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I always wished there were bookstores closer to me. And that the ones that were in driving distance advertised just a little farther—half the time I don’t hear about a local book signing till after the fact :/

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This

Biden is not the best choice by a long shot. But is he better than Trump, who promised to reverse people’s rights? 100%

#america isn’t really a democracy anymore but vote anyway #vote

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Moffat getting more and more angry as he gets older and I'm loving it.

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today in "google AI is fucking useless because it hallucinates things that never happened", i bought a couple CVS thermometers that have both been acting up, tried to search if there had been a problem with the whole product line:

there is no record of this product recall. it did not happen. the date "feb 8 2024" is the date someone listed a thermometer for sale on ebay.

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It's incredible how people have been protesting pants and skirts not having pockets but not a single peep is heard over the fact that skirts no longer have underskirts by default. Underskirts (or lining) was a thing when I was a child, no skirt would be made without lining, you didn't have to think and check if your whole ass is visible in a skirt because lining was a thing!!!! Now most skirts don't and it's simply because it's cheaper, fuck the fact that a customer doesn't want their panties shown in broad daylight, it saves a couple of cents on material.

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my latest cartoon for New Scientist.

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Researchers discovered this new variant via wastewater. They reported that it already makes up 1/4 of US Covid cases.

Symptoms include: fever or chills, fatigue, "brain fog," difficulty breathing, muscle aches, new loss of taste or smell.

All of this information I stated above can be found here:

I will definitely be updating about this new variant as more information is made available to the public.

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Why haven’t I heard about this in the news? It’s sad when important catastrophic events first reach my ears via tumblr and not some actual news source :/

these are pictures from before and after the floods. these are 2 days old:

these other pictures are more recent, mostly from yesterday:

Rio Pardo, RS / Eldorado do Sul, RS

Canoas, RS

Porto Alegre, RS

this is a nightmare.

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They will destroy nature and call it saving the planet.

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Masks work.

Don Wilson:

"I have noticed a significant increase in general laxity about PPE since COVID masking has been dropped. A significant % of OR staff (esp anesthesia & RTs) not bothering to mask inside actual OR even when sterile fields are open & set up.

Nurses inside OR generally much more consistent (they directly handle & set up sterile equipment).

I’ve seen unmasked anesthesiologists & RTs for emergency CS & gyne cases… I don’t get it. We mask to prevent contamination of open surgical wounds. Just because COVID mask mandates are over doesn’t mean INSIDE an operating room is a mask free zone.

Used to be that it was unthinkable to be unmasked inside an active OR. Even in the hallways during active OR time. It’s a sad commentary on the impact of the antimask stupidity spilling over to areas where it can impact quality & safety of the patient care environment.

I’m just one person who chooses to be fastidious about masking inside the hospital, I can’t take on the entire system. But it’s discouraging to see & I wonder how many patients go on to have nosocomial surgical infections because of relaxed cultures around masking now."

https://x.com/heiltsuk_paleo/status/1780326358314614784

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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I’ve run into this, where I know as a kid I read a book that mentioned x but is it anywhere I can find online? No. And even worse, libraries cull their older books and people aren’t even allowed to buy them sometimes. :/

You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

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I have libreoffice for this exact reason. I refuse to pay a subscription for something I bought before and lost access to

The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again

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Rice cooker. It's the answer to half the cooking problems

I'm curious. Reblog this if you know how to cook

I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat. 

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I remember this. While watching, it makes perfect sense so the change in actor doesn’t register beyond “oh…the doctor messed up. Will he be able to fix it?”

there’s an episode of 1960s doctor who where dr who’s friend gets turned into a faceless cardboard cutout and he has to recreate his face from cut up photos but he fucks it up and the guy is played by a different actor for the rest of the episode

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