Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@luisjcarrillom66

Smith deberá enviar a alguien en su lugar para recoger todos sus premios.

@trinsec

We're at about 1,500 deaths per day here. (Hard to tell because now they are messing with the numbers.) In the Netherlands you guys have had close to a million cases in the past month, so it’s a big deal there, too.

A couple of months ago someone flipped a switch and silenced all of our media here re COVID-19. Virtually all media outlets are completely ignoring it, which gives everyone the impression that it’s all clear now, so they take their masks off and people continue to die at an alarming rate.

It’s very sad, because most don’t know how dangerous it is out there and they don’t know how to protect themselves.

This video was taken on April 6, 2022. Now it turns out that she got COVID-19. What a "surprise, surprise, surprise"

Next time wear your respirator, Nancy.

@soundwave @trinsec

>"There is a small cadre of unfortunate people who have the right combination of mental illnesses that they become so obsessed with Star Trek that they legitimately believe they are a character in the Star Trek universe."

If we use the imperfect analogy of fandom/religion, then, there is a small cadre of unfortunate people who have the right combination of mental illnesses that they become so obsessed with religion that they legitimately believe they are Christ or God. The people in these two situations are equally toxic to society and themselves.

But most people just enjoy the show or are enthusiastic fans and get much enjoyment from it. Some even believe that much of the technology they see on the show will one day actually exist.

#covid19 #covid #covid.gov #respirator #mask #masks #vax #vaccine #socal #distancing #WH #Uspol #CDC #CDCP #NIOSH #N95
#science
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Here’s Nancy Pelosi speaking on the crowded floor of the House of Representatives without wearing an N95 respirator.

She is in the line of succession to the presidency, yet she carelessly takes an unnecessary risk by exposing herself to COVID-19 without wearing a respirator.

Ironically, she was talking about how the US is falling behind other countries in science. Duh!

@rgx

>"not anti-anything"

OK

@soundwave @trinsec

I guaranty you that the scientific models we have today that describe the universe are wrong. Two hundred years from now when people look back on what we believe today in science they will say, "What were they thinking?"

So you can't say that science is "true" or actually what the universe is. It's only our best attempt to describe things in a way that tries to predict what nature will do.

Science is applied to technology -- figuring out how to build a better airplane or a better refrigerator.

Religion is applied to the spirit – figuring how to deal with life and each other.

Have you every watched a movie or read a good book?

Why? It’s fiction, so why read it?

Because it’s entertaining or because it tells you something about the human condition in a way that reading a paper on neuro-biology can’t.

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spoiler warning – Tron/Wizard of Oz

I forgot to mention one of my favorities, The Wizard of Oz (1939). Tron was certainly influenced by that film – the protagonist goes to a alternate reality, meets others who together help to kill an evil, autocratic bad guy.

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #dream #world #film #movie #hacker #culture #war #justice #liberation

Retro SciFi Film of the week…

Tron (1982)

This was the first major motion picture to extensively use CGI. The film was targeted at the small, niche market of computer users, as well as others who were interested in the new fad.

This dream/fantasy world narrative was influenced by early literature such as The Odyssey and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Tron had considerable influence on subsequent science fiction films such as The Martix, Vanilla Sky (Abre los ojos) and Inception.

(movie poster image owned by Buena Vista Pictures; low res fair use)

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Tolstoy: War and Peace

Putin: I'll use Napoleon's campaign as my playbook -- invade another country to try to influence their alliances. What could go wrong?

Tolstoy: War and Peace

Me: TLDR

@skells

>"Putin be all"

Are you saying you want Putin to be dictator of "all"????

@icedquinn

Trying to get everyone to dance for the government instead, didn't fix anything -- it made it worse.

UBI seems like the best solution they've come up with so far, but any solution that frees people from the rich is fiercely opposed by the wealthy, so it probably won't happen without a revolution.

UBI = universal basic income

@icedquinn

This actually exits (zero resistance), but for some strange reason it doesn't cause the end of the universe.

It's most practical application is to float frogs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation#Direct_diamagnetic_levitation

#mind #psych #science #language #brain

Choose:

#respirator #COVID19 #vax #vaccine #mask #masks #omicron #delta #BA2 #N95 #cdc

N95 respirators are much more comfortable to wear than cloth masks because they allow more air to flow through them.

So, how can a mask that allows more air to flow through it still filter almost all of those tiny (100nm) viruses?

Here’s an article that explains the amazing science behind the N95 respirator:

https://www.wired.com/story/the-physics-of-the-n95-face-mask/

@iron_bug

Well, then. I guess he wasn't asking what you were wondering then, was he?

@soundwave

@trinsec @soundwave

Religions, like all ideas, are subject to natural selection. Those that provide some utility for people are passed on and continue, those that don’t eventual die out or evolve into something new. So, religions are useful or else they would not exist. They’d die out.

Because we communicate with each other, our internal representations of the world (our “simulations”) are not isolated. Those simulations continually interact and modify each other so that at least some portion of them are common. Otherwise we would not be able to communicate at all.

As our ability to communicate and share the contents of our minds improves and the speed of sharing increases, that common “simulation” portion grows relative to our individual simulations. With improved technology and modification to our brains, at some point in the future that common portion will become the dominant or only simulation. That could be viewed as a single consciousness.

Science has shown that the real universe is not what we actually perceive. There is no solid, static matter as we perceive it. It’s all energy and waves. Even cause and effect may not be a given at the quantum level. So imagining things is essential. Believing in things that we can’t see or understand is necessary to form a coherent “simulation”. Religion is one of the ways that people do that.

@trinsec @faustzero1

Were you running your own instance, or you moved from some other instance to here?