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In change of position, President #Trump now says he would wear a mask to protect against the spread of #COVID-19
“If I were in a tight situation with people I would, absolutely.”
A fellow Republican had recently lamented the way mask-wearing has been politicized.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53258792 [www bbc com]
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I’m going to have to look for a copy of this. Sunset Western Garden book. https://www.amazon.com/New-Western-Garden-Book-Gardening/dp/0376039205/
In the older version, they had climate zones that are more precise and better than the USDA’s climate zones.
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@geniusmusing I got the older version (1980s?) from a thrift store about 10-15 years ago. I don’t know if Sunset (“the magazine of Western living”) is still publishing, but they used to have some pretty great articles.
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Seattle PD clears out #CHAZ / #CHOP https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53254221 [www bbc com]
Now maybe they can get back to dealing with the core issues of institutionalized racism and police brutality.
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BBC: #CIA did not “verbally” tell President #Trump that #Russia #GRU paid bounties to #Taliban to kill US troops (report notes that CIA did not say whether a written report was delivered) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53258965 [www bbc com]
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#Australia to increase military budget by 40% over the next decade, acquire long-range missiles. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53244752 [www bbc com]
#China #USA #Pacific
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachinidae I think this is the fly that I saw yesterday.
I’m going to make “annoying buzzing of flies” one of the signs I watch when I’m tending to my garden.
I intensely dislike flies, but I’ll try to leave these caterpillar 🐛 killers alone.
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I've been using #Manyverse ( #SSB software client ) on #iOS and #Android a little over the past couple of months. The only way to 'meet' people and make contacts is to join a pub.
Copying a 'pub' invite and pasting it into the client is not easy. It took several tries on the Apple iPad, and was only possible by learning to trick the text selection function. On Android, there are some characters in the pub invite that can only be selected if you select all (grabs way more than what you want, leaving you to edit after pasting). I eventually resorted to copying the portion that selected easily, and manually entering the rest.
Each device / installation gets its own individual identity hash. In your profile, you can attach a friendly name, which is displayed to others instead of the full identity hash. Don't try restoring a hash from one device onto another, because the #Secure_Scuttlebutt network seems to deliver everything to the first device and leave the second one alone.
There seems to be a smallish set of users, many of whom are building SSB software, hosting pubs, and building similar #peer-to-peer ( #p2p ) networks.
I am nowhere near an expert with it, and I generally only open the client about once per week. It usually takes a while to update, so at first, the old posts from a week before are all you see.
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I'm not very conversational there. I pretty much just read others' posts. I rarely respond or post.
#SSB seems to be a "refrigerator magnet" type of place.
Let me explain that term. When #GD2 sends me some of her artwork, I stick one piece up on the fridge (using a magnet). That's "Look at what [my granddaughter] drew / colored / painted for me". So "refrigerator magnet" is hey, look at what I did.
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https://extension.umd.edu/hgic/topics/parasitoid-wasps-hymenoptera
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@mangeurdenuage Happy dog —> Happy human.
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89F / 32 C outside; 84F / 28C inside. Feeling really sleepy.
Caught one more tomato hornworm and one of another (smaller) caterpillar munching down on my garden. Both caught and fed to the ants.
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Looks like lightning across an area from southern #France (FR), northern #Italy (IT), #Slovenia (SI), #Croatia (HR), #Serbia (RS), plus #Switzerland (CH), #Germany (DE), Austria (AT).
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Is {MeteoAlarm}:{http://www.meteoalarm.eu/} usually this slow? I haven’t visited the site in a long time, but ISTR it took >5 minutes to load last time, just as it did today. #meteoalarm #weather
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Logging into the $EMPLOYER laptop to download updates, check e-mail, view some more course videos ( #LinkedIn / #LockedOut Learning courses on #PHP and #PowerShell ) ... Not sure what it is doing right now, but it is slower than a senior citizen with a walker.
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Oh, looks like it is doing an anti-virus / anti-malware scan. It may be pegged for quite a while.
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https://coloradosun.com/2020/06/30/police-protests-coronavirus-spread [coloradosun com]
#BLM protests caused non-protesters to stay inside, reducing overall #COVID-19 transmission. #2109-nCoV
/via @moon@shitposter.club
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"We saw the 'new' (2016) Independence Day and discovered there is a *third* Hemsworth." @clacke@libranet.de https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-175e-fb9a-5a56-9be107080758
This was the sequel, and not a remake, correct? Either way, I haven't seen it, but I did take #sonTwo to see the first one (I don't think we saw it *on* Independence Day, but it was close afterward.
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Also, I'm not aware of who Hemsworth is (too lazy to throw the name into a search engine).
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@clacke@libranet.de Ah, thanks. I've never seen any of those.
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Lockdown: #China locks down 400K people after #coronavirus spike in Hebei province near #Beijing. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53216047 #COVID-19 #2019-nCoV #SARS-CoV-2
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#Coronavirus: Fauci warns of 100K US cases per day https://www.bbc.co.uk/world-us-canada-53237824
Currently over 40K new #COVID-19 cases per day and increasing rapidly.
This isn’t the 2nd wave, either. This is a “flattened” and stretched out first wave of #2019-nCoV infections.
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#SoCal: #Riverside County’s ICUs are about 99% full https://www.pe.com/2020/06/29/98-7-of-riverside-county-icu-beds-are-full-and-just-5-are-left/ ... About a third of those patients are being treated for #COVID-19
Both #Inland_Empire counties (Riverside and #San_Bernardino) are now on a #CA state watchlist.
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"why does all hand sanitizer now smell of fucking everclear god it's fucking awful" -- @amic https://nulled.red/@amic/104436810316260246
I suspect that the old formulas used isopropyl alcohol, but the new formulas may use ethyl alcohol, the same ingredient that is in beer / wine / vodka. If you'll notice, nearly every package is some previously unknown brand. As I said, this is all 'suspicion and speculation', as I am not a hand sanitizer expert.
(Despite the dry skin on my hands from so much handwashing and sanitizing.)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun [wikipedia]
The Setun was a [trinary] computer developed in 1958 at Moscow State University.
I suppose this was the one my high school algebra teacher (who had worked for the US space program as a mathematician) told us about. He described it as way ahead of any of the binary computers that were being developed in the US at the time.
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