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ariaflame

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I'm interested in clean #energy, #SFF media, #languages, #craft, #games (She/her). I live in #WesternAustralia. I did my degree in #Physics and I focus on energy reduction, storage and clean generation now.

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Nonilex, to Law
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Tues 28 May 2024 🧵 to Begin in

faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection w/a payment made to a porn star to influence the 2016 election. The case could be in the jury’s hands as early as Wed.


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/28/nyregion/trump-trial-closing-arguments?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

ariaflame,
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@Nonilex So is he arguing that he did do legal work or not?

Nonilex, to Virginia
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fines tech firm over ‘’ job posting

A Virginia-based tech company will pay >$38k in penalties for posting a ad that only sought to hire White US citizens, the Dept announced.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/27/employment-discrimination-arthur-grand/

ariaflame,
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@Nonilex Ahhh they didn't mean to say the quiet part out loud... I wonder if the person who posted on the site fully did that deliberately?

alexkidman, to australia
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Today in scams, a dodgy MyGov email with a handy QR code to help you log in and claim an early tax refund!

Which is, of course, a SCAM. A total and absolute scam.

#Australia #MyGov #Scams #Privacy #Security

https://alexreviewstech.com/got-a-qr-code-for-a-mygov-tax-refund-its-a-scam/

ariaflame,
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@alexkidman One of the notable things about myGov is how it only ever contacts you without a link to say 'we put something in your myGov inbox'

RickiTarr, to random
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I used to babysit a lot, and I was kind of famous for getting kids to try foods they normally wouldn't. I was never pushy about it, just included them in the shopping/harvesting/cooking process, and asked them to try a little bite of everything, and to remember that your tastebuds change as you age, so keep on trying stuff.

This backfired on me occasionally though. Once as an adventure, we went to a Japanese restaurant, and I ordered the kiddos some Katsu (who doesn't love something fried with dippy sauce), and got myself a plate of sushi rolls and sashimi. Well, since I always asked them to try one bite of something new, they looked at me expectantly, so I let them try a bit of each. Turns out they were all in for sushi, and those little nerds ate most of my plate, and then they always wanted to go. Kids, I don't have sushi money every day!

ariaflame,
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@RickiTarr What is sushi money? As in what is the average price of say 2 nigiri?

ariaflame,
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@RickiTarr Ahh. So depending on how hungry I am, maybe $20 Australian.

ariaflame,
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@RickiTarr I think that's about $15 USA dollars. Haven't checked recently.

ariaflame,
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@RickiTarr Of course that will be my total in Australia since we don't have the tipping culture.

ariaflame, to random Scottish Gaelic
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Hmm, I'm getting errors in trying to search with duck duck go on Firefox, anyone else have this issue?

aral, to Israel
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Joe Biden could still turn this around and not lose to Trump by defunding Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. If he doesn’t, there will be only person to blame for Joe Biden losing to Trump in six months and that’s Joe “I am a Zionist” Biden.

ariaflame,
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@aral It's the GOP that are zionists, they're the dominionists and ones that want the apocalpyse to start there. But you go ahead and keep showing that you understand nothing of international or domestic politics.

johncarlosbaez, to random
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Chemistry is like physics where the particles have personalities - and chemists love talking about the really nasty ones. It makes for fun reading, like Derek Lowe's column "Things I Won't Work With". For example, bromine compounds:

"Most any working chemist will immediately recognize bromine because we don't commonly encounter too many opaque red liquids with a fog of corrosive orange fumes above them in the container. Which is good."

And that's just plain bromine. Then we get compounds like bromine fluorine dioxide.

"You have now prepared the colorless solid bromine fluorine dioxide. What to do with it? Well, what you don't do is let it warm up too far past +10C, because it's almost certainly going to explode. Keep that phrase in mind, it's going to come in handy in this sort of work. Prof. Seppelt, as the first person with a reliable supply of the pure stuff, set forth to react it with a whole list of things and has produced a whole string of weird compounds with brow-furrowing crystal structures. I don't even know what to call these beasts."

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/higher-states-bromine

ariaflame,
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@mansr @BartoszMilewski @johncarlosbaez But true

augieray, to random
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Same energy:

"I'm angry at my knee pain, so I'm going to let cancer spread throughout my body. That'll show my knee!"

"I'm so angry at Biden, I'm going to let Trump destroy democracy, demolish the environment, weaken our allies, and dismantle healthcare. That'll show the Democrats!"

ariaflame,
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@slim @augieray You're not risking your privilege though. You're risking other people's lives. And it's only a valid strategy if it has any hope of improving things.

ariaflame,
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@slim @augieray It will be a higher rate if Trump gets in. Because he doesn't care. That Biden is walking a tightrope of established alliances and foreign policy and not waving a magic wand and doing what you want doesn't mean he's not trying. Trump will kowtow to Putin and the Ukrainians will die. He will pander to Bibi and Palestinians will die more.

steely_glint, to random
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Thanks to @saghul for the perfect illustration of the problems with chatGPT:

ariaflame,
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@steely_glint @the_moep But it doesn't understand it, it just has strong matches statistically between kg and kilogram. That's it. It doesn't know what they mean. It just generates words based on statistical models based on what humans wrote (though now it's probably choking on its own products). It's like trying to work out the height of a particular person by getting the average of all the heights of all the people.

dgar, to random
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ariaflame,
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@dgar I don't think it's fat. I think it's muscle.

luciedigitalni, to random
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Today's random bonus item in my Woolies delivery is a $46 bottle of magnesium tablets

ariaflame,
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@luciedigitalni @mativity I wonder who is looking through their order wondering where their magnesium is.

ariaflame,
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@msdropbear42 @luciedigitalni @mativity Oh it's not your problem at all. If the store made the mistake it's up to them to make it up to whoever ordered them.

KenExline, to random
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I think that all of Europe supports this banner considering his stand on Ukraine and NATO.

ariaflame,
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@KenExline I like the other sign too.

ariaflame, to random Scottish Gaelic
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I really wish I was not living in interesting times.

timrichards, to Eurovision
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Mamma mia! Who else is getting up at 5am on Sunday 12 May to watch the final?

Eurovision 2024: Australia returns to the fold with Electric Fields

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/mamma-mia-here-we-go-again-australia-is-back-in-the-eurovision-fold-20240430-p5fnkl.html

ariaflame,
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@timrichards Probably not since that's 3am my time.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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Study suggests lingering coronavirus in tissues may contribute to long COVID symptoms.

"The persistence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in tissues from multiple organs was observed at several time points following COVID-19 recovery. Nevertheless, viral detection was markedly lower at 4 months, thus suggesting a slow but adequate viral clearance."

Source: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20240425/Study-suggests-lingering-coronavirus-in-tissues-may-contribute-to-long-COVID-symptoms.aspx

Study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)00171-3/fulltext

@auscovid19

ariaflame,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 Is that why getting vaccinated helped some people with long covid? Assistance in viral cleaning?

mrundkvist, to solar
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The EU Solar Standard will require roof-top solar panels on:

  • new commercial and public buildings by 2026,
  • commercial and public buildings that undergo a relevant renovation by 2027,
  • new residential buildings by 2029,
  • existing public buildings by 2030.

ariaflame,
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@mrundkvist Are they able to use the European network to find users for the excess electricity generated or are they also implementing storage solutions?

timrichards, to random
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Tried stringing along a scammer calling from "Telstra" and she hung up in the middle of the call. Don't know what's going on there, I try to sound meek and agreeable but they somehow suss me out. What should I be doing to waste more of their time?

ariaflame,
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@timrichards I've used similar but used grandmother (which in some cultures are the ones with the moral authority in the family)

scottsantens, to random
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At the federal level, taxation does not fund anything. It doesn't go from your wallet to the government to be spent again. It gets deleted. Taxes delete money to counteract the spending (that is always new money) that would otherwise be more inflationary.

https://www.scottsantens.com/how-money-is-born-out-of-public-spending-and-dies-by-taxes-mmt/

ariaflame,
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@scottsantens So the distribution of how my taxes are spent that I get is a lie then?
And whether money is 'new' or 'old' is fairly irrelevant. There's nothing magical about money that's recently printed.

elizabethtasker, to random
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Who wants to name an ?

... and where do those alphabet soup monikers come from?

The Science Museum in London has published a blog post on asteroid naming, and describing the campaign to name asteroid 2001 CC21!

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/want-a-chance-to-name-an-asteroid/

ariaflame,
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@elizabethtasker folk law or folklore?

capntransit, to random
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WNYC's Rosemary Misdary interviewed some random labor relations professor as an authority on reducing emissions in New York City. And because of Misdary's elite bias, the conversation was all about making taxpayers pay for charging stations for electric cars in a city where the majority doesn't own cars.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/electric-vehicles-make-1-nyc-cars-will-epa-emissions-crackdown-spark-boom/

ariaflame,
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@capntransit Electric buses. Electric taxis. But likely not the taxpayer that should foot the bill.

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