In other news today...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@topspin I would think they have accidentally collected it anyway. Pretending to ask when they already know is just wasting everyone's time.
Yes, they have already illegitimately collected it. I'm not going to legitimize it post-hoc.
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@topspin Fight the system, brother!
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Meanwhile astronomers thankfully enjoy bright skies due to billionaires' unending flow of money into space projects:
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Now that the 'rona is fading out, and monkey pox hasn't managed to catch on, watch out for the bird flu.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
monkey pox hasn't managed to catch on
Unwarranted optimism
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Oh look...
another bettery tech that we will never see in the wild.
Did Tesla start making batteries? Last time I checked they bought them from Panasonic.
sad Gigafactory noises
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You may ask, how is that news today? Well, here's your answer:
INB4 "other news two days ago"
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@acrow I saw a youtube video about this. It was an Owens-Corning plant and they spun it into housing insulation.
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@topspin According to the local newspaper's expert doctor, monkey pox spreads about as easily as HIV.
While false optimism is a thing that exists, I wouldn't be worried of a pandemic of a disease that requires sexual contact to spread.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin According to the local newspaper's expert doctor, monkey pox spreads about as easily as HIV.
While false optimism is a thing that exists, I wouldn't be worried of a pandemic of a disease that requires sexual contact to spread.And at least as far as Sweden goes, monkey pox seems to be mild.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin According to the local newspaper's expert doctor, monkey pox spreads about as easily as HIV.
While false optimism is a thing that exists, I wouldn't be worried of a pandemic of a disease that requires sexual contact to spread.But anyway, Iâve read that it can spread via skin contact, so condoms donât protect you and you can get infected without sex. Thatâs not quite comparable to HIV.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin According to the local newspaper's expert doctor, monkey pox spreads about as easily as HIV.
While false optimism is a thing that exists, I wouldn't be worried of a pandemic of a disease that requires sexual contact to spread.It is also effectively protected against by an existing vaccine against pox.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
Did Tesla start making batteries?
There was quite a bit of noise a while back over a big factory they built to do battery manufacturing. I forget the details, and aren't about to search for them.
Yes, and by manufacturing they meant assemblying them from cells bought from Panasonic.
They also tried a deal with Panasonic doing the assembly under Tesla roof, and claiming that's Tesla 'manufacturing batteries'. But Panasonic couldn't stand them and walked away.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin According to the local newspaper's expert doctor, monkey pox spreads about as easily as HIV.
While false optimism is a thing that exists, I wouldn't be worried of a pandemic of a disease that requires sexual contact to spread.But anyway, Iâve read that it can spread via skin contact, so condoms donât protect you and you can get infected without sex. Thatâs not quite comparable to HIV.
It's not unheard of for HIV to spread via splashed blood. So the mechanism is there. But HIV doesn't generate sores or boils like the pox. The fluid in the boils seems to be virus-rich. I assume this is the cause of the skin contact spread.
Whether the virus actually penetrates healthy skin, I'm not sure.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin According to the local newspaper's expert doctor, monkey pox spreads about as easily as HIV.
While false optimism is a thing that exists, I wouldn't be worried of a pandemic of a disease that requires sexual contact to spread.But anyway, Iâve read that it can spread via skin contact, so condoms donât protect you and you can get infected without sex. Thatâs not quite comparable to HIV.
It's not unheard of for HIV to spread via splashed blood. So the mechanism is there. But HIV doesn't generate sores or boils like the pox. The fluid in the boils seems to be virus-rich. I assume this is the cause of the skin contact spread.
Whether the virus actually penetrates healthy skin, I'm not sure.It's a bit more than that though:
Monkeypox virus can spread to people when they are bitten by an animal infected with monkeypox or when they touch the blood, body fluids, or lesions of an infected animal or person. In the United States in 2003, monkeypox was reported among several people who had contact with sick pet prairie dogs that had contact with imported African rodents. The virus spreads from person to person through large respiratory droplets. These droplets cannot travel more than several feet, so prolonged face-to-face contact is needed. Sometimes, monkeypox virus is spread from person to person through close contact or by touching body fluids of a person with monkeypox. In the United States in 2003, no one got sick from being in contact with another person with monkeypox. Objects, such as bedding or clothing, contaminated with the virus can also spread the monkeypox virus.
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I don't even want to understand this headline. It's too much fun already:
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@boomzilla I saw that on slashdot and it fit perfectly there, half their headlines read like theyâre written by a @gribnitÂ-bot.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
a disease that requires sexual contact to spread
Whew, I'm safe... um...
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
They also tried a deal with Panasonic doing the assembly under Tesla roof, and claiming that's Tesla 'manufacturing batteries'.
They may have struck some kind of deal with someone:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5389456,-119.4393367,2179m/data=!3m1!1e3
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
I wouldn't be worried of a pandemic of a disease that requires sexual contact to spread.
I once heard someone define an STD as a disease so non-contagious that it requires the most intimate sort of contact to be transmitted.
Sounded good for a while, but then I started thinking about kuru.
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@da-Doctah It's not a bad description, although it's not a good definition. As you noted, there are some diseases that are even less contagious and require even more intimate means of transmission.
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@boomzilla well, shit.
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@Watson said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla well, shit.
Alien pizza
I for one would love to see "well, shit--alien pizza" become a popular catchphrase.
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@boomzilla How many
expertsexchange
experiences are required for anglophones to adopt a-
in their domain names?
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@BernieTheBernie at least one more.
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@BernieTheBernie But you can't write about pizza in kebab-case, now, can you?
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@Bulb
www.welsh-italian-kebab-pizza.co.uk
See? I can!
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@da-Doctah Thank God for Judeo-Christian burial laws. Kept us out of a lot of trouble.
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@dkf Iâm not much of a theologist but last I checked Judeo-Christianity wasnât big on funerary cannibalism. Could be a good way to pass along a few stubborn bacteria though.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Kept us out of a lot of trouble.
Specifically you?
Ebola and, apparently, Kuru, became as widespread as they were mainly through burial rites. Just about every people has some specific burial rites. Sometimes very offputting, when looking from our culture. And for good reason; most cultures believe that the deceased's soul/power is in their blood or some organ. And ritual cannibalism comes usually from trying to capture some of that.
Whereas the Judeo-Christian laws say, paraphrased, "Corpses are icky. Don't touch them any more than you absolutely have to. Just bloody bury it!".
I'm sure the Finnish people has some rites before we were converted. I haven't studied further, but why would we have been any different? We have some ancient burial mounds here. The high-born were apparently buried with tools for afterlife like the Egyptians did. What are the chances we did the organ-jar -ing like Egyptians too?
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
monkey pox
Some scientific summary of the current knowledge can be found at
poxviruses can survive for a long time outside the body, making surfaces such as bedsheets and doorknobs a potential vector of transmission
Well, that's reassuring...
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie at least one more.
what about the old stalwart
penisland.com
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie at least one more.
In this case even the intended reading sounds rather creepy.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
I'm sure the Finnish people has some rites before we were converted. I haven't studied further, but why would we have been any different?
Funerary rites vary wildly; we know from the practices recorded in historical documents and by ethnographers. A cursory search (one site) seems to indicate that ancient Finnish customs tended towards cremation.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Whereas the Judeo-Christian laws say, paraphrased, "Corpses are icky. Don't touch them any more than you absolutely have to. Just bloody bury it!".
And Islam adds "And do so in under 24 hours". You do not want to keep unrefrigerated corpses around longer than necessary in a hot climate.
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@dkf Seems kind of expensive, considering that gathering wood was hard before metal tools. In winter it's hard even with metal tools. But I don't have any better sources either, so .
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Seems kind of expensive, considering that gathering wood was hard before metal tools.
Digging graves was also hard before metal tools. Probably even more so as a lot of fallen wood could be collected without tools.
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@Bulb How deep is the permafrost?
I've been told digging a grave is hard work, when a metal shovel and clay soil would have been the expected circumstances.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@dkf Iâm not much of a theologist but last I checked Judeo-Christianity wasnât big on funerary cannibalism. Could be a good way to pass along a few stubborn bacteria though.
The baby needs them from its mother! It is vital nourishment!
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Seems kind of expensive, considering that gathering wood was hard before metal tools.
Digging graves was also hard before metal tools. Probably even more so as a lot of fallen wood could be collected without tools.
After a few winters of living, there won't have been any fallen wood to collect within a day's walk of the settlement.
Whereas shovels can be made out of wood. Although I don't know how hard that is with stone tools.
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@PleegWat Permafrost can only be found in the very nothernmost parts of Finland. So that will not have been an issue.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla How many
expertsexchange
experiences are required for anglophones to adopt a-
in their domain names?Maybe when everybody complies with the relevant RFCs. I have a
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in my domain name (and sometimes in the local part). Back in the day when Sun still owned Java, I tried multiple times to register, but Sun refused to accept foo-bar.net as a valid email address. I believe I ran into this again fairly recently, but I can't remember the circumstances (i.e., who implemented the broken validation).
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Exascale has arrived:
Also, someone on slashdot reminisces:
Just fourteen years ago, in 2008 Roadrunner became the first petaflop computer and was shut down as obsolete just five years later.
Hey, I remember that! Iâve stood in front of one of the decommissioned Roadrunner cabinets!
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strange folklore
followed by a sausage fest
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Wow. I remember when some lunatic hit the Liberty Bell with a sledgehammer. That's why kids on a field trip to Independence Hall can't touch it anymore. What is wrong with these people? Everything I guess.