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Australian who drank tainted alcohol in Laos has died, raising toll to 4, including an American in c/[email protected]

[–] Varyk 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

a speck of evidence for homemade laotian whiskey being popular?

there are hundreds of homemade bottles at every market.

each market seller or restaurant that has whiskey offers their own homemade laotian whiskey as well.

I'm not from Laos, but I lived there for a while.

Cyber-Security Experts Warn in Open Letter to Harris Election Was Hacked; Elon Musk is "guilty as fuck" in c/[email protected]

[–] Varyk 1 points 2 months ago

"provide a mechanism that makes it possible."

yup.

"a good enough reason for audits/recounts should be done in time to fix the election outcome"

yup.

Cyber-Security Experts Warn in Open Letter to Harris Election Was Hacked; Elon Musk is "guilty as fuck" in c/[email protected]

[–] Varyk -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

that is not "the premise of the whole argument"

read the meticulously sourced open letter based court verified testimony and documents.

pdf:

https://freespeechforpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/letter-to-vp-harris-111324.pdf

Democrats can promise anything they want. The one thing they've consistently shown they can't do is deliver. They can't even deliver a win against the slobbiest politician of our time. in c/[email protected]

[–] Varyk 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

nope, that snopes article refers specifically to the mathematical extrapolations of one separate computer scientist, not the other eight guys who wrote the sourced open letter or Trump's lawyers that have admitted to stealing voting software with the intent to manipulate the election.

That snopes article itself is "wishful thinking"

Democrats can promise anything they want. The one thing they've consistently shown they can't do is deliver. They can't even deliver a win against the slobbiest politician of our time. in c/[email protected]

[–] Varyk 2 points 2 months ago

we're still in the fog of the election, and there's only that one guy that pit forth all those numbers, The other computer scientists are much more concerned that Trump's lawyers admitted to stealing and having access to the voting software itself, so we have to wait for it to shake out, but if those numbers are accurate then they're absolutely insane.

What’s the worst Harry Potter theory you’ve ever heard? in c/[email protected]

[–] Varyk 5 points 2 months ago

thanks! that was a fun read.

now I want to read all those theories.

Oedipus pasta in c/[email protected]

[–] Varyk 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What’s the worst Harry Potter theory you’ve ever heard? in c/[email protected]

[–] Varyk 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I actually don't know many Harry Potter theories, which one does do you know about?

do you have a worst one?

Recently divorced and moved to the countryside, AMA in c/[email protected]

[–] Varyk 1 points 2 months ago

oh, that's interesting.

I travel a lot, and very often as soon as you leave the more populated areas, the stray dogs turn much more aggressive. from one neighborhood to the next.

I pick up a long stick whenever I get in that situation, it's a pretty good deterrent.

I've only lived in one truly rural place in the states, and it was so boondocks they didn't even have stray dogs, haha.

I love gardening, you'll have a great time with that.

best of luck to the both of you.

Recently divorced and moved to the countryside, AMA in c/[email protected]

[–] Varyk 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

do you have plans or hobbies you want to get going now that you're in the countryside?

what are some things you wish you had checked further into before moving?

They come looking for apples in the afternoon. My wife spoils them. [OC] in c/[email protected]

[–] Varyk 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

is that a nyala?

Democrats can promise anything they want. The one thing they've consistently shown they can't do is deliver. They can't even deliver a win against the slobbiest politician of our time. in c/[email protected]

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Mulling Over Morphs - #31 (sh.itjust.works)

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In which the brutality of being child soldiers is explicitly spelled out to dispel any doubt that these kids are not irrevocably traumatized when

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Marco reveals he had a plan to kill tom the whole time in a way nobody would suspect the animorphs of doing it. And obviously in the last book a bunch of them tried to kill Marco's mom, so their moral compasses are pretty much destroyed by having to constantly kill things and make awful no-win decisions result in them hurting people, themselves were being tortured. Oh right, they torture Chapman in this book also.

I like this book because they really let you know that things are not going to be okay and these kids are not going to pull up out of the trauma that's going to shape the rest of their lives. This war has already ruined their morality and ethics and general social interdependency, and things are not going to get better.

This is kind of the book where you know things are not going to get better or get wrapped up neatly, no matter what happens.

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Mulling Over Morphs # 30 - The Reunion (sh.itjust.works)

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Otherwise known as the book that makes everybody cry or throw up

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out of sympathy for Marco's tortured relationship with his mother or because he has to morph into a cockroach.

It's interesting that Rachel has the final sympathetic role in the book, but makes a sort of sense since Cassie, Tobias and Jake conspired to try to kill Marco's mother and he might not feel great about that right now.

Marco gets so hopeful every time he thinks about saving his mother, it's pretty crushing.

But I mean, she falls off a cliff and there's no body, so...t b continued.

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how can I remove an LLM from my Ubuntu computer? (self.linux4noobs)

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SOLVED by joneskind

I have Ubuntu 20.04.1, I've installed ollama and a couple llms, it's amazing, but tinyllama is gibberish and I've just realized I don't know how to remove the llms from my computer or where they're stored, or anything about them.

Mistral is very impressive btw

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The successful domestication of Belyaev foxes (www.youtube.com)

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I learned a lot about donestication from this video. I knew domestication was basically eugenic, but I didn't realize it could happen in so few generations.

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Mulling Over Morphs #29 - The Sickness (sh.itjust.works)

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The concluding scene in which

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Cassie actually goes through with the surgery at having a bit of a breakdown

was maybe the most stressful thing I had ever read up to that point.

I had read a more dramatic events in other books, but I knew the gang so well that it was extremely harrowing seeing Cassie make this decision.

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TMNT Mutant Mayhem is great! (sh.itjust.works)

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This is the most fun I've had with any Ninja turtles media since like that comic book where they had to fight a bunch of stuff some kid drew because he had a magic crystal.

The art is beautiful and very cool, the jokes were really fun, the turtles have great personalities and everyone is a great voice actor.

I had so much fun watching this.

There were even a few spots in the movie, like more than one where I was on the edge of my seat enthralled by the action sequences.

Highly recommended.

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Yea, sure, I mean I guess... (sh.itjust.works)

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Mulling Over Morphs # 28 - The Experiment (sh.itjust.works)

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Hilarious when Marco suggests that ax sees how many cinnabons he can eat before exploding, and ax says, oh yeah no, I already did that.

Also, how weird is this inside cover, why is Cassie giggling and pointing at a cow?

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Mulling Over Morphs #27 - The Exposed (sh.itjust.works)

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Always makes me shudder, when the gang is inside the ocean acquiring some monster.

Especially giant squid, Reading sphere at 10 years old or however old I was terrified me.

Pretty horrifying when they're all half drowning trying to demotph and remorph in the ocean.

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Pretty cool Venber and Taxon inks (sh.itjust.works)

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I think these are supposed to be the iskoort, another species I've never seen fan art of before. (sh.itjust.works)

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praxcrown5 drew a heavily stylized Anubis-derived erek the chee. (sh.itjust.works)

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Little too megaman for my preference，but still very impressive work.