Good evening! A pleasant before I get my tooth filling fixed at 8 AM tomorrow 🦷
Eh, lucky me? 😁 Bright and earlygoing to have to skip the morning walk 🚶🏻. I did walk this morning.
Partly cloudy and 68 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 57 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 5 pm.
A pleasant evening 🌃, sat out back for a while under the stars ✨ after my evening walk. Took a nap this evening after work as I stayed up too late last night. This afternoon went to the laundromat 👖 and got enough clothes clean through the weekend. Didn’t get groceries 🛒 but that’s fine I’ll stop at Hannaford after work as I’m going to park at the Park and Ride 🅿 and the catch the bus 🚍 from there after my dentist appointment. 🪥
Continuing to explore PANDAS 🐼 and all the amazing data processing and munging with Python, much faster and better with a few commands compared to dozens of clicks 🖱 and complicated formulas in my normal spreadsheet, LibreOffice Calc. PANDAS isn’t better than spreadsheets for everything but it is for a lot of things. The commands once you learn them are easily stacked and well documented. It’s amazing technology I should have learned about years ago. So much about PANDAS is super logical when you think about it but it’s a somewhat different philosophy to data management compared to Excel and similar spreadsheets.
I would post a comment on social media about mandatory emasculation rather than mandatory vaccination for government workers but such a comment would be rather tasteless these days.
That said, mandatory emasculation for government workers probably isn’t a bad idea if not somewhat unpopular with the unions. But it would mean much more level headed, well thought out public policy and a generally fairer and better society. Less police brutality, fewer crashes of transit vehicles, less war.
The world first learned of Sophie Zhang in September 2020, when BuzzFeed News obtained and published highlights from an abridged version of her nearly 8,000-word exit memo from Facebook.
Before she was fired, Zhang was officially employed as a low-level data scientist at the company. But she had become consumed by a task she deemed more important: finding and taking down fake accounts and likes that were being used to sway elections globally.
Her memo revealed that she’d identified dozens of countries, including India, Mexico, Afghanistan, and South Korea, where this type of abuse was enabling politicians to mislead the public and gain power. It also revealed how little the company had done to mitigate the problem, despite Zhang’s repeated efforts to bring it to the attention of leadership.
The cidiot sticks a small recycling bin next three large garbage bags every week and is so proud of all they are doing for recycle their garbage. They ignore the dumpster full of debris buried in the landfill after their last attic purge, the discarded appliances, the roofing material and their junked car. But they recycled their cans and bottles, so virtuous.
Because the cidiot believes in global warming, they are so proud to have subscribed to a solar garden, hundreds of acres of farm field or forests paved over with solar panels and electrical equipment. They call it a garden, because they seeded some pollinator friendly plants around the solar panels and access roads. Ignoring the fact that electrons are completely fungible and it’s impossible to know if the trickle of electrons from the solar facilities is actually the ones you are burning or essentially just a marketing job by the big utilities.
Then I could go on and on about the endless marketing of other green products that fill my advertising feeds. The reusable makeup brushes, the bamboo tooth brushes. Buy more stuff, the green stuff, the landfill is waiting for it.
I just hate green marketing as it sells a delusion and a falsehood to the urban consumer. It legitimizes consumption, it makes it feel okay to buy, use and throw away at a fevered pitch. While I get why marketers want to make a profit, they way they play on the emotions of the urban consumer is terrible.
