Random Rants 94 I rant at the thread title and shake my fist menacingly.

Trump is deleting over 100,000 pictures and document from the US archives that show or talk about anything related to DEI. The Enola Gay plane which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima has the word gay in its name so it must go. Pictures of black soldiers will be removed too.

Somebody should explain to him that "Gay" is a woman's name, though no sane woman would use it nowadays unless she wants to be unmercifully harassed. One of my SCA acquaintances had a daughter who opted to change her name to "Kai" and I had a friend in high school whose middle name is Gay. I have no idea if she ever changed it, as we haven't been in contact in over 30 years.


I suppose he wants all the photos of various space shuttle crews and ISS crews deleted if they're not exclusively white men. So much for remembering the Challenger crew.

Things like this is why I've been telling Americans on social media that if there are any science-related or literature-related photos or files or documents that they think might be targeted for deletion, to SAVE THEM NOW. Save them and print them out in hard copy, and store the saved files in a safe place that's not connected to any computer. This is a lesson Canadians learned when former PM Stephen Harper decided to categorize environmentalists as "terrorists" and literally trashed an entire library of information on environments that would be affected by pipelines. He didn't want the scientists to be able to compare before and after pictures and information in order to mount an effective protest or court case (delete the information, burn the hard copies, and any court case falls apart since the judge has nothing to go on).
 
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Somebody should explain to him that "Gay" is a woman's name, though no sane woman would use it nowadays unless she wants to be unmercifully harassed. One of my SCA acquaintances had a daughter who opted to change her name to "Kai" and I had a friend in high school whose middle name is Gay. I have no idea if she ever changed it, as we haven't been in contact in over 30 years.


I suppose he wants all the photos of various space shuttle crews and ISS crews deleted if they're not exclusively white men. So much for remembering the Challenger crew.

Things like this is why I've been telling Americans on social media that if there are any science-related or literature-related photos or files or documents that they think might be targeted for deletion, to SAVE THEM NOW. Save them and print them out in hard copy, and store the saved files in a safe place that's not connected to any computer. This is a lesson Canadians learned when former PM Stephen Harper decided to categorize environmentalists as "terrorists" and literally trashed an entire library of information on environments that would be affected by pipelines. He didn't want the scientists to be able to compare before and after pictures and information in order to mount an effective protest or court case (delete the information, burn the hard copies, and any court case falls apart since the judge has nothing to go on).


Gay is also a family name. In WWII an Ensign Gay, who was a pilot with the US Navy, became famous for being the only survivor of a squadron of planes shot down during the Battle of Midway. It's a fairly well known episode to scrub from history just because of the man's name.
 
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Somebody should explain to him that "Gay" is a woman's name, though no sane woman would use it nowadays unless she wants to be unmercifully harassed. One of my SCA acquaintances had a daughter who opted to change her name to "Kai" and I had a friend in high school whose middle name is Gay. I have no idea if she ever changed it, as we haven't been in contact in over 30 years.


I suppose he wants all the photos of various space shuttle crews and ISS crews deleted if they're not exclusively white men. So much for remembering the Challenger crew.

Things like this is why I've been telling Americans on social media that if there are any science-related or literature-related photos or files or documents that they think might be targeted for deletion, to SAVE THEM NOW. Save them and print them out in hard copy, and store the saved files in a safe place that's not connected to any computer. This is a lesson Canadians learned when former PM Stephen Harper decided to categorize environmentalists as "terrorists" and literally trashed an entire library of information on environments that would be affected by pipelines. He didn't want the scientists to be able to compare before and after pictures and information in order to mount an effective protest or court case (delete the information, burn the hard copies, and any court case falls apart since the judge has nothing to go on).
Gay is also a man's name, often short for Gaylord. I had a great uncle Gay. He was a rural Wisconsin farmer.
 
I like the newsletter or whatnot size of periodical. Thing about blogs or websites is that nothing has to fit anything, it can go on for a sentence or forever. I think if I ever had the inkling to publish something, it would need to be along those lines: always the same size.
 
So tonight there was a total lunar eclipse. I have a beautiful view of the Moon from the room I'm sitting in right now. The weather's been good lately, and I was really looking forward to it.

Of course today is the day the universe chucked a snowstorm at us. The sky was cloudy all through the eclipse, but cleared up an hour or so after it was over.

:gripe:
 
I've been playing Civ4 since its release (well, I've been playing the Civilization serie since 1991 on Amiga, so nothing surprising here), and I just realized yesterday (through the power of actually paying attention to what is written) that the Ironwork bonuses don't actually require the city to have both coal and iron in its fat cross. They just need to have access to it.
It took me nearly 20 years to actually realize what the tooltip clearly stated, and I wasted lots of planning in lots of games to hope that there would be a place on the map with both resources close by to put a city there. Misinterpretation is powerful indeed.

I blame Civ3 which did require it. Totally not my fault here.
 
It is entirely your fault! :p
 
I just worried that my city would have a source of water, reasonably close to the ocean, and not too many mountains (you need mountains, but I tried a mountaintop city once - it starved before I could get enough food sources in place).

Test of Time's Midgard scenario is easier. Save 287 gold pieces, bribe a Dwarf, and it can terraform anything, including terrain that the instruction manual says can't be terraformed.
 
If you use Amazon's Alexa....

Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out​

Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.




And I suspect "everything" includes conversations held within hearing distance of Alexa.
 
I miss when Amazon was just an online bookstore (Well, that's how I remembered how it started) to get something that none of the big box bookstores (Barnes & Nobel, Books-A-Million, Borders, and Waldenbooks) had what you're looking for. I remember ordering the Thrawn Trillogy Graphic Novel from them years ago.
 
I suspect this will trigger a customer backlash and Amazon will restore the privacy option.
 
Just wait for them to be sued in Europe under GDPR.
 
Just wait for them to be sued in Europe under GDPR.
I would not hold my breath. To use one of those devices you had to agree to a lot of data being collected, if they can say that this is required for the service than I do not think the GDPR is going to challenge this.
 
Department got way behind on orders at work. Have to work today. Horrifically, maybe even Saturday.

Pretty irritiated about it. Managerial headscratchers led to it. Guy who finishes products on vacation for a week, nobody sent to fill in, and it's one of the least skilled jobs there.
 
I've been playing Civ4 since its release (well, I've been playing the Civilization serie since 1991 on Amiga, so nothing surprising here), and I just realized yesterday (through the power of actually paying attention to what is written) that the Ironwork bonuses don't actually require the city to have both coal and iron in its fat cross. They just need to have access to it.
It took me nearly 20 years to actually realize what the tooltip clearly stated, and I wasted lots of planning in lots of games to hope that there would be a place on the map with both resources close by to put a city there. Misinterpretation is powerful indeed.

I blame Civ3 which did require it. Totally not my fault here.
I did that too. Different timeline but same.
 
I'm trying to search product codes for stuff that currently I've been working, my customer just wants to deal directly through the product code instead the product names, copilot mostly give me a direct answer, but there's one product that it can't answer in return it gives me a product code for another product. So, I switch to Gemini I believe since it's powered by google it must be able to pinpoint the code better, but instead it always gives me a nuance answer for my quite straight forward questions every single time, even over a simple product that copilot able to give the code to me accurately.

"Well, every factory is different, it's entirely depended on many factors..." then continue to list every possible factor that can affect the determination of a product code, it's just refused to give a clear answer, it stays being nuance and status-quo, a master of beating around the bushes.

So, if you need an assistance, use copilot on edge, and it's free.
 
It’s crazy the training data can be relied on for product codes but google’s search, forget Gemini, doesn’t take you there.
 
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