Pat @Pat@qoto.org

#technology #luddite #cell #phone #mobile #antenna

... and anyone who complains about a cell tower (antenna) will have all of their mobile devices confiscated.

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#EV #electric #lithium #battery #tesla #bolt #CO2 #oil #war

New Rule:

From now on. anyone who complains about the transition to electric vehicles or tries to interfere with the switch to electric, will be prohibited from driving EV's and will only be permitted to drive the old-fashioned putt-putt cars for the next 40 years.

(pic: wikimedia commons, File:Subaru_Legacy_2.5i_GT_1998_(14146561103).jpg, cc2.0)

Here is a short clip from "The Nutty Professor" (1963), about a social-awkward professor (Jerry Lewis). This character (Stella Stevens) is reacting to his unusual behavior.

Available on PlutoTV:
https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/movies/the-nutty-professor-1-1/details

#WWIII #extinction #war #animals #survivalist

If you happen to be one of the "lucky" ones to survive WWIII along with a couple of dozen others, will you try to repopulate the Earth with humans, or will you let the species die out and just give some other animal a chance at it in a few million years?

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #nukethebunnies #film #movie

Retro SciFi Movie of the Month...

Silent Running (1972)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00D5UK6P6
https://www.aparat.com/v/m3Vpn/Silent_Running_1972
https://rakuten.tv/uk/movies/silent-running
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdIBsnm08fE

TL;DR = too lazy; don't read

#trump #potus #maga #traitor #russian #puppet

Should Trump's body be allowed to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda?

ASD = Autism Spectrum Disorder
AS = Asperger's Syndrome
DSM-5 = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition

#world #geopolitics #map #war #peace

Can Mercator projection give someone a big head?

(map from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Worlds_animate.gif)

#dogs #havoc #woof #mib #Shakespeare

Who let the dogs out?

#satire #omicron #covid19 #masks #N95 #respirator

Biden reveals that microphones can prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

(Note: Microphones or food do not prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus.)

Play video clip below, link to the full 2021/11/29 presser is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTzOB11JIw8

Play clip below...

video test

https://video.qoto.org/videos/watch/73eb3180-2ee3-42ec-bf3a-a660dae85e76

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #moon #film #movie #retro

Retro SciFi Film of the Week...

Forbidden Planet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm3MnhzPdIs

Protesters yell, "This is what democracy looks like!"

(Vote for no more than two)

Also...

TFW = that feeling when

UI = user interface
UX = user expereience

#masks #USA #respirators #covid19 #N95 #vax

CDC has published their new guidance for respirators for the public. It's 2707 words long and nearly incomprehensible.

Here's a summary:

"If you don't want to get infected or die from COVID-19, wear a properly fitted N95 or better respirator. Otherwise wear a cloth mask."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/types-of-masks.html

#masks #USA #respirators #covid19 #N95 #vax

More details on the release of N95 respirators from the Strategic National Stockpile. They will be made available for free to all adults at the same locations that the vaccines are given, per wapo.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/19/free-n95-masks/

#TruthBeTold
#volcano #lava #geology #science #radioactive #isotope

The truth is...

The heat from lava is mostly from radioactivity.

#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)

clips from "The Blob" (1958), courtesy Sony Pictures Television via fair use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPcENicggBA

#abbreviation #disambiguation

25A = 25th Amendment, etc...
2A = Second Amendment (to the US Constitution)
abbr = abbreviation
AI = artificial intelligence
A = amps
BBC = British Broadcasting Corporation
BFG = Big Friendly Giant (or Big Fucking Gun)
blm = Black Lives Matter
btw = by the way
CCP = Chinese Communist Party
CDC = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDCP = the correct abbr for CDC
deco = decompression (scuba diving)
DFS = Dynamic Frequency Selection
disam = disambiguation
DS9 = Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
EMI = elecromagnetic interference
EM(R) = electromagnetic radiation
epr = Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox
FDR = Franklin D. Roosevelt
fedi = fediverse
FWIW = For what it's worth
HGV = Hypersonic glide vehicle
IR = infrared
JFK = John Fitzgerald Kennedy
JPL = Jet Propulsion Laboratory
lol = (I am) laugh(ing) out loud
ms = millisecond
N95 = NIOSH rating for respirators (95% filtration)
N99 = NIOSH rating for respirators (99% filtration)
N100 = NIOSH rating for respirators (99.97% filtration)
NASA = NASA (everyone knows what NASA is)
NIOSH = National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NPR = National Public Radio
OP = original post, original poster (the first post in this thread)
potus = President of the United States
qcd = quantum chromodynamics
qed = quantum electrodynamics
qm = quantum mechanics
ROC = Tiawan, Republic of China
scifi = science fiction
scotus = Supreme Court of the United States
scuba = self-contained underwater breathing appartus
STE(A)M = science, technology, engineering, (arts), math(s)
TIL = Today I learned
tmux = terminal multiplexer (a Linux utility)
TNG = Star Trek: The Next Generation
TOS = Star Trek: The Original Series; also, "Terms of Service"
u = micron (or micro-)
usec = microsecond
UTC = Coordinated Universal Time
V = volts
vax = vaccine
W = watts
wrt = with regard to
wtf = a profane exclamatory interrogative
www = World Wide Web

Sat image of the Tonga volcano eruption showing the pressure wave. Total elapsed time shown is 100 minutes. #volcano #nasa #eruption #tonga