Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@stux

***possible spoiler of puzzle question***
(see previous toot in this thread)

I think it has something to do with the molecular adhesion between the water molecules and the molecules of the face of the dam wall. When the stick provides an alternate adhesion surface for the water to follow, it follows the path outward away from the dam wall due to the inertia of the flowing water and the cohesion of the molecules of liquid water. Then the cohesion of the water flowing outward pulls the adjacent water away from the dam water, widening that flow patterns, recursively across the dam.

That's my guess.

@stux

I asked the scientists at qoto.org why this happens.

https://qoto.org/@Pat/109450788410763685

#fluid #dynamics

Ok scientists, why does this phenomenon happen?...

https://mstdn.social/@stux/109450615803341213

(It's a toot by @stux showing a thin layer of water flowing over the rim of a small dam (maybe .5 meters high). When a stick is touched onto the layer of flowing water, it changes it's flow pattern and instead of clicking to the downward side of the wall of the dam it flows outward, away from the dam wall and directly into the body of water downstream from the dam. At first it changes right at the spot where the stick touches, but then in a cascading fashion the new flow pattern ripples all the way across the dam.)

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #film #movie #nuclear #reactor #energy #TMI #military #spies #meltdown #China #core #premonition

Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

The China Syndrome (1979)

I’m not sure if this one is technically a science fiction film or not. It’s about high-technology and it predicted something in the future, so perhaps it is. It came out in the years during the roll-out of the first nuclear power plants. The oil industry and other incumbents were and still are strongly opposed to nuclear energy because it competes with their industries. Some of them were able to trick environmental groups into protesting against nuclear energy. Also entities that opposed the development of nuclear weapons (which usually rely on reactors for plutonium fuel), including peace groups and foreign adversaries also fought the development of nuclear power.

This film is critical of nuclear power, specifically about the possibility of accidents. It was released just a couple weeks before the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident in 1979, which drew much scrutiny because the remarkable similarity between the events depicted in the film and the TMI incident.

Stars in the film include Michael Douglas, who is an advocate of nuclear disarmament, and Jane Fonda who has been a lifelong peace activist. Fonda plays a TV reporter while Douglas is her cameraman. Jack Lemon plays a plant worker who is a whistle-blower.

(fair use image from the film)

This old folk song (probably) started out as a protest song against the harsh conditions under which black slaves worked during the mid-19th century while building out the US railroad system. Dinah was a slang term for a black woman (female slave) during the antebellum. Some minstrel shows played it sarcastically and with varying lyrics, and the song became a point of a cultural wrestling match between sides throughout the rest of the 19th and early 20th century.

This Vitaphone recording may have been the first ever made of the song. The song lyrics in this recording appear to be a blend of lyrics from various versions, probably to avoid taking sides so as to have a broader appeal.

#songs #folk #music

Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah…

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/826058756626127988/

#transparency #tos

Blocking @rdaily for a toot that included a stereotype of the Irish people. (among several other various derogatory toots)

spoiler: see the first toot in this thread before looking here

#NSFW

Dick pic...

@jgg

Okay, here's more context on these...

"There is a shortage of respirators in the Strategic National Stockpile, so everyone has to wear cloth masks instead."
- This statement was made by the CDC at the beginning of the epidemic in the US. The CDC manages the SNS. They know exactly how many respirators are in there. They flat-out lied when they said that there weren't enough.

If just 40% of the population had worn N95 respirators at the beginning of the pandemic, the epidemic would not have taken hold in the US. That's a fact.

"You don't need to wear a mask if you've been vaccinated."
- This was the exact advice from the CDC after the vaccines rolled out to the general public. If they knew that the 92% number was bogus and the vaccines didn't stop the spread of the virus, why would they tell people to take off their masks and cause more spread? Because they lied. They obviously wanted the pandemic to continue.

"When you meet with your relatives this Thanksgiving (2022), just make sure you wash your hands before you hug and kiss them."
- This was the advice from a physician on one of the major networks (NBC I think) giving advice to people just prior to this Thanksgiving.

"The vaccine is 92% effective."
- The effectiveness of every vaccine prior to the COVID-19 pandemic has been specified as a percentage of symptomatic illness. Now suddenly they change it and spec it based on hospitalization/deaths without mentioning that fact when they release the 92% number. They intentionally mislead Americans.

"The vaccine is the best method to fight COVID-19."
- That's the language they used. What does "best" mean? Best for Pfizer's stock price?

The most effective method to prevent the infection and spread of COVID-19 is a properly worn respirator. That's a fact. But I've never heard anyone from the CDC mention that fact. Ever.

"China's zero COVID-19 policy isn't working."
- Dr. Ashish Jha, the head of the WH COVID-19 Response Team said this on ABC's This Week program on Sunday. China has less than 1% of the death rate from the pandemic than the US has. The Zero Covid policy works at preventing unnecessary illness and death. Dr. Jha lied.

Those aren't misstatements or statements made with incomplete information or evolving scientific data. They are lies. The people making them knew they were false when they made them.

Regarding "filters" on Twitter, who decides what to filter? I suspect it was the biggest advertisers on the platform who called the shots as to what was "filtered".

@jgg

You mean lies like these...

"There is a shortage of respirators in the Strategic National Stockpile, so everyone has to wear cloth masks instead."

"You don't need to wear a mask if you've been vaccinated."

"When you meet with your relatives this Thanksgiving (2022), just make sure you wash your hands before you hug and kiss them."

"The vaccine is 92% effective."

"The vaccine is the best method to fight COVID-19."

"China's zero COVID-19 policy isn't working."

and on and on...

Yes, those came from the COVID-19 task force or other expert physicians, spoken to the American public.

#musk #twitter #covid19 #misinformation #truthbetold

Musk ends a policy that Twitter formerly used to remove COVID-19 information that it considered misleading.

Oh my God, what are we going to do? You mean Twitter users are going to have to think for themselves?

***An inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance***

@MasterNinjaTS

I like watching the sky in the early evening or morning to see if I can spot satellites, and to see how long I can track them in the sky.

#fedi #mastodon

Federation Allied to Reduce Turf Skirmishes

@freemo @ceoln

"so far" 😂

@freemo @ceoln

I've already done two of those three things.

#Irish #bigotry #stereotypes

For those of you who may be unaware, the Irish people have been oppressed and discriminated against for hundreds of years.

Here's a well-researched article on the topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment

@rdaily

Is that supposed to be a bottle of booze?

@JonKramer @trinsec

My understanding (I'm not a professional at all in this field), is that an obsessive thought is just something you think about a lot without being able to shake it. You just keep thinking about it.

A fear is something you feel. It causes a physiological reaction, it releases hormones and causes your heart to race -- that sort of thing.

Substitution of anger for other "negative" emotions I think is common, but I've never heard of substituting anger for fear, although I think you could get angry at someone or something that scared you, because it's not fun to be scared (for most people).

Actually, your mouse/coffee connection may not be neither a fear or an obsessive thought. Maybe is just a thought that you get in that certain situation and that's all it is.

@JonKramer @trinsec

This may not be based on any experience you had at all. Sometimes neurons just get crossed, like a misfire. I've had specific activities that I do that will trigger a specific, completely unrelated memory. When it first happens, (the signals crossing), it's so unusual that you notice it. Then that act of noticing it causes a new connection that reinforces that misfire. Then your stuck. Every time A happens, then you think of B.

Perhaps this is what happened for you. Maybe the signal for "coffee" accidentally fired the neuron for "mouse" one time -- as a one time fluke. But now you have burned in that crossed signal.

Just a hypothesis. Yeah, I'm sure the caffeine didn't help.

Is this really a fear, or is it just an obsessive thought?