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Month: December 2018

A meteorologist’s warning

December 25, 2018 by sergneri Leave a Comment

We’re running out of time to save ourselves … from the Washington Post

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Politics, Science, Thinking about Tagged: climate change, denial, weather

Barbara Ehrenreich has some answers

December 23, 2018 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Interview – When do you know you’re old enough to die?

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: “wellness” industry, Death, Natural Causes, obituaries, older age

Doran Beach Ice Plant Removal

December 23, 2018 by sergneri Leave a Comment

To inquire about ways to get involved, including at Doran with ice plant removal, contact John Ryan, volunteer coordinator for Sonoma County parks, at 707-565-3356.

Posted in: California History, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: California Native Plant Society, Doran Beach, Ice Plant, Sonoma County parks, volunteers

Tackle climate or face financial crash

December 13, 2018 by sergneri Leave a Comment

from the Guardian 12/13/2018 Tackle climate or face financial crash …

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Politics, Science, Thinking about, This Day in History Tagged: carbon, carbon emissions, coal, Global Investor Statement

Electrolux IQ-Touch Dryer Diagnostics

December 13, 2018 by sergneri Leave a Comment

This is a scan of the tech data sheet found inside the dryer and contains the listings for the diagnostics and error messages. DIAGNOSTIC MODE 1 Press the “cancel ‘ button to enter standby mode and enable diagnostic entry 2. Within 10 seconds after pressing “cancel”, press any button (but cancel ) to wake up … [Read more…]

Posted in: Thinking about Tagged: diagnostics, Dryer, Electrolux ., error codes, IQ-Touch, PDF

24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life – Guardian News

December 12, 2018 by sergneri Leave a Comment

24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Finanace, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Allotments, CIC, CICs, credit unions, Don’t drive, Don’t use banks, Ethical and green living, Fairphone, food, Freecycle, Go to the pub, Make your own, non-digital, Quit social media, rubbish, smallholding, Stop buying, visit the library

Selected Sounds of Space

December 10, 2018 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the University of Iowa Physics department sounds of space, recorded by University of Iowa instruments on a variety of spacecraft over the past 50 years. Featured Items Voyager 1 PWS continuation of shock-associated waves Voyager 1 PWS first interstellar audio recordings Van Allen Probes EMFISIS Waves or EMFISIS MAG audio samples Audio clips from … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Science, Thinking about Tagged: audio recordings, Cassini, Earth whistlers, interstellar, Juno, Jupiter electron cyclotron emissions, Jupiter whistlers, Plasma, Saturn, Van Allen, Voyager 1, Voyager 1 PWS first interstellar audio recordings

The night thousands of Nazis packed Madison Square Garden for a rally

December 10, 2018 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Lest we forget … The night thousands of Nazis packed Madison Square Garden for a rally — and violence erupted from the Washington Post Retropolis column, December 9, 2018. On Feb. 20, 1939, 22,000 members of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group, took over the venue that stars still consider a peak achievement if … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Racism, Thinking about Tagged: Anti-Semitism, Camp Siegfried, Fritz Kuhn, German American Bund, Joe Allen, La Guardia, LaGuardia, Madison Square Garden, NAZI, New York Daily News, Ordnungsdienst, pro-Nazi, Sieg Heil, Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund, Thomas Dewey

How Trump Fuels the Fascist Right

December 4, 2018 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In a very scary posting, Bernard E. Harcourt writes in the New York Review of Books Daily: President Trump makes constant use of the language and logic of the “new right,” a toxic blend of antebellum white supremacy, twentieth-century fascism, European far-right movements of the 1970s, and today’s self-identified “alt-right.” And his words and deeds … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Racism, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: alt-right, antebellum white supremacy, Atomwaffen, Augustus Invictus, European far-right movements, geneticism, George Shaw, George Soros, globalist, Guillaume Faye, Jared Taylor, Kevin MacDonald, Koch brothers, nationalist, Nationalist International, new right, Proud Boys, racism, Rich Higgins, Richard Spencer, Rise Above Movement, Samuel Moyn, Steve Bannon, tribalism, Trump, twentieth-century fascism, William Lind

Digital Photo Future?

December 1, 2018 by sergneri Leave a Comment

It’s Almost 2019. Do You Know Where Your Photos Are? – It might be the season, this topic was recently discussed with friends then the NYT comes to the rescue with a good history.

Posted in: Faits Divers, IT Failures, Thinking about Tagged: Apple, camera roll, categorizing, CD, Craigslist, digital camera, digital photography, DVD, Flickr, free unlimited online storage, GOOGLE, iCloud, New York Times, Photobucket, posterity, sorting, tagging, Yahoo, Zing, Zip drive

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