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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 06:31:49 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.fox4news.com/news/patrick-crusius-texas-walmart-racist-attack-plea-deal [www fox4news com]

I just saw this week-old story.
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  El Paso Walmart gunman who killed 23 offered plea deal to avoid death penalty
  
  from @FOX4
  
  The El Paso County DA said he supports the death penalty and believes he deserves it. But he said he met with the families of the victims, and there was an overriding desire to conclude the process.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 11:31:15 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Oh, look. Maybe I should take this one. https://gnusocial.jp/url/4401578
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 00:55:42 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

In 2015, these were the top five most impoverished counties in the US. I'd guess these will be among the most devastated by the cuts President Trump and Elon Musk are making.

state county population poverty
1 Mississippi Jefferson 7586 48.7
2 Louisiana East Carroll 7501 48
3 South Dakota Todd 9942 46.4
4 South Dakota Corson 4149 45.6
5 South Dakota Mellette 2086 45.3

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 14:12:51 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

So ... #DataCamp ... The most recent course was the most understandable course I've ever taken from them. This is #rlang + #tidyverse + #dplyr + #ggplot2 ... the guy didn't assume I knew anything, so he explained everything from the beginning. Also, the exercises expected one to put in everything. Exercises began with:

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)

and so on, so it wasn't mystery functions that just appear in the environment.

And that convinces me that the issues I'm having with their courses are mostly sourced in their educational methodologies.

Now, I don't want to scare anyone off from trying DC. But at this stage of my life, their methods don't work so well with my brain.

On the other hand, the #Google + #Coursera Cybersecurity program and the #IBM + Coursera Backend Development program seem to do the opposite. Because of their target markets, they assume students don't have much relevant background and they give lots of effort covering the most basic things in great detail.

Which is good, but in some cases, it is hard to pay attention to things I've known for over twenty years.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 11:49:41 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

THE HUM -- a sound that only 2% of people can hear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy_ctHNLan8
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1. The Controversial Sound Only 2% Of People Hear
  
  from Benn Jordan
  
  Since the early 1960's, an increasing number of people have been hearing (and feeling) a sound causing everything from annoyance to psychosis to death. We ha...
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 23:15:34 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://mastodon.au/@Linux/114224400106926264

is a good idea, but not everyone has the funds to do so.
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  Linux Is Best (@Linux@mastodon.au)
  
  from Linux Is Best
  
  A reminder, the Fediverse cost money. Yes, it is free for YOU to use, but your local administrator pays for domain registration, web hosting, storage space, CDN, and of course, bandwidth. The busier and more active your Fedi site, the most it cost. If you are able, consider reaching out to your admin, and asking how you can help. Even small contributions add up and make a difference. #Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 10:29:21 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

LOL. Picked up two more followers on Bluesky now that I'm no longer lurking. Over a dozen now. (Most of them seem to be bots. I remember that before I made following approve-only on Twitter, these weird bot accounts were swarming around despite my already limited posting. The Bluesky followers are different, but still seem more like the Twitter bot-followers than like real people.)

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 07:46:58 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Oh, no. I just replied to someone on Bluesky. My first ever post is "Agreed." After months of lurking, I'm now an active user.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 12:59:06 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@simsa03 I wouldn't have been surprised if they'd split up more than a decade ago, but there were some things that happened in the next few years that set them up to live apart successfully. Namely, they both got much better jobs and moved to a bigger and better city.

In their earlier situation, they couldn't afford to actually split, because neither could pay rent / utilities / food / transportation alone.

Still, they didn't need to wait this long.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 11:30:33 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

LOL. A colloquial word for releasing intestinal gas is banned from posting here. I found out because I was trying to use it in a recent post.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 11:28:38 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

One of the dogs has decided I'm their human. A few days ago, one of the kids dropped his plate of food on the floor. Doggo devoured it and has been releasing human-smelling gas every evening in my bedroom.

But that seems to have worn off. Tonight it is dog gas.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 11:20:52 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Grandson_3 and Grandson_4 decided to have a shootout in the back yard. They picked up some sticks that had fallen during a wind storm and they played it like they'd seen some of the westerns and cop movies that I watched as a kid.

The thing is, the closest they've ever seen was some Star Wars cartoon that they haven't seen in 2+ years.

I think Son_2 is going to buy them sponge dart guns ("Nerf guns" but probably not Nerf brand) because they found ways to leave marks on each other with the sticks.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 09:41:55 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

PJUU is shutting down. https://pjuu.com/joe/5aca9734095f11f0bf1a0242ac130006

Possibly partly motivated by the UK's Online Safety Act.
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  An open source social thing!
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 10:18:00 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Phone call late last night with S. Her dad is in an assisted living place, so her brother is trying to sell the house. She has few resources and is trying to find a place quickly.

Meanwhile, the agency is starting the process of pushing people out, so her limited resources could become nonexistent with little or no warning.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 04:02:09 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I think I mentioned that Half_son's wife left him last year to join a "throuple". She took the kids with her, so he only gets to see them for a few hours on Sundays . I'm not sure when their divorce is final. He's got a newish long-distance girlfriend and is planning to move to where she lives soon.

Today, Son_1 informed me that he filed for divorce from his wife. In this case, she moved into an apartment and he has the kids (two minor kids they share, one minor kid who got kicked out of her home and is staying there, and her oldest son [now 28 years old] whom she had before he met her). The 26 year old stepson lives separately, and is likely only going to maintain contact with his mother.

They had a strange relationship. They'd almost divorced several years ago but made up ... they did things like work separate shifts so they were hardly ever home and awake at the same time and have two separate "family chat" groups with the kids ... one with her included, one without her.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 24-Mar-2025 11:27:28 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://gnusocial.jp/url/4351065 Interesting ... a large majority of spiral galaxies are believed to rotate clockwise.

Our neighbor, Andromeda Galaxy, is believed to rotate counter-clockwise. https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/61118-stellar-motions-in-the-andromeda-galaxy ... meanwhile, the Milky Way Galaxy is believed to rotate clockwise. https://gnusocial.jp/url/4351070

But I suppose another way of looking at it is which direction is galactic north? On Earth, the planet rotates counter-clockwise or west to east if north is "up". So maybe Milky Way's north is sort of "down" from our perspective.
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  JWST Findings May Suggest Our Universe Exists Inside a Black Hole
  
  Observations about the directions in which galaxies turn have a head-spinning implication: our entire Universe might exist inside a black hole.
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  In which direction does the Milky Way rotate?
  
  We don't have a photo of our Milky Way the whole, all the pictures are artists' interpretations showing a bulge, a central bar, and several spiral arms. The milky way is spinning. I would like to k...
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 24-Mar-2025 10:04:37 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Barnard's star, which is the closest single-star system to our sun, is now believed to have four small planets orbiting it.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/barnards-star-exoplanet-in-orbit [www sciencenews org]

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/barnards-star-four-small-planets [www sciencenews org]
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  Barnard’s star has at least one planet orbiting it after all
  
  from Macon Morehouse
  
  After decades of searching, a telltale gravitational wobble points to an exoplanet orbiting the nearby red dwarf every 3.15 days.
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  The nearest single star to Earth has four small planets
  
  from Lisa Grossman
  
  Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 01:19:28 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/hubble-finds-a-potential-triple-kuiper-belt-object [www universetoday com]

Possible triple object observed in the Kuiper Belt.
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  Hubble Finds a Potential Triple Kuiper Belt Object
  
  A distant trio of worlds may shed light on planetary formation in the early solar system. Sometimes, good things come in threes. If astronomers are correct, a system in the distant Kuiper Belt may not be two but three worlds, offering an insight into formation in the early solar system. The study comes out of researchers at Brigham Young University and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 13:41:21 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

RE: the bluish tone seen after cataract surgery

I have also read that it sometimes confers the ability to see some ultaviolet colors. I'm not sure whether that means wearing sunglasses all the time.

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@fu First of all, I'm glad you're trying to take charge of your health. Best wishes for successfully mitigating the heart issues.

As for Tuesdays, I know that seems to be the day the food places have their special deals, so I expect that's the day people are less likely to eat out without a discount. I have no idea if that's relevant to your situation, though.

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