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There ought to be a Latin letter with the same meaning as a middle-finger for brevity. Emoji are just too inconvenient.
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airhead969··on Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station
Space might not be warm enough for most STFs. Perhaps a graphene / aerogel composite in a gold foil winter holiday gift basket wrap.
airhead969··on Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station
The 2nd Bank of the Least Antilles

Routing 7381947295

Account 82848917433728

Passphrase: Cash cow

Privacy is so overrated.

airhead969··on Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station
Hey, you're cheating with unlimited fuel.
airhead969··on Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station
Space users are trashier than my immature neighbors having a pool party. I don't get why space should be treated any differently than land in the middle of nowhere. Tragedy of the Commons is what happens when people just toss their Big Mac wrappers and expended second stages out the window.
airhead969··on Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station
Reduce, Reuse, Deorbit

(3R's was a campaign manufactured by the plastics industry to shift environmental blame onto individuals rather than what industry could've done, such as: waste stream capture, lifecycle management, material minimization, minimum recycled content, and so on.)

airhead969··on Primates change their 'accent' to avoid conflict
Maybe we should form a band and call it: The Fake British Accents ?

My paternal grandmother was from Cape Cod; lived in Britain, Germany, and the Philippines; and ended-up in San Jose, CA with a New Englander-British (no pun intended) accent. My dad had somewhat of a latent British accent from eating gristle and corporal punishment at an all-boys English boarding school.

Two Norwegian brothers: one was my roommate, had lived in the US for 10 years, and always spoke English like he was drunk and still working on the language; the other had never been to the States before but sounded like he lived in the US for 90% of his life. I'm wondering if it's language speaking/interpretation plasticity skill are more innate to the individual. (I'm probably more like the first brother and sound like a rube in every language.)

airhead969··on Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
It's funny how the rich get roughly twice the welfare that people on welfare get... even though they're the ones who really don't need it.

And now Texas is about to try to criminalize homelessness yet again, which I thought was settled in the 9th Circuit multiple times. Maybe it's the old "let's see what horribly-insensitive laws we can pass to rile up that other side but will probably be struck-down by the courts."

Robert Martin et al. v. City of Boise

Desertrain v. City of Los Angeles

airhead969··on Overkill objects for everyday life
So does Woz.

Even if either one or both were also a principle engineer for Intel, that'd still be a spurious, appeal-to-authority because they weren't a modern enterprise sysadmin, IT manager, or equivalent with visibility into what works and what doesn't in the real-world at scale.

Lionization in one or two domains for a limited time doesn't breed domain expertise across other areas for longer times. For anyone to be called, or call themselves, a polymath within the past 100 years is absolutely absurd. There are too many bifurcating domains splitting and branching too quickly for anyone of integrity to claim to "master" and stay in mastery of them.

I don't really care who they are: if they don't have sufficiently-current experience with enterprise-class gear, then random people have absolutely no place making claims about UPSes with supposed endorsements from dead dudes.

airhead969··on Overkill objects for everyday life
That's a completely different model for 200V+ operation.

As a home-gamer, this one works for me. :'D

airhead969··on Overkill objects for everyday life
We're clearly not talking about the same class of printer. I was talking about flagship, departmental printers that typically do not sit on a table but have their own wheels and 3+ paper trays. I also avoid rebadged brands because they are less likely to have the breadth of repair parts that top-tier enterprise printers do (advice from the printer repair guy).

Sure, you can get smaller enterprise laser printers of many brands for cheap, but the smaller you go, the less repairable they are and the more expensive they are to operate.

Some of the cartridges I use go to multiple tens of thousands of pages. I never have had a paper jam on anything other than a printer with bad grabber rollers or cheap desktop models. Some of my printers have auto-stapling and collating. Basically, I never need a FedEx Office store unless I'm out-of-the-area.

airhead969··on Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel
MDs who get arrogant, lazy, or gaslight patients into thinking they're "crazy" are no longer practicing medicine but are rationing care, sticking their heads in the sand, and hands in the air.

One ENT told me I had "allergies" when I said I could hear my left eye move in my head and he pretended he didn't find an Weber test extreme left lateralization. Another two ENTs found I have repairable SCDS as confirmed by high resolution CT and audiological testing.

Doctors who don't listen to you or BS you cannot be trusted with your life. Dump them and don't feel bad about it because they gave up on you first. There is no reward for loyalty. It's only your life.

airhead969··on Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel
Numb fingers can be from distal neuropathy. Pin and needles or reduced sensation. I have reduced sensation almost everywhere.
airhead969··on Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel
I've had bruxism my entire life. Headaches, TMJ, and jaw pain are what I've experienced.

Most people have back problems, so that could just be concomitant.

I used to live in an area with endemic Lyme disease, but contracting that would've presented all kind of other horrible symptoms.

I also have SCDS, likely from pushing too forcefully on the loo, loud noises, air pressure extreme changes, high blood pressure/swings, and congenital thinness as confirmed on CT. The fix require a middle fossa craniotomy approach.

airhead969··on Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel
Botox.. hmm. Interesting.

I chipped / broke half of a crowded-out front tooth one night a month or so ago. My teeth sometimes chatter on their own at night.

My jaw is compact and massively internally-hypertrophic (reinforced) from a lifetime of bruxism. Also, masseters are jacked, teeth roots are extremely long, and my neck muscles are hypertrophic (no neck) too. I wonder if this is an evolutionary adaptation of a "fighter" body plan.

airhead969··on Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel
I had 1 cavity in my decades and I had really awful habits. All of my teeth were sealed in youth.

I too have bruxism that is wearing down some molars severely. My grandfather wore his teeth down to about nothing.

My dentist suggested I get Invisalign for tooth crowding, veneers for small canines, and a mouth guard I can't tolerate at present). If had a workable mouth guard, I would do this lozenge thing. I feel sensation in my teeth and gums constantly.

I never did whitening because I always thought the risks were too great.

airhead969··on Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020)
F-35's are the epitome of the military-industrial complex: unnecessary, overpromised, and underdelivered (faulty, fragile, expensive, late). They should just be called F-111 2.0. It might not be a comedy of errors, but it could be a comedy of a travesty of comedic errors. It's not like there's a competitive marketplace for 5.5th gen fighters or alternatives to strategic, US-flag-waving purchases (NATO / political arm-twisting probably happened).

I think a lot of countries want to stay on the US' good side because it's Godzilla, so they'll go along most of the time. In international diplomatic circles, whenever the words "democracy" or "the peace process" get mentioned in press reports, mentally-substitute those with the words "whatever America wants" and it will be accurate 99 times out of 100. Maybe with the ascent of China, the US and China will have to compete and negotiate more for favors than simply demanding unwavering fealty.

PS: The first porn mags I ever saw were Danish. I can't say I saw much because that was the era when beavers had full pelts.

airhead969··on Overkill objects for everyday life
In one job, I used to support just about every size of networkable color and b&w printer from 2 manufacturers. In the cost analysis to operate these things, it became clear: the larger and more expensive printers were not just faster, more reliable, and easier to repair, their supplies were cheaper per page. Their acquisition costs were higher.

For anyone needing to churn out flat dead trees more than once a week: I recommend getting a used flagship color laser printer with a low page count and in good condition instead of an inkjet printer. No more running ink, no more calibration pages, no more dried-out ink cartridges, and no more overpriced supplies.

airhead969··on Overkill objects for everyday life
WHAT?!

Hell, yeah, they are. They're rarely designed for aesthetics. "Do one thing, do it well, and lowest TCO."

airhead969··on Overkill objects for everyday life
This sounds like a testimonial ad for Herbalife.

$50 consumer-grade products are almost always "crap," but you're making a sweeping generalization across dozens of product lines in 2 brands without offering any evidence or proof that you used appropriate products for the task. Fans on most UPSes only kick-in when their inverters run during an outage or a test for cooling.

I happen to have an SMX1500RM2UNC with humidity and dual temperature logging. It's floor or rack mountable, uses commodity batteries in a repairable pack, expandable, remotely manageable, logs details, works like a champ with under-voltage and other edge-case transfer conditions.

A writer is extremely unlikely to be an expert on backup power supplies anymore that I am an expert on coronary cannulas. Appeal to authority or an anecdotal testimonial is flimsy support, at best.

Sorry for your loss, but you might be wandering into the weeds on this one.

airhead969··on Overkill objects for everyday life
I wouldn't spend a million dollars on a fancy-branded knife when you can get a good one for $20. Ka-bars are a dime a dozen. They're probably in every army surplus store in America.

ProTip: Odds are there are 10k bars named ka-bar or k-bar founded or operated by current or former Marines.

airhead969··on Overkill objects for everyday life
Another marketplace: https://www.govdeals.com

Also, a used Oshkosh M983 as a soccer mom grocery getter. Whenever anyone cuts her off and gives her the finger, she simply shifts into 8x8 mode and drives over them. crunch crunch-crunch /s

The mixer is hipster ridiculous but hilarious. In practice, you can get a Kitchen Aid for $200.

I have my grandparent's Kirby G3 and found the older real HEPA replacement bags (not the new crap ones that dropped the certifications and may not perform as well). It's not an industrial movie theater vacuum or an ice rink zamboni, but it's more of a tank than a Bose, I mean, Dyson or a Samsung piece of plastic.

Speaking of which: if you live in a climate where it snows and freezes, a Zamboni in the garage is essential to making the local kids street ice hockey tournaments happen.

airhead969··on Why Corporations Won’t Hire Remote Workers in Colorado
Consider that sweatshop workers make 2 to 8 cents per garment, and "empowering" becomes that happy-clappy delusional utopia that it always was. It doesn't matter if employees are lowly managers or further down the ranks or subcontracted via vendors, they're all serfs the plutocrats won't give any power to voluntarily.
airhead969··on Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
The free, invisible hand will magically wave-away all of deregulation's problems using efficient markets. And then the capital will trickledown. The billionaires have been hyping their delusional libertarianism to such an extent that millions now believe "all government bad."
airhead969··on Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
It's only pinko communism when the 99% do it.
airhead969··on Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
Class-action lawsuit
airhead969··on Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
Also, when they decide to stop supporting it (servers and security updates), they can flick a switch and kill the products. The best planned-obsolescence ever: unrepairable and it only works by dialing-home.
airhead969··on Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
You can turn off the Xfinity hotspots on the Cisco-brand modems. It appears to be neighbors and/or pole-mounted APs that provide the SSIDs where I was.
airhead969··on Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
You own a license to operate it with a license but without any real say as to what it does to you.

Oh, and the hardware isn't repairable and only has a 90 day warranty. It broke? Here's a 15%-off coupon to buy another landfill stuffer.

airhead969··on Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
Skype, Kazaa, Freenet, Alexa.
airhead969··on Primates change their 'accent' to avoid conflict
I go from sounding like an average Londoner to speaking in Received Pronunciation. The only problem is I'm American and not in London. I have no idea how that happened.
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