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Pluvious's JournalTo DU posters of Twitter pics... A helpful trick to share
I discovered a handy trick that works nicely, and takes very little effort and time.
Objective: Display an image from Twitter (NOT the tweet itself), and include the original link only.
Here is a demonstration:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218221132
Steps:
1. Right-click on image in tweet (iPad select/hold).
Choose option to open the image in your browser app.
Select/copy the pics URL.
Remove the ? And all characters to its right.
Add to the end: .jpg
You now have a link that will render the picture !
2. In the original tweet, click the icon to select and copy the link of the tweet.
Trim off the tracking characters (the ? And junk to its right)
Add this to your post.
You can see all this in my demo post above.
EDIT: Also see post 6 for rendering a X-based tweet now
Cheers
This incident begs the question...
I was taught the slide rule in 8th grade
I learned how to do long division with a pencil and paper in 6th grade
I learned cursive writing in 1st grade
In HS I was taught how to write a research paper by using the library, index cards with sources of the information and details I discovered.
With changing tools, inevitably comes changing needs of what skills to learn.
Adjustments must follow to what and how we teach our youth.
Back during the buildup for our invasion of Iraq...
I was breakfasting in a cafe, and likely talking too loud.
I was vociferously voicing my objections to my mates about the ongoing drumbeat of arguments (suspected lies) pushing us towards war
Another table the diners all got up to leave, except one older man turned from their party and came over to my table; glaring daggers at me, he screamed through clinched teeth:
I WAS IN VIETNAM!!!
and stalked off.
Leaving a suddenly silent restaurant behind.
Great reply, my gonzo friend... A few more...
( as a regular reader of Reddit, I need to keep up heh )
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
BTW - By The Way
ELI5 - Explain Like I'm Five (years old)
FTW - For The Win (awesome achievement)
GFY - Go Fuk Yourself
GTFO - Get The Fuk Out (of here)
ICYMI - In Case You Missed It
IDK / IDNKT - I Don't Know / I Did Not Know That
IHML - I Hate My Life (one who still lives with his mama)
IIRC - If I Recall Correctly
IKR - I Know Right! (affirming agreement)
IMHO - (or IMO) In My Humble Opinion
JFYI / FYI - Just For Your Information
LYK - Let You Know
TBH - To Be Honest
TIL - Today I Learned (also a popular subreddit)
YOLO - You Only Live Once (like investing into a meme stock like a fool)
It isn't necessarily Trump, himself that did this captivation...
Its from many sources of exposure to influence and conditioning;
warping, shaping, grooming, radicalizing. Call it what you will.
It comes from TV, media, peers, and family.
There is a cancer in our culture, I despair of any cure.
If youve not watched it yet, you might find some new knowledge and
understanding from Jen Senkos documentary, the Brainwashing of My Dad.
Inverse: "Brain Study Pinpoints Why Music Can Literally Give You The Chills"
I suspect this reaction to some music, is not the same for everyone, but is tied to possessing certain traits.
Most likely a set of specific emotional traits, perhaps ?
I'm sure many personality types experience zero responses from of any kind of music.
( how sad for them )
Hopefully research into this fascinating direction will continue
There's something about it that tickles the brain anyway. When that happens, music can ignite literal chills.
https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/why-music-gives-you-chills
Daycares in Finland Built a 'Forest Floor', And It Changed Children's Immune Systems
I've always wondered about the wisdom of raising children in a antiseptic sterile environment.
Given that we so successfully evolved through the millennia closely tied to the soil and a diverse environment, suddenly altering that pattern could be counterproductive.
The Fins might be on to something here...
While the findings don't hold all the answers, they do support a leading idea - namely that a change in environmental microbes can relatively easily affect a well-established microbiome in children, giving their immune system a helping hand in the process.
The notion that an environment rich in living things impacts on our immunity is known as the 'biodiversity hypothesis'. Based on that hypothesis, a loss of biodiversity in urban areas could be at least partially responsible for the recent rise in immune-related illnesses.
"The results of this study support the biodiversity hypothesis and the concept that low biodiversity in the modern living environment may lead to an un-educated immune system and consequently increase the prevalence of immune-mediated diseases," the authors write.
https://www.sciencealert.com/daycares-in-finland-built-a-backyard-forest-and-it-changed-children-s-immune-systems/amp
EXCELLENT piece - Bruce Bartlett: Fox News Shares the Blame for Trump's Deranged, Ruinous Presidency
This really spells it all out quite succinctly...
But steel yourself, it won't leave you with the warm fuzzies.
A new book details how the president and his state media partners cash in on their symbiotic relationship while driving the country toward disaster.
Stelter reports that Trump administration officials must beg for interviews on Fox & Friends just so Trump will see them and in the process get briefed on some subject for which hes otherwise too preoccupied to reserve office time. Corporations have also learned about Trumps addiction to the show and exploit it by buying advertising in its time slot. (Unfortunately for them, Trump likes to watch Fox & Friends on delay so he can fast forward through commercials.)
...
As the same time, Fox & Friends tutored Trump on policy, since Trump himself was a blank slate with no knowledge of any major policy issue. As one of the shows producers told Stelter, People think hes calling up Fox & Friends telling us what to say. Hell no. Its the opposite. We tell him what to say.
...
The fanatic loyalty of Foxs audience delivers some $2 billion per year of profits into the pockets of Murdoch and his family. The bulk of this comes not from advertising, but from fees paid by cable systems for the right to carry Fox News. Typically, these systems pay Fox two dollars per subscriber per monthwell more than what CNN or MSNBC nets. (CNN earns less than one dollar per subscriber, MSCBC only 33 cents, according to Angelo Carusone of Media Matters for America.) And Fox knows that no cable system would dare drop Foxthat would result in the rapid loss of thousands of subscribers and a likely outbreak of picketing and demonstrations outside its offices.
Too many insights to quote here, worth reading the rest...
https://newrepublic.com/article/159207/fox-news-trump-deranged-ruinous-presidency
Actually, the next phase will begin...
It will make the Bush/Gore recount period look like a minor clerical error.
Then will come the pardons for cash.
The riots by the Incel Infantry and Proud Bois will burn the cities.
Then the Orange BLOTUS and entourage will take flight to Moscow.
Then the investigations and trials will begin.
Oh, and the rushed vaccinations will begin to manifest the side effects.
And Covid infections will pass the 10 million mark.
I need a drink.
Google Finally Confirms Security Problem For 1.5 Billion Gmail And Calendar Users
As a rule, one should own and maintain a "banking only" laptop, kept updated, with AV installed - and NEVER used for ANYTHING but accessing your crucial remote online accounts (brokerage, banks, NOT Facebook, Twitter etc).
NEVER used for email, nor apps, nor anything else but the web browser. Make no searches, nor click links or download things.
The sites you visit are never from clicking links, except bookmarks you've MANUALLY created.
Use the native browser, and no added plugins.
Passwords should be maintained in a secure offline password utility. Log into sites by only using the password utility, never save access info in the web browser.
Gmail users are finding themselves on the wrong end of a sophisticated scam which leverages misplaced trust through the use of malicious and unsolicited Google Calendar notifications.
Google Calendar allows anyone to schedule a meeting with you, and Gmail is built to integrate tightly with this calendaring functionality. Combine these two facts and users find themselves in a situation whereby the threat actor can use this non-traditional attack vector to bypass the increasing amount of awareness amongst average users when it comes to the danger of clicking unsolicited links.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/09/09/google-finally-confirms-security-problem-for-15-billion-gmail-and-calendar-users/amp/
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