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.
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.
@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.
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.
@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.
@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.
@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.)
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.
@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.
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.