Shdwdrgn

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[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had assumed national treaties would have lawyers pouring over the details to ensure both parties got what they wanted, but it's good to see some of the details pointed out. Thanks for the update!

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Well this article is less than worthless. Where is the list of those IP addresses? I'd be happy to implement blocks on my servers with that information.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 21 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Well if the US is no longer involved in negotiations, then there is zero benefit being offered to Ukraine and thus there is zero reason Zelensky should even consider signing that mineral deal.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Assume you meant 3 1/2" floppies? Seems like you're confusing these with the 5 1/4" size.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Funny how Trump keeps claiming rising economies are always his doing, despite who is president, but failing economies are someone else's fault even when he is the president who caused it.

And of course the great economies under other presidents are always "terrible" while the downward-spiraling economies under his own leadership are always "the best in the world". The man simply has no concept of reality.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Haha exactly! Or maybe Stephen Miller just coordinated the tariffs with a known event.

Back to reality though... It doesn't look like there is even an estimate yet of what part of the globe it will hit? I'm also curious why they say there's only a "chance" of it surviving reentry, since the atmosphere of Venus is a lot harsher than our own? Oh well, maybe it'll hit Mar-a-Lago while Trump is there.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What an interesting coincidence... That just happens to be the same days that store shelves are predicted to start running dry from Trump's tariffs.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Why only "most" of the original block characters? There were only 128 characters to begin with, so why did the creator stop?

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Haha ok, you got me there!

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Where are these lower costs that Trump keeps hallucinating?

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 27 points 2 months ago

Since I'm 57 and have paid some attention to how I've changed over the years, perhaps I can add a little insight? Quite frankly, you get tired. I've been on the scene since the home computer revolution took off and I've seen so many things come and go. It's not that we can't learn new forms of communication, etc., but rather that after awhile you start asking yourself why bother when the "next big thing" is going to be another forgotten memory in 5-10 years. It's not you who are being criticized for wasting items, it's all the people like you over the years who have collectively wasted so much. Our brains remember all those things and they add up, causing us to fixate on the wrong info (although this last bit isn't really something that comes with age).

Last night I re-watched The Fifth Element. Afterwards I was thinking about when it first came out in 1997. My god, that's 28 years ago. I remember things from the 90's. I remember things from the 80's and from the 70's. I remember that after 9/11 the 00's were boring as fuck. But when you put all of that together, and start thinking about how much you've experience... holy hell that's quite a lot to face squarely. And if I tell you something inappropriate about a co-worker... what? HR will pull me away from the monotony and have a talk with me? Experience tells us what we can get away with, and sometimes it's fun just to see what people's reactions are.

So yeah, I've observed these things, but I refuse to be pulled down into misery and monotony. Keep yourself busy doing things that you enjoy. Never be afraid to go down the rabbit hole and learn crazy new things. I'm working on assembling a couple swords from parts, looking into bluing some steel pieces I made. And just this week I learned about "rust bluing" which is a crazy concept but is easy to do at home. I learned something new and fun, and I refuse to ever stop learning. I may not care about Instagram or Facebook, but I installed Signal on my phone and I love being able to create my own 3D models and printing them out.

The future is always amazing. Age doesn't make us care less about it, it just makes us more choosy in what parts are worth investing in. If you don't want to become a listless old geezer, then don't... all you need to do is keep enjoying the wonders of the world.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 52 points 2 months ago

And Trump is probably dumb enough to believe that the characters "MS13" which were added to the photo are actually part of his tattoo.

As discussed elsewhere, the Proud Boys are cowards who hide their affiliation in symbology, while members of MS13 have always had direct and unmistakable tattoos. Since Trump is so deeply ingrained with the Proud Boys, it is believed they are the ones who offered up this laughable symbolic meaning of the tattoos with the theory that since they hide who they are, everyone else must do this also.

If you want to pretend like there's any hidden symbology to the tattoos, why try so hard to make something that isn't there? Let's just stick with the first letter of each tat: MSCS, which could also stand for Master of Science in Computer Science -- an aspiring goal for someone who is trying to make a better life for his family. The point is, anybody can make shit up out of nothing and come up with something that "verifies" the answer you wanted, but that interpretation is still meaningless.

 

Currently the list of communities in the sidebar are sorted alphabetically, however the ones beginning with lower-case letters are sorted to the bottom of the list. Would it be possible to get that fixed so that the list is sorted without being case-sensitive? I realize it's a pretty minor thing in the broad scope of everything that's currently happening with Lemmy but I thought I would ask.

 

I've been posting this on reddit, so forgive me if you've already read about it...

I have long had an interest in trying to grow my own mushrooms, but recently started doing a lot of reading to learn the process. I had intended to start out growing a couple types of oysters on cut straw, but while I was collecting supplies and waited for spawn to arrive I ran across an article talking about cutting up clean cardboard, boiling it to sterilize, and seeding it with chopped mushroom stems. I figured this would be a great way to practice and see how much contamination I would get.

Besides the oysters, I wanted to also try cremini/button mushrooms. One of the local grocery stores has them in a bulk bin which appears to not be processed, and it allowed me to pick out some that looked like they came straight from the ground with obvious signs on mycelium still on the base. Great! So I set everything up, drilled some air holes in a small food container, added the cardboard and stems, and put it away in the closet. And then a couple days later I read that creminis actually want a rich mixture of manure and/or grain to grow on. Well crap...

The point was still to watch for contamination though, so I let it continue. A week passed without contamination and I was happy that it appeared I had cleaned things pretty well (and we're talking a very hasty setup on my kitchen countertop in open air). On Sunday, I spotted some white fuzz. Oh boy, this could be it, the experiment is almost over. But then I checked on Monday... and it's not just fuzz, I have actual STRANDS growing across the cardboard. Could it be?!?

Well, today it's still looking pretty promising, and I'm seeing more coming out from various points in the cardboard. It's hard to get a good look at everything because of the humidity, but today is day 12 since I set up the container and there are no greens, blues, or reds anywhere. I am hopeful, although frankly amazed at what seems to be happening.

In the meantime my oyster spawn arrived but it was less than expected so I have picked up some quart jars and am waiting to receive some rye grain. I have blue and pink oyster spawn which I will split between two jars each to expand before trying to move it to grow bags with straw. It will take a little longer than planned but I'll get there. And I'm waiting for my container to be fully colonized with the unexpected spawn (or to see a definite sign that it is NOT mycelium) and then I'll get that transferred to a grain jar as well.

However it goes, I'm having fun!

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