Notices by Skullvalanche (skullvalanche@gladtech.social)

@darnell Ooh ooh! Maybe reverse the Citizens United ruling! That'll show 'em!

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I'm trying to determine if there are regional (or age) variances in this childhood song.

For #science!

** What are the words to Little Bunny Foo Foo? **

What did he do?
Who came and talked to him?
What was the consequences of his activities?

Please also include your geographic region during childhood and approximate year of birth.

#poll #research #quiz #Children #Song #Games

(also please repost so we can get a broad sampling size)

...answering my own quiz I suppose...

He went hopping through the forest scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head!

The good fairy came and gave him [n] chances or she would turn him into a goon!

...he ignored the warnings and was turned into a goon.

The details of what constitutes a "goon" were not covered.

Today's #TuneTuesday theme is #YouCantTouchThis: songs that've been covered but can't come close to the original.

The first thing that leaped to mind was Talk Talk's "It's My Life" but Gwen's cover of it, while not particularly interesting, isn't the worst thing.

Luke Combs' whitewashed country pop cover of Tracy Chapman, however...

And I'm not even a big Tracy Chapman fan, but seriously, leave this song with her.

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
https://song.link/us/i/79565507

#music

Okay, so "A" size paper (like they use over there in Europe) is half the size as the numbers go up.

A0 is about a square meter, A1 is about half a square meter, A2 is half that, etc.

The surface area of the Earth is about 510.1 million square kilometers (or 510.1 trillion square meters).

But what if the paper sizing continued into negative numbers?

What size paper would it take to cover the Earth?

a sheet of A-1 paper would be 2 square meters, A-2 would be 4 square meters, and so on.

… so a sheet of A-60 paper would cover the Earth.

This #Mathstodon fact brought to you by dumb work conversations and GPT-4.

#Paper

I was having a discussion with a teammate about movies adapted from board games.

Clue is clearly the best one.
Battleship is probably number 2.
Jumanji doesn't count since it wasn't a board game before the movie came into existence (that I'm aware of anyway).

I did a quick search and found a movie called Candy Land. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13857556/

I'm really hoping it's just a *very* liberal adaptation of the board game. Though I think someone should backport some of the aspects of that movie back to the board game.
I'm struggling to imagine how to incorporate truck stop sex workers into the board game. :blobcatlaugh:

#movies #boardgames

@darnell@one.darnell.one @darnell@flipboard.com

I swear 90% of VPN advertisements (even the "good" VPNs) are still full of disinformation and false promises.

Things a VPN is good for:
- bypassing region restricted content
- masking your IP address from P2P protocols

Things a VPN is vaguely useful for:
- masking your web activity from your ISP

Things a VPN will not do:
- protect you from malware, ransomware, phishing, or being tracked by browser cookies

I suppose it all depends on what threat you're guarding against.

@reay @feld I think this doesn’t really take into account that lots of people posting content to YT actively profit of the ad revenue YT is wrapping around their content. It is not in their interest to make it available elsewhere.

@evan yeah, wording on this one definitely skewed my response.