Notices by Tinyrabbit ✅ (tinyrabbit@floss.social)

@molly0xfff do you have both cats and dogs?

Here's my furball 😊

@alcinnz me too!

@gerrymcgovern am I a douche for being annoyed at "Annually, the Lake averages a deficit of 1.2 million acre-feet of water" because of course Americans would never use sensible units of measurement for *anything* but time.

@gerrymcgovern I have friend in Salt Lake City and brought this up with them. And the response was completely baffling to me:
"Yeah, everyone can see that the lake is dying. You can't go there because of the constant stench of rotting shellfish. But this is the first time I've heard that it might dry out and that it would be toxic if it did. Literally nobody here talks or worries about that."

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@gerrymcgovern it may be completely dry as soon as 2028, and completely dead even before that. A city of 200k people may become uninhabitable. And they don't even know! Or care!

Then I remembered that it's exactly like the rest of the world.

Can we all just marvel for a second at the fact that NASA has found the error that caused Voyager 1 to send bad data, and is working on a solution?

The probe is 163.163 Astronomical Units from the Sun. That's 24408837426 km, and counting (rather quickly at that).

NASA can work around hardware issues in a 46 year old device in outer space. What does that say about the commercial hardware and software industry?

I don’t know why Meta haven’t been public about this, but you can now hide any of your posts from Threads users by just adding the word ”pixelfed” anywhere in it. Nice to give the option to opt out so easily, but a somewhat strange way to do it and a very random choice of keyword imho.

@phiofx @kubikpixel That's the problem I'm referring to; unless Solid gains traction -- which I don't see it doing -- it won't actually solve any problems. It'll stay as a theoretical concept.

@kubikpixel I gotta be honest; I don’t see it going anywhere. It’s been talked about for how long now? Must be close to a decade now and still no actual application or even proof of concept that I’ve seen. And I don’t see how it would gain traction and wide adoption

Can someone tell me good news about climate change action? Real, tangible, good news. Not that politicians have signed papers or that some Western countries grow without increasing fossil fuel consumption (usually because industry is outsourced to non-Western countries instead).

Just... Are we on track in any way at all? Globally speaking.

@silverwizard my middle one listens to audiobooks for bedtime when he’s with his mom.

When he’s with me he always wants to listen to that one episode of a podcast about war history where the hosts decided to talk about Warhammer 40k lore instead…