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shakedown.social/@chopaganda/1… chopaganda@shakedown.social - Twitter literally suspended the people who outed the Nazi instead of the Nazi himself. Why? The Nazi asked Elon to suspend them.

And some of you reading this still help to keep Twitter alive. Get the fuck off that shit and don’t look back.

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Animal Crossing
If there's anyone here who plays Animal Crossing: New Horizons, turnips are currently selling on my island for 346 bells, so if anyone wants to take advantage of that, let me know. Hopefully I'll see your message before the price changes. #acnh
#acnh






At some point (apparently last December) a new #Friendica version came out and I hadn't noticed. Finally got around to upgrading, and it seems to be running much more smoothly than the previous version.

Also, there's a "channels" feature now? Gonna have to look into what that is.



thoughts on capitalism

The reason I dislike pure free-market #capitalism is that it invariably leads to decisions being made by accountants that should instead be made by scientists and engineers. When this happens, people tend to die.

Since the capitalist typically doesn't suffer these consequences directly, the only factor that ends up mattering is what it does to their balance sheet.

Strong regulation can translate these human costs into financial ones. To those who argue against this approach, I submit that the only alternative solution to the problem is decidedly... less kind.

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Jonathan Lamothe
thoughts on capitalism
@OddOpinions5 Who would you have making them?


TIL that #LambdaMOO doesn't recognize && as having a higher operator precedence than ||. That led to a fun little bug.



What started as a seemingly simple request (adding sake to the menu at my #LambdaMOO sushi bar) has snowballed into me writing a whole drunkenness subsystem.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Still tweaking the parameters a little. The way it was, one glass of sake could get you pretty obnoxiously drunk for a good period of time. I toned it down a bit to something slightly more realistic.


Today while I was out, I saw a guy at a busy intersection holding a handwritten sign. Obviously, I assumed he was panhandling, because people frequently do that there.

As I approached, I saw that his sign only had a URL on it. Out of curiosity, I visited it. Turns out it was some bitcoin mining scam.

While this was definitely a novel marketing approach, I wonder how they figured this particular tactic would instill confidence in anyone...












So, $music_streaming_service has been playing me a lot of LE SSERAFIM lately for some reason, and I have to say, I'm not mad about it.



You know what feature I find conspicuously absent from the #LambdaMOO programming language?

Lambdas.



Just spent an embarrassingly long time trying to track down a bug in my #LambdaMOO code. Turns out it was the generic function I'd built for folding over a list of values. It was such a stupidly simple function, it hadn't even occurred to me that the problem could be there.

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@screwlisp At the moment, the only way in is by teleportation. I've requested a link in from TinyTown, but the person who owns the area hasn't been online in about a month.

You can use @go #43453 in the meantime.

I'll link it into my already existing area if necessary, but I was hoping for something more central.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

@screwlisp I'm currently in a debugging/refactoring phase (to optimize for quota usage). If I finish doing that and still haven't heard back, I'll probably create my own public-ish space that people can link into and connect it there.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

If you'd like to help people build something on their own quotas, hopefully UNK is eventually going to register and I could really be doing something more interesting with my own quota.
in reply to screwlisp

@screwlisp Sure thing. Apparently someone has already started directing people to me with questions. Fortunately, I'm happy to help if I can.




politics

TIL that "ACAB" is in Nintendo's list of "banned words" in #AnimalCrossing. I suppose this makes sense if they want to remain apolitical.

Interestingly enough, "MAGA" is perfectly fine... so I guess there goes that theory.
#ACNH #censorship



ph, mention of blood, math/chemistry (possibly incorrect)

When you think about it, blood glucose meters need to be shockingly precise. Let's take a real-world example to illustrate this.

This morning, my glucose levels were 6.7mmol/L. What does that mean? Let me dust off my high school chemistry and bust out a calculator.

The internet tells me that glucose has a chemical composition of C6H12O6, which would give 1mmol of glucose a mass of about 180mg (0.18 grams).

A reading of 6.7mmol/L means that in a litre of blood, there would only be about 1.2 grams of glucose.

For perspective, a litre of water is 1000g. I don't off hand know the density of blood, but I imagine it's not too far off.

My meter was able to tell this from a drop of blood.

That's pretty wild. Can someone check my math on this?

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

ph, mention of blood, math/chemistry (possibly incorrect)
Your math is good but would you redo you calculations in ounces and gallons so us Americans can make sense of them? 😜
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ph, mention of blood, math/chemistry (possibly incorrect)

@PerryM ✅ I don't understand Freedom Units, but I tried to put everything in the same unit (grams) to give an idea of the sense of scale. My main takeaway is that the glucose measurement makes up somewhere in the ballpark of 0.1% by mass. The fact that it's possible to get that precise a reading from a single drop of blood is downright bananas.

Edit: 0.1%, not 1%. 1% would probably be lethal.

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

ph, mention of blood, math/chemistry (possibly incorrect)

Jon, I was "pulling your chain". Your math is perfect and your amazement logical.

Not questioning the accuracy is nearly the same as not questioning the building an ARK big enough to hold 2 of every animal on earth and feeding them and what comes next and even getting all of them on the Ark without DHL!

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

ph, mention of blood, math/chemistry (possibly incorrect)
My guess is that you never worked for Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos either!







How did Deseret Book get Katy's email address? And of course, the unsubscribe link 404s.


Accidentally bungled the database doing routine maintenance today. Had to restore from yesterday's backup.

Apologies for any inconvenience.



I haven't been paying attention. Why is #CDCSays trending?
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Follow the hashtag and read them. That’ll clear it up pretty quick. Advice: don’t be drinking anything while you do. Although, laughing and crying simultaneously is possible.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Seems to have been inspired by this: archive.ph/G4ai1

Reporting in the Washington Post that the CDC says one day of isolation is enough for COVID cases.




Haven't driven out this way in a while. When did this monstrosity arrive?
(taken from the passenger seat)
#Amazon







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