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I’m just this guy, you know?

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Farting

Farting is an essential day to day activity. It helps maintain a healthy lifestyle and keeps bloating away. There are multiple types of farts, but the most common way to categorize them is by the loudness/stinkyness ratio. Essentially, the louder the fart, the less stinky (fully silent farts are the most nocive for surrounding...

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The rankness of a fart can be expressed in decibel-Farts (dBF), a logarithmic scale where dBF = 10 log10(F1/F2).

Characterizing F in standard units is a bit of a chore, but broadly speaking the resolution concentration of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in air for humans-- the concentration at which 50% of people can detect its odor-- is about 4.73ppb, or 4.73 x 10^-9.

A cubic meter of air at sea level (1 atm or 760mmHg) at 15°C contains about 2.53 x 10^25 molecules of mixed gasses. Scaling to a cubic meter, the volume for detection of H2S for humans would be about 1.19 x 10^17 H2S molecules per cubic meter. This value is your F2, our reference intensity for detecting farts.

A typical human fart has a concentration of anywhere between .001ppm and 1ppm of H2S concentration, or between 1x10^-9 and 1x10^-6, or scaled to between 2.53x10^19 and 2.53x10^22 H2S molecules in a cubic meter of air.

Therefore the rankness of a typical fart could be expressed as a decibel ratio vs the resolution density falling somewhere between 23dBF and 53dBF.

This is a useful expression of rankness for modeling attenuation over time, accounting for dispersion, wind drift, and distance from the zero point.

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I love this for VA-7. We need more of this

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I get it. Like trump and Milwaukee, I love gin while I’m drinking it but the next morning I’m like “noooooo, why?”

This is like that, but ipso reverso.

Gosh, I dislike that trump fella.

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Don’t be baffled, White House, you’re being played. We all see it. We know you see it. Quit it.

Pull back the package. Give it to Ukraine instead.

Baffled. Hah! Geopolitics 101 here. Yeesh.

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He needs to take Dark Brandon mainstream. Anti-hero is so hot right now.

“Brandon in my veins” has a flair to it.

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I think this is the point, as much as it is indoctrination.

It will have two effects, one of which is to water down the efficacy of the US military with a bunch of disaffected conscripts and the other to attempt a capture of the “activist” years for what will be the dominant post-Boomer voting block. It is to stamp out some of the more extreme progressive tendencies, like “let’s try not suck hot shit on everything from climate to racial equality to gender equality to economic inequality.”

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I happen to have LMDE installed on a Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 (Gen 3) tablet. It has a stylus that takes a AAAA (yes, quad-A) battery. Its an i5 or i7 Intel processor, and has a 3k Wacom sensor display. I’ve played with Inkscape on it and I think it fits the bill nicely, but it’s also discontinued.

Cinnamon was the only DE with DPI scaling that worked worth a damn, and also had good native support for screen autorotation and onscreen keyboard.

I need to completely wipe and reinstall the system now because I configured my slices too small, and for some reason decided not to put root in an LVM like a sane person would have (it was 2017 tho. Different times…)

Anyhoo, if you can come by one through the refurb market, I think it comes closest to your spec, saving the no-battery stylus.

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That’s a darn tasty lookin’ Pasta Carbonara.

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They’re chocolate curls. You can find then and similar products searching for “dark/white chocolate twists.” They’re not uncommon to find in bougie cafes, coffee shops and bakeries.

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Then, you’re filling the military with a bunch of people who don’t want to be there. Suddenly a sizable portion of the US military is composed of new recruits who don’t want to be there. If only half the people who come up for mandatory service actually get drafted, that’s still more people than are currently in the US military. This will do wonders for effectiveness and morale.

A gift for Papa Putin, you say?

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Putin can get fucked.

Shouldn’t that be a default position in the West?

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Protected from whom,.exactly?

This is one of the more dystopian forms of ‘protected’ I’ve seen used by that camp. Nope, not buying it.

Nope, nope, nope.

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Bet?

What’s different this time?

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This is the court doing its pro forma duties. Of course it’s a troll. It’ll amount to naught, but it’ll be fun watching Team Trump try to make hay of it.

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Are they gonna take this bait and run with it??

(Narrator: They did take that bait.)

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I heard people saying Comer is a drug kingpin. I don’t know whether it’s true, myself, but its certainly consistent with the opinion that the GOP is a crime syndicate.

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How’s he gonna shoot anyone on 5th Ave now? Won’t someone please think of the machismo??

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I get where you’re coming from, and I share in that cynicism. Nevertheless, at least one jury disagreed with that outcome. Several, in fact.

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hard for an average person to even obtain this many felonies

It’s OK, when you’re rich they just let you do it.

/s because because

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34 rulings. It was prophesied!

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I’ll take 2 cases of each, please.

Trump's plans for health care and reproductive rights if he returns to White House (www.pbs.org)

This week on the campaign trail, Donald Trump suggested he was open to restricting birth control or allowing states to do so. He later walked it back on Truth Social, saying he will “never advocate imposing restrictions on birth control.” President Biden and Trump are proposing vastly different visions for reproductive...

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Soooo… which is it? Answer: whichever gets more votes.

This is the reductio ad absurdum of the “both sides” argument. At least, it is for those keeping notes.

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Hey, do you need a new GIF? Seems relevant tonight.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/afd227e3-5685-4b03-bd62-cbb6778cd5f0.jpeg

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Sad trombone is always a favorite.

I love the ambiguity in this GIF. It’s both judgy, and still castigates both sides of an argument for being stupid. Its coming into vogue.

It’s also not mine. Lol.

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It’s the basis of Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal novel, a biting send-up of modern corporate kleptocracy.

Also a BBC miniseries.

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May you live as long as your name scintillates in the ether. GNU, brother.

Egypt changed terms of Gaza ceasefire deal presented to Hamas, surprising negotiators, sources say (www.cnn.com)

Egyptian intelligence quietly changed the terms of a ceasefire proposal that Israel had already signed off on earlier this month, ultimately scuttling a deal that could have released Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and set a pathway to temporarily end the fighting in Gaza, according to three people familiar with the...

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The three sources familiar with the matter told CNN that a senior Egyptian intelligence official named Ahmed Abdel Khalek was responsible for making the changes. Abdel Khalek is a senior deputy to the Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel, who has been Burns’ counterpart in leading Egypt’s mediation in the ceasefire talks.

One source familiar with the negotiations said Abdel Khalek told the Israelis one thing and Hamas another. More of Hamas’ demands were inserted into the original framework that Israel had tacitly agreed to in order to secure Hamas’ approval, the source said. But the other mediators were not informed; nor, critically, were the Israelis.

Oops?

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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/116a816d-2ee7-4816-b91f-86216bf6f2a3.webp

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GenX’ers be dusting off those duck & cover drills.

Nuclear Armageddon? It’s whatever.

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Seeing the numbers of testes cited here as being an odd number makes me feel uncomfortable.

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TST lawsuit in 3… 2…

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I was suggesting TST would be suing Louisiana for access to hang their articles, not suing CoS for IP violations.

Little help here linux guys? Trying to figure out what distro to use

Yeah. It’s another one of these. But! Here me out! So I have some experience using Linux. Run some VMs for services I run in my home, I switched my surface book 3 (funnily enough) to ubuntu for my work computer as I was getting more and more frustrated by windows 11 and it turned out really good. Was able to completely get off...

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Have you tried Mint, specifically LMDE¹? It (Mostly) Just Works™ like Ubuntu, but without the Canonical baggage. It handled my weird Lenovo Carbon X1 slate out of the box. Stable like Debian, progressive like Debian isn’t.

¹ Linux Mint Debian Edition

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It’s a tape that has strong adhesive and a felt-like backer that you would tape over a blister or chafed spot in a boot or shoe. The adhesive is sweat proof, and the felt backer both pads the sore area and also prevents further sliding and rubbing that leads to chafing and more blisters.

In a pinch, you can also use it to patch worn-through insoles.

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That’s the defense, but the prosecution is attempting to build a case that it is true, that the monies moved, and were subsequently misreported on statutory filings.

That last bit is the actual crux of it. Whether the deed was a crime or not, it’s the coverup that gets you the time.

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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1f8a046b-e658-4655-9a59-bd4c50e4de28.jpeg

Well, how did I get here??

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the wreath that is his family tree

Ouch. That’s a burn.

/slow clap
// not /s

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🚩

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Or participated in a Black program that paid enough to cover the risk of fines

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3x3 AoE on a natural 15 or better

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Do you think the House writ large needs to pass another bill before November or was this sufficient to earn their keep?

Just off the top of my head? FAA reauthorization, FY2025 federal budget package, …oh that pesky temporary stopgap funding measure to re-up this summer, some election integrity bills…

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I’m still very dubious of the argument in favor of House Dems working with Repubs.

Compromise starts somewhere, and someone has to go first. Will it be the Dems? Probably. In 2024? Meh. Probably better to not.

I’d rather suffer through a few more months of a do nothing congress, and then sweep the House into a Democratic super majority

For the next Congress? Sure, why not? I know who I’m voting for already. I’m not young myself, but I have young adult chikdren. I’d like to see a more progressive agenda for their sake. The best tree is the one you planted 20 years ago. The next best tree is the one you plant today.

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