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It's not the cold or the snow, because neither of those is that severe here, it's just the endless grey light. 3rd worst city in the USA for cloud cover. Worst is Buffalo and that's just over the lake to the North.
It's as gloomy as anything here. Heavy cloud cover with rain and very wet snow. I'm slowly getting absolutely sick of winter. Always happens in January and we're not even half way through.
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Drop Android and move to Apple.
That is the question.
Reminds me of this fallacy: which color do you like best? Blue or Black? As if there was not a million colors out there...
Seriously, though, how come these 2 dominate the entire phone market? As we say in French, "Choose between the Plague or Cholera".
Also: spending thousands of US$ for a (shitty) phone is way out of my financial possibilities. So it's probably going to be Android. Which the worst for privacy. Sigh.
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#RFC1984 Where vaccination schedules seem to think it needs to verify a person via their credit records. That's a heck of an intersection leading to the #virtualpanopticon
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RT @hypervisible
Seriously, WTF.
"...the tool the vaccine scheduling website is using verifies identities by using information that shows up in people’s Experian credit histories." https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3gq9j/nyc-vaccine-site-credit-history-experian…
https://twitter.com/hypervisible/status/1350150128024260609
I've missed a basic 4x4 utility vehicle. The new Land Rover defender costs about the same as an aircraft carrier and probably drives itself.
Russia is selling a civvy version o the UAZ and my God I wish they'd bring them here. Never happen because Americans only buy mall crawling thot yachts with heated leather seats and Apple carplay, and which cost the same as a house.
I learnt to drive in a 1978 Land Rover. It had a 4cyl naturally aspirated Diesel engine which made approximately 3hp (idk) but lots of torque. The thing was like a fucking tractor. I loved it. It topped out at about 50mph, or you started damaging your hearing. The air conditioning was a metal flap in the dash. it took about 3hrs to start on a cold morning. 😻
I crashed it into my mum's Mercedes and was prohibited from driving it ever again
I think this because a lot of domestic hot-topic trends are presented with zero context and hordes of people shitposting, to the extent it is very difficult to find out what it's actually about.
I swear Twitter manipulates its trend algortihm to stir up the most shit possible.
Man, Signal's really struggling, huh
U2 are releasing 4K versions of much of The Unforgettable Fire videos.
Jim
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Cut a new release of Sprite, my terminal pixel art program.
What's new? An 8x8 canvas option (start sprite with the -s flag).
https://github.com/ibara/sprite/releases/tag/sprite-1.8
I plan on animation support next.
Does anybody have dreams where these persistent locations exist which are real places you know, but they're actually very different but consistent from dream to dream? I do and it fascinates me.
I hadn't seen the full footage of Fernando Alonso's demo laps in his 2005 Renault at Bahrain late last year.
I note people plugging their ears, these cars were not hearing safe at at trackside distances, to put it mildly.
Also much, much lighter (around 200kg lighter) than today's cars. #F1 🇪🇸
Gone down this YT rabbit hole of finite element armor piercing simulations. There's loads of them. They're visually very pleasing for something so destructive.
Marvelous little documentary about the Soviet arctic exploration utility vehicles: It's good enough to excuse the murderous pronunciation.
The Dutch do seem to love them some restored German tanks. The Panther really is huge, I can't believe the Germans considered it a 'medium' tank. It's like a dinosaur.
Jim
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@sullybiker "We deeply regret the need to close one of our most valuable profit centres strictly due to a negative growth forecast for Q2. While necessary and setting an unpleasant precedent, we would like to reassure our other profit centres that this was an isolated incident.
We value 'competition' to our business & are working diligently on a franchise system to facilitate this.
With regards to the externalities of our policies, we are 'sorry' but aren't we all to share the blame?"
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