Nicovel0

Family man. Bicycle obsessive. Nerd. Colander. He/him.

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2024-08-19 16:59:57

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@npub1ept…jcl3 I think the strategy is to have the Ukrainian troops laughing so hard they can’t aim at it

2024-06-26 09:18:23

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@npub1psd…9sr7 you could dissolve the plastic bit of the card in acetone and it would still work for contactless purchases. Not much luck with an ATM though.

2024-06-16 16:48:50

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 for less recent bicycle tech it’s easy: if it doesn’t mention Sheldon Brown at some point then it’s fake
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/

2024-06-08 08:08:33

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 the thing Greens in particular but no politician in general wants to admit is this: we need more nuclear.

2024-06-04 06:42:15

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 learn? There are rents to collect Chris.
Ironically at my place the RTO policy has allowed for better union collaboration.

2024-06-03 16:05:22

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@npub1nn8…8sed smegma

2024-05-16 10:45:10

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 the logical end to being a product

2024-05-01 06:17:56

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 and dividends are taxed at a lower rate than income, starving the state of funds and maintaining the death spiral.

2024-04-03 10:48:40

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 my bad, it’s not just fraud. It looks like it’s fraud and crime: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans

2024-04-03 10:43:22

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 is this fraud?

2024-03-23 15:08:45

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@npub1tpv…zwsk @npub1vul…jwy6 I love the French “right to disconnect”
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/dec/31/french-workers-win-legal-right-to-avoid-checking-work-email-out-of-hours

2024-03-23 14:07:55

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@npub1gmx…atcq @npub1t3r…6knd there’s sucking with social cues (autistic here), and then there’s someone literally telling you you’re scaring them. That guy is a predator, not a clueless well meaning “gentleman” as he puts it.

2024-03-20 07:48:40

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@npub10tx…crtk Jesus would have been a rep

2024-02-24 13:09:18

Just noticed the very cute design of the chip contacts on the new style French ID card
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/986/614/390/813/373/original/c2f44c7b8aeeb344.jpeg

2024-02-22 07:15:31

This is what happens when you vote for religious fundamentalists.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/ala-hospital-halts-ivf-after-states-high-court-ruled-embryos-are-children/

2024-02-21 12:08:20

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@npub1psa…xhme Sartre would have loved it

2024-02-20 10:14:25

The kids are all right. Now unionise too ✊
Gen Z are treating employers like bad dates: 93% ghost interviews and 87% have not even shown up for their first day of work https://fortune.com/europe/2024/02/19/gen-z-job-interview-ghosting-indeed/

2024-02-19 18:41:29

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@npub1eee…e209 isn’t it sad that this “Apple retail is so good” comes down to 3 things:
1. You can talk to a human fairly easily
2. They are empowered to make rational decisions, including refunds
3. They don’t jerk you around for weeks hoping you give up
Which really should be what we expect from all retailers.

2024-02-01 19:22:10

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@npub1mmf…eknq wait isn’t his job to ask people how they are? It’s a complete mystery this man can still work as a psychologist.

2024-02-01 09:27:43

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@npub1psd…9sr7 as a SF writer you may like the Tales from the Loop. Their adaptation of The Expanse was very good too, if you’re into space stuff.

2024-01-20 09:58:46

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 I suspect it goes like this:
“yes I may be banned from being a director and the companies I led crashed and the employees lost their jobs and pensions, BUT all C-Os and investors got new yachts out of it”
“Hired!”

2024-01-18 12:59:52

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1ywe…e54g yeah astronomers aren’t too thrilled about that

2024-01-18 11:10:59

It may be that in particularly fat fingered, but I find tapping on the “reply” and “boost” icons quite difficult on @npub1rk3…43sg. I often end up opening the link/image several times before getting it right. Is it just me?

2024-01-05 08:10:55

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 eyeballing the graph it looks like the first inflection down was in the 80s, I.e. Thatcher and Reagan’s Star Wars, and second inflection seems to happen same time as 9/11 and the war on terror. Could it be that this was, like much in the west, self inflicted?

2024-01-03 19:30:11

It looks like 'CORNICES CENTRE®' are about to discover what the Streisand effect is. That’s 'CORNICES CENTRE®', whose driver apparently can’t overtake a cyclist in a safe fashion.
Cyclist threatened with legal action for posting video of close pass by driver in company-branded van https://road.cc/content/news/cyclist-threatened-with-legal-action-over-close-pass-clip-305935

2023-12-16 10:01:11

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 the usual privatise profits but socialise losses. As old as capitalism itself.

2023-11-21 19:54:51

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@npub1ywy…cksd this content was made for OnlyFans

2023-11-13 07:09:17

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 all that just to save £4bn too, a small sum in the context of government, and that could easily be recovered and more by going after tax evasion.

2023-11-11 17:04:13

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@npub1raf…pqln @npub1psd…9sr7 Musk is supposedly a big fan of the Culture novels, from which he has clearly learned nothing beyond “spaceships and AI are cool”

2023-11-11 10:27:02

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@npub1l25…zu3s @npub1g0t…tvm4 most governments dealt with the pandemic extremely poorly in the wealthy world. I think the only one that got it right was Japan, possibly a handful of other Asian countries and some in Africa. Their problem was getting hold of vaccines (still is). They were screaming to be sent some just when the antivax fever was reaching its peak in the west.

2023-11-05 09:41:45

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@npub1hh2…y5zf @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1th6…qhym @npub1pep…d78x they’re >< that close from outlawing any other party

2023-11-02 09:07:11

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@npub1xzm…eykm Cory Doctorow tried that and quickly regretted it. Careful what you’re letting yourself into.

2023-10-11 07:14:46

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 I suspect this is a blip because of sky high interest rates and cost of living. Most new cars are bought on finance.

2023-09-30 13:50:56

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@npub1efv…4jx2 @npub14pk…80yc IMO LLMs are better because they have a huge amount of data of text that makes sense, in a way that is pretty readily codified (grammar, orthography). That’s probably why the first successful uses of generative AI were to write scholarly articles. Visual is an order of magnitude harder to make sense.

2023-09-07 09:03:06

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 this is good for EU access to the U.K. fusion project, and for U.K. space research. But in many other areas the damage has been done. I work in scientific publishing, and I could see real time the effect of leaving Horizon. The EU was very smart in spending the released cash in southern and Eastern Europe, and we could see more high impact papers coming from e.g. Spain in biomes research and countries like Slovakia in material science. Good for them I say.

2023-08-25 19:56:55

Sourdough is even more brutal
From: @npub1k4q…3lsq
https://mstdn.ca/@ned/110945615931199317

2023-08-24 19:57:58

Motorists here making a strong argument in favour of permanent gps monitoring
Driver caught speeding past child cyclist at an "eye-watering" 61mph in a 30mph zone outside school https://road.cc/content/news/driver-zooms-past-child-cyclist-eye-watering-61mph-303435

2023-08-08 21:14:11

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@npub1yyx…qa5g poor, unlucky developers

2023-08-08 08:23:05

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 if the U.K. gov wants to recover large amounts, they could start by looking into wide scale Covid grants fraud and recruit tax and work inspectors. Would pay for itself many times over.

2023-07-20 08:10:08

When it’s for them, it’s rewarding skills to retain talent.
When it’s for us, it can’t be done because it fuels inflation, or we’re going through a tough time and we need to tighten our belt, or “fiscal responsibility”, or…
From: @npub1g0t…tvm4
https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/110744888269464045

2023-07-04 14:35:36

World beating woohoo
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/656/311/868/039/143/original/abf162f45d91b3a7.jpeg

2023-06-20 18:51:53

Let’s keep in mind this is the American south too: abortion doctors have been shot before and I worry that they may add vaccine scientists to their hit list.
Vaccine scientist hounded by conspiracists after Joe Rogan targeted him on Twitter https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/peter-hotez-joe-rogan-elon-musk-vaccine-specialist-b2360683.html