Also, this is a btop from an 18 core machine with 256GB of RAM with the major load being friendica, a secondary load is hubzilla, mastodon, and miskey, but friendica represents more load than the latter three combined, but it also gets more traffic than the latter three combined. But what I am getting at here, you may want to consider dedicating a physical server. I'll grant you it's busier than usual as we've just returned the server to service after three months of downtime, 7 motherbords, three power supplies, and two CPU's later.

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A mouse got into my house.

One of my cats killed it.

@arnst Let's start with an overall graph of deaths due to natural disasters from 1900 to current:

And then fires:

And then Storms:

Unfortunately I was not on the fly able to find flood data going back more than about 20 years but I think this is largely due to the fact that prior to dams, flooding along river basins was a seasonal occurrence. In fact, it is floods that brings silt down stream and makes productive farmland the rich soil that it is.

But with the exception of short term storms, and I really believe this is largely a reporting bias, until recently we didn't have Doppler radar and the link and a day of rain just wasn't worth recording, but with that exception everything else peaked between 1890 and 1930 and has been less than those peaks in current times.

I had two problems with my friendica installation. Using the Vier view with continuous scrolling, when it got down to where it loaded more messages, instead of displaying properly, it started another line shifted to the right like in the image below. Also, when comment preview was a no-op, and lastly when I posted, the little spinning icon would not go away until re-load.

In an attempt to understand what was going wrong, first, I was running an old composer, I updated to the current but got some errors in the process, so I ran composer diagnose to try to get some expansion on the errors. It told me that uopz module was not exiting on signal, so I removed it from my PHP configuration. After doing so all of these issues resolved.

I've been using Linux as my primary workstation OS since the late 90's but until now I've never really found a music player I liked. I have been using WinAmp under Wine just because it provided the functionality I wanted though a bit clunky, like it took eight minutes to load my collection. Recently developers have broken Wine to the point where the audio just wasn't good, lot of buffer underruns, skipping, but only wine.

So I went looking for a Linux player that was workable and I found Audacious. I've seen it in the past but not in classical GTK form where it is structured exactly the same as WinAmp. I didn't care for the skin, but guess what? Audacious can read and use WinAmp skins, so I just installed my old WinAmp skin and I'm mostly good!

There are a few annoying buglets. It chokes on some mp4 files even though it uses ffmpeg as an input plugin and ffmpeg groks the same file fine.

It also insists on placing the file extension of .ogg and .mp3 between title and artists but does not do this for other formats. Odd.

The sort by title doesn't work right either and that's a bit annoying but I can always find what I want by using J and searching. It also has some neat graphical extensions, one is attached.

These are all orbs that I've photographed many years ago. All the single orbs were either photographed while riding the Edmonds Ferry towards Stanwood, or on Sunset Beach near the Edmonds terminal of the Ferry, except for the photo with multiple orbs in it, that one was photographed from Juanita Beach, and it happens a commercial Jet flew through the clouds at nearly the same elevation minutes later, and because I recognized the airplane type I was able to lookup the fuselage diameter and then by counting pixels determine the size of the orbs, they are only 7-8 feet in diameter.

These were all looking North from the Edmonds ferry in Washington State, or from the Beach near the Edmonds terminal. They appeared to be over the Whidbey Island Naval Air Base or close.

This one was over the Juanita Beach at the North end of Lake Washington.

This is statistics for July 8th, 2023 through November 8th 2023 for King County.
I'm a pureblood, no Gates artificial RNA in my blood. You can see that we did better than the vaxed in terms of raw numbers. But then they "age adjust" them to show us doing worse. Just another example of lying with statistics.

Myself, I'm unvaxxed. I got Covid 19 in March of 2021, I tested positive for five days, symptoms lasted for seven and it was a fairly nasty cold for me with one day of upset stomach. My max fever was 100.7, I am 65, diabetic, and overweight.

My 40 year old son got vaxxed, has had covid five times now, one of those times had a fever hit 103.7, nearly had to be hospitalized. He is not diabetic or overweight.

Good Evening,

A LOST dog was brought into the clinic today. He has no collar/identification and no microchip.

He is a male neutered doodle-mix, likely over 5 years of age. If you recognize this dog, please let us know via email as we are closed for the weekend.

Cascade Pet Hospital
(206) 362-3668
14731 Aurora Ave N Shoreline, WA 98133
www.cascadepethospital.com

In King County we have relatively high immunity, not because of the clot shot but because we were the first area of the country exposed to the virus and so obtained a lot of natural immunity. In fact the people that are getting it multiple times are almost exclusively those who have had the clot shot ruin their immune system. I am 64, had Covid exactly once in March of 2021, it was a moderate cold with one day of upset stomach and a maximum fever of 100.7 and no deep lung involvement just upper respiratory and stomach upset and I am unvaxed. My oldest son at 39, double vaxxed, has had it five times so far, one time his fever shot to 103.7 and almost had to be hospitalized.

Now one thing I want you to notice about these stats, they are a week old and a new set should be out later today, but you'll notice last week ended with the numbers lower than the week before, but even that you'll notice hospitalization is down even more than the numbers which suggests this latest version is even less virulent than Omicron BA1/2/5 was. Also notice at the very end of the week the number of infections ticked up but hospitalizations ticked down. And yet all the sheeple have their masks on again.

@Dwayne Parsons @arnst I would not argue that man doesn't have SOME effect on the climate, I would argue that it pales in comparison to natural variability. The Climate Alarmist will take a chart of the CO2 levels and temperature for the last 100 years and with some cooked data produce the famous hockey stick (the last twenty years temp hasn't risen significantly if you use uncooked data), but there is about a 1C increase over the last 100 years.

Now if you look at the amount of input power CO2 forcing represents, about 1 watt / sq meter, compare that to the variability caused by the Milankovitch cycle where the variability over the Northern hemisphere is about 230 watts / square meter, and you can get an idea of the degree of our contribution.

And during the peak inter-glacial period during these cycles the polar ice disappears completely, but Polar Bears have so far survived six of them. They seem to survive warm just fine, it's being shot at they have a problem with. And since they've made that illegal their numbers have increased by five times.

An even more absurd aspect is the concept of a tipping point, the idea that once CO2 surpasses a level the Earth is going to become Venus. Venus is Venus primarily because of it's orbital position where it receives 2300 watts / square meter of solar input where as the Earth only receives about 1500 watts (give or take a small amount depending upon it's orbital position).

As you can see from this graph, 400 million years ago the Earth's CO2 level was over 2000 PPM, and yet it didn't tip. And if you go back to the beginning, 4.5 billion years ago it was almost 100% CO2. Most of the time during the Jurassic (dinosaur era) it hovered between 1000 and 2000ppm and yet, here we are. The truth of the matter, the 280ppm that we had just before the start of the industrial revolution was a historical low for the Earth, and if we hadn't come around and raised it, and the shell fish of the world had continued to sequester it, plant life would have died out and with the all life save perhaps for some hydrogen-sulfide eating bacteria near black smoker thermal vents.