Well it’s me playing various lower quality instruments in an effort to demonstrate that you can make okay music with inferior equipment. Don’t know if I demonstrated that successfully but there you go. Done for a Jamuary challenge a few years ago.
Well it’s me playing various lower quality instruments in an effort to demonstrate that you can make okay music with inferior equipment. Don’t know if I demonstrated that successfully but there you go. Done for a Jamuary challenge a few years ago.
I stand by what I said before: a lot of people use blocking as a punitive measure rather than protection from harassment. The mute feature is perfectly sufficient if the only goal is to hide certain things from the timeline.
A small human (3?) wearing a cowboy hat is sitting at an outside cafe table with his mum. He's served a plate of hot chips and immediately manages to paint his face and hands with tomato sauce, holding his saucy fingers up. Loving the effect.
Two men (40s) the very definition of "blokes" stop outside a bubble tea cafe. One says: "You tried this stuff mate? It's pretty sweet." The second: "Oh yeah?" The first: "Yeah!" The second: "Yeah?" The first: "Yeah!" The second nods thoughtfully and grins: "Yeah... Alright. Yeah. I'm game."
A couple (30s?) dressed for a night out are skipping arm in arm down the street towards some outside pub seating. Their friends see them coming and cheer them on. They arrive for hugs and hellos. Laughter and friendship on a warm Autumn evening.
A woman (late teens?) in Gothic Lolita fashion is walking down the street. She seems a little self conscious but she's rocking the look. People grinning as she p
A small human (3?) wearing a cowboy hat is sitting at an outside cafe table with his mum. He's served a plate of hot chips and immediately manages to paint his face and hands with tomato sauce, holding his saucy fingers up. Loving the effect.
Two men (40s) the very definition of "blokes" stop outside a bubble tea cafe. One says: "You tried this stuff mate? It's pretty sweet." The second: "Oh yeah?" The first: "Yeah!" The second: "Yeah?" The first: "Yeah!" The second nods thoughtfully and grins: "Yeah... Alright. Yeah. I'm game."
A couple (30s?) dressed for a night out are skipping arm in arm down the street towards some outside pub seating. Their friends see them coming and cheer them on. They arrive for hugs and hellos. Laughter and friendship on a warm Autumn evening.
A woman (late teens?) in Gothic Lolita fashion is walking down the street. She seems a little self conscious but she's rocking the look. People grinning as she passes.
A woman (20s?) is chilling with a friend at an outside cafe table. She says earnestly: "I don't really know how to do people. But I like being near people. But I don't want to TALK to people. Is that bad?" Her friend laughs and says "No!"
Any typos spotted in this post are Proximity Typos who like to be near correct spelling, but don't want to interact with it. If spotted, they'll be rocking their best square brackets and stopping for bubble tea because it's pretty sweet. Yeah.
#EPA administrator announces huge rollback of #environmental regulations
Promising to drive “a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion,” Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin outlined plans for an aggressive rollback of #environmentalregulations.
Zeldin announced that he intends to reconsider more than a dozen core EPA rules and regulations.
Gaaah, what did I get myself into here with this 46 kg monstrosity…?! I can hardly lift it myself. This will be interesting to get through the bandsaw.
I really gotta learn to say no to such things 🫣 But it's one nice long cherry log… (Oops, did I say one? I meant three – the other ones are hiding out of frame. Luckily they're a bit lighter!) #woodworking
The next Monster “Maebiki Oga” large saw with a blade about 60cm long and 40cm wide前挽大鋸 - Maebiki OgaA large ripsaw with a blade about 60cm long and 40cm wid...
I’d like a whale saw. Hard to find. Reflecting on it, I’d prefer over a frame saw from the standpoint of handling/balance.
For ripping smaller milled boards, though, like done in the vid, it’s easier done with a primed panel saw. Sellers shows a great technique, and it’s fast.
Short logs, like Daniel is cutting, poses the problem of holding them without special vice builds.
Longer logs are ideal for the whale, I would guess. And no need for a rowing machine. 😀
It would be a damn shame if all of those email addresses ended up on millions of mailing lists. Please, nobody do that. It's wrong. Don't OCR this list and post it publicly in plain text, either.
Brenari Ensign: "You're wrong, Admiral. I do know you. Back when you commanded Voyager, you lied to the Devore people when they were searching for illegal refugees onboard"
Admiral Janeway: "Yes. The refugees were innocent and unarmed. That was a long time ago"
Brenari Ensign: "Not to me. I know you don't recognize me. I was much smaller then. But I was one of those Brenari refugees you helped escape through the wormhole. I'm alive because of you"
Admiral Janeway: "I'm so glad to have met you. Again"
We have a Postgres 13 cluster, and we're about to start working on an upgrade to Postgres 17. Does anybody have any experience of replicating from a 13 primary to a 17 secondary? Because if that works, this will all be much smoother
We stopped in and chatted with a woman about a jeep that's been sitting in her yard. We found out it would take a ton of money to get it going, so that's out. She did tell us about a guy that lives on our road, we knew his name but never met him. He was once a big music producer in Nashville, TN and was married to one of Lorretta Lynn's daughters. Even after their divorce he stayed friends with Lorretta. This house is just one of many that he has in different states, but that was so cool to find out that someone famous was that close to us. She had so much history to tell us. We also found out she has no internet, not on her phone, no computer, no tablet. That is one smart lady.
I still do not understand why prototaxites had to be three to nine meters tall. Nothing was tall back then. Plants are tall to avoid the shade of other plants. Prototaxites (probably) didn't "need" sunlight.
Spore dispersal isn't a good reason to be tall IMO.
If Prototaxites were just the stalk of a "fruiting body" of a fungus the network of mycelium must have been massive. Some prototaxites fossils show evidence of creatures/fungi colonizing them.
weren't these the object of a 2022 study concluding "What tree? They had to be on their sides, they are means of moving nutrients and water between places"? cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/… It really does put a question mark on those and on so many other things we assume have a correct taxonomy from the 1800 forward.
it's worthwhile to remember that evolution isn't maximizing, especially back then. It's always been a good enough function. The only thing that drives things into efficiency is competition. If there wasn't anything to stop them growing, why would they stop growing?
I have heard of, and even deployed the notion that there were fewer evolutionary pressures in the deep past, and therefore things could exist then would never survive today. But, I also worry this kind of thinking can be a trap, especially when attempting to understand the ecological role of ubiquitous organisms. If something is common it will be exploited. We assume that if we attempted to grow prototaxities today it could not compete— but what if, instead it took over?
Things capable of thriving, given the right conditions. Sometimes something makes a temporary bottleneck like a meteor that blocks out the sun for few years, or less spectacularly, humans, and a whole bunch of plants that don’t have some seeds that can wait two years to germinate gets wiped out.
Then everyone is left wondering why all the creatures on earth are immune to microplastics even though they are very rare or descendants of cockroaches etc etc.
1/3 personally, I am skeptical of the notion that there were "fewer evolutionary pressures" in the deep past. To me it seems unlikely that "evolutionary pressures" are a one dimensional thing where all evolutionary pressures can measured and combined on a single metric.
I read somewhere that very early life, long before the Cambrian explosion, was more sloppy in how it translated DNA to phenotypes.
If true, this would mean more of a disconnect between genetics and who wins at natural selection. So 'tightening up' DNA interpretation would speed up advantageous genetic change.
Evolution itself does seem to evolve. And don't get me started about sex!
Oh, man. I read about it on PZ Meyers' blog Pharyngula. It had to be before or during the previous Trump administration.
I did some googling to see if I could find it again, but PZ has been writing about a billion words a day for a couple of decades now, and it is well buried. If *you* find it, share a link, and I promise the same.
Whether the paper was any good or not, it is plausible that right after abiogenesis DNA transcription would have been pretty crude.
There is this very quaint idea that in the Eidiacarian life was simple and basic— because it was the beginning of some journey in mounting complexity. And this is true in the sense that ecosystems seemed to have fewer layers. But is that because they were somehow less refined by evolutionary pressures and time? Or was it just a function of a less rich environment with fewer niches— but the creatures were every bit as sophisticated at what they did as us today?
@quinn @econads oh, I love horseshoe crabs, and I admire their stability ... but ... if you're not already aware of it, this introduction to their much greater past diversity in the Triassic and Carboniferous is wonderful:
I wonder if a prototaxite could be like a living termite mound. It houses and protects small animals and in return they bring their meals inside which decay and feed the fungus.
my favorite hypothesis is that Prototaxites was adapated to survive at high paleolatitudes, where most of the light comes in a t low angles, and is thus better absorbed by a nearly vertical surface. But it's not clear to me what portion of Prototaxites fossils are actually from sites with high paleolatitude. This hypothesis also depends on the hypothesis that Prototaxites was doing photosynthesis, which comes in several forms, but the best form is probably the lichen hypothesis.
Could it be a similar reason to why termite mounds are so tall? I think one reason termite mounds are tall is to maintain internal temperature/humidity conditions suitable for fungi growth. And Prototaxites are thought to be fungi, right?
Yes, but termite mounds are like smoke stacks, hollow so the pull down cool air to circulate in the nest. Most of the termites aren't even up in the stacks, they live just above and below ground, but use the soil they excavate to make their nest to make chimneys to bring in air.
Prototaxites was the first giant organism to live on the terrestrial surface, reaching sizes of 8 metres in the Early Devonian. However, its taxonomic assignment has been debated for over 165 years1-7.
"Prototaxites taiti was the largest organism in the Rhynie ecosystem and its anatomy was fundamentally distinct from all known extant or extinct fungi. ... We therefore conclude that ****Prototaxites was not a fungus***** (WHAT), and instead propose it is best assigned to a now entirely extinct terrestrial lineage. (OMG GIRL STOP)"
This is crazy! From what I've seen everyone hates it when someone tries to say organisms are from entirely extinct lineages. The bar for this is high. WOW.
If this makes it past peer review... which won't be soft or kind I expect, it's a big deal. I'll do my best to understand the details but I have not been happy with the idea that it was "just a big fungi" for a whole bunch of reasons.
@astory This could be simply a semi-symbiotic multi-species and taxii construct. It provides height, light, housing for burrowers and sapro-recycling of their crap for the fungus, security for flying/floating stuff on top, a good launching pad for spores of all sorts (fungi, vegetals), a concentration of chlorophyllian beings on top, if linked to a burrowed veins system could generate succion and liquid circulation towards the top, some sort of multispieces vascular system... etc.
@astory I rather suspect the fact that plants are the nearest dot in their 2d graph combined with the lignin-like stuff may cause the "maybe it's actually a plant after all" hypothesis to rise from the dead. Maybe we'll see the dreadfully confusing term "stem-land-plant" used in the cladistics sense of "an entirely extinct group most closely related to land plants", (compare to stem-bird or stem-arthropod).
@astory well ... that's all that's known to be preserved and connected with the holotype. Wouldn't be the first time a fossil thing had lots of other features which nobody knew it had for many years. Plants in particular are the worst for this; for example, the Devonian fossil forest of Gilboa was found (in upstate NY) in the 1920s, but the crowns and foilage of its cladoxylopsid trees wasn't known for nearly 90 years.
@mattmcirvin @astory well maybe the yeast needed for the standing baguette hypothesis would have left something that would fossilize like the fungi the paper compared it to, since yeast is fungi. But on the other hand, yeast don't produce chitin, so maybe not. That said, I think a standing baguette that contained lignin-like chemicals would be quite tough, and soaking it in your coffee or your broth probably wouldn't help.
@astory huh. Now it's a weirdo non-plant entirely extinct eukaryote, but it convergently evolved something that fossilized the same way lignin does ... potentially millions of years before land plants evolved lignin! (I don't know if lignin itself evolved multiple times convergently among land plants, but since the tree habit did, I assume lignin did too.)
I almost tagged my post "prototaxities fan fiction" ... but then realized I'd need to make it "SFW prototaxities fan fiction" for obvious reasons... and decided that even THAT was causing trouble where none was wanted.
But I'm bringing it up now anyways.
Those enigmatic dildos of the deep past, what were they doing???
One time I went to a famous massage place in Jakarta, put my pants in a corner of the place. When I was done I put my pants back on and hurriedly got on the back of a motorbike taxi to go on a 1h trip back to the city for a meeting. While riding pillion I realized that my pants were full of fire ants. We could not stop anywhere for that hour and my motorbike taxi guy also got fire ants in his pants
If you are part of a community of faith in a deep suburban or rural area, do you feel the members of your community, as a whole, have the tech skills they need for the modern world?
I’d really appreciate boosts for reach on this one ✨
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Interessanter Text über die fehlende Aufarbeitung der Nazi-Zeit in Deutschland, die den Grundstein gelegt hat für den heutigen Rechtsruck und den Umgang mit dem Konflikt in Israel & Palästina.
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Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra. Read by Mikhail Sen
Kurzgefasst mit meinen Worten die These des Autors: Deutschland hat nur wenige Täter verurteilt, aber die Taten und die zugrundelegende gruppenbezogenene Menschenfeindlichkeit & Ideologie nicht aufgearbeitet. Deutsche, insbesondere die die was zu sagen haben waren weiter antisemitisch as hell. Projektion von Schuld, von Verantwortung und ihres Weltbilds auf andere ersetzten die Aufarbeitung.
Der Fehler, vor allem im Osten, war auch, den Mai 1945 als Befreiung zu betiteln. Aber das Land war ja durch die Niederlage nicht plötzlich frei von Faschismus. Die folgende Entnazifizierung bewirkte, das gesellschaftliche Problem auf einzelne Schuldige zu legen und dadurch zu verstecken.
How a small detail in #DataViz can change your understanding of the data. I have these 20 scatterplots for 20 various climate models. It seems that in some models there's a relationship, in other not so much, and in some it's clearly non-linear while in others is harder to tell. Next, I used a fixed scale for all panels and also added all dots in gray to each panel. Whoa, that's different! Now it looks like each model is representing a different part of the population!
Recently, I have had a fascination with wanting to try out hiking in the darkness of the night.
I’ve been doing a lot of reading about night hiking and what the benefits might be, including being able to stay cooler in the summer heat, experiencing the fascinating sounds of the nocturnal wildlife, and seeing the night sky up above.
`Without underlying warming, a record-shattering jump [in Sea Surface Temperatures] as observed in 2023–2024 is practically impossible. We found indeed no record-shattering jumps in our synthetic time series without a long-term warming trend, irrespective of the variability or autocorrelation characteristics`
Observations and climate models suggest that the global sea surface temperature jump in 2023–2024 was not unexpected and would have been nearly impossible without anthropogenic warming.
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