Michael Porter @MichaelPorter@qoto.org
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Retired Chem/Physics/Earth Sciences teacher. I'm interested in everything.
I like a good debate that introduces me to other perspectives. I don't waste much time with people who devolve to name-calling or insults, aside to call them out on it.
I think society performs at its best when we take care of others, especially the weakest among us. That means a strong social safety net, with "free" healthcare, education, and public transit. It's a dream, I know.
30+ years of explaining stuff to teenagers has left me with some habits... I'm not a mansplainer, but I *do* like to find ways to 'splain stuff to receptive ears 😊
I like dogs, cats, and astronomy pictures with a bias towards the shorter wavelengths (kinda leaves out all those lovely Hα pics 😄).
The first thing I look at when shopping for cars is headroom/legroom. Saves a lot of time.
UI rant
This strikes me as a massive UI fail on Apple's part (if *anyone* should be getting this right, it's them...).
I'm teaching myself how to use Motion. Lots of little windows and tabs. For some reason, Apple colours the tab(s) NOT in use the same colour as the pane below. How does this make sense???
Affinity Designer, the program I added the annotation in, gets it right. The active tab is the same colour as the pane below.
Climate change, non-political use of the word “notwithstanding”
Despite the climate change crisis, or probably because of it, Ontario has been hit with some nasty cold spells in recent years. Blame the “polar vortex.” This graph shows that, polar vortexes notwithstanding, things are getting warmer.
Made with https://showyourstripes.info/s/globe/
I'll get used to it, but it's depressing how the colour has just completely disappeared from the environment. Just a month ago I was raving about the explosion of fall colours...
Well, I realized one of my retirement ambitions this morning as I listened to the traffic report on the radio, looked out at all the snow, and went back to bed.
The 8-minute delay is because we’ll have to get Bob to move his car out of the way
*Amazing* sunset tonight… My camera was having trouble with the dynamic range. This picture *almost* does it justice 😊
macOS Ventura help request
Having a good laugh listening to this. Do the IgNobels know about this reasearch yet?
- Pronouns
- he/him
- Size
- XLT
- Philosophy
- Humanist
- Politics
- Lefty-Antifa
Retired Chem/Physics/Earth Sciences teacher. I'm interested in everything.
I like a good debate that introduces me to other perspectives. I don't waste much time with people who devolve to name-calling or insults, aside to call them out on it.
I think society performs at its best when we take care of others, especially the weakest among us. That means a strong social safety net, with "free" healthcare, education, and public transit. It's a dream, I know.
30+ years of explaining stuff to teenagers has left me with some habits... I'm not a mansplainer, but I *do* like to find ways to 'splain stuff to receptive ears 😊
I like dogs, cats, and astronomy pictures with a bias towards the shorter wavelengths (kinda leaves out all those lovely Hα pics 😄).
The first thing I look at when shopping for cars is headroom/legroom. Saves a lot of time.
