In case you missed it, the Canadian Federal Government is taking input on its 2035 emission targets. The input closes on 28 March 2024. #ClimateAction#CanPoli#cdnpoli
@ap236@ontariogreens@onpoli Automatic renewal is probably not a bad idea. It won't be renewed if there is no insurance or if there are any fines or tickets outstanding.
We might lose out on data such as distance driven, and there's a risk that purchased used vehicles won't get registered. #ONPoli
@Auxonic@ap236@ontariogreens@onpoli We can get remote gas metres attached to the axles. I'm pretty sure some computer in your car already has distance, though, so it's just a matter of reading that securely and cheaply.
A woman posted to the intactivist group that she couldn't find posts using the keyword episiotomy and that disappointed her. Where are the people discussing adult women being cut without their consent?
I pointed out that despite her claim to have been monitoring the group for posts about women, she missed my sharing (and subsequent discussion) of an article that addressed episiotomy as well as non consensual private genital exams which mostly affect women.
@ttpphd One downside of a federated system is that if you are on a small instance, you might not see all posts on a topic if nobody on your instance follows the people making those posts. One workaround is to go to the site of a large instance and search there.
Edit: only one post on mastodon.social. They might have to go to a server that has more people interested in the topic.
February 09, 2024- “The cells in the bone marrow known as human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSC) highly express ACE2 and TMPRSS2, making them susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 during the initial infection.” “..reservoirs of viral RNA and proteins in HSC, upon HSC differentiation, remain in PBMC and lead to altered PBMC mitochondrial function through immune activation, sustained inflammation, and the symptoms seen in PASC.” - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567724924000072
@Brad ACE2 receptors are also highly concentrated in the DGAF nodule just below the hippocampus in the human brain. Activation of these receptors have been shown to positively affect complacency.
What happens if you leave some 1980s glasses with a plastic frame in a box for 40 years?
Sometimes the plastic just shatters into zillions of fragments! We found a few other plastic items (like a vinyl purse) that had turned stiff, or even some that liquified leaving sticky residue on everything nearby.
Well y'all, we did it, we got Taylor Swift to date Travis Kelce, and her magic vagina gave him the strength to win the Superbowl. Through our collective Socialism and Witchcraft, Biden will now win the election...somehow.
@gfarrell "We're flying electric helicopters on Mars yet you can't turn on your clothes dryer in Texas. That's because scientists are in charge of Mars, and republicans are in charge of Texas."
I found a decent replacement for Apple Books, but unfortunately Apple uses DRM/encryption to store the XHTML in ePubs, and Kindle uses a new-fangled book format. It’s like they want you to buy books but never read them.
@SergKoren They have to give you the encryption key so that you can actually read the books, so theoretically the encryption can be stripped. It might take some clever programming to access the key, though. I think Calibré can strip it from Kindle.
A few years later, the impact I and others wrote about Apple’s ATT has come to pass. The biggest losers have been niche mobile games and D2C e-commerce players who’ve lost targeted advertising.
Big players like Google & Meta have adapted while smaller players like Snap & Twitter haven’t. As with almost all regulation, the incumbents have the resources to adapt while its the smaller players who drown in the sea of red tape and constraints.
Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme #ClimateChange within decades, study shows
"The results showed that it’s headed in that direction. If that happened, average temperatures would drop by several degrees in North America, parts of Asia and Europe, and people would see severe and cascading consequences around the world."
@CelloMomOnCars Note that the decline is only 15% since 1950. The last collapse was at the end of the ice age, and was likely caused by a giant lake forming on an ice sheet. At some point an ice dam broke, releasing all the fresh water into the Atlantic at once. That is unlikely to happen this time. It isn't the end. We still have time to change course. But we do have to change, even if the AMOC is in no danger.
@the5thColumnist@jd Except the US. But they don't have to boil their oil to get the sand out of it, then add other people's oil to make it runny enough to flow in pipes.
Today was the first time I've heard the fans in my M2 Max MacBook Pro, thanks to Davinci Resolve. FCP has never done this even on hour+ exports. #PostChat
Markdown is a simple formatting convention that lets you show formatting intent in a readable and consistent way. So, italics, bold, and code would be formatted appropriately. https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/
I mostly use italics because I speak like Chandler Bing.
The Glitch variant of Mastodon lets you use Markdown (in the settings), and it outputs the HTML code automatically so if you read my post online you would see formatting.
@LuciferMorningstar Even if we moved to what people think the distribution is, it would be better than what it is today. This chart is from 2009, and it is undoubtedly worse today.
