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Father; husband; mechanical engineer. Posting from my self-hosted Lemmy instance here in beautiful New Jersey. I also post from my Pixelfed instance.

  • After 3 prototypes and several motors I finally got this cat toy motorized, still pretty loud though I wonder if I can dampen the gearbox somehow

  • Food grade lubricant?

  • Antinatalism mod allegedly bombs fertility clinic

  • We've got to do something about these mods, folks.

  • How do I prune my Lemmy instance?

  • I'm not sure which version of pict-rs it is. The Yunohost package is based on Lemmy 19.11, so I presume the pict-rs version is whichever one normally ships with that. Looking through lemmy-ynh/conf/pict-rs.toml, I see a commented reference to version 0.4.1.

  • Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml
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    How do I prune my Lemmy instance?

    forum.yunohost.org /t/how-do-i-prune-my-lemmy-instance/36923/4
  • Home @lemmy.crimedad.work
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    Turns out that my greenthumb isn't completely gangrene.

  • Belize @lemmy.world
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    American Man Shot Dead After Hijacking Plane In Belize

    edition.channel5belize.com /american-man-shot-dead-after-hijacking-plane/
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    American Man Shot Dead After Hijacking Plane In Belize

    edition.channel5belize.com /american-man-shot-dead-after-hijacking-plane/

  • Eggs are so expensive that some Americans are decorating potatoes this Easter

  • I just bought two cartons of large white eggs for $6 a dozen, here in New Jersey. Half of them are for decorating (and then eating). The organic brown ones on the self above were $13 a dozen.

  • If you could move anywhere to minimize the impact on you of the worldwide rise of fascism...

  • Most of the violence and oppression gets exported, so it's probably best to just sit tight here in the heart of the empire.

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  • Vance himself was a DEI student at Yale. Hypocrisy doesn't matter.

  • Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k?

  • How long until you retire? If you've still got another thirty to forty years of wage slavery ahead of you then don't worry about it. Just keep contributing and make sure to get all of your employer's match, if any.

  • Recent "vulnerability": Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances

  • Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought the issue was with the follower approval feature. Apparently on Mastodon, users have the option to review all prospective followers. With this setting enabled, no one is supposed to be able to just follow your account with a click. You have to approve each one. Pixelfed wasn't honoring this setting. I think it's a bad feature that gives anyone who uses it a false sense of security.

  • [CLOSED] FediLore + Fedidrama @lemmy.ca
    CrimeDad @lemmy.crimedad.work

    Recent "vulnerability": Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances

    fokus.cool /2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html
  • PixelFed: A free and ethical photo sharing platform. @lemmy.ml
    CrimeDad @lemmy.crimedad.work

    Recent "vulnerability": Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances

    fokus.cool /2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html

  • Palestinian Oscar winner lynched by Israeli settlers and kidnapped by IDF

  • The lynching narrative presupposes that the perpetrators are a mob of otherwise normal people driven to take justice into their own hands by extreme ignorance and prejudice that can eventually be overcome by education in tolerance. Is that how you feel about the Israeli settlers? The way I feel about them is that they are not normal yet severely ignorant people. They are invaders who know exactly what they are doing. There is no pretense of justice for them to take into their own hands. They cannot be taught to coexist with the Palestinians they are trying to ethnically cleanse from the West Bank. They need to be driven at gun point back to Long Island or at least Israel 1948. Calling it lynching minimizes the settlers' culpability.

  • Palestinian Oscar winner lynched by Israeli settlers and kidnapped by IDF

  • You should consider how using the wrong words for things might be playing into the hands of Zionists. Maybe you are.

  • Palestinian Oscar winner lynched by Israeli settlers and kidnapped by IDF

  • Part of what makes a lynching a lynching is subversion of the criminal justice process and yes that probably often involved cops joining the lynch mob. However, these Israeli settlers aren't subverting anything. They are not vigilantes. They are attacking and terrorizing Palestinians without any pretext of justice.

  • Palestinian Oscar winner lynched by Israeli settlers and kidnapped by IDF

  • The problem is this case is that 'a lynching' implies that the mob is going against the authorities, which is absolutely not the case when it comes to settler violence. The Israeli soldiers are there to protect and facilitate the settlers in their attacks against Palestinians. Under no circumstances does the IDF deserve the benefit of the doubt and the article makes it clear that they are the ones who abducted Hamdan anyway.

  • German spy agency 'believed Covid likely started in lab'

  • Means, motive, lack of scruples: it's all there.

    I wonder if proof of sabotage actually exists, but whoever has it is withholding it from the public for blackmail.

  • German spy agency 'believed Covid likely started in lab'

  • China already gets a lot of (undeserved) bad press. An experiment breaching containment and causing a pandemic is bad for scientific research everywhere.

  • German spy agency 'believed Covid likely started in lab'

  • Okay, sure, but to what end? It's not clear to me how accusations of an accidental release are bad for China. Is the purpose actually to cover up intentional sabotage by an anti-China entity? It's not clear to me either who it helps or hurts for the COVID-19 outbreak to have been a completely natural occurrence.

  • When buying tools, how important is color for you?

  • [extremely space orc voice] Gotta be red to build faster.

  • What podcast(s) do you recommend?

  • My response from the last time I saw this question:

    • Trillbilly Worker's Party - Kentucky-centric Marxist jokers hanging out. They always know how to put a smile on my face, even if they're talking about bleak stuff.
    • Fun City - Well produced live role playing of Shadowrun. The game is a few years in and I am just invested.
    • ALAB - Lawyers talking shit. They're funny and I like learning about interesting cases. One of the characters they covered actually sued them and settled for an interview on the show.
    • Desert Oracle Radio - Joshua Tree-centric paranormal stuff. Good for an old X-Files head like me.

  • German spy agency 'believed Covid likely started in lab'

  • I don't have any bookmarked, but I did a quick search and found this one from 2023, which looks at the available data and circumstances to argue that the lab leak hypothesis is stronger than the wet market one. I'm not aware of any evidence that has been published that definitively proves or disproves either.

    People seem to have a stronger aversion to the lab leak hypothesis, which I don't understand. To me it seems like the simplest, most benign explanation. However, it does open up the possibility of sabotage. Maybe that's the issue.

  • German spy agency 'believed Covid likely started in lab'

  • That seems like a reasonable challenge to the lab leak hypothesis, but I have to defer to my wife on it. She has a relevant background in microbiology, medicinal chemistry, and pharmacology and says that something about the structure of the viruses suggests convincingly that at least one of the COVID variants was of man-made origin. She's also been working in labs for almost twenty years and has seen too many accidents and near-misses. As a lay person, that explanation makes enough sense to me to find the lab leak hypothesis plausible. Also, I'm not going to disagree with a well-published scientist who is also my wife.

  • science @lemmy.world
    CrimeDad @lemmy.crimedad.work

    NIH Cuts Hit Young Scientists the Hardest

    timmermanreport.com /2025/03/david-baker-on-what-it-means-to-cut-science/
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
    CrimeDad @lemmy.crimedad.work

    Testimony Reveals Doors Would Not Open on Cybertruck That Caught Fire in Piedmont, Killing Three

    sfist.com /2025/03/11/testimony-reveals-doors-would-not-open-on-cybertruck-that-caught-fire-in-piedmont-killing-three/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    CrimeDad @lemmy.crimedad.work

    NIH Cuts Hit Young Scientists the Hardest

    timmermanreport.com /2025/03/david-baker-on-what-it-means-to-cut-science/
  • Home @lemmy.crimedad.work
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    “Sleeve” is a wretched word.

  • Home @lemmy.crimedad.work
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    What's good in Portland?

  • Portland @lemmy.ml
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    What's good in Portland?

  • Cars - For Car Enthusiasts @lemmy.world
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    Thermal runaway prevents rescue of 3 victims in crash, authorities say

    www.nbcbayarea.com /news/local/east-bay/tesla-cybertruck-prevented-rescue-piedmont-crash-victims/3806229/
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
    CrimeDad @lemmy.crimedad.work

    Thermal runaway prevents rescue of 3 victims in crash, authorities say

    www.nbcbayarea.com /news/local/east-bay/tesla-cybertruck-prevented-rescue-piedmont-crash-victims/3806229/
  • Electric Cars @lemmy.ca
    CrimeDad @lemmy.crimedad.work

    Thermal runaway prevents rescue of 3 victims in crash, authorities say

    www.nbcbayarea.com /news/local/east-bay/tesla-cybertruck-prevented-rescue-piedmont-crash-victims/3806229/
  • New Jersey @lemmy.world
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    Check out this New Jersean's sauce collection.

    www.reddit.com /r/newjersey/s/tLIKAqSkPE