Greg Brannan @gbrannan217@dice.camp
The (formerly) Loose Cannon is an Earth, Society, and Environmental Sustainability major at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is also UIUC staff and president of AFSCME Local 3700. He enjoys gardening and TTRPGs like Dungeons and Dragons in his spare time.
Joined May 2022
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Re-tooting and re-pinning from my old instance
"To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.”
#ttrpg (Tabletop RPGs like D&D)
#fallout (and other RPGs)
#gaming
#sustainability
#comics
#unions
#urbanplanning
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uspol,religion
I think we could include football fields in this list too.
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No Contract, No Coffee! Stand with Starbucks workers and take the pledge: https://crm.broadstripes.com/contact_forms/ca9e5568-e3bd-44e9-a5c2-cf369c1aeffe
personal complaint
I desperately need people to leave me alone when I want left alone! I can't get things done if everyone is demanding my attention. I am an introvert!
USPOL, Climate
It's sweltering here in Central #Illinois! NWS has issued an Excessive Heat Warning.
It's just going to get worse!
EVERYONE needs to get serious about combatting #ClimateChange right now!
#sustainability #environment #eco #GoGreen #BeTheChange
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I have an idea for the aesthetics of my website. Going with a #retro theme, I'd like to take a picture similar to this and put the text of my #website within the monitor. Does anyone know of any way in #HTML to make it distort slightly so it looks like it's on a #CRT screen instead of a flat screen while being simple text and not a picture? I'd like it to feel like visitors are using a #terminal
My site:
https://loosecannon.neocities.org/
Currently #WIP #RetroWeb
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Miles: You don't know what my reality is.
Quark: But I know what your fantasy is.
Quark: Holodeck program Miles-2.
Miles: I can explain.
USPOL
I'm against congress action on the price of #gas. The cost of a barrel of #oil has skyrocketed, so we suffer at the pumps. This is due to the negative externalities of Putin's #war. Capping prices will just lead to even more deadweight loss.
What we need to do instead is figure out why the demand for gasoline is #inelastic and do things that make it more elastic. Adding substitute goods and services would be the best place to start IMO. #train #bicycle #walkability
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Reduce, reuse, recycle.
But:
- In order to reduce, there need to be proper infrastructure to compensate for the thing being reduced;
- In order to reuse, things need to be durable and easily maintainable, modularly upgradable and repairable;
- If you go to the recycle step ignoring the first two, you've already lost.
As we see, just "changing consumer habits" doesn't work.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you need to get out of #vim, press <esc> then type a colon (:) followed by "q!" and <enter>
⬇️ It'll look like this.
:q!
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Wound it be good to support version control in word processing software like libreoffice?
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A reminder that Mastodon and the Fediverse do NOT use cryptocurrency, blockchains, NFTs, tokens, coins, mining, web3 or anything like that.
Masto and the Fedi run on traditional servers and use a sustainable network federation model somewhat similar to e-mail (that's why Fediverse addresses look similar to e-mail addresses).
Also a reminder there are no venture capital firms or other investors either. No one owns the network, each server is independent. Masto and Fedi server running costs are paid by their owners, sometimes with donations from users.
No one is getting rich from the Fediverse, it is all volunteers with some getting donations and a few getting modest grants from foundations. Please remember this when you interact with admins or developers.
(There might be some individual users who post about cryptocurrency/blockchain, but the infrastructure this place runs on doesn't use it at all.)
Tl:dr - Decentralisation does NOT mean cryptocurrency/blockchain
Greg Brannan
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The (formerly) Loose Cannon is an Earth, Society, and Environmental Sustainability major at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is also UIUC staff and president of AFSCME Local 3700. He enjoys gardening and TTRPGs like Dungeons and Dragons in his spare time.
Joined May 2022
