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ariaflame

@ariaflame@masto.ai

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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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.

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?

RickiTarr, to random
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Yes, very few people make a living doing art, and even fewer make a living doing the art they want. Maybe this is just me, but it seems like there's something about art that is anti-fascist and anti-capitalist. Authoritarians fear self expression, arts always seem the first to go when things get more conservative, and yet it has never stopped us. If they take everything away, we will draw on cave walls with charcoal from a fire, make dolls of corn husks, carve bones into beads, make bowls of mud, write stories in blood, make musical instruments out of anything, we will remember our history through song. We will pass these things down as evidence that we could never completely be silenced, we were here, we matter.

ariaflame,
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@RickiTarr They like pretty things they can brag about their friends to, but not art, because art at its fundamentals helps us to see the world as it is, or as it could be and it's a little too much truth for authoritarians.

marcelias, to random
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Trump's campaign knows:

A vote for Robert Kennedy is a vote for Trump.
A vote for Cornel West is a vote for Trump.
A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Trump.
Not voting is a vote for Trump.

A vote for Biden is a vote for democracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/us/politics/trump-rfk-jr-biden.html

ariaflame,
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@figstick @pearlbear @marcelias No, That's Bibi. And decades of policy. So is Putin, who Trump supports. So you willing to throw Ukraine under the bus too?

steve, to random
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Found out the hard way that the hob in my new house is induction when my aluminium pans didn’t heat up last night 😭

ariaflame,
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@steve While you can get expensive ones, you can also get ones for fairly reasonable prices...

goatsarah, to random

Dear UK residents. I’m sorry to be tedious, but I’m going to do the trans Cassandra thing again.

The government is now moving towards regarding trans people as effective children until the age of 25.

This will be established as precedent and then used to screw over any and all young adults who can’t escape from abusive parents, especially young women.

If you want to do anything about this, you need to fight for trans people. Yes, you. Now.

We all know that isn’t going to happen to any significant extent though.

As you were.

ariaflame,
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@goatsarah Because of course the next step is to treat all people under 25 as effective children.

angeidhealur, to gaidhlig Scottish Gaelic
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Là Eadar-nàiseanta na Neo-sheòrsachd sona dhuibh!

@lgbtqia @gaidhlig

ariaflame,
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@angeidhealur @lgbtqia @gaidhlig Is toil leam e! Tha e bòidheach!

rbreich, to random
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Billionaires who condemned Trump are now flocking to his campaign.

It’s obvious why.

Biden wants a 25% tax on billionaires.

Trump wants to double down on tax cuts for the rich.

All they care about is lining their own pockets no matter the cost to everyone else.

ariaflame,
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@rbreich It's not as if they could ever spend everything they have now. They're so rich they couldn't. But it's not about money for them. They're so insecure it's a way for them to feel they're winning.

davidallengreen, to random
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Does international law really exist?

When it is asserted that Israel and Russia are in breach of international law, it means—or should mean—something

By me, at @prospect_uk

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/65614/does-international-law-exist-david-allen-green-israel-russia

ariaflame,
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@davidallengreen Yes. And no. It exists but enforcing it is another thing

ariaflame,
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@davidallengreen Computer a bit slow... and doing language practice

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Hey librarians!

I saw this question somewhere else, so I thought I’d ask it here.

If the you were trapped inside of your library in the dead of winter with no power or heat, which books would you burn first for warmth?

Please boost to get to more librarians!

ariaflame,
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@Mrfunkedude What, not make a bookgloo first?

rbreich, to random
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If the Kroger-Albertsons merger goes through, that combined company + Walmart would control 70% of the grocery market in over 160 cities.

Think grocery prices are bad now?

Without competition, it would be a price gouging free-for-all.

This is why the FTC is suing to stop it.

ariaflame,
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@vincedownunder @rbreich What, no Aldi near you? No farmer's market?

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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