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…hey, willem dafoe is an accomplished thespian; show some respect…

…and i’m glad i haven’t yet…

…my experience before ‘high-efficiency incandescent’ halogens was the same: i have thirty-year-old proper halogen lamps either still going strong or which have been replaced only once over that period…these little A19 halogens, though, have an such absurdly-short duty cycle that they’re viable only by virtue of stocking up dozens of cases for pennies on the dollar when they were phased out a couple of years ago…

…i do hope that we have respectable consumer bulbs available in perhaps five years after those few hundred halogen bulbs are gone, but i’m not optimistic as poor spectra appear inherent to LED technology and the market seems to have settled on ‘good-enough’…proper incandescent bulbs are of course still available for specialty applications, but they’re not easy to get…

…how do people say it’s not realistic?..

…the contractor-grade FEIT incandescents installed when we built our house enjoyed a MTBF of about five years; the FEIT halogens (‘high-efficiency incandescent’) i stocked up to replace them after traditional incandescents phased out are on the order of six months MTBF…

…while i question whether the manufacturing and distribution of ten fourty-watt halogen bulbs really emits less carbon than one sixty-watt incandescent running for the same duration, at least the spectra are unchanged: i’ve yet to find any LEDs which offer acceptable black-body spectra and i specify the things professionally…

Fuck you if you didn’t choose harm reduction.

…thirty years of choosing harm reduction brought us to this point…

…i held my nose and voted against fascism, but if you want to blame someone, blame the f*cking fascists and blame the thirty years of harm reduction which enabled them: pluralities win, that’s how american democracy works…

…my wife made me dump our earthlink hosting account three years ago for a more-modern hosting service; i feel like my greybeard credibility was compromised…

hormones

…wikipedia’s editorial process trends toward unbiased information over time…

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(ipadOS / safari)

…how do they quantify 3/10 of a bit?..

…it’s clearly a recently-filmed parody…

…there are at least three of us!..

…i thought little people lived in my parents’ radio and television who put on shows for us…

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…i use four WQXGA displays at work but i think i might be more productive with a pair of curved WQUXGA displays even though i’d lose a little vertical real estate; two curved 5Ks would be great…

…you dad did very well; give him a hug this december…

…the f*ck is ‘US News News - Times Now’?..

…that happened once!..

…if you don’t want to be called a facist, maybe stop being such a f*cking fascist, fascist…

…know what they called people who supported the nazi party despite disagreeing with some of its policies?..nazis…

…please keep to the right except to pass…