David pays tribute to Radio Shack:
Where else could a kid with a handful of crumpled allowance dollars be treated with the same respect as an engineer building a homemade weather station?
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Compared to today’s retail scene, Radio Shack was a sanctuary of nerd-like confidence, competence, and hands-on expertise.
'Dachau Merchandise' would be more accurate.
Dachau was put into service weeks after Hitler seized power and was not an extermination camp like Auschwitz.
And yes, Hitler bragged about Dachau and used it for propaganda.
And yes, it was one of the predecessors of the extermination camps like Auschwitz.
When we mention we're going to be planting trees we have infinite people biting our arms off to come and plant them.
When we need the help with maintenance there is a deafening silence.
If you want to chase glory, focus on saving recently planted woodlands, doing the hard but critical work of making sure these saplings live, instead of just grabbing photo ops with a spade.
Birthday drinks afterwards. Come play. https://www.protect.earth/events/sapling-guardian-day-near-radstock
We planted saplings on this site back in 2022. We're circling back to check how things are going and are organising a sapling care and maintenance volunteering day to help ensure the survival and healthy growth of these saplings. Activities include: Identifying and replacing saplings that have
This is like if Nazi's sold Auschwitz merchandise to their base in 1941.
It's beyond sick. The clinical term is sadistic psychopathy.
For the avoidance of doubt in the minds of anyone from the US, in the film Schindler’s List the prison guards that shot prisoners for fun were not the heroes of the story.
Which is worse, an app modified a picture on its own without user input, or no one noticed?
'An officer used a photo editing app to insert the dept's patch. "The photograph was sent to our Facebook administrators & "Unbeknownst to anyone, the app altered the packaging and some of the other attributes on the photograph. None of us caught it or realized it."
Police Department Apologizes for Sharing AI-Doctored Evidence Photo on Social Media - Slashdot
A Maine police department has now acknowledged "it inadvertently shared an AI-altered photo of drug evidence on social media," reports Boston.com: The image from the Westbrook Police Department showed a collection of drug paraphernalia purportedly seized during a recent drug bust on Brackett Stree...
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