Dear People Who Give Amz Reviews
Please be aware that when you give a book a 1 star review, that book is send backward in the listings in Amazon search. This means the book someone has spend months (if not years) writing, will probably never sell another copy. That's right, you have condemned their book to purgatory. Being fair, if the book is a piece of garbage, then rightly so, give it 1 star.
But if your book comes damaged in shipping,
DO NOT GIVE THE BOOK 1 STAR!!
That's so unfair the author of the book. The author has no control over the shipping of their books.
Instead please contact Amazon themselves and request a replacement.
Why am I posting this? Because I got one of those today on one of my books ... there goes what little sales I have these days. Very frustrating.
Anyway, thanks for listening ...
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Fun fact: the Pacific/Mountain time zone boundary doesn't follow the state lines between Washington/Oregon and Idaho.
Northern Idaho is in Pacific time for convenience doing business with Spokane, while some of eastern Oregon is in Mountain time for proximity to Boise.
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I’ve heard the DesertX doesn’t really compromise, but I’ve not tried one myself.
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Are you sick and tired of websites, especially technical ones that have complicated commands or code snippets, preventing you from copy/paste? Here's a fix that website owners HATE!
Open Firefox (because you shouldn't be using anything else), and in the Awesomebar, type in "about:config" and press enter. Accept the warning. Search for the option "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled" and set that sucker to FALSE.
Take back the web!
#Firefox #CopyPasteDisabled #TakeBackTheWeb
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TIL the word Germandering was created by combing the words Gerry and salamander
https://youtu.be/cwBslntC3xg
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fblre8/til_the_word_germandering_was_created_by_combing/
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![Image description] two panel comic made with screenshots from the show Invincible
[Panel 1] Omni-man and Invincible look at the sky, where is superimposed a graphical representation of how a floating point number is stored in memory on digital systems: a sign, an exponent, and a mantissa.
[Panel 2] Omni-man looks at and speaks to Invincible, the subtitles reading "Look at what they need to mimic a fraction". The rest of the usual quote, "of our power" is blanked out.
Thanks @Siph](https://f.kawa-kun.com/photo/preview/640/1801762 "Image description] two panel comic made with screenshots from the show Invincible
[Panel 1] Omni-man and Invincible look at the sky, where is superimposed a graphical representation of how a floating point number is stored in memory on digital systems: a sign, an exponent, and a mantissa.
[Panel 2] Omni-man looks at and speaks to Invincible, the subtitles reading \"Look at what they need to mimic a fraction\". The rest of the usual quote, \"of our power\" is blanked out.
Thanks @Siph")
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https://www.fastcompany.com/91185144/the-worlds-largest-wind-powered-cargo-ship-just-made-its-first-delivery-across-the-atlantic
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TIL after visiting Pyongyang in 1971, Romanian dictator Ceaușescu got obsessed to North Korean ideology and implemented it to his country. He was executed in 1989.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea%E2%80%93Romania_relations
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fb7jia/til_after_visiting_pyongyang_in_1971_romanian/
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Moms for Liberty is Heritage Foundation supported and funded, a partner in Project 2025, and recently defended including a Hitler quote on the front page of their newsletter.
They've had a bad year and are coming apart at the seams. That's good news. This is a revealing account of their recent Liberty Summit in Media Matters.
What I saw at the Moms for Liberty summit: a diminished and desperate group
Scandal, school board election failures, and a disastrous 60 Minutes interview appear to have diminished Moms for Liberty’s once powerful influence, and last weekend’s summit provided plenty of additional evidence that the group is currently flailing…Media Matters for America
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“skibidi and rizz are brainrot!!”
Me remembering that my generation said things like “somebody toucha ma spaghet” based on some 1930s cartoon
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TIL about TempleOS, a Biblically-themed computer operating system. Its designer claims he got the design specs in a “revelation from God”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fav8b9/til_about_templeos_a_biblicallythemed_computer/
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y'all i just read the wildest article i've read to date
https://www.popsci.com/science/dye-mice-transparent/
The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent | Popular Science
'It’s not magic, but it’s still very powerful.'Lauren Leffer (Popular Science)
TIL a 2017 lawsuit resulted in the Village People's official line-up completely changing. Their original lead singer got rights to their name, and the two original members still in the group at that point were effectively replaced. One retired and the other went solo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_People#2017%E2%80%93present_(Victor_Willis_returns)
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fau10t/til_a_2017_lawsuit_resulted_in_the_village/
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Boebert defends vote against veterans’ health benefits, saying she didn’t want to spend ‘$600 billion forever’
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4864310-boebert-pact-act-vote/
#SupportVeterans #LaurenBoebert #Colorado #VoteBoebertOut #USPol
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At the end of the 19th century, economists were arguing that poverty was caused by there being too many people for the surrounding land to support. Evidence for this was that one saw almost no poverty in frontier towns, and plenty of poverty in large cities. Limited resources could only be stretched so thin.
Henry George, in his book "Progress and Poverty", called BS on this. Due to specialisation of labour, he argued each additional person meant there'd be *more* to go around, not less.
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The reason I'm tooting about this is because in the city-builder I'm playing¹, the geometric increase in wealth from labour specialisation is noticeable. A small town struggles to keep everyone fed, clothed, housed, educated, healthy, and safe.
A large town is able to support hospitals, emergency services, schools, kindergartens, grocery stores, universities, and more. Specialised labour really does make each additional mouth to feed *easier*.
It's a good game. 🧵
¹ https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources_Soviet_Republic/
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic on Steam
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy.store.steampowered.com
Anyway, here's the most comprehensive and accessible primer I've found for Henry George's ideas, written for a modern audience.
It's a long read, but it's very, very good, and much more understandable to the 21st century reader than the original book.
FIN/🧵
https://www.gameofrent.com/content/progress-and-poverty-review
Book Review: Progress & Poverty | Game of Rent
In 1879, a man asked "How come all this new economic development and industrialized technology hasn't eliminated poverty and oppression?" That man was Henry George, his answer came in the form of a book called Progress & Poverty, and this is a review…www.gameofrent.com
Next week Satisfactory will be launched into full release and Coffee Stain Studios has done some work to make this science fiction game good! There are a lot of changes that will be dropping in the 1.0, and I'm excited to use Proton to play this game (I got it in a Humble Bundle a year ago).
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Memorial ride for Steve Hulsman tomorrow.
#BikeTooter #VisionZero
https://cascade.org/rides-events/84761
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https://www.planning.org/planning/2024/sep/when-driving-is-not-an-option/
#WeekWithoutDriving
When Driving is Not an Option
It’s time to recognize and listen to the 25 percent of the U.S. population that doesn’t drive, says author Anna Letitia Zivarts.American Planning Association
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Let's not forget following people home after these street fights, to see where the lived.
Then returning at night to murder [directly] or set fire to the building.
Tracing the roots of anti-university rhetoric (opinion)
Bradford Vivian writes that growing anti-university sentiment can be traced to pro-authoritarian movements abroad.Bradford Vivian (Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs)
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“We find that #universities are an established yet under-researched vehicle of climate obstruction by the #FossilFuel industry.”
"The analysis found that oil companies have long influenced universities to focus on #climate efforts that would enshrine a future for fossil fuels, despite experts’ repeated warnings that the world must stop burning coal, oil and gas to avert the worst climate impacts."
University funding from fossil fuels slowing switch to green energy – report
Study’s authors say integrity of higher education ‘at risk’ upon finding lack of attention to role of oil and gas firmsDharna Noor (The Guardian)
Example:
MIT has not one but two building named after the Koch brothers (and it's not just because they were alums).
Room 54-100 is now called the "Shell auditorium".
WTF.
Building 54 is the home of Course 12, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. To hijack its main lecture hall is -- something.
And those are only the visible parts.
MIT has also resisted calls to divest from fossil fuels, for instance
University funding from fossil fuels slowing switch to green energy – report
Study’s authors say integrity of higher education ‘at risk’ upon finding lack of attention to role of oil and gas firmsDharna Noor (The Guardian)
Telegram radically alters its stance on "illegal" use of its platform by letting users in private chats "flag illegal content" for review by its moderators (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/09/06/telegram-revamps-rules-to-allow-moderation-of-private-chats/
http://www.techmeme.com/240905/p41#a240905p41
Telegram radically alters its stance on “illegal” use of its platform by letting users in private chats “flag illegal content” for review by its moderators
By Danny Nelson / CoinDesk. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
Inputs Of Interest: The Svalboard Could Be Your Salvation
You know, sometimes dreams really do come true. When I told you about the DataHand keyboard almost four years ago, I never imagined I’d ever get to lay my hands on anything even remotely like…Hackaday
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Is your project on the list for #ParkingDay2024?
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/09/05/this-years-parking-day-hopes-to-inspire-big-policy-change
This Year's Park(ing) Day Hopes to Inspire Big Policy Change — Streetsblog USA
One weekend a year, advocates repurpose curbside parking to make more space for people. Join them!usa.streetsblog.org
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agree with this sentiment in America — "the most thinly populated car-centric places will gradually decline in value, because they are just not nice places to live."
as long as we make the car-less places relatively affordable
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cars-have-fucked-up-this-country
Cars Have Fucked Up This Country Bad
The car-centric age of development is one long mistake.Hamilton Nolan (How Things Work)
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@hobbsc "appeal" in this case is referring to a legal action
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235958/internet-archive-loses-appeal-ebook-lending
The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
The Internet Archive has lost its appeal to lend out digitized books. A federal appeals court sided with the four publishers, which accused the nonprofit of copyright infringement.Emma Roth (The Verge)
TIL that the character Frieza from Dragon Ball Z, known for his ruthless destruction of planets to profit from their resale, was inspired by the behavior of real estate speculators during Japan's economic bubble in the 1980s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieza#Creation_and_conception
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1f9uzjr/til_that_the_character_frieza_from_dragon_ball_z/
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Sailors hid an unauthorized Starlink on the deck of a US warship—and lied about it
To be fair, it's hard to live without Wi-Fi.
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