George Budd @Gbudd@social.cleverlibre.org
Father, Boyfriend, Volunteer EMT, (conflicted) Veteran, Computer Geek, Perpetual Student. Command line kind of guy (he/him) Very amateur woodworker, crude sketcher, proud nerd, liberal, wished I knew more math and science.
I’m willing to be wrong, certainty often means that I don’t actually understand the problem
Joined Nov 2022
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#ELI5 Why is water see through?
I'd never thought about it like this. Wow.
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Michael Penn's video on defining the natural logarithm as the integral of 1/x got me thinking about how this was slightly mysterious to me when I first encountered it in high school. Usually, the integral of x^(n-1) is x^n/n (plus a constant). But n = 0 is this weird exception. How could you get from an unpromising expression like "x^0/0" to the natural logarithm?
@jeffjarvis @fifilamoura I’m not saying you should be closer to your geographical neighbors, just that both have value. I interact with lots of Trump voters, I don’t agree with their politics but I do value the human interaction.
I am glad that we do have the opportunity to find rewarding interactions online, like I said, they’re invaluable. But so are in person interactions.
@fifilamoura @jeffjarvis Huh, weird that you couldn’t see my reply, apologies if I hit the wrong button somewhere along the way.
I am not saying that you need to be friends with everyone in your neighborhood (and certainly not with any yahoo who thinks their front yard is a shooting range).
I’m just saying it’s a mixed bag, that it is valuable to interact with folks in your neighborhood as well as folks online.
@fifilamoura @jeffjarvis It’s kind of a mixed bag. It is absolutely true that the Internet let’s me interact with folks from around the world and let’s me hear from people and perspectives I never would otherwise. It lets marginalized people find support. That is absolutely invaluable.
But it is also true that we spend less time with people in our physical community and that has downsides. When I walk into a house where I’ve got a patient who’s primary social interaction is Facebook and cable news it’s not the same as someone who’s interacting with their neighbors (of course the opposite is true too, the internet can let them keep in touch with family they’d never see otherwise).
It doesn’t help that a lot of our media based interactions are very purposefully designed to divide and anger.
I can’t draw a direct line between lack of community interaction and volunteerism, but it does feel like we’re finding it increasingly difficult to recruit for our local EMS and Fire services.
Like I said it’s a mixed bag
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I'm mad. Someone showed me this link:
And now I'm broke. 😡
But, I have to do some research (playing with toys) to figure out this lesson idea I have that involves various weighted dice-- and they have a lot of really fun dies. Well, if I like this lesson idea I'll make the school buy me the next batch. Purchase orders are such a drag.
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the #DescriptionDelegation has seized this post
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Don't forget to give your chair a treat every once in a while
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Rather than Republicans thanking me for my service on Veterans day I would rather they keep their hands off of the benefits I earned during that service. Veterans earned benefits, Your corporate donors didn't .
@housegop
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I'm barely a suicide survivor. It's not that I never felt that way again, it's more that I understood that the darkness passes. Hope all reading this know it too. Let's all stay alive together.
@JoParkerBear @kimtopher22 Thanks to both of you for speaking out. I’m glad you’re still here ❤️
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My 16 y old kiddo has been battling severe depression and social anxiety for several years with my husband and I by her side all the way. Several days ago a young entrepreneur fair was announced and I suggested the possibility of participating presenting a product using some of her beads work. I was delighted to see she started producing right away. She hasn't been enthusiastic about anything for years. I'm writing this with tears coming down and wanted to share proudly with you.
@Teri_Kanefield @RockerDoc Thanks for taking the time out to explain this all to us Teri, your patience and clear writing are greatly appreciated!
I get that people are frustrated, but this is the legal system we’ve got. It’s not perfect but it’s got a lot going for it.
@glizzyborden@mstdn.social @trz My personal favorite radio dispatch traffic was when they called one of our neighboring ambulances, “smallville 21, do you have a patient on board”, “yes”, “we’ll they’re calling us to report they’ve being kidnapped”. Suffice it to say, that patient had a lot of substances on board
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"This is a public service announcement... with guitar!"
41 years ago today
"Know Your Rights" is a song by the Clash, released on this day in 1982 as the first single from the album Combat Rock.
The three are:
"The right not to be killed. Murder is a crime, unless it is done by a policeman, or an aristocrat".
"The right to food money, providing, of course, you don't mind a little investigation, humiliation, and if you cross your fingers, rehabilitation".
"The right to free speech (as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it
#punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #knowyourrights #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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Today's XKCD is hard https://xkcd.com/2765/
It's one of his interactive ones where you control a lunar lander style craft - but you can't get far and end up deep in a gravity well
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BREAKING!: Pica opts to settle in lawsuit over couch scratching incident and accusations of being a “Cute inquiline of human apartments” estimated damages: a record 2.6 million head kisses
In a statement to the press through her lawyers #pica said “That’s a lot of head kisses and we want to emphasize that this does not imply we are ‘baby’ however we felt we owed it to America to put this contentious case to rest.”
@Teri_Kanefield Thanks for all the insights Teri, they are truly appreciated. I get the general disappointment but totally understand why Dominion would be foolish not to settle.
Do you have a feel for what happens to all the evidence that Dominion got in discovery? Did it become part of the public record once the trial started?
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One of the greatest things I've learned as I've gotten older is that you don't have to be good at everything and that, in fact, being mediocre at just a TON of shit is super fun.
You can learn a little about a ton of stuff and then decide if you want to make that time commitment that it takes to make you actually good. You can dance around stuff and put it down and come back to it and whatever.
It's very freeing. I wish I'd learned it earlier.
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Loops of superheated plasma larger than the Earth dancing across the Sun, recorded by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. #AltText4Me
Credit: SDO/NASA Goddard
Further reading: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/coronal-rain.html
@Sundowner @BlippyTheWonderSlug I’m sorry you’re having such a rough time. I’m glad you found a safe place to talk. Be kind to yourself, you deserve it.
Father, Boyfriend, Volunteer EMT, (conflicted) Veteran, Computer Geek, Perpetual Student. Command line kind of guy (he/him) Very amateur woodworker, crude sketcher, proud nerd, liberal, wished I knew more math and science.
I’m willing to be wrong, certainty often means that I don’t actually understand the problem
Joined Nov 2022
