RickRussell_CA @ RickRussell_CA @beehaw.org

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I love it when people post citations that refute their main point.

55 Years Ago: Mariner 2 First to Venus: "In 1962, Mariner 2 completed the first successful close-up observations of another planet when it flew by Venus... Since it orbited closer to the Sun, most scientists assumed Venus was the warmer of the two, and some believed its climate was similar to Earth’s tropics. A young scientist named Carl Sagan, however, proposed that the known high concentration of carbon dioxide in Venus’ atmosphere created a runaway greenhouse effect, leading to extremely high temperatures at the surface."

Seconded, although it's not like gangs of criminals gang-raping innocent people is a phenomenon that demands a nuanced explanation. It's possible that they did it because they had guns, and they wanted to. There are places in India where criminal gangs operate freely.

FYI, Linus Tech Tips got one.

There's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time.

There's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time.

Beyond Good & Evil

Interstate '76

Transistor

The sea shanties from Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire

Not what you describe, but perhaps Cats and the Other Lives would catch your fancy?

Do you have a citation on Rossman supporting Trump?

I can’t say I’ve heard him express any political opinions outside of the fairly narrow lanes of right-to-repair and regulatory abuse.

Ah, sorry, I meant that reply to go to someone else. Apologies.

I really appreciate the moral reasoning that says museums should proactively determine the origins of items in their collections, and reach out to the families/tribes/etc that were affected by the removal of the items and try to come to arrangements.

Sure, sometimes it means items will be returned. But more likely, museums will get a rich background in the history of the affected tribes & families, and be permitted to keep the item on display with appropriate documentation. It's not just good ethics, it's good scholarship.

Perhaps people use Amazon differently than I do. I mostly buy niche items that you simply can't buy at stores, or if you do find them at stores they are astronomically expensive.

Which is not to say I don't switch things up. I order from Best Buy, Walmart, a whole bunch of different places. But on balance, I'm happy with the Prime subscription and use it frequently.

If they interact with you without curling up into a ball of sheer terror, then you're doing pretty good.

Yeah, cowboy bee was my new little bee buckaroo.

I love Laporte's personality, although he's not strong technically. I feel like 90% of schtick on TechTV was to act like a confused grandpa while others did the explaining.

But it's a pretty good trick for running a balanced, and not overly technical, video stream.

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~~Do you have a citation on Rossman supporting Trump?

I can't say I've heard him express any political opinions outside of the fairly narrow lanes of right-to-repair and regulatory abuse. ~~

The thing about Rossman is that yes, he echoes some right-wing talking points. Unlike most of us, he actually is a small business owner who was been repeatedly harassed and mishandled by regional authorities in New York city.

He's a soldier on the front lines of the over-regulation and regulatory capture crisis. And I think folks on the right and left can agree that big companies working hand-in-hand with government to suppress new business hurts poor people. Whether he's talking about John Deere's or Apple's anti-repair stance, Amazon's over-reach when banning accounts for frivolous reasons, or New York's labyrinthine rules, he's really talking about the same fundamental problem: big organizations using rules and regulations to hurt poor folks.

With that said, I think his opinions on those matters are pretty narrowly confined to the details of running a business. I've watched quite a few of his YT videos and I never see him going "out of his lane" to express opinions on broader social trends. He's not opining on abortion or trans people or any of the other cultural touchstones on the right. He's no Qanon nutjob.

With that said, he's not a general interest tech presenter, and he probably doesn't have much to offer the OP. He's pretty narrowly focused on repair and government/corporate abuse.

Virgil's Aenead was overtly fictionalized; it was basically an alternate history version of Homer's work, that inserted Roman characters and themes to recast the story as foundational to the Roman republic.

If you listen to tech podcasts, you might learn what a logical "or" means.

Sure, if I can wait 2-5 weeks I'll check AliExpress.