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Holy smokes. We're at 961 downloads of clipsruby! So so cool.

I just pushed version 0.0.12, adding bload, bsave, bload_facts, and bsave_facts. These methods let you load/save your constructs and facts (respectively) to/from files on your file system. Also added is fact.index, which returns the numeric index of the fact in working memory.

We're coming up on 1,000 downloads. Pretty nutty! Thanks to everyone who has tried out the gem so far :blobcatcoffee: 🙏

#programming #opensource #ruby



Do people who are pissed off by the Cheneys’ endorsement not see how much better off we’d be if many more horrendous wingnuts were similarly outraged by Trump’s hamfisted coup attempt?

Most of them were for like 5 minutes after Jan 6. Imagine if that sentiment had stuck?

#cheney #HarrisWalz2024 #trump #Election2024




Spotify needs to be investigated for Russian connections.

I know y'all may not believe me, Joe Rogan is most likely paid by the Kremlin too.

You may say, no way, a hundred million dollars is too much even for them, but I will point out that they spent about two billion dollars lobbing missiles at civilians in Ukraine last week.

They would pay billions to neuter the power of Uncle Sam and are!
threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/…



S.M.A.S.H. Glory to Gorgon

legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/494301/SMASH-Glory-to-Gorgon

Publisher: The Black OrificeS.M.A.S.H. is the latest game from the creative minds that brought you Etherscope. Bringing the concept of asymmetrical games design to the superhero genre, S.M.A.S.H. is a game where each character has its own unique rules and…



Speaker Mike Johnson Survived the Spring. Now Comes the Fall. (Natalie Andrews/Wall Street Journal)

wsj.com/politics/policy/speake…
memeorandum.com/240907/p9#a240…



"In our Share Your Focus piece we launched the Focus Template Repository, allowing you to make your creations publicly accessible through GitHub. This article takes you through all the steps you need to undertake to do just that, from creation to submission; so if you’re looking for a comprehensive guide, you’re in the right place."

blog.mojeek.com/2024/09/how-to…




Do most people automatically realise that change.org is mostly a scam and the donations they ask for are donations to their company profits?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change.o…

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in reply to ideogram

They *claim* to be a non-profit company, but they're registered in the State of Delaware, which is a notorious scam-haven. My own anxiety about them is not so much about where donations go, but who they share my personal details with.

change.org/policies/privacy#4

in reply to ideogram

I mean, enough people are apparently still donating to Nation of Change that they are making enough of a profit to keep up their scam, so nothing about stuff like this really surprises me anymore.
Ref: blog.kamens.us/tag/nation-of-c…
EDIT: It turns out they _are_ a registered 501(c)3: guidestar.org/profile/27-44967….
I'm still fairly certain they're a scam, for the reasons outlined in my blog.
Also they don't seem to have filed a Form 990 since 2022.
This entry was edited (1 year ago)


"The best coffee in town
is made by a paralegal
with a malfunctioning Keurig
in the kitchenette
in my divorce lawyer's office."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Tired, Saturday by Fawn Parker (2024 Opaat Press/ @annickmacaskill) tinyurl.com/25yn6try

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🚨 Ever spoken about something and the next minute you're getting an advert about it on your smartphone? Almost like your phone is listening..

Well, evidence claims that Meta, Microsoft, Google and Amazon could all be listening!

For more details 👉 👉404media.co/heres-the-pitch-de…

#Meta #Amazon #Microsoft #Google #CMG #CMGpitch #Bigtech #Activelistening

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Jooo, ¿como ponéis un enlace para informar y hay que pagar para verlo? No me gusta. 😠


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All users will be grandfathered in.

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'Mass balance itself is what it sounds like: if you run your assay for how pure your drug batch is, and run a separate assay to determine the levels of any impurities or side products, do those two figures add up to 100%, or not?'

science.org/content/blog-post/…




At my kid's middle school the staff know to connect only Chromebooks to the WiFi.

I provided to him a used Dell Laptop with #Linux installed but this time is not working out...

Now I have to create a double partition with #chromeos flex so he can connect to the school apps...

😖



Hail damage, wildfires and weather are only partly to blame, says industry trade group. There’s also “social inflation.” Plus: Readers and inflation, hospitality careers, and more!

coloradosun.com/2024/09/07/col…



#permanent : continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character

- French: permanent

- German: permanent

- Italian: permanente

- Portuguese: permanente

- Spanish: permanente

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Fill in missing translations @ wordofthehour.org/r/translatio…



$7 trillion per year - that’s the amount of fossil fuel subsidies the world provides according to the the International Monetary Fund.

This includes both direct and indirect subsidies.

HT Assaad Razzouk

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'The discovery of polio in Gaza reminds us that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to assess the true cost of the war. We don’t have a sense of how widespread disease and starvation are – so called “indirect deaths” – and we are in the dark in terms of total number of deaths.'

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…