Pedro @PedroMiguel@qoto.org

Yearly reminder to not give money to the Salvation Army. It is not a charity, it's a fundamentalist Christian organization that supports anti-queer policies. Support mutual aid resources instead.

#SalvationArmy

News flash: If you outlaw abortions, criminalize providing gender affirming care for trans youth, dictate what educators can teach in schools, and stop people from voting, you're not the party of "limited government."

Dentist: So, do you floss?
Me: Do you use a unique password for every account?

How it started: Life Magazine article, "Throwaway Living," 1955.

How it's going: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 2022.

Veering into #Geology with the latest new graphic looking at comparisons of different minerals with the Mohs hardness scale: https://www.compoundchem.com/2022/11/28/mohs-hardness-scale/

Next year London's ultra-low emission zone will expand across the entire city. Owners of polluting cars will pay £12.50/day to drive in the zone.

To prepare, London is adding bus service and offering a " £110m scrappage scheme" to dump older cars.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/25/ulez-to-be-expanded-across-whole-of-greater-london-from-august

#cars #climate #transportation

#Iran: people in the streets demanding freedom…
#China: people in the streets demanding freedom…
#Belgium: people in the streets destroying things because of a stupid football match…
https://amp.dw.com/en/world-cup-violence-in-brussels-after-morocco-beat-belgium/a-63909568

The Closest view of Jupiter ever taken!
NASA / SPACE X

Nationalism: Being proud of things you haven't done & hating people you've never met.

Many reports of people getting infected when they go to a medical appointment at their doctors office or in the hospital.

Healthcare settings should require masks for healthcare workers and patients.

Please sign this petition.

#covid #science #MedMastodon #MedEd #BringBackMasks

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/require-masking-in-all-healthcare-settings

@BrentToderian Also, the corollary. Congestion happens when their are too many cars. Reduce the number of cars. Trying to deal with congestion by increasing the number of lanes means you are not serious about the need to reduce and eventually eliminate the use of fossil fuels.

this month i finally completed my extreme rainbow checkmate crochet dress 🌈🌈🌈

#crochet #art

Capitalists are little different from monarchists, in that they they take a patriarchal view to those below them.

Both view the workers as their naïve children who don't truly know how the world works, and thus must be protected from the "burdens" of wealth by removing any opportunity to accrue it.

[ #antiCapitalism #socialistSunday ]

Science isn't always right

You heard that right, science fucks up sometimes, pardon my language

Actually, science fucks up ALL the time, constantly, without fail

For every 1 huge success, there are a string of failures.

Does that mean we shouldn't believe in it?

Nope.

Here's the thing

Most of what you believe is probably false.

Most of it.

Humans tend to cling to what they're told as children

People believe the earth is flat

People believe the clouds that form behind airplanes are "chemtrails"

people will defend, in some cases to their death (or someone else's), the existence of a deity there's no evidence for, aside from a nonsensical book written thousands of years ago by people who thought the earth was the center of the universe, didn't understand gravity, and thought the stars were gods watching us.

Because we cling to beliefs, and only change those when someone shows us we're wrong, and only if they show us in a way that makes US feel smart... and sometimes nothing can change our minds, humans are stubborn.

People probably mocked the first car, it was so inferior to a horse, it may go a little faster, but you keep a horse fed and watered, and treat it right, it'll keep you going for a decade, that thing's going to be a pile of rust, and I'll still be trottin along on my faithful steed. y'all are DUMB.

Point being.

Science, like humans, is wrong about a lot.

Difference is, science questions everything.

Science believes nothing.

So when a scientist is wrong, the scientist learns very quickly they're wrong.

And the act of being proven wrong, and wrong, and wrong again?

That's how you find what's right.

Once you've eliminated all the wrong answers, and you can repeat and test, and fail to prove the right answer wrong, you know. This is right.

I've believed a lot of stupid things in my life, I'm sure I still do

But I also know that science always learns the right answers, because it refuses to accept ANY answer, and fights to prove them ALL wrong.

When science fails, you have your answer.

Science isn't in the business of being right, it's in the business of proving things wrong.

Knowledge, from science, is the result of failure.

So if a group of scientists, who don’t like to agree, at all, says "this is true, and here’s the proof it's true, and here’s our peer reviewed studies showing this is true"

You know what peer review is?

A scientist says "I figured this thing out. Here's my evidence, here's my results, here are the variables I used", and another scientist says "HA! I'm going to prove you're an idiot"

and tries to prove the other scientist wrong.

If they fail, they admit they failed, they admit they couldn't prove it wrong. And so on. Many scientists try, and try to prove them wrong.

once all of the scientists have the same results, and all the anomalies are explained, you have a bunch of people pissed off ONE of them was right. Because their job is to prove them wrong. But they failed to, so they all accept the results. A consensus.

So yeah, if you don't trust science?

You're an idiot. It's science.

#Science #PeerReview #Learning #Facts #Consensus #Proof #Reality #ItsScienceBitch

A different perspective...

The marketing function -> Needless consumption -> Extra emissions -> Extra heating -> Ecological devastation including Wildfires -> Charred remains of homes, trees, wildlife.

That's why it's called Black Friday
#BlackFriday
#Enough
#Degrowth

To ensure cars didn’t take back control of #Paris streets as the pandemic was “ending” (no, it hasn’t ended), like they have in so many cities, Mayor #AnneHidalgo made sure that 60k parking spaces and many streets were permanently transformed into seating for restaurants, people places and bike-lanes.

Leadership.

#cities #urbanism #streets #streetsforpeople #peopleplaces #placemaking

A fascinating new report claims that companies like Google and Amazon are losing tens of billions of dollars on their voice assistant devices, despite widespread adoption, because the plan to sell them under cost and then make up the difference in money made from interactions isn't working, because their customers refuse to use the devices for anything that makes these companies money. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-colossal-failure-on-pace-to-lose-10-billion-this-year/#p3

#tech #industry #voice #assistant #alexa #siri #google #loss #bomb #failure

Oversized EVs waste energy (bc of giant batteries) and also endanger other road users.

To address EV car bloat, Norwegian officials have proposed a weight-based fee of NOK 12 ($1.10)/kilo over 500 kilos.

Example: An Audi e-tron would cost ~$2,330 more.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/norway-became-an-ev-paradise-now-it-s-imposing-a-weight-tax-and-bringing-back-the-vat-200685.html

#electricvehicles #cars #climate