@clif

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I post random stuff, from high tech to my chickens... mostly my chickens.

I know I'm really late to this, but @veronicaexplains_channel

Want entertaining tech knowledge in an easy to understand format? New info in areas where you thought you knew most of it? VeronicaExplains does it.

Just a hen overseeing my work (and trying to eat the spools)

#backyardchickens #locksport #chicken #chicke

New report ranks Arkansas’ food insecurity rate worst in the U.S.

At a rate of nearly 19%, Arkansas has the highest prevalence of food insecurity in the nation, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report released Wednesday.

UALR
I just looked at reddit for the first time in months and ... Ho,ho,holy shit. Its a wasteland of garbage questions. "if you had one X what would you do?"
Now multiply that times 1000.
15,043,594 accounts
+217 in the last hour
+2,472 in the last day
+15,258 in the last week
Montanans have a #FirstAmendment right to use TikTok to speak and access information online, and the company has a First Amendment right to select and curate users’ content. So we’re glad a federal judge struck down Montana’s TikTok ban.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/victory-montanas-unprecedented-tiktok-ban-unconstitutional
Victory! Montana’s Unprecedented TikTok Ban is Unconstitutional

A federal court on Thursday blocked Montana’s effort to ban TikTok from the state, ruling that the law violated users’ First Amendment rights to speak and to access information online, and the company’s First Amendment rights to select and curate users’ content. Montana passed a law in May that...

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Seconds before Mango the chicken decided that the turkey was encroaching on her territory, attacked the turkey, and chased it off.

#backyardchickens

https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/npr-news/2023-08-23/arkansas-drops-ap-african-american-studies-course

> Arkansas drops AP African American Studies course

> “We cannot perpetuate a lie to our students, and push this propaganda leftist agenda, teaching our kids to hate America, and hate one another," Governor Sarah Huckabee-Sanders said.

Arkansas drops AP African American Studies course

The Arkansas Department of Education says the course code was removed so they could search the class curriculum for “indoctrination.”

UALR

It's stupid hot out today (pushing 100°F/~38°C) and my strategy of using the house and its contents as a thermal battery is being pushed to the limit.

But, it's still working! My air conditioner has been off for 8 hours and I'm still decently comfortable. 76°F is 24.4°C

Now, I live in a very new home built to recent codes. But I have very little shade, and in any case it shows what's possible!

Demand-side energy management has a ton of potential when combined with a little brainpower.