Pat @Pat@qoto.org

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #energy #film #movie

Retro SciFi Movie of the Week...

The Absent Minded Professor (1961)

More well-known as a comedy/fantasy, this one actually has a pretty cool scifi narrative.

@Acer

None are correct. It should be "I got stuck..."

@crackurbones

I thought everything did calculus. :)

#scotus #potus #USPol #constitution #populism

Congratulations to Ketanji Brown Jackson for being nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States.

But I'm a little perplexed as to why we're putting another Washington elite on the Court. She was literally born in Washington DC, she's on the board of Harvard, married to a Boston Brahmin and hand-picked by Justice Breyer. Right now there's only one justice on the Court who isn't from Harvard/Yale. God forbid we put someone on the Court who graduated from a state college and actually worked as a retail clerk rather than a SCOTUS clerk.

A populist, she's not.

Although she apparently adheres to the constitutional limits on executive powers, which is reassuring.

@FetidTrash @trinsec

>"a memevirus and government population control agenda"

You say the virus is imaginary, yet it is being used as population control? How can an imaginary virus kill people?

The war in Ukraine is horrible, yet, FYI, more people have died from COVID-19 in the couple of hours since I posted this thread than have died during the entire Russo-Ukrainian war which began in 2014.

@FetidTrash

Sarcasm, I assume.

#respirtor #mask #N95 #covid19 #KN95 #USA

Here's why it is so important to choose a NIOSH-approved N95 respirator.

At the beginning of the pandemic, the US government was not prepared and didn't have enough N95 respirators in its Strategic National Stockpile for everyone in the country. They didn't even have enough for all of the healthcare workers.

NIOSH was commissioned to do a study of internationally sourced KN95 masks and others, so that healthcare workers would be able to assess the efficiency of masks they were getting from non-approved sources. It was a scaled-down version of the testing that the agency does for respirators seeking NIOSH approval, and was for emergency information only -- to be used until the supply of approved respirators was sufficient.

They found that the filtering efficiency for those KN95 masks ranged from about 30-99%, with one mask showing 0% filtration! They also found that 60% of the masks sourced internationally were counterfeit.

This is why it is so important to choose a NIOSH-approved N95 respirator (or N99, N100) from a reliable source. Otherwise you are putting yourself at risk.

NIOSH-approved N95 respirators are at least 95% efficient at removing very small particles and they NEVER have ear-loops; they always use straps that go all the way around the head.

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/respirators/testing/NonNIOSHresults.html

@kefir
Why do you ask?

@trinsec @mc

Don't read too much into my story. It's actually a true story, happened just yesterday.

Re the Russian keyboard... I dont think I'd use one in the first place because of the potential for keystroke logging. (Oops! My paranoia just came back...)

@trinsec

How did you know that ROC stands for Russian Olympic Committee? Did you hear it before somewhere?

@2ck

Normal browning of bread is due to the Maillard reaction, which happens at high temperatures (>250F). This temperature is usually only reached at the very outer portion of the dough because the creation of stream inside keeps the temperature near boiling temp., which is too cool for the Maillard reaction.

When cooks want to brown something without a lot of heat, they can coat it with lemon juice to cause the browning, e.g., on a pie crust.

The browning you saw inside the bread was possibly Fischer esterification using citric acid or acetic acid, which happens at a lower temperature but takes a long time. Or maybe some other esterification process. The esters are probably what gave it that nice smell, too.

Cooks also use the other browning reactions in place of the Millard reaction to avoid producing acrylamide, a carcinogen, which is produced at high temperatures during the Millard reaction.

Yeah, bread crust causes cancer. :)

@trinsec @mc

I just had a desktop system crap out on me. Hard fail -- no video or anything, just motherboard beep codes. With the cyberwar ongoing, I had the same thought...

It turned out to be a drained button battery on the motherboard (which I hadn't changed in years). Easy fix. Paranoia resolved.

@2ck

The extra fat content of the oats helps with the crumbly texture. The citrus acid in the orange browns at a lower temp than the dough, so that's probably why the browning penatrated deeper into the loaf.

#WhoLetTheDogsOut #BahaMen #dogs #cats #men

Everyone knows the refrain for this cool song, but few know the rest of the song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkuu0Lwb5EM

@trinsec

This one was really created by the IOC, I just leaned into it. The photos and the #taiwan tag make it look like Taiwan won all those medals and came in second place, but they didn't.

The statement I made, "ROC came in second in overall medals won at the 2022 Winter Olympics" is technically true, but the context in this toot (and the confusing abbreviations) makes it misleading.

#TruthBeTold

#taiwan #winter #olympics #gold #medals

The truth is...

ROC came in second in overall medals won at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

(source: https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/all-sports/medal-standings.htm)

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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

Pictured:
Kuo Hsing-chun, she won the Gold Medal in weightlifting in 2021, as well as multiple world championships (photo credit 總統府, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kuo_Hsing-Chun_20170907_(cropped).jpg)

Sung Ching-yang, he won two Gold Medals in roller sports at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou (photo credit 阿文, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E6%BB%91%E8%BC%AA%E6%BA%9C%E5%86%B0%E9%81%8B%E5%8B%95%E5%93%A1%E5%AE%8B%E9%9D%92%E9%99%BD.jpg&oldid=442189444)

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populist: n. - a believer in the rights, wisdom, and virtues of the people.
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#ElectionDay #populism #democracy #popularSovereignty #WeThePeople
#misunderstood #words #liberalism
#russia #ukraine #labour #politics #UK #global #USpol

#critters #mole #science #touching #video

The star-nosed mole has tenticles on the end of its nose with a nervous system that can feel something, decide if it's edible, and eat it in a little as 120ms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT9bwMxH_WI

@freemo

Here's a picutre of a buffalo-head nickel I found.

@crackurbones

I got this right!