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Golden Earring - Twilight Zone (Dutch Rock)

One of those 'perfect' rock songs (inspired by the Jason Bourne book series).

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That may not have been the flu that you caught back in late December. FGF Foods decided to go all 'Boars Head' for the holidays is all.

Major food recall last month effects 2,017,614 cases of product due to possible contamination with Listeria Monocytogenes.

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The Food and Drug Administration quietly announced a recall last month involving more than two million cases of doughnuts and other baked goods sold under various brand names, including Dunkin. Data from the FDA says 2,017,614 cases of products are part of the recall and involve doughnuts, fritters, and cake rings.

The products were distributed and sold nationwide. While the recall was issued on Jan. 7, the FDA never made a public announcement regarding it.

The recall involves any of the items listed “within expiration produced 12/13/2024 and prior” according to the FDA. Sixty different items are involved in the recall.

The recalled goods were produced by Indiana-based FGF, LLC and are being recalled over possible contamination involving listeria monocytogenes.

The FDA gave the recall a class II designation which according to the agency’s website means the recall is “a situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.”

Listeria monocytogenes can cause “serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems,” according to the FDA. Symptoms include: high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

You know, I left Reddit because I didn't like what was going on. Banning US presidential election posts to a political forum makes me not like what's going on. What's next on the ban list?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

You may want to opt out of those services. Even LinkedIn seems to know it's got potential to be a flaming hot train wreck, apparently to the point where they desire no responsibility for the public messages made by their machine that they own, train, and qc.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Having used autocad for nearly 40 years, I will say they stick it to their customers pretty fiercely. I still use 2010 with 3rd party software to get it to run on win10 at home. I do a lot of solid models and assemblies as well as technical 2D drawings and renderings.

FreeCAD is impressive, but it lacks an easy to use interface. NanoCAD and LibreCAD are not open source but are free and are both better 2D alternatives.

Edit: LibreCAD is open source.

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The lava is flowing again after a third volcanic eruption. The placement appears to be a good ways to the north of Grindavik as of yet. Multicam view.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I am from Pittsburgh and it's a huge party at Gobbler's Knob, Pennsylvania. Shut down the town kind of party. An absolute sea of people. It's been like that long before the movie, but then there's not much to do in February.

This years Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring but do note that marmots are not exactly qualified to make to make meterological forecasts. It's a mostly cute tradition with a hint of madness, kinda like sticking a tree in your living room and hanging up socks to celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas. Makes total sense when you're drinking.

For the record, Groundhogs (or woodchucks) are pretty docile and cute. They are also excellent climbers. This little fellow was quite curious about me, and why I was hiding in his field (taking pictures of birds).

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Since no one posted an ID, it would appear to be a Wood Frog. The black mottle through the eye with the white line below it is typical of wood frogs.

Likely a male that is 'mookin fer nub'.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I built a PC for my little sister in 2007. She was starting college and didn't have a computer. It totaled 2805 and some change, custom built through Antares Digital (When you know, you Lili). These were all top of the line components (Asus M2N32-WS PRO, Amd athlon64 X2 AM2 5200, Corsair Memory). Not a cheapy system in its day.

Three nights before I was to deliver it to her, I completed all of the setup, had all the software ready to go, even setting up a custom theme for her (We were both metalheads). My folks said that she would need a printer/fax/copy/scanner as well, so last minute, I ended up buying an HP 5610 at target for 192 dollars.

The HP instructions didn't say that if you connected the cable between the printer and the PC before you had installed the drivers, the printer would not mount as a device. In fact, it would never connect to that PC ever again. Apparently, it ruined the registry until you reformatted and reinstalled the OS.

To be fair, the manual did say to install the drivers first, then the cable, but this was not the norm back then and they didn't really emphasize it in any way, nor did it mention that you were about to be FITA big time. Had to scramble to completely reformat the drive, reinstall all the software... Essentially, starting over from a blank slate and getting done in 2 days for delivery to her dorm on move in day. It did connect second time around.

I wrote them an angry letter regarding the poor deployment, but of course I never heard back from them. Never bought another HP for myself or anyone else ever again. I go out of my way to encourage people to not buy anything from HP. If I happen to be somewhere and see someone looking at an HP printer, I'll just approach them, introduce myself, and tell them my story to discourage them from buying it.

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Iceland erupted again this morning at 7:57am Grindavik Time. The eruption was captured in real time. It again is a northwest linear fissure and is located west of Hagafell and a bit south of the prior eruption site in December.

While the locals had built a huge rock berm to protect some of it's infrastructure, the fissure formed and spread underneath the berm, circumventing its protection. Everyone has been evacuated, though there are reports that despite being told not to bring any previously evacuated animals back to town, some may not have obeyed and now the animals may be locked up and in harms way.

Additionally, a second fissure opened on the north edge of town. You can see this in real time on Professor Shawn Willsey's live update from early this morning. This southern fissure is much smaller but is much closer to town. It has spewed forth enough lava that it has now contacted and destroyed (2) houses along the towns northern edge. It was one of the worst scenarios that could happen. This is likely just the beginning, and could signal the end of Grindavik as it now exists.

The northern fissure has ejected a huge amount of lava but most was deflected and contained by the berm. It has now breached the berm at the highway, which they plugged as best they could early this morning. All things considered, it was quite wise of them to do this. The greenhouse would likely have been destroyed already, and much more lava would now be heading towards Grindavik, which is downhill from both eruption sites.

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A closeup of the initial damage from the new active lava flow

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Earthquake map as of this morning. The quakes give you an idea of how big the magma chamber under the town is.

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GPS Elevational Data over the campaign of this eruption

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This is a very serious and dire situation. Whatever god you acknowledge, pray for the town of Grindavik to be spared. My heart goes out to the brave people of Grindavik.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

CDs are still king with me. 1,957 and still counting. I feel cheated if I don't get to enjoy that romance of flipping through the liner notes while listening to the CD that first time. I rip the songs I like after a few days of listening to it. I suspect the day will come when MP3's will not be free.

DVD's too. Almost 1,400 of them as well.

I did have to let the cassette tapes go. I kept some of the rarer ones, but they weren't meant to last 40 years and would not likely survive another rewind.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

I think that 'Star Trek - The Next Generation' covered this very dilemma with (S2E18) Up The Long Ladder. In one hand you have stagnancy and in the other pure chaos. I don't envy you for having to tackle issues like this because there is no perfect solution, but I would encourage you to find a balance. Balance is a prerequisite to longevity.

You would not have enjoyed holiday dinners at my house. While my parents were good people, you can't pick your relatives. We had the infamous Uncle Tom and Aunt Janet, who would swallow anything and everything you had in the bathroom medicine cabinet, even if it landed them in the emergency room later. And Grandma, a devout catholic that spent every Sunday at church learning how to love thy neighbor, who would go on long cuss ridden tirades insulting and slurring on minorities. And then there was Uncle Pete, who was thrown out of Bob Evans on Easter Sunday for announcing to the entire dining room that 'He could puke better than this sausage gravy'. I do actually miss Uncle Pete. He did have a hell of a way of getting his point across, and that sausage gravy was totally bunk.

While thinking about it all still raises my blood pressure even 40 years later, those moments brought their behaviors from my subconscious to my conscious where I could take notice of it. It did empower me to actively NOT be like that. I saw first-hand several of my future potential selves and chose to take a higher road. I find a bit of comfort in that. I wonder if I wasn't exposed to those behaviors from a third person perspective, would I have been able to avoid them.

Oh, and sorry about dropping that bomb the other day. I was in a rare mood. I removed it as you rightfully requested of me. In my defense, I used the word appropriately, but I totally understand.

You seem like a decent enough fellow. Best of luck.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I use Brave Browser (with Ublock Origin and AdBlock) and rarely have any issues. I do have Freetube downloaded, installed and ready to go for when they escalate their game (and they will). For certain other applications, a youtube downloader can be quite handy.

Ads truly are the most annoying, counterproductive and least creative way of putting yourself out there. Even worse, they can never seem to match an ad with the content it gets forced upon, and this serves only to train people to associate their brand with uselessness and irrelevance. Even if you have a product that is good, you've just presented yourself as an obstructing pair of clown shoes and that becomes your first and long-lasting impression. When the time comes that they may need it, most people will not remember your product from that ad, only that your brand is a pair of clown shoes.

The simple truth is, if you have a good product, you do not need advertising. You only need advertising if you have a bad product and you are worried that negative word of mouth will spread faster than you can dupe your share of people into buying it.

Edit: Replaced a word that may be taken as a slur.

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Savatage - Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12-24 [ American Heavy Metal ] [ Christmas Metal ]

From the album 'Dead Winter Dead'.

They say music tames the savage beast. This is one of those few songs that stops my world dead in it's tracks whenever it comes on. All I can ever do is remain still and silent as I soak it in.

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Gary Hoey - 'Twas The Night Before Christmas [ American Guitar Virtuoso ] [ Christmas Metal ]

From the album 'Ho! Ho! Hoey'.

Merry Christmas Beehaw Music. Start adding genre tags please.

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Lords Of Acid - Pussy [ Belgian/American Electronic Dance Music ]

From the album 'Our Little Secret'.

I'm a big metalhead and EDM isn't really my thing ever, but an ex girlfriend turned me onto this nearly 30 years ago. It still makes me laugh whenever it comes on. Who would have thought a silly song about her playful kitty cat would be so timeless and enduring.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

The conservatives need the babies alive so they can be sent overseas to be killed. It's the new american way.

Disgusting pigs. All of em.

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Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant Massacree [ American Comedy / Folk / Storytelling ]

From the album 'Alice's Restaurant Massacree'.

Have a happy and wonderful holiday that can't be beat.

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I posted these on my usual small metal channel, but they are really so well made that they deserve a bit more exposure.

These are epic flash cartoons from the 2000’s created by Bob Cesca mocking metallica for selling out and suing Napster. What a gloriously funny shit show it was too. If you’ve never seen them and get to see these for the first time, I really truly envy you.

Part 1: Camp Chaos - Napster Bad

Part 2: Camp Chaos - Metalicops

Part 3: Camp Chaos - Who Wants To Be A Metalimillionair

Part 4: Camp Chaos - Napster Dead

Part 5: Camp Chaos - Metallicock

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Wojciech Kilar - Bram Stokers Dracula (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [ Classical / Instrumental ]

From the album 'Bram Stokers Dracula (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'

The crunching of leaves and shortening light cycles are making me pull this CD from it's slumber today. Superb Halloween music and makes for great Tabletop RPG gaming music as well.

This work is exquisitely dark and dreadfully brooding. The last song ('Love Song For A Vampire' featuring vocals from Annie Lennox) is quite pretty as well.

Link goes to full playlist.

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Prong - Non-Existence [ American Heavy Metal ]

From the album 'State Of Emergency'.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Ahh, I had forgotten about the beginning and also the hidden track. I buy CD's but I use a PC or mp3 player for sound these days so I rip it before shelving it. I separated my mp3 track into 3 different tracks years ago. It was weird at the office when my computer would play mariachi music. I'm listening to it again in order now. Yeah, I like the extreme transitions in the single track. A numbing followed by a sock in the face and then finished with a raspberry. Kind of a 1-2-3 punch.

Yeah, I'm onboard now.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

I don't think she could figure out how to roll a bowling ball.

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