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sadly, it's very overcast in my neck of the woods, so no eclipse for this boy

had another go at bagels. they're actually worse than last time in terms of presentation, partly because they weren't properly submerged, but the taste is on point : cinnamon sugar and raisin

#baking #bread

Don't forget the total lunar eclipse tonight (very early morning on the other side of the Atlantic)
https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2022May16T.pdf

#astronomy #lunareclipse

@heavensfeel I think you're kidding... but I've got some hope for cryptocurrency if it can be backed by actual value. iirc, cryptocurrency is mined by solving a useless but expensive-to-solve problem: it would be great if you got a coin by proving you have some actual goods or services... like a kind of technologically enhanced barter system. like, governments pay you in IOUs for government services that you can trade for other services. the currency system then becomes a system for addressing and assessing value for an exchange plus a system for retiring tokens of value (e.g., if you exchange government-service-tokens for actual government services)

I've thought about this for literally all of 8 minutes, so it's probably a dumb unworkable idea

New #DrWho actor announced: https://www.prfl.net/2022/05/sex-education-star-shuti-gatwa-will-be.html?m=1

should be interesting. Gatwa's character in Sex Education was very energetic: curious whether he'll bring the same kind of energy to this role. At least we know he'll be a Doctor with style 😄

I wish I had the cajones to say things like, "#crypto has won". that's a level of confidence about the future I've never been able to muster. I barely have a grasp on the present in a global sense

@Nika2022 @lupyuen I think you can take a more measured perspective on that: different investments do have different levels of risk and most brokerages have loss-limiting mechanisms (e.g., stop-loss/-limit orders) you can set up in advance to prevent losing *all* your money in stocks

@lupyuen disappointing that they can't even get straight the name of the deceased. also, there are obvious ways to prevent objectionable content from going to children through content filtering and age verification

NASACast Audio: Gravity Assist: How to Grow Food on the Moon
Starting from: 00:00:29

Episode webpage: http://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/gravity-assist-how-to-grow-food-on-the-moon

Media file: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/audio/gaannalisapaul.mp3#t=29

@MissInformation I'll be that guy: this meme is backwards since he has perfect vision in this scene, so the glasses would make the picture blurry

@mufle well, ArcGIS comes to mind. also Oracle spatial DB. IDK market share, but they're pretty big players @tykayn

@lauraritchie historically, I've always had to draw out the curves myself in Inkscape or whatever