Erik Przekop @IAmErik@qoto.org
Parent, programmer, amateur astronomer and terrible guitar player.
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Here is my introduction post:
Instead of defining myself by saying “I am a…”, here’s a collection of hashtags that interest me (in no particular order). #meditation (specifically #twim right now) #cigars #bicycling #photography #computerscience #physics #guitar #music .
I live in #Michigan (in #LakeOrion, which is 35+ miles north of #Detroit), and spend a lot of time around #RogersCity (I’ll bet that’s the first time that hashtag has been used on Mastodon). My kids are really bright and sometimes struggle with #ADHD, so I’ll probably talk about that at times as well. I have spent more than 3 decades of my life as a #programmer, and now I get to be the old man who leads really smart people in solving big problems with small amounts of #software.
Joined Nov 2022
It was a beautiful day for a bike ride on the Northeast Michigan trail.
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"The Tragedy of the Commons" was written by a eugenicist and was effectively debunked as ahistorical fantasy decades ago. More propaganda in the service of privatizing public space and resources. Pass it on. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/
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Dark Matter Experiment Fails to Turn Up the Mysterious Particle, but Narrows its Hiding Places
The search for dark matter continues in telescopes at the largest scales and particle detector experiments deep underground. The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) collaboration has published a new analysis of experimental data captured by the detector. They searched for dark matter's interaction with regular matter using Bremsstrahlung radiation and the Migdal effect. Neither of these approaches turned up evidence for the mysterious particle but helped constrain the possible characteristics of dark matter for future searches.
@freemo
Now I'm outraged about the lack of outrage. I'm also middle-aged and white, so there's that.
@freemo
Hah, just realized I misquoted the image in your OP. Sorry. Someone else in this thread said, "millionaires".
@freemo
The money supply and one person's share of it determine economic power. What I'm trying to say is:
1. There isn't much outrage over people with millionaire-level wealth, so the image on your post is a straw-man.
2. The relative size of individuals' assets does have an impact on their well-being.
@freemo
Well, the total amount grows over time, but slowly. If this is addressing wealth disparity, that is indeed a zero-sum game at any moment in time. The more that billionaires have, the less the rest of us do.
I haven't really heard much angst about people with a million or three, though. The outrage tends to be directed at those with outsized wealth, and the outsized control that goes with it.
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@nic
Jet stream, or gulf stream?
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Thank you Musk for adding more reasons to make the move.
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They deserve the Congressional Medal of Freedom.
They literally rescued the election by securing the box containing the election certifications from each state & getting it away from the insurrectionists.
I think of all the photos I've seen from that day this is one of the most powerful of all.
Thank you Ladies.
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@cstross
Wimpy, not won't be. Damned voice input...
It is the space opera equivalent of Gandalf suddenly realizing that he should have just asked the goddamn eagles to fly the ring to Mount Doom. Now he has to scramble to pick up those won't be a little hobbits, Frodo and Sam, and come up with an aerial combat doctrine to fight off ringwraiths as he leads his eagle army there.
Except with space ships.
You're welcome, maggot!
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@freemo
A few demographic factors that may affect this:
* Urban areas have a higher concentration of more educated people
* Urban areas have a higher concentration of non-white people
Education likely affects people's trust in religious leaders (or even awareness of them). Exposure to other ethnicities and cultures likely drives compassion for them.
My point is simply that one shouldn't interpret this as meaning that the blue sections are unfairly dominating the red sections. It may just as easily be interpreted as an uneducated and selfish group controlling the vast bulk of the territory.
@freemo
I was a pretty hardcore Linux user for 6 or seven years. I pretty much defaulted back to Mac and Windows lately, though. ("Lately" being the last 8 years or so.)
One of the reasons I haven't used Linux is that I do like to play games from time to time, and there was very little for that platform. Are you saying that you can run most gaming libraries under wine now?!?
@trinsec @sergeant
Parent, programmer, amateur astronomer and terrible guitar player.
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Here is my introduction post:
Instead of defining myself by saying “I am a…”, here’s a collection of hashtags that interest me (in no particular order). #meditation (specifically #twim right now) #cigars #bicycling #photography #computerscience #physics #guitar #music .
I live in #Michigan (in #LakeOrion, which is 35+ miles north of #Detroit), and spend a lot of time around #RogersCity (I’ll bet that’s the first time that hashtag has been used on Mastodon). My kids are really bright and sometimes struggle with #ADHD, so I’ll probably talk about that at times as well. I have spent more than 3 decades of my life as a #programmer, and now I get to be the old man who leads really smart people in solving big problems with small amounts of #software.
Joined Nov 2022
