henfredemars

joined 2 years ago
[–] henfredemars 27 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

The CDC is no more. Please reach out to other governments’ health organizations for important health information.

[–] henfredemars 7 points 23 hours ago

The nice thing about yes men is that they can be conveniently disposed of as fall guys when things don’t work out.

[–] henfredemars 1 points 23 hours ago

Precisely. He’s hired for his bending over not for any other skills.

[–] henfredemars 36 points 23 hours ago (9 children)

Really hope the average Briton is better educated than the average American.

[–] henfredemars 1 points 1 day ago

While this is quite amusing, the Wikipedia article on the US flag code does not seem to agree and prescribes a specific design.

[–] henfredemars 2 points 1 day ago

I’m suspicious it’s no longer there. Both he and that oligarch Elon shut up about it after his visit. Whatever they saw, they decided it was no longer worth discussing.

[–] henfredemars 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fire her, don't fire her, but the writing's on the wall at this point. This decision doesn't change that the trust in the US dollar has been severely injured by the administration. The world is rotating out of the dollar and into other holdings to hedge against madness such as politically-motivated firings at the Federal Reserve.

We should not have reached this point. It is insanity.

[–] henfredemars 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Party of small government stepping into your bedroom once again.

[–] henfredemars 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not every victim of a shooting dies from the injuries. I would argue one whole death is in the realm of shooting event deaths even with multiple victims.

[–] henfredemars 5 points 1 day ago

I edited my comment to enhance clarity without changing the meaning.

[–] henfredemars 7 points 1 day ago

That's really gross. I had no idea he was so callous.

[–] henfredemars 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's insulting. Regardless of your feelings on Kirk, this was hardly an attack on the whole of America. It was yet another school shooting. We have quite a few of those.

 
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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by henfredemars to c/dwarffortress@lemmy.cafe
 

Evil tundra fort, 89 units strong, although 20 of which were children that all seemingly showed up within the first year. Indeed, I unpaused the game and got two weddings within the month! It was going relatively well, excluding an unfortunate incident with the children in the mines when attempting to breach a magma tube... but that's not what brought down the fort. The child mining accident was a harbinger of disaster to come.

One autumn, the merchants of the mountain home decided that the best way into my fort would be to path directly through a horde of bear man thralls. You see, the evil biome randomly spawns evil fogs and devilish ash weather that causes an incurable "opposed to all life" condition although it's unclear to me whether the afflicted were truly undead. I had really been meaning to do something about them, but I had been busy properly expanding the military with bronze. And so, I closed the gates to protect my young and inexperienced fighters from the conflict/shield their eyes to prevent the blood lust that would cause them to charge into battle and also their deaths.

The merchants fought valiantly, and one by one they fell in glorious battle. In time, the bear men wandered off the map, and so the coast was clear for some time. I eventually decided to open the gates and allow collection of those spoils that did not interest the bear men. My busy fort was in a rapid expansion phase. The children were mostly the only ones idle, and so about two dozen children wandered out into the frozen wasteland to collect the wares.

One of those children had a cat.
The ground was spotted with devilish ash.
Cats don't wear shoes.

As the group returned to the fort, the cat suddenly went wild presumably after grooming itself and attacked the nearby children. The fighting appeared to spread the illness extremely quickly. Within the day, half the fort was dead or dying. There was no hope to mount a response of any kind. Anyone who entered the fray became enthralled themselves.

In the future, with syndrome-bearing contamination, I think it would be best to keep the pets locked away.

 

I hate waiting for updates.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by henfredemars to c/birdsarentreal@lemmy.world
 

No amount of mixing will save you.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/48776871

bird based storage

 

Despite the low quality of the writing, it never seems to get put down. One has to wonder.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by henfredemars to c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
 

I opened it up, and it turns out the speaker was measuring full open when the printed text on the component suggests 8 Ohms. I had an old Bluetooth speaker that never worked very well and tore out the similar 10 Ohm speaker that isn't quite the right part but it's kind of close, soldered her in, and it works like a charm! Sort of.

Turns out though that the old speaker is glued in so well that I can't get it out. I had to make a hole to let the speaker hang out of the case because otherwise I couldn't get the cover back on. In the process, the antenna cover wouldn't go back in either because I damaged it drilling the hole.

It's much quieter now and with poor sound quality. I wouldn't risk using it portable either. It technically works -- just not very well. I figured this community might appreciate my lame repair.

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