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Fan of energy systems and clean energy. "Big infrastructure" leftist. They/them.
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I'm not optimistic, the backlash has included rejecting attempts to avoid transmitting other infections as well. A lot of missteps during the early pandemic were due to arrogant leadership being unwilling to listen to domain-specific experts.
You probably know this, but they absolutely were not. They were positively indignant at the thought of doing *anything* to prevent kids from getting or transmitting Covid. Some of them even wanted as many kids to get Covid as soon as possible.
Also, there have been plenty of right-wing creeps who've preyed on boys, including in the context of sports. They're louder about girls' sports because it appeals to more people.
No, they're also enthusiastic about "protecting girls" by preventing trans boys from playing sports and by preventing cis girls from playing on boys' teams (common practice when there aren't girls' teams for that sport in the area).
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My new favorite example is that the evidence for recommending that someone with allergic asthma avoid living with pets they're allergic to is "low quality".
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It would be unfair to blame everyone who's stuck moving today/this weekend for all of the inconvenience so instead we rubberneck and laugh at people who've Storrowed a truck despite numerous warnings.
The people laughing at it have also experienced rental trucks being driven the wrong way down a one-way street, sidewalks blocked by all the things people have tossed out at the last minute when moving, and more.
You have to go past and ignore a bunch of signs warning you to not take vehicles over a certain height that way, and at least in Boston it usually happens during a time when all the people moving are an inconvenience for everyone else and each other.
RuPaul isn't trans.
In at least one case, multiple generations of cis women with xy chromosomes who have had kids!
I don't like this "for teens" angle. The use of general-purpose chatbots for companionship is unacceptably risky for everyone regardless of age.
Didn't he text one because he couldn't remember whether he'd paid her? I continue to think he's a messy rich guy but he seems to have some core decency.
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Yeah, I read that the behavior of people who use this drug for tanning purposes (really excessive amounts of UV exposure outdoors and in tanning beds) makes it hard to get any idea of whether it could have contributed to them developing melanoma.
I'm still kind of amazed he takes something to cause tanning without sun exposure given how enthusiastic he is about raw-dogging UV exposure. You'd think he'd want to achieve that leathery glow the natural way. 🙃
Oh jeez, of course. :/ I am a long time hater of anti-vaxer, cause of autism conspiracy grifters. I hate how relevant knowing about this stuff has become to mainstream politics.
Oh, good to know!
Asthma isn't on the most recent list.
Probably Melanotan! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanot...
Melanotan? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanot...
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It's completely nonsensical unless the data center is directly connected to the power station which is admittedly something that's talked about and sometimes happens (not with nuclear yet afaik), but they use the talking point completely without regard to whether there's a direct connection.
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Where the fuck do you live that IDs contain that information?
Third Way is a centrist Democratic think tank, detractors frequently describe it as 'neoliberal'. They always have the same advice: tack to the center and use language that appeals to "both sides". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_W...
Some of the terms in the Third Way report *are* plain language, they're just plain language about ideas and people Third Way doesn't want to hear about or from.
People like Émile P. Torres are living rent-free in AI boosters' heads. Never mind that none of them are leading or even having much or any influence (unfortunately) on mainstream climate groups or government policy.
8 fps is around what the oldest surviving film was shot at. In 1888. I suspect that they fiddled around with what combination of numbers to only use whole numbers and avoid needing to use any prefixes on units.
He 100% uses some kind of workaround to see posts by people who have blocked him.
The Democrats I'm talking about have been doing things, not just making posts. I'm not talking about Schumer and Jeffries.
You suggested him after you challenged someone to name a better option than Newsom and they mentioned Pritzker. Were you even aware of Pritzker before then? You're wading in to lecture people about a topic you seem m woefully uninformed about. That's what's driving criticism & hostility toward you.
Other shitty things include going on the modern equivalent of Rush Limbaugh's talk show and making a fool of himself by enthusiastically agreeing with the Republicans' current favorite topics to whip up furor. He's not meeting people in the middle, he's being led around by the nose by Chris Rufo.
Shitty things he does include enthusiastically promoting making it *easier* to round up and imprison people without recourse. That seems relevant in a bad way to the current moment.
And many Dem governors have been doing more than Newsom, he's just very loud.
Newsom doesn't have as much power over redistricting as Abbott does in TX Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York are other blue states considering redistricting. Newsom is just the loudest about calling it retaliatory gerrymandering.
"Literally no one else"? Genuinely, please gain some familiarity with Democrats other than Newsom.
Maybe also look up the hosts of the podcasts Newsom's been making a fool of himself by going on.
Meanwhile, I haven't seen any indication that you're aware of any Democratic politicians besides Newsom and politicians people have told you about today on Bluesky. If true, engaging is a waste of time you could spend becoming acquainted with the Democratic party.
Plenty of trans people have been telling you about Democrats who aren't Gavin Newsom. That's not what people who all uniformly hate all Dem politicians would do.
You're learning the names of so many Democratic politicians today!
Oh god, of course it's fucking NaProTech. There are all kinds of fertility treatments that either probably don't work or are less effective and more expensive than IVF, and the Catholic Church wants insurance to pay for them (and to sway public opinion about IVF, of course).
This is generative AI.
Mortification that someone moved to Iceland for that reason /probably/ didn't play a role in making decisions about how many refugees to admit, but you never know.
A while ago I saw a mention of a Brit who moved to Iceland for that reason. Iceland has since admitted an unusually large number of refugees relative to its population size for a European country (which admittedly is a pretty low bar).
Oh, they /absolutely/ did. I have read similar sentences about weird individuals that occurred in the 90's or earlier, let alone 15 years ago in 2010. That it's appearing in the New York Times seems to be what's new.
Oh, "financial resources" probably also refers to the idea that wealthy alums are more likely to donate if they know their kids or grandkids can go there.
I can unfortunately tell what he's saying, it's that legacy students benefit talented students from non-elite backgrounds by a) paying full tuition that subsidizes scholarships (citation needed) & b) being there for them to network with. It's nonsense, just consider the counterfactual.
This is a really tone-deaf comment to make about something that's explicitly about denying transition care to trans people.
They don't care about the separation of church and state.
They're very explicit that this is about trans people and that it doesn't ban any class of medication when used for other purposes, so no that's not accurate.
Nope, the way this is written allows cis people to receive HRT.
Yeah, their sheets are fantastic but there's a limit to how many sheets I'm going to buy.
Please include the text of the image in the alt text, instead of the uninformative "World Mosquito Day posting".
I think that mentioning the connection to Effective Altruism in the episode description might get more people to listen to it. The EA connection is probably more of a draw now than in June of 2022 when the Worm Wars episode was released.
That was an amazing episode!
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UO athletics are very closely connected to Nike. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_an...
Yeah, he was insistent that the only reason we think that HIV causes AIDS is that "biologists are bad at math". He was an activist for other, far more reality-based things when he was younger, but always in incredibly abrasive ways.
'02, so definitely not!
I have doubts about usefulness on a societal level for Serge Lang specifically, given his AIDS denial activism and general unpleasantness.
I later ran into someone who was a huge fan of his work in an area of mathematics that I don't remember the name of, and he was horrified that anywhere was teaching intro calculus using Serge Lang's calculus textbook.
Lang was Altman's PhD advisor, that would make sense. He visited campus while I was a student and gave two talks, one on math and one on troublemaking. My roommate and I created and distributed bingo sheets for the latter.
The problem is that physics majors aren't the only people who have to take differential equations, you also have chemistry majors, potentially some econ and biology majors, and various engineering majors if you're somewhere with engineering programs.
What engineering discipline has fluid mechanics courses for undergrads? As far as I can tell, physics departments usually don't even bother trying to teach fluid mechanics to undergrads?
I took it twice in order to pass it. The second time I had a professor who tried to include applications but was unfamiliar with common conventions in physics including what units are used, so it was confusing and frustrating for everyone. I think the chemistry majors would have said the same.
Arguably, neither are the people I'm describing.
GenX men who think of themselves as progressives or leftists and think the left/Democrats/etc have lost their way.
He's not there, Niall Ferguson is just talking about him for some reason.
Germany does have state-funded and coordinated programs to promote German technology.
Germany has a massive influence in discourse and practice about climate change and decarbonization.
What does that expand to? The only EBM I can think of is the Evidence Based Medicine method of evaluating medical research which I don't think is what you're talking about.
Organic chemistry and any kind of statistics at all are the classes I most often regret not taking in college.
I did really wish there was a physics-specific differential equations course, something I'm pretty sure the math professors also wished for (along with major-specific courses for other majors that required diff eq and not taught by math faculty).
👀 Neither of the colleges I went to had that class, they did a combination of teaching relevant math in physics courses and requiring math courses as pre-reqs for physics courses, which is how I ended up with a minor in math.
It is amazingly enough still running, I feel very sorry for anyone trans who stumbles upon it early on in looking for information.
My professors were far more polite, but perhaps that was because the department had a shortage of physics majors.
Did you take calculus at the Rock? If you haven't already encountered it, I emphatically disrecommend Serge Lang's _A first course in calculus_ which was the textbook used for Calculus I and II.
I first learned calculus in AP Physics with a similar approach, it was great! I did take a more "traditionally" taught sequence of calculus courses my first year of college. My college physics professors often prefaced math explanations with an apology to math majors in the room.
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Ah, the "it's only imperialism if it's the US doing it" strain of tankieism.
Ritchie Torres has made a lot of strange political decisions!
There are many criticisms to be made of white abolitionists and British anti-slavery policy, but the British Navy was in fact at one point actively interfering with slave trading by (among others) white Americans. Hardly something you can use coherently as a defense of white Americans.
Black former slaves were an integral part of the British movements to ban the slave trade and eventually slavery in the British empire and in countries the UK had influence over. Also, uh, colonial landowners in the future US were a major part of the opposition to the ban of the slave trade.
Good grief, this seems to be a seriously garbled version of the traditional (itself somewhat garbled, questionable, and self-serving) British defense against responsibility for slavery.
Thank you, I wondered about that but was far more certain about Spanish colonizers enslaving American Indians and indigenous people of the Caribbean.
There were numerous slave revolts in the early US and the area that became the early US. White people were terrified by the possibility of them! US policy towards American Indians was profoundly shaped by a desire to prevent cooperation between American Indian communities and escaped Black people.
The Spaniards sure did though.
The argument is that the only children who are *visibly* starving are ones who are particularly vulnerable (false) and that photos of them used to exaggerate how bad things are in Gaza. This is part of an entire genre of hasbara claiming that photos from Gaza are misleading or fake.
Yeah, I know about vat pasteurization because it's better for making cheese. Raw milk advocates talking about vat pasteurization as the lesser evil is new to me.
A lot of organic (US equivalent to bio) milk is ultra-pasteurized for logistical reasons, so many people who try raw milk are comparing it to homogenized ultra-pasteurized milk.
Not sure if you use the same terminology as the US, in case you don't: vat pasteurization is 63 ºC for 30 minutes, flash pasteurization is 72 ºC for 15 seconds, ultra-pasteurization is 138 ºC for 2 seconds.
If you're talking about vat pasteurization versus flash pasteurization, you can get vat pasteurized milk in the US. I really think the people who say that raw milk tastes better should try drinking non-homogenized vat pasteurized milk.
... do they explain at any point in what way they think Bitcoin will make the world a better place or do they expect their readers to take that as a given? This is reminding me of assertions that self-driving cars are a climate solution w/out any mention of how, let alone a compelling argument.
Right, but ivermectin is a pharmaceutical manufactured in large quantities, it's almost certainly easier to divert some of that into your ivermectin selling grift than it is to do anything else.
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Oh yeah, for sure. That seems especially likely if they're buying the flavored stuff for horses.