A couple weeks later he ran up a pine tree and got stuck for 4 days again. This time I fashioned a pole and just knocked him off the branch. He fell about 20 feet into a pile of leaves and pine needles and was fine.

I wasn’t 11 but as a young man, newly purchased home owner and father I was struck by an epiphany that I was able to get a cat after years of never ending moving and renting.

So I went out and got the greatest cat I could ever find. A grey and white tuxedo.

Well within a month this idiot had climbed a Norfolk pine tree. A good 20 plus feet, right to the fricken top.

For 6 hours he meowed and meowed. My daughter meowed and begged for me to get him. Now I was by no means a tree climber but I wasn’t gonna leave em and he clearly couldn’t work out how to get down.

So up that tree, sap, pine needles, webs, all in my fucking mouth, I climbed until I got to the top and grabbed that idiot. It was fucking terrify (I hate heights). I shoved him in my hoodie and somehow got down.

Thus he became forever known as stupid cat.

That said he wasn’t that stupid that he ever repeated it. Never went higher then the first branch of a tree again.

I’m Brian and so is my wife

Is it an insult against Putin to declare he is running a mafia state?

Eternity on the google playstore has a swipe right to left for next post.

Absolute godsend.

ML is run by heavily-indoctrinated communists. They’re the type that straight up worship communist leaders.

It’s run by Russia bots who are pumping out Kremlin talking points whilst deleting anyone who is critical.

I got deleted for pointing out Putin runs a mafia state.

Shit even the Russian communist don’t like Putin.

Greg Egan’s Diaspora sets out how humanity could explore the galaxy and even the multiverse, which if you can’t be bothered reading consists of:

1. Upload conciousness into computers, leave physical bodies.
2. Miniaturise computers until we have spaceships in the grams/nano grams
3. As we’re no longer connected to time we can build massive solar system sized technologies, built by nanotech, that sure could take hundreds of years to build but in our virtual realms we could easily sleep.
4. Use Lasers to propel our nanogram spaceships to 90% light speed. Even then for the astronauts, time is almost nothing (time goes slower the faster you go). A trip across the galaxy would feel like mere weeks to you. We could explore the universe as immortals.
5. At this point we should have a pretty good understanding of dark matter/energy and how to move between universes (the multiverse, depending if you accept it as a base for explaining non locality)
6. Which would allow us become eternal.

In the here and now the only way to travel to another system with our current tech is via nuclear pulse engines.

Basically you build a large spaceship. Stick it on massive shock absorbers which are in turn connected to a metre plus thick steel plate.

Cut small hole in the middle. Have a door that opens closes.

Eject 1kt explosive device out door. Repeat 500x till you get to orbit.

Basically you could get a spaceship up to very high speed with nuclear pulse engines to turn a multi hundred year journey into less then 100 years.

That said the biggest problem with interstellar journeys is that our material science and manufacturing tolerances are pretty shit. Essentially all of the air will leak out through the metal skin of the spaceship.

I still think carving put an asteroid, sticking engine on it (see nuclear pulse engines) , covering it in ice and water will solve the problems radiation shielding, losing critical gases and provide ample fuel and water for a very long journey.

Gaspar Noe’s Climax

A French film based on a true story where a hip hop dance troupe had their punch spiked with a large amount LSD before discovering they were snowed in the hall they had been partying in.

The film is continuously shot with no cuts, with the cast adlibbing their lines. The dancing is amazing as is Bangalter’s utterly amazing soundtrack (very far away from any Daft Punk).

I’m sure Gaspar took liberties with the story but after discovering a child had ingested the punch I became quite sick and horrified. I could barely watch the film after that, the insanity that befores everyone is truly sickening.

Having accidentally ingesting a large amount of LSD (my first trip) at a young age (14) it bought a lot back.

And I very much enjoyed a large part of the film but after that part of the plot it really fucked me up.

2024. I’m glad I found it. Have missed old school drum and bass stuff like this.

Is it perfect, no but it’s so much better then the crap being released.

Pink Floyd - Time

Because one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

Douglas Adams also taught me you can never have too many showers in a single day.

One high please

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What was the lie about Ukraine?

Russia didn’t invade Ukraine?

Unfortunately i do work for a targeted company (we do a lot of secret squirrel stuff) in south East Asia.

We get a lot of attacks.

I was looking at the attack and malware they inject (there is a blog post link on the notepad++ notice) which pointed out how the attack worked. Apparently they run a service called bluetoothservice.exe. I didn’t see anything like that or any the other stuff they said gets created.

But then again finding malware isn’t my bag so who knows.

Pretty sure my updates came via nanite installer so I’m hoping I wasn’t targeted.

I bought a bunch of sub $400 (Australian dollaroos at that) 4k monitors (Samsung, viewsonic etc). Their not the greatest monitors but this was like 5 years ago. Some were on special.

You can play a lot of older games in 4k and it makes a big difference.

4k gaming is more then accessible and far better in my view then high refresh rate gaming at 1080p or 1440p.

I can’t stand looking at Lemmy without Voyager.

Yeah, I use eternity and I’m grateful for the theme settings.

Also for godsake why isn’t swipe left for the next post a standard thing on these applications.

I tried all of the apps on the google playstore before reaching the last in the list, eternity which had a setting for swiping left for the next post.

That said the lack of advertisements is refreshing as is the horrifically bad “AI” moderating system that is so prevalent on reddit.

The fact that you, a human, asked this question, and got a variety of human replies is why I would say no.

Well they are on the fediverse/lemmy. It’s not dead, yet, simply because there aren’t enough users to create a RoI for bot/karma farming in order to push advertising and disinformation to the top.

I recently saw an internal report estimating that dark fibre in a particular country needed to increase several hundred percent in order to meet the demand from data centre and large facilities transmission needs.

Much of this being built for the AI bubble boom. When the next generation of DC come online the cost of per bot will continue to tumble to the point where it won’t cost much to turn even Lemmy into a bot ridden wasteland.

How would you know if you updated?

My notepad++ is on 8.9.1 and I have no idea how it’s on that ver (ninite I think is where I sourced it…maybe it’s auto updating?)

I regularly open CSVs in the range of 500MB to 2GB in notepad++ without any problem…

Reddit has had something like it for a while. I can’t remember the sub’s name but it was hilarious.

But what is good about this is you can actually get a good feel for what are are bots, not just in lemmy but across the net.