A cranky biologist who means well. My hobbies include long walks off short piers and anything science related.
Your father is not coming on anything!
Not one bit true. If you choose to be honest about being bi, many heteronormals find it a turn off.
She had the most interesting childhood too. The “K” in her name stands for Kroeber, after her father, a famous anthropologist who is known for letting Ishi, the last living member of his tribe, live in their backyard. It really helps her work and perspective make sense when you know she is a dyed in the wool anthropologist.
Maybe not. You will have the same number of tax preparers chasing less work. Through the magic of the Free Market™️, shouldn’t that mean pressure to reduce prices? We can only hope.
Not quite. I think you may be referring to their genome transplant. They used a natural cell and completely replaced the original genome with synthesized DNA. Whereas this project did not rely on existing cellular machinery.
Grooming the youth, that’s the kind of indoctrination you need. As a missionary, the only non-indoctrinated adults who got into the BoM were, let’s say, simple.
Mahana, you ugly!
No, guys, it isn’t racist it’s a parable that explains to women they only have value if they can get a relatively rich man to pay attention to them.
/s
DO. NOT. FUCK. WITH. LIBRARIANS.
(they are organized and they will hurt you)
It’s like, their whole thing!
By any chance are you a fan of Strong Towns? If not they are very active in trying to kill Stroads
I mean, I just admitted to lying to pollsters at every opportunity in another post. I know I am not the only one who wants to watch the world burn. I want the polls to be unreliable!
Jump-humping is the preferred nomenclature
This is why I may never be able to fully repair my relationship with my religious father after my own journey out, because I love him too much to undermine the belief that sustains him as an 87 year old.
My own journey out has been incredibly painful and challenging but that is MY life path, not his. He stuck with my mother for 25 years to the very end after her Parkinsons diagnosis and he got to watch her choke to death on some food at the end.
I really believe my father doesn’t need the religion to be that good and faithful, because he is just basically made of good stuff. But I will never attack his faith even though in my heart of hearts I find the foundations of that faith to be risible. What would be gained? What would it say about me if I did?
No, i did edit it to include my actual photo. Plus I am being super sarcastic and that may trigger some filters.
You sound like you mean well, but this is not helpful advice. You are essentially telling someone who is obviously a conscientious person and struggling that they have a character flaw.
Why local elections matter more than the presidency
This is US focused but the principle of being involved in local issues is universal to all democracies.
Can I rant for a minute?
Why does every thread about voting devolve into bitching about the flaws of the Electoral College?
Fun fact: the Electoral College only pertains to the Presidency and there’s almost nothing you can do about that directly.
Think local, that’s where you can make a difference. Your local school board has the power to either support students or drive them to suicide. Local races frequently turn on a handful of votes.
So go ahead, sit out the election because the choices for president stink. I humbly submit that your superior moral stance may not be based on very firm principles. That trans kid down the block didn’t need your help anyway. /s
Would anyone like to discuss the Democratic caucus?
Aside from the fact it was a zoom meeting of almost 100 people mostly over 60, it was alright.
I should edit my title: What sort of personal demons drive a person to participate in party politics?
1000 Blank Cards experiences sought
I played this game back in the 00’s and had a pretty good time. My friend group was quite creative at the time so everyone got it. It was a raucous good time.
I’m just contemplating trying again and was seeking experiences and maybe tips on pulling off a successful session.
Some mental health experts are advocating for religious trauma to be considered an official disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Booting from a RAID1 volume on Pi Zero 2?
Hi, question for the group.
I have a pi zero 2 running the lite OS suggested by the imager. I’ve been able to create a RAID with 2 240gb SSD on the usb port. Even during a peak read/write stress test, the power draw for the whole system doesn’t exceed 800ma.
Anyhow, ideally I would like to boot from this volume and elimante the SD card completely, but have been stopped by not even being able to boot with the root set to the RAID and the boot dir still on an SD. I can get it to boot when /usr and / var are on the raid
Has anyone any insights on different things to try? Perhaps even a good reason this can’t work would free me from this fools quest so my project can advance?
Let’s not send a few thousand people to Mars as a big experiment in survival.
A book review on the latest Weinersmith creation. It’s true, there is so much we don’t know.
Just throwing this out there on this forum because missing technology is the problem that kills the dream of Mars, according to the authors.
Morning glory
Morning glory in a bucket on a balcony. It’s watered automatically by a solar powered gizmo I made too.
In this article, we explore whether the recent addition of the M2Pro chipset to the Apple Mac Mini family works as a replacement for your power hungry workstation.
Is it? This review is pretty thorough with some realistic benchmarks. Spoiler: it won’t replace an entire data center, but it works for model development and testing. Enjoy!
Learn more about Strong Towns, the international movement to grow stronger and more financially resilient cities.
I just wanted to introduce this group to Strong Towns, a non profit devoted to making development make sense. I worked with the founder of Strong Towns years ago when the idea was new.
The issues and framework of Strong Towns transcend partisan politics and instead gathers people under the banner of demanding that our towns be built to upon principles most any reasonable person would want to see enacted. Principles like: development responsive to local needs and financial transparency.
Please check them out.
Trouble upgrading from 18.0 to 18.1
I am trying to upgrade using the ansible playbook from 18.0 to the latest.
I issue ‘git pull’ and ‘ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts lemmy.yml --become --ask-pass --ask-become-pass’. This worked the first time I upgraded to 18.0, but now I get:
TASK [Install Docker Module and docker-compose for Python] ****************************************************** fatal: [[email protected]]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “cmd”: [“/usr/bin/python3”, “-m”, “pip.main”, “install”, “-U”, “docker”, “docker-compose”], “msg”: "\n:stderr: error: externally-managed-environment\n\n× This environment is externally managed\n╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install\n …
Is there something obvious I’m missing? Much appreciated. Mostly confused what has changed since my own system config has not since the last successful upgrade and the changelog doesn’t indicate any needed config changes.