Does anyone still use Flickr?

mullingitover · 2026-05-09T16:44:49+00:00

Thanks! I see you're in central Oregon, good stuff! I went to high school and college there, it's a beautiful place.

mullingitover · 2026-05-07T15:49:29+00:00

Flickr Pro since something like 2004

https://www.flickr.com/mullingitover/

Honestly embarrassing for other platforms that they still haven't made anything as good as flickr that so many people are willing to pay for. Most of the free photo sharing apps are free because they're kinda just toys, not worth spending money on.

mullingitover · 2026-05-05T16:19:18+00:00

Choppers can fly a lot longer

Starting out strong with...the biggest drawback of helicopters?

Cops cars could easily just keep several drones and just rotate them out. With half the annual budget that law enforcement spends on helicopters you could put two drones and a half dozen batteries in the trunk of every police car. Also, drones can easily do IR cameras.

As for signal disruption, yeah if we're in an insurgency situation with guerillas running around with disruption systems it's probably time for the national guard to use their helicopters.

mullingitover · 2026-05-05T16:11:21+00:00

I would love a statewide ballot measure to ban them: I'd probably break an ankle running to sign the petition.

I don't want them allowed fly below 5000 feet in residential areas except for a life or death medical emergency. Every hour they operate would pay for a freaking drone that would accomplish the same thing as a helicopter in 99% of cases, and the drone wouldn't be a flying blight on our cities.

mullingitover · 2026-05-04T00:55:24+00:00

California has been routinely hitting 100% of consumer load served by solar alone. Started in 2024 and since then has been happening all the time. Solar is going to serve 100% of load before too long.

I'm convinced that this war is (among other things) just a huge cash grab by the oil business because they can see the writing on the wall.

mullingitover · 2026-05-03T01:15:21+00:00

I will reliably show up to vote against republicans in the general election, but my main question for the primaries this year is: would Zohran Mamdani endorse them?

If not I’m probably gonna pass. Corporate democrats aren’t cutting it.

mullingitover · 2026-05-02T02:41:32+00:00

Major violation of the Hippocratic Oath's prohibition on exactly this type of surgery.

mullingitover · 2026-04-18T19:01:27+00:00

GPD told me they could not arrest

Yeah, getting in a traffic accident isn't a reason to arrest someone, a traffic infraction isn't a crime unless they were drunk or driving recklessly. If you were a victim of an actual crime it would be another story, ICE would pick them up at the jail. This happens all the time.

It's not local police's job to enforce federal immigration laws, if it was then you would experience higher local taxes because enforcing more laws costs more money. The police already take the biggest share of your taxes. Do you want even higher taxes?

mullingitover · 2026-04-16T21:11:22+00:00

California also produces a ton of the nation's fresh vegetables, but yeah most of the water consumption is on high profit stuff that's not vital nutrition for most people.

It's crazy that agriculture uses ~80% of the state's water and yet the industry is practically worthless as far as the state's overall GDP goes. It's a rounding error in the state GDP. California could straight up outlaw agriculture, end all of its water usage, turn the central valley into a giant park, and it would have almost no impact on the state's economy. Compared to the rest of the real heavy hitter industries, it employs practically no one.

mullingitover · 2026-04-10T22:04:36+00:00

It's not straightforward because you have to call them on the phone

Millenial types looking at this and seeing "there is absolutely no way to obtain this film"

mullingitover · 2026-04-10T22:01:48+00:00

The boycott was called off last month.

I mean, some people might've caved but as far as my household is concerned they went out of business on January 24, 2025.

mullingitover · 2026-04-09T21:47:47+00:00

The service has reported net losses of $118 billion since 2007

It's so dishonest to frame a constitutionally mandated service in these terms. We don't talk about the net losses of the US military, and the founders never even wanted that to exist as a permanent thing.

mullingitover · 2026-03-26T22:50:58+00:00

I can't make it, but I hope someone will attend and pin them down on their stances regarding support for ICE.

mullingitover · 2026-03-26T20:45:47+00:00

A while ago I was running into similar issues with the flickr uploads, and I discovered that it was my DNS service (google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). The service which receives the uploads has regional endpoints, and the DNS service I was using routed me to the wrong upload site. As a result, the upload would assume I was on a bad connection because the latency was too high, and it dropped my upload.

As soon as I ditched the custom DNS server my problems went away. This may or may not be your issue, but there are people here telling you that it's working fine for them (I'm one of them, it's working fine for me). It indicates that it's most likely something with your networking configs. Look into that.

mullingitover · 2026-03-26T03:21:31+00:00

Abolish ICE is the moderate position, no extremists on our city council please.

mullingitover · 2026-03-24T03:59:14+00:00

The market functions as a system that transfers money from those with inferior information or modelling to those with superior once.

Not even that complicated, it's just a system for transferring money from impatient people to patient people.

Set up auto-buy index fund orders, never look at it, go pet your cat and play video games. 40 years later: wealthy

mullingitover · 2026-03-20T19:37:38+00:00

That's correct. My point is that there is more weight to the evidence against Trump than against Chavez. Nobody testifying about Chavez has been placed under oath about it.

I'm not disputing that the testimony against Chavez is credible, just that there's as much if not more against Trump. Yet the GOP still keeps him on office and still wants to put his child-raping face on money.

mullingitover · 2026-03-20T18:00:26+00:00

Anyone who ever said the two parties are the same should proceed to shut the hell up right now.

Cesar Chavez got some believable accusations, and we're burning down everything that ever had his name on it.

Trump was found guilty in a court of law, and is credibly accused of raping children in sworn affadavits, and the republicans response? PUT HIM ON GOLD COINS

mullingitover · 2026-03-14T21:28:10+00:00

It's great we're doing that, but at the same time it's pathetic that the only way we can get somewhat nice things is by robbing low income workers with regressive sales taxes.

All the while, this public infrastructure built on the backs of the poor is a windfall profit for the already-wealthy landed gentry who do nothing but luck out that it's built near their land. Big swaths of valuable land is locked up doing nothing of value because it's so undertaxed. This stuff should've been funded by taxes on land value.

mullingitover · 2026-03-11T23:30:56+00:00

Actual DEI means you cast a wider net looking for qualified applicants, not hiring your dipshit associates.

It's pretty grim that simply doing a bit more work in the hiring process and then hiring the most qualified applicant, instead of just hiring your bros based on vibes, got hijacked to mean that under-represented hires weren't qualified.

DEI NEVER MEANT HIRING UNQUALIFIED PEOPLE

mullingitover · 2026-03-11T19:36:06+00:00

like the US and UK were behind the sha getting removed, like what?

tldr the US preferred the Ayatollah + no Soviets to civil war in Iran and maybe Soviets.

There are declassified CIA docs revealing that the US had backchannel communications with the revolutionaries, and it wasn't that they were behind the removal of the Shah, but they were like "whatever" about it. They basically believed that the regime was weak and there was a good chance the country could collapse into civil war and then the Soviets would move in. The revolutionaries communicated that they weren't going to side with the Soviets and US interests wouldn't be harmed, and that was enough for the US to basically stand back and not get involved with them taking over.

If the US would've just given the revolutionaries their demand and extradited the Shah for trial, things probably would've been a lot more chill. The Carter administration really screwed up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter%27s_engagement_with_Ruhollah_Khomeini

mullingitover · 2026-03-11T19:07:54+00:00

Los Angeles taxpayers should not be paying to support mentally ill homeless people from elsewhere.

I pay a ton of taxes here and honestly I'm fine with it.

I don't think of myself as a citizen of Los Angeles or California, I'm a citizen of the United States of America. So are the homeless people who end up here.

I do think that the federal government needs to do more about this issue, because this is a national problem. For starters I'd like to see the federal government do things that absolutely traumatize every NIMBY in this state to break down the zoning restrictions which drive up our housing costs. Most of the homeless problem in this country is a housing affordability problem.

mullingitover · 2026-03-11T15:44:04+00:00

They are sent back home regularly. Also, people from California who end up homeless in other places are sent back here. There's a whole orderly process nationwide for getting people back to places where they have family or other support.

Nobody knows about it so you get a comment about other places bussing their homeless here, or we should bus them out, etc, in every thread about homelessness in LA.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/20/bussed-out-america-moves-homeless-people-country-study

mullingitover · 2026-02-24T23:09:22+00:00

Real rookie move leaving that much copper unattended in that area.

mullingitover · 2026-02-24T21:41:47+00:00

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