MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown

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No centralized leadership

I’m about 1/4 into The Aeronaut’s Windlass. Might be my first non-Dresden Butcher book. I’ve had the paperback on my shelf for some years but I picked up an invisible copy from the library to read on my commute. I like it so far. It’s an interesting steampunk setting, action forward, likable main cast.

And my beloved and I are reading the Hobbit to each other. Just got to the spiders

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I was about to grab that from the library the other day, but then I saw it was the listed as being in the middle of a series. Does it fare well on its own or should I start with something else?

Proportionally little copper in modern pennies. But the outside is a thin veneer of copper plating. Unless they are nomming on an individual coin long enough the for their saliva to eat through the copper layer like the chocolate on a peanut m&m, then their exposure is no different than a wholey copper coin.

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In other words, “tokenminning,” short for “token minimizing,” is now in.

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  2. Oh gods, is minning now a thing?

“He kept pointing into the toilet,” said one source. “He was extremely proud of the color. He kept saying, ‘Look at that. That’s presidential blue. That’s what success looks like.’”

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Alaska elections director, Carol Beecher, wrote that the “utterly unprecedented facts” in the case led her to conclude that Dan J Sullivan’s declaration of candidacy for US Senate “was not filed in order to declare an actual good-faith candidacy for the office of United States senator, but was instead filed with a purpose to confuse or mislead and to thereby compromise the ballot’s fairness or neutrality”.

My dude, if you disqualified candidates for their actions to confuse, mislead, and compromise election integrity, there would be no republicans left on the ballot.

“Israel cannot stop the demolition of houses in southern Lebanon. We simply cannot stop, that’s all,” Ben-Gvir said…

Sounds like an addiction when you say it like that.

So what? 🤷‍♂️ his birthday is over.

 

I’ve always considered that texting “hehe” is a light chuckle, a “heh heh” sound; “hehehe” is more of a giggle, whether coy or creepy; and any more “he”s than that delves into witchy cackling territory.

In contrast “haha”, “hahaha”, and “hahahaha”, all sound the same in my head, and the meaning only varies in intensity but is more context dependent.

 

What if Nanni was the kind of person that complains that the Great Sand Dunes National Park is too sandy, and we have the complaint (presumably found in his house) because Ea-Nasir kept it to remind himself never to do business with Nanni again.

 

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Northern Michigan-based Munson Healthcare said in a Facebook post that it was treating 11 people at its medical center in Traverse City.

 

I just went to charge my kitchen scale and it wouldn’t work until I dug out a USB-A -> C cable and plugged it into my desktop…

It just reminded me of how many devices like that I have. This scale, my wife’s sound torc, some car jumperstarters, and I think a one or two more…

I assume it’s because they just slap a usbc port on a dumb 5v circuit that doesn’t have a power negotiation controller. So the cable and the charger cant figure out the power needs of the device are and just never send any.

 

DISCLAIMER: I am in no way advocating for the spreading of a highly contagious and deadly disease or the abstention from safe and highly effective vaccines. But, this is No Stupid Questions, so…

Measles is known for wiping out your immune system memory and re-endangering you to pathogens you had once successfully fought off.

Allergies are when your immune system misidentifies something harmless (like pollen or peanuts) as a harmful pathogen and triggers an immune response.

So, what happens to allergies in people who get measles? Does it wipe out the immune system’s memory of the allergen? Does it expose them to develop new allergies? Do we even know whether it does anything to allergies at all, or has it never been studied? What about other auto immune diseases?

Secondly, if it does do something, is there some way that it can be utilized to help allergy sufferers? Not in the “give people a deadly contagious disease” kind of way (I’ve heard of the tapeworm thing), but is there something there that could studied and developed into a targeted drug or treatment? Or is the mechanism just too broad and dangerous.

 
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