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mike morris

mikro2nd@indieweb.social

<p>writer; software maker; gardener; craft brewer; tools-for-thinking research; ageing anti-authoritarian; apprentice human being</p>

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    DDT was useful, too.

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    The sooner software makers have to bear full legal liability for their badly designed, faulty products — just like every other class of product manufacturer has to — the better.

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    @randahl@mastodon.social &quot;Mum, why do we live underground?&quot; &quot;Well son, when the Earth became uninhabitable because a bunch of rich guys polluted it into runaway heat, we wanted to escape to Mars, but we couldn&#39;t get there because a bunch of rich guys put so much shit in orbit that the debris from collisions destroy any rocket that gets launched. Nobody wondered why just one rogue nation got to decide to allow them to do that.&quot;

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    It&amp;#39;s become clear to me that the United Nations, despite continuing to do many good and useful things, has become unfit for its primary purpose: preventing war. Difficult question: How to restructure the UN to achieve that aim? Most difficult question: How to get the many Nation States to agree to such (hypothetical) restructuring, particularly the warmongering permanent members of the Security Council? #systemDesign

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    Can we just stick to stating time using UTC±x zones, please. I neither know nor care nor can be arsed to find out what your FubarDT timezone thing is.

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    Your irregular reminder that BMW is an intelligence test. If you bought one, you failed.

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    Weather forecast for 222mm of rain next Wednesday. Time to build an ark. Actually, we&amp;#39;ll be fine (house on high ground) but we might easily get rained in for a few days if the road floods, as it occasionally has done in the past. Many of our neighbours who&amp;#39;ve moved here only in the last 5 or 8 years have *no* idea what they might be in for. Personally I have my doubts about the forecast; model artefacts happen when you have floating point numbers driving an inherently chaotic s...

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    So that&amp;#39;s the last of the Winter crops sown (Broad Beans, mainly to build up the seed-stock for the next season). I&amp;#39;ve missed gardening these last few years. #winterIsComing

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    RE: https://archaeo.social/@AncientEgyptianDate/116418576709867450 Happy New Year!