atx_aquarian 2 days ago • 100%
Might have just found out about another?
Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-planted-explosives-hezbollahs-taiwan-made-pagers-say-sources-2024-09-18/
atx_aquarian 2 days ago • 100%
blancat
atx_aquarian 2 days ago • 100%
If you're on a ".gov" site, it's safe to expect that it is a legit site of the US government.
atx_aquarian 5 days ago • 100%
And primaries are the "real" elections to get us there. General elections will continue to be major party A vs. major party B, with a "this is the most important election ever" backdrop, while primaries are where we have to try to get our important issues (like election reform) carried by generally electable candidates to get those issues injected into the parties.
And the amount of money spent on primaries confirms how influential they are capable of being.
atx_aquarian 6 days ago • 100%
Nice
atx_aquarian 1 week ago • 100%
Sun Tzu nods, wisely.
atx_aquarian 1 week ago • 97%
I'm under the impression there are more votes to lose by not appearing to stick with Israel than there are votes to lose by not attempting to intervene. At least, that's what the party appears to have assessed.
atx_aquarian 1 week ago • 100%
It's absolutely not enough time. Those are serial killers in the making.
atx_aquarian 1 week ago • 88%
Fuck is wrong with you?
atx_aquarian 1 week ago • 100%
I support this new saying. What's wrong with people literally fitting the original label? I think we generally appreciate those people, right?
atx_aquarian 2 weeks ago • 100%
Perfect new name for a "love blanket", lol.
atx_aquarian 2 weeks ago • 100%
atx_aquarian 2 weeks ago • 100%
Wikipedia gives a decently quick tour of chili's evolution.
I've been spouting about the "chili queens" of old San Antonio as the origin, but it sounds like they were more significant as an early analog to food trucks that drove chili across cultural gaps. The origin of that food sounds like it originated back, at least, to indigenous peoples and does sound like a staple of cowboys/vaqueros long before the Great Depression.
Then there's Cincinnati-style chili, "developed by Macedonian and Greek immigrants, deriving from their own culinary traditions", so that merging of another style under the same name might muddy the water when it comes to talking about the origin of spiced meat bits.
atx_aquarian 2 weeks ago • 100%
____________________________________________________ gun control ___________________.
💀
atx_aquarian 1 month ago • 100%
That's a big motivation for me, too, but I'd say it's about equally that I want archival of the best stuff for when rights holders pull their catalogs from the services I stream. I used to think that was mainly for the more obscure stuff, like local bands' early albums that I can barely find anymore, but recently I've noticed albums missing from main services (Tidal and Spotify, in my case) for bigger acts, too.
atx_aquarian 1 month ago • 100%
Cleveland clinic says says about coffee's laxative effect:
Researchers found that 29% of coffee drinkers report a desire to poop after drinking coffee. The feeling can come pretty quickly, too. (In as little as four minutes!)
And about lactose intolerance (same article):
An estimated 65% of people have some difficulty digesting lactose, which can lead to restroom runs. Lactose intolerance can cause diarrhea and other gastrointestinal (GI) issues within 30 minutes of consumption.
atx_aquarian 1 month ago • 100%
At least they didn't write "brand's", so there's that.
atx_aquarian 1 month ago • 100%
I'd had this over my front door for however long it took for them to build it. My pest control service said the size of the nest can affect how aggressively defensive they might respond to perceived intruders. I guess maybe I was just lucky we caught this one before it got any more developed.
atx_aquarian 1 month ago • 100%
I gnu y'all would find a way to pun it up.
atx_aquarian 1 month ago • 75%
It is ridiculous, but it's also exactly what is happening with loud combustion engines. Any sound coming from it is just higher-entropy (i.e., unused) energy being produced and promptly lost instead of contributing to power.
atx_aquarian 1 month ago • 100%
I thought, "What's wrong with 'fascist' in a politics forum?"
atx_aquarian 1 month ago • 100%
Data can be beautiful. I just found a similar but maybe clearer example from 2016 with a nice write-up about it.
Teaser from that article:
I think the common term for these is "cartogram".
atx_aquarian 1 month ago • 100%
atx_aquarian 1 month ago • 95%
For me, it's helpful to remember what the underlying reality is.
Skewed for population and colored on a red-blue scale to reflect vote mix.
When those votes are counted, the resulting electoral votes align to those votes, which results in maps like what you showed. When strategists tune their messages to target demographics they can divide (e.g., rural vs. urban), they're playing a game of inches and shades on this map of purple goo, and that's still the reality behind the ultimate electoral vote, even if it doesn't feel like it.
Keep voting, everyone!
edits: So much autocorrect.
atx_aquarian 1 month ago • 100%
- Granola and plain yogurt
- An Italian-ish sandwich (ham, salame, lettuce, tomato, cheese, giardiniera, oil+seasonings, and mayo, on wheat) with peperonicini-flavored kettle chips/crisps
- Pork carnitas "street" tacos with borracho black beans
atx_aquarian 1 month ago • 75%
It blows my mind that centuries-old concepts "let's not jump to hasty conclusions" and "people should be free to protest the government but not break the law" just got called "flaming progressive".
edit: Sorry, now I see what you're saying, that those were some points that pull people from across the aisle.
atx_aquarian 1 month ago • 100%
ah goddammit
atx_aquarian 2 months ago • 100%
Keep in mind, though, so far, we only know it to be a user experience issue.
“Incomplete paper and online applications will not be accepted,” Evans said in the statement. (Parker’s cancellation request would have lacked a driver’s license number.) The Secretary of State’s Office did not respond to individual questions about what testing the portal underwent before launch, the system’s security procedures, what happened to Parker’s cancellation request....
It doesn't matter what the browser says if the end user tampered with the running page to make it say something. It matters if the application might have been processed. They're claiming it wouldn't have been processed since it was incomplete (lacking ID number). We'd need to know how this was handled on the back end to know how risky it really was. It could still have been bad, but this isn't, in itself, proof of an actual problem.
edit: Just to be clear, I'm not saying it shouldn't be investigated. It really should be, as the article claims, an all-hands-on-deck moment. I'm just saying that the article makes the case that it should be investigated to ascertain what would have happened to the incomplete application submission to assess the exposure, not that it definitely was a vulnerability at all.
atx_aquarian 2 months ago • 100%
“Incomplete paper and online applications will not be accepted,” Evans said in the statement. (Parker’s [demonstration] cancellation request would have lacked a driver’s license number.) The Secretary of State’s Office did not respond to individual questions about what testing the portal underwent before launch, the system’s security procedures, what happened to Parker’s cancellation request....
Yeah, that tells us we just don't know if this was a problem after all. Evans's statement basically claims it wasn't a vulnerability. If that's correct, then the worst thing might be if someone's browser tripped on the validation JS and allowed them down a blind alley execution path. If the claim is correct and if the page's JS never shits the bed, then in that case the only negative outcome would be someone dicking with the in-browser source could lead themselves down the blind alley, in which case who cares. The only terrible outcome seems like it would be if the claim is incorrect--i.e. if an incomplete application submission would be processed, thus allowing exploit.
Short of an internal audit, there's no smoking gun here.
atx_aquarian 2 months ago • 100%
We're just going to have to also legally classify pregnant people as car seats so they can drive to work.
atx_aquarian 2 months ago • 100%
warships
Ooh, what we got?
The naval group, consisting of a training ship, patrol frigate and refueling tanker,
Oh, *cough* ha, ok.
The arrival of the vessels comes mere weeks after another squadron of Russian warships, including a powerful nuclear-powered submarine, visited Havana as part of planned military exercises last month.
Oh, well, ok, I guess.
atx_aquarian 2 months ago • 100%
¿Porqué no los dos?
atx_aquarian 2 months ago • 80%
enthusiastic but sparse applause
atx_aquarian 2 months ago • 100%
Seriously? Some steganography going on in here?
atx_aquarian 2 months ago • 100%
Going off on a tangent, but are vacancies keeping rent high or are they a result of overpriced rent not responding to market pressure? It seems like vacancies should mean low demand at the current price, which, in my little econ 101 view of the world, should push the price down.
atx_aquarian 2 months ago • 90%
Thanks for staying vigilant about propaganda sources on here. The fediverse is a better place thanks to SatansMaggotyCumFart. (No /s, I'm serious.)
atx_aquarian 2 months ago • 100%
Sounds like no, she wasn't.
Haliey Welch used to wake up at 3:30 a.m. every morning to go to work at a spring factory in Belfast, Tennessee.
...
Now, Welch is sleeping in.
...
She may be small town, but she's savvy. Welch is taking what started as embarrassment and is turning it into a career. She's assembled a team consisting of an attorney, a management company and a PR firm. That team is entertaining appearances with price tags north of $25,000 each, according to her manager, Jonnie Forster, owner of Los Angeles-based management firm The Penthouse.
"Right now, she can make more money holding up a can for five minutes than she made all last year," Forster said.
...
Once she saw the merchandise being made and sold online by other people, she thought, "If everyone else is making money off of it, I might as well, too."
She quit her job at the spring factory on June 27.
atx_aquarian 2 months ago • 100%
I haven't given up on being a stick in the mud keeping Austin a little different from other parts of Texas. The loudest idiots in this state rebuke Austin as something un-Texan, but I'm not going anywhere and am continuing to live and vote the way I do. I know it's a little easier for me to say this, not having to worry about kids, so I don't expect others to make the same choice, even if they feel the same way.
atx_aquarian 2 months ago • 100%
I feel like I've gone through some similar experiences and observations as you, as the church I grew up in was nothing like these politically indoctrination camps masquerading as churches. We didn't talk politics; we talked about using the guidance in that collection of texts to help each other in life's struggles and to avoid hurting each other. I think you did an excellent write-up about what that looks like, for outsiders who only see the made for TV "churches" and might think that's what it all is. I'm glad you took the time to share all that for the people who will read it.
There were definitely plenty of people, even in our quaint little congregation, who took it all literally, though. I've reflected on what I got out of that chapter in my life, and while I think it probably influenced me for the better, I still have some regrets sometimes and still feel like the people that stayed behind in that world are stuck in an echo chamber where they'll probably blissfully never think past whatever cherry-picked interpretation of it suits their world view. Sometimes I'm inclined to defend the actual message of Christianity from the political indoctrination camps, but my ambivalence usually makes me just leave it alone.
atx_aquarian 2 months ago • 100%
username checks
This faceted structure that I think is sound baffling always catches my eye when I go to concerts there. The angles catch the stage light in different ways. I wonder how many others stare at this stuff.
I've got a community of white-tail acei, mixed peacocks (mostly dragon/strawberry and o.b.), and yellow labs. The acei and labs are running families, and the peacocks seem to be trying. (I didn't heed the all-male recommendation. I hoped I could give a more natural environment.) These two blue dolphin cichlids tend to get pulled into the peacocks' aggressive bouts. One has developed and sustained unilateral pop-eye, coming and going, for what seems like at least a few months. I'm finally isolating those two and starting with a mild salt treatment in hopes that eye just needed peace, time, and water params to heal on its own. I've got them *both* isolated because I just intend to re-home them once Mr. Popeye is healthy. The other three families are populating the tank with their lookalikes, while these two might be getting singled out more and more. **tldr: I'm wondering if this looks like a possible pair I should try to keep together** or whether they might do just fine going to a community tank at my LFS. If there's a chance they've bonded, I'll try to re-home them directly to keep them together.
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Hi, Lemmians, I wanted to share my experience messing with an old Dobsonian-style scope. My parents had a Coulter Odyssey 10.1" covered by a trash bag since somewhere around the early 90s. We used to have pretty dark nights back then, but the light pollution crept up over the years, and it probably went a couple of decades without any use, so they sent it with me after a visit. It didn't take long before I was shopping for eyepieces and realizing the original focuser was a sore spot, as it was only a locking sliding tube--no knobs or gears for smooth, precise adjustment. I started thinking about what else I would change and, with their blessing, I decided to have a little fun changing it up. Not all my changes were improvements, but it was rewarding to tear into it and put it back together with some of my own taste applied. Full album: https://imgur.com/a/I9Mj1kT ![before](https://i.imgur.io/tuEmE2f_d.webp) ![after](https://i.imgur.io/5ZPyLpO_d.webp)