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feeling like i need to get better at ending work calls/video chats gracefully. any tips??

(please bear in mind that i am an awkward and anxious goofus)

imagine being the first ship captain to go through the suez after it gets unblocked, and knowing that you have the power to do the single funniest thing that anyone has ever done. would you be able to resist that temptation?

Hello #bandcamp and hello #newpipe 0.21.0 🎵

The latest NewPIpe version adds initial support for https://bandcamp.com. Many thanks to @utf8equalsX for doing most of the work!

Also included: fixes for YouTube trending and PeerTube playlists, as well as more details on why a stream is not available.

You can read the full changelog at GitHub: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/tag/v0.21.0

Version 0.21.0 should be available through the main #FDroid repo in the next days.

#capitalism #politics #uspol

@che Here: https://small-tech.org. Now, kindly go fuck yourself.

Indulge your creativity by drawing, painting, sculpting, etc, even if you don’t think you’re good at it.

"Scientific paleontology — as well as the formation of modern natural history museums — arose in the 18th century, when European powers were actively colonizing large swaths of the globe…European scientists were part of a colonial network that sucked natural wealth into imperial capitals."

But a new generation of paleontologists is doing things differently. Which is how a group of scientists looking for fossilized shark teeth in Tunisia ended up helping salvage a museum destroyed in the Arab Spring.

"'Every other question we got was, "Oh, are you guys going to take this stuff?,"' Ms. Haridy said. 'And we told them, no, it’s yours. It should stay here. It’s part of this region’s story.'"

http://web.archive.org/web/20210322183016/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/22/science/dinosaurs-fossils-colonialism.html

& see yara haridy's thread: https://twitter.com/Yara_Haridy/status/1374106598138802176

#paleontology #science #news #tunisia 🐘

Random vent about a lot of gamer-adjacent stuff like console hacking or mods instead of having a support place or email or whatever are now like "instead of that if you need help please join our community discord that you'll have to take an oath to get in even if you just wanna ask a question and are not interested in joining a community and also where rendos might call you slurs completely unchecked until someone on the project is online"

It was pure IP, the right to control the conduct of critics (security researchers), customers and competitors.

In the words of Jay Freeman, it's "Felony contempt of business-model."

And that's where the Ipod came in. Steve Jobs's plan was to augment the one-time revenue from an Ipod with a recurrent revenue stream from the Itunes store.

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Everyone’s level of socialization may vary but as social creatures it’s good for our hearts(literally & figuratively) to find & occasionally stretch our social skills.

Only a few hours left in the work day: cue massive anxiety about how much I was able to get done, further impacting how much I'm able to get done.