evan-robinson.bsky.social
Retired software guy (games, EA, Adobe), photographer, TSR from the olden days, tinkerer with electronics.
Extremely displeased with the world around me these days.
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I meant for me
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Pepsi Zero, but I take your point
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You’ve convinced me to try lifting.
Thanks.
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Dieting _doesn’t_ work. Study after study shows less than 10% of dieters “succeed”. I am certain we will eventually find a genetic marker for those people. In the meantime, they promote dieting because it allows them to put the failure on the individual instead of the “treatment”.
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I believe that should be spelled “skweet” as a portmanteau of sky and tweet.
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Acapulco is fun
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We re-watch Ted so often we made a rule that we can only do it once in a calendar month.
It’s fucking soothing.
#WeAreRichmond
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I feel your pain.
When it works, it’s awesome. When it doesn’t, ouch.
I have spent hours fixing things I broke without knowing how.
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bsky.app/profile/link...
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Check out @linker3000.com
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That’s because the “character” abstraction is leaky. What you meant was that you were interested in whether the message consisted of a single symbol or glyph, maybe in a designated range.
“character” is multiply overloaded in computing and thus a bad choice for an abstraction.
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No
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There is also no indication that Liberty Illuminating the World was given directly to Grover Cleveland as a personal gift.
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I feel seen
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Rocket City Trash Panda FTW
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Possibly. Early reports are often wrong. Or perhaps they were videoing for TikTok and hung around to get the reaction when the door opened. Or the guy was awake.
There are many possibilities and what becomes the accepted media story may or may not be what is brought out in court under oath.
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Stories in the news appear to report that the “kids” were shot while fleeing, which makes this not OK, if true.
There are lots of other reasons it’s not OK, not the least of which is “WTF did you think you were doing playing ding dong ditch at 3am?” But that’s not a reason to get shot.
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“How did America go fascist?”
“Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.”
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Another embarrassing accomplishment by the Trump Regime.
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“And across his chest was written in cruel runes: Villanova”
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Sanctions including charging members of the IDF from soldiers to commanders and their civilian leadership with war crimes. Anywhere in the world.
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As a new resident of Canada I have already limited my purchases from the US for Dolt45’s asinine comments about a 51st state and military action against my adopted nation.
I sorrow for this event.
I hope for a better future when I can return to patronizing Adafruit with a clear conscience.
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I'm searching for the study in the first article and will write more if I can find it.
This is a difficult policy issue to evaluate without knowing the size of the problem.
Calls to lock down more events in Vancouver with barriers have already begun. I don't think that's a great answer.
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There is no consensus definition of "severe mental illness" so the question is almost meaningless. Some proposals would include anyone who's taken an antidepressant for more than two years, some an inability to "function in normal social and vocational roles" or "lifelong disabling".
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In any year, about 20% of Canadians "met the diagnostic criteria for a mood, anxiety, or substance use disorder"
That begs the question of how many are "severe mental illness" and what is the overlap with "substance-use disorder"?
How big is the population that absolutely _need_ to be treated?
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