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2:01 AM

I'm so glad NASA let you take your phone to Mars!

Rob

@Feeds Reality: There's a few replies from JPL, one from a scientist, and one from Google's account - none from the average Twitter user: twitter.com/NASAPersevere/with_replies

Curiosity's Location - Sol 3222 | Distance Driven 16.38 miles / 26.37 km

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8:57 AM

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Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

11:05 AM

@JNat thanks!

@Tinkeringbell here it's worse, there are public Facebook groups where people look for infected COVID people to make them sick too, so they will get a pass from vaccine or tests, including kids. That's right, thousands of people try to infect their own kids on purpose.

Tinkeringbell

Thanks for making my world a slightly darker place, I guess.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

And if you think police send those scum parents to jail, think again. Police does nothing, not even closing the groups. So it just become more and more popular.

@Tinkeringbell on the contrary, as long as such awful things don't happen in your place, your place is better. :D

Tinkeringbell

Well, luckily I'm already familiar with the concept of police not doing anything, I gave up that illusion long ago XD

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Tinkeringbell oh, they do. They fine people without a mask. But just old/weak people on the street they won't dare facing young strong people.

(well now it's not on the street, rather in closed spaces, but still)

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 I said world, not place.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

11:11 AM

TL;DR police will never do something that really requires real effort.

@Tinkeringbell ohhh :(

Tinkeringbell

So unless those parents are physically living on a different planet, and not just mentally...

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

singing Beatles songs to cheer @Tink up

Tinkeringbell

XD I don't think that'll help.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

hmm

Tinkeringbell

It's okay, I don't need cheering up.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

11:12 AM

buying crochet materials for @Tink to cheer her up

@Tinkeringbell oh, good!

Tinkeringbell

I can manage life without being treated like a spoiled brat :P

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

aborting shipment of crocheting materials

Tinkeringbell

Probably better too... Receiving it would probably have cost me a pretty fortune with the new tax rules XD

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Rob that would be very salty.

@Tinkeringbell I'm cheapskate, ordered in $5

The kind of stuff from China that crumbles after first use. ;)

Tinkeringbell

Well not all stuff from China is bad... ordered two books of patterns from aliexpress once, and they arrived in better shape than most books shipped nationally XD

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

11:18 AM

@Tinkeringbell well phone screen that cost half the price just fell apart less than year later... luckily phone not really used anymore, but still. Better pay double and have a screen that lasts more than a year. ;)

Tinkeringbell

Oh, sure, you need to be picky :P

Like I said though, it's not really profitable anymore to order stuff from aliexpress here, because they just add a fee for 'processing' and taxes now.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

Picky is better than pricky. :D

@Tinkeringbell who adds? The site, or your own country when you collect the package?

Here package worth over some threshold requires some crazy tax too in order to get it.

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 Country/postal services.

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell no taxes below 400 SGD here but they want to change that 😭

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Tinkeringbell :(

oops language was set to Hebrew so it also reverse the brackets lol

( becomes ) and vice versa.

Tinkeringbell

11:27 AM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 Things used to be 'free' up to 22 euros, which was ideal. Now this year they changed the rules, you're paying 21% taxes + 4 euro's... which gets quite ridiculous for e.g. a 10 euro thing: You end up paying 61% extra!

And that is if it all comes in the same package XD which was often not the case for my aliexpress craft stuff, that would be packages of 3 euro's worth of stuff....

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Tinkeringbell yeah, sad. Either they got greedy (anyone checked where the money goes?) or they do it for reasons of reducing the insane amounts of orders from foreign places to encourage people to buy locally.

Tinkeringbell

Either way it's ridiculous.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

yeah that's for sure

Proper way would be to lower prices of local brands

Tinkeringbell

yeah..

Rob

11:51 AM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 Each time it is drank and redistilled removes impurities such as salt.

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Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

12:51 PM

@Rob good idea, but needs a good extraction system.

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1:13 PM

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Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

1:57 PM

@Feeds onebox shining bright

Journeyman Geek

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John Dvorak

@JourneymanGeek this is within statistical error I believe

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Rob

3:07 PM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 It would be no different than what was used in the first place; you understand what is in that image, what it's made from ...

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