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CurtAdams

@CurtAdams@urbanists.social

Semi-retired biologist with interests in speciation models, urbanism, liberal/left politics, economics, quartertone music theory, boardgames, ambient music, house rabbits, and yoga.

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atomicpoet, to random
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Maybe webcomics are just really hard to make but almost all of them are terrible.

The only exception is Perry Bible Fellowship. But I guess that’s not technically a webcomic since it appeared in a university paper.

CurtAdams,
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@atomicpoet I find that strange; to me its newspaper comics that are usually stale.. I'm currently following 29 webcomics; I only have about a dozen print ones on my GoComics. Most are drama strips, but I do follow the comedy strips XKCD, Dumbing of Age, St. Beals, Something Positive, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Existential Comics, Cyanide and Happiness, and Evil Inc., plus the Hugo award winning dramedy Girl Genius.

CurtAdams,
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@PowerCrazy @TheRealCharlesEames No. Tailpipe emissions are far and away the worst thing coming out of a car, because they are destroying the climate of the entire earth. If unchecked, it will destroy every ecosystem extant on the planet and kill most humans. 1.7 million deaths a year is truly, epically awful, but still not even a small fraction as bad.

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@0110010001100010 @PowerCrazy Even if it runs off fossil fuel produced electricity, an EV produces about 1/3 as much emissions because it's so much more efficient. With 40% renewable, it's only producing 1/5 as much, and dropping as the % of electricity from renewables continues to soar in the US.

anubis2814, to random

I'm the cusp between Gen X and Millennial and realized over the past few weeks that I never say please. I will profusely say thank you and sorry but please sounds weird and almost childishly simplistic and awkward.
I never ask for things, I tend to ask if something is possible. After that I thank them if that is possible. Even at a restaurant I couch it in "Could I have.." never a "Please give me...".
I don't know what this means. Do I feel like directly asking is imposing and I shouldn't presume to be a burden in the first place, and please in this case feels like it applies pressure to me, and I want to give them the easier option to say no. Please feels like a magic word that's harder to say no to.
Still more to think about in this case, because I don't know what this means. I'm a terrible saleman and terrible at asking people for things. I've been on youtube for 13 years now with 800+ videos with a book to sell for 3 and my patreon has only seen a max of $50 and my book has sold maybe 150 copies max. I know Amanda Palmer wrote "The art of Asking that I should probably read some day, but blunt or pressured asking feels like I think I deserve more than I do. It feels gross to do. I don't think I'm as bad as The boomer women mentioned here but it appears to be a thing with our society and the only people who seem to do well are the people who are good at both bluntly asking and selling themselves, which feels so cringe and arrogant to me. But then again people like doing things for other people and are drawn to people with confidence, either arrogance or not.
Still lots to ponder and reflect on here. Is this a US thing? Is this a generation thing? or is this just a type of person thing? I have no idea.
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@anubis2814 @RickiTarr That sounds like a linguistic shift to me. I'm substantially older than you, and now that I think about it, I rarely say "please" anymore. "Could I have..." or similar conditionals is probably just the way to ask for something politely now. Maybe a real linguist could weigh in.

tomkindlon, to mecfs
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The effect of comorbid medical diagnoses on disturbed sleep in chronic fatigue syndrome

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21641846.2024.2322915

"increased illness burden as manifested by multiple medically unexplained diagnoses does appear to influence insomnia"

@mecfs

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@tomkindlon @mecfs One of those "glad they did the science but not a surprise" papers. Yes, it's harder to sleep when you feel bad.

qkslvrwolf, to random
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Hey, you know how lefties and righties both have conspiracy theories? You know..the right says shit like "democrats are running a satanistic child pedofile ring under a pizza shop" and lefties are like "Russians are literally attacking our democracy with active information warfare measures."

(And by lefties, I mean left side, progressive, serious people, not horseshitters etc).

Well it ain't a conspiracy theory if it's an actual conspiracy.

CurtAdams,
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@qkslvrwolf Yeah, I wish there were a better term than "conspiracy theory". There are lots of real conspiracies. The problem is people ignoring facts and not understanding how real conspiracies work (they're usually messy).

CurtAdams, to random
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Xavier asked to go out into the backyard today and had a good time munching on the grass.

A sandy Flemish Giant enjoying eating grass next to some tree roots.

ajsadauskas, to fuckcars
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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

@fuck_cars

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@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars 15 minute walk: Park, elementary school, bus stop, restaurant, gas station.

15-30 minutes: (I do walk sometime but usually bike): Grocery store, pharmacy, bank, barber.

I can easily bike, though not walk, to all of the rest except a university (which seems an absurd ask for a 15-minute neighborhood).

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@Brendanjones @ajsadauskas @urlyman @fuck_cars Indeed. Bars should only be in a 15 minute walk. You should never need to drive to a bar!

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@jeffhykin @ajsadauskas My brother and his neighbors are fighting a grocery store in their neighborhood because of "traffic" (it would be negligible). Instead they drive 10 minutes each way thru - traffic.

Car brain - wanting your neighborhood to be undesirable so people won't want to come.

shoq, to random
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I mention D iscord once yesterday, and suddenly my notifies are drowning spam, or whatever this is. Related or coincidence?

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CurtAdams,
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@shoq I love my instance. I see almost no racism, fascism, or spam. I don't know how they do it but they do a great job.

GreenFire, to TeslaMotors
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I have gotten the impression over the last year that the fossil fools are expending a lot of effort towards turning Americans away from EVs towards ICEVs so-called hybrid vehicles.

I'll let y'all in on a secret that they want to keep from you. We have to stop burning fossil fuels just as quickly as we possibly can and putting a fossil fuel burning engine into new vehicles is not helping towards that necessary goal to address the existential crisis we're facing.

CurtAdams,
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@GreenFire @LaNaehForaday Even more, how long would it take to completely rebuild almost every city in the US so that people even could take trains everwhere? About a hundred years at current construction rates.

Less cars? Great, I'm on it myself. No cars? Simply impossible - but fortunately not necessary either. BEVs on solar power produce no emissions, and they are here now.

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@LaNaehForaday @GreenFire

Bah on disasterbating. What's required is to stop emitting CO2. That's very possible with electric cars, electric appliances, solar, wind, batteries, and industrial green hydrogen. We've got what's needed.

The world isn't going to be destroyed, even on the comparatively bad paths. 3C is now looking like the worst case and while that's very bad and I don't want to minimize it civilization will still be here. The name of the game now is minimizing the damage.

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@LaNaehForaday @GreenFire Humans and civilization will still be here at 3C. Some wild species won't. But there will be even more lost if people don't take the actions that are currently reducing emissions because they want to fantasize about things that aren't going to happen.

Drive electric, drive less, heat pumps, solar panels, offshore wind, batteries, etc; these are all working; we just need more.

RickiTarr, to random
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Boba Tea Shop run by Science Nerds, I'm home!

CurtAdams,
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@RickiTarr I wanna buy Boba Tea there!

CurtAdams, to random
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An Arctic Sea Angel, one of the organisms endangered by the warming Arctic

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/03/spoon-worms-lick-the-seabed-with-a-metre-long-tongue-a-voyage-into-a-vanishing-arctic-world?utm_source=press.coop

augieray, (edited ) to random
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If you follow me, you know I take #COVID19 seriously. People tell me they cannot vote for Biden because of his COVID policies. Although I agree with the sentiment, I vehemently disagree with the decision. Even if you set aside Trump's evident desire to be above the law and ignore the Constitution (and you shouldn't), if you want vaccine research, Long COVID action and safe air laws in the future, help Democrats win. The anti-vax, COVID-denying, anti-science GOP would only cause more death. (1/2)

CurtAdams,
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@augieray A more philosophical take is: Everybody is wrong about something. Including you. And me. Demanding somebody agree with you in everything is demanding they do something wrong - even though you can't know what it is.

In a society, we have to work with and help people we disagree with - and that's a good thing, because it creates the possibility of growth.

FAIR, to california
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"The more conservative a county, the more it suffers – by far – from the very problems Fox News, the Washington Examiner, New York Post, Atlantic Magazine and national media herd blame on Golden State liberalism."
--Mike Males, LA Progressive

https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/murder-shootings-drugs-shoplifting

CurtAdams,
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@FAIR Virtually all these problems are far worse in Republican run states: murder rate in Cali 6.4; murder rate in Alabama 15.9

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay I'm going to describe something, that I'm thinking that some other people have too:

So, when I'm feeling very sad, emotional, and overwhelmed, and I just feel like I can't keep going. I have this sort of other hyper rational part of myself. I call it Outside Man, mostly because it feels like it hovers over the top of my ocean of my emotions, and can see things from outside of where I am. Outside Man is the one who tells me that emotions change and this intensity of feeling won't last forever, and I need to do the things I know will help my mental state.

Is this or something like this, something other people experience?

And yes, I know that it's probably inherently sexist that I call what I consider my more rational self by a male moniker, but I've called it that since I was a kid, and it's stuck. Hubs said Outside Man sounds like a horror movie!

CurtAdams,
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@RickiTarr I feel like my Outside Man is always with me.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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I feel like even the people who I considered to be rational voices on Twitter have gone off the deep end when it comes to lapping up misinformation and it's just really depressing.

CurtAdams,
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@Stoneycase @BlackAzizAnansi Exactly. When you are drowned in misinformation you're eventually going to inhale some.

motorisms, to random
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Trees are harmful to cars. What can we do to stop trees?!

CurtAdams,
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@dx @enobacon @motorisms Recalibrate your snark detector.

adhdeanasl, to random
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Time for the ol’ Covid booster

CurtAdams,
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@accretionist @adhdeanasl You are being far too charitable. The two initial studies on ivermectin were just blatantly fraudulent. The first edited data and picked patients who'd lived or died and "assigned" them. The second was completely fictional; the "participating hospitals" had never even heard of the study. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/25/fraudulent-ivermectin-studies-open-up-new-battleground-between-science-and-misinformation

CurtAdams,
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@accretionist @adhdeanasl Yes. There has been some speculation the whole business was done to offload large supplies of ivermectin that had been bought for a major Zika epidemic that never happened. (Hypothetically, if enough people took it, it could poison the mosquitos that transmit it. Kinda Rube Goldberg if you ask me but some speculators supposedly bought a lot of ivermectin, because the scheme would take a LOT.)

CurtAdams,
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@accretionist @adhdeanasl Yes. Turn every human on earth into poison bait for mosquitos. From the same people demanding choice on vaccines. Interesting, yes?

RickiTarr, to random
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What are your true opinions and thoughts on marriage?

Just for fun, this is a photo from my wedding day (ignore the reflection of my phone lol) I was all of 21.

CurtAdams,
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@RickiTarr I'm gay. I cried like a baby when I finally could get married, after over 20 year together.

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