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My Letter to Dockside Cannabis Corporate Headquarters


AMO Enterprises
315 N 36th ST
Suite 203
Seattle, WA 98103

Dear Sirs,

Issue I have with your company, doing business as Dockside Cannabis, is that you have zero respect for my privacy but do a very good job of maintaining yours.

I am 64 without a shred of color left in my hair so there is NO question that I am over 21 unless you're blind as a bat. Never the less I am willing to SHOW my ID to verify my age.

What I am NOT willing to do is allow you to scan it where it goes into a database. From the bar code on my drivers license you obtain not only my license number, birth date, but also my HOME address, telephone number, and that goes into a database.

While you CLAIM they only keep it for two days, we know that's bogus and 99% of every computer is backed up in an NSA database in Utah and given that Marijuana is not legal on a Federal level even though it is in the state, I don't want to be in any such database.

The manager at Dockside on Aurora and 151st will not give me corporate contact info for the people in charge of this policy. They will only give me info@dockside.com which is ignored. Obviously, I located it in spite of their efforts and I will make it generally well known to anyone else who may have an interest in this topic.

Now I know you don't use this for marketing as I've never received any marketing materials, and while they claim your store get robbed a lot, if they only keep this for two days, it's not helping them with that, thus one can only presume that you are lying about how long you retain the information and that, most likely some third party, CIA, FBI, NSA, DNC, SOMEONE is paying you for this info.

I will continue to pursue this until either I get a change in this policy or I uncover the truth of the matter at which point I will make it well known publicly.

Sincerely,

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Dockside Cannabis


Issue I have with these folks is that they have zero respect for my
privacy but do a very good job of maintaining theirs.

I am 64 without a shred of color left in my hair so there is NO question
that I am over 21 unless you're blind as a bat. Never the less I am
willing to SHOW my ID to verify my age.

What I am NOT willing to do is allow them to scan it where it goes into
a database. From the bar code on my drivers license they obtain not
only my license number, birthdate, but also my HOME address, telephone
number, and that goes into a database.

While they CLAIM they only keep it for two days, we know that's bogus
and 99% of every computer is backed up in an NSA database in Utah and
given that Marijuana is not legal on a Federal level even though it is
in the state, I don't want to be in any such address. The manager there
will not give me corporate contact info for the people in charge of this
policy. They will only give me info@dockside.com which is ignored.

Now I know they don't use this for marketing as I've never received any
marketing materials, and while they claim they get robbed a lot, if they only
keep this for two days, it's not helping them with that, thus one can only
presume some third party, CIA, FBI, NSA, DNC, SOMEONE is paying them for
this info.

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Debian, Majaro, Kernel Upgrades


Posted on July 7, 2023

Manjaro.eskimo.com is now operational again, including Mate Desktop and workspace switcher.

Debian.eskimo.com is now fully upgraded to Bookworm.

We will be doing a kernel upgrade Saturday July 8th starting at 11pm.

This upgrade will require reboots of all servers and hence interruption of all services, paid and free, including mail, web hosting, shell accounts, and virtual private servers, and friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and yacy.eskimo.com/.

Most of these services will not be down longer than about ten minutes except for yacy.eskimo.com/, because it takes about 45 minutes to rebuild a database. All services should be back up by midnight.

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The are not just vocal pests, they are mass murderers because when they drive up the cost of energy (and by extension food), they make it unavailable to the poor and then poor people die.

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Someone Needs to put Some Lead in his Head Before He Murders another hundred million


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Washington State 4th Amendment Violations


I live in Washington State where it is legal for adults over 21 to purchase and consume marijuana.

I am 64, completely grey, there isn't a shred of color left in my hair, yet I am always carded when I go to one of these places to buy. State law only requires they NOT sell to someone under 21, it does NOT require they ID them, yet, I am OK with SHOWING them my license, what I am NOT OKAY with this them scanning and retaining a computer record of my drivers license and any accessible information related to it.

I have ZERO idea of WHO and what government or private industry MAY have access to the information they retain.

I am looking for:

1) Anyone with info of a licensed marijuana seller in Washington State that does NOT insist on scanning my drivers license, particularly in the Seattle or Shoreline or Lynnwood / Edmonds area.

2) Cost effective suggestions for how to raise the biggest stink over the infringement of my 4th amendment rights.

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Global Bullshit


I invite you all to go to this NOAA website that has average annual temperatures for each of the states from 1913 until present. I think once you look at a broad sampling you will see that global warming is a hoax. This year is the hottest in Washington since 1959, but it was actually slightly hotter in 1959 for example, and you'll find similar patterns elsewhere.

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Linux - Rescue OS Help


I'm trying to setup a new server which among other things will take over the friendica.eskimo.com/ node.

I have the primary OS installed, and then have a separate partition on a drive that isn't part of the bootable drive set, it is a mdraid partition just like the primary but on a different raid device The idea is if something gets scribbled preventing the primary OS from booting, I can boot it to straighten out whatever is broken.

The primary OS root partition is /dev/md0p1, the rescue OS root partition is /dev/md2p1, there is no separate /boot partition, and since it is UEFI, no bios_grub partition. There is only one EFI system disk at /dev/nvme0n1p1, I would rather have two but the UEFI bios on this machine doesn't seem to like that.

I started by installing the primary OS, then copied the entire root partition to /dev/md2p1, and changed the root entry in /etc/fstab and then mounted the secondary OS root partition on /mnt.

Then I did:
mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount --bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts
mount --rbind /sys /mnt/sys
mount --rbind /opt /mnt/opt

Then I chroot'd to /mnt and after checking /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.d/grub.cfg to make sure the root partition was correct I did:

update-initramfs -u
update-grub2

Now when I boot the machine and use F8, I see the original boot disk, /dev/nvme0n1 and if I boot the main OS everything works as expected, but if I select my new rescue OS, it starts up with the / partition being /dev/md0p1 instead of /dev/md2p1.

Thinking I must have missed editing the root file system somewhere, I
mounted /dev/md2p1 on /mnt, chroot'd to that again, and then did:

blkid /dev/md0p1 (get the block ID of the original root device)

find /etc -type f -exec grep 'block id of original root' {} /dev/null \;

To look for any conf's with the original blkid for the original root file system and did not find any.

It has in the boot menu Ubuntu on /dev/md0p1 and Ubuntu on /dev/md2p1, but
when I choose the latter it's still mounting /dev/md0p1 as the root.

Any ideas what I may have missed?

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Asteroid City


Went and saw Asteroid City tonight, this is hands down one of the funniest films I've seen for a long time and at the same time touches on some things deep.

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Astrud Gilberto


Girl from Ipanema was a song that I really enjoyed in my childhood (I am 64 now). I wondered what happened to Astrud Gilberto over the years because not much of her other music made it here in the States (she is Brazillian). She died in 2002, at 83, would be 104 if she was still alive, but died of lung cancer. Really made me aware of how fast time flies, seems like yesterday, and really now feeling a bit down about how much has been lost over time. And I just happen to run across this album on Youtube so brought back some old memories.

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I'm Going to See Red Elvises June 22 at Jazzbones in Tacoma, WA


It is impossible to be in the presence of these guys and not be happy and have a shitload of fun. I've seen them three times in the past and each time has been an absolute riot. They are musically excellent but also great sense of humor. Igor, the guy in the middle, likes to say, The Drunker You Are, the Better We Sound, but the truth is they sound excellent stone cold sober.

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Truisms


If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

~Jay Leno~

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
~Henry Cate, VII~

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office
~Aesop~

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev~

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
~Clarence Darrow~

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton~

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
~Author unknown~

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
~Ronald Reagan~

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
~Oscar Ameringer~

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
~Adlai Stevenson, 1952~

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~ Tex Guinan~

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson~

Sadly, this last one.
We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.

in reply to Nanook

One thing all of these new UFO stories have is, they are all just words spoken by people. Less evidence than the old UFO sightings.

Bob Lazar has been saying similar things for decades. But, his story is that they are secret craft. Including all of the latest pictures, still blurry af btw, that were all released at once a few years ago. He just reemerged lately also, and he said even the new 'tic-tacs', everything, built by people.

Like Project Blue Book turned out to be a pysop, to ascertain what the public knew about top secret aircraft they were developing. This is more of the same. But, now they don't care if you think it's aliens. Project Blue Book at least came up with asinine stories, like it was swamp gas. lol

Now this guy is taking the we don't know what they are tact. It all sounds like they want to say, that now, they have a higher authority that everyone should listen to, and they speak through me...the government. But, I may be paranoid.

in reply to Dwayne Parsons

@Dwayne Parsons Having seen a craft and it's occupants up close and in person back in 1968, there is no doubt in my mind that something not of this Earth, at least not of this Earth in this particular timeline at this particular time, is visiting us. Bob Lazar was an interesting character to be sure, but more from an entertainment than an informative perspective. David Grusch on the other hand, has been a member of the NRO among other things, seems to be well respected by his peers, and unlike Bob Lazar, his participation in these organizations can be verified. Tic-tac's being man made, well if they were they would be smart enough not to fly them where there are training missions in place, so I rather doubt it. Regardless, if such technology is in our possession, whether it be of human or alien origin, we should know about it and be putting it into service for our energy needs, and no point to spend billions for Elon to develop a star ship if we already have the technology. And these so called "orbs" that have been encountered all over the Earth, I even found on in Google satellite images, I have personally witnessed and photographed on three occasions, on two of those occasions just a single orb, on the third a whole fleet. I realize that my experience to you is "just words", but until we force an investigation where someone is actually able to go into where these things are allegedly stored, that's all they will be.
in reply to Nanook

That's my point also, there has not been any believable evidence. Not that I'm a skeptic of the concept, don't get me wrong.

I have a good friend that says he has seen a lot of very strange things in the sky also. I've personally seen, along with about five other people, ball lightning. A very odd sight, and sound.

I use to live in the Cayman Islands for a while, and my friends sightings are all from the southern end of the island. Where there is one of the biggest fault lines in the ocean. And electrical phenomenon always appears over areas like that. And other similar locations.

Tic-tac’s being man made, well if they were they would be smart enough not to fly them where there are training missions in place


On this one, Bob, was saying they are drones, under surveillance, not being 'spotted'.

I've always been aware that we can't possibly be alone in the galaxy, let alone the universe. Like with the Fermi Paradox, it's just not possible that we are alone, but there has been no compelling footage yet.

That doesn't make it less, or not possible. Where have you seen these sightings?

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Kernel Upgrade Tonight 11pm-12pm


Posted on June 10, 2023

I will be performing a kernel upgrade requiring reboot of all of our servers starting at 11PM. If all goes well we should finish by 11:30PM with boots and midnight by checks to make sure all services properly started, NIS bindings and NFS mounts properly completed, etc.

This will be to kernel 6.1.33. Barring the release of some substantial performance gain, I plan to stick with 6.1.x long term kernel release until at least the next LTR release. To date this has been the best performing long term release kernel we have experienced.

This one will be compiled somewhat differently, a kernel upgrade failed on our newest server before I could put it online because the nvram mod did not load, so now I am compiling the /dev/nvram support into the kernel rather than separately as a module to avoid the potential for a future recurrence.

This will affect both our paid services such as virtual private servers, web hosting, e-mail, and linux shell accounts, as well as our free services, friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and yacy.eskimo.com/.

Most services should be down for less than ten minutes save for yacy which takes about 40 minutes to rebuild an in memory database after reboot.

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