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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you

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Amateur astronomer - Astronomy for Everyone show since 2009 https://www.youtube.com/c/astronomyforeveryone Writing a book. Have dogs. Tell jokes - I used to tell dad jokes. Sometimes he'd laugh. Something with computers for a living. I don't really do DMs.

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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · Nov 21

I'm giving up eating chocolate for a month. Sorry, bad punctuation. I'm giving up. Eating chocolate for a month.
#joke

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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 7h

A friend talks about the food for sleep equation. See also: truck drivers are fat. Funny though is that the only truck driver i've met was impossibly skinny. 6'4" & 105 lbs. She did say that when she is down to 95, she goes to a hospital. Still, most are fat.

Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 11h

I'm still here b/c i pulled over & took a half hour nap.

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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 11h

3am is my driving nemesis. Going from Buffalo to Detroit via Canada. At 3 am, was losing it, so found a gas station with a vending machine & bought several cans of Mt. Dew. Got back on the road, and a half hour later was still sleepy. Pulled over & read a can: no caffeine. Why do Canadians drink it?

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19h

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/b9U7CY1

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 11h

Totally.

Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 11h

Just posted this:

Two people talking

1. Cows kill more people than sharks
2. I'm surprised cows kill any sharks at all

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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 12h

I don't get next day caffeine withdrawal headaches. It's 2nd day. Didn't drink Mt Dew at home, so was 10:20 AM on Sundays, if i've had too much.

Need to be awake and fully alert for a living. Caffeine only makes me awake. Sometimes can get alert with half hour of strenuous exercise. Really.

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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 12h

On the workout side, i don't go to gyms. But i bicycle, and they recommend caffeine. For me, caffeine withdrawal makes you perform worse, sure, but it never seems to make you better. That's been proven for cognitive performance, at least.

Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 13h

Caffeine has lots of side effects. The most used side effect is keeping one awake. Doesn't do that anymore. It's a diuretic, but withdrawal can give constipation. I get nothing on the diuretic side, but lots of constipation withdrawal. Ugh.

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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 13h

You know, i thought of this. But i didn't write the joke.

I've never set up RAID 0. In the early 90s, they had a 5 drive HP box with RAID 0. All the lights went on/off synchronously. Have used RAID for redundant reliability, but only at work. Haven't been the admin lately, so it's been an age.

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Cassian Nandor @cassian-nandor.bsky.social · Feb 16

Remember this: Try.

Manifesto - by Nemik
There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.

Remember this, Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause.

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empires’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.

Remember this: Try.

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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 13h

I still have a floppy drive. Does it work? No idea. Used them in the 90s. After thumb drives? Not so much. The Pentium II lasted to a bit after 2000, didn't have USB. But i didn't make up the joke.

Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 13h

I've also played a few games of golf. Made par (par 3) on a hole. From the T there was a valley to the flag up on the other side. Plan: hit to just below the far hill. Chip it up onto the green, put it into the hole. So, executed it. Three very unlikely shots. Should i pursue this? Nope.

Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 18h

Where did they get all the old cars for this?

(Detroit, 1958).

Black & white image for 1985 Detroit. A bunch of cars on a 3-lanes in each direction highway. Could be i75 looking south, but really don't know.

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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 18h

In my 20s (terribly not recently), had trouble finding a ball that fit my hand. Came back with a 16 lb ball (7.25 kg). Never played with a monster like that before. Gang started, so no practice throw. First 6 frames were strikes, & the rest strikes & spares only. Don't recall final score. Mostly 120

Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 18h

Originally, i stopped the graph at like 500. Turns out someone can get the idea without it. Whowouldaguessed.

Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 18h

I can leap higher than tall buildings. You can too. It turns out that tall buildings can't leap very high.

Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 18h

They had free keurig coffee at the office. Tried *all* off the zillion flavors. Sorted to "least bad" & drank it for months. Mt Dew was available in the machines, but has High Fructose Corn Syrup. Intolerable, & eventually tastes bad.

Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 19h

It's been awhile since i've checked, but the issue with decaf is that there's somewhere between 2% and 50% caffeine with it. It's moot for me now, as caffeine gives me arthritis. My sensitivity keeps going up. Addicted or not, have to go cold turkey. Imagine a chocoholic who is allergic.

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Bex @bexsayswords.bsky.social · 1d

Someone needs to teach me how to end sentences. The start of my sentences are super clear and I can make a great point but it basically ends then I don't know how to stop it and then so yeah that's sort of it so

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 21h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 19h

I swear i don't know if more corporate decisions are made like this, or if more advertising is based on this kind of work.

Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 19h

I don't usually save my bowling scores. But just this once, put them into a spreadsheet. Then added a trend line curve. It clearly shows i should have kept playing.

Graph of three bowling scores from the spreadsheet. Trend line is curve fit, using a parabolic (x^2) fit, since the three points don't form a straight line.

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Bowling scores with trend line extrapolation. If i had just played 3 more games, i'd have scored a perfect 300 game! Math doesn't lie.

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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 19h

Tech Support: "Just call us back if there's a problem. We're open 24 hours."
Customer: "Is that Eastern time?"

#joke

Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 19h

Drug dealers: (1 of n)
-Refer to their clients as "users".
-"The first one's free!"

Software developers:
-Refer to their clients as "users".
-"Download a free trial version..."
#joke