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WellsiteGeo

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Professional geologist ; Fellow of the Geological Society ; Aberdeen University, class of '87.

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cstross, to random
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Reminder that "pronatalism" is a "rationalist" response to white supremacist fears about a conspiracy to "replace" them, and if this is surfacing in silicon valley now then it's been bubbling under for a decade or two (those large families take time to make, especially if interracial adoption and fertility treatments are a no-no for the neo-nazis).
https://awful.systems/comment/3464560

WellsiteGeo,
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@cstross
I vaguely knew about the Nazi's tendency to big families, but I'd never associated them with fear/ rejection of assisted conception before.
Seems odd - if there's only this [fingertips a gnat's crotchet apart] many suitable breeding stock, why NOT use every trick in the urologist's turkey baster bag to make new Hitler Youth?

cstross, to random
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"Visionaries at NASA identified a futuristic new energy source (space billionaire egos) and found a way to tap it on a fixed-cost basis"— ouch!

The Lunacy of Artemis (Idle Words), or why the Artemis moon program is incoherent, badly designed bollocks that will probably kill astronauts.
https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm

WellsiteGeo,
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@bsdphk @hittitezombie @glitzersachen @ovid @cstross The NSA had very similar errors in some of their "Keyhole" spy satellites, but because it was in black-budget items, they kept it hidden.
Their opticians weren't allowed to talk to the Hubble opticians to pass on the lessons learned.

quixoticgeek, to random
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A friend of mine is a Doctor. On the train this morning on their way to work the call comes out. "Do we have any doctors on board?".

Finally. Friend grabs their bag and makes way through the train. Only to find 14 other doctors had done the same thing...

Guess that route is popular with medical staff on their way to work...

WellsiteGeo,
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@Zamfr @eris2cats @cstross @quixoticgeek
Let me tell you the tale of a North Sea platform with a dozen plus other fields passing through it's pumping system, a clearly labelled "Field Shutdown Button" behind TWO layers of "molly guard", and a platform manager called "Dumbfuck Kevin" ... what, you've guessed?

WellsiteGeo,
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@quixoticgeek
Do doctors still try to travel with their tools and drugs in a bag?
I've had enough problems with a pair of (admittedly fine-tip) forceps and a hand lens. They go as hold-baggage now.

cstross, to random
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Fuck Starmer.

The man's a Pink Tory, a reactionary in a Labour rosette. (Also transphobic, racist, and probably homophobic on top—he just keeps the lid on it in public.)
https://mastodon.online/@zzypt/112415113979879102

WellsiteGeo,
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@themself @cstross
But that would mean brown-skinned people in Britain, which idea the Tory party cannot stomach.

cstross, to random
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Dammit I have to watch a movie and take notes (for research purposes) and my weird-ass headmeat is screaming DON'T WANNA

At least it wasn't filmed this century so the camerawork and colour balance isn't going to turn it into a smeary beige blur in front of my (damaged) eyeballs.

WellsiteGeo,
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@darkobserver @cstross

I think the absence of fun is rather the point.

Would a dictaphone (plus anti-shouting-at-the-TV headphones for Menhit) help on the "making notes" front?

petealexharris, to random
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Work are letting us try out this monitor, which looks like a joke image begging for a caption, but is actually a real thing somebody thought needed to be made.

WellsiteGeo,
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@petealexharris
I saw my first real-world use case for curved ultra-wide screens last week : a bank of slot machines against a pub wall. Similar models, curved screens aligned so an average punter can see the whole screen in one view.

Pretty niche, but a valuable niche.

WellsiteGeo, to random
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Ohhh, that is going to hurt!

Anyone taking bets on how long until they declare bankruptcy? As if that would relieve the reinstatement Order.

BBC News - Crooked House: Owners of wonky pub ordered to rebuild
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-68414524

WellsiteGeo, to random
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Oops. I just made the "don't call me Shirley" joke, and attributed it to Dennis Neilson.

The mass-murderer, not Leslie Neilson, the "Airplane" etc actor.

Is that a Freudian slit ... of the throat, dismember the body and block the drains?

parismarx, to tech
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After spreading “white genocide” myths and demonizing migrants, there’s no denying it: Elon Musk is a racist.

But he’s been pushing racist ideas in a less overt way for years. He dismissed racist abuse in his factories or pushed eugenic ideas about population levels. We need to reckon with why so may were unwilling to call it out sooner.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-is-a-racist

WellsiteGeo,
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@parismarx
"Eugenics" as a concept is not intrinsically about population levels, it's about changing population composition. Eugenicists want more of this group and fewer of that group.
Whether the overall population level changes is at most a secondary concern.

Most of the time, eugenicists want more of their group (however they identify), but that's not guaranteed about an eugenicist's ideas. Would a Parisian Marxist, for example, promote increased numbers of Bordeaux Trots?

baldur, to random
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“Google Bard hits over 180 countries and territories—none are in the EU - Ars Technica”

"there’s suspicion that the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is at the center of the omission."

Not following privacy regulation limits your market reach. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/google-bard-hits-over-180-countries-and-territories-none-are-in-the-eu/

WellsiteGeo,
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@baldur "That co would obviously and unquestionably be dysfunctional and in terminal decline" Dysfunctional, yes. But not necessarily in terminal decline. They could continue to function until they'd killed off a large proportion of their "susceptible" population.
Companies exist to make money, not to serve people - particularly under American law.

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