CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@Cali it's OK, because the president just signed an executive order to pay TSA using unspecified mystery funds and dubious unspecified constitutional authority.

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116302441423409307

LOL.

And, I must emphasize:

LMFAO.

@chillybot I was under the impression that "anticipatory clearance" is an American FAA practice, unusual elsewhere in the world, of granting clearance to inbound aircraft before the runway is clear, in anticipation of any preceding aircraft and other obstacles clearing the runway before their arrival. Am I wrong?

@chillybot

Did you get any sense as to whether they'd be looking at the FAA's practice of granting anticipatory clearance as a potential factor?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PCMag/116286202498907843

I'm guessing they couldn't figure out how to balance the tiny anticipated revenue against the high compute costs and enormous litigation risk.

Parlor tricks do not a profitable business plan make.

@MozillaAI

Please stop.

Welcome to the Resistance, ANTIFA Delivery Robot.

Delivery Robot Drives Through Bus Stop Shelter, Shattering Glass Everywhere

A Serve Robotics robot crashed through a Chicago bus shelter.

404 Media (www.404media.co)

@da_667

It's OK, we can just buy patriotic 'Murican Starlink terminals made in the good ol' U S of A by our favorite patriotic pal, Elon Musk.

@sylvie @mattblaze @hacks4pancakes

Still better than a Trump or Wynn hotel, though.

I'm still processing the chaotic idea that yesterday the Trump administration just decided that no one gets to buy any new Internet routers.

I am so tired.

@cap_ybarra

I hit that point two years ago for an accumulation of reasons, and honestly it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

@shane

I'm probably due for a roof replacement in another ~5 years, and I'm absolutely certain I'll include a solar panel install when I do and probably some sort of large capacity battery to go along with it.

@jwz

So it's a little clunky with too many steps and has some room for human error or people to miss a prompt and have the file left in an oubliette containing all their randomly downloaded files. But it works.

I'm not sure whether or how the process would differ when using a Mastodon client, the Chrome for Android browser, another version of Android OS, etc.

@jwz

I get the following sequence when accessing via Firefox for Android...

I'm getting a respectable 145W out of this Sokiovola 200W panel despite a certain someone partially shading it.

I guess my Jackery battery isn't the only thing that's solar-powered.

#solarpunk

I bought a Jackery Explorer 1000 Plus kit containing a 30aH LiFePo4 battery and a 100W portable solar panel from Costco earlier this week in preparation for the Monday Midatlantic windstorm, further supplemented with an additional 200W solar panel. Yeah, I probably could've done better for cheaper than Jackery, but I was in a hurry and the storm was coming. The primary goal is to keep the fridge and sump pump powered during extended power outages. But now that I've got this thing, I'd like to solicit some ideas for what to do with it in-between emergencies.

The battery is rated for 4000 full charge/discharge cycles, which means I could theoretically use it hard every day for the next decade. I've got a nice, unobstructed, south-facing back deck next to a window through which I could run wires from the battery to the panels. My region's cloud cover is highly variable, but averages out to something like 4 hours of sunlight a day, temperatures ranging from 7F in the winter to 100F in the summer (-14C to 38C), and lots of humidity and unpredictable precipitation.

My initial thought is to keep the battery inside the house by the window to protect it from the elements, run cables to the panels through through foam backer rod or a pool noodle trimmed to size for insulation in the window, along with a rain loop to prevent water intrusion into the house and the panels, and hang the panels on a small frame on the deck. Then maybe I use the battery to charge up gadgets like tablets, bluetooth devices, etc.

Thoughts and suggestions? What do you use your portable solar/battery rig for in-between emergencies and camping trips?

#solarpunk

@david_chisnall

You're right, but there are good principled reasons for tackling both the supply and demand side of things. Allowing the government to skirt the intent of the 4th amendment by buying the stuff is also bad, including where it uses our own tax dollars against us.

@gooba42 @jwz

I'll also point out that this is nowhere near the weirdest thing to happen in a Georgia Waffle House.

And per customary Waffle House disaster response rules, the time to worry isn't when FEMA personnel spontaneously teleport *to* a Waffle House, but rather when they spontaneously teleport *from* one.

@gooba42 @jwz

Sounds like you didn't read the link. He may not be reliably contacted at any *place*, but he can be reliably contacted at any *time*, because he doesn't experience the passage of time during his teleportation. Must be hard on the cellular network infrastructure for cell service during those calls, though.

/s

@infoseclogger I'm not familiar, but I'm a proud member of the elite Rancho Gordo Bean Club here. Here's the latest quarterly shipment.