66 yro upper middle class; class is important 100% focused on PRACTICAL CONCRETE ideas for stopping slowing the fascists Failed Lyndon Larouchite is a joke #prochoice #forcedbirther is what so called "prolife" people are
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Last Notes npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 I am always astonished that programmers, people who are supposed to be really really conscious of logic and math, post numbers not corrected for inflation wtf ???? #nevent1q…fvvv npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…vf35 @nprofile…zmk4 on the off chance you haven't seen this, a bit of humor: https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…p9u9 since, afaik, we don't actually know what happened, maybe boasting about hot takes that are extra hot is NOT a good look @nprofile…6z7h npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…vuvh cancer patients getting better treatment via AI: no we disagree heart attack patients: same npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…shkc @nprofile…eexk like I click down load and then I click install and it works, or there is some idiot simple set of questions I have to answer ? think of the most non computer literate person you know, and ask: can they install and run RSS with no problem npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…eexk Over the last 20 years, I have read over and over, how great this RSS thing is so every 5 years I try to install some software and it has NEVER WORKED FOR ME THE AVERAGE USER NEVER so what you mean't to say is that RSS is the secret trick available only to nerds to make the internet more usable npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…h0ep maybe I am wrong, I'm not a programmer or that into tech, but my Noob anecdotal understanding is that secret installation of software has been a thing for decades happens all the time, everywhere npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…5y0h As a guy who had family in NYC on 9/11 fuck off seriously npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…gf9n @[email protected] it is June 2026 how on earth is this news ? every day, we have dozens of articles like this and very few with concrete ideas on how to fight back and that ratio is so so wrong npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…926n far as I can tell in the audio clip, the word "cut" is not used but the word "adjusted" which, in another , very different, sane context, is 100% correct npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…dymg ah, so sorry - you can ignore my other replies !!! :) npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…dymg This seems totally wrong > 20,000 deaths at Fukushima<< because, far as I can tell, almost all of those were due to the earthquake; deaths related directly to the reactor appear to be on the order of 2,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident_casualties npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…mex9 what about the 2x for inflation ? and you have to add or multiply (not sure) the 20% populatio on top of that, I think npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…mex9 are these numbers adjusted for inflation according the cpi calculator, 4K in 2000 is worth roughly $7,900 in today's money also, the US had about 281 million people in 2000 vs about 340 today - about a 20% increase npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…0zw6 In DNA sequencing papers, it is now common to have 10+ authors, and by time the 1st round of reviews come back, those authors are scattered to the 4 winds and contacting all the coauthors, much less getting them to sign off on changes made to accomadate reviewers, takes a long time which, I would speculate, accounts for the sometimes *very long time it takes for a paper to get accepted npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 what do these two items have in common ? https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/687/732/192/992/441/original/e8f6955f59ff01e2.png https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/687/733/449/568/032/original/f8e2c0ab32f0385c.png npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…v9vp I used to work at a biotech, where ultra hiQ water is in use every minute, and I lost time of how often I blew my lid when they told us 15 minutes inadvance: no water for 4 hours, routine maintenence Life is a series of stupid screwups punctuated by a few minutes of "aha !" npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…awd8 a lot of the content I want around economics and US politics just isn't on mastodon, so maybe lighten up a bit ? npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…u7p7 "people will loose their saving" because index funds will have to buy this is just illiterate nonsense the current total market cap of the US stock market is on the order of 70 Trillion US dollars, so even if spaceX stock goes to ZERO, that is about 1.5% loss hard to trust a piece where there is one obvious fail npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…ds0l question from a person who knows nothing about computers: how long before the LLMs are trained to ignore this ? or is that not possible ? npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 this is so cool and so sad I guess everything that isn't satellite or laser based is going to vanish more or less I like to hike, and think a map, on good waterproof paper, is essential, cause maps don't run out of power The Applachian Mountain Club is the leading hiking org in the NE US, and their maps are the standard and the AMC no longer prints them on good paper, but crappy "waterproof" stock that falls apart sigh #nevent1q…hdkp npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…um83 Steve: please The cost of US health care is roughly 5 trillon dollars a year, give or take 1% of that is 50 billion 1% of that is 500 million honestly, I know it sounds absurd (and it is) but in the federal budget, 100 million dollars is just not a lot of money; it is such a small amount , it has zero real world impact on other spending true, it maybe used to justify cuts to other places, but realisticaly 100 million is a tiny tiny amount :) npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…um83 Gold foil is a common thing on major public buildings not sure about the Karat thing, but the foil is "21 gramweight" which means it is fucking 125 microns (about 5 thousanths of an inch) thick so not clear, at all , how out of line this is for this sort of project also, it is clear the statutes needed to be refurbed and the fuckers in the Obama an Biden admins hadn't gotten their fucking act together to do this npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…gydw @nprofile…pl7c sloppy and they have an incorrect URL at least in the forbes I saw, they didn't have https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2026/05/28/americans-on-what-causes-climate-change-human-activity-or-natural-patterns/ which is the source of the 48% but of course not clickbaitey npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 This dreck, appropriate for a not very bright middle schooler, is one of trending posts on mastodon today #nevent1q…sj5c npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…xefq I can't speak for big corporations, but at the very small biotech where I worked until I retired last year, nearly every manager, PhD , and engineer found that LLMS were extremely powerful and extremely useful tools we had NO policy on LLM use, and people just starting using them naturally, in their day to day work without any prompting so i would say your post is pretty much BS npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…gu7x "crammed down our throats" isn't that true for every technology, going back to Rail Roads, and mail order stores like Sears ? npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 why do so many here continue to believe that AI is useless, a scam, when the reality is clearly othewise? kind of sad that when it comes to AI, liberals/progressives on mastodon are as out of touch as any Trump supporter #nevent1q…qj4z npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…v2v2 I am not a programmer, so I don't get this but for about 35 years, my impression has been that 95% of the time when storage is an issue, the easiest cheapest solution is just buy a bigger hard drive, which you are gonna have to do anyway, cause next year *all the downloads will be 2 or 4 or 8x as large npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…926n took a long time, but far as I can tell credo is a wholly owned subsidiary of BRC and this is a quarterly report for some reason, I can't find a pdf for this, but they appear to have annual income of around , very roughly, 800 million dollars so it isn't clear what % of credo's income is given to charity - they claim 95 million since 1985, which is what, 2 million a year which isn't much cause it is tax deductible so I really am totally confused !! https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001464790/000146479026000035/rily-20260331.htm npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 What I learned today You can buy SSDs that that have 60 Tb of storage (!) https://www.kioxia.com/en-jp/business/ssd/data-center-ssd.html or maybe 256 Tb and that you can put these into a small rack mount box that has 10 Pb of storage https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/05/14/kioxia-and-dell-cram-10-pb-into-slim-2ru-server/5240574 10 Pb in one little rack mount unit what ever npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…0zw6 very fair points but at a certain level, the NIH study sections and the council and the NIH don't like to spend money on something if there isn't progress, cause money is limited and there are plenty of areas where progress is being made NOT an easy thing to discuss in a short post npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…0zw6 Dr Bialik Below is a *rough draft of some ideas Quite possibly wrong or poorly phrased in my experience, most medical people, and most scientists, don't like to work on problems where there isn't a path to progress so it is hard to get doctors and PhDs to work on things like brain fog or long covid, cause there is now clear way to help patients or make scientific progress npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…h69c PS your english is excellent you may know this old "joke" about Americans and the British The American tourist is a person who thinks that if you talk loudly enough, "they" will understand English :) npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…h69c my point is, since they are all fascist, why single out AI ? also: far as I can tell, it doesn't really matter what you and I think AI has already "won" in the sense that the only question is, will it be big (say annual revenue on the order of US $200 billion, about the size of the US passenger air industry) or will it be really big, annual revenue > US $1trillion npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…h69c say a person using social media, which requires hardware (fascist companies) and software (fascist companies) and telecoms providers (fascist companies) grow up npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…3qha this is very unfair to many tesla owners I have talked to many of them who have told me: i bought this car 5 years ago and can't afford to sell it npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…tggg ahem, illegally downloaded millions of articles, after being repeatedly told that this was illegal and don't do it he was arrested and "possiblility" really bullshit no one with the money for a good atty (As was a rich white boy doing cosplay) had the possiblility of decades in prision AS was thief and a crimminal; his death is tragic AHEM CHARLIE KIRK AM I RIGHT !!! npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…srdc if you look at the data for the 38.9% number, you see that the cost of fresh fruit/veg goes up and down a lot, all the time https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/inflation-vegetables-ppi https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/084/858/200/743/292/original/6d128ea65000b765.png npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…srdc this post seems to understate the toxicity of acorns Acorns and oak leaves contain phenols and tannins, such as gallic acid and pyrogallol, which when ingested in excess will bind and precipitate proteins leading to renal failure. https://www.sruc.ac.uk/veterinary-surveillance-blog/acorn-toxicity/ https://www.merckvetmanual.com/toxicology/quercus-poisoning/quercus-poisoning-in-animals https://ucanr.edu/sites/default/files/2021-01/342444.pdf npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…q3nn 1 Since vets are treated like royalty this is good, vets get way to many special benefits that no one else gets, it is obscene 2 65% of vets voted for Trump; fuck em npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…5r33 @nprofile…352s 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 npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…ukrr if India doesn't clapback, cause we are richer and our money is critical, will you apologize for using the word "guarantee" ? LOL npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…ng6c Flowers for Algernon probably not quite what you want ? this google turned up lots of TV/movie characters dyslexic characters in sci fi ?? three body problem https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/971/621/932/729/935/original/f55c25c86bf1c740.png npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…5k3r I can't speak for other Atheists, but I regard religion as silly, like tarot or homeopathic medicine; just an absurd childish thing that we are supposed to take seriously npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…8dvs WHY ? SERIOUSLY, WHY what good does it do to post don't use substack without saying why ? I have tried to find **current** info on substack and it is all a year old eg the famous anil dash post npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…5r33 @nprofile…352s 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 ? npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @nprofile…5k3r Bertrand Russell: A famous American Author was going to spend a few days at my summer house I greatly anticipated the long intellectual disussions we would have about art and literature all the American wanted to do was listen to baseball scores on the wireless Russell then, iirc, explains how this is good, one needs hobbies npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub13km…555v Reality: Are there voters who are NIMBYs so this is a loosing idea ?? note that I did not say "more people" I said "more voters" npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 This story is almost literally unbelievable if, for some reason, you need another example of how humans are destroying our planet, this is a good one !! #ClimateCrisis #Insects #Bees #Ecology #PFAs https://www.science.org/content/article/loss-india-s-vultures-may-have-led-deaths-half-million-people npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1h8s…cvp3 that image looks highly photoshopped ?? npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1ld3…s0k6 as I read the link, the source for this has in the past made up claims and then retracted them so this is clickbait ?? npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1k8d…5h2l call me an old fashioned retrogrouch whiner, but when I think of how many hours of time you could have saved putting this figure as an indented text list my head hurts npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 #TodayInScience #Covid Learning a lot about how the human body responds to covid They found volunteers, who had never been infected, who were infected in the lab; this allowed scientists to study in detail the response of the human body over time Note: if you find the figures incomprehensible, I think that most PhDs would agree with you; modern DNA/Cell biology papers have figures that are really inscrutable https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07575-x npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub17ss…76l0 I'm not an expert, but I would say this toot is more alarming then needs be; context is important here https://hms.harvard.edu/news/heart-disease-risk-factors-rise-young-adults npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1aum…5jx0 PDF xchange from tracker software: great program, IMO npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1aum…5jx0 I don't know much, at all, about this sort of stuff, but over the last 20 years, it has been more or less a constant that GIMP has a horrible user interface that is a nightmare ?? npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1q37…k2ta always like a simple text rich web site but dislike un needed animations nothing is perfect npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub136y…dar5 I must be getting old cause the new WTC seems awfully young to be a classic npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub19d9…f02p I am really torn about how social media seems to think libraries are not worth thinking about I can see both sides of the argument :) npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub19d9…f02p surely there are entire books and conferences devoted to the topic of how one chooses a model and how one justifies the choices one has made ? npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1zh2…7965 happy to be corrected ! npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @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 npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub120z…33r2 it might help if you listed how many users you have ? npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1k4q…3lsq HAMAS can always surrender, and stop killing people npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @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 ? npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @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 npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub165q…w83y Things like this (storage of excess equipment) happen all the time There is some huge airfield in Arizona, US, where excess planes are stored I"m sure you could find lots of examples npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @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 npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1xsy…cevg Every day, I must see 100 toots exactly like this, snarky comments about the right wing I rarely see even one toot with practical concrete suggestions about what to do npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 about 10 or 20,000 years ago, most of the large mammals in the world went extinct and there are two scientific theories currently in vogue 1 climate change 2 hunting by "primitive" peoples if #2 is true, it sort of shows that "primitive" "indigenous" people can be just as destructive as modern 1st world people course no one wants to hear that, cause we all need heroes npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub10fm…x0qg tell me how bad today is compared to the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1hgr…2e7r so nice that the op ed piece highlights practical concrete steps that people can take; 99% of the toots here just express outrage, without any info at all on what to do npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1src…fms4 This is not a belieable story that you are tooting about no details, no sources no nuttin almost just rumor if you can 't do better shame on you https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/111/796/278/308/904/536/original/2b1dcbdd22135273.png npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @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/ npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1dqx…q4d8 1 your reply is non responsive 2 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 npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1dqx…q4d8 Prior to capitilism, by your definition, the colonial horrors of the Spanish were truly un believable And the horror of communism extend to much much more then "a famine' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism you are, IMO, making the mistake of thinking bad only that with which you are familiar npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @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 npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @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 npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @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 npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1u5h…9wm3 well, for decades he was a "peak oil" guy which was a sort of crypto bro thing but I do enjoy his eyesore of the month npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @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 npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub15zu…s7lx Predicting what SCOTUS will do is, truly, a mug's game having said that, I will now be a mug: The SCOTUS was not kind to Trump in the lawsuits over the 2020 election, so there is some reason to think they are not kindly disposed to him. I wouldn't be surprised if they are afraid of him and the forces he may unleash: it is not beyond reality to think that if re elected, he might put in jail judges who he finds displeasing npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub15zu…s7lx are contracts normally public documents ? npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1wcu…vgyk This might well be true, but I would like to see a link with some solid data to show that today's weather forecasts are less accurate cause as far as I know accuracy is mainly about computer power and computers, you might know, have been getting cheaper npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1ccn…czwu iirc, Benjamin Franklin was against immigration of Germans; this was before the civil war npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @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 npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub10fl…2xc7 In the 1960s/70s commune era this book was quite popular https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/767895.Farmers_of_Forty_Centuries as was https://downeast.com/history/living-the-good-life/ npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1h8r…90mu @npub1ccn…czwu I have read that there are wild mushrooms, 100% natural, common in the eastern US and that eating a few will lead to a very painful death "Destroying Angel" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroying_angel npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub16nf…y96v Isn't part of the problem that publishers like Cell press restrict you ability to have OA and that publication in a top tier journal like Cell is still all important for your career ? or am I totally wrong here ?? npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub105v…hk8p I read that much of the vote had to do with farmers revolting against new enviromental rules ? related to nitrogen npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1u3f…nne2 @npub14pn…rag6 going down the rabbit hole, I wound up here https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/PHS/PHS.aspx?phsid=809&toxid=158 which says that a smoke detector has 0.8 uCurie (~ 33,000 disintigrations/sec) the occupational exposure limits for workers, per year, are much lower then one smoke detector/person/yr sigh npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @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 npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1qyn…gc4x IT ISN"T TUBERVILLE !!!!!! the senate rules require 60 votes to overcome Tubervilles block, so the problem is that there aren't 10 GOP senators willing to stand up to him please, lets be honest here the problem is the GOP not Tubererville npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub15sw…x855 not only paywalled, but absurdly paywalled: is that a math thing, set the paywall higher then others ? https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/111/371/583/100/062/935/original/be19d2d2bc9f0e8a.png npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @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 npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @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 npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1ugl…yvd7 judging from your post, one would never know that Hamas just murdered a whole bunch of Israeli children and babies npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1867…mfsf on the one hand you are right, 100% on the other hand, either it is a climate crisis or it isnt npub1hlanzwtt4y282678xz77ajmkqfcjgmsg8z0snn5nxjft0glz28kqjuk93u OddOpinions5 @npub1867…mfsf are we in a #ClimateCrisis or aren't we ? If we are, are we (including me) allowed to drive 225 miles to take a photo of something that everyone else on earth is also photographing ?