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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 23:10:44 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Son_2 is on the phone with the ISP. (I hope!)

Apparently, someone attempted to log into the account yesterday and the ISP reacted by starting the account closure process when they couldn't get someone on the phone.

So if I disappear for a little while, that's why.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 13:25:07 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#DataCamp recently added a new gamification competition feature, trying to get people to use it consistently. But in this week's competition, it looks like one could almost reach the top 10 by doing a single practice quiz (250 XP) each day.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 12:45:22 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

> #American lawns are a throwback to a desire to ape the practices of European #aristocracy.

No one knows or cares what the European aristocracy does. I think they've done studies with people all over the world and people tend to like mowed lawns best everywhere. Maybe some shared memory of a post-grazing landscape in East Africa?

That said, there are some places where lawns make sense and others where lawns make no sense.

> The suburbs might need to explore subsistence #farming.

Where permitted, lots of people did plant large vegetable gardens and raise chickens. Which is another reason why buying a home with some #HOA restricting how you can use your property is a mistake.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 12:36:35 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I don't know who John Scalzi is, but based on his presence in my 'Discover' feed on Bluesky, he's at least 10% of the site's 30 million accounts.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 11:23:14 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

It's really annoying when they move a sound source from side to side. The "ah, push it" whisper bounces like a ping pong ball from the left ear to the right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCadcBR95oU
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  REMASTERED IN HD!Official Music Video for Push It performed by Salt-N-Pepa.Listen now to "Push It"https://saltnpepa.lnk.to/PushItVDFollow Salt-N-Pepa:Faceboo...
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 03:44:33 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Half_son will get a few hours with A1 this weekend to celebrate the kid's 12th birthday. Better late than never, I guess. I assume he'll also get A2 (8 years old) and A3 (7 years old) also.

Hoping the next court appearance turns the tables, so that he has them at least three days per week.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 12:51:24 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3lhi3twpgts2g

> NEW: Treasury Dept agrees not to let anyone who isn't a current, regular (non-SGE) employee access its payment system/records, with the exception of Tom Krause and Marko Elez, who will have read-only access.

> The agreement will last until the judge decides whether to grant a preliminary injunction.
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  Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com)
  
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  NEW: Treasury Dept agrees not to let anyone who isn't a current, regular (non-SGE) employee access its payment system/records, with the exception of Tom Krause and Marko Elez, who will have read-only access. The agreement will last until the judge decides whether to grant a preliminary injunction.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 11:30:12 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Grandson_3 is telling me lore of "KITT the car" ... even though he's only seen two episodes of "Knight Rider". He's been shooting suction cup darts at a Hot Wheels car ever since he got home. He's trying to replicate the episode where someone in a helicopter shoots at the car and a ricochet hits the chopper, forcing it to land.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 04:18:52 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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https://news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-says-he-wants-to-tackle-chronic

When the HPV vaccine was released in 2006, it was promoted as only beneficial to girls, but let's make boys take it anyway. There were lots of people who were opposed to it for that reason. Either they've improved it without telling us or they didn't bother telling us in the first place about all the different kinds of HPV-caused cancers that the vaccine helps to prevent.

That would have been the story to promote, not the "all take it, but only benefits one sex" ... and now's probably not the time to ask PubHealth people such questions when they're facing the fight of their lives as ignoramuses are unknowingly about to cause widespread death from preventable diseases.

CC: @clacke
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  RFK Jr says he wants to tackle chronic disease. His war on the HPV vaccine shows otherwise.
  
  from Dr. Andrea Love
  
  RFK Jr. profits by scaring people from a proven cancer prevention: that’s the opposite of combating chronic disease.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 23:07:30 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@clacke Aha. Depending on when this occurred, the "polar vortex" shifted for part of January, leading to unusually cold temperatures in portions of Canada and the US. That almost certainly means warmth headed Northward from another direction.

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Accidentally came across the creator of CVS. https://www.dickgrune.com/Programs/CVS.orig/index.html

Interesting story.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 13:31:09 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I've been trying to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy but there are so many terms that I have to look up that this already long article represents much additional reading.
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  Zero-point energy
  
  Zero-point energy (ZPE) is the lowest possible energy that a quantum mechanical system may have. Unlike in classical mechanics, quantum systems constantly fluctuate in their lowest energy state as described by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Therefore, even at absolute zero, atoms and molecules retain some vibrational motion. Apart from atoms and molecules, the empty space of the vacuum also has these properties. According to quantum field theory, the universe can be thought of not as isolated particles but continuous fluctuating fields: matter fields, whose quanta are fermions (i.e., leptons and quarks), and force fields, whose quanta are bosons (e.g., photons and gluons). All these fields have zero-point energy. These fluctuating zero-point fields lead to a kind of reintroduction of an aether in physics since some systems can detect the existence of this energy. However, this aether cannot be thought of as a physical medium if it is to be Lorentz invariant such that there is no contradiction with Einstein's theory of special relativity. The notion of a zero-point energy is also important for cosmology, and physics currently...
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 12:32:14 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Half_son waited almost a year to start talking about the situation behind his divorce. I mean, I already knew a lot of it, but it was speculation and hearsay, and now it is direct from one of the involved parties.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 08:46:05 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I'm sure things have changed since then, but in the late 1970s, the standard retailer markup on eggs was 12 cents per dozen, or a penny per egg.

I just suddenly remembered my (then) boss telling me about that.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 08:00:03 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

According to https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=HtOe purchasing power in urban areas has declined 42% since 2000.
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  Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Purchasing Power of the Consumer Dollar in U.S. City Average | FRED | St. Louis Fed
  
  Graph and download economic data for Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Purchasing Power of the Consumer Dollar in U.S. City Average from 1913-01-01 to 2025-02-04 about urban, consumer, CPI, inflation, price index, indexes, price, USA, and cryptocurrency.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 22:40:37 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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(Source) Associated Press: https://gnusocial.jp/url/4084918

> President Donald Trump on Monday agreed to a 30-day pause on his tariff threats against Mexico and Canada as America’s two largest trading partners took steps to appease his concerns about border security and drug trafficking.

> The pauses provide a cool-down period after a tumultuous few days that put North America on the cusp of a trade war that risked crushing economic growth, causing prices to soar and ending two of the United States’ most critical partnerships.

(Source ) Reuters: https://gnusocial.jp/url/4076774

> MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON/OTTAWA, Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump suspended his threat of steep tariffs on Mexico and Canada on Monday, agreeing to a 30-day pause in return for concessions on border and crime enforcement with the two neighboring countries.

(Commentary) MSNBC: https://gnusocial.jp/url/4084919

> All of which leaves us with a fairly obvious conclusion: Trump picked a fight, faced pressure, saw stock market declines, and caved in exchange for effectively nothing, sparking a new round of international headlines about the American president being a "paper tiger."
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  Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Canada and Mexico after they pledge to boost border enforcement
  
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  Trump on Saturday had directed that 25% tariffs on most imports from the two American partners — and 10% on Canadian energy products — go into effect at midnight Tuesday.
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  Trump folds under pressure, pauses tariffs on Mexico and Canada
  
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  The president probably didn't want to spark a new round of international headlines about him being a “paper tiger,” but that's precisely what has happened.

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