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  • The Curiosity Rover just took the coolest pictures of Mars!

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    Heise.de: Marsrover Curiosity begeistert mit Fotos von Gesteinsformationen Sandstone formations which emerge from from wandering dunes.

  • Upgrade Kubuntu 16.04 ‘Xenial’ from Plasma 5.5 to Plasma 5.6

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    Using the Kubuntu Backports PPA its possible to upgrade from Plasma 5.5 to 5.6 kubuntu.org/news: Plasma 5.6.5 and Frameworks 5.23 now in Backports for Kubuntu 16.04 Instructions are here: KDE Community Wiki:Kubuntu/PPAs:Kubuntu Backports Donate to KDE

  • War is natural

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    War is a natural part of being a human. Humans eat. Sleep. Have sex. And they also engage in war. There is nothing unnatural about engaging in war. Not engaging in war is actually unnatural. It is delusion to think that a human being should never engage in war. A human being has to engage…

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    LOL FY

  • Playing darts with probability

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    We were asked to do some exercises with arrays in one of my programming courses and one of the things I wanted to do was create a method (function) to generate a random array. Some of the exercises involved testing to see if any of the numbers in an array are negative. I could have…

  • Videos on Feminism

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    I hope its ok to post these here. Millennial Woes is extraordinary. What he says is insightful, grounding, and healing. Around 18 minutes in the below video what he says about it being “tragic” is so intense it made me cry.

  • Taking a break from Twitter

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    After the initial honeymoon with using Twitter and the stimulation of finding other people posting information and ideas, I found for the past few days that I needed to pause. One reason was practical: I have a lot of homework to do. I end up spending too much time when I start reading Twitter. I…

  • Barack, Hillary…

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    WHAT THE FRIKKIN’ HELL happened????? What the hell changed? Why TF don’t you support sanity when it comes to huge swarms of people flooding into the United States? Damn, we might have overlooked some of your oligarchy BS. Maybe you would have provided better environmental protection. Etc. Hint: We don’t give a f** if “the…

  • Reflecting on “cancers” within societies

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    Yesterday I was running some errands. I was searching for this particular thing and went to an area where this shop I needed to go to is. I parked there. As I was parking this outrageously loud motorcycle went past twice. I mean outrageously loud. Deafeningly loud. Abusively loud. I – and tens of thousands…

  • I want to motivate you to keep trying to switch to Linux

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    I understand its easy to backtrack. I understand that frustration may become so great that patience is lost and then we switch back. I understand that we just “want things to work” and so forget about the true importance of freedom – we forget to cherish it as deeeply as we should – and we…