picofarad

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2026-03-27 21:36:23 UTC

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@nprofile…ntm0 I don't get it, they claim Rossman harassed them, too, but CITE NO EVIDENCE. I don't know i've ever heard rossman say "GrapheneOS", but i don't watch *all* his videos.
I don't get it.
also that is a lot of... links... you have there.

2026-03-26 14:13:53 UTC

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@nprofile…pe9m it's pretty hard being a man, it's harder if you have to take drugs to be one, i'd imagine.

2026-03-24 08:34:59 UTC

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@nprofile…36ex is that boxxy

2026-03-24 08:26:15 UTC

what's the politically correct way to say:
boy, microsoft is really screwing the pooch / shitting the bed

2026-03-24 07:59:34 UTC

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@nprofile…36ex you can pay off mama's trailer *and* get a charger, yee-fn-haw

2026-03-24 07:19:06 UTC

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@nprofile…l5js or just World War, since obviously we forgot about the prequels

2026-03-24 07:01:15 UTC

well, sir
https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/116/282/861/008/674/454/original/8a31f556bf5d2a3a.png

2026-03-23 06:16:08 UTC

it is really hard to take people seriously who are still using VHS technology

2026-03-23 04:17:52 UTC

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@nprofile…8x5t this is extremely dangerous to our democracy

2026-03-12 04:22:37 UTC

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@nprofile…7w5t @nprofile…al6u if you can get propane mixed in such a way it burns dirty, certain configurations of that will create mushroom clouds of arbitrary size. Also whatever footage exists from when there was ostensibly testing, those "clouds" were light in color.
I'd speculate that if you have enough force via fuel or pressure upward with this dirty of whatever is on fire; when the fire is choked off by smoke an area of low pressure occurs. need a camera fixed, stablized; not shitting

2026-03-12 00:58:45 UTC

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@nprofile…l5js this is an old (25-30 years at least) joke by i *think* one of the blue collar comedy people. good bit, maybe it's online somewhere.

2026-03-12 00:04:50 UTC

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@nprofile…w4wg remove "vegan", it's basically redundant

2026-03-11 23:57:44 UTC

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@nprofile…9qjf I have literally never used a name brand vice grip

2026-03-11 23:52:34 UTC

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@nprofile…3hmk second mention of orcas squeezing sharks to eat their liver in 5 minutes, that's odd

2026-03-09 22:46:59 UTC

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@nprofile…k3ke such as?
I have like 2, i am trying to build up a decent set so i can make music again, but without dropping thousands on software and sounds this time

2026-03-09 04:53:50 UTC

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@nprofile…w4wg
> be founding father(s)
> try to be reasonable
> "necessary evil for society"
and that's it. one of em said it a few times and here we are.
on the one hand, it's pretty easy to form a lobby. If you have lawyer and writer friends, they can help draft legislation that your new political action committee then lobbies for.
We're talking like $3,000 to effect change, votes can be bought for so little.
anyhow, just a thought.

2026-03-08 17:32:40 UTC

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@nprofile…47q8 how much of a potato? win11 seems to run ok on a pretty weak 7350k, which is *essentially* a single core CPU from a decade ago...
however not using SSD will 100% make a winten/win11 machine a potato.

2026-03-08 17:03:42 UTC

is there a name for people who don't use cruise control and can't maintain a proper speed, except for when the person behind them is legally allowed to pass?
there's a possible converse, where you are in front and you have a tailgater, but they fall behind on curves, only to "catch up" and ride your ass until the next curve? Like, listen here, Scooter, you're obviously not in as big a hurry as you're acting, so simmer the fuck down...
if you need a video with color commentary, i might find 1.

2026-03-08 04:42:57 UTC

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@nprofile…47q8 like how big? zojirushi makes larger ones, but maybe instantpot? you can make a lot of rice in an instant pot, and fast, too.

2026-03-07 20:13:28 UTC

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@nprofile…zm7x was it Russia that developed a way to "dig" a canal with a series of bombs?

2026-03-04 08:22:54 UTC

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@nprofile…r055 "Nine scariest words in the English language, 'I'm from the government and i'm here to help.'"

2026-03-04 04:25:44 UTC

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@nprofile…l83p he did, around the late 90s

2026-03-03 19:53:29 UTC

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@nprofile…l4kz it seems automated. No one is wasting company money like this, are they?
I had a boss when i was contract that set up my excel spreadsheet for timekeeping/invoicing and he put 1.5x overtime pay - contractors don't get OT that way... so the company eventually noticed and asked me about it and i said "i'm using manager's spreadsheet" and that was the end of it.

2026-02-26 01:18:22 UTC

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@nprofile…3hmk whats the 46-54 thing?

2026-02-25 01:43:18 UTC

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@nprofile…d3nc @nprofile…07t3 @nprofile…vf5e i thought the buckle so she could get out and whip his ass

2026-02-25 01:25:16 UTC

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@nprofile…2cv9 "HOLD ME BACK, DAWG, OR THIS GUY GUNNA BE IN THE HOSPITAL, HOLD ME BACK!"

2026-02-22 06:11:48 UTC

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@nprofile…futk there's some good books because transformers are varied and interesting. Like, instead of paying >$50 for a balun for a vertical antenna (or a crappy offset dipole) you can just wind 10 meters of spare coax around a soda or bleach bottle (you know the size) and zip tie it in that form. it's a transformer, a balance to unbalanced transformer.
i have a PSU with the toroid in it like you have there. It is 5V DC at 10 amps or something stupid like that, and it's VPP ripple is like 2microvolts

2026-02-22 06:01:35 UTC

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@nprofile…l4kz WHAT A SCHMUTZ

2026-02-22 05:45:53 UTC

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@nprofile…k3ke i'm not really arguing, here.
starlink sats are ~525km up. There are ~9400 currently in orbit. they want ~4.5 times that many "eventually"
I always forget they're that far up, because of how far up HughesNet sats are (like 36000km up) - I also think that starlinks are only like 50 miles up, all the time >.<
anyhow, the awful fuels aren't used much. I wish we didn't need rockets, too.
I had a plan to get a balloon or drone and tether it above my house as a ptmp antenna platform. $!

2026-02-22 05:28:50 UTC

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@nprofile…k3ke did you mean over-estimate, at the end, there?
and the pollution is on re-entry, apparently, and no one figured that out until recently. stuff like hydrogen peroxide should just have water vapor as exhaust. if they use h2o2 as oxidizer for something like kerosene (literal jet fuel), you do have CO2 as well as water vapor.
and i don't want to belabor this too much: they did a single day/night run. maybe they've gone longer now, whatever.
i've had starlink for nearly 3 years.

2026-02-22 02:46:45 UTC

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@nprofile…k3ke what happens if they collide? you'd need ~1400 drones for guaranteed full coverage (the way starlink is trying to build out). You need 1400 drones that require maintenance when they land (refuel, recharge, check props and joints, etc).
it's a cute idea but just put the stuff in space. it's real big out there.

2026-02-20 23:47:47 UTC

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@nprofile…9f36 how did you get control of your life back.

2026-02-20 22:53:01 UTC

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@nprofile…9f36 does it have a name? also there's been a few memes about this in the past few days, as well as an uptick of insomnia mentions. What's going on?

2026-02-20 22:50:01 UTC

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@nprofile…z9f3 if you read the handbill/booklet that is at every place that provides licenses in exchange for cash, you should be ok. Some states have great laws, like in mine, if you're hunting, law enforcement is not allowed to harass or interfere. This is also true of fishing, so you can carry an AR and a fishing pole anywhere.
so just be cool and you'll never have a problem, most likely.

2026-02-20 20:14:51 UTC

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@nprofile…z9f3 i called my wildlife foundation and asked about legislation like that in my state and they said "only unlawful if you're hunting" and i basically quoted what you said to them to ensure we were using the right framing, "in a tent can't use flashlight... someone may have a gun".
I have heard our dept of wildlife and fisheries ("game wardens") are real assholes. i do know where one lives, though.

2026-02-20 05:55:14 UTC

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@nprofile…9f36 i often get this angry, about similar things.

2026-02-19 20:01:56 UTC

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@nprofile…qzz7 cynicism is claimed to be the opposite of nostalgia. If i thought about it for a while, i could argue it either way.
And i won't forget. i won't forget any of it.

2026-02-19 19:58:52 UTC

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@nprofile…26w0 a real thing that i am glad someone made a video of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

2026-02-19 19:35:19 UTC

i wonder what other factors could make this map
https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/116/098/971/598/691/305/original/397f8590bd13842d.png

2026-02-09 20:17:44 UTC

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@nprofile…kgrj that's "$7,000".
i just ordered two more like the one i have. just means i can't stir fry at home, don't care. :-)

2026-02-08 11:27:21 UTC

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@nprofile…kgrj from experience it has a large lobe to the top, and very small side lobes. found this out recording them from time to time. don't go over it, a) steam b) buzz bs

2026-02-08 06:49:05 UTC

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@nprofile…kgrj i did test 6 cookwares and all six did not heat, but 3 in different ways. the aluminum or steel pans with magnetic bottoms would "click. click. click-click" in a spooky cycle. cast iron no noise no heat.
all six worked immediately after (boil 1 cup of water ~45 seconds,) on a 120VAC induction cooktop.

2026-02-07 17:31:08 UTC

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@nprofile…0nyx i've been to that coffee shop one time. you don't need to be undercover to take a picture. they had some really strong coffee i had, i forget what it's called. it was close to arabic, but not as thick. (arabic coffee is pretty thick, like mud, iirc. I live someplace i can't get anything nice so my memory fades...

2026-02-05 06:49:17 UTC

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@nprofile…p0tr yeah i have lms and comfyui for LLM and visual stuff respectively. I know comfy can do other things (including ace-step v1 currently); but i have my model directories set up in such a way that it'd waste a half terabyte.

2026-02-05 06:40:56 UTC

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@nprofile…p0tr and as far as LLMs go, i've never had luck using one for doing an entire project from start to finish, *except* the 80B qwen, which took something like 4 hours to make a single-file 2048 clone that ran in any browser with js support.
I thought about going in to debt to get a blackwell or a threadripper/epyc with enough ram to load the 650B qwen model, but as i was hemming and hawing ram prices quintupled. lol.

2026-02-05 06:20:55 UTC

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@nprofile…p0tr isn't very big. Hilarious that images, video, and audio are relatively small models. I'm sure there's some massive merges now; however, most of the models i have are 4-8GB.
LLM models? 1TB and up (qwen is considered small at something like 800GB)
If a picture is worth a thousand words then the LLMs should be 4-8x larger, right?

2026-02-03 10:01:53 UTC

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@nprofile…rfn7 he made git and is a git. Coincidence?

2026-02-01 01:45:21 UTC

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@nprofile…f02u why ain't it purple

2026-02-01 01:40:35 UTC

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@nprofile…vggk @nprofile…qr25 it costs much less, there's no blocking of topics on lots of creative LLM models, the coding ones work ok
there's some *thing* that will allow people with consumer cards (16-24GB VRAM) run much larger models than the RAM would suggest, like 120B parameter models. i think.
but i can't remember what it was because i haven't been taking ginkgo consistently.

2026-01-31 14:47:56 UTC

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@nprofile…44yj have they changed the name in the last 16 hours

2026-01-31 12:52:59 UTC

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@nprofile…t344 one of them is famous hollywood celebrity space cop

2026-01-30 19:40:13 UTC

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@nprofile…6449 yeah we could always be homeless, 0 expenses.

2026-01-22 17:08:11 UTC

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@nprofile…7fxa rock on

2026-01-21 08:32:48 UTC

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@nprofile…5ne8 how fast? there's some wall thickness *or* cooling issues on the top layer on the small features, and i don't remember the texture on top being stripes, but it's been a real long time and i always used either white or black PLA/PETG so maybe it's just a weird shadow from the lines?
looks good, though, especially if it was done quickly!

2026-01-21 00:26:32 UTC

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@nprofile…9qjf @nprofile…p0rr adam is cleaning up the HF airwaves!

2026-01-20 23:22:28 UTC

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@nprofile…02ug it's 2022_Surface_Station_Report.pdf i got it here https://heartland.org/wp-content/uploads/documents/2022_Surface_Station_Report.pdf

2026-01-20 23:07:02 UTC

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@nprofile…t3h7 @nprofile…hldt drew it or colored it or what?

2026-01-19 05:47:13 UTC

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@nprofile…9qjf @nprofile…8f3a nine times out of ten this isn't the issue, it's something like, toothpaste, where it doesn't get on the list. I was just a space cadet the other day.

2026-01-19 03:58:13 UTC

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@nprofile…dks9 i was expecting a banana. disappoint.

2026-01-16 22:20:19 UTC

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@nprofile…l4kz is she going to spend time with family, because that's what is really important?

2026-01-16 22:16:10 UTC

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@nprofile…8f3a i did that last night with cat food almost, but "trip to store" is a 45 minute round ordeal

2026-01-07 07:41:58 UTC

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@nprofile…xpq2 apparently me too!

2026-01-04 11:04:04 UTC

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@nprofile…u6vd @nprofile…20nz this is incredibly damaging to our democracy

2026-01-04 10:55:48 UTC

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@nprofile…9qjf @nprofile…8zdt @nprofile…xrfj is that star trek, star wars, or a marvel

2026-01-04 10:34:09 UTC

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@nprofile…l4kz i seen 512GB kits of RDIMM about $400/stick. like $6200, so even cheaper than the $8000 i napkined before.

2026-01-04 10:03:55 UTC

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@nprofile…l4kz okay but i think that might be a fair price. But i'm not sure what the point is, does that seem expensive?
I worked on a server that was $35,000 in 2011(or thereabouts) that had 512GB of memory. I assume the CPUs, chassis, mainboard, backplane, yadda yadda were about $20,000 of that, leaving about $15,000 for 512GB in 2011.
it's $8,000 for 512GB of ram that's like 20x faster?
what's the issue?

2025-12-29 02:11:07 UTC

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@nprofile…609m that last part seems unlikely. Maybe there's more women being paid to be devs or something

2025-12-27 22:30:37 UTC

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@nprofile…lsp2 @nprofile…pza5 i also want to block it at my firewall, what website?

2025-12-27 22:24:37 UTC

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@nprofile…d9n6 eight ounces lol

2025-12-26 09:21:47 UTC

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@nprofile…g5mh i used to go get a few boxes of buffet take out every christmas but the place i liked hasn't been open the past couple of years. So we didn't do it this year >.<

2025-12-25 19:39:16 UTC

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@nprofile…5stt i still can't figure out what happened, but the driver had an out of body experience twice. They got thrown from pretty high up onto pavement, and then it looks like they proceeded to then lose a fight face to face with a horse.
Right before they rotated away from the camera, they looked calm, trying to act cool.
Then asphalt sammy
i don't liked it, zonz.

2025-12-21 19:52:40 UTC

John isn't stupid he just plays one on this podcast

2025-12-21 07:59:40 UTC

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@nprofile…amwt @nprofile…sphu no it's fine, you just said what i said in a different way, i wouldn't have guessed that `-->` meant decrement and compare, because one of them uses -> as a symbol, right? for pointers?

2025-12-21 02:58:22 UTC

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@nprofile…amwt @nprofile…sphu postfix, so it could be, in some circumstances, `while(--x > 8)` as well? or x++ < 10

2025-12-18 21:22:01 UTC

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@nprofile…6hjm lol

2025-12-18 06:51:52 UTC

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@nprofile…vuwr @nprofile…ud6v wake me up when it's self hosted

2025-12-11 10:59:15 UTC

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@nprofile…k2fw from Bebop?

2025-12-09 21:55:08 UTC

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@nprofile…gsr7 that's insane i remember $12 silver

2025-12-04 16:51:26 UTC

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@nprofile…2af7 all of them are from India manufacturers, and none of them are cast iron.

2025-12-03 23:42:38 UTC

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@nprofile…3mhr caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

2025-12-01 19:41:32 UTC

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@nprofile…qjt0 november 3rd was a monday

2025-11-29 19:39:07 UTC

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@nprofile…6y53 10 years, hah. when my brain gets bored of that it thinks of all the ways i can die tomorrow, and when it gets bored of that it continues on to my kids.

2025-11-29 19:02:25 UTC

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@nprofile…6hjm there was supposed to be a solar storm within the past few weeks but i don't remember anything else about it. Some tech doomers mentioned it though and that's the only reason i know about it

2025-11-29 18:30:19 UTC

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@nprofile…v0sv where can one buy a xiaomi car

2025-11-28 02:39:05 UTC

does it strike anyone else as a little odd they had a vaccine for a disease that they'd been working on for 60 years ready around the same time as AI that they'd been working on for 60 years?

2025-11-24 10:53:02 UTC

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@nprofile…dl9j have you tried being a police

2025-11-24 10:01:59 UTC

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@nprofile…ap3a @nprofile…px66 the inhumanity is the point, then

2025-11-24 08:57:32 UTC

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@nprofile…ap3a @nprofile…px66 what does the unhumidified O2 do?
also, ^^ i heard recently that lots of hospitals had closed wings because there were not enough patients to keep the wings open.
also, which i think you're implying, that hospital protocol *killed* people.

2025-11-23 05:16:24 UTC

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@nprofile…6f5p @nprofile…e6kk @nprofile…hr3c the parable of the sour grapes

2025-11-22 22:25:48 UTC

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@nprofile…5stt nitrifying bacteria need copper ions to do at least 1 part of the nitrogen cycle. I used to add copper to my ultra-pure water fishtanks when i lived someplace that chlorinated water

2025-11-22 21:19:14 UTC

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@nprofile…ap3a Wait a minute

2025-11-22 07:36:47 UTC

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@nprofile…earv if she flipflops, marjorossperot greene

2025-11-22 03:03:35 UTC

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@nprofile…tvmz what is that

2025-11-22 02:40:00 UTC

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@nprofile…n94u WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY IN TEXAS THEN

2025-11-22 02:32:24 UTC

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@nprofile…n0ha can someone remove the music and replace it with yakkity sax, thanks

2025-11-22 02:29:18 UTC

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@nprofile…9mdn thanks!

2025-11-22 02:25:48 UTC

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@nprofile…angz should be possible client side. Maybe greasemonkey, prove it works and is simple to implement and maybe upstream will add it.

2025-11-22 02:24:51 UTC

hey what was that book (trilogy?) about the EMP attack? it scrolled off my screen for whatever reason and i don't remember the name or author...

2025-11-22 02:07:14 UTC

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@nprofile…nwx5 *image void in California, New York, ...

2025-11-21 23:21:30 UTC

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@nprofile…x4ud @nprofile…h349 tethered drones exist but i am not sure what a lifeguard drone would do. If it has to pull someone to safety then it can't be tethered but it also can't be battery powered.