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Septimaeus

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  • Anyone else got this?

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  • Nah. Perceived injustice can motivate a variety of feelings and behaviors. Not all of them helpful. Not all of them good (B. Pine, C. White, M. Eisenhardt, et al).

  • This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE.

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  • Misunderstood, didn’t realize you meant color

    Heat stamping might be quickest alternative. Should be rugged and aid low-vision use.

    Full brass letterpress type sets and die can be pricy, but the cheap leather iron kits at craft shops commonly include small metal alphanumeric types that could be set (clamped) and affixed to your stamp (burning/soldering iron or pliers + hot plate/stove).

  • Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

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  • But is LTO next? Is AI coming for my tapes??

  • Horses can smell fear in humans, researchers say

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  • Haha

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  • Ra ra, Rasputin. Ra ra.

  • How'd you argue against a person who says rich people are needed to provide jobs to the poor?

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  • Ask if by rich people they mean funding?

    If no: ask them to discuss functions uniquely fulfilled by rich people in the allocation of funding. They will likely need time to reflect, so plan to resume later, but the best answer is expediency/dispatch via unitary agency, and it’s easy to demonstrate why this advantage (A) is outweighed by numerous liabilities via human fallibility and (B) isn’t actually unique.

    If yes: they have already conceded, but you might then shift to the question: must there be people who are poor?

    That is a meatier conversation, since it challenges their assumption that people require imminent threat of destitution to motivate productivity. You can brute force this argument via strong scientific consensus, but for most you need only rely on their belief in human dignity. Just be aware that the most difficult branches of this conversational pathway are exceptions they might have carved out: groups for whom they hesitate to ascribe human dignity. But the revelation of such bigotry is important for their own personal reflection.

    GL

  • British soldiers to get new AI radios, headsets and tablets

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  • Finally, the era of vibe command has arrived. WCGW?

  • Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade

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  • And yet, as with any disease, outlook depends on many factors. The number of cells in the immune system that recognize an infection, for example, can radically alter its progression.

    A sudden widespread immune response may be all that can save the organism following an initial exposure, but often a more targeted, adaptive, and coordinated immune response is possible later. It mostly depends on how much of the body recognizes the infection and does its part to block its spread.

    This judge had a particularly crucial part and played it to a Th.

    It takes a hell of a lot more courage to hold the line with your comrades, like this judge did by laying the groundwork needed for their future victory, than it does to

    1. abandon them because “waving signs and impotent chanting never made a difference,”
    2. take long looks in your mirror to “ask yourself how far you’re willing to go” because “no one is going to save you,”
    3. tell all the comrades currently fighting for your rights that they “should leave” if they’re not willing to be more “outwardly aggressive,” or
    4. otherwise pose for all the other terrified edge lords on here who dismiss activists, predict defeat, lionize fascists, and imply that they’re prepping to do what’s actually necessary to “fix this.”

  • Remember to turn off your rule before twelve/thirty-one/ninety-nine

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  • Please insert diskette 3 of 8 and press any key to continue.

  • How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?

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  • Oh you mean the two-syllable thing. That was more for the joke lol

    I think it works as a rule of thumb: if message is simple enough that context makes it obvious, two blinks will suffice. But no, it wouldn’t be useful as an actual lexical cypher.

  • bi rule

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  • Not erasure; it’s cool. At least, it’s not a deliberate act of self-erasure IME.

    Here’s a few of the many reasons bi people sometimes call themselves “gay:”

    1. Simplicity: lots of people lack a mentally distinct category for bi and think of it as a subset of gay, so if you’re bi you learn to sometimes lean into it just to save time.
    2. The bi-cycle: it’s not unusual for bi folk to experience predominantly same-sex attraction for a while. So they might identify more often as gay for that time, especially if they’re in a same sex relationship.
    3. Brand recognition: bi doesn’t have the history that gay does in public discourse. We were usually just called gay. I’ve never heard a pundit talk about “the bi agenda” on daytime television, for example. So gay is sometimes preferred when we’re connecting with that lived experience.

    Hope that helps ;)

  • How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?

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  • LOL. Doesn’t that mean it’s completely ambiguous?

    Well granted, it’s high-context communication. But I’m willing to bet you’d know what I meant if you were trying to merge and I double-tapped lights.

    Three would make me wonder if it’s an ongoing flashing light.

    Yeah IME three is less general, usually reserved for a problem or need for caution, like if someone is driving at night with all their lights out or a visible chassis/drivetrain issue, or there’s a cop/wreck ahead.

  • Church fresco resembling Italian PM has face scrubbed out

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  • modern piece of work, not historical

    That I think was my central bias reading this: just being accustomed to considering hagiographical art in a historical context where erasure is usually frowned upon. I forget that in many places we’re still building and renovating cathedrals, and in Italy perhaps moreso.

  • How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?

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  • I’d certainly interpret it that way if it fit.

    The only issue I’d see with that convention is that in many scenarios in which you’d use it — other driver makes room for you to merge, brakes early to let you turn left, and so forth — you (should) already have half of the hazard lights actively repeating, which could muddle the message. But otherwise I like it.

    Another random convention I learned early on was rapid triple-tap beams (i.e., like a strobe) = “speed trap ahead”

  • How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?

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  • Rock on. Were there any instances of local parlance you found peculiar or surprising?

  • How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?

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  • (Edit: real answer) For most acknowledgements, I double-tap a light — beams, brakes, or hazards depending on current lighting conditions and relative position of other driver — because most things I would say to them are two beats long:

    • “Thank you”
    • ”Sorry”
    • “My bad”
    • ”Go on”
    • ”Nice drift”
    • ”You drunk?”

  • Church fresco resembling Italian PM has face scrubbed out

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  • My expectations about this story, given the headline, were all hilariously wrong.

    First, it was not a random parishioner, but the original, now 83-year-old artist.

    Next, it was not vandalism. The Vatican demanded the face be scrubbed off the fresco (edit: swype thought I meant the drink).

    Next, it was not just an angry local rabble’s mistaken identity. The artist admitted it was her face.

    Finally, the politician is still in office, and actually commented on it, joke-flirt reciprocating that she was no angel.

  • Teenage boys explain how they rescued five stranded adults on a mountain

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  • How sure are you that you’re not a 1930s British funny paper villain, Nigel?

  • Fascist paramilitary invaders using some sort of long range launch device (possibly a mortar) for chemical munitions at protests (Portland, OR - 1/31/26)

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