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veeesix , 4 days ago

The implications of this change in the inner core’s movement for Earth’s surface can only be speculated. Vidale said the backtracking of the inner core may alter the length of a day by fractions of a second: “It’s very hard to notice, on the order of a thousandth of a second, almost lost in the noise of the churning oceans and atmosphere.”

The USC scientists’ future research aspires to chart the trajectory of the inner core in even greater detail to reveal exactly why it is shifting.

“The dance of the inner core might be even more lively than we know so far,” Vidale said.

veeesix , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

How about a clapper board icon? The community isn’t limited to movies, so a clapperboard could encapsulate both movies and television.

veeesix , 5 days ago

Kodak 100T 5247

veeesix , 7 days ago

Me: The internet ;) ;)

veeesix , 10 days ago

The actual total two-way communication distance between Zhang and his patient was more than 20,000km, a considerable challenge since longer distances can cause more latency, or delay, between the surgeon’s console in one location, and the response of the robotic arms at the other location.

In this case, China’s 5G telecommunication network helped to lower the delay to a 135 millisecond latency, less that the 200 millisecond latency that various studies have identified as ideal for telesurgery.

I never would have guessed Cyber Surgeon could be on the Work From Home bingo card.

veeesix , 12 days ago

Is Gollum LOTR’s Jar Jar Binks?

veeesix , 13 days ago

Semi-related but I was thinking about this earlier this year, and I was wondering about the feasibility of posting bus cancellations via the fediverse instead of via a bussing company’s website or email.

veeesix , 15 days ago

I’d be happy with 5 continuous days of a reliable weather app.

veeesix , 16 days ago

Well now I’m calling my children cross-legged goblin tyrants in public.

veeesix , 20 days ago

If you’re a Trekkie @nocontexttrek is always a good follow.

veeesix , 22 days ago

So, it's clear that a small subpopulation is preferentially tweeting links to sources of misinformation, and for many users, they're the most significant source of exposure to these sites. So who are these people?

They're a bit more likely to be female. While both the comparison groups were roughly evenly split between male and female, the superspreaders were 60 percent female. They're also older, on average 58 years old, nearly 20 years older than the sample as a whole. And, while much of the misinformation about the election largely circulated within Republican circles, only 64 percent of the superspreaders were registered Republicans (nearly 20 percent were registered as Democrats).

veeesix , 22 days ago

Looks interesting until you close the keyboard cover. Talk about lumpy.

veeesix , 23 days ago

Bdesign thought that the cut was small, like a paper cut, until blood started spurting out from the wound. The Tesla inspectors who were there and even described that the vehicle "can be dangerous" panicked but helped.

Oh good, multiple witnesses.

veeesix , 1 month ago

Well now I have to see it.

veeesix , 17 days ago

Ultraman precedes the Rocketeer by 24 years.

veeesix , 1 month ago

The goal is to overhaul and replace everything by 2027. It’s crazy to think how much technological progress will be gained and lost in that short span of time.

veeesix , 1 month ago

“When you’re this old guy dying, you don’t wanna say: ‘I wish I had done that and that.’ In my case, I did it. I did all the things other people would just regret that they didn’t try. Because, in the end, you die. You don’t get any award for just being conservative.”

If I had the same funding, I’d feel as nonchalant about failure.

veeesix , 1 month ago

as reported in Vietnam.net, it's possible Steam has been taken down in Vietnam after local game developers complained about the scope and size of Steam's vast portfolio of games, claiming Vietnamese devs cannot compete with Steam's releases given they are subject to government approval and thousands of international games on Steam are not.

Citing it as "an injustice to domestic publishers", Vietnamese studios reportedly say that local game development "will die" if Steam is able to keep releasing games without the same government scrutiny as domestic games.

veeesix , 1 month ago

It was cancelled at HBO?? Is nothing sacred anymore? I hope it succeeds at Netflix and gets as many seasons as it needs.

veeesix , 1 month ago

What if he’s taking his boots off?

veeesix , 1 month ago

You mean a reboot of the ReBoot reboot?

veeesix , 1 month ago

Do you concur?

veeesix , 1 month ago

According to this analysis—and, I have to warn you, it’s kinda funny—liberals and conservatives have markedly different facial morphology. Liberals have “smaller lower faces” and “lips and noses [that] are shifted downward,” and chins that “are smaller” than conservatives, researchers write. Researchers repeat the key conclusion later on: “liberals tended to have smaller faces.” 

So, according to this theory, if you have a tiny face, you’re probably a progressive. Or, by contrast, if you have a big fat face, there’s a good chance you might be a Trump voter.

veeesix , 2 months ago

She said she was then advised to withdraw money from her bank accounts and deposit it through a Bitcoin machine, where it would remain in an account for safekeeping until the investigation was over.

That poor woman. Even if she hadn’t seen all the other red flags, this was the flare gun shot in the night sky.

veeesix , 2 months ago

Why does this necessitate being a televised event? Sounds like this is just going to be a set-up to dunk on climate policy for sound bites without accomplishing anything meaningful.

veeesix , 2 months ago

During that committee, the Conservatives proposed 19,600 amendments to the 18-page bill. That number decreased to 200 once the bill left committee and headed back to the House of Commons.

Government House leader Steven MacKinnon said Thursday those amendments were "robo-amendments created by AI."

[Conservative Leader Pierre] Poilievre now will have to have his members come here and vote for as long as it takes on a couple of hundred amendments that survived that robo-amendment process that they admitted was undertaken by artificial intelligence, by robot caucus members and robot parliamentarians," he said.

99% of the amendments were actual GPT-fluff.

veeesix , 2 months ago

Gotta celebrate the little victories.

veeesix , 2 months ago

This article exudes “we have Nintendo at home” energy.

veeesix , 2 months ago

Would you like to save this Lemmy post of a Tumblr post of a Reddit post that has been cross-posted on Lemmy to your Pinterest board?

veeesix , 2 months ago

Suzuki has been studying Japanese tits for more than 17 years.

Imagine regularly being asked what you do for a living.

veeesix , 2 months ago

I think it’s romantic.

veeesix , 2 months ago

Risky click of the day.

EDIT: Pretty great tits, 10/10.

veeesix , 2 months ago

It’s pretty cluttered with all those Mastodon instances. Would be nice if there was one Mastodon button and your browser remembered the instance you were sharing with.

veeesix , 2 months ago

It’s beautiful!

veeesix , 2 months ago

Not at all. We kept the underbrush from burning in small amounts for so long that the forests are sitting on piles and piles of dry tinder just waiting to be set ablaze.

veeesix , 2 months ago

My usual go-to is Super Mario Bros 3. It’s as low or high stakes as you want to make it.

veeesix , 3 months ago

Similarly I used to follow news groups on Mastodon, but found I was missing stories in-between my other follows. I ended up switching to RSS readers like Inoreader to handle my reading instead.

I know it’s answer-adjacent, but I hope that helps.

veeesix , 3 months ago

I’m not particularly happy about it, but I’d rather there were another way to turn this into a teachable moment instead.

veeesix OP , 3 months ago

My favourite unironic quotes from the article:

“He likely experienced cognitive dissonance when I presented him with some of the up-to-date data on the pandemic and COVID-19 management,” Matyas wrote. “Cognitive dissonance can result when people hold a core belief that is very strong … The respondent (patient) is likely a very strong believer in the COVID vaccines being the only possible saviour of humanity in this pandemic.”

Matyas took exception to the professor’s suggestion that he was spreading misinformation: “Everything I quoted to him are published facts and I encourage him to develop a little scientific curiously and humility about what he thinks he knows in the field of medical science.”

veeesix , 3 months ago

I wouldn’t say I’m an experienced reader, however I’ve been in a similar predicament trying to get back into reading.

On my iPhone I set up a focus mode that promotes reading during hours I’m typically at home with free time. What I’ve done is set a large reading widget front and center on the page with reading companion apps underneath with all of my social media/video apps are out of sight.

As for goals, I don’t really make any until I’ve had a couple books finished otherwise I force myself into finishing rather than concentrating on the material.

veeesix , 3 months ago

At launch, Google's VP of Real Estate & Workplace Services, David Radcliffe, said the site "marks the first time we developed one of our own major campuses, and the process gave us the chance to rethink the very idea of an office." The result is a wild tent-like structure with a striking roofline made up of swooping square sections.

In other words, they erected themselves a circus tent. Ironic.

veeesix , 3 months ago

I tried StoryGraph for a bit, but had a better go with Hardcover.

veeesix , 3 months ago

Unusual ≠ Wrong

veeesix , 3 months ago

I was on Discuit during/before the Squabbles(Squabblr) drama, and traffic to the site has died down considerably. I assume most people went back to Reddit having exhausted their search for a Reddit alternative.

veeesix , 3 months ago

This is the tl;dr I wish I wrote, but am saving for next time.