Notices by FirefighterGeek :masto: (firefightergeek@masto.ai)

@paezha

@cstross , I think you're just mad because the U.S. is overtaking the U.K. in the continued back and forth race to see who can make the most self destructive political choices.

I mean, I really thought you had us there with Brexit, but by doubling down on Trump I believe we nearly complete victory as signified by our own collapse.

@cstross Partly that's why I hate the term "AI" applied to what we have now.

There's no cognition happening. It's just an algo too big and self modifying for us to follow. There's neither good will nor bad will involved. There's no ego or desire. There's "most likely solution" and that's all. Getting you out of the way is efficient.

"The AI doesn't love you. The AI doesn't hate you. The AI knows that you are made of complex organic molecules and it has more efficient uses for them."

So Bob Woodward is reporting that Trump has stayed in touch with Putin, including at least 7 direct person to person phone calls SINCE LEAVING OFFICE.

If Trump still has a security clearance, and is not currently acting in any official capacity, he MUST report these contacts or faces prison time.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-spoke-putin-7-times-leaving-office-bob-114603192

@goatsarah

The story is whatever fascinates the media, who then become the story and feed the cycle.

It's great that the Harris team has managed to give them a new narrative to be fascinated by. This "happy warrior" story is working to feed the endless loop.

This is the first time the media's fascination with Trump's hold on what used to be considered normal people (which then amplifies the effect) hasn't been the focus of attention since 2019.

Happy May 1st.

As workers celebrate seizing the means of production,

and as Pagans celebrate the means of re-production,

I hope your day goes well.

@holly @GreenSkyOverMe

The myth that if you're "overweight" it's because you're lazy or eat too many processed foods is most easily proven bullshit when you see things like the "Venus of Willendorf" which is believed to be more than 28,000 years old.

I wasn't there, but I'm pretty sure there wasn't a lot of laying around on the couch and eating snack-cakes and sugar drinks in the year 25000 B.C.E.

@holly @GreenSkyOverMe

We're all different. Some people aren't going to be thin short of medical intervention.

I tend to eat like a 10 year old if I don't pay attention, and if I do pay attention I can drop weight fairly easily.

I'm never going to be thin. It's not my body type. My doc called me a "mesomorph" which means big bone structure, unusually large hands and feet, lots of muscle, and can gain or lose weight pretty easily.

BMI is also B.S. and not applicable to people like me.

@GreenSkyOverMe for some of us, changes to diet and exercise do work. I recognize that for many it does not. For me, when I feel the need, I can choose to eat like a grown up and lose as much as half a pound a day after the first three days.

Fwiw— I also fully support the key point you make about your medicine being critical and being threatened by shortages.

@Peternimmo

...and you'd have been 100% doing the right thing. Unless a life is in immediate danger, the smart thing for anyone who isn't a trained firefighter to do, is get out. Stuff can be replaced. They make more stuff all day long.

Also, vehicle fires are really hard to put out with an extinguisher once they're going. Impossible if its a lithium battery or petroleum fire.

* Speaking as some who has done this several times *

@Peternimmo Literally EVERYTHING in your home or car that burns is highly toxic. Couches, carpets, most clothing, everything plastic, treated wood -- EVERYTHING.

Common practice now after a fire is to DECON SHOWER and have all gear professionally cleaned. We NEVER take fire gear or boots into the living area of a station any more.

A whole generation of firefighters died or is dying of cancer from before we got serious about bottled air and decon.

@jimcarroll Most of the Canadians I know would not welcome this. They wouldn't say anything to you about it, but quietly, inside, they'd resent it. They're quietly building a privacy hedge along the border as we speak.