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[SallyM]

Earth vs The Flying Saucers

The belief that the “US government” reverse-engineered alien technology always drives me crazy (and I even roll my eyes at sci-fi stories that involve reverse-engineering alien/future technology). I have an uncle who believes in that shit. I do enjoy being enraged by it, though, as it’s such a fun exercise in thinking about science and technology work. For one thing, all the technologies they point to as the ones so benefiting (e.g. computer chips), are things where we only see incremental im…

[subextraordinaire]

Grammer, miss pellings, tipos, ect

“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.”

[SallyM]

Um.... what.... aka, this is the dumbest thing I've ever read

Not the dumbest thing that I ever read, but the quote below left me scratching my head this morning. Heavy snow could in turn make temperatures feel even colder, since fallen snow both absorbs and reflects the sun’s rays. The linked explanation goes into why snow cover can contributed to actual air temperatures being lower, but doesn’t say anything about a given atmospheric temperature feeling colder, like with humidity. Anyway, I definitely associate a lack of snow with the air feeling c…

[SallyM]

Climate change and climate justice

It always strikes me that people claiming that anthropogenic climate change isn’t real because the climate changes naturally are akin to someone saying, “People die of natural causes all the time, therefore murder can’t exist. Ignore the 30 knife wounds in the guy.”

[MerelyGifted]

Random Silly Grins

“For far too long, Facebook has been a haven for people hell-bent on spreading facts,” said Santos, who said he was making his statement from the International Space Station.

[SallyM]

Because Fuck You metric system

Oh, let’s just call it 1.61. We don’t really need to quibble over that 66 cm! (This post brought to you by an example of how easy it is to change units in Metric.

[awfulhorrid]

[j9c]

Strategies for Survival

PATROL OF THE PINK PANTHERS IN NEW YORK’S GREENWICH VILLAGE, VOLUNTEERS COMBAT A TIDE OF GAY-BASHING September 19, 1990 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/09/19/patrol-of-the-pink-panthers/54b667cd-6265-44af-99a3-f0aaa4ecae36/

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

Coronavirus is real but can’t legally infect you if the American flag in the room has gold fringe around the border. COVID-19 is fake, because a patriot with an assault rifle raided a pizza parlor’s basement and stopped the Democrat Satanist lizard people from using it to turn babies into gayness-inducing microchips transmitted via Jewish space lasers.

[SallyM]

Healthcare PSAs and BSAs

This is just insane to me. I would have done a lot for that shot when kitty was a baby. Or the one they have now for pregnant people to take before the birth. I would have done that! Lot less painful than the steroid shot I needed when we were afraid kitty might be born as a super-premie. We ended up in the hospital twice before kitty was 2 years old once for RSV and once for the flu. Besides the terror of it, the discomfort and pain for our child, and inconvenience for us, it was expensive. E…

[SallyM]

Healthcare PSAs and BSAs

I know this was not said seriously, but it brings up one of my “yes, I will die on this hill” topics. Anything, bar none, that has an effect of human physiology also comes with side effects. Herbal meds are no exception. Echinacea is one such. It actually is a pretty effective immune stimulant, but like most stimulants, it can lead to tachyphylaxis. Basically, your body hates having your foot on the gas constantly and starts to ignore it after a while. You see this with caffeine, where it …

[OWYAC]

My late stepmother was very much into wholistic healing and said “Don’t take echinacea for longer than 2 weeks” and “Herbal teas are medicines; they are not meant to be taken everyday because they can be harmful in the long term”.

[SallyM]

Follow up news

I agree, it’s hard for me to see the data collection of TikTok being more harmful than the data collection on any number of other platforms. However maybe, like other algorithm-optimized social media, the real harm isn’t them collecting your data but in rewiring your brain, training you to watch a never-ending stream of more content, wasting your time, eliminating your ability to maintain concentration, etc. But of course that’s not what the lawmakers were talking about and it’s not a feature …

[j9c]

Elon Musk Destroys Everything

Good thing somebody took a screenshot of it then.

[SallyM]

SCOTUS Happenings

Congress passes a law, SCOTUS upholds it, two Presidents from different parties say “meh…no.” This could actually be the start of a Constitutional crisis. Personally, I think the law is stupid and I think SCOTUS is wrong, but the executive branch ignoring the other two branches is not a good sign for the future of our democracy.

[SallyM]

Google, Meta, X and all the Tech Bros

I know a lot of it, like printing rainbow beer cans or candy celebrating various groups, was just cynical corporate slacktivism, but presumably actual company DEI policies would serve a real function and have real consequences for those who broke them. They’d serve to protect vulnerable groups whether the businesses were sincere or not. Against their will, progress was being made and enforced. Now they know that no higher power is going to swoop down and force them to behave. I suspect it’s goi…

[MerelyGifted]

This is just brilliant…

Because Fuck You metric system

:notes:Do you like frozen iguanas, Falling down like the rain Don’t stand 'neath the trees here , they’re impacting terrain. Avoid taking them inside now , They’re cranky when they awake They’ll scratch and bite once they’ve warmed up, then they’ll try to escape.

[KeybillyJefe]

Totally agree!

Fall of the Fourth Estate: A Critique of Mass Media

Usually, autism self-diagnosis is valid and accepted, but in this case, seriously fuck that guy without lube. I do not believe him to be on the autism spectrum in the slightest. He is not autistic. He is in fact the reason for the jokes about self-diagnosed aspies. He is a narcissistic edgelord troll using the claim of autism as an excuse for why he doesn’t even have to try to be a functional human being, just like those people who use the claim of gluten intolerance to get food specially cooke…

[SallyM]

Possibly untrue science news

Lately I’ve been feeling like the whole flat earth thing is symptomatic of Trumpism as a whole - a million different bits of evidence which obviously prove a thing, that come from simply living in the modern world, all get rejected as part of some sort of grand conspiracy that involves huge numbers of people, and the remaining proofs are too complicated for them, so they get misunderstood/rejected for that reason. They then come up with simplistic, overlapping, incoherent, conspiratorial world…

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

That gesture is actually “scissors”, which Churchill was fond of because his opponents kept playing “paper”. [Churchill scissors, Hitler paper] Look how enthusiastic Hitler is being there!