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Aspie 2 points ago +2 / -0

The full video is great.

I knew a lot of the words on her list, but I read more, took Latin in high school, and have lived a long time.

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

Bird poop on the solar cells, for the ones that use solar cells for power. Bird poop on the lens for the others.

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Aspie 2 points ago +2 / -0

I got it to work on Firefox, when it wouldn't work for me on Brave. Perhaps Brave is too secure. My town has only one camera, and it's in the middle of a black section with no major streets. I will never be anywhere near that camera.

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Aspie 4 points ago +4 / -0

That site won't render on my computer using Brave. I have used another flock site that does work, but I can't remember the URL now. I just found one at https://dontgetflocked.com/maps. This one shows a single flock camera in my entire town, and it's in the middle of the black section far from any major streets.

I got the deflock site to work on Firefox, and it shows the same single flock camera in the same spot in the black section of town.

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

My town doesn't have any of those cameras. There are several cameras from some other source at a couple of major intersections, but I don't have to go through those intersections to get anywhere I need to go.

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Aspie 5 points ago +5 / -0

I tried calling the IRS the other day. I called three different 800 numbers. I could not get through to a real person at all. I can't get what I need on the IRS website either. They require me to log in using id.me, but they now require me to have a smartphone, which I refuse to have, in order to chat live with someone and show my drivers license to prove who I am. So the IRS has a refund for me, but I have no way to get it.

You'd think that with all the people employed in DC, at least one person could answer the phone.

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Aspie 2 points ago +2 / -0

I probably have hundreds filled with various "stuff." Most of it is information related.

I have a large home office that is over full with stacks of banker boxes. Some are already collapsing. I plan to rent a storage unit that can be delivered to my house, similar to a POS, move all the boxes to it, buy racks for the boxes, then move things back in. At least I'll be able to access individual boxes, once I actually look inside them and label them. Right now, there are boxes on the bottom in the middle I haven't accessed in over 10 years. It's like the warehouse scene at the end of the Indiana Jones movie where the Ark was stashed.

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

16TB hard drives are out of sight compared to a year or two ago. They are in the $700 range now.

Amazon has the 64GB of DDR5 for over $800 a stick.

I have two JBODs that could hold eight drives each, but I can't fill them right now. I have one that is full, meaning 128TB of space. I need more, but I will have to wait until either manufacturing catches up or AI goes bust.

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Aspie 4 points ago +4 / -0

My first entire computer system, including a memory upgrade to 16K, was $88. It was a Timex-Sinclair using the Z80 chip, same as the TRS-80 Model I, II, etc. I used a Radio Shack book on machine language programming to make it do neat stuff, but the memory limited the length of programs.

The 5" floppy disks for the Radio Shack computers were 128K. The 3.5" floppies for PCs were 720K or 1.44M for double density. But the insides were identical for ease of inventory and manufacturing, so I bought a hand punch that would punch a square hole in the case of the disk so the computer would see it as 1.44M. The 5" floppy disks had a notch you could cover to make them read-only and a small hole near the center which allowed the computer to tell every time the disk rotated. You could punch a notch on the opposite side and a small hole in the opposite position on both sides of the jacket, careful not to damage the disk, and you had what we called a "flippy." There was a recording surface on both sides of the disk, but the Radio Shack computers used only one side. With a "flippy," you could flip the disk and save stuff on the other side.

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Aspie 6 points ago +6 / -0

Iran is a dictatorship. Iran is evil. We're saving Israel for last. Israel isn't the only country that has a problem with attacks from Iran.

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

I think "No Name" was taken out. A Q post said he would be in the news. Exactly 30 days later, the family announced his death. Also, CNN, for some odd reason, posted the exact time the family made the announcement. It was exactly the same time as the Q post. This would mean that he was taken out, and the family was forced to make the announcement at the pre-determined time.

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Aspie 4 points ago +4 / -0

There you go spouting crap again. I thought I had blocked you.

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

I just wanted to point out for everyone that Trump actually posted that very picture, not that someone had taken a post and doctored it. Most people don't go to the sources.

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Aspie 7 points ago +7 / -0

We should instead have standard time the whole year, as we did before DST started. DST does not add any more hours of daylight. There are more during the summer anyway. It's just a matter of what time you decide to get up and go to bed. If any companies or school systems don't like it, they can simply change their hours to match the sun better. Noon is supposed to be when the sun is highest in the sky.

BTW, before the railroads created standard time zones in the 1800s, every city had their own local time based on the sun. Almanacs had tables showing all the major cities in the US comparing their local times, so it might be 9:00 AM in one town and 9:05 AM in another not far away.

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

But it was still posted on Trump's account on Truth Social. I just looked. Right now, it's the third post from the top.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

My cousin sponsored an ad in 2016 offering free private plane rides (one way on Jones Airways) to Canada to all the "celebrities" who said they would leave the country if Trump was elected. His company's spokesperson, Money Mark, does the ad and even offers to teach them the words to "Oh, Canada" on the trip. I have met Money Mark. He was a great guy. He died of a heart attack a few years ago. The video is just a minute long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mquVp0vaGM

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

We should have bought Cuba back in the 1800s when we had the chance.

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

Many of the illegals are not really Mexicans. They originate in other countries. Some of them don't even speak Spanish.

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Aspie 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's supposed to "possibly" give you a "mild" case, but it's more than that sometimes.

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Aspie 5 points ago +5 / -0

Sidney Powell was born in Raleigh, NC and lives in Asheville. Her father was born in the same county as I was. She is my 5th cousin.

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

Anyone who has had chicken pox or the vaccine can get shingles at any time after that. The shingles vaccine causes shingles in a lot of people.

I have had chicken pox (3rd grade), and I won't be getting the vaccine. I have had no shots since I was fooled into getting the flu shot in 1976. So I have been shot-free for 50 years.

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Aspie 2 points ago +2 / -0

I have tested ChatGPT, and it lies. As a sample, I asked it to find my paternal grandfather's name on the internet. The information is there in multiple places, but ChatGPT lied and gave me my father's next older brother's name.

So if you are searching for actual facts, you can't be sure with AI, unless you already know. And then there would be no need to be asking AI.

I also tested an AI platform that was supposed to be able to take a long text and create a podcast talking about it. I used a book I had written. The podcast got names and facts confused, and it totally ignored 90% of the book's contents. It was useless.

So until I have the computer power in my home to train my own model on my own texts, I won't be using AI.

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