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I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of “Congresswoman” Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia. Over the past few weeks, despite my creating Record Achievements for our Country including, a Total and Complete Victory on the Shutdown, Closed Borders, Low Taxes, No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden’s Record Setting Inflation, Biggest Regulation Cuts in History, stopping EIGHT WARS, rebuilding our Military, being RESPECTED by every Country in the World (as opposed to being the laughingstock that we were just 12 months ago!), having Trillions of Dollars (Record Setting!) INVESTED in the U.S.A., and having created the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World from being a DEAD Country just 12 months ago (and so much more!), all I see “Wacky” Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN! It seemed to all begin when I sent her a Poll stating that she should not run for Senator, or Governor, she was at 12%, and didn’t have a chance (unless, of course, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn’t about to get!). She has told many people that she is upset that I don’t return her phone calls anymore, but with 219 Congressmen/women, 53 U.S. Senators, 24 Cabinet Members, almost 200 Countries, and an otherwise normal life to lead, I can’t take a ranting Lunatic’s call every day. I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support. She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Israeli-Linked Operation behind Gaza Evacuations, Source Reveals - Palestine Chronicle
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-linked-operation-behind-gaza-evacuations-source-reveals/

Ah, so there was more than one flight apparently.

Odd way for Israel to get rid of Palestinians, as only those with money could try for this.

It is all very strange.

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #SouthAfrica @palestine@fedibird.com

When reflexes acquired in your job are invading your daily life.

-When i was an intern in a retail, i had to fight against the urge to store the shelves during my own shopping sessions.

From Postimees (also known as CIA, NED, Radio Free Europe, r*ddit) with the original article title being along the lines of "alternative political perspectives fail to change mainstream views in Estonia".

Being fluent in Estonian is actually a curse bro I swear

It was a rainy weekend, and after brewing a mugfull of coffee I sat comfortably and opened my laptop that I powered off yesterday after running an sudo pacman -Syuu yesterday to keep my Arch up to date. I like keeping things nice and up-to-date you know. The first red flags came when my fingerprint recognition wasn’t working when I tried to log in – but that’s fine, I can fix that later, not a biggie. Then the bluetooth was not seeing any devices; after 20 minutes of twiggling, reinstalling, restarting services, it did ultimately find, but didn’t cast audio through that. That’s ok, we’ve been there before, right? Wait why does my dGPU not turn on? Ok, let’s try reinstalling the drivers and cleaning some of processes, restarting. Ok now my bluetooth doesn’t work again – odd. Wait dGPU also still doesn’t work, let me remove the drivers completely… oh wait you also want to remove HIP SDK? But I need that for work… I mean, sure, ok I’ll install it again.

Morning slowly drifted to late afternoon, while I realized I have not spent a minute of that time on what I originally intended to do – recreational coding (that’s what all the normal people do on weekends, right?). After ultimately fixing all my issues I sat silently staring at my laptop, realizing I’m now roughly where I left things yesterday evening, except I burnt through a good fraction of my weekend scrolling through the Arch wiki and oftentimes toxic forums, the recurring suggestion from which was “if you can’t handle it, maybe you shouldn’t have used Arch to begin with.”

Well… maybe I shouldn’t have. ...

{Kochi mite!|pose for the fans}

Pavan Davuluri, the president of Windows and devices at Microsoft, recently took to X to share their feelings on the future of the OS (as spotted by Tom's Hardware). "Windows is evolving into an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere."

If that phrase reads to you like someone has thrown a dart at a board filled with LinkedIn buzzwords, you're not alone. Effectively, an agentic AI is one that can run autonomously, without the need to check back in on each step of the process.

If you ask a standard non-agentic AI to make you a poem, it can. If you ask that same AI to set up supply chains, adjusting stock and employees in real-time, based on information fed to it, it can't do it .

So, in this sense, Windows as an agentic AI is one that is designed to run automations daily to lighten the productivity load. However, I can't help but wonder who wants that out of their OS?

Washed flour seitan is a PITA. There must be a way to make it easier to prepare large batches.

As I see it there are are 2 main issues:

1. It is labourous to massage the dough, particularly in large quantities
2. Significant volumes of water involved make it messy and space consuming, especially if saving starch

Optimising (1) involves using more water, like you could just hose some dough on a grating for ages.

Optimising (2) means more manual work.

There seem to be the following avenues for improvement:

1. Improved tools for washing the dough
2. Automatic water circulation
3. Automatic reclaiming of water to reduce the volume needed

Looking into patents industrial processes do not seem directly translatable to the home, involving heavy and multi-stage machinery.

My thoughts at this stage:

1. stand mixer + automatic water circulation with cheap diagraphram pumps. Uses a large volume of water to be settled. High volume stand mixers are expensive, there is the potential for a lot of messy splashing.
2. Using a posser and a big bucket. Manual but cheap.
3. Water circulation + using a modified paint roller to push the dough against a grating. Maybe cheap but still less labour intensive?

Weird pipe dream shit:

1. Could you use something like a sluice to settle the starch and recycle the water. Essentially trading speed for just washing it for ages while you go and do something else?
2. Some sort of cyclonic separation to reclaim the water from the starch as above?
3. Is there an easy way to make some sort of food safe low velocity mega stand mixer from common salvaged tools?

I would appreciate any insight or constructive criticism from the more mechanically minded, or people who know how peasants did this shit without going mad.

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