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- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
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- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
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- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
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It is simply not possible to evacuate over one million people in 24 hours from the zone of attack in Gaza. The answer to horrific atrocities by Hamas cannot be collective punishment upon an entire population, 50 percent of which are children.
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I love the simple FidoNet BBS rules. There are only two:
• Don't be excessively annoying.
• Don't be easily annoyed.
I was a FidoNet Sysop in the mid 90s and I can verify that the rules worked. Word to live by.
I got [Nerd Sniped](https://xkcd.com/356/) this afternoon when a co-worker asked if I could explain the difference between a test and an experiment.
Anyone want to weigh in?
The Tusky app for android respects Qoto's longer character limits.
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I used to be a functional programmer like you, but then I took a monoid in the category of profunctors to the knee
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Just a reminder, #Israel (along witht he hamas) both have a well recorded history of using children as human shields during military conflicts, targeting civilian populations recklessly, enacting punishment intentionally on civilians, and generally engaging in terrorism.
These arent speculation, they have been called out many many times by Amnesty International, the UN and many other international bodies...
If you want to be appaled at terrorism in Israel you cant do so objectively if you forgive either side.
@Hey_Beth There is quite a difference between Musk is promoting biased reporting and X has misinformation. I do not doubt that the owner of X has a narrative about the war in Israel that he is pushing. I think just about every social media post on any platform does. I don't agree with many of these narratives, and I find many highly suspect and motivated by personal interests. That said, I don't think there is anywhere near enough well reviewed and we'll sources information to start labeling any of it misinformation which should be broadly deplatformed.
@Hey_Beth given the wide, passionate, and highly divergent takes I'm seeing everywhere right now, I am not sure how any reasonable moderator could set a rational standard for what is misinformation. Any statement more precise than "It's a real mess and people are suffering." may turn out to be untrue, and nothing short of "it's alien brain worm!" can actually be ruled out. Lots of people are shouting "misinformation! " but it is strongly correlated with that person's chosen narrative and not with undisputed primary source.
@inquiline@union.place @academicchatter Neither, but Cal Poly prides itself on offering small lectures (30 or less) to undergrads. It is why students who get accepted to Cal Poly and a UC choose Poly by 3 to 1. #CalPoly #goMustangs
@realcaseyrollins Go where. This is like cops kettling a group of protesters and ordering them to disperse, then using that a justification for their arrest. Only in this case the IDF will be justifying genocide.
@CultureDesk I have to question whether literature ever truly built community across the nation. What it did build in the 1930s through almost all of the 20th century was official sanction for the dominance of white culture as the bases of American community.
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Share of electric cars on 🇳🇴 Oslo's roads now 40%, expected to reach 50% by autumn 2025 (half a year earlier than expected last year)
Heavy electric vehicles have doubled their share, mainly due to the influx of more electric buses.
Post-pandemic growth in road use appears to be leveling off.
(via @Halsevesenet)
https://www.fjellinjen.no/aktuelt/40-prosent-elektrisk-på-veiene-i-oslo
#EV
This is a follow up to [a post I wrote a few moths ago][2] about #hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (#FCEV) as an alternative to Battery Electric Vehicles (#BEV).
An [article from Cornell][1] states that even so called "Blue Hydrogen" is a more CO₂ intensive than diesel.
"The carbon footprint to create blue hydrogen is more than 20% greater than using either natural gas or coal directly for heat, or about 60% greater than using diesel oil for heat, according to [new research published Aug. 12 in Energy Science & Engineering.][3]"
#EV #BlueHydrogen #ClimateCrisis #greenhousegas
[1]: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/08/touted-clean-blue-hydrogen-may-be-worse-gas-or-coal
[2]: https://qoto.org/@antares/110986868805276550
[3]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ese3.956
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When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents. /1
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The cost of green #hydrogen has often been projected to fall dramatically over the coming years as #electrolyser manufacturing scales and #renewable electricity costs drop.
However, developers speaking at the Investing in #GreenHydrogen conference in London earlier this month warned that the costs are rather getting up.
The production cost of electrolysers will not follow the kind of curve one may expect in solar or others, since it’s different economics.
https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/production/cost-of-green-hydrogen-unlikely-to-fall-dramatically-in-coming-years-admit-developers/2-1-1523281
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“Turning up your base too high blows out your Speaker.”
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Cistercian Numbers; are an extremely interesting and basically forgotten number system developed 8 Centuries Ago. It is much more compact than Arabic and Roman systems, you can basically write any integer from 1 to 9999 with one character.
@archeohistories #Numbers
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I hope this spurs a rethink of fediblock policy. Conflicts over Palestine/BDS and how commentary related to it can be considered antisemitic/dangerous, is my go to example to lefties re why moderation on the #fediverse needs to be more nuanced. Less about safety than preventing the abuse that shuts down conversations. But that depends on what you want this place to be about. Sharing the best art and journalism or just a place to hang out with your peeps? #fediblockmeta
https://social.mondoweiss.net/@mondoweiss/111194372218023969
@antanicus Walking, Biking, public transit Yes! However those who thing the need for personal vehicles can be made to disappear overnight have their head in the sand. EVs are hear now, not in 30 years when transit infrastructure catches up.
And of course there are lots of places like my small town in a rural county where even if some trips can be partially completed without a personal car, there will never be the density to support getting rid of them completely.
- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
Joined Apr 2022
