Ranamar

@ranamar.bsky.social

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When did I go from grudgingly creating a Twitter account so I could upload some pictures to actively making a Bluesky account? I almost certainly won't follow you back unless you're someone I know, but don't let that stop you. (he/him)

Google search for "deutsch plugs", on Android AI Overview: "In Germany, power plugs and sockets operate at 230V and 50Hz. [...]" It's accurate, but it's not what anyone entering those search terms would be trying to find out. The first blue link is for DeutschConnector.com: "Deutsch Connectors are environmentally sealed, waterproof electrical connectors for the transportation industry."
"I'm in awe of people who work with their hands - it's a crying shame those jobs don't pay more" Adrian Chiles May 6, 2021
Belligerents United States Wehrmacht POWs Allied POWs 1st SS Cossack Cavalry Division deserters Germany Waffen-SS
Wean Hall at Carnegie Mellon University It's a large concrete structure showing 5 stories of construction (plus a slope back to a flat roof) and a box sticking out of the side of it.
ICE lawyer: Some of the ICE agents who lean MAGA cannot wait for this administration to be done. I know the guys are tired. For the first time this month, I am hearing guys questioning what they’re being asked to do. They’ve had a year now of people spitting on their feet and constantly calling them pigs and fascists, even when they’re just standing there at the airport. It’s having a real impact on people.
I agree with Cory on some levels, but I believe he gives far more credit to the platforms in question than they deserve, and sees far more intention or strategy than really exists. I fundamentally disagree about the business customers even being some elevated class in the equation — as we’ve seen with the Google Ads trial, Google didn’t really give a shit about its business customers to begin with, has always sought a monopoly, and made things worse for whoever it needed to as a means of increasing growth.
A ski area snow gun which looks like it has a rainbow coming out of it.
Graphs of labor force participation ratio for working-aged generally and all college educated over 25, with the latter slowly diverging downward. It's probably because of retirements, not because of unemployment, though.
The back of a shirt, reading "KILL YOUR LOCAL PEDOPHILE"
[name blacked out] aI hace a question. Playing the latest Version and the AI cant answer my question properly. How can i assign Crew Members other Roles like Weapons Officer? Can i promote them somehow? Cant find a Crewlist
Amazon Rufus AI (beta) Welcome! Hi, I'm Rufus, your shopping assistant. My answers are powered by AI, so may not always get things right. Learn more ["Learn more" was colored blue but not a link.] [a bubble saying "Price History"] Over the past 30 days, the price of [redacted] has ranged from $5.51 to $19.95. The current price is $7.57, which is $8.38 higher than the 30-day low but still $9.38 off the list price. [A graph, with 30D and 90D tabs. The high and low seem to be accurate, even if the math isn't.]
gmail config settings for "smart" things, with some of them turned on and some of them turned off Smart Reply: (Show suggested replies when available.) Smart Reply on Smart Reply off Smart features: Learn more Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet - When you turn this setting on, you agree to let Gmail, Chat, and Meet use your content and activity in these products to provide smart features and personalize your experience. Google Workspace smart features: Choose to personalize your experience with smart features across Workspace and other Google products. Workspace includes Google apps for businesses and school, such as Gmail, Chat, Meet, and Drive. Learn more
Two golden lanterns on a blue background with wavy lines at the bottom. As Longfellow wrote, "two if by sea"
An "alignment chart" style image describing games that *might* be like Civilization, with Steam playtimes. Civilization is a turn-based game, or a game where some part is turn-based, or a computer game. In it, you build up a network of settlements on an earth-like planet to surpass your rivals, or maybe it's just a planet of some sort, or maybe it involves multiple planets, and it might only involve one settlement or just incidentally involve places people live. The options run the gamut from Civilization 6, which is tautological, to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which is completely unreasonable.
Note that Queued SPI is different from Quad SPI, and some processors even confusingly allow a single "QSPI" interface to operate in either quad or queued mode!
Google books Ngram graph with 0 smoothing of "warfighter", which shows a distinct spike 1995-2012
A graph of polling support for different candidates in Iowa. It shows Harris at 33% in June, 43% in September, and 47% in October
But Trump says they are — because they are inherently worse people. He’s told nearly all-white crowds in the past that they have “good genes,” even before his explicit suggestion this week that non-white immigrants are genetically inferior — when he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that migrants have “bad genes.” “What is so jarring to me is these are not just Nazi-like statements. These are actual Nazi sentiments,” said Robert Jones, founder of the Public Religion Research Institute, the author of “The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy” and a vocal critic of Trump’s rhetoric. “Hitler used the word vermin and rats multiple times in Mein Kampf to talk about Jews. These are not accidental or coincidental references. We have clear, 20th century historical precedent with this kind of political language, and we see where it leads.” Filed under: Employment & Immigration, Immigration, Racism,
A graph of Amazon's revenue after IPO, with a red dot in the '00 column at -5 billion dollars. Amazon's net income that year, appears to be around half that.
Comic: Frame 1, a person says: Oh no! the cherry tree grandma brought with her from the old country! It's been chopped down!! And only a week after my new neighbor complained about it blocking his view too! Frame 2, a voice in the bushes says, "Treelaw?" In the rest of the frames, a crowd slowly gathers chanting, "TREE LAW!" as dollar bills rain down.
Gov. Dave Heineman signed the measure into law Feb. 18, 2008, and it became effective that July. And it took only about three months for Heineman to call lawmakers back into special session to fix the law, saying he could wait no longer to address what had become a state embarrassment. When Heineman announced the special session, 23 children had been left at Nebraska hospitals, including nine from one family and children from Iowa, Michigan and Georgia. Many were teenagers, only one was younger than 6, and none were babies. And most had behavioral problems that made their parents desperate to seek help.
A tweet by @dril: the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"
text: That is disastrous for public life. What, for example, happens when the Supreme Court becomes just another scam, a scheme to subject women to conditional personhood for the purpose of political gain? So our discussion of scams is timely. They’re not just about annoying Facebook invites from your college roommate, the one with the bouncy bangs and questionable ethics. Scams are also about the foundation of pluralistic democratic life.
Chart of "Approval of Interracial Marriage, by Region" Gallup commentary: "In previous decades, Americans living in the East, Midwest and West were generally more approving of marriages between Black people and White people than those living in the South. At this point in the trend, however, approval of interracial marriage is nearly universal across all regions, almost closing the regional gaps that existed in earlier parts of the trend."
A picture of the author bio for the book referenced above with a banner below asking, "How would you rate your experience shopping for books on Amazon today?"
A Goa'uld host with eyes glowing to show that the parasite/symbiote is in full control at that moment.
A woman holding a Goa'uld symbiote, which can puppet its host when it so desires.
Google Infobox about Jesus Christ Superstar with composer as Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice
[T]here is cultural fusion perhaps most evident in religious practice, with Roman Gods and Roman-style temples (especially in the cities) operating alongside long-established Gallic ritual practices (like throwing swords into bodies of water -- God bless the Gauls (and other Celtic-language speakers) for continuing to throw weapons into lakes and rivers where we can later uncover them) and long-established Gallic holy sites. [with "God bless the Gauls [...] where we can later uncover them" highlighted]