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- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
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@nazokiyoubinbou I think it is also important to understand that there are some people, myself included, who cannot wear a respirator appropriately and safely.
Just last week I "failed breathing" again at work. It is illegal for me to work in any environment where a respirator is required. Fortunately, there is very little call for such work in my particular role so my employer can make a reasonable accommodation for me.
When I hear people wanting to make N95s mandatory PPE in more situations - especially public accommodations I worry that it will impact my employment. For example, if N95s are required PPE in healthcare settings, I would become illegal for me to do any work in a healthcare setting because I am cannot get a licensed to wear a respirator even if the task I am performing would not need one otherwise. I work in a heavily regulated industry were we can lose billions of dollars in federally overseen contracts for not strictly observing PPE regulations. "Lets require everyone to wear an N95" is a real threat to my employment.
@hittitezombie The Supreme court is being very consistent in constraining the authority of federal agencies to make interpretations beyond the authority expressly granted them by congress. This will not be the last time that Trump - if elected - will be hoisted by his own petard regarding limitation on the power of executive agencies. Trump would like to rule like a dictator, but no man rules alone. In placing a court that will weaken "the deep state" Trump will also find his own executive authority more limited. Neither he nor his voters are anywhere near intelligent enough to make this connection.
@garyackerman Do you really think that's true? My casual survey of some people who graduated from a fairly elite state university yesterday says that probably 3/4 of them where there it get their "professional work permit." They needed the piece of paper to be allowed to work in their chosen field.
Full disclosure: my sample group were mostly engineering majors.
@nazokiyoubinbou @luckytran Additional fun fact, if air goes around your N95 respirator your not wearing an N95 respirator. Remember "When worn right its uncomfortably tight."
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(Some background for non-NYers: the general election is between parties, and at least at the city level the democrat generally wins against some wackjob republican by a landslide. So really, if you want a say in the election, you need to vote in the _democratic_ primary. That's only allowed if you're a registered Dem. Doesn't matter how far left you are, how much you identify as independent, how angry you are w/ the Democratic Party, etc; you either register as a Dem or you don't have a voice.)
@ISV_Damocles They are stuck in a flight regime that isn't kind to modern PCB assembly. It can be done, but it requires a good bit of testing and specialized ruggedization techniques. The company I work for has developed boards with surface mount components that will work at over 150c and more than 25g worth of vibration. On the other hand, my lab is full of examples where we didn't get it right. Our industry can accept a certain level of failure - it is expensive, but not deadly. Boeing can't accept a 2% failure rate.
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Hey Canadian nerds! I have held the domain registration for regex.ca for a very long time. When I lived in Canada it was my primary domain, but I haven't used it for years. Does anyone on the fediverse have a good use for it?
I'm going to release it but if you've got a good pitch I'll pay for a 1 year renewal and then transfer it to your ownership.
Please boost for visibility kthx!
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There’s just nothing more to talk about when it comes to Gaza.
Netanyahu knows we see what he is doing, and he doesn’t give a fuck. Biden keeps talking big, but he folds every time because he knows if they arrest Netanyahu, they are coming for him next.
The news is broadcasting horror every day and telling us if we don’t support it, we hate Jews.
What’s happening in Gaza is an apocalyptic event visited upon them by a lunatic enabled by the most evil nation on earth.
There is simply no other way to view the situation. This atrocity will be remembered for all time, not just because of its cruelty, but how many people tried to defend it.
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The narrative that voting is the primary way we achieve liberation is bullshit because we cannot vote on the shit that really matters, i.e., a livable wage, housing, policing, infrastructure, etc.
I'm not saying don't vote, but this idea that we are going to vote ourselves out of oligarchy is nonsense because we've always been given limited choices.
People who vote should be working with people who don't to make sure all bases are covered instead of slap-boxing about who is the better citizen in a declining empire.
Everyone can contribute to progress whether they vote or not.
Stop listening to white liberals who are afraid to confront the hate coming from their communities trying to make voting the end all be all.
Because it's not.
@thelinuxEXP I really miss the 1990s open source ethos where everyone used a (often bitingly sarcastic) handle that had no connection with IRL identity and if the code was good it got used. I still prefer to use the internet without punting my IRL stuff out there. It's just a better experience.
@garyackerman Either at the beginning or end you run the test against a sample with a known result.
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Anyone out there in the US got a Level 2 #EV home charger they have Strong Opinions on, ideally NEMA 14-50 plugin? Thinking about a Grizzl-E model.
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i had an app on my iphone which my phone's operating system randomly decided to delete off my phone. thankfully, they replaced the icon with a shortcut to re-download the app from the app store. when i tapped it, it said "sorry this app no longer exists on the app store so its' gone forever". so they deleted my app! not the developer's app, sure the developer made the app but the app was mine, it was on my phone! and they deleted it!
@alper For those of us that don't speak German, can you tell me how may microsievert above background a person living on this mountain will be exposed to? Often these thing are in the detectable, but not significant levels of exposure.
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During apartheid, the South African government established “homelands” for Black South Africans that were ostensibly independent states—though no other country recognized them—so the regime could pretend Black South Africans were foreigners ineligible for rights in South Africa.
I used to think that this was purely for international consumption, a weak pretense to avoid sanctions and stay on the good side of allies.
But, having heard from Israelis who genuinely believe things like “there is no occupation” and “there is no apartheid” and “there is no ethnic cleansing” I now realize that white South Africans were the primary audience for the ruse and they probably ate that shit up.
How is game compatibility these days? I duel booted fro several years because I wanted to play the latest titles and Linux was not up to the job. It eventually just became easier to stay in Windows. I'd try again when Windows 10 is at end of life if there has been some progress on the gaming front.
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President Joe Biden plans to send an additional $1 billion arms shipment to Israel, despite the U.S. being opposed to a full-scale invasion by the Israeli military on the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
BBC News has the latest: https://flip.it/KZ5Rwb
Do you think the U.S. should halt all weapons shipments to Israel until there's a ceasefire?
#Israel #Gaza #Biden #Palestine #Hamas #News
I've seen a number of different reports today that say today's inflation increase is highly concentrated in insurance, housing, utilities and medical care. PPI is back down to 2.2% and durable goods orders are softening. The bills that people must pay every month are still seeing 1984 levels of inflation while yachts and private jets are coming down in price.
- 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
