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Thankfully this can only happen once a year, right?

#respelia #bealix #anthropomorphic #mastoart #anthroplant #plantanthro #goblingirl #monstergirl #elfgirl #plantgirl #jestergirl #dubious #dork #imbecile #bells #christmas

substantially questionable plant person wearing christmas elf/jester style garb but without trousers, sitting in a highly unorthodox manner, holding a long scroll and smiling too big in a vague environment that inadvertently resembles ice after i put a blue filter over what had formerly been yellow

A new analysis by the Ifo Institute has cast doubt on the accuracy and transparency of Germany's planned 2026 federal budget, specifically regarding reported in... https://news.osna.fm/?p=23269 | #news #budget #dubious #germanys #investments

Once-prolific Auckland bus flasher Richard Hona returns to court after relapse

Police agreed that intensive supervis…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #after #arrests #auckland #away #Bus #castration #chemical #court #criminal #decadelong #dubious #flasher #from #hona #injections #Justice #maintained #masturbation #NewZealand #NZ #onceprolific #prolific #Public #regime #relapse #relapsed #reputation #returns #richard #sheet #stepping #system #to #voluntary #who #years
https://www.newsbeep.com/223738/

Cautious Optimism Surrounds Gaza Negotiations as Hamas Re-evaluates StrategyNegotiations for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip are currently displaying a degree of... https://news.osna.fm/?p=18388 | #news #cautiously #dubious #experts #finally

It is not the first industry that has pursued profit with reckless disregard for people, planet, society, and #consequences in general. In the current regulatory climate (or lack thereof) in the country where I live and work, it could earn the #dubious #distinction of being the last industry to do so.

excepts from #dubious-ontologies:

configuration is code that we’ve decided it’s ok not to test
configuration that's tested is a DSL
every language is a DSL
Enterprise software is software that's so configurable that bugs are called misconfiguration
"startup" is a mindset
“hardcoding things is bad“ is downstream of “changing and deploying our code is hard”, and that’s a skill issue

Anyone got any insights into AtomicMail ?
#privacy #foss #email #dubious

def f(z):
return [z, a:=z+1, b:=[a]*a, *[b]*len(b)]

#python #abuse #comprehension #dubious

#DataCenters #space #dubious

"It sounds like something from a science fiction movie, but Stephen Eisele is confident that one day his company will open a data centre on the Moon.

'The way we see it is that by putting the data centre in space, you're really offering unparalleled security,' says the president of Lonestar Data Holdings.

Last month, the Florida-based firm claimed to have successfully tested a tiny data centre the size of a hardback book that hitched a ride to the Moon on the Athena Lunar Lander from US space exploration firm Intuitive Machines. This, in turn, had been launched by a rocket from Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Data centres are the vast warehouses that house stacks of computers that store and process data used by websites, companies and governments.

Lonestar says that putting them on the Moon will offer customers secure, reliable data processing, while taking advantage of unlimited solar energy to power them."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjewvpkw7weo

The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is CHECK/CHEQUE/BALANCE/DUBIOUS #wotd #check #cheque #balance #dubious #ChecksAndBalances

Trump’s dubious executive orders that are withholding the cheques to pay for the services he doesn’t agree with threaten to undermine the checks and balances that are crucial to the US system of government, and etymology has something to say about this. Balance came into English in the early 13th c. from Old French balance with both the literal sense of “scales used for weighing” and the figurative sense most familiar today. The word came from Medieval Latin bilancia, from Late Latin bilanx, from Latin (libra) bilanx “(scale) having two pans”, a compound word made up from bis “twice” + lanx “flat plate” (a word of uncertain origin). Latin bis came from *dwis, the adverbial form of the Proto-Indo-European root *dwo- “two”, with the consonant cluster /dw/ typically becoming /b/ in Latin. The alternate form of this root *du- kept its /d/ as it didn’t have that consonant cluster, and thus the suffixed form of this *du-bhw-io- became Latin dubius “doubtful” from the notion of “hesitating between two alternatives”, eventually giving us English dubious in the 16th c.

Check in its various senses such as “attack”, “arrest”, “stop”, “restrict”, and “verify” all come from the chess term meaning “threaten the king”, from Old French eschequier “a check at chess; chess board, chess set”, from eschec “the game of chess; chessboard; check; checkmate”, from Vulgar Latin *scaccus, from Arabic shah, from Persian shah “king”, ultimately traceable back to the PIE root *tke- “to gain control of, gain power over”. Check also developed the sense “counter-register used to check forgery or alteration” and then came to be applied to any bill, note, or draft and thus a “written order for money drawn on a bank”, often with the alternate differentiated spelling cheque.

Me right now feels very much like, in computer terms, that I’m running out of paging memory.

#dubious #analogy #burnout

The things I do for you people…

OK, most of the time I do things I enjoy a lot. Harmless things. Things that aren't going to, say, off the top of my head, potentially poison me with methanol.

Then I see "Whisky" sold in a bottle that's clearly trying to mimic classic American bottles like those of Jim Beam or Jack Daniels that costs … about $1.50.

After shipping.

As you'll see, the imagery is terribly confused and the "source" is ... questionable. So naturally I had to order it. And now that I've received it, I have to take pictures of it. And try it. All for the benefit of my small audience here.

I hope you're happy! (I also hope this doesn't blind me.)

As usual, the alt text explains more of what you're looking at and Mastodon users will need to click through to see all the pictures.

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@zdl@mastodon.online

#Booze #Whisky #SortOf #Maybe #Chinese #Dubious

Front of the bottle, whole height. The shape is similar to AMERICAN whisky bottles like Jim Beam or that family. This is a bit weird considering who is purportedly the distiller. (More about that later.)

The colour of the liquor ... it looks like whisky, but with that vaguely artificial feel about it that suggests we're looking at caramel colouring, not from the charring of the casket or whatever it is that colours proper whisky. (I'm not a whisky connoisseur so I don't know what usually goes into a whisky.)

The branding is "Gose Winery" which is … odd. Because the only "Gose Winery" I can find is a grape wine maker in California who does no distillation.

The name under the big-lettered WHISKY says "Queue upknight". This is not something I can find anywhere. Between the branding and the name there's a somewhat-squashed picture of a knight on horseback (presumably the queued upknight?) while under all that it says 40.1%vol and 700ml.

The label is all chintzy gold on black.

This is the "stage left" label (counter-clockwise turn from the front). It has a very, very, very vague ingredients list: "Whisky base liquor (grains, malt, water) Food additive (caramel color).

Yes. Color, not colour. Again why this is of interest I'll bring up later.

The "product type" is "blended whisky", the "level" is "first level" (whatever that means), the "country of origin" is "UK" … and that's another alarm bell ringing. It's from the UK. But "color". Riiiiiiiiight.

"Origin" is Yantai, Shandong. (In the UK presumably? Amazing how many place names countries share!)

So there's a whole bunch of weirdly conflicting information here. Then you see the "Original wine manufacturer" … Scottish Independent Distillers, Ltd.

And that's a real distiller.

And there's NO WAY IN HELL that they made this. Look them up. They're a top-notch distiller that routinely wins awards. They're not making $1.50 bottles!

Continuing the counter-clockwise turn, you have the same information from the second image, it looks like, just in Chinese.

One more counter-clockwise turn and we have the colourful blurb. A blurb I'm not even going to try to transcribe because it's just word salad. Imagine ChatGPT describing a whisky. But ChatGPT after it's been hammered on the head a few times by a sledgehammer. And been given a seed description in Chinese. And been instructed to write in Chinglish.

This is hilariously bad.

Also funny is that at the bottom of this "Scottish" whisky made in the "UK" there's the very Scottish image of a windmill. And this is where the penny dropped for me. The knight on the front label is supposed to be Don Quixote I think. So let's add this up:

American bottle from a Scottish distiller in the UK using a Spanish icon as its mascot and the very British windmill as its emblem.

Yeah. This is going to be ... an experience.

🕵️ Dubious Goals Committee 👽

EVERY DAMN DAY at 19:30 UTC

https://anonradio.net/ 🖥️ 📻 🕢

#dubious

The #USA's very #Dubious #Elections.

#Trump #Harris #Election #Democracy

I am #concerned.

https://medium.com/@colingajewski/the-usas-dubious-elections-0f700a7368d6

Apparently, #DrStrangelove is a #CrackHead along with his many other (#Dubious) virtues.
#CultOfMusk in #Trumpistan. @georgetakei

🍂 Artist: #DavidZinn in City: #AnnArbor USA 🇺🇸 09/2024 - Title:
🔴 "As a rule, Terence's front half
doesn't trust what his back half is
doing."
🟡 "In der Regel traut Terence' vordere
Hälfte nicht, was seine hintere
Hälfte tut."
#StreetArt #Art #Chalkart #Artist #SidewalkChalk #3DArt #Dubious #Dachshund #GoodMorning ☕