At the age of 90 year old, Czech former agricultural worker Agnes Kasparkova continued her 13 year project to decorate her small village with hand-painting traditional Moravian motifs on the local houses.
"She painted the designs entirely by hand without using stencils. Over several decades, her artwork transformed parts of the village into a living example of preserved folk tradition and craftsmanship"
https://streetartutopia.com/2025/05/25/its-never-too-late-to-pursue-your-passion/
@Uair fwiw, I see no flaws in your theory -- not that it's true in all or even a majority of cases, but it very much tracks with evidence we've seen from some departments.
My large-scale solution is that we need to build our own power-bases... and I have a whole lecture about that which I need to write / rewrite / update / consolidate / something. :blobcatupsidedown:
And the more I learned about what autism actually is like, the more I realized that I am a professional and I'll fix it!
@Uair The big question in my mind for the past few years has been: who has the authority to fire misbehaving officers (or even entire departments, if that's what it takes), and why aren't they using it?
I suspect the grift runs deeper.
@farah Contrary to some reports, you don’t have two brains -- Houston, we have a controversy... :D
This looks to me like one of those things that arises because of different nuance in word-definitions. Neither position is incorrect; they're just attaching slightly different meaning to the word "brain" -- one of which is probably more in accord with the scientific consensus, but that doesn't mean that the other one is wrong or even particularly misleading.
That said, I haven't read this whole article yet...
@gildilinie This clearly violates the "if a headline asks a question, the answer is no" rule.
Related thought: is there a way to have 2 phones side by side, where one of them is just acting as a 2nd monitor for the other one?
If so, then someone should make hinged double-phone cases.
🚨 ALERT 🚨 for all #FOSS projects out there which get donations via PayPal.
In the last 2 days we've gotten several donations (some as "purchase") ranging from 250 → 500 USD. Always same amount as USD (which was suspicious since we rarely get USD).
The trick of the cheaters: They will open a "Paypal Buyers protection" case and if you just send back the money rather than "cancelling" the real transaction, they will get the money twice...
Suggestion: Mark it as fraud and let Paypal resolve it.
@artemis ...but, like, where did he get his information in the first place? (Did it spring fully-formed and perfect from the head of Zeus?)
It seems like he's giving some sources a special exemption -- like, they're not really "sources" or something, so therefore he can just believe them without thinking.
(I guess he doesn't have much training in science, huh.)
RE: https://todon.nl/@emilyenco/117326772790780827
Applied for 13 jobs, I am desperate.
I have a mortgage on a house that isn't built yet.
I need to find something soon.
I haven't felt this stressed for a situation pertaining myself since ever, not even fascists or riot police have made me feel this stressed out.
I need a hug. (and a job)
@artemis Has he considered the possibility that (a) the information he is getting is also biased, (b) smaller samples generally result in greater bias?
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Weeee want the funk!
Gotta have that funk!
Weeee want the funk!
But everybody wants the funk
to wind a piece of string around.
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(I need to think of one that doesn't involve They Might Be Giants... >.>)
I've been working on an HTML-first web app framework.
It was basically working, and then I broke it and then I got sidetracked multiple times. The Web Gods clearly hate me.
@riley Is that accompanied by a very mild sore throat, perchance? (This is a bit of a shot in the dark...)
Fun fact: the U.S. Constitution does not require citizenship to vote.
I'll repeat that: the U.S. Constitution does not say that only citizens can vote. It does not ban non-citizens from voting.
A federal *statute* contains this requirement, as do many states' laws. But if the law was changed to, eg, allow any permanent resident to vote as well, that would be fine constitutionally (and probably a good idea imho).
So don't let people get away with just assuming that "only citizens can vote" is a given. It's not. It's a policy choice.
Also Mentour Pilot mentions it a lot. I've found several of the aviation-safety ideas he talks about to be useful in other contexts.
cc @rhempel