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TorbjornBjorkman

@TorbjornBjorkman@mastodon.social

University lecturer of physics. Player of Music. Mostly interested.

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MissingThePt, to random
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King Charles III made his first state visit to France, focusing on environmental issues and possible invasion routes.

TorbjornBjorkman,
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@MissingThePt All was fun and games until the host discreetly let slip a "citoyen Windsor".

MissingThePt, to random
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“Neuralink implants are ready for human trials” says man whose cars spontaneously combust and rockets unexpectedly explode.

TorbjornBjorkman,
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@MissingThePt Please! The rockets do nothing so crude as "unexpectedly explode". They "unscheduledly disassemble".

You could hurt someone's feelings talking like that.

junesim63, to Finland
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    TorbjornBjorkman, (edited )
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    @miblo @junesim63 Rummaging around a little it seems that a typical number for the profit would be at least a 10 times larger than that. They boasted a record 110M€ in 2018, which was apparently 8,8% of total revenue.

    2021-22 is probably not a great timespan to look at, we commuters were still primarily working from home for much of that time.

    But I'm happy to report that with prices rising on everything, prices on train tickets have not only not risen, but have gone down.

    TorbjornBjorkman, to random
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    I just laughed so hard at this headline my family started complaining

    https://www.theonion.com/nation-could-have-sworn-russell-brand-was-already-convi-1850849838

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    OK, now they're just outdoing themselves

    https://www.theonion.com/men-s-rights-activists-defend-russell-brand-1850850435

    MissingThePt, to random
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    Russell Brand proves that it’s always the ones you least expect, and/or the ones whose careers are littered with a string of such accusations.

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @MissingThePt Firstly: You are awsome, you really are.

    Secondly: The Onion...

    https://www.theonion.com/nation-could-have-sworn-russell-brand-was-already-convi-1850849838

    RARohde, to climate
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    Berkeley Earth's August 2023 Temperature Update

    By far the warmest August since direct measurements began.

    Warmest for both land & ocean.

    Strengthening El Niño.

    Nearly certain 2023 becomes the warmest year directly measured.

    May see a +1.5 °C annual excess in 2023.

    https://berkeleyearth.org/august-2023-temperature-update/

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @RARohde I'm feeling very stupid for not knowing this already, but why is the average temperature of the Earth fluctuating over the year? Is it the northern hemisphere having less heat buffering due to having more land and less water?

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @RARohde Thank you!

    I couldn't believe it was anything else really, geometrical considerations (i.e. furthest point from the sun) would give it the variation the other way around.... but it was weirdly ungooglable, swamped in a bazillion other climate related facts.

    bensen, to ai

    This now officially marks the zenith of our civilisation. Centuries of technological progress have led you to this very generated . It‘s all downhill from here.

    video/mp4

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    @bensen wow

    Edit: just wow

    beecycling, to random
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    I feel like a rich Victorian lady today. I've changed my clothes three times and it's only lunchtime. Street clothes to go out for a walk, gym clothes to go for a workout, and now I'm in pyjama trousers and a t-shirt, but respectable enough to answer the door, cos I have a delivery due.

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @beecycling Maintaining a separate, respectable, set of slackwear for door opening days is definitely worth a small bag of Victorian lady points.

    danhon, to random
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    human culture in -> human culture out

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @danhon If this is in reference to AI training, I'd like to correct your spelling:
    human culture in > human culture out

    design_law, to random
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    D378,308 - issued in 1997 for a design for a "troll lure."

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @design_law Those were primitive times! Noone could know back then that the best way to lure a troll to bite is to post something negative about Elon Musk.

    sbarolo, to random

    We did it! The is over, and the medalists' podium looks like this:

    🥇 Garamond
    🥈 Verdana
    🥉 Cooper
    💐 Papyrus

    Bracketeers donated USD$2,262 to great charities, and pledged to give $765 to the causes chosen by top-scoring bracketeers.

    Let's see the scores: 🧵

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @sbarolo Whatever, just resolve that terrible Lobster-Pacifico tension, I strongly feel that's something we'll have to confront sooner or later.

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @sbarolo This is a futile atempt at making things a lot more simple than they really are.

    We will meet again.

    DreadShips, to random
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    Been thinking about Stonehenge a lot since visiting, and I'm of the opinion (I'm sure many will disagree) that the experience isn't as bad as it's usually made out to be.

    For one thing, the stones weren't built - or used, so far as we can tell - by a handful of people.

    Having a couple of hundred people on the perimeter, kept away from the stones and looking in, is probably closer to the prehistoric experience of it than popular imagination would expect.

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @DreadShips Perchance most visitors tend to assume that if they had lived back in the day they would obviously have been one of the high priests/master astronomers/queens/kings/whatevers who were fiddling around inside, not some nobody peasant who just got to look on...

    lawprofblawg, to random
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    I don't really believe in romantic love. But I have one exception. When a cartoon character falls in love with their love interest, I believe it.

    After all, they are drawn to each other.

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    @lawprofblawg

    video/mp4

    sbarolo, to random

    Match 56/64:

    Which typeface do you prefer? Poll is in the next toot.

    [I'm slightly jumping the gun on this one; if these two fonts aren't the winners of their current matches I'll issue a new poll.]

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @sbarolo @glightly It's good that you do though. I'd even like equally sized early rounds, because the odd ones get you thinking.

    Thoughts like, "OK, I hate Comic Sans with almost the passion which I reserve for people using it in the wrong place, but if I actually needed something like that, which font would work better?"

    video/mp4

    sbarolo, to random

    update. We're selecting the quarterfinalists

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @petnoodle @sbarolo I would have wanted to see Garamond crush TNR sooo badly...

    Ruth_Mottram, to random
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    I suffer from chronic time optimism (tidsoptimist - a Danish expression)

    I assume everything will take 1 or 2 hours. In fact, I used the 4 hour journey from Aalborg to CPH to compile some reports (financial and written), I was sure would not take more than an hour or so.
    I've probably written more than necessary and it will probably form basis of a scientific publication, but it's no wonder I always feel a bit pressed.

    Is this a common thing? How to handle it best?

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @Ruth_Mottram @FandaSin I've heard the suggestion to always multiply any time estimate by 𝛑. Because... 𝛑

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @gpk @Ruth_Mottram @FandaSin I mean, if it isn't 2𝛑 or 4𝛑 that's something to be optimistic about, right?

    MissingThePt, to random
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    Hey everyone, I’m sorry I accidentally stepped on that butterfly on November 8, 2016, everything that’s happened since is on me.

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @MissingThePt So Brexit is still on the Brits. Go figure.

    LadyDragonfly, to random

    ME: Someone needs to unplug Mitch McConnell
    THEM: Ha ha yea and then plug him back in again, right?
    ME: ...
    THEM: ...and then plug him back in again right?
    ME: Did I fucking stutter?

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @LadyDragonfly It seems like most US political discussion right now is speculations about when various Republicans will finish their sentences.

    TorbjornBjorkman, (edited )
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    @LadyDragonfly Somewhat reluctantly and belatedly boosting this, hindered by my remembrance of my stroke-stricken grandfather doing approximately that at my high school graduation.

    But: nobody gets everything, and McConnell doesn't get to both spend his life denying health care to everyone and benefit from traditional deference to dotage.

    DataDrivenMD, to random
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    Blue moons remind me that the Gregorian calendar, a product of religious colonialism, is arguably the most absurd human abstraction of time ever conceived

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @DataDrivenMD (mostly) accurate in fact but misleading in spirit. No matter how you subdivide things you will end up with something susceptible to ridicule if you demand that both the sun and the moon are represented (leap month, anyone?)
    And I would have thought that getting to something that works through the smallest possible change of the existing system is a virtue, not a flaw?

    TorbjornBjorkman,
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    @5RhythmsBen @DataDrivenMD Probably. And it's not obvious that the sun should have priority of course. Large areas of the world have rather little seasonality, but moonlight makes a big difference if you don't have streetlights.

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