clew @clew@octodon.social
Math, soil, ecology, feminism, material history, literature of the long nineteenth, waltz, polka, leavened bread. Seattle and parts northwest.
@nein09 ... I think you need a long thing, not a round thing, to do Buffon's needle, but with the *stems* you could estimate.... cherry pi.
(Try the veal.)
Broadway Waltz tomorrow (Friday the 15th) in #Seattle; we start with a free lesson for total beginners, 7:20-8, and dance waltz, polka, foxtrot, swing, tango from 8-10. Always some energetic dances and some gentle ones. You don't need to bring a partner, everyone dances with everyone. Good taster if you wonder if you might like this kind of thing.
www.broadwaywaltz.com
@nein09 Set up the distance markers for pit-spitting competitions!
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A story of electronics recycling, and how the "dumping ground" of the developing countries may not be as bad as the press reports.
Did kid know it was you doing it? How did kid react?
Parental Omniscience seems fine but Learned Helplessness not, I am guessing.
«In 1993, John Gilmore famously said that "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." That was technically true when he said it but only because the routing structure of the Internet was so distributed. As centralization increases, the Internet loses that robustness, and censorship by governments and companies becomes easier.»
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/russian_censors.html
Nice things I needed which I learnt on the fediverse today:
A non-standard genus of silk worm called Eri is much more adaptable to various diets and climates.
It can be used in a more ethical way to make silk yarn - without killing the critter at cocoon harvest.
This provides people around the world with a new way to make homespun clothes, in a kinder way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa_silk
Thanks to @cathal !
@morae I should look up formal specifications languages to pick one in which I can design my todo list app
This company that sells clothing says it had to stop selling to EU because of GDPR. This image IS their site now, it says: "Blame your government (no, really)".
Really though? It's that hard to sell me clothes while respecting my privacy? You only have to blame yourself on this one 😂
@zacanger The Kinesis in particular might not fit you, I just use it as an example of how much clunky I'm willing to put up with to not get a RSI recurrence. Lots of clunky.
Am serious about the exercise, too -- if I slump or hunch everything gets worse fast.
"Speaking fees" for retired politicians show the amazing power of human planning capacity. Humans invented the perfect crime by creating an acausal crime: one where nothing untoward has happened when the effect occurs, by predicting the subsequent existence of a cause, a motive, a bribe, in years to follow.
@zacanger I use a Kinesis for any serious typing-- especially coding -- and even travel with it if I'm going to need to type a lot. Which is a hassle. But I had wrist trouble bad enough to prevent tying shoelaces, or using a pencil, or sleeping through the night, and had to quit all keyboarding for a year to get over it and that wasn't guaranteed.
don't let it get that bad! find a comfy keyboard and probably exercise!
@CountZero I didn't make it through the voice-over in the intro on streaming.
« Plastic plankton, the Anthropocene’s emblematic “microorganism” »
http://we-make-money-not-art.com/plastic-plankton-the-anthropocenes-emblematic-microorganism/
@joeyh How do you incorporate that into using water? Learn the habit of checking for warm water to start soup with, or wash with?
... I wonder if electric teakettles or samovars from elsewhere have this built in already. They should! And it's easier to get the water out!
after some soldering and 140 lines of haskell, I have a crockpot that can be controlled by cron(1), but that otherwise runs whenever there's solar power going to waste, as a #solarpunk water heater
@boobs_idiot @jelle_dc What would abandoning the Army Corps of Engineers works on the Mississippi and Missouri do, is what I would wonder. Which would happen faster than the balance between AGWarming and nuclear winter, however the latter plays out.
@lichen I'm on a slow shared connection and should be doing something away from the keyboard too, but have bookmarked it for later with glee and anticipation. Thanks.
