Criticism of the United Nations often centers on the paralysis of the Security Council, its divisions, vetoes, and geopolitical entanglements creating the impression of an ineffective international body.
Boy, add "extremely high quality vintage sewing machines" to the giant pile of stuff that is almost free if you know how to tune them up. I guess no one needs industrial strength metal sewing machines anymore. (this is a Singer 15 clone, postwar Japan, made with permission of Singer). #random #ReduceRepairReuse
@Unus Nemo Eventually, yes, sort of. It took time, of course. There does appear to be a bigger propagation issue with Friendica My Portal, which explains a lot about poor results during Hashtag Games. Rogue Project has better results.
Maybe My Portal does not have a relay setup? Though a relay should not effect say a comment to a post on another instance. It will increase propagation to other nodes that you have no direct contacts on. If those nodes are on the same relay of course.
Is it just my area, or are others in the United States seeing supply chain issues? My store was out of a lot of stuff and they said the warehouses were not getting certain products from manufacturers.
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Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon? ... Suspended under a twilight canopy We'll search the clouds for a star to guide us If by some chance you find yourself loving me We'll find a cloud to hide us We'll keep the moon beside us
Since when? HF radio has no such shortcomings when you don't take its envelope and try to modulate visual frequencies with it. That's a fool's errand. Not just with HF but VHF and UHF. I suspect the article is actually talking about GHz frequencies. That's just not HF, sorry.
A major bottleneck with high-frequency wireless communications is the conversion from radio frequencies to optical signals and vice versa. This is performed by an electro-optic modulator (EOM), whi…
Look up JD Vance and Acretrader and you will understand why they want farmers to fail.
They will basically be able to buy up prime farmland at fire sale prices once these farmers go bankrupt.
Dems had a plan called “Investing in Rural America”, but I guess Trump-voting farmers would rather make $7.25/hr in shoe factory and pay $50 for a Gildan blank.
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#MonarchMonday When it's late in the migration season and the Monarch cats I've taken into protective custody achieve adulthood, I know that I can give them a shortcut to the late migration route, since I know where it is already, and so when there's frost in the forecast, I know where they'll still be safe close to that route and provide limo service there. Photo shows a Monarch perched on the backrest of the passenger side of the car, taking in the sights through the window.
#MonarchMonday In a previous post I did say that there were not quite twice the number of Monarchs overwintering in Mexico than there were last year; The World Wildlife Fund has been keeping track, and here's their chart, which is still alarming even so.
There'll be more on the topic April 20th on "60 Minutes" when Monarch Watch retiree, Chip Taylor, gets interviewed.
#MonarchMonday I've been behaving myself on this instance so far, but be ye warned that when it's Caturday, I'll post caterpillar pictures. They're cats too. This pic is of a 5th instar cat eating the peel off of a seed pod of a milkweed vine called Honeyvine. Too often it's not recognized as a milkweed and is removed under the belief that it is "invasive". It is not--its "problem" is that the seeds are highly vigorous and they don't all emerge at the same time; the ones that delay, or emerge during the pre-fall emergence event, give the impression that they've come up from neighboring vines. They do NOT.
#MonarchMonday This is a somewhat side-view of a Monarch egg in the process of hatching, so if you look closely, you can see that this, too, looks like just a black head up top but you can also see a tiny white patch where the mandibles are--this kid is getting a grip on a shell ridge to chew on to break out.
@Nazani The States have had weird weather for the past 3 years running, so you're not alone. They've also severely dropped in population number, too. We do have hope this year because compared to last year, the overwintering population in Mexico was not quite but almost doubled this year. I too had zero Monarch activity last year, and very meagre the prior year. It can only get better, I hope.
#MonarchMonday This is a pic of a Monarch egg that's fully ripe and ready to hatch, with the caterpillar's tiny black head at the top of the egg, as you're looking down on it.
#MonarchMonday Those migrants haven't reached the north central part of Oklahoma yet but according to Journey North, they've appeared in the southern part of the state at this point...so here's a pic of past Monarch activity here. This is a portrait of a newly hatched bebby.
This explains why I get highly irked when journos and Daily Show people explain that tariff formula in oversimplistic terms, invariably ignoring that triangle preceding the tau in that equation, invariably claiming that triangle-tau = plain tariff rate. That triangle (delta) indicates the amount of the change in the tariff and there was already an across-the-board 10% baseline tariff in place. Delta tau equals the change in the existing 10% tariff, not the gdamn total tariff, ya morons.
I made some updates to the server's PHP-FPM configuration using the advise of a site to optimize PHP_FPM. So far so well. I have noticed better performance and stability and I am hoping that at this point the Instance is stable enough to handle the mild pressure it receives from its few users.
I am also working through a list of server optimizations for Friendica. Some I already had in play others needed tweaks. Stability is my main priority. I have limited the number of Users to 100. I will increase this if we reach 100 users and the Instance handles the load well.
@Unus Nemo I definitely noticed improved performance during last night's Hashtag Games, and I did overlook mentioning that every Sunday, about the same time as the games, is Monsterdon. Depending on the featured movie, I'm an occasional participant in that too, and I notice some Hashtag Games regulars will sometimes participate in that, too. In the interest of putting in a higher network demand, I should make a point of participating in the next Monsterdon as well as Hashtag Games next Sunday, methinks.
The Instance survived a Hashtag Games event, that is good 😉. I am glad you noticed a performance increase as well. Thank you for your efforts in helping to get the Instance stable.
This is a small Instance intended for family and friends to communicate. This Instance is not for Marketing your services or products. I do not mind if you mention your product or service though you may not make constant mention of it spamming other users.
I do not have the resources for a person to effectively launch a marketing program from my Instance. Not to mention the Instances propagation is not what you would desire for marketing. If you want to market on Friendica I recommend going to a larger Instance. It will not be allowed here.
Please refer to the TOS & Rules regarding this behavior
I was wondering why there was an image of a Wheel Bug in that poster, but now that I've looked this thing up, this is a disease spread by "kissing bugs"....which are a relative of the Wheel Bug--a type of Assassin Bug--so that explains that.
You just slip out the back, Jack Make a new plan, Stan You don’t need to be coy, Roy Just get yourself free Hop on the bus, Gus You don’t need to discuss much Just drop off the key, Lee And get yourself free
This is just a general announcement that I will be rebuilding the backend of the server that this Friendica Instance operates on within a month. I will give notice when I have a specific date.
Within the first week of being on The Fediverse I decided I was going to have my own Friendica Instance. I like Friendica more than any of the other Instance types I have ran into for many reasons. That does not mean it is exactly what I want it to be. I do plan many improvements as I have more time to work on them. For now I am just trying to get this Instance stable.
In my rush to get my Instance up I took some short cuts that I am now going to have to pay the price for. For instance my first install was via Tar Balls and I did not like the idea of how much work updates were going to be. Especially in applying needed patches between versions. So I re-installed via cloning the github project. This is always a bad idea. I should have forked the project first and then cloned from my own fork so tha
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This is just a general announcement that I will be rebuilding the backend of the server that this Friendica Instance operates on within a month. I will give notice when I have a specific date.
Within the first week of being on The Fediverse I decided I was going to have my own Friendica Instance. I like Friendica more than any of the other Instance types I have ran into for many reasons. That does not mean it is exactly what I want it to be. I do plan many improvements as I have more time to work on them. For now I am just trying to get this Instance stable.
In my rush to get my Instance up I took some short cuts that I am now going to have to pay the price for. For instance my first install was via Tar Balls and I did not like the idea of how much work updates were going to be. Especially in applying needed patches between versions. So I re-installed via cloning the github project. This is always a bad idea. I should have forked the project first and then cloned from my own fork so that I could maintain my own branch in a more sane fashion. So I will be doing what should have been done in the first place had I spent more time planning an researching instead of diving in.
What this means to Instance Users is that when I do redo the backend the server may be down for a few hours possibly more. I will be letting you know ahead of time to backup your profiles. I will of course backup the database before I begin though I feel it is important that you have a chance to do backups of your own should you feel the need. Personally I feel you should. You never know when some catastrophic issue could cause data loss. So it is not a bad idea to do regular backups on things you feel are important in any case.
Take care, I hope you are enjoying your time on The Fediverse and I will be sure to keep everyone up to date with scheduled maintenance.
@Unus Nemo The important thing is that you give notice. THE most important thing. Not sure how to back up my account, but now that you're letting us know in advance I have the ability to look into it before the outage. I appreciate you.
When it gets closer to the actual time I will be posting on how to backup your account. For now you can look in the help tab for more information in the Further Information section. You can always get to the help tab via the Main Menu I include links though to help you out at the moment.
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