@mischievoustomato@georgia@pettanko there used to be tons of articles about "CHINESE GHOST CITIES THEY BUILT BUT NOBODY LIVES IN LOL" fast forward ten years later and they are full of people and thriving, not a peep from the China-haters.
I don't hate China, I like it in a lot of ways, but I am not going to either kiss its ass or criticize it for every single thing.
Description: Dimethylmercury is an extrememly toxic organomercury compound ... one of the strongest known neurotoxins. Less than 0.1 mL is capable of inducing severe mercury poisoning resulting in death.
@mangeurdenuage Scary. There's always going to be someone downwind of the launch site who gets to breathe this nasty chemical or its combustion products
"The National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill has issued a
* Tornado Warning for... Southeastern Clay County in west central Missouri... West central Ray County in west central Missouri... North central Jackson County in west central Missouri...
* Until 745 PM CDT."
This is a tornado warning (radar indicated) for Kansas City #Missouri.
Sounds like the weather streamers and storm chasers will be busy tonight.
That's great. Though I've found BitChat (remember, it is bit-chat, not bitch-at) doesn't work so well if you have disabled your device's location-sharing features. Since that's the first step I do on any mobile device, I've never seen another user.
Is all of Nostr abandoning SimpleX? For a while, it seemed like the closest thing to a Nostr chat app.
Maybe NYC always sucked. I think all large cities do to some extent. But it was still on everyone's "gotta visit at least once" list until their financial crisis in the 1970s.
And honestly, before I spent a year working there, it wasn't even on my list. What I found was that all the downsides I'd heard were true, but that they didn't matter as much as expected.
But, yeah. While I was there, my oldest son came to visit. We walked down a street near the Manhattan financial district. Two or three days later, someone killed two homeless men on the exact corner where we'd been. Yeah, that makes an impact.
Also, some guy started shooting on the subway not too far from my office. That day, I walked back to the hotel.
@tk Not just Identi.ca. I had a statusnet site and it was uncommon to be able to interact with the horsy instance (instances? I think there were *two* rainbow dash instances on that domain at one point).
Which wasn't really a bother, because they seemed to like being more-or-less cut off from the rest of us.
@todayilearned That's amazing. I learned in high school German class that the Pied Piper of Hamelin didn't take the kids to a candyland. He drowned them in the river, the same as the rats.
I'm thinking I need to obtain a reliable English translation of their original works.
You should probably subscribe / follow my other account: https://pleroma.soykaf.com/lnxw37a2 instead ... this one is more private. If I don't already know you, your request will not be accepted.