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Venezuelan migrant.
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Climate evangelist.
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mzedp, to Houston
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mzedp, to Houston
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mzedp, to random Spanish
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"Leaving money on the table" is not the same as losing money.

In the US it is regarded as such. Which, in my opinion, is why every establishment sells "merch" with their brand.

If you can sell something, not doing so is a sin.

I'm sure plenty of restaurants in Europe would profit from doing something similar, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a restauranteur who'd see the value in it - and it could even negatively impact peoples impressions of them ("sell outs"/"lack of focus").

mzedp, to fuckcars
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Looking at modern American cities, and at photos of General Motors' "Futurama" exhibit - where they promoted their utopic view of a future in which everyone was their customer - it's clear that GM succeeded in pushing through with their vision.

Modern American cities look very much like the models they presented there.

They were razed and re-made, not according to the will of their citizens but that of a handful of corporate profiteers.

Photograph of a scale model of heavily congested streets cutting through some modernist looking buildings. The buildings have walkways that connect them above road level, providing walk-ability for the people above - something missing in modern inceptions. The people remain conveniently oblivious to the noise and toxic fumes.
Photo of a scale model of a "Business district", showing high rise buildings separated by massive highways.

ai6yr, to random

Advice my mom once gave me: "Don't appear too smart. People don't like smart people."

mzedp,
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@ai6yr I get that this is an anti-intellectual culture, one that beats down the different and mandates adherence to a normative stupidity, and that keeping your head down is an effective protective measure - but shit won't change until you make it change.

I know speaking my mind does not make me popular, but I don't care.

Contorting yourself into some imposed behavior that you would not have freely chosen is not freedom.

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This article is one enormous [citation needed]

> “I’m more optimistic because we have been using the tool a lot, and some of the insights we’re starting to get from a scientific standpoint are things that none of our scientists were aware of,” he added.

Moderna CEO says AI will help scientists understand ‘most diseases’ in 3 to 5 years | Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/18/2024/moderna-ceo-says-ai-will-help-understand-most-diseases-in-3-to-5-years

mzedp,
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@trochee I'm sure AI will be useful for scientific research.

I've already seen some applications, such as chemists using it to sift through troves of data to come up with novel compounds. I'm sure other applications will come up.

But still, even if it helps understand known diseases that's no guarantee we'll have a cure.

stshank, to MIjazz
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Big personal news: after 25 years at CNET, I’ve joined Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a startup developing zero-carbon power plants to help fight climate change. As head of content, I'll work to make knowledge of fusion mainstream as the technology proves itself worthy. Questions? Hit me up! Details: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7187102636267995138/

mzedp,
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@stshank What if it doesn't prove itself worthy? How will you measure it? Will you own up to it?

mzedp, to news
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"The camels had arrived to replace the cows."

In response to changing climate Kenyan herders are turning to camels to replace cattle.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2024/camel-milk-drought-climate-change-kenya/

mzedp, to random
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Seeing a Stanford lecture - the professor jokes about a student being on their fourth try at passing the course.

This is not uncommon. Failing and repeating courses is a part of learning. I know I failed a few.

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But in a country where university education is so prohibitively expensive as to be out of reach of most people, it's a clear display of the extreme privilege some have.

For some failing a course will mean losing their position and opportunity to reach some level of prosperity.

For others it's a non-issue.

It should not be this way.

We should all have the same freedom.

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Crazy how there are Filipinos who still buy skin-whitening products. It's a level of racism that's just so sad because you're being racist against yourself

mzedp,
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@faticake @teacherbuknoy @moonwalkerwiz @luthien1126

This is what I was telling you - they put brides through a "whitening" process by putting them in a dark room for months before the wedding - and apparently they also do it when a girl first gets her period.

Don't know if this tradition is pre-colonial, but since this community was never really colonized I would suspect it is.

https://wayuuatodopulmon.blogspot.com/2012/11/el-blanqueo-paso-de-nina-mujer.html

https://www.radionacional.co/cultura/los-matrimonios-wayuu-y-sus-costumbres

mzedp,
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@luthien1126 @faticake @teacherbuknoy @moonwalkerwiz I think in any society where you have some people working fields doing manual labor, and other people working indoors doing intellectual labor, the association between lighter skin and being well-off could happen naturally.

mzedp, to random
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Apparently you can make telescope grade mirrors by spraying a couple of chemicals on clean glass.

Guess mirror making is back in the plans.

I found this guide describing the process, but they didn't seem to know the chemistry - it being "proprietary" - which bothered me.

Fortunately, with the right keywords you can almost always find a paper explaining the process.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1388248123000875#f0025

Screenshot of the guide: How to spray silver a telescope mirror How to Spray Silver a Telescope Mirror Howard Banich and Peter Pekurar In 1857, Karl August von Steinheil and Léon Foucault (yes, that Léon Foucault) developed the process to deposit an optical quality silver coating on glass telescope mirrors. Although effective, it was a rather noxious process where the surface of the mirror was bathed in the silvering chemicals. In the 1930’s William Peacock developed the process of spraying the silvering chemicals on glass where they were combined in a fine spray from two nozzles, which greatly simplified the silvering procedure. This is about the same time that John Strong developed the method of depositing aluminum on glass in a vacuum chamber. Aluminum doesn’t tarnish like silver and Strong’s process quickly became the best choice for a durable telescope mirror coating. Silvering fell to the side. Several forces have come together recently to make spray silver coatings an attractive option for telescope mirrors again, especially those 12- inches and larger in diameter: ▪ The cost of aluminizing has gone up, and for a large homemade telescope it can be the single most expensive element, especially if the coating is enhanced. ▪ The spray silver technique creates a coating with very high initial reflectivity. ▪ Spray silvering techniques developed at Tinsley Labs and the University of Arizona in the 1970’s clarified the process of how to achieve

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Spray Silvering Mirrors

https://sites.google.com/site/spraysilveringtelescopemirrors/home

mzedp, to news
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Flooding around UAE international airport visible in Sentinel 2

A satellite image of UAE international airport on April 17, showing large areas surrounding the airport which were desert in the previous image now covered by large surfaces of standing water

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World's favourite cuisines. 25,000 people in 24 countries were asked which nation's food they preferred. Interesting results.
(via @yougov)

mzedp,
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@infobeautiful @yougov Excuse me, in what f"!*ing world is Peruvian cuisine less popular than Finnish cuisine?

mzedp, to random
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Buying a product or service is almost always the cheapest and fastest way to get something.

But when you buy something, you usually only learn what it costs.

Doing things yourself will be slower and more expensive, but leave you with knowledge and experience.

That is worth a lot. In my opinion, it's worth more than the time and money saved by paying someone else.

mzedp, to spiders
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One of the challenges of microphotography is that things move around a lot.

Even this spider very much trying to stand still on its net was getting shaken around violently by the wind.

mzedp, to random
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They already had construction codes, standards, and I'm guessing inspectors in the ancient Near East.

I had heard about the Code of Hammurabi, but I didn't realize it also covered professional liability and construction standards.

It's always great to remember that the people of the past were just like us in every way.

mzedp, to random Spanish
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This reminds me:

Living rooms in which no one was allowed to set foot in, full of "fancy" furniture covered in protective plastic, were a thing in Latin America (for "receiving guests").

This feels like a very archaic tradition that some people kept up - but it seems to have disappeared by now. https://wandering.shop/@daviddlevine/112275899285562061

mzedp, to Venezuela
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Elections are coming up in Venezuela, and there's a lot of people registering to vote. A lot of young people for whom this will be their first time voting.

This is what the line to register in one center in my city looks like.

Dealing with a dictatorial state is suffering a long series of indignities, small and large, in every aspect of your life.

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