Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

Some good #covid19 news.

“Staying up to date on COVID-19 vaccines can cut the risk of COVID-related strokes, blood clots, and heart attacks by around 50 percent in people ages 65 years or older and in those with a condition that makes them more vulnerable to those events, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/covid-shots-cut-covid-related-stroke-clot-heart-attack-risk-by-50-in-65/

Ron DeSantis Trolled At Iowa Event With ‘Participation Trophy’: ‘Proud Of You For Trying’ https://www.mediaite.com/election-2024/ron-desantis-trolled-at-iowa-event-with-participation-trophy-proud-of-you-for-trying/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Is anyone else having trouble accessing #DuckDuckGo? And any #IsThisSiteDown site? Other sites load for me, but not these. Very odd. What don't you want me to know, Internet?

Congressional Expert Says House Democrats Should Introduce an Impeachment Resolution Against Judge Cannon

https://www.politicususa.com/2024/01/13/congressional-expert-says-house-democrats-should-introduce-an-impeachment-resolution-against-judge-cannon.html

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wF5bHhqnP8Y&si=fAk7a8S1dbRf1bdO
‼️🇹🇼Taiwan voters cheer for 'vitality of democracy' after Lai's win (FRANCE 24 English News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #Taiwan #France #Press #News #russia #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk #BoycottPoland #AxisOfEvil
#NoEUPrezForHungary
#NoUSRepublicans2024

#Ucraina
I sistemi di difesa aerea #Patriot hanno già abbattuto 15 #missili #Kinzhal russi da quando sono stati utilizzati per la prima volta a maggio, ha detto il portavoce dell'Air Force Yurii Ihnat alla televisione nazionale il 31 dicembre.

"Il 4 maggio, il primo missile Kinzhal "impareggiabile" è stato intercettato con successo. Il conteggio è iniziato da quel momento", ha detto Ihnat.
https://kyivindependent.com/air-force-patriot-air-defense-systems-have-already-shot-down-15-kinzhal-missiles/

The 2.300 Years Old Theater Of Epidaurus In Greece, Capable Of Holding 14.000 Spectators. #PastTimes

via Brian Roemmele from Twitter

274gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. http://bit.ly/3usoe #CO2

We're up to a half inch of rain at #ForkedMeadow #California where it's now 34f. All that rain is getting soaked into the snow and compacting the base. #CaWx

Tom Shales died from COVID-19.

Sam Smith -The Washington Post reports that “Tom Shales, a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for The Washington Post who brought incisive and barbed wit to coverage of the small screen and chronicled the medium as an increasingly powerful cultural force, for better and worse, died Jan. 13 at a hospital in Fairfax County, Va."

2/10 would not recommend this bookend. Bookend is very noisy and judge-y. Expects to be fed treats despite poor work quality. #caturday

He’s gonna die in prison or the lunatic asylum

Ashamed of my state for doing this.

Washington Spent Over $700,000 on Boulders to Deter Homeless Camps

https://www.businessinsider.com/washington-spent-thousands-boulders-deter-homeless-camps-2024-1

Highest temperatures ever recorded:

🇦🇶 Antarctica: 19.8 °C
🇮🇸 Iceland: 30.5 °C
🇮🇪 Ireland: 33.3 °C
🇳🇴 Norway: 35.6 °C
🇸🇪 Sweden: 38.0 °C
🇬🇧 UK: 40.3 °C
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 40.6 °C
🇩🇪 Germany: 41.2
🇻🇪 Venezuela: 43.6
🇧🇷 Brazil: 44.8 °C
🇷🇺 Russia: 45.4 °C
🇫🇷 France: 46.0 °C
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 46.4°C
🇮🇹 Italy: 47.0 °C
🇬🇷 Greece: 48.0 °C
🇦🇷 Argentina: 48.9 °C
🇹🇷 Turkey: 49.1 °C
🇨🇳 China: 50.5 °C
🇲🇦 Morocco: 51.7°C
🇲🇽 Mexico: 52.0 °C
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 52.0°C
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 53.7 °C
🇮🇷 Iran: 54.0 °C
🇹🇳 Tunisia: 55 °C
🇺🇸 USA: 56.7 °C

Winter conditions as seen in Valles Caldera National Preserve. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/vall/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #photography #landscapephotography #publiclands #interpretation #icicles Image credit National Park #nmwx

French chemist and physicist Paul Ulrich Villard, who died OTD in 1934, discovered gamma rays in 1900 while studying the radiation emanating from radium https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/electricity/?s=mb #travel #France #science

A #SpaceX #Falcon 9 #rocket carrying #Bangladesh’s first #satellite, named #Bangabandhu-1 into geostationary orbit to provide communications services around Bangladesh and its region.
#Bangabandhu1 is also referred to as #BangSat.
It is Bangladesh’s first and, so far, only #spacecraft of any type.

Get a print of this image or another at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/spacex-falcon-9-climbs-to-orbit-heron-and-fox.html

#FalconRocket, Falcon9Rocket, #BangSat1, #RocketLaunch, #Photography

Two related questions for computer graphics people:

1. is it true that ray/line/whatever intersection tests are common in interviews?

2. how common are questions of this nature, where you have equations memorized?🤔

(boosts appreciated pls)