David Dvorkin @DavidDvorkin@social.cleverlibre.org
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Writer, former software developer, tech writer, aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander). Atheist and anti-theist; I try not to go on too much about that and frequetnly fail. Mostly fairly leftwing except on certain subjects; ditto about going on too much about it. Come to think of it, that bit about going on too much about stuff applies to all of the above.
Joined Nov 2022
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As some of you may know, if you have any students in your class who identify as Christian, they may ask to be excused from school to observe the Christian holiday of “#Christmas,” more popularly referred to as Yom Christmas or Nittel.
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One of the worst aspects of the torrent of drivelly Christmas music whenever I make the mistake of turning on the radio is that it creates earworms of music I detest. Some of it does have pleasant tunes, but even the nicest tunes become noxious eventually when they're earworms.
It doesn't even take the radio: sometimes, just the mention of a Christmas tune will do it.
On the bright side, no one has mentioned Rudolph, the Red-Nosed--
OH, SHIT!
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I have learned two very important lessons in life. I don't remember the first one, but the second one is to write down everything. 😉
According to my comrades on the Left, Albert Einstein was an American physicist of German birth, but Elon Musk is a South African. We are no better at being self-aware than are those of the Right.
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They should call themselves “alfalfa males” because everything about them is pretty much eventually horseshit.
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Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with a slow Internet connection to see who they really are.
@richard_merren @GrahamLester I pronounce Chanukah the way the evil Santa does in The Hebrew Hammer.
@richard_merren @GrahamLester I can't pronounce Hebrew without them. Never got beyond that.
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It's that time of the year where I teach our 1st year #DataScience students about data *in the wild*
@GrahamLester The only really correct spelling is חֲנֻכָּה
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I'm too tired to come up with any witty commentary about this. Just sad and disgusted.
Brief summary: paleontologist Robert #DePalma, who shares his cousin Brian's cinematic instincts, made a big spash a few years ago with the discovery of the "Tanis" site, which appears to preserve the day of the #Chicxulub impact. Since then he's milked it in the media for all it's worth. Well, as much as most scientists dislike that kind of behavior, it's how you keep the grant money rolling in. #Dinosaurs are maybe more popular than ever, but they're lousy at paying their own bills.
He's made many dubious claims before about the site, many carefully hedged so he could retract them later. It's a dangerous game. This time, it very much looks like he's done something much worse.
#Tanis is real, and it's a remarkable discovery. DePalma's inability to distinguish between flashy PR and outright fraud will accomplish nothing but tarnishing all the real #paleontology work done at the site, by anyone, for years to come. Good scientists like #During will suffer the consequences.
Yeah. Don't do that.
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I no longer care what anyone thinks about me answering my door masked, or pumping gas masked, or anything else. I know I'm an "at risk" person, but as an old RN, I believe pretty much everyone is 'at risk' in this pandemic. I know many who've had Covid at least twice, young folks w/long Covid - all vaxxed/boosted/cautious. This should have been a global public health emergency; mandatory masking in public should have been the rule from the start.
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If you see this toot (yeah this one right here), can you boost it for me? It will help my new server federate with the wider Mastodon network. 🚀 🙏
Thanks to anyone who can do this. It is really appreciated! This server is small but will be hosting several #peace #SocialJustice and #Humanistic groups, so it is for a good cause.
@minxdragon As Damon Runyan said, "He that tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted."
I'm waiting until I finish and publish my current WIP. Then I'll toot away. Unless I decide to do it before then, because I don't really know when that will be.
@nikkibuschedit Yes! (Speaking as another such editor.)
@greenprepper That's a great shot.
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- http://www.dvorkin.com/
Writer, former software developer, tech writer, aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander). Atheist and anti-theist; I try not to go on too much about that and frequetnly fail. Mostly fairly leftwing except on certain subjects; ditto about going on too much about it. Come to think of it, that bit about going on too much about stuff applies to all of the above.
Joined Nov 2022
