Notices by Kermode (gemlog@tilde.zone), page 2

@clacke
You are asking me how I sound to others... how can I know that? :-)

@hobbsc

@hobbsc
O rely heavily on ffmpeg to reduce the sizes to an acceptable drag and drop to fedi.
I don't know where the limits are actually.

ffmpeg -y -i simplescreenrecorder-2023-11-02_16.38.23.mp4 -s 800x600 -b:v 384k -flags +loop+mv4 -cmp 256 -partitions +parti4x4+parti8x8+partp4x4+partp8x8 -subq 6 -trellis 0 -refs 5 -bf 0 -coder 0 -me_range 16 -g 250 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -c:a aac -ac 1 -ar 16000 -r 13 -ab 32000 -aspect 3:2 -strict experimental gimp_intro.mp4

was a recent incantation tonight. I think masto/fedi takes up to 10mb for a vid. I think...
@clacke

@notclacke @clacke @hobbsc

I'm basically canuckian and I'm wondering which word USians mispronounce to make it rhyme :-)
Also, I've never heard the saying until now.
@hobbsc @clacke

@clacke I hit ctrl+shift+c to get at alt text, if I need to copy it.

@clacke
How?

@clacke
7 unmissable hot air balloon rides

includes from Nunavut Baffin Island to Greenland
https://www.booking.com/articles/seven-unmissable-hot-air-balloon-rides.html who knew? :-)

@clacke No, normal planes used to refuel in greenland when taking the polar route from gander newfoundland to scotland.

@clacke I'm old - can you guess? It had to do with flying... :-)

@clacke Yeah, been to greenland :-)

@aral Don't neglect that hyper-hypocritical asshat wearing a yellow star in the UN today.
First thing I read this morning. Not great for my BP frankly.

@clacke Parts of my province and the one next door had snow last week. I've had frost.
Warning about icy hwy on the radio as I was driving home a bit earlier tonight.
Seems normal for here anyhow. Stockholm is 6d further north than me - I would have thought colder sooner really. TIL...

Saw my internal medicine guy a bit ago. Seems like you guys are going to have to put up with me for a while longer. Perfusion test /stress thing went well. Heart is good.

@clacke
I don't know what 'flip' and 'use' mean here at all. I do wish the worst for trumpy, but that doesn't actually mark him as very special as far as usa presidents go with me. I was a lot softer on carter until I found out what his creature brzeziński had orchestrated. And he did know.
@GottaLaff

@hypolite I know - I felt the same way, except I thought of Carter as the only one, not one of the better ones.
In brief then, Brzezinski created afghanistan wars when he was Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981.
I would like to say it was Before 1983 that ee.uu CIA got involved in Afghanistan under the Carter regime. They drew the soviets into afghanistan by destabilizing the region. Carter listened to whatever Brzezinski told him. "it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul." Brzezinski was warned of what would happen and he said "so what if it [...] a few arabs?" I forget the word used.
Brzezinski (1998) interview in Le Nouvel Observateur re Afghanistan
In that interview, he was asked if he regretted anything. No, on the contrary, he was delighted that it worked! He was happy that it drew ussr into "their own vietnam war".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eghUafgJv4
So how many people died in the actual Vietnam created out of *nothing* but the ego and political desires of Johnson? Next, how many in Afghanistan after the USA armed the Mujahadeen and drew in the Soviets? Then pretended to 'rescue' the Afghans from the soviets and then the mujahadeen? It's all insane.
This was all on Carter's watch and I believe with his full knowledge. He was otherwise, and is still - as far as I can tell - a Good Man, but that's an awful lot of needless deaths as marks on the other side of the ledger.
Goodness! I haven't even had breakfast or a cup of coffee yet! :-(

@clacke Those with foresight are already in bc and california i think...
The ml flushed all those other terrible, unpatriotic people into plain view a couple of years ago and are still dealing with them one by one.

@chimo
I don't know - I'm in BC. Do they give you money when you return them?

@bobjonkman @mpjgregoire @clacke

@clacke Wow, hk too. This is another one of those moments for me.

@mpjgregoire
Yes, beer, wine, spirits, milk...

https://www.return-it.ca/beverage/products/
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022ENV0005-000089

@clacke

@clacke
I keep reading about yt banning adblockers, but I haven't yet run into it complaining to me yet. Maybe they don't care about linux users, or maybe firefox users? Or maybe canuckistan users? :-)

@cameron