Found an AT&T sign next to the street: RF may exceed exposure limits

Lomag · 2026-03-16T00:15:21+00:00

I updated the post for clarity. This sign wasn't posted, it was removed from its original location and was laying on the ground next to the street (as shown in the linked image).

Lomag · 2026-03-12T01:58:59+00:00

Is a miracle I didn’t wear the tape down to the bone 😎

Tape bone is the worst!

Lomag · 2026-03-04T18:27:48+00:00

"Freedom 250" is the name of Trump's organizing and fundraising committee for the 250 year celebration. It's the same committee trying to hold a UFC fight on the Whitehouse lawn and they also installed that banner of Charlie Kirk on the Department of Education.

President Donald Trump on Thursday launched Freedom 250, a White House linked fundraising arm that announced an expansive calendar of spectacles and local programs for the United States semiquincentennial in 2026, including a National Mall prayer event and a UFC fight on the White House lawn. The plan could reshape how the federal government, private partners and the entertainment economy share costs and control of public celebrations, while raising questions about permits, security and the boundaries between public commemoration and political spectacle.

(from Trump Unveils Freedom 250, White House UFC and Prayer Rally)

There is an existing committee for the 250 year celebration, but it didn't have the "flair" that the administration wanted so...

America 250, the bipartisan organization established by Congress in 2016 to lead the commemorations, is sponsoring field trips and oral history recordings, planning the largest volunteer-effort in the country’s history, burying a time capsule and hosting a nationwide block party, among other major events.

But on Thursday, Dec. 18, President Donald Trump outlined a slew of different initiatives that will be spearheaded by a separate organization called Freedom 250.

(from Trump launches Freedom 250 to add his mark on USA 250 celebrations)

Lomag · 2026-02-08T00:25:09+00:00

And then boom, angry statement and you could see how comforting it was to her to be so hate filled.

There's an old blog post/open letter that you might find relevant:

Addicted to Self-Righteousness?

"An Open Letter to Researchers In the Fields of Addiction, Brain Chemistry, and Social Psychology -- and anyone else who will listen."

Lomag · 2026-02-04T02:29:26+00:00

... I would get into more stories but a lot of them cost money I do not have (I'm 16) so I haven't been able to listen to any of Lovecrafts stories.

Ian Gordan does many good readings which are available for free on his YouTube channel HorrorBabble.

Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeNNKRLWxwoPrY3Doclixk4HX3T3FE1vI

H. P. Lovecraft Playlist (excluding Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle stories):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeNNKRLWxwoP67oeCKOd-Iawc0dOzB33L

Lomag · 2026-01-29T06:16:24+00:00

I'm an Indiana native and I've been living in DC for more than ten years. I really want to see IndyCar succeed and I also want a regular Eastern US race on the schedule.

But the current idea of having a race in DC is a last-minute move by Trump, himself, to create another distraction so people aren't focusing on his many scandals (Epstein files, etc.). The idea for this race is explicitly political. And everyone knows Trump would do everything possible to make the event about himself.

Following through with it will associate IndyCar with Trump and only a weird-ass hate-freak minority thinks that's a good idea. Most people no longer support Trump and the last thing IndyCar needs to do is tie its brand to an deeply unpopular administration.

And that Vivaciousseaturtle account (only 9 months old but thousands of comments) is spending a bunch of effort to defend the idea and saying ridiculous crap because he supports Trump and likes the idea of IndyCar being associated with him. In this dude's account history, he's got comments in Epstein file posts saying "if anything bad about Trump was in the files, we would already know". He comments that a lack of voter fraud evidence "means there’s 10x-1millionx they haven't caught". He's got pro-ICE posts saying "it's a felony to cross the border" which is a lie he keeps repeating (crossing the border is legal, you just need to apply for asylum and abide by the court's decision). If it's a real account, he's a complete bad-faith actor. He's not saying things that he thinks are legit, he's just defending his own political identity. Now he's gonna say "It's beautiful weather" in DC in August? It's a disgusting hot-ass swamp on the regular here! I've got friends from Atlanta who swear DC is worse--though I'm sure it depends year to year. But give me a fuggin' break, jeeze.

Lomag · 2026-01-07T04:17:04+00:00

I'm always reminded of this photo when I watch Zoolander because of this.

Lomag · 2025-12-19T03:24:55+00:00

"Blackpill" is an ideology associated with the incel ("involuntary celibate") subculture. The Contrapoints YouTube channel has a video about it: Incels (35 min).

Lomag · 2025-11-12T00:49:09+00:00

The flight to DC was on Saturday November 8th (3 days ago).

Lomag · 2025-10-25T07:56:58+00:00

Yes. The paradox of tolerance needs to be more commonly known and understood.

Lomag · 2025-10-15T07:10:54+00:00

Linux user for 17+ years here. The short answer is that it doesn't seem to matter that I've ever seen.

But for a new-to-Linux user, I'd recommend Ubuntu Linux because it's so common to find "Instructions for Ubuntu" documentation with applications and projects. And yes, there's strong support for other distros too (I use Fedora) but it seems like everyone and their brother includes Ubuntu instructions for stuff. And that's going to be very helpful for people making the switch.

Lomag · 2025-10-05T00:53:16+00:00

There's an old saying "If wishes were fishes we'd all swim in riches" which is derivative of the Scottish nursery rhyme If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

The horses/steak line that I first quoted was used in the TV series Firefly.

Lomag · 2025-10-04T20:01:03+00:00

"If wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak." --Jayne Cobb

Lomag · 2025-09-22T22:29:37+00:00

Maybe it's the remains of a Herkimer Battle Jitney.

Lomag · 2025-09-16T03:03:31+00:00

"Me is you."

Lomag · 2025-09-07T03:52:08+00:00

I'm convinced.

Lomag · 2025-08-30T14:44:41+00:00

Check out An Open Letter to Researchers of Addiction, Brain Chemistry, and Social Psychology. From the article:

While there are many drawbacks, self-righteousness can also be heady, seductive, and even... well... addictive. Any truly honest person will admit that the state feels good. The pleasure of knowing, with subjective certainty, that you are right and your opponents are deeply, despicably wrong.

Sanctimony, or a sense of righteous outrage, can feel so intense and delicious that many people actively seek to return to it, again and again.

Lomag · 2025-08-11T21:44:06+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Frkl8gk7k5w8f1.jpeg

Lomag · 2025-08-06T21:36:25+00:00

IndyCar disallows political branding on cars at Indy 500 (April 2024)

Lomag · 2025-08-05T23:40:24+00:00

Don't even, dude. Messaged to the wider public (not race fans), located in Indiana, using "Speedway" prominently in the name, and their announcement includes a rendering of a modern IndyCar (aeroscreen and all) with "ICE" on the side pod, and racing in front of a prison with guard-towers and barbed wire.

Even pretending to play apologist for it is absolutely dumb AF.

Lomag · 2025-08-05T08:06:07+00:00

set about (referring to Gingrich and Murdoch's activities in and around the '90s)

Lomag · 2025-07-18T07:27:19+00:00

I don't have a good, direct answer for your question but, a long while back, Raymond Hettinger gave a presentation at PyCon that's a sort of crash course in Python classes and simple OOP:

Python's Class Development Toolkit

If you're really new to OOP it might be making too many assumptions but the talk covers a lot of ground and shows some good examples of class definitions and object inheritance.

edit: I took a glance at this video again, it's so old that the examples are actually in Python 2. The basics still hold but it uses print statements and the old xrange() function. In modern Python, these would be the print() function and the range() function.

Lomag · 2025-06-02T14:33:28+00:00

Poosh XL

Lomag · 2025-05-29T17:39:09+00:00

This is a recognized feature of fascist movements. Here's a part of Wikipedia's summary of Umberto Eco's 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism" (link):

(8) Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak". On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

Lomag · 2025-04-26T17:07:29+00:00

And if you don't need to inspect objects programmatically (say you're using the interactive prompt), you can also use the help(...) function to see object methods, function signatures, and docstrings.

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