John Holland
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John Holland
@imjohnh
me: bikes, good food, good beer. And a healthy dose - ok, overdose - of snark @iamjohnh.bsky.social
HamOnt Katılım Aralık 2008
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@Gcarmi21 Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but flag football looks really lame.
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I think two things can be true at once:
1. Fanatics sent their branded stars, not necessarily the archetype of a true Flag Football player. You need skinny, quick guys out there.
Putting Saquon out there zaps his superpower - strength. He'd crush these guys in real football.
2. Team USA is very talented, and specialized at what they do. Discrediting their craft is disrespectful.
Henry McKenna@henrycmckenna
This highlight is a microcosm of why, for the Olympics, it will be complicated to pick between pro NFL players and pro flag football players
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This woman on Instagram shared: I’m at the airport and there’s a family of 8 people on my flight with small children, I just overheard the dad say, “All of our seats are all over the place, no one is close to each other because I didn’t want to pay extra for assigned seats. We’ll switch around when we get on the plane.” Suffice it to say, I hate them....
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@KrakenCashout @WesVeve @BaseballQuotes1 In 2009, the year after they went 0-16, they offered "All-You-Can-Eat" tickets to try and bolster their cratering attendance. Took my two tweens to a game and they had a blast and I didn't go broke.
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The Mets have introduced the 9-9-9 challenge as a concession this year
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@WheelerRipWA @oliverburdick @Ajt032762 I was always told they met on spring break in Cancun one year and had such a good time they all agreed to reunite sometime after they got back home
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BREAKING: Noah's Ark is literally just sitting there in Turkey and people still don't believe the Bible is true.
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🚨 SOMETHING IS OFF. WATCH THIS CLOSELY. 🚨
One word triggers it.
Both react instantly.
Perfect sync.
That’s not a coincidence.
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@JohnLeePettim13 @Arkasiraee What if we use magic to produce the hydrogen? Or hope?
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When the wind is blowing, current wind turbines can perform at 30–40 percent efficiency, producing hydrogen at an overall rate of 25 percent efficiency — 3 units of wind energy to get 1 unit of hydrogen energy. The best solar cells available on a large scale have an efficiency of ten percent, or 9 units of energy to get 1 hydrogen unit of energy. If you use algae making hydrogen as a byproduct, the efficiency is about .1 percent. No matter how you look at it, producing hydrogen from water is an energy sink. No matter how it’s been made, hydrogen has no energy in it. It is the lowest energy dense fuel on earth.
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Hydrogen is the stupidest, most ridiculous, and most impossible energy alternative. It takes 5 to 10 times more energy than it returns. This has been known since 2004, yet hydrogen refuses to die.
It is far from renewable because it contains no energy at all—energy must be forced into it like a battery—and you lose even more when converting it back to electricity. It has the worst energy return of any alternative: far more energy goes in than you ever get back.
Consider the process: you first split hydrogen from natural gas or use far more energy to electrolyze it from water, then compress or liquefy it, build extremely expensive and short-lived steel containers and pipelines (since hydrogen embrittles them), and finally deliver it to virtually non-existent hydrogen vehicles. Fuel cell technology remains far from commercial.
It is also highly explosive. Hydrogen requires 12 times less energy to ignite than gasoline vapor, so the smallest spark or heat source can turn it into a bomb.
Wisdom@Wisdom_HQ
hydrogen Powered Car, 1,500 km range with a 5-second refill… sounds illegal.
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anecdata: wife and I know a college professor whose student cruised through a test by consulting his Meta glasses, which she failed to recognize in time
he was given a VERY generous break and required to retake the test without them: *the exact same test*
bombed it
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@hjdavis1989 @Iamivy05 It's weird how nobody ever makes an honest mistake and picks the middle seat, huh?
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Just boarded my flight. Checked my seat, double checked it. Yt woman sitting there. I played dumb. I asked the flight attendant, could you help me find my seat? She looked at the woman and said ma’am, what seat does your ticket say? She said “oh is this not C?” Now you know you didn’t pay for a window seat! 😒The flight attendant handled it because, I’m not arguing. 🤭
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How to properly lubricate and assemble a bicycle freehub mechanism. 🚴♀️
🎥 good.bicycle.service
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@hradzka How did they cheat when you have to speak to ask Meta AI a question and it replies with a digital voice that can be heard by anyone sitting close to you? I have a pair, this seems highly unlikely unless this question was writing a test with no one in the room
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@Kimmich_00 @MadelaineLucyH Not quite, forced celibacy is not a thing, marriage is recommended in Islam. And women have financial, accommodation and sexual pleasure rights.
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This is SUCH revisionism I spat out my tea. In Saxon Britain;
- a man could have as many female slaves as he wanted and they would be his property
- a man could send his infant daughter to become a nun and forcibly commit her to celibacy for life
- a man could LEGALLY rape his wife
- a man could LEGALLY beat his wife/daughter if he didn't seriously main or kill her
- Many, many women were forced to marry!! (Aethelreda)
Now I get it! Stuff like this can make you have good feefees, because you are a white boy who is a good white boy, and you've never done a sexism so obviously that's a 'forrin' thing, but stop absorbing lies.
Proudofus.uk@ProudofusUK
"No woman or maiden shall be forced to marry a man whom she dislikes." That's not a modern law. That was written in England 🏴 over a thousand years ago. Anglo-Saxon women had more legal rights than your great-grandmother. On the same island. A thousand years earlier. 🔑 She could own land. In her own name. Buy it. Sell it. Leave it to whoever she chose. No permission needed. Not from her husband. Not from her father. Not from anyone. She could run a business. She could stand in an open-air court, raise her hand in oath, and the law would hear her the same as any man. ⚖️ On the morning after her wedding, her husband owed her a gift. Land. Money. Property. It was called the Morgengifu, the morning gift. It wasn't symbolic. It was legally binding. And it was hers. Not jointly owned. Not held in trust. Hers. Through everything. 💍 A woman called Wynflaed owned seven estates across four counties, her will still survives. Cynethryth, wife of King Offa, struck coins bearing her own name and face. The only Anglo-Saxon queen known to have done it. The coins are still in museum collections. 🪙 Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, built ten fortified towns and led armies in battle. In the tenth century. ⚔️ While most of Europe treated women as property, this island wrote their rights into law. 🇬🇧 Then the Normans came. 1066. And they took all of it away. Every. Single. Right. 🚫 A married woman's property became her husband's. She couldn't own land. Couldn't sign a contract. Couldn't keep her own wages. Under the doctrine of coverture, her legal identity was absorbed into his. Bracton wrote it plainly: "husband and wife are one person, being one flesh and one blood." In the eyes of the law, she didn't exist. For over eight hundred years. Let that satisfy. Eight. Hundred. Years. In 1882, the Married Women's Property Act gave a married woman the right to own property, keep her earnings, and exist as a separate legal person. 📜 But Britain didn't invent those rights in 1882. It restored them. Rights that Anglo-Saxon women had exercised a thousand years before. On the same island, under the same sky, in a language that became the one you're reading now. 🏴 This island forgot once. We won't let it forget again. Happy Mother's Day ❤️ Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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I met Michael B Jordan when I worked at Sirius as he was getting ready to promote Creed.
It was around Thanksgiving, there was basically nobody in the building that day. He was waiting to do a show and really quickly I just told him how big a fan I was from FNL and was excited for Creed. He was incredibly appreciative and we spoke for a few minutes.
About an hour later, he was leaving and passed me working at a computer and actually told his group to wait, walked back to thank me for the interaction and said "keep up the support". I've never forgotten that and have been happy to see his success ever since.
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@truthank @FICMBondTrader If your pub-grub choices are informed by the effort required to shovel them into your food hole, you're doing something wrong.
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@FICMBondTrader If only I liked wings. Too much work for too little reward. I'll eat boneless, sauce on the side, but people lose their minds over that.
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There’s a restaurant that does free wings on your birthday
One wing for each year
You could share the wings among your group
Apparently, some college kids got a check list of everyone’s birthday in a retirement home
They would check them out of the home for free wings
Kids were getting 92 wings for free. Bringing all their boys. All the old Vietnam vet would get out of the home.
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@RaineElser @JesusChryslerII Heineken is the Dutch word for Budweiser
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This is the difference between water and beer
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@AllanRicharz @JeremiahDJohns Journalists don't need to know page layout. Writing != Publishing
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Eh, prof was right and the class missed the point.
It's not that the archaic skill itself will ever need to be used; it's that you learn the underlying theory/skill/history behind the modern practice.
People just want to skip ahead to the end product without learning the boring fundamentals, and then wonder why the resulting product is garbage (even though it's "technically" correct)
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When my wife was in J-school, she had a prof who forced students to learn manual layout design for newspapers. I'm talking X-acto knives, physical plates, glue, etc. This was in the mid 2000s, decades after digital software was common.
They all learned a valuable lesson - that the professor was an out of touch relic and those skills were pointless. Same professor had never himself used InDesign btw, lmao.
Justin Skycak@justinskycak
You cannot optimize what you haven't mastered manually. You haven't earned the right to automate until you've felt the friction of the manual labor.
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@RealMassguy @janeholland1 What does JFC mean? LOL, I’m cool enough to get that but JFC - zero idea.
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Someone just told me about this woman on Instagram who genuinely thought "JFC" stood for "just for clarification." She'd been dropping it casually in professional emails for years.
It instantly reminded me of my own mom, who for the longest time was convinced "LOL" meant "lots of love."
I swear to God, she once commented on a Facebook post where someone had shared tragic news: "So sorry for your loss. LOL."
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@CarneyMedia @CanesFootball I can picture Rodgers bouncing the football off the back of his helmet 6 times a game
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The #Steelers will have @CanesFootball OT Markel Bell for a pre draft 30 visit.
- Bell is a massive human - 6’9” & almost 350 lbs with long arms - just a monster of a lineman.
- Once he gets his claws on a defender, it’s over. His hands are his best asset.
- Did not give up a sack last season as he shown great growth year after year in pass protection.
- good recovery moves to get back into the fight. Doesn’t panic, just refuses to allow his QB get hit.
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Jonnu Smith is the Ladarius Green of Eric Ebrons
Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter
Steelers are releasing tight end Jonnu Smith, per sources. The move will save the Steelers $7 million against the cap and Smith now will become an unrestricted free agent.
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