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My memory is bad. It's really, really bad. It's famously bad. One of my best friends said it was "an etch-a-sketch on a bumpy road".

The calendar apps I've seen aren't aggressive enough in notifications, and LineageOS's alarm app won't let me set dates sufficiently in the future. There's also a lot of recurring events and events that occur on irregular schedules.

So, I got sick of it, and wrote this. I made an alarm app that can be as aggressive or passive as you want, with crontab syntax.

The code isn't great. I wrote it in python as that's something I've had to use lately and python's proving to be... well, better than I expected. I'm not an expert with Python yet so you'll probably find some eww.

You need pygame for python 3 for alert sounds, python gobject Gtk 3 (pgi), python 3 sqlite, and everything else should be included in the Python 3 standard library.

Let me know what you think.

Ewwwww. Lately in two separate business environments I'm finding large, complicated codebases written entirely in JavaScript....
The worst one uses Electron. You know, basically a Chromium instance rendering your shitty pages as a faux GUI?

Look, JavaScript isn't a bad language for what it was designed for, but pulling in a separate chrome process for every one of your lazily written apps is a horrible idea and wastes a ton of resources.

JavaScript was never meant to be used the way Node.JS is letting it be used! It's not meant as a standalone language, it's meant for some shitty scripting abilities in your web browser.

If you want to make an easy desktop GUI app in a high level language, just use Qt and Python or Perl or something, as those are usually actually easier than JS anyways...

Idk, is anyone else here horrified at how they're developing these apps nowadays?

From time to time, as events wend their merry way through the Courts, I'll submit an SN Story Submission that summarizes the plot that has transpired so far as well as links to my detailed chronicles, each such chronicle packed solid with wall-to-wall Civil Procedures that use all their holes. Our Story So Far:

• Standing to Complain, Or, C-TRAN Kicks a Cripple

tl;dr:

The C-TRAN Clark County Washington Rapid Transit System used a FIFTY-TWO MILLION DOLLAR local sales tax increase to retain a firm of uncommonly sadistic banshees to build these quite cool Avant-Garde Installation pieces that I remain flummoxed are denoted as "Bus Stop Shelters".

Flummoxed because The Vine's alleged "shelters" do not protect either the waiting passengers, nor the benches within in _any_ way.

Redoubling my sorrow, is that as each Vine Avant-Garge Installation piece was... installed... the old, quite pleasant, inclement weather-protective though rather prosaic True Shelters was destroyed.

In this evenings mail, I received a Tort Claims Form from a Mr. Cedric Adams, Claims Manager for the Washington State Transit Insurance Pool. My _polite_, _respectful_ as well as I'ma Gonna Tear Ya A New Asshole reply:

Mr. Adams,

Thank you for sending me C-TRAN's Claim Form.

Note that I've CCed my Legal Advisor Rod Schmidt; when you mail me yourself, please CC Rod as well.

While I will fill it out and submit it tomorrow (Wednesday), I really don't see a way for C-TRAN to remediate the ultimate cause of the cruelty C-TRAN's Vine Bus Operator other than to either redesign, or perhaps to replace _each_ of the bus stop shelters for The Vine route.

This because those "shelters" do not, in _any_ way, shelter the benches from the wind, rain and snow. Nor do the protect either those sitting on the bench or those standing from the cold, wet winds which are so common in Vancouver during the Fall, Winter or Spring.

What led me to be so profoundly overcome with grief was the great pain I experienced due to having been forced to stand during most of the forty-five minutes I awaited The Vine's arrival on this last Saturday morning, February 9th. That grief was compounded by the knowledge that I _voted_ for the local sales tax increase that at the time of the election was intended to raise fifty-two million dollars for the construction of the Fourth Plain Rapid Transit Corridor.

Despite C-TRAN quite admirably sparing no expense nor effort to provide - in the parlance of the Americans With Disabilities Act - "Reasonable Accommodation" for those who cannot walk and so require wheelchairs, no such Accommodation was provided for those who do not use wheelchairs, but for whom walking or standing are excruciatingly painful and difficult.

For that reason, my monetary claim on our form will be a largely arbitrary, quite large amount, with the expectation that my claim will be denied. I will then proceed with my Civil Complaint through the Clark County Superior Court.

I shall do so with the expectation that C-TRAN's attorney and I - with the assistance and advice of Mr. Rod Schmidt - will negotiate a settlement which stipulates that _each_ Vine Stop Shelter be protected from the elements.

Enclosed please find a photo of one of the two snow-covered benches at the 12th and Broadway Vine Stop. I shot that with my phone upon my arrival on the C-TRAN #60 Delta Park Regional Bus.

Warmest Regards,

Michael D. Crawford

Indeed I did request my 9-1-1 call's audio file, but it's going to take CRESA (not "CRESPA"), the Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency, ten to fourteen days to get it to me.

I await my Emergency Call's arrival with bated breath, as I _begged_ CRESA's Dispatcher to deliver unto me a VPD Officer who would not arrest my Evil and Cruel Bus Driver, but _reason_ with him so that he would stop insisting I get off his bus. That would have condemned me to another forty-five minutes of standing, with _great_ pain, in the snow for the next bus.

The Mind Simply Reels

‮۴۰ سال سرکوب. ۴۰ سال ترور. رژیم ایران فقط موجب #چهل_سال_شکست‭ شده است. مردم ایران که‮ مدتهاست در رنجند شایسته آینده روشن تری هستند ☁️️🍄☁️️‭pic.twitter.com/nKMQCHQFCZ

Another disappointing Grammie Awards show last nite. Nothing for @taylorswift13. And that's O.K. She's good but she's not all that. People like her a little less since she came out against Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. Marsha took the Embrace. So now she's a Senator -- great job, Marsha!!

And unfortunately, nothing for my brother Yeesus. Otherwise known as Kanye. He's not my brother. But, he's like a brother that isn't an alcoholic. He was up for Producer of the Year, Non Classical. For the Wyoming Sessions -- Daytona by Pusha T and everything else.

And his incredible song Freeee was up for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song. But, nothing. ZERO. This one was rigged, folks!! youtu.be/5bZqAfJBsSk

I’d have a mischevious grin and a sadistic chuckle?

“Mike, this is getting _really_ old. Don’t tell us you have The Good Guy’s Gal tied to the railroad tracks again?”

Not, not today any, but have Your People call My People that we may come together as a team to do that before End Of Business on Monday.

The Long Blinks just hit! I’ll continue in the comments after I chills to one or more torrents.

Dark matter is a sinking ship or a physics oddity?
Can it be both spread out AND clumpy?
Will Dark matter ever die?

Go to the same Bat time, same Bat channel!

https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2019/02/wide-binaries-30.html

You'll be wanting to "$ wget --recursive http://www.girlshighdef.com/images/" or so as you read this here screed.

I want to shop professor Ian from Mary Worth onto a Playboy Magazine cover, one of the "Girls Of" (some college) line. This because he only just narrowly escaped infidelity.

When I do a Bing Image Search for "playboy 'girls of'" I'm not met with any covers, but with some top hits of generously - for a freesite - high-rez Playments from Girls High Res Dot Com.

So I click the thumbnail to get the link, click the link then...

a "download.gz" file downloads into my Downloads folder. TF?

Being on an almost but not quite current rev of macOS, I figure I'm immune from viruses, so I click the .gz to unpack it - try that, LUNIX! - then click the "download" file. It opens right up in TextEdit to reveal...

... the markup that _should_ have been - but was _not_ their web page.

I've had this happen to me before, so I know full well what their problem is:

Their server has that page's MIME-Type set wrong, I expect to binary/octet or some such, and not text/html.

So here THEY"RE THE TOP HIT AT BING IMAGE SEARCH!!!! but they're not getting any ad clicks nor are their referral links getting any clicks.

I'll try a "site:girlshighdef.com inurl:wp-content inurl:uploads"... no, while that commonly works, it does not here.

HOWEVER!!!! That webmaster shall be flayed alive, not merely fired: every last page's Site Description is "Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *. Comment"

Now, I readily admit that every last website I've ever published has been A Multitude Of - non-pr0n Sins, but I have _always_ been diligent as to fixing them.

[bzipitidoo:] Then there's all the ruckus over Global Warming. An awful lot of people would rather suck up Big Oil propaganda than listen to climate scientists. Why? For most of them, there's no gain in adhering to climate change denial, but they stick to it anyway, and have no scruples against using 3rd degree methods to suppress and silence climate science, stuff such as cutting funding and threatening their jobs and even their freedom.

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[PartTimeZombie:] The problem is that "your team" is wrong about climate change, and are being manipulated by people who directly gain from fossil fuels, but at least your team get to win right?

Stupid way to run a country if you ask me.

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[khallow:]“And yet the environmental guys are way outspending the other side. Somethings not quite right with the narrative.”

[AC:] Addressing this separately. To me this makes sense.

The companies get to hide behind “nothing is wrong” and that is cheap compared to the independent attempts to show that there is something going wrong in the environment.

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[AC:]You do realize that if it is true that big oil hid the negative effects of their and related industries concerning global warming that it is a huge savings?

A contrary viewpoint:

[AthanasiusKircher:] Other industries manage to employ paid scientists to "shill" for them all the time. Big pharma, food additives and nutritional research -- we all know that where ambiguous data CAN be exploited, industry can and has often hired researchers or financed research to help support its position. (And to be fair, I think many research scientists in these industry positions actually believe in the work they do.)

With the pockets of Big Oil and dozens of other related industries that would suffer from increased pro-environmental regulation to combat climate change, where is this army of paid scientists? And don't argue that it has something to do with tenure requirements or whatever, because Big Pharma, the big chemical companies, and the Food Industry has no problem finding scientists with graduate degrees whom they can EMPLOY and finance directly to publish research. If the data is really that open to interpretation, it should be easy to employ a bunch of debunking scientists. (And they probably wouldn't even lost a lot of money doing so, since they could probably charge huge speaking fees on the conservative circuit for these people.)

That's always the most confusing aspect of those who claim a massive conspiracy -- every other industry manages to find a significant number of scientists to shill for them when needed, despite the fact that such scientists are often bucking the research funded by non-industry groups and the government. Yet for some weird reason, it's claimed here on this issue that exactly the opposite happens: industry with big pockets is powerless to recruit an army of shills, and instead all the scientists are jockeying for the much smaller pockets of NSF money. If this is so easy for the government to do, how come it's so hard for them to achieve similar levels of consensus around problematic drugs or chemicals or food additives or whatever?

To all those people who think there's a massive, well-funded (that is, well-funded for an industry that has trillions of dollars in revenue!) Big Oil/fossil fuel campaign to sabotage humanity's efforts to combat climate change, I have this simple challenge. There's plenty of analysis of the few groups that allegedly support climate denialism and such.

Now, do the same for the pro-mitigation side. Include the big non profits like Greenpeace and World Wildlife Fund, government/intergovernment agencies like the UK's MET, NASA's GISS, and the IPCC, and the many businesses that support pro-mitigation. Use the same metric for each side. Who spends more on propaganda?

Protip: if you get that climate denialists are spending within an order of magnitude of the other side, then you're missing something big.

Reducing drug costs feature prominently in Trump's State of the Union Address.

However, his much-touted NAFTA re-write would grant an additional ten years of patent protection to pharmaceutical patents. That means generic medications will take ten more years to come to market and allows pharmaceutical companies to charge monopoly prices for ten years longer.

That will not result in cheaper medications.

Stronger Drug Patents in New NAFTA To Cost U.S. Manufacturing Workers Jobs

Why some people are worried about drug patent protections in the new NAFTA