Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@Romaq

Well, it feels exogenous to me.

@Romaq

I was thinking more along the lines of someone who just spent $44B to buy a sieve.

@DavidDvorkin

Tender.

#fedi #Mastodon #qoto

Who would want Mastodon instances to fight with each other?

@sycramore

Should I try to answer that, or was that a rhetorical question?

(Never mind, I don't think I know the answer anyway.)

@agterrane

https://qoto.org/@Pat/109169467851567573

@DavidDvorkin

I like peas.

@JonKramer

Yes, there are times when the purpose of the evaluation is to actually make an assessment of the person -- when we vote, when we hire someone, when we evaluate the credibility of a source. But usually we can just consider the issue at hand.

@gpowerf @prophetkristy

@gpowerf @prophetkristy @JonKramer

I think, as a society, we need to get away from framing each situation in terms of a personality, judging people and vaulting them or condemning them, when the discussion should be about each specific issue or problem to be solved, not the person.

Thomas Jefferson's owning of slaves doesn't change the majesty of the words he wrote in the Declaration of Independence.

Martin Luther King's womanizing doesn't change the great advances he made in the Civil Rights movement.

Mike Pence denouncing Trump after he led the insurrection against the Capitol, doesn't erase Pence's decision to be his running mate with full knowledge of what Trump was.

Each act is its own; each issue can be evaluated on its own merits or faults.

@gpowerf @acjay

So, what you think about Watson winning Jeopardy? Pretty impressive, isn't it?

@freemo

Who wins when we all fight each other rather than fighting those who actually cause the problems?

@Romaq

@obi

You said, "you can stop 100% of MVA and deaths caused by them if we outlaw cars. "

"cars"

If you read this thread, you will see that I specifically said I was not calling for mandates.

Yes, I know I know the difference between a fit test and seal check. I thought that was clear in what I said.

@obi

>"you can stop 100% of MVA and deaths caused by them if we outlaw cars. "

I don't think that is correct.

>"have you ever been fit tested for a respirator?"

I don't remember if I have or not. I haven't been fit tested since the pandemic started. I just do a seal check after I don the respirator and periodically while I wear it. I use a model that makes it easy to do a reliable seal check without risk of contamination.

>" N-95 is about 95% effective one way, vs estimated 92% for two way surgical"

N95 is AT LEAST 95% efficient at filtering .3u neutrally charged particles (per NIOSH). They are more efficient at filtering larger and smaller particles than .3u. The filter material in surgical masks is about 50-60% efficient, but those masks don't usually make an airtight seal, so in practice they should not worn when there is threat of an airborne, highly contagious, potentially fatal virus, and respirators should be used instead.

If just 40% of people had worn N95s at the beginning of the pandemic, the epidemic would not have taken hold in the US. But now the virus has mutated to a much more contagious strain, so I'm not sure if N95s alone would stop it.

Everyone needs to assess their own risk, but I think anyone who is at higher risk for bad outcomes or people who are around sick COVID-19 patients should wear N100 or P100s.

Yes, people with facial hair around the points where the respirator makes contact with the skin will not get a good fit and should do something else -- shave, isolate, or wear a PAPR, for example.

@LouisIngenthron @freemo @trinsec

I'm pro-anti-alt.

@freemo

I thought "alt-<anything>" meant "we're pretending to be the exact opposite of what we stand for".

@MichaelPorter

This toot was supposed to be in this thread:

https://qoto.org/@Pat/109394366249181461