failedLyndonLaRouchite

@cabbage

question from a guy who knows almost nothing about computers:

why is it so freaking hard to download a few square miles of open street map to my laptop

ie, draw a box on the screen, hit download, and [ some magic ] OSM downloads the necessary software and downloads the data in the right format and uses mirrors transparently

I tried and got totally bogged down in GIS software that totally didn't work
wtf ?????????

@wolfyvegan

I spent some time looking into this
As far as I can tell, the coconut husk thing is BS, cause it is well known and has been for some time that fungi can at least partially degrade some plastics

I was to lazy to see if the method used, an agar plate plaque assay, actually measues plastic degredation

@PugJesus reminds me of the physics proof that all odd numbers are prime

1 is odd and prime
3, ditto
5, ditto
7, ditto
9, experimental error
11, ditto
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@godsammitdam

afaik, a lot of the problem with HSR in CA is actually a tiny number of powerful state legislators, who insist the route run thru their little town, even tho that is an idiotic idea

so check your assumptions, right ?

@filippodb @linux docks and picked up and dropped off carboard boxes wth reel to reel tapes (and maybe winchesters, dunno)

@filippodb @linux

this is a true story

back in, iirc, the 1970s, IBM, then the king of computing, had a number of facilities scattered around Westchester county, just north of nyc

And of course, people had to move ENORMOUS amounts of data around the different sites - Mbys !!

and of course, he rocket scientist brains would , over coffee, discuss various then hi tech ways of moving Mby of data

and the best answer was always Fred, who on Fridays, drove his station wagon around to the loading

@Teknevra

Please
don't start with the lie; start with the truth, the say, this is a lie "quote"

thanks

@RockBottom Every day I must see literally 100 or more posts about how vile Trump is

at the same time I am lucky to see one post that has concrete ideas for what to do