streamlass.bsky.social
Geologist, percussionist, general hammer-wielding troublemaker; hydrologic modeler.
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Walking SW Wisconsin stereotype, flatlanded.
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Were any of those over bridges? I have heard anecdotes of not marching in step so as to not hit the resonant frequency of the bridge...but not sure how true that is.
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So that nobody else has to click: Gov. Dayton appointed him to the Workforce Development Board, and Walz reappointed him in 2019. Presumably (though of course there's no explanation here) because he's a business owner. His stint would've been up in 2023.
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Well, occasionally the former (if someone else lived inside the limits--I was a farm kid) but no, usually called it a "town." It's the "small" that's subjective
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One of the tiny villages near where I grew up has a Bearcat. I suppose those horse apples on the road are IEDs...
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"Small town" population size also varies wildly depending on who you ask. I had grad school classmates who insisted their 10k hometowns were "small"; my hometown is 500 INDIVIDUALS, so I disagreed.
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"City" has a formal definition that varies by state, if not by county.
Otherwise they're just unincorporated "towns."
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We do in fact only call settlements WITH a formal governance of their own "villages"! The "town" may or may not include the unincorporated area around that village; sometimes it's called a townSHIP to distinguish that from a settlement "town" (also what they're called on plat maps).
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I'm thinking that means the lemur is smarter than the woman, and knew who was at fault here!
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I saw one quoting 1 Samuel 8:11-18! (also with an x-ed out crown, so people would be clear where they stood without looking that up to see it's God getting mad the people want a king)
For the Feegles I think you'd need to be able to draw (or print out) one, to make the reference clear.
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Argh. Why are some parents LIKE that?
"My kid is nervous. SURELY shoving the thing they're nervous about RIGHT into the place they keep their EYEBALLS will make them like it, and not initiate an instinctive fear response! WHY ARE YOU CRYING YOU DAMN KID?!"
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Could get him a job with bird banders!
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...I have first-cousins once-removed something like 60 years older than me, e.g. the age of my maternal grandparents.
(We work out the removals and the degree of cousinhood, then give up & just say "cousin" most of the time. 2nds-2x removed are often my age.)
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My dad's paternal line had 2 generations where there were 2 daughters born, then 2 sons. And given the time period the daughters married in their early 20s and the sons later (the joke: takes that long to find someone to put up with 'em). So we both have first cousins 10-20 years older than us, and
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Yeah, toddlers tend to opt to lie on the ground instead when they're upset. ;)
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Look, he thought a Monty Python pastiche was the HEIGHT of humor at 14.
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Quite melodious, even.
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(Real name: Kenneth Blagern. Went through a fantasy-goth phase in his teens, which is now coming back to haunt him in the form of his awful fanfiction coming to life...)
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I'm using observations in my data that date back to the 1920s. There are permanently recorded observations way back under permanent publications
I thought we could trust @inaturalist.bsky.social to be the new version of that. Am I just naive?
This data is too important to abandon for Google money
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He's not part of that "constitutional [yeah-fucking-right] sheriff" movement shit, is he? Or did he steal that off a kid's Toy Story costume?
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Can people with neurological disorders regarding "seeing" faces a la Oliver Sacks do gestalt ID effrctively?
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That seems less a job for "generative" "AI" and more for "machine learning" (deductive). The little tags of "why" might maybe be generate-able, but also probably better generated by *actual experts* after ML has found common mis-IDs.
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Nor from spreading it to others.
My dad was fully vaxxed & boosted, as was I, and he still gave me a covid "parting gift" when I went to help Mom after surgery in 2023. 2 weeks of "OK, I have managed to summon the energy to order pizza" and if that's WITH vax--I don't want to think about without.
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Hailey, ID surprises me. Right next to Sun Valley, summer home of R-voting Californians who want to live somewhere they don't have to pay taxes...!
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Basically! I wonder if English took "turn" from Latin or not...
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These are the same people whose entire religion consists of "I'm 'forgiven' so I never have to apologize or do better unless my pastor tells me to" so...
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Derecho = straight line wind
Tornado = turning wind
Or at least that's how I was taught to think of it. Yay, we get them both here in the Midwest...
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If the crucibles for those are anything like total carbon by combustion--I'm surprised it's your shoulders more than your eyes & hands! TINY.
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Alas, half of our IT gets mad at me for my not-even-weird tech needs ("working computer with enough RAM to run the program" is apparently too much to ask of one of them if it's not configured PRECISELY the way HE thinks it should be [such that it won't actually work])
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Tangentially related, I was talking to one of your chem colleagues at the farmer's market about having to prep samples. "Don't you have a tech to do that?"
"Alas: I AM the tech* that does that!"
*both technician and technology, since they've not invented anything ELSE to do it!
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Meanwhile I currently live in a city of over 50k and I'm still dubious it should count as a "city." It only takes 15 minutes to get across town fer cryin' out loud! We have zero buildings taller than six stories!
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I know people from my hometown of 500 who "couldn't ever live" in the nearest "city"--which is just above that 5000 cutoff.
"But they have so much more crime!"
1) Less than 10x more than here...
2) Ours is under-reported because you don't want the neighbors mad you got their asshat son in trouble
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The little twerps from gym class, all grown up. Or, rather, having FAILED to grow the fuck up at any point in the last 2-7 decades.
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"Chronicle" might work better.
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But the ORIGINAL plot was going to end with "human stops pointless fight by scruffing obnoxious creature & telling it to knock it off" with rather less swearing than I would now use in a similar situation. Hence the size difference being relevant.
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More accurately they were housecat-sized & basically a talking version of my brother's parade of barn cats he'd trained to ride on his shoulder.
...so basically "AR walks through the woods with her cat, but the cat can talk." It was silly.