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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rude⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? Birds got it going on. Meanwhile, we’re sitting here like, “Whew, I’m gonna need a breather after taking that last breath”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rude⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s at least one Himalayan goose out there keeping a tally of climbers they’ve honked off the mountain. It’s not just me who think so, right?

• Rudesh.itjust.works ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i did tho⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s valid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i did tho⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations on surviving the flaying!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith IX⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Break him the way he deserves to be broken, Faith.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think any of what he did was stupid. He wanted to do evil shit to children, he did evil shit to children. The shout-out was a boast, a dogwhistle to other monsters like him, and a thank you to the person who helped him torture children. To him, he was giggling behind his hand because he was getting away with it. He still hasn’t faced any kind of criminal penalty, and it doesn’t seem likely he will, if the American prosecutions for this are any indicator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That Faith. Getting ready to set the world on fire with advisers who were not prepared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fish died, pivoting to Plant Box of Shame⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry to hear about your fish loss. I’m digging your plant hospital, though. It’ll look awesome with some substrate and moss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody needs a hobby!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally true. You can reach inside a cannulated cow, but I definitely recommend the longest pair of rubber gloves you can find. The dishwashing kind will not cut it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enzymes work as 'Maxwell's demon' by using memory stored as motion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It may help to think of it as the authors invoking the idea of Maxwell’s demon to illustrate the elegance of the enzymes involved instead of an actual Maxwell’s demon that would literally decrease the entropy in the system over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LOVE EATING STIR BARS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please tell me these are cocaine condoms and not actual stir bars like I thought when I first woke up and saw this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enzymes work as 'Maxwell's demon' by using memory stored as motion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me preface this by saying I didn’t do well in chemistry. I haven’t gotten any better at it over the years, so I could be looking at this entirely wrong.

  It sounds like these Maxwell’s demon enzymes do the catalysis, which causes enough of a change in their shape that it changes their mobility until they return to their original shape. That temporary conformation gives them better motility. That pushes them away from the products of the reaction, preventing the enzymes from reversing it when things calm down.

  When a system’s at equilibrium, that reaction would reverse as often as it proceeds, so this is the big deal part. By moving the enzyme away from the products, Maxwell’s demons ensure the system doesn’t remain at equilibrium without needing to use any additional energy. They don’t need to kick off a wall to swim away.

  It’s like how you’re not supposed to wear the same bra two days in a row because it wears out the elastic. After having been stretched over your body all day, the elastic stays stretched for a little while and takes time to return to its original shape. It’s not magic, it’s just a property of the material.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is thus true?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can always try!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is thus true?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard to tell how close you are with a snout you can’t feel maybe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨between medicine and this, we do not honour rats enough⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the link. This is really cool work! Search and pre-rescue rats are a small part of what Apopo does: they mostly do unexploded mine clearance and tuberculosis detection! 😳

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A quick way to stop the use of cheap and unsafe products is to introduce legislation that has safety standards and a certification body like UL that they have to meet before they can be sold.

  I totally agree that we have to put in some serious effort to make this a safe and workable thing. I’m not on the libertarian side of things where it’s like, “Pshh! Get the products out there and let the market figure it out!” because… I mean, geez, our housing situation is bad enough without burning down any more of them. But we do need the legislation to get us some movement. We’re more than a decade behind in this area, we’re losing more ground by the day, and our government is doing whatever illegal shit they can think of to try to stop it entirely, and we can’t afford this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate your hesitation. I do think that we’re gonna continue to see the shift in warfare to attacking civilians through infrastructure, like what Russia is doing to Ukraine right now by knocking out the power and heat to homes to kill as many vulnerable people as possible, and we make a much easier target than anything military exactly like you said. The sheer variability in people’s views on personal security is enough to give a person with the drive and smarts a way in, never mind how they actually behave.

  Caution is warranted, and so is starting to legislate and produce balcony solar products. The first model year of any new car is a stress test, and they take the problems owners have had and work to refine it. Similarly, I don’t install a brand new operating system without at least one or two updates under its belt. 😅 We can do the same for balcony solar to harden it against hacking and improve safety, but I think it’s valid to worry about whether or not the grid itself could cope with an attack. Like Jesus, would it ever suck to find out it couldn’t after the fact!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on board. It doesn’t have to be perfectly idiotproof to be rolled out–nothing is ever going to be perfectly idiotproof and we’re already being compelled to beta test things like Tesla’s poorly-designed self-driving software for its ability to handle human drivers and AI companies’ chatbots. Balcony solar has been in wide use in Europe, where many homes are much, much older than ours, for more than a decade now. We can look at their ideas, products, and safety standards and import and adapt them to meet our own needs pretty easily.

  Fire safety is, of course, going to be critical. The way homeowners make decisions when they upgrade is like the Wild West out here, and not every system is going to work for every home. We can only do the best we can in the arena of safety, you know? We make a good faith effort to protect everybody as much as we can, but at some point, the homeowner needs to take responsibility for knowing what their wiring/electric situation is before trying to make big changes to it without an electrician. We lose a few houses every single year from people using turkey fryers improperly despite them having all the information they need not to do that.

  One thing the article doesn’t mention is the computerized station that comes with a lot of these balcony solar systems to ensure proper loading, prevent pulling too much power, and to make sure you’re not feeding the grid when you need the power or pulling power from the grid when you don’t need it. Kind of weird that they skipped over that important piece of fire safety and risk management. There’s also a device called Ting you can get that plugs into your wall and notifies you of fire hazards and electrical problems. (It’s completely separate from balcony solar; I got mine through my homeowner’s insurance and they can be bought online.) Another thing that passing this legislation will help is developing a solid set of safety standards. Without the legislation, there won’t be enough social or political pressure to do it and could slow future adoption down by years.

  Given the strain power utilities are under with the AI bubble, it seems irresponsible that they’re not pushing harder for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bonobos can "play pretend"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang, we really need to control for these confounding variables

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll do it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the future I want to live in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real and True⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, I’m not here to GIS anything. That’s my pinball monitor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intergalactic Disciplinary⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  intergalactic disciplinary disciplinary intergalactic another dimension another dimension another dimension another dimension

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just spent the last 21 months in prison. What did I miss in the world of the Internet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not speaking for OP, but aside from catching up with the world in terms of news and culture, social support is a big deal. Being kicked loose means needing a ride to get to … somewhere to go. Hopefully that’s lined up already. Adjusting to non-institutionlized living takes time and practice. Suddenly not being forced onto someone else’s schedule is a big change and can easily lead someone down into a state of depression. It also means having the opportunity to process the time they spent living in prison. It might not be an easy thing to talk about, and there’s always the risk of well-intentioned (or just uncomfortable and not doing a great job of handling it) friends or family being like, “But you’re out now! Why do you still want to talk about it? It’s over, and you need to move on!” but someone just getting out has just spent however long constantly on guard for any little sign of trouble.

  There are probably a million other things I’m missing from here, but leaving is a massive transition that can be hard to make for a lot of people for a lot of good reasons. Check out the work of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition in California! Unsupported re-entry is something they’ve been addressing for more than a decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mphf⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do I upvote? Do I not upvote? Oh my god, it’s so awful, it’s perfect

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a brain throughout its anatomy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most unnerving meal I’ve ever heard of

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i hate myself and i want to die lol⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨true love is rare⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨true love is rare⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like a dispensing god