Alex Gerberding

@clickspring1 @clockandwatchuk

How many holes were there in the calendar ring of the #Antikythera mechanism? New studies published in the peer reviewed Horological Journal @clockandwatchuk from Woan & Bayley bit.ly/3W25FZN and separately, Malin & Dickens bit.ly/3XDbjTl find 354 most likely.

@kchristine Did you have any skyline chili?

@ShadowRealm_Art @_MRONO_ @engineers_feed Google image search "degloving accidents". Wearing gloves around rotational tools is a big no-no.

@_MRONO_ @engineers_feed But if the saw stops/pause/or goes down, then wouldn't it work? Rather than hurting yourself by not wearing gloves. I'm just exploring an additional safety precaution.

SawStop is cool technology, saves fingers. How it works: The blade carries a small electrical signal. When skin contacts the blade, the signal changes because the human body is conductive. The change to the signal activates the safety system.

@datavortex I'm celebrating by fostering hate for the FDA!

@kchristine Wrapping presents is also my love language. Already have the guest room bed filled with wrapping to do for the neighbors.

@datavortex @petersuderman The hobbit trilogy would have been infinitely better as a single movie.

FURY ROAD is pretty straightforwardly the best movie of the 10s, right? What are the other contenders?

@datavortex Ahhh but the $64k question now is "Can I yell it in a crowded theater?"

@datavortex The medical industrial complex is going to do whatever it can to distract us from the fact that every facet of the entire system is perverse and broken in more ways than can be counted. This is just the topic dujour.

@datavortex I'd like to see a man-in-the-street style interview asking people to indicate on an unlabeled map exactly which river and sea they are referring to. And then pressed on what that implies. These people are just regurgitating phrases they have no frame of reference for.

@datavortex Multiculturalism has "utterly failed". - Angela Merkel over a decade ago. I remember when she said it. I was shocked.

@themortal_coil @HammarProd @bradflix86 @EdKrassen That's a much better primer of what a ghost gun actually is I think, a lot of people have misconceptions about what actually makes a gun a gun. People should know a ghost gun takes more money or skill than one would think.

@bagpiper03 @HammarProd @bradflix86 @EdKrassen Dear god 🤣

BREAKING The US Supreme Court has just left the federal ban on “ghost guns” in place. Do you support the Supreme Court’s decision? The Supreme court voided the lower court’s order meaning the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’ regulations that were put into effect requiring the disassembled parts of these ghost guns must have serial numbers on them, and anyone buying the parts must pass a background check. To me this is common sense, right?

@HammarProd @themortal_coil @bradflix86 @EdKrassen wired.com/2015/06/i-made…

@themortal_coil @bradflix86 @EdKrassen That would be really entertaining to watch. I suggest everyone do some research and see what buying or building a gun actually entails.

@datavortex Finally something non-controversial we can all agree on!

@datavortex Are you over there having some kind of religious experience?

@datavortex I wonder about those people and others who work in govt jobs. It seems to attract a certain type of person. Do they start out moribund or are they slowly suffocated by a lifetime of bureaucracy and having to work with the public?

@datavortex The article does a good job of listing their failures, initially labelling phenylephrine as effective was probably one of them. So to be fair, perhaps they're getting it right this time? Oral PE is a placebo at best and a snake oil waste of money at worst.

@datavortex Walmart greeter or running the country, your choice gramps!

@datavortex It would be far less unethical if the joke were actually funny. Do better, ChatGPT.

@datavortex A write-in for Citizens United.

@datavortex Can't remember if already asked you but what's your itinerary?