mipadaitu

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[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 37 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

There are quite a few anecdotal cases of people dying shortly after retirement, or shortly after a spouse dies. Death is complicated and sometimes people "hold on" for weird and unexplained reasons.

People in terminal condition have a habit of dying when loved ones are out of the room.

Does Jimmy Carter feel like this election is something major he needs to accomplish before he goes? Maybe. Or maybe he just keeps busy with all of his volunteer work and other philanthropy, which is keeping him around.

Maybe he's just one of the lucky ones that happens to be healthy and sharp at 100 for reasons we don't know.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago

Q: Would you have certified the election results had you been vice president?
Vance: If I had been vice president, I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia, and so many others, that we needed to have multiple slates of electors. And I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This assumes you have relatively normal air temperature and pressure.

Things change quite a bit if you interpret space to mean "open vacuum of space"

Then you have to decide if you mean orbit exposed to solar radiation, or interstellar exposed to galactic radiation. Or just in null gravity with null radiation.

This question can have a lot of answers depending on context.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 81 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Depends entirely on what the job is.

Is the 42 year old a welder? Then 48 different jobs might mean they're in super high demand and contract out to high paying, low time frame jobs.

Is the 42 year old a cop or a priest? Probably skips town a lot for... reasons...

Most any other job might just mean they've had an interesting life and like to try new things. Their broad experience might mean they're great for what they're currently doing.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup. Going to have sore legs for 31 days.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

This section implies their books are DRMd. I don't know how ebooks.com works, but according to their about page, you still don't own the content.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Interesting story. It sounds like it's tough to be part of the indigenous population, and also tough to be a woman there.

Nice to see them persevering through all of that.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That looks exactly like how my dad sends email.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, it's crazy you never see bonobos at the grocery store!

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Those are all good counterpoints.

 

I have an indoor/outdoor thermometer to keep track of how hot the back of my Expedition gets. I drive pretty regularly with two dogs in the back, and over the summer and winter the temps can get a little extreme.

I need to be able to take it out to keep an eye on it remotely (it has about 1/4 mile range) but also have it not rolling around while I drive.

There was a coin holder there that I popped out, and used as a template for an insert to keep this mounted semi-permanently.

Printed with kinda crappy Amazon Basics PETG. If it holds up well, I'll reprint it with better quality black PETG so it matches the car better.

 

Tips to keeping your identity secure, and protecting other members of your community from being accidentally doxxed or forced offline.

Extremely useful, especially for people who coordinate larger protests or online communities.

 

Really important step towards expanding our research on the moon, is creating highly detailed maps of the entire surface.

China is doing some great work on building out infrastructure and studies of the moon. They're the only country that's brought back any moon rocks in decades.

Space Race 3.0 is on, and we'll see how different approaches to the research and manned missions will move forward.

The US is currently building out an extremely upfront cost heavy project, but with a lot of long term benefits.

China is building a more straightforward moon project, but with higher ongoing costs, as much of the infrastructure is disposable (more like Apollo).

 

There was an issue on Reddit a while back where people would post some hateful stuff, and of course lots of people blocked them.

After a while, anti-trans, racist, and far-right-wing stuff were only seen by non-logged in users, other bigots, or new people, and they weren't getting the downvotes they deserved.

Is this going to be a problem on Lemmy too? I'm worried that if we're all blocking shitty users that we're just hiding the problem from ourselves, not fixing it.

 

This was a fun project, I had to measure and figure out the iottie thread pitch and then create an adapter to go from a phone mount stand to a backplate on my wireless camera screen for a backup camera on a trailer.

Basically replicated the back plate from the original phone mount with the same tolerances and spacing.

Took 2 test prints to make sure the threads and spacing was right, then I printed it out of PETG. Seems to hold up well, but I might end up adjusting the design over time if it has a weak point.

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