Daniel Dvorkin @medigoth@qoto.org
Bioinformaticist / biostatistician, veteran medic and infantryman, armchair paleontologist, occasional science fiction author, vaccinated liberal patriot.
Joined Oct 2022
Daniel Dvorkin
boosted
Imaging stars right here within the Milky Way Galaxy is hard enough. So it came as some surprise that a star in another galaxy has just become the subject of a close-up portrait. @ScienceAlert has more on the giant star known as "The Monster" that is more than 160,000 light-years from Earth. https://flip.it/UmfNT4
#Science #Space #MilkyWay #Stars #Earth
Here's some good #political news, at least: #Gaetz is withdrawing from consideration as #AG. No doubt #Trump will pick some other repulsive clown, but I'll take the win.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/21/trump-ag-pick-matt-gaetz-says-hes-withdrawing.html
@moss Yeah, it's "viral" in an almost literal sense: all the Cat 2s have to do is start the infection, and large numbers of Cat 3s will happily take it from there. I have no idea what to do about this on a large scale, and given the current state of US politics I'm afraid there may not be much of a chance for anyone here to do anything about it much longer. Hopefully the rest of the world will carry the torch while we live (or don't) through the plague years.
On a small scale, I've had luck with a few antivaxers by trying to be kind and patient. Same with creationists and climate change deniers. But it's a long shot: for every one I get to consider the evidence, a hundred or a thousand react with confusion, mockery, and/or rage. At this point I'm just not sure how much I have left in me to keep trying.
Bioinformaticist / biostatistician, veteran medic and infantryman, armchair paleontologist, occasional science fiction author, vaccinated liberal patriot.
Joined Oct 2022
