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In simplest possible terms: 1. Mask up & clean the air in all public spaces. 2. Nuclear energy and renewables wherever feasible. Failure to do 1 = not enough abled folks to do 2. Failure to do 2 = not enough energy to grow food & survive changing climate.

@defnotbeka The hardest part of climbing is crushing a box of Hagoromo beforehand

my brain dead self looked and this and thought "damn howd all your chalk get crushed???" and then i remembered its climbing chalk not blackboard chalk so it was always crushed lmfao

@defnotbeka Reminds me of how annoying it is to watch something and hear birds that aren't native to the filming location. At least lie accurately! No dedication to the craft

really? you want me to believe you managed to capture the sound of that fish's eye moving, isolated from the surrounding ocean? no. that's the sound of jello being squished between your fingers, fuck off

modern nature documentaries are saturated with ridiculous foley work for the nature sounds that they never managed to capture its all so ridiculous sounding

there is no excuse anymore, someone has to build the Google Maps of the Body, where you can zoom anywhere indefinitely, all the way to individual cells and even atoms, with the whole thing procedurally animated in a No Man's Sky-like fashion

@krismicinski Home manager is honestly kinda cursed. What were you trying to do?

Staff shortages are because of Covid. Rising disability is because of Covid. Excess deaths are because of Covid. Failing schools are because of Covid. The normalization of illness is because of Covid. And, your inability to connect any of these things is also because of Covid

If vaccines really cause autism why doesn’t the US have better trains

When they forced us to come back in person at least masks were mandatory. Came late 2021 and masks were gone. Zoom classes were forbidden by my university's adminstration (even if the prof was willing to do it, they couldn't). I asked them this:

This honestly gets a lot of people. Ok so you have two elevators, one has 10 people with COVID in it, the other has 2 people with COVID in it. Is your chance of becoming infected the same no matter which elevator you ride? No- because viral quanta matters. Infection probability is dose-dependent. That's why HEPA, ventilation, KN95 masks work- because any time you decrease the pathogen load in a space, you decrease the chances of infection. This is why you don't need 99.9% inactivation with a billion dollars worth of Far-UVC- because even moderately reducing inhaled viral quanta greatly reduces infection risk. Instead of flipping a coin and "Heads" you get infected, you are rolling a D20 and "1" gets you infected. Mitigations change the odds in your favor- how much depends on which. Landing on "1" doesn't mean they don't work. It means the universe runs on math. A child at school is exposed to a far higher quanta of bioaerosols per liter of inhaled air- and from far more potential sources, than they typically are at home. If they are at home, there are four or five sources, and if those sources are masking outside, the risk at home is far, far lower than at school. Moving your car in your driveway without putting your seatbelt on- while not completely safe, does not negate having worn your seatbelt for your entire commute. Probability just does not work that way.

@no_earthquake (Enthusiastically misunderstanding) I’m assembling a team to cover over America’s hostile architecture with beautiful Persian brickwork

we need to invent freemasonry but woke

Is anyone in my network a technical writer that’s looking for work?

@krismicinski The grievance crowd cannot be reasoned with. The unfortunate reality is that much of the country will have to go through cultural reeducation programs, if there’s anything left when they’re done with the unimpeded deconstruction.

With LLM-assisted development, you steer a team of competent, eager devs who listen without always comprehending your intent. You sometimes need to be very specific with your instructions, and you must always read carefully. Kinda like "regular" coding!

@ThosVarley Both can be true, and this seems to be what much of the recent scholarship points to

This is in an important question b/c the result influence how to think about the long-term impacts of circulating COVID. If COVID is uniquely bad, we're boned, but if it turns out that actually the viral status quo is worse than we understood, things might not change that much.

There's a whole slew of papers showing that COVID is bad for all your bodily systems, in various ways. I wonder though: is this unique to COVID, or are viruses in general actually much much worse than we thought, and are only just now looking at the new virus in particular?

@defnotbeka Yeah there are a few other options that would've made more sense. Now that I think of it, Rotterdam is also a pretty weird choice here.

@proof_construct or Montreal

Calgary as a center of power of the west??? what universe is Kirk living in lol

Artists can do it, why not doctors?

The legal case against the establishment continues to build.

If you can’t have nuclear, you’re more dependent on oil, and burning all the oil all the time is just about the dumbest thing our species does.

@defnotbeka Looks like Dynamic Fire to me!

well that's one way to do it

We must beware the retributive urge, and always seek dialogue towards reconciliation and better futures.