George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org
Father, Fiancé, Volunteer EMT, (conflicted) Veteran, Computer Geek, Perpetual Student. Command line kind of guy (he/him) Very amateur woodworker, crude sketcher, proud nerd, liberal, wished I knew more math and science.
I’m willing to be wrong, certainty often means that I don’t actually understand the problem
Joined Nov 2022
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Fantastic accomplishment!♥️👍🏿
https://19thnews.org/2023/07/chanda-prescod-weinstein-physicist-tenure-rare-feat/
And when she tried to join the Fediverse, she was greeted with a barrage of hate, sexism, racism, and anti-semitism that should have never been allowed to happen.
So now no one on Fediverse gets to interact with her directly about her work on here. Our loss. 😢
Which is why we'll make it so that this type of terrible welcome is unlikely to happen again. Allowing it to happen to her was a choice. We will make better ones.
Poor boy! I hope he’s on the mend and your weekend gets better from here
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TIL: Under the UK Animals Act 1971 cats are legally classed as 'free spirits' meaning no claim of trespass or causing damage can be brought against the owner. I kinda love that cats are SO uncontrollable a whole new category had to be created for them under law.
Happy anniversary! Congratulations!
It’s might not strictly be a zero sum within a company (presumably it’s value goes up and down) and sure, a company can increase its value and we would typically expect that gain (or loss) to be sent to the owners of that company.
On the employee level it feels like it’s closer to zero sum though, and maybe that’s just a perception thing. While relative CEO pay has gone up over the years I guess you can’t necessarily disentangle whether that increase comes out of the pool of wages available to all employees or whether it’s coming out of the pool of money that could be going back to investors. I guess I should go see if economists have any papers on that
I mostly agree with your original point that on the macro level that wealth isn’t a zero sum game (though it can certainly be a lot closer to one within a company).
Saying that the existence of rich people isn’t a red flag is a different and interesting argument, but I don’t want to hijack your thread
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For the third time this year a story about a cis girl seeing a trans woman naked in a YMCA locker room has fallen apart as more details became known.
Abbigail Wheeler saw two trans women sitting on a bench talking in their bathing suits, but never saw them change. She posted hateful signs targeting them and her family canceled their YMCA membership and pulled her from the swim team rather than allow her to face consequences for her behavior. #trans #news #journalism
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/illinois-ymca-wheeler-protest-transgender
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In 1992, Sinead O'Connor tore a picture of Pope John Paul II in half during a performance on SNL in protest against generations of abuse toward children within the Catholic church.
Bless you, Sinead.
Welcome to Heaven.
That sounds awfully familiar 😎, my working life is filled with brain cramps like that
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Happy Rotating Black Hole Day!
Roy Kerr submitted his breakthrough paper describing the spacetime around a rotating black hole #OTD in 1963.
Physicists had been searching for decades for this solution to the field equations of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.11.237
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@BigAngBlack @BlackAzizAnansi There's a really good 99 Percent Invisible podcast about this.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/freedom-house-ambulance-service/
@justyourluck @blogdiva @samhainnight
I’m against hiding anything that reminds us of the day to day racism around (and in) us behind a CW. I get that not everyone agrees with that, but it’s my opinion
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In your responses to anyone anywhere, I would ask you to remember there is a difference between "I see your struggle and I want to be helpful to you" and "You're doing it wrong and I want to be the one to say that to you" and also a difference in how they will be taken in by others. If you don't know the difference between the two (or don't care), perhaps it would be best for you not to say anything at all.
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Astronomer Vera Rubin was born #OTD in 1928.
Her work on galactic rotation curves became one of the main pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter, and she deserved a Nobel Prize for it.
Image: Vassar College / Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
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I will never not share this story whenever it crosses my feed. Never.
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The monarch caterpillars in our garden haven’t been surviving over the past two years & I shared my disappointment with a friend in horticulture. It may have been due to neighbors pesticides, predators, or some other factor.
She suggested collecting caterpillars just after they hatch, and providing fresh milkweed leaves daily in a protected mesh enclosure.
This morning we awoke to this wondrous surprise!
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Demonstration of how vibration can cause an improperly torqued fastener to come loose
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I bet my girlfriend that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.
She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 13 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle so hard to comprehend large numbers.
Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.
Father, Fiancé, Volunteer EMT, (conflicted) Veteran, Computer Geek, Perpetual Student. Command line kind of guy (he/him) Very amateur woodworker, crude sketcher, proud nerd, liberal, wished I knew more math and science.
I’m willing to be wrong, certainty often means that I don’t actually understand the problem
Joined Nov 2022
