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he/him - Principal Software Engineer, pythonista, security enthusiast.

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@tottinge Some groups don't have to worry about being consistent.

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@banasidhe Is the NS part of your brain telling you that you have to answer that?
Nobody's gonna know.

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@schuchert Seems required. As if perhaps we've been moving for millennia.

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@les_mull You burp?

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@wardaddy39 @okiepatriot_76 It has never been for that since its inception. It's supposed to be a living wage. Go read some FDR.

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@SecMullinDHS @DHSgov Fuck you, you wet brown mess in Trump's diaper.

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@jessfraz Isn't there like a "famous" quote of yours out there covering this exact scenario?

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@LionOfAslanRoar @Rainmaker1973 It's not grounded so there isn't actually 22kV across it.

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@les_mull That skin care routine knocking off a bunch of years, eh?

[Sonia Kir🐝 🇨🇦 ☮️ 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 😷 💉 @gazoo32]

This is why I will always wear an N95 on a flight. Because you could be seated next to a woman whose husband died of a mystery illness, who was also showing signs of illness, who got on a flight and then who collapsed in the airport and then died in hospital. Cool cool.

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I'm pretty sure she was harassed into that position. 😂

[Rogue POTUS Staff @RoguePOTUSStaff]

Sick and tired of all the complaints that this or that side needs to tone down the rhetoric.

All sides need to eliminate the hatred in their hearts. If Marjorie Taylor Greene can learn that lesson, everyone can.

Start today.

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@IntelPointAlert 12 second reaction for a single agent?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA.

Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team.

After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator.

In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets.

Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record."

Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.

[Julia Marie @julia_doubleday]

During Covid- in 2021 - engineers and experts PROVED that this was wrong. It was a major, MAJOR breakthrough. It’s NOT just Covid. NONE of these viruses are spreading only via droplet. This thing we believed and built our infection control around isn’t true

[tern @1goodtern]

Don't you get it?

If lots of people in your population have lower ability to fight infection, it doesn't just mean those people are more likely to *catch* infections.

It means they are more likely to *spread* them too.

Let me explain.
This is important.

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

I think that in some cases, the better someones grasp of science, the stronger their need to reject aerosol transmission. Because if they accept that it's a dominant mode of transmission and really understand what that means, the implications are far-reaching and incredibly frightening.

For the layperson, it's just "Oh, so like coughs but further yeah? Well I'll take extra vitamins LOL" and they get on with their life of episodic illness, possibly debilitating, but with (to them) unclear vectors.

For someone with a good grasp of science, if they really understand what almost every respiratory infection having airborne potential means, than they understand that if true, almost all of the modern indoor spaces we have would be unsafe without massive IAQ upgrades- and in many cases those upgrades might not even be physically possible.

If airborne transmission is dominant = Nearly all of our indoor physical infrastructure is dangerous and obsolete without costly upgrades.

That is a massive, massive social, political, and financial upheaval to contemplate- and people able to see the big picture implications, rejecting it at a visceral level, when a comfortable, nostalgic paradigm of handwashing and coughing into their elbow is right there for them to cling to, is somewhat understandable.

It will take a long time, and a great deal more work before many come around- and many never will. Semmelweis's findings were not accepted during his lifetime- and those were a comparatively minor upheaval.

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@les_mull And then a congressman misspelled it furry on his press release. 😂

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@mitchblevins We got a whole bunch of bananas to dehydrate. I'm sure I looked like the craziest grocery hoarder.

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@RepublicanoAzul @s_carruthtx @SaraForTexLege The longer they're alive the more opportunity for transmission to humans or mutation to make transmission easier.
Besides, the impacted flock of something like cornish cross isn't breeding stock for more of themselves, so the few that would make it couldn't usefully pass it on.

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@les_mull Pseudoephedrine is the good stuff. Phenylephrine is what gets the label PE. It doesn't work for shit on me at least. But at least you can't make meth out of the PE 🙄