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Two trucks having wrecks
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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
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I have been thinking about gul dukats skull all day and I need a moment alone with the cardassian lovers to discuss why the spoon would have a Hole. Its like the soft spot of a babys skull… what are the anatomical implications here…
Others have mentioned this too but almost definitely this is meant to be a parietal eye, vestigial or otherwise.
(Parietal eye in green anole vs anole skeleton. Or rather I'm pretty sure that's an Anole this was a quick image search. But even if not exactly that's another lizard with a parietal eye).
The pit in the skull seems a little deep for that, but its a uniform hole and it's not likely to be caused from damage to the skull from a bullet or otherwise as some folks have mentioned.
In lizards it helps regulate circadian rhythm (among other stuff, a lot of endocrine stuff) so it stands to reason it would be related to something similar.
"Why would an eye regulate this stuff?" Light regulates our circadian rhythm. A lot of animals have additional sensory organs and it usually has something to do with their environment of adaptation (or may be vestigial).
Cardasia Prime is notably dark, hot and humid so I'm betting the old spoon has something to do with regulating circadian rhythm in this environment?
Wait, so, Cardassians thay put make-up there are gonna be fucking with their sleep?
It's a good question!
For anyone who isn't aware, cardassians are known to apply makeup to the spoon.
They also apply make-up to their facial ridges sometimes too!
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there's this borderline hysterical laugh garak breaks into a couple of times during the early seasons that is so special to me. like. this man. this man is so high (constantly) and probably drunk (frequently) and he's at all times teetering on the very brink of despair that only pure spite, immense stubbornness, and getting to gaze at julian bashir's smiling face across the lunch table once a week is holding him back from tipping over. and then he has to deal with people like skrain dukat and gul toran on top of that and you can practically hear the cracks forming as he's barely holding on to whatever remains of his sanity by the skin of his teeth
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I fucking love youtube comments sometimes, here's the ds9 promenade ASMR
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for several weeks now this tweet has been causing wars on twitter
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When you tell people they shouldn’t want to fantasize sexually about children their #1 argument is almost always that they don’t see how it’s any different from violent or dark fiction like horror villains or first person shooters or torture dungeon bondage smut, and that’s fucking stupid because a child is a normal everyday kind of extremely vulnerable person that an adult can hurt literally just by touching once. None of that horror or extreme fetish stuff can be that easily applied to real life just anywhere, you can always find a consenting adult happy to larp it with you, and when you do find a consenting adult to larp sexy slasher monsters then you’re still just eroticizing an inanimate scenario and props rather than eroticizing the concept of children. Imagine someone training their brain to think just “children,” period, are a sexy idea and believing that’s no worse than being into handcuffs or spooky murder movies.
Another huge point those anti-anti weirdos miss about the whole thing is like…. the reason we don’t want the sexualization of minors be increasingly normalized in fiction is becuase there is already an ENORMOUS REAL WORLD ISSUE with minors being sexualized, groomed, and abused and people REGULARLY getting away with it. Sexualization of minors being advertised and sold in social media, movies, tv, you name it. And it’s NORMAL and victims are constantly blamed, predators constantly excused. It’s not that people like me and bogleech just love the concept of kink shaming for shits and giggles and that’s the end of it, like, we are fighting AGAINST the norm of children being sexualized and harmed. The reason we don’t give a shit if people wanna bang like hannibal lecter or w/e is becuase there isn’t exactly a worldwide societal issue with murderous cannibals being excused and young impressionable people being traumatized by that for life on a MASSIVE scale. That’s the difference!! The “fiction doesn’t affect reality” argument when it comes to sexualization of minors is BAFFLING to me becuase it literally IS reality, right now every day, and it’s VERY MUCH fed by fictional media
my friend was testing perfumes out at the store and she sniffed a bottle and anounced "ngl this bitch kind of sucks" The girl at the counter suddenly looked really sad, and my friend was like "I'm sorry, I wasn't talking about you." And the girl looked up and said "No don't worry, I didn't think that, but I just crushed a ladybug with my shoe" We both took a peak over the counter. she'd stepped on a red m&m
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In Japanese, they don’t say “moon,” they say “tsuki,” which literally translates to “moon,” and I think that’s how language works.
Hey its been at least 9 years anything changed?
nope! all quiet on the linguistic front. i am a girl now though
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Am I supposed to buy this for my own bathroom or something
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nothing frustrates me more than when adults refuse to even slightly indulge the questions and thoughts of children. i remember one time when one of my younger cousins accidentally stumbled across the concept of purchasing power parity because she realised 10 rupees which bought her 10 candies in India only bought her ~3 candies when we went on holiday to Japan, and when she asked her mother about “why the same things cost different amounts in different places” my aunt had the audacity to call her spoiled for not understanding the “”worth” of money, that’s not what she was ASKING damn it!! your daughter just set up her own big mac index and realised a key metric of macroeconomics!!! how do you not find that utterly fascinating !! why don’t adults talk to children !!
And if you don’t know the answer to a question a kid asks you, you can always tell them you can look it up together, and you both get to learn something new together.
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If you all haven't heard about it yet: https://ratethelandlord.org/
listings are international btw, and there are some links to support resources if you need immediate help with your rental situation
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It is where I live, and it’s a big city.
we need to be loud about this, have an environmental protest. something, anything. we’re ruining our planet. i want to do something but i don’t know where to start
everyone saying “you can just filter it :)” can wild animals filter it?
YOU CANNOT FILTER IT YOU CANNOT FILTER IT YOU CANNOT FILTER IT
This is the process a person near where an old PFA factory has to do (12:22)
The ways to specifically filter PFAs that work reliably are prohibitively expensive.
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE
According to Scientific American, a new method of breaking down PFAs has just been discovered!
It’s not for every kind of PFA but holy shit it’s a start. Normally these bastards have to be roasted at ~1,000 C/1832 F to even begin to fall apart and even then they leak into the environment, and burying them only - you guessed it! Leaks into the environment.
The new method can break them down at a mere ~100 C/212 F using inexpensive reagents. To quote the article:
“PFASs owe their durability to a series of carbon-fluorine bonds, which are among nature’s strongest chemical bonds. Instead of trying to break this stable bond, Trang and her colleagues targeted a chemical group containing oxygen atoms at one end of the molecule. By heating the compounds in a solvent called DMSO and a common reagent found in cleaners and soaps, the researchers successfully knocked off the oxygen-containing group. This triggered a cascade of reactions that ultimately broke the compounds down into harmless products.”
There are about 12,000 PFAs known to science right now, and the team was able to break down ten of them - including a particularly nasty kind of one called PFOA - and were able to break them down three carbon atoms at a time instead of the presumed one. HOLY SHIT. They recognize using DMSO in wastewater treatment probably isn’t practical on a large scale - right now, anyway - but as John Oliver points out in his video, having a huge filtration system in your home and a guy check it every two weeks sure isn’t going to do much either except mitigate further damage to the owner. The team is also plenty aware this is no final solution, and yet
GUYS WE CAN DO IT. It might be decades, even a century before we fix the rain cycle and get them out of our bloodstreams, but HOLY SHIT WE CAN DO IT
ALT
see this is exactly what i’m afraid of posting responses like this.
YOU SHOULD BE WORRIED. YOU SHOULD BE MAD. YOU SHOULD BE SO APPALLED BY THIS YOU ARE READY TO KILL AND EAT THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE.
science isn’t some magical benevolant force that will fix the world’s problems. science is not free from capitalism, it’s deeply entangled with it. that’s how we got undrinkable rainwater in the first place. all of the world’s problems are easily fixable. that isn’t the issue. none of them will be so long as capitalism prevails. we can’t sit back and wait for someone else to fix things, we have to force the change we want to see.
get mad and get organized
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RATING: RELIABLE
Source: ’New research shows that rainwater in most locations on Earth contains levels of chemicals that “greatly exceed” safety levels. […] Such is their prevalence now that scientists say there is no safe space on Earth to avoid them.’
Source: ‘Chemists have identified how to destroy “forever chemicals” in a low-cost way for the first time, new research says. […] New research, from scientists at Northwestern University, US claims to have done the “seemingly impossible” and destroyed PFAS using low temperature and cheap products. This could be very useful in helping communities suffering from high-level contamination, according to Prof Sunderland, who is not part of the research team.
The team of scientists hope that with further research PFAS could be filtered from drinking water and this new method applied to destroy the contaminants.
However, treatment of high concentrations of PFAS is only one part of the solution.
With PFAS remaining in production it can continue to build up at low levels in fish and other wildlife as it cannot be broken down naturally very easily.
This new method was applied to the 10 most prominent types of PFAS, but the US Environment Protection Agency has identified more than 12,000.’
Source (Original Research Article): ‘Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been referred to as “forever chemicals” because of their resistance to most biological and chemical degradation mechanisms. Most current methods use very harsh conditions to decompose these compounds. Trang et al. found that there is a potential weak spot in carboxylic acid–containing PFAS: Decarboxylation in polar, non-protic solvents yields a carbanion that rapidly decomposes’
META-RATING: RELIABLE
The first two sources listed are from the BBC, a state-owned yet publicly funded (it’s too complex an issue to go into here) highly reliable source of information. Whilst occasionally they are guilty of jumping on the ‘shiny science’ bandwagon, their editorial guidelines temper it down more than some science infotainment media. They can be biased towards the establishment in more directly political matters (environmental science is indirectly political due to the debate on climate change etc*), but this is not a directly political matter and so their bias is likely to be towards established science rather than alternative theories.
*The debate between anthropogenic climate change, natural climate change, and outright climate change denial is ultimately a political one, even if the vast majority of science agrees with the stance that it is mostly anthropogenic. I must refer to it as a political debate due to its use as a political tool. For me to suggest it should not be so would be to inject my own opinion and would introduce a source of bias.
The second two sources are from the EPA, the US government department for the environment. Whilst any government department is ultimately biased towards justifying its own existence, their requirement to publicly publish research and statistics regardless of whether they support the government’s/department’s agenda means they are at least decently reliable; to accuse government departments of bias is far beyond the scope of this post and can start to lead into governmental mistrust and conspiracy, which I will not cover here.
The final source given is the original paper. The principal author is Shira Joudan PhD, who has been publishing on environmental toxicology/chemistry since 2015 and has attended conferences on environmental toxicology etc since 2012. She has multiple publications which have been cited many times, multiple awards and scholarships, and has worked with multiple universities. As far as I can tell there are no conflicts of interest and I am satisfied that the paper itself is highly reliable.
I am not an environmental scientist nor chemist, and so if you have more experience in the field and can offer further information, please do.
This blog is a trial of a meta-analysis of ‘is-the-post-reliable’, to ensure tha tthe sources that the blog cites are at least partially reliable, and to disclose where there may be biases, controversies, or conflicts of interest.
when im in a data ignoring competition and my opponent is a “capitalism is bad” arguer
