I really like the Kingston libraries I have visited, and I have spent a lot of happy time in them and reading books I have borrowed from them since I got here
@skinnylatte btw, in El Salvador they have something called a tamal which a global culinary treasure. It has little resemblance to the mexican tamal, not better just different. (if you are from #puertorico , you will know about pasteles. Well, the Salvadorean Tamal is what a pastel becomes when it dies and goes to heaven.)
@hugo are you using Omni directional antennas? Ten years ago, my local radio club (Santa Cruz mountains did a neighborhood survey of simplex propagation using different antennas and wavelengths. The South skyline club (Woodside, Portola Valley) did a similar survey on their side of the hill. Their results surprised us! We got better results on 2m and they got better results on 70cm. The difference was enough to make some stations unreachable depending on wavelength. The hills facing the ocean had deeper peaks and valleys while the Bay side are more regular and smooth. We gave them our diy J-pole tuned perfectly for something like 462.550MHz and they got spectacular results. So consider the shape of the land if you need to optimize. 73
Trump’s detention camps are massively unpopular in every community where they’ve been proposed. But many people don’t realize DHS is planning a concentration camp nearby.
That’s why we’re putting up billboards to let local residents know there’s a proposed or existing detention camp in their area.
@johncarlosbaez Fwiw, I am super interested to learn about ecological economics. If for no other reason than my family owns an abandoned coffee farm in #PuertoRico and they tried to make it an outdoor museum in the 70s.
In a colonial culture based on Profit=(Revenue-Expense) we don't have any other way to reason about land. --- Fun fact: The museum project stopped when the Smithsonian consultants concluded that we needed to put in a parking lot.
I used to joke that the Internet could not be invented today because it required a lot of work with no obvious benefit. It's not funny anymore. @carlton@webology@ericholscher@maxine If "infrastructure" is "stuff required by the stuff I require" and "production" is "when people use it and I'm not around" then few devs and IT staff will be able self host everything above their IP address. For instance, when I mention that I hosted a private instance of RTD + Texlive at work, few people know what that means. (... even fewer give a $#@).
Federation requires interoperability and that's a word I don't hear often enough. Interoperability requires a big view and a bigger heart...John Postel sized heart. IMHO, if we had a half dozen more @brewsterkahle level people, I would have reason to be optimistic.
So we need to find those people or build them if necessary. (If this makes any sense then the cough medicine is wearing off.)
The restoration of the river Skjern was carried out from 1999 to 2002. It transformed 19 kilometers of channelized river into 26 kilometers of meandering river. The river valley changed rapidly from agricultural fields into meadows, with weeds typical of arable land displaced by natural wetland plants. Birds returned, along with otter, and the number of salmon coming to the Skjern River to spawn grew tenfold [PANL].
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[PANL] Pedersen, M. L., Andersen, J. M., Nielsen, K., & Linnemann, M. (2007). Restoration of Skjern River and its valley: project description and general ecological changes in the project area. Ecological Engineering 30(2), 131-144.
@ck@drikanis@maxine Oh I agree with you. And yet the future solutions rarely pop fully formed into existence. In my rant I propose that we may need to step outside the familiar comfort zone because so much of our familiar tooling assumes independent projects with few interdependencies.
@boramalper@maxine ... it's also an economic concern because it implies support and governance responsibility, in the absence of specific arrangements.
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