ragica 2w ago • 100%
LNG = liquified natrual gas
ragica 1mo ago • 33%
If you're punching with you fist, you are probably punching wrong.
ragica 1mo ago • 96%
Amazed to see this. New old house. Used oven for first time. Some sort of stench and black gunk dripping from top heat shield. Gas stove. Investigate. Pull out pieces of a gun. Glock or something. Previous owner stops by for mail (unusual situation). I had over the melted pieces, "you forget something in the oven?" "Oh shit. No problem, I can fix it." "uh.. Okaaaaay... "
ragica 2mo ago • 100%
After a month of neglect my garden is compete chaos. I am (more-or-less) fine with this. It is better to have grown and lost, than to have never grown at all. As they say. Or something like that.
ragica 2mo ago • 98%
As long as the backdoor is licenced GPL what's the problem?
ragica 3mo ago • 100%
Been meaning for years to harvest some seeds from a big patch of nettles growing not far from here on a country (canada) roadside. Then this spring someone decided to cut all the grass and weeds back along this road... the nettles disappeared. I watched for months and months hoping they would re-appear. I had almost given up hope, but finally just in the last month they have slowly appeared again by the edge of the cut. A meager little growth, compared to what I was. Will I ever harvest any seeds? All I know for sure is that I will continue to intend to.
ragica 3mo ago • 100%
Similar recipe:
Chop nappa cabbage
Couple of packs or ramen broken up.
Ramen seasoning powder.
Chopped or slivver almond
Sesame seeds.
Green onion / scallion
rice vinegar to taste
ragica 3mo ago • 100%
Coincidentally just just watched this Gutsick Gibbon (primatologist) vid which touches on this a bit (though not the main topic). https://youtu.be/dy7_LousWVo
ragica 3mo ago • 100%
Emerald damselfly, or migrant spreadwing. Nice pic.
ragica 3mo ago • 98%
Never have a seen a more visceral illustration of the brutal dangers of ai.
ragica 3mo ago • 100%
Chocolate and famous name brand cola?
ragica 3mo ago • 100%
Unfortunately your stats link appears to be paywalled, or at least requires login to see the graph?
ragica 3mo ago • 100%
The annoying part of this for me is that Gates' name needs to be dropped in, presumably to get attention. But so it goes.
It's interesting to see that the concept of butter in the comments seems to be a significant trigger for a bunch of people (in the /c/science posting of this article). This is another level to the problem.
But the main problem which no one seems to have commented on (maybe because it is mentioned at the end of the article) is, like many animal product substitutes, production cost and scaling.
Animal products are so embedded and subsidised (and/or at least true externized costs ignored), and politically connected, potential eco-friendly alternatives like this have a really extra hard time getting off the ground even if I could one day be cheaper.
ragica 3mo ago • 100%
This may be a logical fallacy known as false equivalence, when one fact is stated or implied to be conflated with another not directly related fact.
ragica 3mo ago • 100%
Some alternate suggestions might be nice.
ragica 4mo ago • 100%
Here is the novelization of the cartoon... sort of. As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem.
ragica 4mo ago • 100%
Ha ha, maybe. The article is pretty short. However, the actual paper linked at the bottom of the article is titled "Hamiltonian cycles on Ammann-Beenker Tilings" (unfortunately I can only see the abstract), so the original authors are also responsible!
It's my thinking that the key point of thr Hamiltonian cycle in this context is it visits nodes only once thereby creating a unique path. The trick here seems to be then joining those paths for a collection of subgraphs? I'm really not sure. It's a bit beyond me, but I find it interesting to think about.
ragica 4mo ago • 100%
What are you talking about. Everyone knows polls are the best way to determine what is or is not a myth. That's why that TV show Mythbusters failed so miserably and is off the air now. Too much fiddly experimentation and sciency mumbojumbo, and not nearly enough polls. It really helps if the polls ask pointed questions about hot button issues with little to no context also... So people aren't confused or have to think too much (which also is a form of dishonesty when you think (but not too much) about it). Pretty sure there is a poll out there somewhere that confirms this.
ragica 5mo ago • 100%
My god, at this rate UTC+1 and UTC+3 will dominate the whole world by 2223!
ragica 5mo ago • 100%
Interesting perspective, but I'd tend to argue that the technologies such as WiFi have massively increased inclusiveness and accessibility for magnitudes more people than it has raised issues for.
WiFi, for example, allows libraries to offer servises 24 hours a day without the need to physically enter the building. Wirh such openness comes some security and resource sharing challenges, and metimrs addressed by throttling or overly aggressive firewalls. But for nearly everyone the expanded accessibility has been fantastic.
I am also concerned with outsourcing. But worried about cloudflare are pretty far down the list. Adobe controlled DRM on most ebooks, and even third party cloud based catalogues, are way more concerning. But unfortunately these happen to be the most cost effective way the limited funding of libraries can manage in many cases. I hate these circumstances but it seems to me the compromise is providing more access to more resources for more people, not less.
This is not to discourage always better ways and more freedom and efficiency. But overall I just can't see how the issues you cite are excluding people more than helping include more people.
Lets face it, the half dozen people per million (if that) who care about the FLOSS status of thier WiFi hardware's firmware, probably are technically capable enough to find a way to access library resources securely more than most people!
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Jupiter may be the stormiest place in the Solar System, but Saturn's no slouch either. A new study has found that the ringed giant also has persistent megastorms that can last a century and leave deep atmospheric scars that last much longer. An analysis of radio waves emitted by Saturn conducted by a team of astronomers led by Cheng Li of the University of Michigan has revealed long-lasting signatures of giant storms, including equatorial storms that took place hundreds of years ago. This is a fascinating insight into the dynamics of Saturn, and can help us figure out the cause of the strange megastorms that rage every few decades...
Study link: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.29.23292056v1
Charged cosmic rays, high-energy clusters of particles moving through space, were first described in 1912 by physicist Victor Hess. Since their discovery, they have been the topic of numerous astrophysics studies aimed at better understanding their origin, acceleration and propagation through space, using satellite data or other experimental methods. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) collaboration, a large research group analyzing data collected by a large magnetic spectrometer in space, recently gathered new insight about the properties and composition of specific types of cosmic rays. In a new paper, published in Physical Review Letters (PRL), they specifically unveiled the composition of primary cosmic-ray carbon, neon, and magnesium, along with the composition and properties of cosmic-ray sulfur.
Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm to help our authors, publications and readers find a home in the fediverse. Mastodon is an emerging force for good in social media and we are excited to join this community.
It's an interesting approach. While plastic is (mostly) not directly toxic to us, the argument that it is toxic to the environment seems scientifically sound. The classification allows for more regulation and pressure on an industry which have proven (as usual) extremely ineffective at regulating themselves, to the cost of all of us. And when you think about plastic as a direct product of the petroleum industry things just worse. Looking at the [CEPA](https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/canadian-environmental-protection-act-registry/substances-list/toxic.html) web site it currently only lists "micro plastic beads". But I got a [government link or the order](https://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2021/2021-05-12/html/sor-dors86-eng.html). It reads "Plastic manufactured items" and goes into great detail on the rational and background. Coincidentally I saw another story today:[Twenty firms produce 55% of world’s plastic waste, report reveals](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/18/twenty-firms-produce-55-of-worlds-plastic-waste-report-reveals).