOYER phone in addition to my own, I've noticed that sometimes one carrier will alert, while the other one is delayed up to 30 minutes or does not alert at all.
Unless your job requires you to carry a 2nd phone, you're best off buying a weather radio (with the #NOAA county-by-county alert system). It can give alerts to East Baton Rouge Parish without unnecessarily alerting Livingston Parish next door.
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#NOAA / #NWS weather alert: severe #t-storm warning for mid-Missouri for: Callaway County in central #Missouri until 22:15 CDT. At 21:32, a severe thunderstorm was located near Auxvasse, moving SE at 25MPH. 60MPH winds, nickel size hail.
Radar indicated.
Expect damage to roofs, siding, trees. Storm will be near Williamsburg around 21:50 CDT. Includes #I-70 between exits 144 and 161.
Alert contains the following verbiage: "Remain alert for a possible tornado! Tornadoes can develop quickly from severe thunderstorms. If you spot a tornado go at once into the basement or small central room in a sturdy structure."
Fulton is not mentioned, but they are in the warning area. It looks like Columbia is just to the W of the line of storms. As always, if you are in the area, listen to NOAA weather radio alerts or the emergency alerts on your phone.
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Looked at possibly installing "Crystal":{https://crystal-lang.org/} on the #Win10 laptop, but then I saw they recommend installing it through WSL.
They really should make a Windows-native installer if they want it to run on Windows. BONUS: make it installable / updatable through NuGet & Chocolatey.
#Crystal is sort of like a compiled version of #Ruby.
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Fun fact: other than fried shrimp at Red Lobster and a crawfish pasta dish at Walk-Ons (Baton Rouge, #LA; right across from LSU's stadium), I have never eaten shellfish.
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!SoCal https://gnusocial.no/notice/2761
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#sonTwo took his family to a zoo today. #GS3 is exhausted after seeing zebras and giraffes. #naptime
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Happy Juneteenth ... and happy birthday Rye.
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Happy 21st to Colby (a few days ago).
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BTW, I heard from Colby recently. He's doing much better. A combination of different meds, a promotion at work, and not being on any kind of social sites anymore seems to be working for him.
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David Sneed, "Can Diablo Canyon's desal plant help ease SLO County's water crisis?" (2015) https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article39536280.html
Perhaps California should recommision Diablo Canyon Power Plant. Not just that this nuclear power plant would help stabilize the base load of the Californian grid. DCPP only used water from the Pacific Ocean which it desalinated in its own desal plant. This desal plant was licensed to produce 1.5 million gallons a day of which during operation it only used 675,000 gallons. The surplus back then and now could be transported to the utilities or agriculture.
cc @lnxw48a1
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It seems weird to have Las Vegas in the NHL playoffs. A place where it feels like the temperature reaches 400F/204C.
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Checking post propagation to the other instance.
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!SoCal weather forecast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7NrZMgG5x4 for June 16-20. #heat_wave #NOAA / #NWS
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https://theoutline.com/post/2571/no-one-makes-a-living-on-patreon [theoutline com]
> Just 2% earn more than federal minimum wage through the site
Sacred bovine! I guess that’s okay as a secondary funding source, but not as “pay me enough to live on, so I can do [task]”.
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#Microsoft subsidiary evades taxes on $300B of profits https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-subsidiary-used-bermuda-dodge-taxes-315-billion-profit [www windowscentral com]
#MSFT … that’s rather tone-deaf; the world is asking corporations to pay their fair share of the tax burden and you’re doing this?
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@guizzy Tell her to take her time and do what is best for her.
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@simsa03 RE: https://gnusocial.no/notic/2319 … A secret backup instance with an older database would explain a lot. Unfortunately, I saw that @stigatle merely started the wrong VM.
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Someone was discussing a conspiracy theory about COVID-19 and the vaccinations 💉 being part of a conspiracy to reduce world population … including the governments of major nations, the pharma industry, and various UN components.
Naturally, it attracted people who post the N-word and believe “the Jews” are operating behind the scenes controlling everything to try to extinctify the white race.
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Basically, as soon as I see someone posting anti-Jewish stuff, I either discount everything the person says or I put them in the dangerous lunatic category along with the guy who started blaming his nation’s problems on the Jews.
(He even wrote a book about it. I’ve never read “Mein Kampf”, but I’ve never read Marx’s books either. I do intend to read both at some point.)
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One thing this heat reminds me of is that in the days before air conditioning, people knew enough to build their homes in the shade of deciduous trees, so they’d give shade in the Summer, but allow solar heating in the Winter.
If the temperature is 100F without shade, it could be 80-85F with shade, which is the difference between borderline uncomfortable and who-the-heck-chose-to-live-here.
These days, insurance companies forbid this because of the chance that an unmaintained tree will drop branches through your roof. Maybe we need to take that decision out of their hands. (There’s also the chance that a large regional fire will spread to the tree and from the tree to the house, but in all honesty, if you’re that close to a fire, there’s a good chance your home will go anyway. Have a cleared area around your property and just have a few trees near the house or something.)
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@geniusmusing The landlord replaced the roof here with a light-colored roof in early 2020, right before the lockdowns started. Now I’m wondering what indoor temperatures would have been like with the older, darker roof. It is 92F in my room right now.
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The grapevine looks like it is going to produce 4-6 small bunches of green seedless grapes. I should really try to get it a couple of companions after the heat wave ends. Both red and purple grapes 🍇 would be welcome accompaniments.
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