Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. β¦ This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. βDwight Eisenhower, The Chance for Peace (1953)
This Florida coupleβs home was flooded during Hurricane Helene β paid insurance for 12 years but a 3.5-inch step down to living room meant claim was denied. Hereβs the βlaughableβ reason why | Moneywise
After Hurricane Helene flooded their home, a Tampa coupleβs insurance claim was denied because their sunken living room was deemed a basement. Now, theyβre fighting back, challenging the policy's definition. Could your home face the same coverage risk?
A loss of potential population causes further injuries as well: the States subsequent βdiminishment of political representationβ and βloss of federal funds,β such as potentially βlosing a seat in Congress or qualifying for less federal funding if their populations areβ reduced or their increase diminished.
Your eyes are not deceiving you. Republicans are arguing that teen pregnancy is good because it might lead to another House seat.
βHave we been able to able to contact London?β
βNegative, Commander. All of our primary and backup channels remain down. We have also been unable to make contact with any other British submarines.β
βItβs been four days, now. I think itβs time. Itβs safe to assume something catastrophic has occurred.β
The commander looked solemnly toward another senior member of the crew.
βFetch the letter.β He said.
βAbsolutely, sir.β The officer said, moving out of the submarineβs control room.
βYou see,β the commander said, addressing the remaining crew. βEvery Prime Minister prepares letters of last resort for British Submarines. It contains instructions on what we should do in the event that the government has fallen and we cannot make contact with them. No one has ever opened one of these letters, let alone had to follow the instructions.β
The senior officer returned with a sealed envelope, and handed it to the commander. The commander proceeded to open the envelope. He took out a folded piece of paper and paused.
βWe are a family aboard this submarine, and we may be all we have left for one another. For that reason, I will read this aloud, so we all know the plan at the same time.β
He unfolded the paper.
βHere goes,β he said, taking a deep breath. βIt reads, HP Laserjet P1102W Self Test and Device Configuration.β
The Commander stopped and looked up.
βI believe they may have put the wrong page in.β
It sucks being neurodivergent and loredumping as a sign of affection/trust when you just look like an asshole and have to stay weird and quiet until they know your brain is Abby Normal.
Now a days you can't talk to anyone without splaining them, in my opinion. Most of my conversations are around thinking if I hurt someone rather than having a conversation.
I get excited by dumb stuff and sometimes I just have to explain it to other people because it just feels wrong to keep it to myself. If this makes me seem like a toddler, I'm okay with that.
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Retro peeps: Anyone have any tips for getting a SyQuest 88 MB drive to work? All cartridges spin up but it seems to fail the disc init check and just blinks green LED slowly (no red LED). Adrianβs Digital Basement trick of SilverLiningβs βshort testβ didnβt work.
Apps that claim to read and seek donβt move the head. Self tests (with a jumper) do seek/move head properly.
As I recall, it should eventually settle to a state where you have a solid green light. Until that startup test passes, you indeed will not be able to read or seek, the interface should just return a not ready state.
These drives may be subject to shorted capacitor drama on the logic board. Start with a visual inspection.
@vxo @pleonard Thanks! Agree with the need for a successful startup/solid green LED. I did examine the board which does have a few electrolytics. Didn't look leaky but it's hard to tell. That's likely a good starting point (the vintage matches Macs that suffer the same problem).
@pleonard I recall the startup sequence on these drives being really goofy. It'd spin up, *overspeed* a moment, then go into servo lock, release the head locking solenoid with a loud click, then deploy the heads, read *something* off the disk, and do a quick seek test before declaring itself ready for business with a solid green light
@pleonard If you're able to confirm your drive is working, that may be a good alternative. Ideally I'd love to get mine working (or find another working one).
Boosted, this reminds me of how these wretched things were when they were relatively new. I had a couple of drives and they were so inconsistent, occasionally just refusing to do anything useful for no obvious reason. I think we blamed the humidity at the time.
Hereβs the motherboard from the Syquest 88MB drive. 7 electrolytics with three being suspiciously close to where the heads plug in. Wonder if itβs a signal/amplification problem caused by bad caps.
@adorfer Interesting! I have a cheap LCR meter for testing out of circuit. Do these tweezers work for things in circuit? I didnβt think that was possible/accurate?
not accurate, and only 80percent of the time. But at least it's only false positives "in circuit". in other words: if a capacitor reads fine/similar in at least 2 test-frequencies, one shot less for the parts cannon.
i'm sure you recognize that style of electrolytic from the Mac Classics. it's unbelievably prone to leaking directly underneath the cap without spreading past the edges, so you can never see the leak until the cap has been removed.
OMG it worked! π The SyQuest 88MB has a steady green LED now after inserting a cartridge! After a bit of fiddling with the SyQuest Utilities app, I got it to mount!
Copying files from it is working, although a few files report a disk error. Iβll keep going and see how far it gets.
I actually have a broken drive and some old cartridges I'd like to get the data off of so I'm emailing that yahoo address. I wonder if anything will come of it!
FOIA docs obtained by @josephcox show the Secret Service talking about how they don't need a warrant to track phone locations because people "willingly" gave it away by agreeing to long terms of service docs for random apps
The Secret Service has used a technology called Locate X which uses location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on phones. Because users agreed to an opaque terms of service page, the Secret Service believes it doesn't need a warrant.
Hello, #Introduction time. I'm Meezer a Canadian artist living in Germany with my husband @Kojote_latrans We have four cats named Circe(Canadian Sphynx), Baldr(Modern Siamese) Ishtar (Black OSH) and Victor (Bengal).
I really like cats.
I love reading and making #Comics I currently have two comics available online & in print Synthetic Instinct and Wild Autumn.
Introduce new air quality and PPE rules for health and social care settings - UK #Petitions
We want the Government to set new rules on air quality and #infection control in #health and #SocialCare settings, to prevent and control #airborne #infections, with new #ventilation and #filtration requirements, new #PPE standards and staffing rules, and monitoring and inspection to ensure compliance.
We want the Government to set new rules on air quality and infection control in health and social care settings, to prevent and control airborne infections, with new ventilation and filtration requirements, new PPE standards and staffing rules, and mβ¦
I'm all for this and more, I think it's time to stop being a consumer. Sure, buy it if'n you need it, buy it if'n you want it, really want it, not because an ad told you you wanted it, but keeping the buying to a minimum.
WalMart, Amazon and many others helped put Trump in the White House, let's make sure it costs them.
Stop Press. Apparently this is not true. The account posting is was satire. politifact.com/factchecks/2024β¦ That said, Elon Musk, First Lady has a ring to it.
I really wanted the political lesson of this election to be "Don't run the addled fascist grifter as your candidate, it is political death & you will lose.β
Instead the Republicans were confirmed in their belief that a loud angry (white) man who lies a lot is, in fact, the ideal candidate & will bring you everything you want, plus a pony.
I wanted the GOP to get spanked hard in the name of democracy. Instead the Hand of Fate gave them a full-body massage & a happy ending.
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If anyone in the Pittsburgh area needs help for Thanksgiving, the Hugh Lane Foundation has sign ups for Thanksgiving dinner bags. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIβ¦
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oh hey if you're making zines, a couple years ago I made a lil free browser tool that'll do zine layouts for PDF's, so you don't have to manually flip all the pages around
a little while ago, i posted that LGBTQI need a LAVENDER BOOK, just like Black folks had a Green Book during the Jim Crow era.
i want to make this a reality if it doesnt exist yet. if it does, iβd like to be involved and help.
the Green Book wasn't just a travelogue. it really was an organizing tool, for making visible the literal path of liberation across the neoconfederacy.
we need to work on building networks of resilience more than ever.
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i keep saying this: trans folks need a LAVENDER BOOK.
https://retro.social/@DoctorDeathray/113268288017644554
during Jim Crow, the lives of African Americans traveling across the South depended on the GREEN BOOK, a travel guide thβ¦
Popping in because something occurred to me: folks may want to make sure to get hard copies of any media that the new regime might try to ban. It's smart anyway what with media companies pulling things off of streaming, of course. If there are movies, shows, books or music with queer, feminist or anti-racist themes, get them now in a format they can't just delete remotely.
And for the sake of marginalized creators who may lose our livelihoods, try to avoid piracy if you can.
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