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So I've been a science teacher, museum guide, freelance writer, software dev, software product manager, network admin, and for a long time now a business trainer. And I run SFF conventions.
Member: #tootfinder.

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ZachWeinersmith, to random
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So, 10-year-old started learning how to convert things to scientific notation, and at first I was skeptical of what the point was, but it's surprisingly good for solidifying ideas about how to push exponents around.

nitpicking,
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@ZachWeinersmith Up next, the incredibly useful idea of dimensional analysis!

dancingdogs, to H5N1
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison squirted raw H5N1-containing milk from infected cows into the throats of anesthetized laboratory mice, finding that the virus caused systemic infections after the mice were observed swallowing the dose. The illnesses began quickly, with symptoms of lethargy and ruffled fur starting on day 1. On day 4, the animals were euthanized to prevent extended suffering.

#h5n1 #usa #news #canada

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/after-mice-drink-raw-h5n1-milk-bird-flu-virus-riddles-their-organs/

nitpicking,
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@dancingdogs Mice seem to much more susceptible to H5N1 strains adapted to birds than humans are. I am not suggesting raw milk is a good idea, because it objectively is not. For one thing, I don't really want to catch or spread tuberculosis, either.

nitpicking, to random
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Donald Trump makes more empty legal threats, this time against the makers of the movie The Apprentice.
https://wapo.st/3ywyJiP
Paywall lowered for this article.

mitchw, to random
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I’m turning my home office upside down looking for my passport and have not found it. But I have found nine iPhone cases and one iPad case for devices of various sizes and vintage that I no longer own.

nitpicking,
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@mitchw I have a foreign trip planned for summer. I'm so paranoid, I have checked for my passport five or six times already. It's still exactly where I left it.

elithebearded, to random
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Never Kink? I've seen the Internet, I'm sure someone has this kink.

nitpicking,
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@elithebearded Did you notice the word for forcing sex included in their branding, too?

nitpicking, (edited )
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@elithebearded Consider the letters 6-9 in "TEKNORAPEX"

nitpicking,
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@elithebearded

I think it's meant to be
TEKNOR
APEX
They didn't separate the words enough, though. Shades of whorepresents.com?

mitchw, to random
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nitpicking,
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@mitchw The line, "Our collar arouses sexy girls" sounds more like BDSM porn than a clothing ad, doesn't it?

geerlingguy, to random
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lol glad I use DuckDuckGo, wouldn't want to be eating rocks now
https://infosec.exchange/@howelloneill/112492876811138145

nitpicking,
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@geerlingguy Is that a joke about gizzards?

WorMP3, to DuckDuckGo
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Can someone tell me what is going on with ?

nitpicking,
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@WorMP3 Yes. In fact, the answer has already been posted dozens of times on Mastodon. The default DDG search uses Bing. Bing is down. DDG can't get any results. Neither can other Bing-dependent services like Ecosia.

jackyan, to DuckDuckGo
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Bingo! Or -go! , , , and down? I hope a ton of people are switching to @Mojeek today. https://mojeek.com

nitpicking,
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@jackyan @Mojeek Yahoo! is fine. It vampires Google results, not Bing.

sknob, to DuckDuckGo French
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startpage.com seems to be working.

startpage.com a l’air de fonctionner.

https://www.startpage.com/

nitpicking,
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@sknob Yeah, at last report Startpage was reselling Google results, as opposed to DDG reselling Bing.

robchapman, to random
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Dogpile is also down,

Why are these engines all tied to bloody Bing for heavens sake.

nitpicking,
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@robchapman Because it's cheap/free and clearly good enough, since so many people are using DDG.

The thing is, DDG can do Google searches with !g. Why couldn't it fail over to Google when Bing is down? (Answer: it could, but the developers didn't bother writing the 20 lines of code needed.)

masknerd, to random
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The good news is that @trishgreenhalgh, and many others wrote a great piece that highlights masks work. The bad news is that the laws of physics still work everywhere else too, especially those involving bicycles and immovable objects.

nitpicking,
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@masknerd
Damn. I'm so sorry to see that you're injured. It seems unlikely random internet denizens can help you, but let us know, OK?

markmetz, to random
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bUt rUzzia feElz THREATENED! tHey hAz nO cHoiCe!

nitpicking,
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@markmetz Poland conquered Moscow once, they most certainly have attacked Russia. It was in the early 1600s. Sweden had just conquered Moscow a couple of years earlier.

Russia's culture enshrines fear of attacks by their neighbors because this happened. European and American forces were operating in the country as recently as 100 or so years ago--and yes, that's recent to them.

I know that modern Sweden won't invade modern Russia, but Russia doesn't really believe it.

randahl, to random
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Today I saw a number, which I will never forget.

During this war, Russia has launched 5628 Shahed-136 drones towards Ukraine.

That is 5628 times, civilians have heard a buzzing moped engine in the sky, and seen the Shahed-136 strike a civilian home, a power plant, or a school with its 50 kilogram warhead.

For comparison, Hitler struck London with 2857 V1 and V2 rockets — half as many.

I simply do not know what to tell future generations when they ask, why we did not stop the Russian terror.

nitpicking,
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Hey, namesake @randahl Is it worth mentioning that the German V1 and V2 weapons had 1/2 and 1 ton warheads, vs. the 50kg one of the Shaheed?

nitpicking,
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@randahl Fair. For whatever reason, I didn't see that one.

nitpicking, to coffee
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How hard would it be to genetically modify plants to not produce caffeine? This would allow decaf coffee to taste the same as current coffee with no special treatments.

davidbrin, to random
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Donation today, completing gallon . It's not for everyone. But if you feel okay about it, well, it does some good. And I think it vitalizes the donor! (I use my local blood bank, not Red Cross, but it amounts to the same thing.)
www.redcrossblood.org

nitpicking,
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@davidbrin Nice work. I just made my 113th donation myself. (I do platelets, so I can donate more often than a whole-blood donor.) I wonder if the New York Blood Center, where I donate, does anything for 15 gallons.

jdnicoll, to random
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The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

Post-apocalyptic coming-of-age in theocratic Labrador.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/re-birth

nitpicking,
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@jdnicoll I remember as a much younger person, trying to read that and just bouncing right off.

nitpicking,
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@wattevans Our tastes overlap, but are not the same. You like horror, for instance, and almost all of it leaves me cold.

mitchw, to random
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I do not often work in Microsoft Word, and when I do, I remember why.

WORD: “You’ve been writing this document in a 12-point font. 10-point font from now on!”
ME: “Why are you doing this?”
WORD: “I was bored.”

nitpicking,
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@mitchw My favorite Word thing is when a long document suddenly moves one of your illustrations 39 pages up, and you have to do a weird hide-and-seek game to find it and put it back where it was.

laurahelmuth, to random
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Fun fun fun: Beluga whales have a lump on their forehead called a "melon" that they shake, wiggle, thrust and bump to communicate https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/belugas-flirt-and-fight-by-morphing-their-squishy-forehead/

nitpicking,
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@laurahelmuth All the toothed whales have a melon, from the smallest harbor porpoise to the sperm whale.

spamless, to CrystalsHashtags
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"Only" 82 reps today, and I'm not going to do a second or third set. Here are the last four from this set. Last week, I had 95. But I injured my right shoulder last week – tore some muscle fiber in the upper tricep area — and it needs to heal


https://www.instagram.com/reel/C63n1-Nouo0/?igsh=MWoyMzV1NW1xbXkwdA==

nitpicking,
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@spamless I hurt myself doing core exercises about 8 years ago. I have an old left shoulder injury from a fall in the 1990s that I aggravated by overdoing. I'm still being careful with that one when I do stuff like side planks. I hope you heal fast.

thisisskaly, to random
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Imagine talking to your friend about how your brother just died and your bestie was raped mutilated and kidnapped and then them screaming at you HOW DARE YOU CRY ABOUT YOUR BROTHER AND RAPED FRIEND WHNE THERE ARE KIDS DYING IN AFRICA

This is how Israeli Jews feel every day we talk about our lived trauma and people respond with WHAT ABOUT THE PALESTINIANS as if their very real pain makes ours meaningless

nitpicking,
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@thisisskaly The problem is that your current PM is using the hideous and horrific tragedy of the Hamas attacks to justify the much worse (in scale at the least) damage being done to your neighbors. That links the two in people's minds.

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