Schmoo

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[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 hours ago

I assume they're referring to how the presence of frogs is an indicator as to the cleanliness of the water. If the river is highly polluted no frogs will be present.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 18 points 15 hours ago

The military isn't going to step in and save us unless they feel strongly that the public will support them wholeheartedly, and they aren't going to feel that way if there isn't massive and unprecedented civil unrest. That means the onus is on us.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 29 points 15 hours ago

Gender is a performance and Nick Offerman is a very good performer.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Don't show this to Trump, he'll insist that it's real.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

My dad's ringtone is a motorcycle engine revving at max volume, and he never silences it. He also just lets it ring when he doesn't want to answer.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

And what a great job they're doing! There's definitely no double standards here, oh no. *cough Israel *cough.

NATO only acts to prevent the expansion of the United States' rival imperial powers, like Russia and China. It's nothing more than a military alliance of western powers to maintain US hegemony. It's all well and good that it resists and deters Russia imperialism in Europe, but it has zero interest in stopping US imperialism in the middle east as carried out by the US' favorite proxy state and stationary aircraft carrier, Israel. NATO isn't attempting to maintain peace in Europe out of a genuine desire to protect human life, but simply to preserve the status quo and balance of power.

And if you're wondering how Trump wanting to leave NATO fits into all this, it's precisely because NATO preserves the balance of power. He thinks he can benefit from destabilizing the political climate of the world because he's a scumbag who takes advantage of chaos to advance his interests, and he doesn't care if other authoritarian leaders are able to do the same. The US could lose global standing, but that's a risk he's willing to take if it helps him consolidate power internally.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The mistake Hammond made in Jurassic Park wasn't cloning dinosaurs, it was mismanaging the park due to greed.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago

Bro this is some next level conspiracy paranoia.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So clearly you didn't fully read my comment, so why should I expend the effort typing out a response? It would be a waste if you're just going to read part of it and then ask questions I've already given the answer to.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

You've answered your own question, ending imperialism and colonialism so that unequal exchange doesn't create massive wealth disparities between nations and war no longer displaces people en masse, thereby "uplifting" formerly exploited peoples, would remove most of the incentives for mass migration. In a world at peace with itself borders are not necessary. Ask yourself, why is there no need to criminalize immigration between states/provinces within a country such as the US? Because the US, for the time being, is a nation at peace with itself. It doesn't have to be a perfect utopia - the US most certainly is not - to eliminate the need for border security / immigration control. Even a tenuous peace and a dubious justice is enough to eliminate the need for border enforcement.

Edit: This is a good write-up about how the criminalization of migrants does not even serve as an adequate deterrent to migration anyway. It is not only unjust, it's futile.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I agree that there are legitimate reasons to manage immigration, but criminalizing the act is a complete no-go for me. There are other ways to manage immigration by creating incentives and disincentives that would make the criminalization of migrants unnecessary. I also believe that freedom of movement is a fundamental human right and that borders are nothing more than an authoritarian system of control. "Security" is only made necessary by the problems that nation-states create themselves by existing.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 days ago

"Jews and Muslims can't coexist and it's all the Muslims' fault, that's why we have to force Muslims off their land and establish a Jewish ethnostate. We have a right to it anyway because god gave it to us or whatever. How dare they fight back!"

This is your argument, and we are the ones being disingenuous?

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25279811

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I blue myself

Found this one in the woods behind my house. One of my favorite mushrooms to find even though there's not much to do with it, it's beautiful just to look at!

The blue "milk" contains latex, so don't handle if you're allergic. It's related to regular milk caps and looks identical aside from the brilliant color.

Something that you don't often see in field guides: it smells quite sweet in addition to the usual earthiness.

I will be returning it to the forest floor to drop its spores in hopes I keep finding them.

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I blue myself

Found this one in the woods behind my house. One of my favorite mushrooms to find even though there's not much to do with it, it's beautiful just to look at!

The blue "milk" contains latex, so don't handle if you're allergic. It's related to regular milk caps and looks identical aside from the brilliant color.

Something that you don't often see in field guides: it smells quite sweet in addition to the usual earthiness.

I will be returning it to the forest floor to drop its spores in hopes I keep finding them.

 

Pantheon season 1 has been added to Netflix today, but season 2 has not (and might never be). Both seasons are on Prime Video but it is region-locked, though I'm not sure which regions it is available in.

Pantheon is a fantastic sci-fi show with really smart themes that has been completely screwed over by streaming services. The writing is incredible and contains some very intelligent satire and critiques of big tech corporations, and even dips its toes into geopolitics (not even kidding, the Israel-Palestine conflict becomes a plot point in season 2, and this was written prior to Oct. 7).

If you want to watch the series in its entirety then piracy is a must for the vast majority. Needless to say, I highly recommend watching.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Schmoo@slrpnk.net to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
 

Pantheon season 1 is being added to Netflix tomorrow, but season 2 is not (and might never be). Both seasons are on Prime Video but it is region-locked, though I'm not sure which regions it is available in.

Pantheon is a fantastic sci-fi show with really smart themes that has been completely screwed over by streaming services. The writing is incredible and contains some very intelligent satire and critiques of big tech corporations, and even dips its toes into geopolitics (not even kidding, the Israel-Palestine conflict becomes a plot point in season 2, and this was written prior to Oct. 7).

If you want to watch the series in its entirety then piracy is a must for the vast majority. Needless to say, I highly recommend watching.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Schmoo@slrpnk.net to c/television@lemmy.world
 

Pantheon season 1 is being added to Netflix tomorrow, but season 2 is not (and might never be). Both seasons are on Prime Video but it is region-locked, though I'm not sure which regions it is available in.

Pantheon is a fantastic sci-fi show with really smart themes that has been completely screwed over by streaming services. The writing is incredible and contains some very intelligent satire and critiques of big tech corporations, and even dips its toes into geopolitics (not even kidding, the Israel-Palestine conflict becomes a plot point in season 2, and this was written prior to Oct. 7).

If you want to watch the series in its entirety then piracy is a must for the vast majority. Needless to say, I highly recommend watching.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Schmoo@slrpnk.net to c/showsandmovies@lemm.ee
 

Pantheon season 1 is being added to Netflix tomorrow, but season 2 is not (and might never be). Both seasons are on Prime Video but it is region-locked, though I'm not sure which regions it is available in.

Pantheon is a fantastic sci-fi show with really smart themes that has been completely screwed over by streaming services. The writing is incredible and contains some very intelligent satire and critiques of big tech corporations, and even dips its toes into geopolitics (not even kidding, the Israel-Palestine conflict becomes a plot point in season 2, and this was written prior to Oct. 7).

If you want to watch the series in its entirety then piracy is a must for the vast majority. Needless to say, I highly recommend watching.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Schmoo@slrpnk.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

Pantheon season 1 is being added to Netflix tomorrow, but season 2 is not (and might never be). Both seasons are on Prime Video but it is region-locked, though I'm not sure which regions it is available in.

Pantheon is a fantastic sci-fi show with really smart themes that has been completely screwed over by streaming services. The writing is incredible and contains some very intelligent satire and critiques of big tech corporations, and even dips its toes into geopolitics (not even kidding, the Israel-Palestine conflict becomes a plot point in season 2, and this was written prior to Oct. 7).

If you want to watch the series in its entirety then piracy is a must for the vast majority. Needless to say, I highly recommend watching.

 

I'm looking for software for making small-scale maps / designs. Say for example I wanted to map out a small-ish plot of land with various markers indicating features of the site. Another requirement is that is must have the capability to depict elevation. Others have recommended map-making software for dungeons and dragons, but of the ones I can find they are either paid / subscription models or they strictly adhere to a grid system that makes it impossible to use for my purposes.

Does anyone have some good recommendations?

Edit: It doesn't have to be a single piece of software necessarily. If anyone has recommendations for a particular workflow (like for example if you know some good open source drawing software I could use to draw over the top of a topographic map) I'm interested in that as well.

 

More pictures available if needed. I broke a few open that were in rougher shape and they are solid white and spongy all the way through. Found in open woods in West Kentucky.

Thinking about frying these up and seeing how they taste but want a bit more assurance that I'm not taking a huge risk doing so. I couldn't find these in my National Audubon Society Field Guide so I'm a bit reluctant to take the chance.

 

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The underside instantly darkens when scratched.

 

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I think it might be a green-spored parasol which is poisonous, but it's hard to tell at this stage. Was hoping it's something edible because there's lots of them and they're massive.

 

Edit: For those who stumble across this with the same issue, I eventually got it working by adding “default-runtime”: “nvidia”, to /etc/docker/daemon.json then restarting the docker service and Jellyfin container.

I am in the process of setting up a new media server on an old PC using Ubuntu Server and CasaOS and have run into my first major roadblock.

To give some background, I formerly had my media server running on my main gaming PC on Windows using Plex and the *arr suite. I’m now trying to do things the right way and set everything back up from scratch on some spare hardware with Jellyfin and all the rest in dockerized containers. I chose CasaOS because I’m not overly familiar with Linux and thought that would be a good way to ease into things.

Everything was going well until I tried to get hardware acceleration enabled in Jellyfin. For the life of me I cannot seem to get the Nvidia drivers properly installed, much less give Jellyfin access to the device. I’m using a GTX 960.

I’m not sure exactly what additional info I need to give here, but here’s something I hope helps:

*****@home-server:/$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
*****@home-server:/$ nvcc --version
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2021 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Thu_Nov_18_09:45:30_PST_2021
Cuda compilation tools, release 11.5, V11.5.119
Build cuda_11.5.r11.5/compiler.30672275_0
*****@home-server:/$ ls /usr/src | grep nvidia
nvidia-srv-535.104.12
*****@home-server:/$ sudo dkms install -m nvidia -v srv-535.104.12
Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File: /usr/src/nvidia-srv-535.104.12/dkms.conf does not exist.

If there’s anything important I’m leaving out - and I probably am - let me know. Also if there’s anywhere else you recommend I post this let me know that as well.

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