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2024-07-25

I asked AI to explain the video of an ebike battery exploding in an elevator

I asked Gemini AI the question below, after having seen a video of an ebike battery exploding inside an elevator. The video shows a man entering a small elevator with an ebike battery in his hands. Less than 5 seconds after the elevator doors closed, the battery in his hand burned and quickly filled the small elevator with flames. The...

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2024-02-19

Philippine LGUs may soon require registration for small vehicles likes ebikes, e-trikes, etc

My take on that? Registration is fine. People need to be accountable. Licensing? Yes to that too. A lot of people that are driving or riding on a set of wheels do so as if they don’t know or don’t care about the rules of the road. But given that these alternatives are a big help in mobility and that...

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2020-04-25

In this time of COVID-19: A letter to a pen friend

This is the first of a new series of posts to document or blog about the coronavirus pandemic experience. I’m calling the series “In this time of COVID-19…” It is April 2020. It’s been about four months since the world first became aware of this new virus. In this time of the coronavirus pandemic, many people are anxious, scared and...

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2020-04-03

Can you Coach on Mindset and Performance?

Today I saw this post from someone who claims to be a coach on mindset and performance. I saw it in my Twitter feed because someone I follow re-tweeted it. According to this so-called coach, These are not personality types. – Flirty – Anxious – Depressed – Introverted – Confrontational These are justifications for an unhealthy & toxic lifestyle. You’re...

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2020-03-26

First-hand account of Covid-19 experience by YouTuber Dan Mace

This YouTuber Dan Mace, who’s a friend of Casey Neistat (which was how I stumbled upon his story), tested positive for COVID-19 in South Africa — after being previously denied tests for coronavirus by two doctors in the USA. To summarize his COVID-19 experience… He was extremely ill for a few days. He recovered. He asked to be tested for...

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2019-12-03

Status update

In the cesspool that is Facebook… A 🧔 : [re-posts a Tulfo post with no details of what transpired, regarding a doctor that they’re shaming for allegedly being an axxxxxx]F 🧟‍♀️ : What’s that about? What did he do?B 👩‍💼 : That guy is an intern…F 🧟‍♀️ : Make him go viral!Me 🧒 to F 🧟‍♀️ : You don’t know...

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2019-11-17

Mi pequeña presentación acerca de Mastodon y Slowly

This is the text of my presentation at the Spanish Language Meetup on 17 November 2019. Our host encourages us all to do a 2- to 5-minute presentation on any subject… in Spanish. 😎 I decided to talk about Mastodon and the app Slowly. Temas:  Mastodon y Slowly Hoy, voy a presentar sobre el otro lugar donde a veces yo...

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2019-10-23

List of free mobile apps that I actually paid for

Life is wonderful. Technology is awesome. There is an abundance of useful apps that cost you nothing. There is also an abundance of bad apps by bad actors. If you find yourself benefiting and using a free app a lot, do support the developers. The app cost you nothing, but it cost the developers their brain power and precious time....

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2018-12-26

A Dash Cam for The Cruising Shutterbug

I’d been searching for an affordable removable dash cam after my Monday Ugh Moment last week. I wanted a way to be able to review a driving 🚘 incident and, perhaps, use it as a quick impartial witness, rather than waiting and hoping to get a copy of public CCTV footage which may get stuck or delayed in red tape....

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2018-12-04

Mi LED Desk Lamp

I came home from a Christmas party on Saturday night with a couple of nice prizes. One of them was an uber sleek Mi LED Desk Lamp. Mi is the company that makes Xiaomi smartphones. So it’s not a surprise that appliances and gadgets that they make — such as weighing scales, light bulbs, vacuum cleaner, security cams — have...

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