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What Newsom is selling about trans people is what Trump is selling his base about trans people: "your life will be better if trans people's lives are worse." It's not a purity test; it's about rejecting a politics that sells you empty promises in…



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@Science Scholar Given how much damage they could do with just a small sub-unit, the possibilities are limitless.


This is Lashar, child of Cavilian and Neston.
They are a Generation 10 fractal.
They are a bit shy.

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QUICK PAID OPPORTUNITY HELPING ANSWER A BASIC ARDUINO QUESTION

My friend is desperately trying to finish making their kids birthday present based on an Arduino project found online.

They're offering $20 USD per 10 minutes ($120/hr!) for someone to get on a quick Jitsi call with them asap and just tell them what wire needs to be attached where.

They're basically on step 2 of building this:
instructables.com/Rat-Operated…

...inspired by @mwl 's ratoperatedvehicle.com.

It's using an Arduino Uno compatible board (from an Elegoo Robot Car v4).

Please DM me so I can put you in touch, or forward / boost to help reach someone who can help. :)

#Arduino #Maker #RatCar #PetRats #Electronics #Elegoo #ArduinoUno #FOSS #BoostOK

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I'm back at a PC, so I found the code.

cdn.mwl.io/RatCar-streetGlow.i…

define PIN_Motor_STBY 3
#define PIN_Motor_SpeedR 5
#define PIN_Motor_SpeedL 6
#define PIN_Motor_DirectionR 7
#define PIN_Motor_DirectionL 8

//configure the touch sensors
const byte forwardInputPin = A0; // the forward touch sensor - black
const byte leftInputPin = A1; // the left touch sensor - white
const byte rightInputPin = A2; // the right touch sensor - red

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Thanks for looking that up @mwl !

The question is where to attach the wires. It looks like (the digital?) pins 3,5,6,7,8 but where do the other ends attach? Ditto the wires attached to the resistors on the breadboard. What's attaching the breadboard to the Arduino (electrically)?

There's so many simple questions that would be quickly answered on a call, without little ADHD ol' me forgetting to relay messages until time runs out.

Would you be game to do a paid Jitsi call for a few minutes?



President Trump Visits Migrant Detention Center Built On Sacred Land

President Donald Trump today visited a temporary migrant detention center in South Florida that is drawing ire from tribes in the state and beyond.
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Australia got off on a technicality for its climate inaction. But there are plenty more judgement days to come theconversation.com/australia-… #ClimateChange


From Packt Publishing:
Cocos2d-x by example (update)

By Roger Engelbert

(Publication date: Mar 2015, Pages: 270)

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#barrel : a round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads

- French: un baril

- German: das Fass

- Italian: botte

- Portuguese: barril

- Spanish: barril

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HAIR SPLITTER. A man's yard.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Microsoft's Copilot struggles to make headway against other AI assistants; Sensor Tower: Copilot's mobile app has ~79M downloads vs. ChatGPT's 900M+ downloads (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

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AI is a spyware platform that no one wants except the petrostate despots investing in it.

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Reminder, these are the same folks that flew airplanes into the World Trade Towers
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This SSD Will Self Destruct in Ten Seconds…

In case you can’t wait for your flash memory to die from write cycling, TeamGroup now has a drive that, via software or hardware, can destroy its own flash chips …read more
#hacking #projects
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