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EverydayMoggie

@EverydayMoggie@sfba.social

Stuff I like, in no particular order.
science • building computers • gaming • science fiction • mysteries • dogs • bicycles • cooking • writing • architecture • design • hiking

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NamelessCynic, to random
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For the record, no, dishwashing liquid cannot be used in place of dishwasher detergent.

EverydayMoggie,
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It looks so festive! Fake snow!

One thing you can do if you're ever out of dishwasher detergent is to use baking soda instead. It doesn't clean quite as well but it won't foam up.

@NamelessCynic

mekkaokereke, to random
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People on Twitter are debating whether a person using uncommon words like "delve" are trying to sound smarter than they are, or worse, are ChatGPT bots, because "normal" people don't talk like that.

You don't have to get upset, or embroiled in the debate. Not worth the time or attention. But I'll share some important context as your friendly neighborhood Nigerian 🙋🏿‍♂️

Many Nigerians have bigger English language vocabularies and better command of grammar than the typical American or English person

EverydayMoggie,
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This has been the bane of my existence since I was a little kid. I use what I consider a perfectly normal word, and get called a "walking dictionary."

Bigger vocabulary and better grammar than most Americans is a pretty low bar.

@mekkaokereke

RickiTarr, to random
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Today let's spread the love!

@ someone in the comments who has made your Mastodon experience better, a little explanation as to why would be awesome too! You are welcome to do more than one.

EverydayMoggie,
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@mekkaokereke for educating about the underlying racism in society, yet somehow always managing to remain upbeat and accessible.
@futurebird for intriguing and imaginative ideas to explore, and for ants!
@ShmosKnows for an irrepressible joyous spirit.
@Wolven for Really Weird Shit.
@cheeaun for giving us Phanpy.
@aprilfollies for boosting a lot of entertaining and thought-provoking stuff I'd never see otherwise.
@alfredtwu for somehow making local housing both interesting and charming.
@scott for local politics (both a blessing and a curse!) and I think being the first person I followed here.
And the admin team at sfba.social for making the instance work flawlessly and keeping the users informed.

@RickiTarr

futurebird, to random
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A 12 percent drop in the US murder rate is wild. And I say that as someone who has been spitting stats and rolling my eyes at people who say "crime has gotten so bad..."

It hasn't been "bad" by any real metric since the late 90s and even when it was "bad" if you're middle class (and not at risk of domestic violence*) you have zero things to worry about even in 1989.

*domestic violence improved for a few decades but then stalled. But, when people fret about crime this isn't what they mean.

EverydayMoggie,
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Sadly, that's not what girls get taught to fear, though.

@futurebird @ignova

EverydayMoggie,
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I notice many women have been taught to be fearful of the world from infancy. So asking them to abandon that is pretty high-stakes; you're asking them to pull out one of the pieces that forms the foundation of their concept of self. You've got to convince them that the whole structure won't simply fall apart when they do that, or at least convince them to make a leap of faith.

@ignova @futurebird

luckytran, to random
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Good news: Masking has returned to hospitals and clinics in several counties in Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Massachusetts, Delaware, Washington, Indiana and New York.

Thanks to all the tireless organizers making progress happen. Keep going!

https://themessenger.com/health/covid-mask-mandates-at-hospitals-ny-california-illinois-delaware

EverydayMoggie,
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That has been my experience as well. My doctor and dentist facilities never stopped masking.

@thepoliticalcat @luckytran

RickiTarr, to random
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If you could kick something out of your life today, what would it be?

EverydayMoggie,
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Billionaires. But they'd need to be kicked out of everyone's lives.

@RickiTarr

Daojoan, to random
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Startup culture runs on bullshit.

It's the only renewable energy source the tech luminaries have reliably solved.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/how-startup-culture-runs-on-bullshit

EverydayMoggie,
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You know, it's kind of unfortunate that bullshit isn't a real energy source. The supply seems to be infinite.

@Daojoan

mekkaokereke, to random
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It's Selma day! As people in places like Boston feel smug about the racism in supposedly backwards, Southern, red places like Alabama, I'd like to remind everyone that:

  • Boston is more segregated than Birmingham, Alabama
  • Police violence data shows more racial disparities in Boston than in Mobile Alabama, or Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham cops are worse than 55% of all other police departments. AKA, pretty average for the US. Boston is worse than 99%. Exceptionally bad!

🙂🙃

Chart of police violence in Mobile, Alabama, showing that 50% of Mobile is Black but 75% of the people killed by police there are Black, a disparity worse than 55% of all US police departments.
Chart of police violence in Birmingham, Alabama, showing that 70% of Birmingham is Black but only 58% of the people killed by police there are Black, a disparity worse than only 34% of all US police departments.

EverydayMoggie,
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I remember thinking that when I lived there. I knew there were Black people, but it was so weird how you hardly ever saw them in certain parts of town.

@mekkaokereke

_L1vY_, to random
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It's not that everyone I know who's had Covid has had some subsequent dreadful health issue, it's that everyone I know with some (new) dreadful health issue seems to have gotten it as a result of having Covid.

EverydayMoggie,
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The thing is, scientists are telling us. Even just glancing over the research studies posted on Mastodon will show you that. There's still work to do; this kind of research takes time, but the outlines are pretty obvious. But policy makers aren't listening.

@Deadcert @_L1vY_

atomicpoet, to random
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Exactly what @Gargron says!

Governments should not rely on Threads for connecting to the Fediverse. It would be far better for them to run on their own servers. Ideally, I’d prefer to follow @potus (which doesn’t exist right now) than @potus.

But last week, Joe Biden was not on the Fediverse. Now he is. This is a huge win and will result in further migration here.

This is neither ideal nor perfect – but it’s better than it was last week.

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron/statuses/112208521589924874

EverydayMoggie,
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Given the recent court rulings that elected officials in the United States can't block constituents on social media if they're posting in an official capacity, I'm not sure it would be feasible for the US government to run a fediverse instance. They might be required to leave it essentially unmoderated except for content that is outright illegal.

@atomicpoet @Gargron

cabel, (edited ) to random
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I just really hope Apple is preparing a metric hectare of reassurances if (big if!) they’re about to announce a deep partnership with OpenAI.

Like, reassurances about the environmental impact (all that work down the drain?), about the training data sources, about general ethics, about the cringy move-fast-and-break-things startup-bro vibes that they will then inherit onto their brand, etc…

EverydayMoggie,
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If they did announce all those reassurances, would you believe them? I don't think I would.

@cabel

raymondpert, to incarcerated
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    EverydayMoggie,
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    Interesting how this lecture about the harm caused by manufactured food dovetails with the abuses that go into producing it. Coincidentally happened to watch it right after reading this article.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QOTBreQaIk

    @MayInToronto @raymondpert

    barackobama, to random

    Congrats to @GamecockWBB and Coach @DawnStaley on a perfect season and their third title! It's been an incredible year for women's basketball, and this team was so disciplined and talented. Well deserved.

    EverydayMoggie,
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    Unless I'm completely mistaken, federation from Threads is one-way. We can follow and read posts from Threads but they can't see any of our posts.

    @thepoliticalcat

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Awww this takes me back! What has been the most important in your life?

    EverydayMoggie,
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    Most important, I'd have to say graphic design, given that I did it for a living, and that wouldn't have happened without the transition to entirely digital work.

    @RickiTarr

    EverydayMoggie, to cycling
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    Turns out that one of the most cost-effective things we can do to combat climate change is build more bike infrastructure!
    https://nebula.tv/videos/simonclark-what-is-the-cheapest-way-to-beat-climate-change
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReXaS4QausQ

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    I unironically learned much of what I knew about eclipses from Bugs Bunny. So any really incorrect things I still believe about eclipses, probably comes from this cartoon. 🤷🏿‍♂️

    Bugs Bunny: Release me, or I will blot out the sun!

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f_fTCtnpNNw&t=7m41s

    (Content warning: old cartoons were racist as hell! And sexist, ableist, and xenophobic).

    EverydayMoggie,
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    Those old cartoons are incredible. I remember being stunned watching some old Betty Boop cartoons, just sitting there going, "Seriously? People thought this was acceptable!?"

    @mekkaokereke

    drahardja, to Insurance
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    The armageddon is coming slowly, but surely. I shop for new insurance (auto, home, umbrella, etc.) once every few years to make sure I’m still getting decent deals. But this year, my insurance agent told me that I should be glad that I have insurance at all, because companies have stopped writing new policies in certain states, or at least limiting how many new ones they write per year.

    , , and are now personas non grata for insurance companies, my agent said. Why is that, I wonder? Could it be because these states are the most likely to sustain major damage due to ? Wildfires, extreme weather, coastal floods, and hurricanes have changed their risk profiles, and insurance companies are paying attention.

    Climate change is here, folks. Actuarial tables do not lie.

    EverydayMoggie,
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    Much as I dislike the insurance industry, it may be what finally makes government and industry do something to mitigate climate change.

    @drahardja

    EverydayMoggie, to random
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    "Q4. What is the weirdest thing you've seen blamed on bikes or bike lanes?"

    Climate change. No, this is not sarcastic! I've seen more than one person seriously advance the argument that riding a bike requires you to eat more food and breathe harder, thus increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

    Jaden3, to random
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    Had a long ass chat with my gramma last nite. She said ' Jaden you will never find happiness because all you do is plan for the next thing, always looking for something new and better. Just sit back and enjoy what you got'.
    Think she may have a point??????
    What yall think 🤔

    EverydayMoggie,
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    She's right.

    One day, years ago, I was riding BART (transit train). Across the aisle was a group of boisterous young men, talking loudly. I felt they were making fun of me. I don't know. But they had me on edge, watching warily.

    Their conversation drifted onto another subject, then one of them said, "When you feel you stuck in the never, come back to the now."

    In that instant, everything changed. I understood what had been only a distant concept before. When you can, however briefly, rest in the present moment -- with all its awkwardness, with all its fear, with all its discomfort -- in time you come to realize you don't have to be swept away in all that.

    You might even be surprised to discover something precious. I'll always be grateful to that stranger for being my teacher.

    @Jaden3

    EverydayMoggie, to random
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    It is very weird to think that actuaries might be the ones to shake our large institutions out of their complacency on climate change.

    "The people who control the world's money rely on financial risk assessors to give them accurate data about future scenarios that could adversely affect their vast portfolios. The message coming from those risk assessors right now is...your money is in grave danger if the world does not act urgently to mitigate the worst consequences of our rapidly warming climate. Now a new report sets the challenge out in painful detail."
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A8YIc6Ru6g

    dnc, to Korea
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    Could anyone help me with the instructions on this? https://www.diningandcooking.com/1336371/could-anyone-help-me-with-the-instructions-on-this/

    EverydayMoggie,
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    I can't read it but I can tell you the instructions are in Japanese, not Korean.

    @dnc

    ai6yr, (edited ) to cycling

    Random question of the day: I think I need a new helmet (the pads are all falling apart, and I have not been a huge fan of the chin strap), what are people's favorites? I'm not racing anywhere, just need a good reliable helmet for going around town. I'm pretty sure the ones we have are Target specials, LOL. I should have asked for . (Update: after determining I was using an unsafe, 2013-era helmet which was falling apart, ended up with a Bontrager WaveCel, which was the best rating in a mid-price at my local bike shop. They did have the Specialized Align II, which is very highly rated and only $50)

    EverydayMoggie,
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    Don't really have a personal recommendation, but you can see data about which helmets are worth buying here: https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/bicycle-helmet-ratings.html

    @ai6yr

    futurebird, to random
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    Did anyone else think "farcical" was spelled "fartsical" when you were a kid?

    EverydayMoggie,
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    I didn't.

    But the first time I encountered the word "invalid" in the sense of a sick person, I sat there puzzling over why being ill would make someone not valid.

    @futurebird

    futurebird, to random
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    If people had less access to high voltage electricity, but many sources for low voltage DC (24V and under)

    Would it still be possible to manufacture silicon conductors using more people and different machines?

    Basically, could you do it with machines powered by small batteries?

    eg. off the grid.

    EverydayMoggie,
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    I think the answer might depend on what you mean by silicon conductors. If you're talking about something like the chips that make our current generation of computers run, not a chance. The machinery needed is so complex there's literally one company in the world that makes it, and it takes a ridiculous amount of power.

    @futurebird

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