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I for one, would like the >10% water used for alfalfa exports to be contingent on California having sufficient stored water.

24.12.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good point, and it highlights my lack of ingested Kool-aid. Teaching corn plants to push roots down by six inches would capture our entire excess and the budget for researching putting out coal fires has seven or less digits. I shall others pursue these fights.

24.12.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, this happens sometimes. You will see the lightbulbs about three quarters full of liquid.

Just top them off and you should be good to go.

23.12.2025 09:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine if @governor.ca.gov announced a plan to explore government paid healthcare for children under five. Bounded; just a plan; revolutionary.

20.12.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some solutions are not about CO2. For example, vertical precision farming is about consistent quality for organic human crops. Like everything, it depends.

20.12.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The hatred of humans comes from our fiction. StarTrek concerns itself with a dozen star characters and some cannon fodder. Every film, and most writing embraces the idea of a few people who matter fighting. In contrast, CyberPunk portrays a milion niches for humans.

20.12.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My favorite quote from a Carbon Capture summit at RAND was that if we could engineer corn plants to push roots down six more inches, there would be no more excess atmospheric carbon.

10.12.2025 05:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Citogenesis

Oops. misspelled citogenesis. xkcd.com/978/

01.12.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some have written this, though no one authoritative. It actually looks like one of those stories that suffered cyto-genesis to justify a whole story that may be cyto-genesis.

I did see the Admiral's statement before the press secretary's statement.

01.12.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Think it through.

There is a quick public backing of a police officer dying in the line of duty, in performance of duties.

There will be a slower and more careful examination and policy changes quietly executed.

21.11.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Confused.

TL;DR: Washington Post publishes one paragraph saying new Coast Guard policy coming. Coast Guard replies: "Da Fuq?"

21.11.2025 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What happened to Forbes? How did they stray so far from pushing the American Capitalist dream?

09.11.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Nothing important

Nothing important

Missed a videocall today because time changed in California but not in the other country.

Does *anyone* like Daylight Savings Time? Is there any possible way to kill it? In California, we passed propositions, extracted promises, and more. Yet that zombie lives on.

04.11.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So the new awards have red stars on them for 'reasons'?

28.10.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good to know that Malcolm Forbes' magazine showcasing rising business owners has moved on from doing bios of old executives and is now tackling important business information.

15.10.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, bear of little brain not understand.

Troops wait for real orders for ceasefire. Order comes from government. Issue is that troops not watching news for orders?

Military takes orders from government is kind of the definition of rule of law.

13.10.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately, the TL;DR: Burbank transfers its air control radio to the main trunk, which they usually only do a bit later in the day.

09.10.2025 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

TL;DR: "We report, you decide."

08.10.2025 03:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Single Payer System" is a guaranteed loser: its too big, upsets too many rice bowls at once, and opens too many questions about our priorities..

"Government provided pre-natal, bith, and first year pediatrics care" is a likely win.

25.08.2025 05:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
PROPAGANDA For High School Kids In 1948! Would They Show This Today?
YouTube video by David Hoffman PROPAGANDA For High School Kids In 1948! Would They Show This Today?

Today's interesting video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AGp...

"Your study of proganda is important not only to you, but to me."

05.08.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember ancient Hercules graphics cards and some deep manipulation software letting one play with scanning voltages and timing. No spark advance on a modern car either.

31.07.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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3Blue1Brown - But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction. An animated introduction to the Fourier Transform, winding graphs around circles.

Bingeing on 3 Blue 1 Brown videos today. Fourier transforms explained graphically and attention layers in LLMs are a wonderful way to avoid problems!

www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/four...

31.07.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, try as I might, I cannot find a message in this comment! :)

31.07.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Have people started naming and shaming those that frequent his golf course?

28.07.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Actually, messages being encrypted provide help only to after-the-fact investigators. Those trying to control demographics, find cohesive groups of people, sell goods, and other tasks are only interested the who and when of a conversation.

I want many encrypted chats, for me or not.

28.07.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yous are almotst certeainly rigght. Unfoartunnatly, I cannoot find the origginal corrrect meassage fphrom yyou.

28.07.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Our future generation of combat drone pilots thanks you for your service.

28.07.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happened to talk to PUC folk; there is a strange united front of 'wind rights' investors and first world tribes. Last seen, only other off shore wind is a country using it to power nearby oil rigs. Transmission line costs are the issue.

22.07.2025 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
TryAPL

I was doing something and then fell into the fascination of APL. tryapl.org

22.07.2025 04:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, perhaps I was unclear. Windfarms on land and near shore windfarms both has great returns on investment and follow good technological curves until the number of good sites is the limiting factor. Off shore windfarms are kilometers out to sea.

21.07.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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