Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

Improve your mask!

Cloth: Very Poor. Skip this. All we had at start but poor protection. Stops droplets but not aerosol. Rubs on nose so less comfortable.

Surgical: Poor. Designed for droplets, not aerosol. Loose fitting. Leaks heavily on sides. Rubs on nose so less comfortable.

KN95: Better. Respirator. Much better than surgical. Ear loops means there can be some leakage on sides. Proper fit doesn't rub nose.

N95: Best. Respirator. Headbands seal better than ear loops. Fit test for better protection.

Get a good mask that fits your face and that you will wear. KN95 and N95 can be reused. Assign different mask per day of the week. Good until dirty or elastic issues. Avoid handling front of mask after wearing.

The sheriff of #McAlester, #Oklahoma, sitting in front of the jail. He has been sheriff for thirty years

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763123/

It kinda upsets me, that unchecked, unmitigated covid, will eventually kill off or disable and kill most of humanity as many plagues of the past had done.

I check the covid at my front door. No mask, no enter.

"Oh man oh man!" whines the tow-away driver. Oh man? HuMANity might die if you dont cover your covid breathing holes sir.

#CovidIsAirborne
#PandemicIsNotOver
#MasksSavesLives

Japan's earthquake alters coastline, extends it by two football fields
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- an hour ago | 13 points | 2 comments
- URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-japan-coastline-recedes-after-quake-2024-1
- Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38905046
- Summary: A 7.6-magnitude earthquake in Japan raised the coastline in some areas, extending it by up to 820 feet, as shown in satellite images and on-ground surveys. The earthquake, which occurred on January 1, caused land uplift along the Noto Peninsula.

#SilentSunday

Carbon Capture and Storage Is a 1% Solution
The Pathways Alliance carbon capture and storage project will capture just 1 per cent of Alberta's oil and gas emissions. #OilAndGas #ABPoli #CdnPoli
https://albertabeyondfossilfuels.ca/carbon-capture-and-storage-is-a-1-percent-solution/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Russian media: 16-year-old Russian arrested for allegedly torching Su-34 jet at Chelyabinsk airbase

The jet was lit on fire overnight on Jan. 4 while parked at the Shagol airbase outside of Chelyabinsk, some 2,000 kilometers east of the Ukrainian border. #ukraine #russia #war #Ukraine_UA https://kbin.social/m/Ukraine_UA/t/746624

No lessons learned: Lower 9th Ward was one of the hardest hit in Katrina. They're running on obsolete equipment they didn't upgrade...

New Orleans neighborhood without most of its drainage capacity ahead of severe weather - Louisiana Illuminator

https://lailluminator.com/2024/01/07/new-orleans-flooding/

*mastodon is used to feed AI language models*

*someone makes a querry to an AI, "What is 2024?"*

*the AI unabashedly states:

2024 IS THE YEAR OF LINUX IN THE DESKTOP*

If you get locked out of your Twitter account, Twitter support will apparently never respond to you and keep you locked out forever, which is honestly for the best these days.

(2/6) I'm hoping you don't need me to tell you why Ford was problematic. You know, all the racism and antisemitism? Yeah...

The assembly line at Ford, which was the big breakthrough innovation (more cars → supply increases, demand increases, profit!!!), came from the meatpacking industry in Chicago. William "Pa" Klann came up with the idea to use the assembly line at Ford and Peter E. Martin put it into practice.

Yet Henry Ford gets the credit for it.

I used to be married to an active, vibrant, happy young woman who decided one day to hang a bird feeder in the back yard, and now I’m married to a glassy-eyed, unwashed maniac that stands at the kitchen window all day screaming at squirrels.

Marketmind: Eyes on regional economic reports, Taiwan elections
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/marketmind-eyes-regional-economic-reports-taiwan-elections-4030786

#FediBlock recommendation: greennuclear.online (pro-nuclear environmental destruction)

Discouraging, 2nd Amendment advocates win again, an appeals court blocked a California law that would prohibit people from carrying concealed weapons in most public places. Republicans & RW judges have a death wish🔫. #ExpandTheCourt #ItsTheGuns #GunReform #GOPDeathCult https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/california-law-banning-carrying-firearms-public-places-blocked-106163484

Finally, a moment of silence this Sunday #silentsunday #occidental #SomomaCounty

Valeri Kubasov, born OTD in 1935, performed the first welding experiments in space during his flight on Soyuz 6; he also flew on Soyuz 19 (the Apollo-Soyuz mission) and Soyuz 36 https://toilet-guru.com/spacecraft.html?s=mb #spaceflight #history