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2026-07-24 13:23:44 UTC

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this map is cases per state, not cases/capita
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when educated people stop using a map like the one you use, and use a map where each state is shown proportional to population, that will be great day
NO ONE lives in Nebraska or the Dakotas or Montana

2026-06-29 12:43:29 UTC

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Children go hungry under non capitalist systems, far as I know
if you credit capitalism with the introduction of widespread vaccines and antibiotics, then capitalism has saved more children then anything else in human history
iirc, before antibiotics and vaccines, half of all children died before the age of 12
:)

2026-06-22 13:26:42 UTC

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I do wish more people who are professional climate scientists, or adjacent , would be more clear on the limits of models, eg forecasts for more then a decade or so are highly speculative, this is lost in the constant clickbait of posts

2026-06-09 13:14:27 UTC

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not sure, but if this quote from wiki is correct, the Ogallala is not yet a problem
certainly nowhere near GHG
The aquifer is at risk of over-extraction and pollution. Since 1950, agricultural irrigation has reduced the saturated volume of the aquifer by an estimated 9%.

2026-06-07 13:40:18 UTC

RE: https://worldkey.io/@LibrarianRA/116709001233229043
so much social history here
It was in this era, or shortly before, that middle class women began to cook without servants
and their kitchens became much smaller as apt living became more common
#note1d68…tg94

2026-06-02 13:32:18 UTC

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sorry, no not disputing that she was a SA
disputing what "senior advisor" means cause as I read this, "senior advisor" means she is some sort of bad person not to be trusted (roughly speaking)

2026-06-02 13:03:25 UTC

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so you take no responsibilty for what you post ?
sure, ok, that is fine, this is social media
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/680/648/338/308/174/original/b86fbc87c4fd2bd2.png

2026-06-02 12:56:47 UTC

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"senior . ." seems like McCarthyism
The US NSC is a large place, with some divergent views, and "advisor" can mean a lot of things

2026-05-30 14:00:58 UTC

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ok, I"ll bite
I know nothing about usenet but my 1st pass at google says I need an account on a provider
eg
this
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/18q7r0f/usenet_starter_guide/
led me to this, maximally unhelpful to Noob format:
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers/
which randomly led me to this, which requires US $8/month
https://www.order.giganews.com/signup/
and it is just so fucking exhausting, which I guess from your POV is good it keeps people like me out

2026-05-23 21:01:38 UTC

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surely people have a reason for saying "mastodon sucks"
and maybe some of those reasons are valid ?

2026-05-16 17:53:31 UTC

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many years ago, before Linux, I read that buried deep in the guts of UNIX is a 23 character per second PRINT command
cause that is how fast you can print on an IBM selectric without melting it
:)

2025-09-22 15:08:52 UTC

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It may sound wierd, but I no longer like "normie" journalists like you , cause you still adhere to that old thing, neutral just report the facts
we are at war, and you either take a side or become irrelevant
far as I can tell, all mainstream journos are not taking a side

2025-09-21 21:32:14 UTC

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Tom Ritchfod
I don't mind if you call me out by name
I think you are wrong, but that is another issue

2025-09-21 15:16:43 UTC

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For the US the rule is
if you call for a general strike, you get blocked, cause in the US "general strike" is idiotic
sorry, I don't make the rules

2025-09-21 14:57:25 UTC

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where does this number, 3.87 billion (suspiciously accurate) come from ??
I can't beleive we have accurate real time info on Disney revenue, are you talking about stock price ?
the market cap is about 200 billion, so a short term decline of 3.87 is well within the range of normal fluctuations
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/242/869/740/829/696/original/2d57fa019d260744.png

2025-09-21 14:50:17 UTC

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on the one hand, you are totally correct
OTOH< it is really galling, time after time, that we dems have to be the grownups saving the idiot republicans from their childish bad choices

2025-09-17 19:17:07 UTC

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one thing that has surprised me
as I got older, and started wearing progessive lens glasses, I became uncomfortable on a "std" 10 speed with drop handlebars
sigh
so until I have the time/energy/$ to get a more upright bike, not doing much biking
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/221/240/342/970/705/original/ce2b335a7923c6e3.jpg

2025-09-16 21:27:51 UTC

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nice
like I tell my kids: there is no such thing as bad weather, just poorly prepared people, although I've never lived in a place as cold as Calgary, so . .
:)
https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/Canada/AB/Calgary/extreme-annual-calgary-low-temperature.php

2025-09-16 21:20:13 UTC

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Shoveling snow is a good thing, fun healthy outdoor exercise, if you watch your back

2025-09-15 21:36:45 UTC

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given the huge investment you have made in Adobe, you must have a really strong desire to switch
I think this advice is good: you really** need to have two computers, one win, one nix, or dual boot cause it will take some time before you are certain you haven't lost valuable stuff in the move
I think that is right ?

2025-09-12 14:52:08 UTC

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I'm reading Typee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typee
which describes how the Polynesian tribes live in a state of constant warfare and are afraid to venture more then a mile from home, lest they be killed by raiding party from a neighboring village

2025-09-11 16:27:02 UTC

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so what do we do ?
is there anything we can do ?
I sent an email to the NYT and Boston Globe, with the image below
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/186/599/084/704/778/original/e0bd7d94bc3a2c3f.jpg

2025-08-17 17:13:19 UTC

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Hint
the NOrth Start blog/news source is such obvious bullshit that one has to question why you promote it

2025-08-12 20:36:39 UTC

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while you are quite right, 142 billion (over what time period) is enough money that when Congress does the budget, even in "normal" times, that money will be hard to do away with

2025-08-02 14:19:57 UTC

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Per the polling I have seen, a very large majority of Adults want some sort of age restrictions of some sort
or course, polling is notoriously difficult to do right, but the majority is pretty large on this

2025-07-25 19:21:51 UTC

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A great chance to look at your own bias
Tell me mastodonians, what your reaction be if this post was about a MAGA House member ?
how would you feel ?

2025-07-21 13:10:42 UTC

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JUST ME
this is not helpful
1
there are 1,000 posts every minute that say more or less the same thing, but very few posts that have ideas about what to do, so lazy and unhelpful
2
by now, people are in 3 catagories
a
they loath D Trump
b
they love him, no matter what
c
they pay so little attn to politics that what you say is unheard by them

2024-09-21 12:51:24 UTC

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it is good to vent, but getting rid of EC is just not in the realm of the possible
so , do yo have any practical suggestions for what to do to day ?

2024-09-18 16:53:00 UTC

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from an HPLC pump ?

2024-09-18 16:52:05 UTC

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ahem, zirconium oxide has entered the chat
along with Boron Nitride

2024-09-16 13:51:28 UTC

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Not sure if you understand how much people from NYC want to respond to this

2024-09-14 14:04:38 UTC

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I guess I live up to my screen handle:
I think disposable vacumn cleaner bags are one of the great inventions of civilization, along side coffee and hot showers
I do not understand, at all, it is just beyond my imagination, why you would want a VC withut a dispo bag

2024-09-11 13:54:34 UTC

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nice
about the only reality TV show I ever watch is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forged_in_Fire
which, for a reality TV show, isn't that bad (low bar, to be sure)

2024-09-07 17:36:21 UTC

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anthropomorhization ?

2024-09-06 19:29:31 UTC

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it is one of those things that keeps occuring, sort of like IMO nuclear fusion power, or flying cars
always wrong

2024-09-06 17:37:10 UTC

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this is so so so so silly
no not sillly: dishonest
a std shipping container holds about 20 tons, so 20 x 20,000 = 400,000 tons vs 1,000 tons with 7 crew
absurd
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/091/816/289/653/111/original/0b77b943bd1150c8.png
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/091/818/451/680/116/original/a2a0c0367d0f64b9.png

2024-09-05 01:16:27 UTC

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your toot seems so obviously not true, I don't understand what you are trying to say
the judges ruled that under our current law, what the IA was doing was not acting as a library
geez

2024-09-05 01:15:34 UTC

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pretty amazing that 300 odd people boosted this toot when your own source largely comes down against the IA, saying it clearly violated the law

2024-09-04 14:42:32 UTC

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in certain esoteric areas related to DNA I am a bit of a world expert
so I spent a lot of time on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing
and I added a lot of good stuff and then gave up after I had to re re re revert totally stupid stuff or argue with morons who thought they understood something about some esoteric DNA sequencing thing or I had to deal with spam artists pumping crap
not to mention the horror of dealing with wiki markup language which for me is ugh ugh ugh

2024-09-02 14:11:17 UTC

Niche post for #DNA #RNA #molecularBiology geeks
I just wrote "Maniatis or Phil Sharp" and so on brand that Maniatis doesn't need a first name cause Joy of Cloning, right ?

2024-09-02 12:59:51 UTC

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you probably do this already, but would like to see some female , minority, etc voices not just the upper class white voices

2024-09-01 13:23:43 UTC

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well, as the Romans said, there is no disputing taste, but to me the photo makes her look bizarre
the article cites a poll showing ~70% of Americans want to stop arming Israel
that same poll says⤵️ ⤵️
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/062/511/590/613/759/original/6d580601910ed0ee.png

2024-09-01 13:18:45 UTC

I don't recall if The New Republic was ever a hiQ magazine
but anyone who uses wierd photos is, IMO, a sleaze bag
https://newrepublic.com/post/185505/kamala-harris-israel-arms-gaza-first-interview
[@newrepublic](https://beta.birdsite.live/users/newrepublic )
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/062/485/066/865/670/original/bb9313f5efce4cbc.png

2024-08-29 17:48:25 UTC

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with respect, gonna block you cause I don't have the energy

2024-08-29 17:24:23 UTC

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not sure what to make of this, but
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/corporate-greed-not-blame-price-pressures-fed-study-shows-2024-05-13/

2024-08-29 15:39:33 UTC

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this may be true, but the economy is VERY large and overall gouging was not, afaik, a significant cause of inflation
the idea of inflation caused by evil corporations gouging appears to be, overall, an internet myth

2024-08-25 14:31:33 UTC

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ok, so what is your theory ? what actual evidence do you have for that theory ?

2024-08-25 13:21:16 UTC

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?
isn't MIT being a bit of a freeloader here, as it uses ILL to get articles
?
MIT professors are, on avg, very well funded so they can afford personal subs
really, the experience at MIT should not be taken as something that necessarily goes for everyone else

2024-08-23 18:48:20 UTC

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the famines caused by Mao in China, and by Churchill in Bengal, were on a par with Hitler, IMO

2024-08-23 18:43:59 UTC

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Yes
may I add, as a 69 yro with 2 colonoscopys:
the dreaded horrid prep has gotten less worse !!
also, this is a nice day to take a vacation if you can as the drugs give you a nice relaxed feeling that lasts for several hours (at least me, YMMV :) )

2024-08-22 16:46:28 UTC

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??
https://www.scientificbulletin.upb.ro/rev_docs_arhiva/full27b_818551.pdf
https://www.rfcafe.com/references/electronics-world/electrical-measure-units-standards-august-1964-electronics-world.htm

2024-08-21 13:57:22 UTC

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OK
so back in 1958, this cell was calibrated against a std that was good to +- 0.0001 volts
so what the f*ck was the std ?

2024-08-21 13:06:22 UTC

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as far as I know, there were no gunslingers; the whole shootout on main str thing is just a myth
but maybe I overstate the case

2024-08-20 16:55:52 UTC

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well, for those of us who recall the era of Mayor Richard M Daley, and how the CPD had a notorious reputation for violence and corruption, maybe there is a reason for the stereotype ?
https://www.chicagotorturejustice.org/history

2024-08-20 11:36:00 UTC

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it maybe silly but I have decided to block anyone who boosts a tweet, on the grounds that helping a neo nazi (musk) is not good
also, this meme is so well known, you could have found a non twitter source without any effort

2024-08-19 17:12:25 UTC

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not sure I agree
Biology is notoriously complex and unpredictable
It is possible that mRNA tech is indeed a new era, leading to all sorts of remarkable things
or maybe not; there is a lot of hype and I don't think we have enough data yet
I *think this is compatible with known facts
In Jan 2020, BioNtech and MOderna were in fiscal straits and the Covid program was a "hail mary" that saved them from bankruptcy
:)

2024-08-19 17:03:26 UTC

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I have a PhD in molecular biology, so I understand some of the tech, but am not an expert
IMO
1
we were *very lucky the mRNA vaccines worked so well
Merck (a vaccine powerhouse) shelved their vaccine cause it didn't work
https://www.merck.com/news/merck-discontinues-development-of-sars-cov-2-covid-19-vaccine-candidates-continues-development-of-two-investigational-therapeutic-candidates/
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we were even more lucky that Pfizer/Moderna/BioNtech were able to scale up production; to scientists like me, the scale up was NASA Apollo program level Chemical engineering - really amazing work done on a very tight schedule

2024-08-19 16:59:38 UTC

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AFAIK, the vaccine you want is aimed at variants of the JN.1 variety - not sure what novovax is aimed at
I don't think those vaccines will be available in the US for a week or few weeks, not sure

2024-08-19 16:28:09 UTC

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two years ago, there were concerns about the product
iirc, the novovax is a protein polymer of some sort, and the distribution of particle sizes was not well controlled
so there is that, or maybe some other manufacturing issue ?
that is at least plausible !!

2024-08-18 16:11:20 UTC

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thank you
I saw these yesterday and thought I saw a fly inside but wasn't really sure !!
for the last two or three weeks the golden rod have been just ablaze with hymeoptera of all sorts, mostly gone now here in the Boston area

2024-08-17 16:32:59 UTC

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you must know this meme:
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/978/321/581/252/288/original/d32ce54c020a1291.webp

2024-08-17 12:43:29 UTC

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at work, chit chat before meeting starts
me anyone using AI ?
coworker: yeah, I use it for 1st draft of documents, saves me a lot of time
now I realize "AI"covers a lot of ground but here on tusker 99.99% is negative snark and that is just bullshit, sorry

2024-08-17 11:54:59 UTC

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Since AI is actually do ing a lot of cool stuff in the real world, one has to ask, why are 99% of toots about AI snarky putdowns ?
I have two ideas
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it is a bandwagon; you get clicks and eyeballs for snarky putdowns; for reality about AI doing stuff, not so much
2
tusker is full of people (programmers artists writers ) scared that AI will take their jobs

2024-08-09 13:47:46 UTC

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Isn't this a bit of a waste of money ?
I mean, in NYC, it is already a blue vote ?
but maybe that sign stimulates donations, so I am wrong

2024-08-01 13:32:08 UTC

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do you have a link to the times piece ?

2024-06-19 16:25:11 UTC

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I used to follow David Shor on twitter
and he is, afaik, a data scientist who when a kid, believed in knocking on doors and talking to people
then he looked at the data, and knockin on doors doesn't help; what the old time dinosaur consultants tell you - spend on TV/social media - is correct; mailing postcards and such is just busywork, so to speak

2024-06-01 15:44:59 UTC

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yeah
one assumes his lawyers only work if paid in advance

2024-06-01 15:37:45 UTC

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as far as I know, after Sec Clinton won the nomination, Bernie did as much as he could, as much as he was asked, to help her win
I can't find a link right now, but iirc polling data showed that bernie supporters voted for Clinton at statistically normal rates (voting is complex)

2024-05-31 20:59:58 UTC

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ahem, afaik, he claims to have hauled in 35M ?
and his claims are not, afaik, reliable ?
but your general point, 1000%

2024-05-28 15:58:56 UTC

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People are pretty wierd, right ?
but it is the very very hard job of social science to keep up

2024-05-23 14:17:22 UTC

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this photo looks fake
can you assure us your source for it is reliable

2024-05-04 00:36:20 UTC

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so the entire LOTR trilogy, and the additional 3 movies of the Hobbit, produced ONE woman ????