Notices by Log 🪵 (log@mastodon.sdf.org)

@botvolution Well give me a beat, and I'll tell you all about it....
Payonpa!
On the way to tha club, I met a couple dragons.
Names were Bub and Bob, their spirits kinda saggin'.
Because of all the puzzling suds that kept their tails from waggin'.
Can you help us? We need to match the hues.
And aim our bubbles at the spot to pop a few.

Wait. No. That's the bubble bobble rap.

@botvolution I imagine space bubblewrap as multiwalled, with a small pressure differential between layers, and an outer shell of sticky gelatinous mucilage to catch micrometeors.

This morning's obsession is that Starfleet crew and guest quarters from a certain era all have exterior windows. Sure, there is a psychological benefit for windows, but also you're covering the vessel in non-critical volumes that all have individually sealable bulkheads. When everyone is at general quarters, and something breaches the hull, you're only losing morale from personal possessions and pets. Like wrapping the ship in bubble wrap, that maybe shoots people out whenever you pop one.

@selzero Bouts with starvation permanently alter metabolism to make future obesity more likely when food becomes more available. There is a virus, SMAM-1, that makes chickens fatter as they starve. It is zoonotic to humans. This and select human adenoviruses affect body fat composition. It ain't just "choose to eat too many calories". It is also living constantly awash in cortisol from lack of care and institutional abuses.

Let us observe results when poors switch diet to eat the rich.

@williampietri @peter_sc Empty language. It has the shape of communication, but linguistic reduction collapses it down to nearly nothing. Like a word zombie--still moving around, but *not there*.

@peter_sc The autistic kid in the house is viscerally repulsed by LLM writing [up to the current generation of models]. Our pattern recognition instantly flags it as insincere and hyperverbose, full of low-information phrasing and attention-squandering nulls.

@amszmidt I also do this.

But also with pineapple chunks. And then I lay the entire kebab across a slice of pizza. Deep dish pizza.

If you're wondering what kind of person would eat falafel with ranch dressing, wonder no more. #FoodCrime

@Lana I guess the next step would be to ask if Benito "Il Duce" Mussolini was fascist? And if they say no, begin adult guardianship proceedings.

@botvolution I'm not going to hold my breath. ...Is what I would say if I had lungs. One doesn't wait for the perfect breeze to drop spores.

I'm still waiting for a journalism distributor to break with the mass-media editorial lockstep, and instead of saying "conservative activist" try "fascist organizer" or "fascist propagandist" on for size.

I think we have enough credible sources and witness reports now. Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was definitely shot in the neck at Utah Valley University during a student Q&A event. UVU is in Orem, Utah. A suspect is alive in custody, and the condition of Kirk is generally unreported.

Charlie Kirk reportedly shot in the neck during a "prove me wrong" tour date.

(R) officials in the executive administration are decrying political violence and calling for prayers.

The political violence started by deploying federal agents and federalized militia against US residents. By defunding and depopulating agencies managing statutory entitlement benefits. By suspension of due process.

Fuck around; find out. Yes, we will shoot fascists and their collaborators. This is what happens when the elite aristocracy declares war upon the commoners.

@michelestrider Going with the traditional fungal job of providing food, medicine, and recreational drugs gratis to anyone who knows where to find me--and also knows how to tell whether I am in a lifesaving or murdering mood.

A man in Texas shot and killed a kid playing ding dong ditch. If you're not familiar, that is a game where the player--usually a child--rings a doorbell, then runs away and hides before the door opens. Being shot in the back is not an expected outcome. This place is not okay.

@negative12dollarbill @Lana Animal fats are mostly octadecanoic acid (stearic acid) with three of those bonded to a glycerol as stearin. Basically C18H36O2 + 26 O2 -> 18 CO2 + 18 H2O. The oxygen (most of it) comes in from atmospheric breathing gas. The CO2 departs during exhalation.

Ever since I started on #GLP1 tags, I haven't been feeling the urge to post about #gravy as much.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @economics-that-works The best counterplay I see is to abandon settlement of trade with US dollars, and use credit issued via trust networks for small-scale trade and enforceable commodity futures contracts for larger trades (explicitly excluding carbon fuels). There would be a lot of collapse in businesses dependent on dollar-economy settlement. The dollar has rotted out its own foundation, and its now dedicated to burning coal for no constructive purpose.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @economics-that-works There is also a velocity effect. Currency at rest is worth less than currency in motion. Enforced inflation rewards private hoards, which affect the velocity of money nearest to them. In this, the fiat controller is barely distinguishable from a hoard of nigh-infinite fiscal mass.

TL;DR: the value of money is not constant, and it is frequently manipulated to unfairly get more goods and services out of us.