A cool crab wearing shades

@futurebird@sauropods.win Honestly brute forcing simulations to find novel solutions can potentially turn up interesting results but for motions that are found in nature we've got so much prior art to look at. How does your thing need to move? Look at the creatures on this earth that move like that. They move that way because "how the fuck do I get around when shaped like this" has been tested over and over via evolution.

@ProPublica@newsie.social @Toastie@journa.host oh that's so ridiculous, they don't need to put it on a sacred mountain look at all the fucking parking lots in this country that could have solar canopies!!

@wallabra@bark.lgbt @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place with covid the virus itself isn't buoyant, it's floating in aerosols. While technically the viral particles can probably go through a HEPA filter, a lot of the aerosol droplets they're riding on do get caught in fine enough filter media and then it dries up and dies. In addition for building level HVAC you can install UVC sterlizers in the air handler which produces a big drop in all kinds of airborne pathogens and is in a place where nobody should be poking at it and exposing their eyes to it. Stricter standards for indoor air quality being enforced would cut all kinds of airborne disease transmission by something like 70%.

@colinpurrington Moquito buckets are very effective, way better than having your yard sprayed with shit that's going to make your neighbors miserable and the problem worse.

@futurebird@sauropods.win @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io it'll get a repetitive stress injury first

@wallabra@bark.lgbt @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place There are things that are largely spread by contamination on the hands being introduced to food/the mouth, they're just largely not respiratory viruses. Norovirus is a bad time, always wash your hands especially before preparing food.

@ProPublica@newsie.social @Toastie@journa.host I love when there's solar panels over the parking lot, you get a little bit of cover from the weather getting in and out of the vehicle!

@chisop@todon.eu @SecondUniverse@autistics.life modifying a baby's genitals because they "look weird" is purely cosmetic and can cause serious issues later because they're not fully developed and they have to grow with that scar tissue. There are a few serious issues that do need correction like lacking an opening to the urethra, but otherwise it's better to wait and let the child decide what they want to do when they're old enough to understand.

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @xgranade@wandering.shop A pack of "stand here to social distance" stickers and a couple of purell dispensers was a lot cheaper than fixing the building's hvac system so guess what every capital holder picked when not forced.

@futurebird@sauropods.win @jredlund@social.linux.pizza I've seen more impressive fairs in a church parking lot

@wallabra@bark.lgbt @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place because of research on tuberculosis disease research has made a distinction between larger droplets which generally fall to the ground within a few minutes and aerosols which drift for hours. It turns out that distinction largely doesn't matter to most airborne diseases tuberculosis is an outlier.

@Nonilex@masto.ai When the AIDS activists have to defend him from the fucking government, insane.

@wallabra@bark.lgbt @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place the confusing distinction is the idea of aerosols vs droplets, there was conjecture it was ONLY carried in infectious quantities in droplets which are larger than 5 micrometers. Aerosol and airborne mean the same thing in lay terms, it is drifting around in the air for an extended time and is infectious that way.

@shadows@beige.party @wallabra@bark.lgbt @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Yeah this is the article I read a while ago. Here's an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20260515193301/https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/

@wallabra@bark.lgbt @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place They are floating in the air, but they're in microscopic droplets of water and attached to tiny pieces of dust. When that dust is trapped or those droplets absorbed into a filter media like a respirator mask or a HEPA filter then the viral particles are largely also trapped there.

@spiegelmama@infosec.exchange @Star12Mt@masto.nyc i did this once, cut my sprouty potatoes into pieces so there was a sprout on each chunk and planted them and grew more potatoes.

@alice@lgbtqia.space @evan@cosocial.ca it sucks because it would be a really good service if it actually respected consent. I think I'm following one tag that way.

@TerryHancock@realsocial.life @futurebird@sauropods.win once upon a time they had a steam sensor that would stop when it reached the correct amount of steam in the box to indicated popcorn is ready. Mostly they're timers now.

@d1@autistics.life @dev@discuss.systems by @anubiarts

@futurebird it's so similar to the Markov chain generators we used to play with on IRC, just backed with obscene amounts of compute and fancily parsed data instead of a text file and some random spare cycles

@futurebird@sauropods.win @davep@infosec.exchange Adapting the "rent my goats to clear your yard" model to ants

@kaye@cathode.church Mozilla do this for real

@dantheclamman penises are ripping them off!!

@RickiTarr@beige.party see this is what "boys will be boys" should mean

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social The concept of John Toei (that bastard)

@wallabra@bark.lgbt @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place droplet theory wasn't even completely right for TB, it can still be infectious in aerosol form although inhaling droplets is worse. https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2020/the-experiment-that-proved-airborne-disease-transmission

@futurebird@sauropods.win They put all their points in roundness and none in nest integrity.

@futurebird@sauropods.win congestion pricing rules, they should raise it way higher.

@sarahdalgulls 🤣 "Wow look at what I made!"

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange a real summer coat/winter coat romance!

@thermia@sk.girlthi.ng That's how I've always pronounced it. I'm curious what the other options are?

@iFixit I just serviced a late 80s sewing machine I got from the thrift store for $25, I was delighted to find it in much better condition than I feared. This is after the switch to nylon gears so it's not a desirable vintage model, but it's still got some good use left in it!

@inherentlee KESTREL NO

@jmcrookston@mastodon.social ah i misremembered what I read

@sarahdalgulls a lot of birds are not good at identifying things that are not their eggs. Is it vaguely the right size? is it in my nest? must be my egg, lemme sit. Ratsnakes are also bad at identifying eggs. If it's kinda round and warm and possibly smells like bird butt it's delicious egg and they will swallow it.

@gourd my first experience with Linux was a boxed copy of Red Hat 5 and I did not get that shit working after two attempts.

@cymplecy the Audio Technica AT-LP60X should be easily had in the UK, it has a built in phono preamp so it can be plugged directly into speakers or an unamplified line-in without also needing an amplifier. It sounds good, it's well built, and they're one of the lower cost good quality decks on the market.

@jonn_blanchard well the batteries were on the bottom so 🤞 it largely stayed in that orientation and gravity is working in your favor.

@eri the 3DO and CD-i are really amazing examples of how not to do it

@jenny753 THAT'S ADORABLE

@curiousquail@mastodon.art i love her floofiness

@ClarusPlusPlus NICK KNACKS FUCKIN SLAPS

@inherentlee Malligator Moment :blobpensive:

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange The Netherlands' premiere Fedi Celebrity Odin

@puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social God bless the rogue biochemists who do make their own, but largely it's from the same drug companies as usual just obtained through slightly sketchier means.

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange awwww

@futurebird@sauropods.win @ehproque@neopaquita.es god it so fucking is.

@DeliaChristina@sfba.social Yep.