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Descarte’s notion of consciousness => pain was a good try, bottom line is we cannot feel what animals fell unless we can be imbued with animal traits for experimentation. Which means becoming a candidate for a fun filled jaunt over at the The Island of Doctor Moreau or similar. Not on this bucket list. 😛
There is a bee that tolerates the poisoned nectar of the death camas, turns out so does the fly Earomyia melnickae, and the fly Eristalis nemorum. Amazing stuff, from the shots of the latter, looks like the flies are fairly social creatures too.
The 1% club offers a diverse bunch of questions – most of which are direct and unambiguous. If you’re not on top of the game and 30 seconds isn’t enough time for one’s own quixotic and neuronic call and fetch routines to play out, some questions can throw you, like this one. Thing is, I saw llama in there first, you know, because they are always on my mind.
1% club policy is one answer for each question, thus the ploy of informing the game host “look out, there are llamas” isn’t going to fly. 🙁Couple of showers over here which is nice. 🙂
Might be quite nice if the price is right, and if it can negotiate and traverse rough terrain. Can it operate off-grid for example? Mass production then may not be entirely in the spirit of the enterprise, in which case raising an issue for it may not elicit a response.
https://github.com/mirandali707/labububot/issues?q=is%3Aissue
Here’s another one from Sceptic:
Random quotes:What began as a promise of global connection and unlimited access to knowledge has become a hornet’s nest of hatred, distortion, and lies.
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Facebook made “friends” out of strangers; Google made urban labyrinths now navigable and dynamic. E-commerce opened up entire new vistas of opportunity. Micro-loans, made possible by digital technology, would lift developing nations of endemic poverty. The vast, inscrutable world of the pre-digital era had magically become legible. We could discern truth from falsehood, fact from distorted fiction. The panacea was just on the horizon, burnishing the sky with hope.
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The theory of new journalism built on a rejection of neutrality and objectivity would not be quietly embraced by journalists at legacy outlets, but trumpeted in the pages of news outlets across the country. It would become a cause célèbre of journalism in itself.
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The atomization of living life with heads bowed, eyes locked on the device of our hands, is total. The common culture defined by books and magazines is gone. And with it, the shared vocabulary of generally agreed upon fact – the moon landing was a triumph, safely administered vaccines keep populations healthy, biological reality exists, and a complex dynamic of politics and markets, not a shady cabal of uber-rich Jews, determines the course of nations – has been dispatchedLa Marzocco is mentioned a lot – they were the first with the horizontal boilers. Hefty prices these days though.
Someone suggested Accademia del Caffè Espresso looks like a nice place to discover when next in Italy.
There’s been some success reported with the treatment of fire ants up north, they’re on the march here so preparation is key.
How’s the weather your way? There was news last week of a big storm somewhere in Tornado Alley – a mini tornado once wreaked a small trail of havoc a kilometer south of here some years back, is all thank goodness. Starting to dry out a little now, not an uncommon effect due to the low mountain ranges to the west.Good idea, always used to put the open sleeve in the cover first, might be ok for 50 years or so – before the plastic starts to degrade. 😛
Getting quite a few 1A bug checks with parameter 3f, often happens in playing videos. Edge HW acceleration is turned off, still happens so could be chip/card – who knows? Performed all the usual checks, memory looks fine. CRC problem likely points more to HW though – time for pasture? The guy in town might be interested in hooking the disks + soundcard onto a new rig. In the meantime, getting back to the HP is the priority. 🙂
