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taylorlorenz , 2 months ago to random

Stanford Professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who advocates for mass COVID infection, rails against masking and who has cast doubt on the utility/safety of the mRNA COVD vaccines, just won an award with major prize money from one of the most powerful right-wing foundations in America. https://www.importantcontext.news/p/covid-contrarian-doctor-scores-big

dan613 , 2 months ago

@taylorlorenz Man, if only there was a way to get the benefits of a SARS2 infection without the risk of illness and death.

elizabethtasker , 2 months ago to random

This week, we're hitting the #Blender3D shop floor for a big design that (I hope) will ultimately become a #VR space for a conference.

So far... it's a doughnut.

Is this to remind attendees that they better getting running around this track to burn off eating too many pastries? We shall see...

dan613 , 2 months ago

@elizabethtasker It's scenes like these that make me wonder why we didn't optimize for cubic surfaces. Your wall would be just 4 surfaces instead, with scalable resolution, and I'm fairly certain the number of total calculations would be fewer overall. I used to read Jim Blinn's work at JPL, but I stopped before this transition happened.

futurebird , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

This ant cartoon by falseknees over on tumblr really captures what I think it's like to be an ant.

Everyone is busy. No one really knows what they are doing.

https://www.tumblr.com/falseknees/747594384451813376?source=share

dan613 , 2 months ago

@futurebird "This feels like the right place. Oh, there's another green thing already! I'll just put mine right beside it. Hmm, it's a bit windy. Maybe if I spit on it, it'll stay in place."

futurebird , 2 months ago to random

Every now and then I hear conversations from outside of here about "the state of social media" and let me tell you: People are suffering. People are miserable. Many people feel addicted to social media but unable to have positive and valuable interactions in the space. Mostly, in the profit-driven social media space negative emotional reactions glue eyeballs as well as positive, so a heap of the experiences is just ... unpleasant.

Meanwhile around here things are different.
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dan613 , 2 months ago

@futurebird @sidereal The nice thing about ads on Instagram and TikTok is that I can scroll past them easily. But I have bought a number of things from them with few regrets. We have a little wine pourer in the shape of a bird that chirps as I pour. How cool is that?

futurebird , 2 months ago to random

“Ride safe! If you get in an accident? I will kill u….”
“but that just makes it worse!”
“…to death. All the way. So you better be careful. Or Else.”
“This seems… unfair.”
“exactly”

(feelings about SOs riding motorcycles)

dan613 , 2 months ago

@futurebird I once dated a hospital doctor who said she would leave me the second I get on a motorcycle.

ariadne , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Between 2016 and 2022, #China, through #coal burning, was responsible for 25.79% of global #CO2 emissions. (And another 3.21% from cement manufacture). Even looked at historically (between 1854 and 2022), Chinese coal is responsible for 14% of global CO2 emissions over this 168 year period.

Is this a problem?

(source - https://carbonmajors.org/briefing/The-Carbon-Majors-Database-26913 ) #ClimateCrisis #Carbon #Climate #Klimakrise #Klima #GlobalWarming #FossilFuels #FossilFuel #GlobalWarming

dan613 , 2 months ago

@ariadne This was expected. Western coal-mine owning nations got a big head start to wealth while China was mostly agrarian. China only started industrializing around 1960. It was agreed that China could have a few more years to catch up. Meanwhile most Western nations have been cutting back emissions, making China seem larger as a result. On a per-capita basis, though, the US is still a big emitter, as well as having contributed a lot of the CO₂ in the air right now.

Chart of per capita emissions from the World, US, EU, China, and India.

wdlindsy , 3 months ago to random

“Name a force or impulse that threatens the stability of the American political system – distrust in the fairness of elections, conspiracy theorizing, the embrace of authoritarianism – and it is always more prevalent among rural Whites than among those living elsewhere."

~ Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy (New York: Random House, 2024), p. 5

#Trump #rural #white #WhiteRuralRage
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734507/white-rural-rage-by-tom-schaller-and-paul-waldman/

dan613 , 2 months ago

@wdlindsy "If we do it, it's God's will. If you do it, it's because you are heathen scum and must be punished."

White evangelicals think they are better than everyone else, therefore different rules apply to them. Everyone else deserves punishment, and they happily pay extra for that.

ElleGray , 3 months ago to random

tesla owners finally complaining about some of the cars' features bc apparently your spouse can watch your car's progress on the app at home and see where you stop. you can even see which seats are being used so "both backseats" suddenly registering on the "heat map" is giving away the cheating lol

dan613 , 3 months ago

@ElleGray "Gee, honey, that was great of you to get me a Tesla!"

futurebird , 3 months ago to random

Their queen died. They raised queen alates who have not flown. Now they have a new huge pile of eggs? I’m so confused. These will all be male… they have to be… right? #ants #antskeeping

dan613 , 3 months ago

@futurebird Assigned sex at birth.

futurebird , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

To make a computer, you need to have a clock.* A pulse, a metronome that causes the next line of code to execute. Likewise, nervous systems have waves, slime molds pulse do intelligent decision makings systems always require a clock?

Human brain waves can be as fast as 30Hz or as slow as 1 wave every 2 second 1/2Hz- Seems unlikely the rhythms we've noticed are an absolute temporal resolution.

When people lose consciousness the waves dissolve, how do they recover?

*ETA: I was wrong about this.

dan613 , 3 months ago

@futurebird I think of it more like metronomes on a rolling platform. The neurons each work at their own pace, but slight nudges cause them to align with their neighbours over time. There isn't an overall clock. The different frequencies are the result of different classes of actions. https://youtu.be/2EAZ3VH_hNU?si=rc98rgkeSa6mzW4J

dan613 , 3 months ago

@futurebird Wait until you get to race conditions...

jeffowski , 3 months ago to random

dan613 , 3 months ago

@jeffowski @Sir_Osis_of_Liver An interesting thing about meat pies: they are a cheap and sterile way to transport meat. The crust can be thrown in the garden for composting.

futurebird , 3 months ago to random

...

Clearly not thinking through all of the implications of "that America"

bruh. why would YOU be able to vote if women couldn't? THINK.

dan613 , 3 months ago

@futurebird If I'm reading this right, American women got the vote in 1920. While American Black men could theoretically vote in 1870 due to the 15th amendment, it wasn't until the voting rights act of 1965 that states' efforts at suppressing Black people's votes were made illegal. Though I note many efforts continue today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_States#Milestones_of_national_franchise_changes

rbreich , 3 months ago to random

Republicans believe which of the following are people:

1. Corporations

2. Frozen embryos

3. Women

Pick two out of three.

dan613 , 3 months ago

@rbreich When do we start forcibly taking kidneys from men to save lives?

futurebird , 4 months ago to random

It’s not easy to assemble an outfit this boring. An outfit that is so unremarkable it’s remarkable. This the essence of my fashion movement. That’s Bland Fancy.

#borecore #fashion

dan613 , 4 months ago

@futurebird Math Teacher Chic