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Inside the 'Nightmare' #Health Crisis of a #Texas Bitcoin Town
time.com/6982015/bitcoin-minin
“The European Environmental Agency tells us that everything above 55 decibels is making us #sick,” [Dr. Thomas Münzel, a German cardiologist who is a leader in the growing field of scientific researchers measuring the impact of urban and industrial #noise on humans,] says. The fact that the #Granbury #Bitcoin mine is emitting 70 or even 90 decibels on a nightly basis is “like #torture,” he says.

@homlett but infrasound from wind turbines is supposed to be completely harmless! :)

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>Several plural forms of Unix are used casually to refer to multiple brands of Unix and Unix-like systems. Most common is the conventional Unixes, but Unices, treating Unix as a Latin noun of the third declension, is also popular. The pseudo-Anglo-Saxon plural form Unixen is not common, although occasionally seen. Sun Microsystems, developer of the Solaris variant, has asserted that the term Unix is itself plural, referencing its many implementations.

@icedquinn because for higher frequencies you need higher rpm or tape speeds.

imagine the needle wobbling in the groove, you need a certain speed to be able to create a high frequency wobble.

@icedquinn i can't give you a formula, but rpm ahould be the rough equivalent

@zleap i'd say being against is unpopular. even if it's not generalized. it depends on the group of course ;)

*taps the sign*

Choosing to host a community on a "free" proprietary platform offered by a for-profit is choosing short term ease and long term pain, and often comes at the expense of privacy. These tools _will_ get shitty and extractive. And what then?

Community migrations are painful and lossy.

We must select tools for our community while considering a time horizon longer than the economic boom/bust cycle.

defederating dobbs.town haa to be the epitome of "fuck'em if they can't take a joke" :)

@zleap i think i looked on joinmastodon back when i joined, but i think now these directories are pretty biased to what i'd call something like "limited speech" instances.

they remove instances like fosstodon and qoto because there are people on there holding unpopular opinions about gendering speech or vaccines or guns or any other "controversial" topic.

on the other hand i don't think i'd be hard pressed to find approval of things like trump getting shot at from the instances currently listed in these directories.

it's a glaring double standard.

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QOTO: Question Others to Teach Ourselves
An inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance
All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.