TJ @TJ_dacks@qoto.org

Workforce participation for younger people is back to 2019 levels.

We can stop bitching about how "kids these days don't want to work" already.

@Annasaur @steveumstead The onus should *always* be on the company developing a safety-critical system for consumers to *at least* provide crystal-clear instructions and cues to consumers of their product's limitations.

The product name of "Full Self-Driving" is immediately and terminally problematic.

Tesla knows exactly what it is doing with that name and Tesla is acting in Bad Faith.

It is not a side issue.

The safety of automated system depends on *subconscious* mental models after all.

I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”

Here is my dramatized version of the "Sample In The Tube" sequel, which concluded flawlessly in the Vision Station after probing the rego and sealing the tube.

Animation stops at the highly focused points, and ends with a click-clack sealing action 😀

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16 processed, sharpened & cropped CACHECAM images played at 5fps with stops
RMC: 31.0000, Sol: 634
LMST: 21:34:49
UTC: 2022-12-02T12:53:08
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech

#Perseverance #SamplingMars #Mars2020 #solarocks #space

Now I just have to survive Gibbon Tuesday, where a gibbon constantly tries to touch me.

Triumph!

Undistorted, FTW!

#Artemis1 #Orion #Moon #NASA #ESA

@andrealuck

Any moment now, as Christmas and (American) Thanksgiving get closer, people will start posting suggestions of things to donate to food banks and 'Reverse Advent Calendars'.

I can't stress this enough:
Just. Give. Money.

Food banks can usually get more bang for their buck than you can.
They'll probably be able to give you a tax receipt for money, but not for cans.
And it lets them buy, store, and distribute food in the volumes they need and can handle.

(Please boost to make sure people get the message.)

#FoodBanks #FoodInsecurity #Christmas #Thanksgiving #Charity #JustGiveMoney

Solar transit of Martian moon #Phobos lasting 30s, as witnessed by #NASA's rover #Perseverance, in Jezero Crater.

Full 144 frame animation played at approximately real time (3.22 fps).

144 contrast enhanced & cropped MCZ_LEFT images
RMC: 30.1172, Sol: 621
LMST: 13:56:26
LTST: 13:07
UTC: 2022-11-18T20:27:28
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

#Mars2020 #solarocks #space

how do i get back to the federation timeline

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse

🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse

🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

I remember family/friends giving me hell in the late 90s and 2000s because I wouldn’t let them use my desktop PC (at least not very often)

Today those same people walk around with passcode-protected pocket computers (phones) they guard with their lives, and it’s the same exact reason

We’re offloading data storage and cognitive processes to machines, and those contents (like your brain’s contents) should be private by default. We are all cyborgs now—I was just a cyborg earlier than most

After First Contact, humanity was disappointed to learn that while the galaxy was full of space-faring species, there was no interstellar trade.
"No goods are worth the cost," the aliens said.
They returned the next week.
"Those 'books' you gave us, do they have sequels?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

ok time to try out this dang thing

I would like to address the idea that "food companies have scientists whose whole job is perfecting the sweet/salty/fat flavors to make their products ADDICTIVE."

I want to know who really thinks it takes a 4-year degree to figure it out that it's awesome to fry potatoes