A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org
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Does the US have a planned economy? You might be surprised.
TL;DR: Yes, but by a handful of corporations, not by government.
https://theconversation.com/does-the-us-have-a-planned-economy-you-might-be-surprised-228765
> New research finds that the top 1% of American companies control 90% of U.S. production-related assets and account for 80% of sales revenue. This means a relatively small number of companies are responsible for the majority of U.S. economic activity.
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hi everyone, does anyone know of a beginner-friendly 'ethical hacking' course? i'm fairly new to the topic and feeling a bit overwhelmed, so i'm looking for something that's easy to understand and start with. thanks!! :)
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It turns out that indoor #gardening can help boost immune systems. #Science #Health #COVID19 https://www.ecowatch.com/urban-indoor-gardening-immune-health-soil-microbes.html
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Soon the telescope platform at ESO's Paranal Observatory in #Chile will look very different at night: all four of the 8.2 m telescopes of the VLT will be equipped with lasers! This is one of the ongoing upgrades of the GRAVITY+ instrument, which will allow us to study black holes, stars and planets like never before.
Find out more in this great article by current and former ESO communication interns Elena Reiriz Martinez and Tom Howarth: https://www.eso.org/public/blog/gravity-leap-vlti/
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Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat | Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.
https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash
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hopefully "simple" question about effect sizes for those who are used to calculating them
I've been asked by a reviewer to calculate effect sizes for various tests we have in a paper. This is fine in the 2 sample case and makes sense to me, but for some of the analyses we use Levene's test to check for heteroscedasticity between \(k\) groups. The internet suggests that I calculate pairwise effect sizes between the groups, but this feels odd to me. Has anyone done this before and can provide any guidance? Thanks in advance!
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I've seen discussion around several in-person only events lately, where the organisers justify it by saying they can't get the best quality of conversation online.
Well, you can't get any of my conversation at an event I can't get to.
An in-person event that you have to travel to excludes people with caring responsibilities, disabilities, and limited funds.
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"The big revelation here is that the risk persists for 3 years in several organ systems (e.g. GI and nervous system) even 3 years after a mild infection.
Healthcare professionals are taught that acute infections as short-term events with health effects that manifest around the time of infection.
The data challenges those teachings and shows that mild #Covid can still cause health effects even 3 years later.
Acute infections can have long-term health effects.
Covid continues to teach us something new at every turn and this is one very important new lesson.
Why is this be happening?
Possibly viral persistence (perhaps far more common than most people think), chronic inflammation or chronic immune dysfunction or all the above. ...
I want to make it clear that most people with Long Covid had mild COVID-19.
In fact, 90% of people with #LongCovid had mild
#COVID19. "
- Ziyad Al-Aly
Not really. Contemplating Tampa/Orlando freecycle even though they're both hours away and just putting it in the driveway after we move to see what gets picked up.
I have tried every one within two hours of us. There's one that I've been donating their max of 15 boxes per pickup to about once a month since last year. They won't take any furniture. I've spent countless hours trying to find a way to get rid of it. We're pretty rural in Florida, and I can't find anyone.
I recognize that I don't have a whole lot of bandwidth during a move and all, but this whole thing really blew my mind today. What a place to end up.
Oh, geez, I left out from the above that his wife still is a science believer and he now lives in a modified shed in the backyard of his house while his wife and two kids live inside...no wonder he needs furniture 😬
This really turned into a real life cautionary tale of the rabbit hole for me. All I knew was that I hired this guy in 2016-ish and that he quit in 2021-ish. By 2021 I'd given up day to day office details and I guess I had no idea what happened.
Turns out this is a whole descent into madness brought about by the pandemic. He resented "lockdowns"(yes, I know there was not really any such thing) and started railing about teachers being "lazy" when his kids went virtual. He hated the fact that I, and others in charge, had implemented a COVID policy at work that at the time he quit that probably involved no work related travel and masking(people who have to work in a lab can't be fully virtual). This is all quite the opposite of other people that I know quit around that time because they didn't want to get COVID and wouldn't come into a lab.
Now I guess he has an MBA and attends school board meetings with Moms for Liberty and rails on about how there needs to be bibles in schools and whatnot. I never would have thought it for a minute, but, I guess that's the path from science to insanity.
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May 30, 2024- “COVID can cause new health problems to appear years after infection, according to a study of more than 130,000 patients” - https://fortune.com/well/article/covid-cause-new-health-problems-years-after-infection/
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A third U.S. farm worker infected with bird flu is the first to experience respiratory symptoms
A third human case of H5 bird flu tied to the ongoing U.S. outbreak in cattle has been detected in a farm worker in Michigan, state health authorities confirmed on Thursday.
https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/30/bird-flu-third-case-human-infection-caused-respiratory-symptoms/
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There’s a lot of things I don’t understand, but here’s just one:
#Covid killed over a million people in the US and is still going strong.
Why does nobody talk about it?
That’s roughly 1 in 300 people.
You would know at least someone who died of it. Is it mass trauma?
Apparently I started something, because I haven't even told anyone else this yet and I just got a text from someone else:
"He drives a cybertruck now and quotes Elon Musk all day. Sorry, could have warned you 😂"
What a world.
I'm sure you're right, but I was terrified to dig into it any further 😂
I've looked at my phone at least 5 times thinking "Did that really just happen?" I hired him and worked in science with him for 5 or 6 years. Just mind blowing.
I just had the most mind-blowing conversation with a former colleague. Long story short, we're downsizing on our move and I'm trying not to send a whole bunch of perfectly good used furniture to the dump. I've contacted everywhere that I could theoretically donate it, and they're not taking any furniture. I've contacted every used furniture store, and they all say they're overstocked. One told us, "I'm going to sit here and take this exact phone call all day today." So I reached out to my contact list on my phone to see if anyone needed anything for free.
One person, whom I guess I haven't talked to much lately, ends up saying they could use something and I tell him we'll leave it in the driveway for him next week. The conversation ends up with me saying that we're avoiding as much indoor, face to face meetings as we can during this move.
He says, and I quote from the text, "You don't really believe in COVID, do you?"
I reply, "Yeah, the science is pretty straightforward."
He says, "Scientists are just conspiracy theorists."
I say, "You're a scientist. I know this because I hired you and you have a degree in biochemistry."
He says, "That was before I got my MBA and realized how the world really works. Science isn't real."
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Moved full time to my other account @BE soon as this instance is still having issues.
Joined Nov 2022
