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PhD/molecular biology
Interest in data graphics and charts
also liberal US politics and insect photos and NYC
Living in Boston area for 30 years, but not a big fan

Failed Lyndon Larouchite is a joke

#prochoice
Anti #forcedbirther which is what so called "prolife" people are

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2024-07-12 19:25:30

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@npub1h8s…cvp3
that image looks highly photoshopped
??

2024-05-25 16:26:38

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@npub1q37…k2ta
always like a simple text rich web site
but dislike un needed animations
nothing is perfect

2024-05-05 19:47:37

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@npub136y…dar5
I must be getting old cause the new WTC seems awfully young to be a classic

2024-04-14 16:10:58

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@npub14qn…m4sh
the millions killed in the gulag, or the great chinese famine or by pol pot might have a different view

2024-04-09 03:05:34

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@npub1zh2…7965
no worries, its all good
my new default for situations like this is that the news media, even the Times, is so starved for money that even big stories can get missed

2024-04-09 02:57:41

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@npub1zh2…7965
happy to be corrected !

2024-04-06 01:38:18

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@npub17nc…9dam
I was having some issues with time series plots in excel 2021, fairly simple plots
so I thought, I'll try libre
just for my, calc is very inferior to excel
of course, YMMV

2024-03-26 18:47:24

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@npub1k4q…3lsq
HAMAS can always surrender, and stop killing people

2024-03-26 15:17:46

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@npub1e6s…un7p
This was addressed in the rulings that have been issued ?
not a lawyer, but the question of standing seems to be often the first thing that a judge writes about ?

2024-03-19 20:36:00

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@npub1m4u…7sa6
In the 1980s, when I was still young, I would carry 20 or 30 pounds of groceries, including med sized watermelons, 5 miles or more on my pedal Raleigh Supercourse with Kirtland pannies
destroyed the Pletscher rack , the std at the time, and got one of the then newfangle $$ Blackburn racks

2024-03-05 18:33:30

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@npub1tph…dwur
maybe i missed it, but no link to the actual decision ?
I never trust blog or news stories that don't have a link to the actual decision

2024-02-02 20:40:49

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@npub1utv…87lr
astonishing how #mastodon allows this sort of bias
if you had said the same thing about an #LGBTQ person, your account would probably be blocked in nanoseconds
stereotype anyone ???????

2024-01-29 00:37:18

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@npub1ecp…59pq
your toot directly contradicts your own source which says, quote
"Medicare Advantage claims were responsible for much of the increased costs. UnitedHealth covers about 7.7 million people with Medicare Advantage plans, and many of them received heart and orthopedic outpatient procedures, UnitedHealth said. . . increase in seasonal activity as more seniors sought vaccinations for the respiratory virus RSV,

2024-01-14 17:27:22

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@npub1k8d…5h2l
can I make a request
for some reason, and this could be 100% a me problem, I find calc ugly
it just looks bad on my screen
maybe this is cause I am used to excel; dunno
also the whole GUI for scattergrams sucks; the options are the wrong one, the defaults are wont, etc etc
there are all sorts of great programs (or were) like Kaleidagraph, you can use as models
I understand that free advice (me) is worth what you pay for it, or possibly less
https://www.synergy.com/

2024-01-13 16:14:44

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@npub1dqx…q4d8
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your reply is non responsive
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IMO, nothing written by Marx is worth reading
even if he had anything to say, he prose is so garbled and complex (german as it were, poorly translated into English) that one should avoid Marx and read his commentators

2024-01-12 18:20:57

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@npub1m8a…khgv
well I just did tha search and the top peer reivewed journal hits don't have much about kidney in them
note: I only looked at recent papers, as papers from early in the pandemic are often not relevant or wrong
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8754903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10456143/
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanrhe/article/PIIS2665-9913(21)00316-7/fulltext

2024-01-12 17:01:43

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@npub1m8a…khgv
This is either a **very unusual case, or the covid is not linked to the failure
see here
https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/research-shows-covid-19-is-not-linked-to-long-term-loss-of-kidney-function/2024/01
also
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/coronavirus-kidney-damage-caused-by-covid19

2024-01-11 21:23:40

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@npub15zu…s7lx
Lets say that HP is found guilty and ordered to pay a fine of one sort or another
You had to guess, what % of HP's profits on ink sales will the fine be ?
I would guess 10%, but that is just speculation

2024-01-03 22:17:15

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@npub1hvz…mle9
The assumption that people with more education are better seems both arrogant and, afaik, not true
In 1933, the most educated group of people in the world, the German Professoriat, had no trouble with the new Chancellor of Germany

2023-12-25 02:32:26

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@npub1ccn…czwu
iirc, Benjamin Franklin was against immigration of Germans; this was before the civil war

2023-12-23 15:26:22

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@npub1t5e…nx96
This is literally worse then useless
These comnpanies have so many brands, and are so much of the store shelf that boycotting them all is impossible and confusing and so forth

2023-12-21 15:56:36

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@npub1g53…v0hh
there is something really really bizarre in thinking that a huge corporation, Apple, is in any way at all cool
Apple has annual revenue in excess of US $ 300 billion
how on earth can that be cool or hip or even ok it should be a giant soul less corporation that everyone hates
https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/111/618/986/136/045/110/original/11b40ff1322653b1.png

2023-11-30 04:56:38

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@npub178r…qekt
so what do I tell them ?
Is there some webpage that lists the things that you can do ?

2023-11-28 16:26:09

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@npub105v…hk8p
I read that much of the vote had to do with farmers revolting against new enviromental rules ? related to nitrogen

2023-11-19 00:48:36

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@npub1ahq…wjwd
apparently, to you it is not important that a Judge rule according to the law
The judges opinion goes to great lengths to explain why Trump is not an "officer of the US" and therefore is not covered by the law
you may not agree with this; I infer you would like judges to just ignore the law and rule the way you want ???
see pages 99f and 101
https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/02nd_Judicial_District/Denver_District_Court/11_17_2023%20Final%20Order.pdf

2023-11-06 16:35:29

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
and yet, polling shows that an overwhelming maj of Americans, and a maj of AfAms, support the police !!!
so how do you reconcile that with your idea that the police are the chaos ?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/18/most-americans-support-local-police-including-blacks-and-latinos/70893299007/
[ ignore the BS clickbait lead here ]
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/two-thirds-of-black-americans-dont-trust-the-police-to-treat-them-equally-most-white-americans-do

2023-11-05 14:46:14

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@npub1yyx…qa5g
you do know that standard theory, which, iirc has a lot of empirical support, says that the market cap is, in most cases, a reflection of what people think future revenue or earnings will be

2023-11-04 16:38:07

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@npub1f2d…afl4
it seems to me sort of anti semitic that the bad things done by Jews get so much press from you, while the equally bad, or even worse things going on all over the world
Rohingya/Burma
Uighur/China
War in the Congo
Starvation in EthiopiaSomalia and you are cricket
what could be the difference in the level of venom directed at Israel vs other evil doers
and do you ever mention that Hamas seems to put Military into hospitals, deliberatly ?
gave you ever even said that once

2023-10-30 17:57:58

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@npub1ugl…yvd7
judging from your post, one would never know that Hamas just murdered a whole bunch of Israeli children and babies

2023-10-17 13:20:48

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@npub1867…mfsf
on the one hand you are right, 100%
on the other hand, either it is a climate crisis or it isnt

2023-09-29 17:21:29

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@npub1ecp…59pq
I have read that years ago, Sen Feinstein, then a local elected official in California, was a very strong advocate for gay rights, back when such a posistion wasn't necessarily a vote winner, even in SF

2023-09-29 04:13:31

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@npub1sac…apc0 @npub1vcm…56xq
fair point
I have a PhD in molecular biology, which doesn't make me smarter then anyone else, but it makes me more used to working with numbers
not sure $10,000 every year for 250 years is something that really makes sense; I maintain, and have done so consistently, that the diff between million billion trillion is really hard to understnad

2023-09-29 03:07:05

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@npub1vcm…56xq
if you assume no interest, which seems to me totally wrong, yes you are right
but if you put in even a modest interest rate, it is easy to get a billion
https://www.calculator.net/investment-calculator.html?ctype=endamount&ctargetamountv=1%2C000%2C000&cstartingprinciplev=10%2C000&cyearsv=200&cinterestratev=3&ccompound=annually&ccontributeamountv=10%2C000&cadditionat1=end&ciadditionat1=monthly&printit=0&x=Calculate#calresult

2023-09-26 22:42:08

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@npub1kpw…xzz4
you could be correct
on the other hand, I could be correct
not really sure how to do an accurate analysis; we have to factor in that, apparently, the ratio of deaths/infections is going down, a lot, as the population gets immunity, but one has to factor in age as well . . .

2023-09-26 22:25:53

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 yeah my math could be off by an order of magnitude
As Lord Rutherford said: a number that is uncertain to an order magnitude is wrong
It turns out the numbers (not age adjusted, etc etc) are not that far apart:
https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/111/133/322/035/926/233/original/c0c1f93721b187b8.png
https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/111/133/323/155/424/324/original/f14394560e5e5db7.png

2023-09-26 22:21:24

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@npub1kpw…xzz4
If your mom is driving more then I would guess about 100 miles, then she has a higher chance of dying in a car accident then in dying from covid she catches from you
or something like that

2023-09-18 17:21:19

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@npub1k7q…3lrw
figuring out how many people are somewhere on teh LGBTQ spectrum is, obviously, hard, but the latest data suggests about 7% ??
so I would guess still way more teens are church then gay ??

2023-08-13 23:26:03

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@npub1aka…zzz2
I don't know if this is supposed to be taken seriously, but if so, I find this more then a little bit scary and disheartening
who exactly, decides that some stranger, maybe with a different religion or skin color, is or isn't a Nazi ?
this is the road that leads to becoming a mafia, a group of thugs that use violence for profit

2023-08-10 19:21:37

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@npub1a68…qf4k nice caption

2023-08-06 16:13:10

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@npub19kr…8m4r
dear Mr Kennedy
it was only yesterday that I realized "mapoli" will cause problems for people who use screen readers
not sure what the answer is; #MassachusettsPolitics (camel case) is very long

2023-08-06 00:02:25

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@npub1uxk…ptq5
Dear F
one thing I have noted on social media is that lawyers and reporters never admit that they might be in error
I think we are not compatible, so if it is ok with you, i will say good bye
sincerely, good luck to you

2023-08-05 23:40:52

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@npub1uxk…ptq5
Dear Francisca
You are behind the news here
The TX AG has appealed the ruling and stated that the law is fully in force
which is a real deterrent to any MD cause they face the threat of felony prosecution
so really way to soon to say if this is any more then a very temporary minor victory

2023-08-05 18:26:14

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@npub19kr…8m4r
here on #mastodon liberals love to bash the times
but aside from propublica and one or two others, who has the resources now to do this sort of reporting ?

2023-08-05 18:00:41

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@npub169n…d2kc
this is good, but like so much writing, the lede is buried
really this is 90% of the message:
https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/110/837/841/241/782/304/original/053e3e43b3e88afd.png

2023-08-04 19:21:47

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@npub14cq…k7mw
This is partly related to the general problem of providing for profit medicine to rural areas
eg this is not about forced birther laws, but about rural areas
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/idaho-valor-health-hospital-stops-labor-and-delivery-staff-shortages/

2023-08-04 19:17:16

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@npub14cq…k7mw
??
this partially a result of for profit medicine: a lot of these women live in sparsely populated rural areas where, in general, we have been loosing healthcrare

2023-07-29 21:57:56

I have used #firefox for years and years
and in the last few versions, the slider at the right hand side of the page, that lets you slide up and down ?
it is way to narrow

2023-07-29 21:47:20

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@npub1lx8…y7v3
IMO, even IMHO [joke that] , this is oneof the great all time blog posts
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

2023-07-29 20:20:59

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@npub1lx8…y7v3
thanks
a suggestion for you
the truly infamous and famous blog about mistakes programmers make about names ?
originally, there were fantastic comments; those have, as far as I can tell, been lost
so resurrecting those comments would be a mitzvah
https://thenewleafjournal.com/a-hometown-tax-system-story/