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  I’m sorry but everytime I read of a solution for all the plastic and microplastic in our environment being eaten by a microbe, I can’t help but think of Crichton’s Andromeda strain, where most of the plastic being eaten was vitally useful. A story that should be in the back of anyone’s mind of anyone expecting a biological solution. The world is rife with examples of invasive species that were initially brought in to solve a problem, or simply looked attractive.

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  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/116999756208606118 Maybe ‘stack’em high!’ warehousing isn’t the best idea in areas prone to earthquakes.

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  @marcoarment@mastodon.social Those bemoaning the ‘lack of whimsy’ in Apple Operating systems— be careful what you ask for.

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  @marcoarment@mastodon.social ‘Hey what if we made it like a hula hoop?’ ‘Done’

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  @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone @wellingtonrock@mastodon.social @verge@mastodon.social My initial feeling that someone simply wants to kill such platforms entirely.

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  A popular illustrator

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  Thinking of the Bible as a collaboration between the chamber of commerce, registrar of deeds, and real estate agents of the Levant.

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  I charge my Apple Watch before bed so that it will have plenty of juice to track my sleep. Then I put it on, and always the thing it says first is… ‘You can still do it!’ Look Mr. Watch, I am not going to close my rings. I am going to close my eyes.

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  Cpap mask with ir camera that tracks actual rapid eye movement.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116498994450341438 The down side doesn’t get much press in the states, since they can’t be imported to US. But they do draw attention on 3 very dominant issues for the U.S. market: Range, charging time, and price.

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  I don’t dislike or hate sports I merely like them in ways totally foreign to your rituals.

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  I’m looking at some site of historic photos of places that are gone, written in html 3.0 it appears (can’t see source in this smart phone. It is a horrible layout and ui for viewing the photos on a smartphone. I’d like to, with minimal effort, view the images as a slide show with captions. There is probably some controversial modern method that would rewrite the site in the new format on the fly.

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  @krishnadraws I used to think Landau replaced Nimoy, but apparently I got it backwards?

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  @scalzi they make some really excellent stuff.

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  @SmudgeTheInsultCat Hey ho whatta you know?

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  @scalzi I’d probably read the most gloomy paranoid dystopian one. But that is not ANYTHING I want to carry into the new year, fiction or IRL nonfiction.

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  Where’s James Bond now that there are so many Bond Villians running around unchecked?

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  RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/116363328282851044 I happily took a demo as many did. The realization from the demo staff that it was not going to lead to a sale was a palpable sadness. It should have been seeded as a developer’s kit. I like it. It will only get better. But we know what i$ holding it back.

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  I was today years old when I realized the Beatles ‘Butcher Cover’ for Yesterday and Today was more than the Beatles taking the piss by being dada and bad taste to thumb their nose at ridiculous levels of fame, or, perhaps, a commentary on war, killing the babies. The part I today realized on my own was it referenced the repackage of their albums for the U.S. They were already taking their albums as a gestalt statement, and Capitol was butchering them. Wiki confirms-common take. I missed it.

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  Apparently the markets most interested in a folding iPhone do not speak English as a native language.

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  So did the Artemis II crew take that selfie of everyone? You know, the four astronauts in the foreground as the entire planet Earth and its inhabitants photobomb the shot in the background? Perhaps next time they make the voyage.

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  Anyone with any insight able to answer this question? Why is Netflix going into streaming games? Whose milkshake are they drinking exactly? Are they feeding ads into the games? I get that if they actually do get someone to play a game, that is customer engagement they are capturing that competitors are not. Especially depending on the stickiness of the game. The right game will engage for hours longer than a film or series episode Is it a good play for Netflix? A new lock in? Who wants this?

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  Can anyone recommended an #iOS #WatchOS sleep tracking app that works outside of the designated window of #Sleep focus iOS defines? My work schedule often intrudes into that 8 hour window, and I nap outside of that frequently. Or start or end sleep out of sync with its attention. And sometimes, my Apple Watch is on the charger when I fall asleep. That sleep does not get tracked (‘Bad Sleep hygiene!’, the App admonishes!) But I’m always in bed, the same room.

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  I say yee-roh. But when the Mediterranean guy handing me a pita and shaving the shawarma kebab or whatever says Hard G Gee-roh, I wonder if there is some regional variation. By the way, I have never calmed it J sound soft G Jee-roh, although I hear that back too. And I have never calked it Jy-ro, as in Gyroscope or gyrocopter.

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  On dead bird site, I followed a comic artist I stumbled upon. Eisner award winner. He posted videos of his drawing work in progress. I thought he was great I went to a comic store to buy some of his books.. Not only were none of his books in stock (major publisher) the proprietor couldn’t even find him in his online database, even if I mentioned the titles. The owner running the store is a fool who refers to books as ‘keys’. Haven’t been back.

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  @flargh@mastodon.social I’d eat it. But I think trail mixes sometimes try to avoid meltables like the exteriors of goobers or raisinets. Or go whole hog naturalist Euell Gibbons on the mix. But an overheated hiker may not want to reach into a bag of goo. Trail mix should survive the interior of a parked car in the summer sun. Planters nuts has tried to market some trail mixes lately, and I can say- not impressed. Buy the mixed nuts, use your own add-ins. Get dangerous depending on weather.

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  @mattsheffield@mastodon.social @Barbramon1@mas.to I suppose this means the only trustable bylines in newspapers will come from Reuters. The rest is low quality propaganda the owners farm out to their papers.

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  TIL 1880s Australian Ghost Hoaxing was a thing.

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  There may be no atheists in foxholes, but there are a shit ton of them in the military, and they don’t appreciate being told they are fighting a religious crusade.

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  I hate it when the tech news site repackage the great blog post you read a day or two ago into some clickbait headline with less info and more ads.