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Only two weeks after his shot, Shem has become almost immobile in a rather speedy downgrade to Stage 4 End-Stage Osteoarthritis. Difficulty with his eat/drink/motions now as well. Oh well, best to keep him comfortable in his basket for a while, looks like time for the needle in any case. 🙁
On a rather cheerier note, a few showers coming in for tomorrow which is nice. Weather behaving your way?

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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 dispatched

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So, the flood gates have opened!
https://www.war.gov/ufo
Tried the last one out of interest:
https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/western_us_event_slides_5.08.2026.pdf
No dates along with fairly broad event locations. No doubt someone will step up with content curation in mind. 🙂

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Jaffa, the young dog incurred a paralysis tick, so in hospital, doing well enough. 🙂 So much for the bank balance and invested time. 🙁
Shem, the old dog, has lost some appetite, very quiet and slow, but still walking well enough. Had a shot for pain, only lasts a month though.
National Clean Up day is today, as well as Mothers’ Day here as well, plenty for both the light and heavy hearted:

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Sorry, did read Workers and Resources as a module/DLC of Witcher – somehow didn’t catch on to the mismatch in the naming. 😛
Some content on NexusMods as well. :”)
Are you playing it through Proton and Steam Launcher? There’s Windowed borderless which apparently reduces FPS, else ALT + ENTER according to this.
Still use Acemovi, reported some bugs via email a couple of months ago with no response yet. 🙁
Over here Solitaire Events is in a time warp – could it be aliens?

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La 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.

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Does Witcher launch in its own resolution or do they provide a choice?
Yes, sounds like some streamers have addressed it e.g. YouTube, obviously other cdn’s don’t care, and the browsers + extensions don’t provide a “streaming” dialog of user options. The browser people are aware of it, somehow a new instance of a video launched from a full screen window in a tabbed group is not doable. 🙁
ShotCut is at OpenHub (cool site), but their code is at Github as is OpenShot, thanks. 🙂

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Ah, okay, good catch. Happy enough on 60 HZ here – the monitor here doesn’t support full HDR on Windows anyway – crock or not. 😛
All the desktop browser streaming apps in this country have the same problem as here:

Streaming series doesn’t stay in full screen after each episode.
byu/Night_Owl1990 inDisneyPlus

You set it to full screen – why on earth do they have to keep resetting it? 🙁
ClipChamp isn’t such a bad program, now it requires OneDrive, which among other things, helps in slowing down the Internet for everyone really.

Atrocious new update requires OneDrive
byu/Pekka_time inClipChamp

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Yes, I use metal teapot so horribly non-standard. Milk before though – definitely no sugar. And this is for Camellia Sinensis only, is there a standard for others e.g. green tea – Jasmine Rooibos etc?
Always wondered about elephants going “rogue” – all explained here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70880911-animal-vegetable-criminal

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Late in the night in Bavaria, a nacktschnecke was found to be the cause of all the doorbells ringing and disturbing the occupants.
Wonders never cease, as with snails and the way these flatworms affect the poor sods is breathtaking. Such a parasite of relative size hosted by our species would be hardly conceivable.
Beginning to dry out here as well, and the possibility of an El Nino bodes ill. 🙁
A Minimalist hanging leather chair is not unique, as it’s already done, maybe a hanging chair with coffee table attached? Swinging a low arc as a pendulum, with an attached timepiece and optional chiming bells configurable as off/softly.

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The comic book My Little Pony is available for loan at Wayback too, looks like a story in there for 99 pages.
Ther’s enough interest in Dog to keep you going until the end, no eye-popping antics from the dog to break any of the very few moments of monotony though. But then you know it’s all real despite an oft used tendency to employ CGI in such cases.
From Doctor Who to a fraud in Frauds is the lot for Jodie Whittaker in a heist action series with a Spanish tinge. Ony around a 50% rating for most critics, the draw card was the lead up into the big day, the success of which was hampered by some unpredictable (along with a few predictable) spanners in the works. 🙂

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Those silos are scary, even more so when the launchers become mobilised.
Wonderful, Banana slugs hail from Hoh, what graceful creatures!
The word “martyr” is being used out of context in the media it seems, so asked the question. These days many folks just ask AI without referring to a dictionary – or even having any idea of its purpose. 😛

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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. 🙂

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The little Redragon Kumara K552 has developed a red “F” key, backlighting on it works as with the others, but with a rouge intent. Do stay tuned for more colourful developments. 🙂
So back with the old W10 clunker with a rather unpleasant shock at boot of the date hard on 2055. Apart from the CMOS on the blink and the event logs all messed up, authentication out the window(s), and the mouse batteries flat – the Edge tabbed groups all rolled in one and explorer faltering, everything else is pretty much tickety boo! 🙂

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Johnny Carson had a show in the fifties:

He comes across as rather engaging, which compensates somewhat for the low/med humour output.

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How odd, given there’s no hibernation issues. Does the machine boot up automatically when shut down by the power manager. Or can the machine shutdown process circumvent the power manager at all? A recent Reddit thread:

Why is my screen flickering
byu/HorroSdennis inpop_os

Might be relevant: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/2955
Bugs and annoyances never cease do they? Consequently there’s another round with eM Client, Apple Accounts, Chrome split view workaround, and yep, another case of Microsoft deleted content.
🙁
Edit: Defender is now picking up version 1.85 of ProduKey.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/eed1eb6a9fd54dd474030ef6ad2436e3b831f35659ece39105381d4da2f75831
Hmmm, will upgrade it to compare.

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Wonderful, the bamboo grove a first on the bucket list:

The caves are spectacular, too, and as with the Recycle Nation spread, no updates in the article from the author as to current status. Let me guess though, terrific. 🙂
This one came through recently, a spider that uses a fungus-like appearance as camouflage. The fungus is surely going to take that adaptation of its manifestation as a compliment. 🙂

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On state FTA they replayed The Westall UFO Mystery. Any direct recollection of reports of the sighting are dim, it must have provided excellent publicity for one of our TV channels at the time.
Funny how the locals, especially the science teacher fared during the “hush up”, and the television archival footage going AWOL, with the Department of Defence continuing to remain mum on the issue.

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Parade Day itself might be a bit silly, for on that day one can parade without a theme, purpose or masthead explaining the exercise. Until they ban it of course, upon which there is now a purpose!

“Maxwell’s demon”, an omniscient being that can separate a gas into hot and cold by watching the speed of the individual molecules.

Now sure to be armèd with stretched, blurred, or even inverted arrows of time. 😛
This leads to some more interesting reading from When AI Thinks for Us:

Ethical questions begin to resemble technical problems with downloadable solutions

Looks like – no internet, no ethics. 😛
While looking down the barrel of a diesel shortage over here, some eyes turn to Restoration Agriculture. There are options for biodiesel with plenty of canola and safflower production – just a question of firing some old refineries. Costly though.

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Nothing too cheesy about Significant Other, a nicely scripted sci-fi flick with a few twists and turns too keep up the tension. Nice effects to embellish the low budget production, too.
A good number of movie classics are to be found in YouTube such as Free Primetime movies and Bigtime – Free Movies. One of them is Breakfast at Tiffany’s, a second viewing will refresh the rather fuzzy but pleasant memories of the first. 🙂

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