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RE: https://wandering.shop/@clacksee/116818089741869268 This should surprise nobody, but was worth measuring.

@Nonilex@masto.ai I know little of American medicine but we were encouraged (pressed, threatened) to do reflective writing which was supposed to be of some value to us, and assist us in an annual discussion with a colleague as an assessor. It sounds as though something similar may have happened there, and Randpaul is doing his best to make evil out of honest thought.

@Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social Near Earth space, cis-lunar space, translunar space, interplanetary space, solar space, Oort Cloud. Interstellar space is a lot further away. One of the Apollo Saturn 3rd stages was deliberately targeted on the Moon, so as to make vibrations for the seismometers left by previous missions. I forget which one it was. Then we knew more about the Moon's internal structure, which is probably worth a crater. It doesn't seem impossible that doing it again might tell us yet more.

@mcnado@mstdn.social An important mistake. Do Tesla make the pedals distinct and well separated? I bought my ID.3 and was amused by the markings on the pedals. ⏸️ and ▶️ respectively. Not that I can read them with my shod feet.

@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden @davidgerard@circumstances.run The key thing is the sea is wet, and so is anything that goes there. However... cooling is easy, and the waves and motion can be abolished by submerging, and used atop to power generators, a rather easier prospect than replenish8ng at sea with liquid Methane, I think.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Interestingly, he didn't enter the #password, or tell the device to proceed - AFAIK - it was an official of the State who did, and deleted all the contents. And it was certainly a password for the device.

@AkaSci@fosstodon.org It did occur to me that answering a question the second time should be very cheap, if you can just remember what it was and the answer. And that scales down, unless there are an unlimited number of real discrete monolithic questions.

@glynmoody@mastodon.social Competence coming from the top, there.

@Thumper1964@mindly.social @Nonilex@masto.ai Your Republicans seem not to like anyone else to look capable or honest. Either.

@ErikUden@mastodon.de Prayer wheels for the #HungryGod.

@AkaSci@fosstodon.org #OddPlaceAmerica

@danstowell@mastodon.social good page. WP: NOTPAPER

@ptoothfish@beige.party Also whatever children1 didn't have, and whatever is to be thrust upon children2, will be affecting different children. If there were notional children0 they grew up into world1 not into the world3 that children2 are heading towards. And world3 already seems to have substantial differences from previous ones.

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net Um ... avoid Windows?

@globalmuseum@mastodon.online Hill words are sometimes interesting. Previous generations, lacking ordnance survey maps, distinguished hills by shape for navigation. And named the notches in them people liked to live in, likewise. My aunt wrote books about them.

@AkaSci@fosstodon.org Less a public Utility than an agency holding the public to ransom. Time for another system, I'd think.

@RedRobyn@mastodon.nz @ravenbait@mastodon.scot @cstross@wandering.shop @quixoticgeek@social.v.st I may not have mentioned what I did for a living, recently, but testing is certainly informational, and physicians must live with uncertainty. Colds are remarkably undifferentiated, as has recurrently been the way of conditions which later unravel into easy well-understood treatable specific diseases...and others.

@Benaresh@mastodon.social @thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz Maybe try the least ardent?

@MuhammadFreeSoftware@fosstodon.org @akromos@mastodon.social @DanielMReck@mas.to @angusm@mastodon.social It is a convergence.

@jbz@indieweb.social (and grownups. )

@D_Reno@mastodon.social @Nonilex@masto.ai Longer. Iran is not softer than Ukraine and holds that logistic grip.

@RabBrucesSpider1@mastodon.scot Just redraw that for us at the same scale with the canonical number of original colonial stripes, please. I suspect it might look a bit crowded. And no, nobody got one, there are none, and the whole thing was, of course, a scam with a goldish gloss on it. But the graphic is instantly understandable.

@MissConstrue@mefi.social An improvement. Will help thinking. #Syndromes are difficult, not least because they are not really "a condition". They are unusual collections of symptoms - which might individually be experienced by many - signs and perhaps measurable chemistry, which taken together suggest a whole which is usefully managed, treated, regarded, in ways which tend to benefit quite a few of the people that diagnostic cloud is pinned onto. Unpacking it to, say, 3 diseases, will make it easy.

We have a very good endocrine/metabolic unit up the road, and that's been associated with an improving 7nderstsnding of how things work. We are not, of course, in the USA where the onslaught on understanding by fools, cynics, and criminals, is adding difficulty to everything. We also have a functioning health service, which clearly America doesn't want to have, nor ours to continue. Alas.

@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz @skjeggtroll@mastodon.online @Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems Heinlein was more various. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Revolt in 2100 Stranger...

@ScottishGreens@mastodon.scot And of business decisions made since 1974 at the latest.

@ScottishGreens@mastodon.scot Well, good luck neighbours with however it goes. The previous time, independence as an EU country looked very sensible. But the Tories and Brexists fucked that up.

@mike@flipboard.social Hello Mike.

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @vicgrinberg@mastodon.social Stars look more clear from the top of mountains. But Mars would be a very very high mountaintop. The Martian atmosphere, thin though it is, thins out slower than ours as you go outward, under the smaller gravity. So the distance for light etc to be affected is at least further than one might expect. I'm told that is one of several problems for meteors and spacecraft.

@disorderlyf@todon.eu @adhd_coffee@mastodon.social Some of the ADHD medications have potential for addiction. None of the blood pressure ones do. I think "dependency" is a sub-optimal word for discussions of this. Addictive potential might be better. Plenty of medications are extremely useful but have addictive potential. Opioids and opiates for instance, as well as the Amphetamine-like ADHD medications.

@MicroSFF@mastodon.art cf Altered Carbon and The Peripheral. Richard Morgan and #GreatDismal

@joannaholman@aus.social The project is probably useful, so perhaps shutting it down would be less desirable. Today is very hot here, and getting hotter.

@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social To be fair, some of those are poor agricultural states, so they might not starve, and perhaps help feed some of the donor states? And in good quadrennial, the world?

@liztai@hachyderm.io A retelling of the oldest written story in Western culture. Appropriation is one thing, but Greek culture, via Rome, and having blocked Persia, is the root from which much of our culture grew, I think. And language. I don't see why "200" years though, I'd call it a 6000 year descent. That the leaves should influence the roots doesn't seem wholly surprising.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I think some of the rich ditto still regard him as useful, and a defence. (Or "defense" I suppose)

@alexandrageese@bonn.social Who knobbled that, I wonder?

@Tin777@mastodon.social Service? Repair? Make? Fit used Tesla drive trains etc to classic British cars to update them? Make tyres that fit Teslas? My EV, not a Tesla, is rather nice.

@glassresistor@sfba.social @geolaw@aus.social @Coho@mountains.social Pages do (may) have an expiry/refresh date among the headers.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social That's not good.

@libroraptor@mastodon.nz

1. When Penicillin was new (a while after nitrogen fixation by heat and pressure) it was scarce and was recovered from patients' urine. To aid this, soldiers were ordered not to drink beer while taking it. This has survived into legend as a poorly-based general prohibition.

Point: unless it is something beer contains or produces, it is easier to get it back from a smaller volume of p.

1. You might point him at the famine expected then averted by synthetic N fixation, then ...

@bruces@mastodon.social Devon is generating so much solar power that the network operator has told the solar farms* to switch off till September.

• Not all generators, but some.

@helle@tacobelllabs.net @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io Recalibrate your expectations. "This article, headlined “French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety”, was removed on 12 May 2026 after the Guardian was notified of a fundamental misunderstanding of remarks from Javier Padilla Bernáldez. The Spanish health secretary had been describing a separate case involving a person who was not confirmed to have hantavirus, not the French woman who had tested positive after evacuation from the ship."

@cstross@wandering.shop And some non-algorithmic encryption of images, perhaps.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Optimal strategy: the children talk to each other, one drops the money, they split the winnings. Next game...

@lproven@social.vivaldi.net It does seem a pity. I don't suppose there are any rich people with interests in space who might pick up a tab for that core?

"Don't shoot the pianist"

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net @alan@lighthouse.co.im I suppose one could rate limit the site's outward traffic, without reference to where it is going ... And then have a very long list of specific addresses which get an extra rate. And that list, which would be like a Squid access list, could be shared in some sections among quite a lot of sites.

@edri@eupolicy.social now named "dickovers" and rebroadcast by the inventor of "enshitification".

bye. Plonk.