#QOTD
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“All man’s miseries stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room and do nothing.”
— Blaise Pascal
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"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." Robert M. Pirsig #QOTD #quote #FamousQuotes
"Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution."
- Learned Hand
#quote #QOTD #quotestoliveby #Right #Justice #Brotherhood #BeingHuman
My #QuoteOfTheDay / #QOTD for September 27.
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
-George S. Patton
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”
— Herbert Kaufman
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"Only do what your heart tells you." Princess Diana #QOTD #quote #FamousQuotes
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
- T. S. Eliot
#quote #QOTD #quotestoliveby #Risk #Experiment #experience #takeachance #BeingHuman
My #QuoteOfTheDay / #QOTD for September 26.
"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."
-Leo Buscaglia
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A. E. van Vogt described voice recognition device in 1957:
"ready to record his words when he spoke them; another mechanism made a graph of the electrical impulse created by the sound. A scanner next examined the graph, classified it as belonging to a certain group of sounds. A servo-mechanism rejected all other groups, and a scanner looked over three-dimensional plastic models of the graph…"
Read it in full:
https://ambience.sk/quotes-from-books-mind-cage/
#books #qotd #quote #quotes #literature #scifi #quoteoftheday
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love. - Bell Hooks
#QOTD #Wisdom #Inspiration #Wordsofwisdom #Knowledge
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot. Make it hot by striking.”
— William Butler Yeats
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"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." Friedrich Nietzsche #QOTD #quote #Friendship
Prior to that, I had only really listened to the radio with my parents. So, only listened to their music. I was 11 by mid-1994 and I wanted to kind of learn my own taste in music. So, this was a perfect chance to do so.
What about you? Even if you weren't alive or were little in 1994, imagine what CDs you would get at that time.
Tags: #QuestionOfTheDay #Music #90sMusic #QoTD #CD #ColumbiaHouse
Since I asked the question, I should probably answer it. I actually did this around that time as an 11 year old kid. What I did was I had no clue of what was good or not, so I did a smattering of ANYTHING that was popular at the time to try to figure out my taste in music.
Here are some examples:
Ace of Base - The Sign
Boyz II Men - II
Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
Hootie & the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View
Green Day - Dookie
Nirvana - Nevermind
Shaquille O'Neil - Shaq Fu: Da Return
No, I am not kidding.
Tags: #QuestionOfTheDay #Music #90sMusic #QoTD #CD #ColumbiaHouse
The year is 1994. You got a flier in the mail from #ColumbiaHouse that you can get 12 compact discs for a penny! With some other fine print about buying more later. Whatever.
What 12 CDs are you going to pick for this, clearly legitimate promotion?
🎉Pre-order now from books2read.com/unsung
#qotd Tell me about a woman in a book who smashed the rules!
#somerset #book #indieAuthor #history #writersOfmastodon #histodon #shortStories #readingCommunity
"Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life."
- Shel Silverstein
#quote #QOTD #quotestoliveby #footwear #freedom #Shoes #beinghuman
Kids get worse and worse every year... But people keep making them.
My #QuoteOfTheDay / #QOTD for September 25.
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
-Robert Byrne
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The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points; - Sun Tzu
#QOTD #Wisdom #Inspiration #Wordsofwisdom #Knowledge
Awe acts like a kind of reset button: it makes people forget themselves and their petty concerns. Awe opens people to new possibilities, values, and directions in life. Awe is one of the emotions most closely linked to the hive switch, along with collective love and collective joy. - Jonathan Haidt
#QOTD #Wisdom #Inspiration #Wordsofwisdom #Knowledge
#qotd the future is yours to fight for
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else. - Immanuel Kant
#QOTD #Wisdom #Inspiration #Wordsofwisdom #Knowledge
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“A byte of prevention is worth a terabyte of cure!”
— Brian Levine
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"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright." Walter Benjamin #QOTD #quote #FamousQuotes
"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."
- Jim Henson
#quote #QOTD #quotestoliveby #LeaveWithGrace #DoGood #DoBetter #BeingHuman
My #QuoteOfTheDay / #QOTD for September 24.
"The real leader has no need to lead - [they are] content to point the way."
-Henry Miller
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"""100ns resolution for file access times is - and I'll happily go down in history for saying this - enough for anybody."""
Source: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3DwjGJEgizkXwSWVCnsGnciCKHHsWg%2Bdkw2XAhM%2B0Tnd0Jw@mail.gmail.com/ #linux #kernel #LinuxKernel
It's #Caturday - of my #ACNH friends out here, who is your favorite cat villager?
So far, mine is Kabuki. Cool aesthetics, personality like a little old man. He's relatable...for some reason.
That said, aesthetically, Ankha is a close second.
What about you?
Tags: #AnimalCrossing #VideoGames #Nintendo #QoTD #QuestionOfTheDay #NintendoSwitch
#qotd "Après tout, le litchi est la mirabelle de l'hiver !" dixit @Ethnolectures
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
— H.G. Wells
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"Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond."
- Ray Charles
#quote #QOTD #quotestoliveby #Music #powerofmusic #BeingHuman
My #QuoteOfTheDay / #QOTD for September 23.
"No [person] can taste the fruits of autumn while [they are] delighting [their] scent with the flowers of spring."
-Samuel Johnson
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes - Thomas Paine
#QOTD #Wisdom #Inspiration #Wordsofwisdom #Knowledge
"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
- Douglas Adams
#quote #QOTD #quotestoliveby #service #integrity #sincerity #beinghuman
My #QuoteOfTheDay / #QOTD for September 22.
"Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well."
-Tom Felton
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"#Depression is not sadness. It is powerlessness. It is helplessness. It is both to suffer and to be unable to console yourself."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in 2014
Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it. - Robert Pirsig
#QOTD #Wisdom #Inspiration #Wordsofwisdom #Knowledge
Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#QOTD #Wisdom #Inspiration #Wordsofwisdom #Knowledge
intentado concentrarnos. - Timothy Gallwey
#QOTD #Wisdom #Inspiration #Wordsofwisdom #Knowledge
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Let go of the past.”
— Robert Greene
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Enlightenment is man's release from his self incurred tutelage.Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Have courage to use your own reason that's the motto of enlightenment . - Immanuel Kant
#QOTD #Wisdom #Inspiration #Wordsofwisdom #Knowledge
My #QuoteOfTheDay / #QOTD for September 21.
"The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind."
-Paracelsus
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Patriarchy has no gender. - Bell Hooks
#QOTD #Wisdom #Inspiration #Wordsofwisdom #Knowledge
Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations. - James Madison
#QOTD #Wisdom #Inspiration #Wordsofwisdom #Knowledge
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it’s that they know so many things that just aren’t so.”
— Mark Twain
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My #QuoteOfTheDay / #QOTD for September 20.
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
-Henry Ward Beecher
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I have a chapter in Jungle-tastic Tales about how pre-Columbian societies in the Amazon were more complex and larger than previously thought.
Here's a new article about it:
"The vast network of interconnected settlements shows that the Amazon was much more populated during the pre-Columbian era than previously suspected".
#jungletastic #amazonRegion #kidsBook #history #amazon #precolumbian #southAmerica #archaeology #histodon
#qotd What's a book that taught you something incredible?
"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case."
- Ken Kesey
#quote #QOTD #quotestoliveby #Leaders #leadership #leading #beinghuman
So now that I have pre-ordered my Natural Titanium iPhone 15 Pro Max, the next question/dilemma is whether or not I put it in a case or spot that sexy finish.
What do you all think?
Please BOOST for maximum exposure on the #Fediverse.
#Poll #Polls #POTD #Question #QOTD #iPhone15ProMax #iPhone #Apple #Tech #AllThingsTech
“I trained 4 years to run only 9 seconds. There are people who do not see results in 2 months, give up and leave. Sometimes failure is sought by oneself.”
Usain Bolt
#qotd
“The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world, this is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people.”
― Carl Jung
#psychology #philosophy #sociology #QOTD #ManagedDemocracy #propaganda #PopulationControl #ManufacturedConsent #Metaphysics
“An apology without change is just manipulation.“
Sierra Monaee
#qotd
In #August 1533, the Spanish installed Tupac Huallpa as a puppet Inca emperor to replace #Atahualpa.
Into the position of principal wife and #coya stepped princess Azarpay, who would later be killed by Francisco Pizarro.
For more, check out Intrepid Dudettes of the Inca Empire.
#qotd How has August been for you in terms of writing, reading or general life?
#spanishConquest #inca #incas #peru #southAmerica #incaEmpire #writer #books #author #histodon #history
If you could invite anyone to join the Fediverse who isn't already here, who would you invite?
Pick your type of #goose?
Please #boost for maximum participation in this silliness!
Tags: #Poll #QuestionOfTheDay #Silly #VideoGames #UntitledGooseGame #Silly #QoTD #BoostMe #Polls
Hey everyone! I have a summertime treat poll for you.
What is the better ice cream snack?
If your choice isn't on here, choose other and let us know!
Pls BOOST for maximum reach on the #Fediverse
#IceCream #Treats #Sonic #McDonalds #DQ #Blast #McFlurry #Blizzard #Polls #Poll #POTD #Question #QOTD #KylePoll
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.”
— William W. Purkey
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“I paint with shapes.” — Alexander Calder
I love that I get to see this incredible sculpture when I’m putting mail in the post.
❤️
#AlexanderCalder #sculpture #art #artist #publicArt #qotd #Chicago
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture. - Bell Hooks
#QOTD #Wisdom #Inspiration #Wordsofwisdom #Knowledge
How did you get the knowledge you use for your secular work, etc. Are you self-taught, did you go to college, etc.?
Please BOOST for maximum reach on the #Fediverse 🙏🏼
Thanks @cjerrington for the suggestion.
#Polls #POTD #KylePoll #Question #QOTD #College #Tech #AllThingsTech
"There's enough on this planet for everyones needs but not for everyones greed." ~Mahatma Gandhi
#qotd #quote #quotes #quoteoftheday
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." ~Helder Camara
#qotd #quote #quotes #quoteoftheday
I can't see a way through," said the boy. "Can you see your next step?" "Yes." "Just take that," said the horse.
- Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
#qotd #weekendmotivation
We will go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.
-Kurt Vonnegut
“AI isn’t the only problem; it’s greed. Human greed is the problem,”
Noëlle Renée Bercy
#QOTD
#SagAFTRA
Source :link:
https://startefacts.com/news/marvel-star-reveals-studio-sent-her-an-insulting-014-check-for-the-show-with-87-score_a132
This was an interesting one for me. BoA is less well known to non-K-Pop fans, but is incredibly prolific with Korean, English, and Japanese language albums.
James Brown, Jay-Z, Willie Nelson, and Sabbath all are known to have released a lot of albums.
Please vote your guess! The actual current highest album / year artist of the mix will be revealed tomorrow.
Tags: #Music #BlackSabbath #Metal #ClassicRock #RockMusic #JayZ #HipHop #JamesBrown #BoA #KPop #Country #WillieNelson #Poll #PollOfTheDay #QOTD #Boost
Okay, Day 2 of these artist polls.
Which of the following different musical artists has the greatest "albums per year" ratio? As with yesterday's poll, I mean, the number of full length studio albums (excluding live albums, collabs, or compilations) recorded over the number of years they have been or were actively a recording artist or band.
Vote now!
The ratios will be posted tomorrow after the new poll is closed.
Tags: #Music #BlackSabbath #Metal #ClassicRock #RockMusic #JayZ #HipHop #JamesBrown #BoA #KPop #Country #WillieNelson #Poll #PollOfTheDay #QOTD #Boost @kpop
@mttaggart I like (and try to live by) this Albert Einstein's quote that perfectly illustrate what you just said:
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Make your life like toilet paper. Long and useful.”
― Wolfgang Riebe
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
— Vince Lombardi
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En ce moment mon père boit beaucoup d'eau gazeuse.
Pour me faire rigoler, il ajoute : "Faudrait ptêt trouver des Lithinés du docteur Gustin !"
#qotd #monPèreEstVieux #histmed #histpharma
https://www.persee.fr/doc/pharm_0035-2349_2007_num_94_356_6409
"Nine out of ten American workers lack even that. Union members go into battle with a weapon, but most workers are just walking straight towards capitalism’s machine guns unarmed."
Source 🔗
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/everything-were-doing-is-not-enough
Hollywood, I know your middle name
Who inspires your fabled fools?
(That's my claim to fame)
-Steely Dan, Glamour Profession
#songlyrics #QotD
Hey #TeamAllThingsTech, Cliff and I wanted to get everyone’s input on something we’ve been discussing.
With the recent developments around Reddit, we’ve been discussing creating our own #AllThingsTech #Kbin instance dedicated to everything tech!
So here is a poll. Would y'all be interested and sign up?!
- Kyle @kylewritescode
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Don't settle for being an option; become a priority.”
― Matt Mitchell
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.”
― Lama Surya Das
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Mn père, diplômé ESTP 1961, à qui je demande si ses cuillerées sont rases ou bombées pour lui faire son café :
- Non, sans bonhomme !
- Hein ?
- Dans nos cours de terrassement, on nous présentait les techniques traditionnelles même si on ne les utilisait plus vraiment. Par exemple, on a appris que l'unité standard de terre est la charretée.
Mais on peut profiter de l'angle de rupture de pente pour en mettre plus, et la partie bombée était appelée « bonhomme » !"
#QOTD #motdujour
#QoTD: "I'm a big believer in winging it. I'm a big believer that you're never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I'm always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary." -Anthony Bourdain
I've never seen a man this naked be this smug.
#qotd
« La cancel culture, on le sait tous, ça ne compte que cancel-és autres »
#question of the day (#qotd?):
Most #SearchEngines have paid #APIs one can use to retrieve results but there are also #metasearch engines which seem to pull these results without paying for them (e.g., on the small scale, independent #seeks instances). I'm curious about the #legal issues surrounding metasearch. Who pays for the #API? And who uses other methods and why?
"Conservatives are half right when they say poverty is a choice.
Poverty is a choice, for the most part. But it’s a choice that society and policy makers make, not poor people." — Alexis Rosoff Treeby #qotd
```Case insensitivity is a subject near and dear to my heart.
And when I say "near and dear to my heart", I obviously mean "I despise it, and I have spent _decades_ ranting against it and trying to explain why it's a problem".```
In the same thread:
```But then at some point, we failed at life, and started filling in the upper bit cases too.
Looking around, it was at Linux-2.0.1[…]```
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiTyTeHpn-zDkKmd2Cq53p=M3OVOJVbh-3AJd-nuAGyjA@mail.gmail.com/
"It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."
- Steve Jobs
#qotd
“There’re currently no patches for layer 8 CVEs” #qotd