statsig.bsky.social
Come for the cat, stay for the science education!
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But also, have you heard of the Karen Read case?
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Why not just use silly string? It would be equally effective!
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Sadly, this is the story of nearly everyone with chronic illness. I would love to see things improve now that there’s more attention on it, but I’m not optimistic.
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But also, this is her hunting. She really wouldn’t have been able to survive in the wild. 😅😂
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*almost 6 years ago
I got her in September 2019 and math is hard. 😅
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Without our local shelter, I never would have been able to afford a pet, so I’m forever grateful for all the work that shelters do to give animals homes and people companions.
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I’m not able to donate, but here’s the kitten I adopted almost years ago from my local shelter.
She’s my first cat. It was the day after her spay and I was too scared to take her cone off, so I gave her food on the back of a mug so she could reach it. 😂
She’ll be 6 on June 26th. ❤️
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Forget heroin, taking any painkillers is apparently bad. I was accused of misusing Tylenol. I took 1000mg/day for ~ 1 month (I’d been injured at work). Once the doctor heard that, he stopped listening to me and my 15 years of migraine w/aura suddenly became medication overuse headache. 🙄
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My guess: Their issues aren’t with drugs. They’re using drugs to help cope with something else.
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I’m really hoping that another university picks up this research.
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I’d be more okay with lazier if we had some way to check the accuracy or see how the result was determined.
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ALT (my own interpretation): In the corner of a light blue container, on top of wood chip bedding, there’s a pile of 5 rats. They look as if you’d tilted the container and they’d kinda slid into that one corner, like a pile of fuzzy Easter eggs.
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OMG! I love cuddle puddles!
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That whole narrative focuses on children while treating the adults who work with and around them as disposable. It also completely ignores the fact that COVID does cause significant health issues for children, but that’s another issue entirely.
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To be fair, that’s also what grad students are used for. 😅
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They solved the problem, they’re just using AI to do the grunt work, which, somehow, is even less energy efficient than their previous method: grad students.
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Okay, but there’s no Module 2!!!
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Ah! I normally just add “cunt” to my searches, but it might help that I’m not in the US
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I guess that would be a more work-appropriate solution…
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If you swear at the end of your search, it won’t provide the AI summary.
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That trial is just wild, though. If you’re interested in independent coverage, Emily D. Baker, Runkle of the Bailey, Lawyer You Know, and Andrea Burkhart are all lawyers either doing live commentary or daily recaps on YouTube.
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The thing is that, if I could, I would absolutely be there helping as many people as possible. (Starting an at-cost medical lab in the US is a pipe dream of mine.) I just can’t feel sorry for the people who are getting *exactly* what they asked for.
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Of my former students, it’s been about a 50/50 split between those who stayed in Canada and those who left.
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I grew up in the US and saw firsthand the ignorance and xenophobia. I don’t want people to suffer, but I’m also running out of patience for the people who put this government into power and continue to defend it.
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I agree. That said, I do want to point out the irony that the policy most certainly does not put “America” first.
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It wouldn’t be the worst thing for Canada, given that we lose a lot of doctors to the US because we just can’t compete with the salaries.
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Sounds like the conference is going swimmingly!
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“Ma’am, you are way too big to have to worry about any sort of quantum effects, let alone entanglement.”
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This message was brought to you by the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
“Entropy’s gonna get you eventually, might as well make it now!”
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Ecstasy?? (I’m guessing)
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I recently donated my unused TV to the local youth shelter. Might I recommend reaching out to something similar on your area?
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Oh no. Not the brands. What will we do without the brands.
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It’s a substantial concern in Canada, too. We’ve had 2515 cases so far this year.
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This makes me curious about rates of vitamin D deficiency.
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Even if it’s not that warm outside, I wouldn’t expect there to be a major shift in how the system is set up. It would still be more efficient to re-condition the air already inside of the arena than to draw in fresh (warmer) air. (Cooling things is HARD!!)
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Lives in AB. Can confirm not rat. 👍
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I remember listening to a playoff game in one of the hot places (TX? Vegas? FL?) and there was talk about the ice being slushy.
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My guess is that the air just recirculated. In the chemistry building I work in, the largest cost associated with running the fumehoods isn’t running the fans, it’s re-conditioning the air that they pull out. I suspect that hockey arenas, especially in warm areas, have tried to minimize air exchange
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They’re doing the same thing to universities. The result is larger classes, fewer supports, and the cuts are paid for by the graduate students who don’t even have a shot at a job, afterwards.
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In-focus, that photo would have gone from cute to moderately terrifying 😂
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Sure, but, as someone who’s had to explain to medical providers why I can’t afford ___ when I have a phone/computer/whatever, I felt reasonably qualified to weigh-in. I get what you’re saying, though: being poor is expensive.
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That actually depends. I waited until my carrier had a deal where I would end up paying less if I bought it through them. The guy on the phone even gave me an extra $200 off for being so patient!
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The stove isn’t great for energy, but convection ovens are pretty good!
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Taurine supplementation in cat and dog food and can actually prevent, treat, and REVERSE a kind of congestive heart failure.
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If it helps, microwaves are substantially more energy efficient than traditional ovens.
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What about implicit if statements? (Fortran is slowed down by explicit if statements 😅)
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“This program was brought to you by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you!”
Are there people who *don’t* just have that audio burned into their subconscious??