Notices by dragonfrog (dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org)

Saw the prep for some big police raid as I was walking my dog earlier. Two police MRAP type vehicles, two unmarked but clearly police SUVs, and an anmbulance, slow rolled up to the intersection where I was, then one MRAP and one SUV broke right to make a pincer movement on their target.

Weird feeling seeing that. I took myself and the dog a block left, don't want cops shooting the dog or some damn thing.

I guess in a few days I'll probably get to read what that was about.

Going to travel by #viarail train soon. I continue to be blown away that the Edmonton VIA Rail station is 1.3 km from the nearest city bus stop, and 750 m from the nearest *sidewalk* (in winter I assume the whole route would have effectively no sidewalk because who's going to shovel 600 m of sidewalk that leads nowhere?).

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @bmacDonald94 That's quite right - I'm not sure when Malcolm X said/wrote the above, but he died in 1965. The Republican party's "Southern Strategy" of deliberately being racist to capture the southern states started for real in the 1964 election, after the passage of the Civil Rights Act (under a Democratic president, but support / opposition was mainly split not along party lines but between former Union and Confederate states).

@jeffowski to be clear - do you mean you are an autistic person desiring answers from anyone, or are you asking that autistic people in particular answer the question?

@scribe I use pwsafe for its simplicity, open sourceitude, availability on all the OS's I use, and non-reliance on cloud anything - but it's just a password manager, not an MFA software. (I do sync the password database file over a cloud service, but it's not a dependency)

@zens @liamvhogan what I'm trying to get at is, the yogurt must be pretty bad if you could sell sour cream as it.

Good sour cream exists here in Canada (though you're going a bit out of your way to get it, the sour cream from any of the big brands is mediocre), but no matter how good or bad it is, it would make an awful yogurt.

@zens @liamvhogan oh god I hope you're wrong about that. I eat muesli with yoghurt at breakfast, I eat yoghurt with honey or marmalade stirred in for dessert, I marinate meats in yoghurt with spices mixed in. Doing any of those with sour cream would be disgusting. Is British yoghurt that bad?

I'd call American sour cream more of a somewhat lower quality creme fraiche. It's nothing like yoghurt.

@waitworry @RickiTarr "I'm obviously a good driver, my car has no dents in it because it's never been in a crash."
"When did you buy it?"
"Last month."
"Why did you buy a new car last month?"
"I crashed the last one."

@MyWoolyMastadon @BeAware @whalecoiner in Tusky you can tap the ... under a post, copy the link, paste it into your own post to make a quote post. When reading a quote post like that, Tusky will show a preview of the post and clicking on it will keep you in your own instance so you can reply to the original.

@Shrigglepuss I've literally never had a work computer that was as quick and responsive as the 300 MHz blue and white Mac G3 desktop I got in about 1998. From pressing the power button to doing my first productive task, there's just no contest.

@botvolution that's gotta be it

I recently read an article (which was interesting and I learned stuff and all) where they were talking about commodity prices per metric tonne, using the abbreviation "mt".

And just. Guh! An abbreviated metric unit (which the tonne really isn't, the whole point of a metric system is we should be calling it a megagram, but anyway), that starts with a lowercase m. We know what that means, it should be 1/1000 of whatever a t is.

@warandpeas funny how no one ever suspects aliens built stuff white people built

@felix @aredridel @voltagex @az The father of a friend of mine in high school was an ornithologist. I remember watching Robin Hood Prince of Thieves at their house, and his dad couldn't bear to watch any more when they used North American bird song as background sounds in Sherwood forest.

@HistoPol @dancinyogi @TLB73

Where I live is probably something to do with it, and I'm sure white male privilege is a non-trivial part too, but I've been fortunate so far that nobody's hassled me for wearing a mask.

I can tell myself I'd have all kinds of clever responses if someone did, but I have no idea how I'd react in reality.

@jimcarroll@futurist.info @JimCarroll@jimcarroll.com @atomicpoet Nice! If someone replies to your post via their Fediverse view of the post, does it also show up as a comment on your blog site?