Pat @Pat@qoto.org

TIL what "sauce" means in internet slang.

Source -- Internet slang, often used when requesting the source or URL of an image or other posted material.

TIL = "today I learned"

#sauce #internet #slang #source #url #link

#truthbetold

No one has ever dug a hole in the ground.

#Earth #sphere
#topology #definitions #math #volleyball #dig #hole #to #China #teeshirt
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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)
pic Attribution: Hänsel und Gretel

I posted this in response to this thread:
https://qoto.org/@freemo/107295982688801818

The question conflates terminology between common usage and terms used in a specific branch of mathematics.

You have a volleyball without defects. You poke a hole in it. How many holes does it have in it? (excluding the fill valve - assume there is no fill valve)

#math #topology #words #definitions #holes #context #arbitrary

Does Delta serve Corona on their flights to Wuhan?

#satire #delta #corona #wuhan

#acronym #disambiguation

STEM = singing, theater, entertainment, and music

#abbreviation #disambiguation

btw = by the way
wrt = with regard to
wtf = exclamation (not "why the fuss?")
CDC = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
N95 = NIOSH rating for respirators (95% filtration)
NIOSH = National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
qed = quantum electrodynamics
qcd = quantum chromodynamics
qm = quantum mechanics
blm = Black Lives Matter
vax = vaccine
fedi = fediverse
scotus = Supreme Court of the United States
potus = President of the United States
AI = artificial intelligence
scifi = science fiction
epr = Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox
2A = Second Amendment (to the US Constitution)
25A = 25th Amendment, etc...
JPL = Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA = NASA (everyone knows what NASA is)
FDR = Franklin D. Roosevelt
JFK = John Fitzgerald Kennedy
DS9 = Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
TNG = Star Trek: The Next Generation
TOS = Star Trek: The Original Series; also, "Terms of Service"
CCP = Chinese Communist Party
ROC = Tiawan, Republic of China
UTC = Coordinated Universal Time
NPR = National Public Radio
BBC = British Broadcasting Corporation
OP = original post, original poster (the first post in this thread)
IR = infrared
lol = (I am) laugh(ing) out loud
STE(A)M = science, technology, engineering, (arts), math(s)
EM(R) = electromagnetic radiation
EMI = elecromagnetic interference
A,V,W = amps, volts, watts
u = micron
usec = microsecond
ms = millisecond
www = World Wide Web

>it's the same thing as what you watch from a streaming service.

More grammatically correct:
"...it's the same thing that you can watch from a streaming service."

#grammar

BTW, the movie that you watch in the movie theater was sent over the internet and it's displayed on the movie screen using a digital projector... it's the same thing as what you watch from a streaming service.

BTW = by the way

Why on Earth would anyone go to a movie theater in the middle of a pandemic?????

There is no interaction between the people other than that they are all breathing the same air.

If there is anything that could be done online just as well as in person, it's watching a damn movie!

#COVID #COVID19 #vax #vaccine #mask #masks #movie #movies #social #distance #remote

continued from: https://qoto.org/@freemo/107264847091092093

DS9 didn't have as big of an audience as TNG because the marketing/distribution folks didn't promote it as much, possibly because of the black lead character.

#DS9 = Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
#TNG = Star Trek: The Next Generation

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-ds9-voyager-paramount-promotion-marketing/

#BLM #startrek

#COVID19 #vaccine #vax #mask
#RespiratorsAreBetter #usa

In the US, more people have died from COVID-19 since the vaccines have been available than died from COVID-19 before the vaccines were available.

Respirators actually work.

Germany and Austria required FFP2 respirators and had a mostly flat death-rate this year.

The CCD in the US told people to take their masks off and the death rate soared.

#COVID19 #RespiratorsAreBetter #respirators #masks #FFP2 #N95 #vaccine

Originally published Nov 3, 2019...
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The truth is...

Little Miss Muffet had no idea what a "tuffet" was even though the term was used in her eponymous nursery rhyme to describe her posture.

#world #literature #TruthBeTold #food #regression #curds #whey #cheesy #spider #tuffet

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#truthbetold

The truth is...

When doing building inspections, fire marshals often overlook the use of flint as a building material.

#zippo #flint #fireman #building #code #archeology #spark #flintlock #lighter #cryptocrystalline

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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)

Literal shitposting...

Here I sit, broken hearted,
Tried to shit, but only farted.

Could be worse, you must admit,
than if you try to fart and instead you shit.

#biden #USPol #BidenPoopyPants
#Biden #PoopyPantsBiden #lgb

This image is from wikimedia commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LA_smog_masks.jpg).

It's ~1954 and shows people wearing gas masks to protect themselves from the LA (Los Angeles) smog. During the 50s and 60s in LA the accumulated air pollution from gasoline cars was so bad that it caused peoples nostrils and lungs to burn.

Basically what Beijing is going through now.

Ironically, this is a meeting of the "Optimists Club".

Don't forget to wear your masks for Halloween.

#mask #halloween