🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@snder Here you go, these are all images of blackholes.

Note blackholes can never be seen (even the picture they just released). What you can see is the gravitational lensing around a blackhole. All of these pictures are real and show a blackhole (a black dot that creates a gravitational lens around it). aside from being at less-than-one-pixel resolution these are still blackhole pictures.

@snder yes, but what they meant was this is the first time a blackhole was photographed such that hte blackhole takes up more than a single pixel of the camera. We have a TON of blackhole pictures where we see the lensing effect of the blackhole (same effect we see in the new picture). They were just a MUCH smaller resolutions.

Its just saying "first ever" sounds cooler. The scientists understand and know the distinction.

Its a bit like showing the picture of beetlegues from a few years back that had multi-pixel resolution and saying "the first ever picture of a star", its simply not true but has a hint of truth in it.

@snder Sure, let me find the image, the one taken last year by NASA should be easy to find.

@snder Not true, we have real, nonsimulated pictures of blackholes, many of them in fact.

@snder It is **not** the first ever picture of a blackhole. Why is it every time we get pictures of blackholes everyone claims it is the first one?

@thegibson You mean it looks exactly like all the other black holes we took pictures of over the years? Who would have thought!

I want to apologize to everyone on #QOTO and our friends int he fediverse for @dcvoter, he has since been suspended.

He was a bot but we didnt realize it at first. There were also some questionably racist posts that got lose in the content which ultimately allowed us to investigate and ban him.

I apologize for anyone who was offended by his antics.

Thrust, Thwart, That, Thought, Tit, Toot, Tact, Tot, Treat, Threat, Trapt. Tent, Tint, Tuct

What can you come up with that I missed?

Now that I finally got my Electrical Engineering workbench in place I had some time to work on coding up a e-ink display. I finally got it successfully displaying images. This display is 7.5 inches and can do red black and white.

#electronics #EE #ElectricalEngineering #Engineering #Science

@Proton the dictionary has the answer. Deceit is a subset of deception. All deceit is a deception not all deception is deceit. Deceit is to deceive where the truth is concealed or misrepresented. Dece[topom is to deceive but does not have this additional restriction.

@SecondJon I am not saying that a murder "a homicide victim's mental health is to blame for them being murdered". What I am saying is that we know, without any doubt, that at least some murders are the result of poor mental health, not of the victim but of the person commiting the murder. The only thing we dont know is how strong of an influence that connection happens to be. As such you cant just eliminate those from the statistics, you much show some scientific rigor to justify that, something that was not done in this case.

The point is YES there are are other factors. So what? In the world of statistical analysis "other factors" are precisely why no correlation is 100%, but if that correlation is high enough then it is relevant. You need to show what that correlation is before you start cherry picking your data.

One thing is clear, concluding that healthcare in america is great just by cherry picking your data without scientific rigour to support it is exactly what I said, manipulative and biased.

But I agree, you shouldnt just write it off as manipulative. Listen to the ideas, but treat them with extreme bias. Unless you can work through the scientific rigour and confirm its validity (or there is strong consensus in the scientific community if you dont have the expiernce yourself.. well then your likely to be the victim of bias rather than rising above it.

@RomeoTBravo I couldn't agree more :)

My new Electrical Engineering workstation here at my Dutch home. It has both desktop and floor anti-static mats. So you can either use the anti-static bracelet or just go barefoot and not need the bracelet.

#BadMath