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Damn, you're a fast reader.

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Alright, here’s my election toot…

When you vote this Tuesday please remember that the pandemic response in on the ballot.

The response to the pandemic in the US is the worst public policy failure in our country’s history. Our elected officials, the CDC and others are responsible for this catastrophe.

- More than one million people have died needlessly (nearly all of those deaths were preventable)
- More people died from COVID-19 in the US than in any other country
- Tens of millions of people are too sick to work (causing a worker shortage)
- Misinformation about respirators (N95 masks)
- Hoarding hundreds of millions of N95 masks in the Strategic National Stockpile throughout the pandemic
- Widespread use of respirators would have stopped the epidemic in the US
- Misinforming people about the effectiveness of the vaccines (no, they don’t prevent infection or prevent spread of the virus)
- Unnecessary lockdowns
- Forced vaccinations
- Confusing mask on / mask off recommendations
- Officials’ response to the pandemic caused a ruined economy and skyrocketing inflation

When you vote, please hold incumbent politicians accountable for what they have done to our country.

In particular, the following Senators are on the committee that is responsible for oversight of the CDC and other agencies that caused all of this suffering:

Jerry Moran (KS)
Tim Scott (SC)
Lisa Murkowski (AL)
Rand Paul (KY)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
Patty Murry (WA)

If you live in those states, when you vote this Tuesday please hold these Senators accountable for what they have done to our country. If you live in another state, please vote for the challenger on the ballot and not the incumbent.

I can’t think of anything more consequential and concerning than the needless deaths of more than a million Americans.

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@JohnCarlson

Thank you for the info...

They were biting and stinging, I watched some of them in action. They were very aggressive -- there must have been a lot of pheromone on me because about a dozen of them followed me into the house and few even followed me from room to room.

Yes, I've been reading about the different venom components, likely due to evolutionary pressure to target a wide variety of animals that could possibly cause them harm.

I spoke to someone else who lives near here who said that they have also been stung by yellow jackets without much pain, so I wonder if we have some kind of mutated line breeding around here that is unable to inject venom properly.

>"If you do get stung again I’d love to hear how it goes!"

I'm a lot more cautious now, so I doubt if that's going to happen anytime soon. :smile:

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@Jewbacchus@octodon.social @aworldinpages

>"same root as english nana or nan?"

Not likely the same etymological roots. Most likely due to how babies hear and learn to speak language. Since the "n" sound is one of the first that they are able to make, they say "nana" instead of grandma. (the "g" and "d" are more dificult to make).

The Hindi word for "grandma" is pronounce"daadee" and a baby would end up pronouncing that as "naanee".

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@TwoDogs

Here, this will explain everything...

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@dichotomiker

Yeah, we're done for now. Thank you.

@trinsec

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Index - Retro Scifi’s of the Week (long) 

Index for Retro Scifi’s of the Week

Dec 2021

Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
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Jan 2022

Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)
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Forbidden Planet (1956)
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Silent Running (1972)
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Feb 2022

Andromeda Strain (1971)
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Soylent Green (1973)
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A Trip to the Moon (1902)
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A Taste of Armageddon (1967)
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Mar 2022

The Absent Minded Professor (1961)
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The Bicentennial Man (1999)
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War of the Satellites (1958)
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I, Robot (2004)
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Doom of the Dictator (1940)
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Apr 2022

Tron (1982)
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Starship Troopers (1997)
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Godzilla (1954)
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12 to the Moon (1960)
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May 2022

The Time Machine (1960)
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Contact (1997)
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The Atomic Submarine (1954)
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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June 2022

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
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Metropolis (1927)
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Supercar (1965)
qoto.org/@Pat/1084870840959889

Cloud Atlas (2012)
qoto.org/@Pat/1085234470913944

AI: Artificial Intelligence (2000)
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July 2022

Virtuosity (1995)
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Battlefield Earth (2000)
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Brainstorm (1983)
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Timebomb (1991)
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August 2022

Radar Men from the Moon (1952)
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Electric Dreams (1984)
qoto.org/@Pat/1088406278302125

September 2022

American Warships (2012)
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Epoch (2001)
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Splash (1984)
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Loss of Sensation (1935)
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Waterworld (1995)
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October 2022

The Island (2005)
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In Time (2011)
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Justin Time (2010)
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November 2022

WarGames (1983)
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@dichotomiker

That's a good point. You're absolutely right.

@trinsec

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@dichotomiker

Actually, you can be Musk if you want, just set up your own.

@trinsec

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@icedquinn

>"When an opponent is accused of perpetrating something with a Latin name it sounds as if he is suffering from a rare tropical disease. It has the added effect of making the accuser seem both erudite and authoritative. (How To Win Every Argument, 2006)"

Well, that's just coitus interruptus.

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@icedquinn

Yeah, I did the math...

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@lupyuen

I agree though, that an long unedited video of an in-person conference is really difficult to watch and forces the viewer to do their own editing by fastforwarding and skiping through that long video.

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@lupyuen

Some people are more visual learners, so they appreciate a spoken presentation. But writing it down forces you to organize the material better.

I think a nice, scripted and tightly edited video presention is a wonderful way to present many topics. But that takes a lot of work and requires certain skills to pull off properly.

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@albertcardona

Yeah, you need to agree on a definition for sure. I think using more precise terms like awareness or self-awareness may help. As you say, the only way to objectively study it and formulate testable hypotheses is to establish correlates to some measurable physical phenomenon like specific neural activity.

Also, I think differentiation between conscious and unconscious thought may be useful also, to compare how that looks as neural activity. But I think they work together on most conscious tasks, so that might difficult to sort out. Unconscious thought is easier to find because the brain enters states where there is no conscious thought at all.

I really have no idea what’s out there in the literature, as I haven’t done much reading on this at all. Maybe all this has already been done.

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movie spoiler - WarGames 

@tuckerteague

Another one, a TV film called "The Day After" was released about the same time as this one, which was more somber and graphic. It was promoted heavily and had a very large audience.

@trinsec @tyAnT

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@yudanta

echo "Welcome" >/dev/stdout

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@lupyuen

They should have used fireworks and set the city on fire.

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movie spoiler - WarGames 

@trinsec @tuckerteague @tyAnT

I tried to paraphrase the ending tag line of the film and messed it up. Here's a clip from the ending of the film with the whole sequence:
youtube.com/watch?v=s93KC4AGKn

(It's funny that when he tells him to enter 0, he types in "zero".)

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@mc

Thank you for that link. That's a diferent species, but I think the mechinism may be the same (an adjuvant degrandulating the mast cells).

I'm finding other studies by following the cites in that study you cited.

BTW, that particular experiment seems especially sadistic, injecting wasp venom into the bellies of mice until they die from the pain and inflamation. Especially considering that 1) the mouse model probably doesn't translate well to humans because the response is an immunoglobulin-specfic response, which itself varies between individual humans; 2) it could have been done in vitro.

I didn't realize that in the 21st century they were still doing those horrible things.

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