FundMECFS

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[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 6 points 15 hours ago

Make cars a choice again. Not a necessity!

And watch car ownership rates plummet. Turns out most people would gladly save their car money for something else if they could.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

I would recommend reconsidering Wikipedia (ie. the Wikimedia foundation) since they have large reserves of money and their fundraising is misleading.

Wikipedia editors even sort of had a „revolt“ against the foundation because of the misleading fundraising banners.

Source

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 2 points 18 hours ago

International Space Station

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thinking about it this isn’t necessarily true in that moving the FOCAL relatively little could yield new things to observe (even microarcseconds). So you wouldn’t need a new FOCAL to measure each new thing. However each FOCAL would be measuring a miniscule bit of space over its lifetime. Which means for each distinct object that isn’t basically a neighbour in angular terms to a FOCAL sent you’d need a new FOCAL probably. Unless our long term energy generation/harvesting and propulsion in deep space significantly improves technology wise.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

FOCAL would be able to observe only objects that are right behind the Sun from its point of view, which means that for every observed object a new telescope would have to be made.[3]: 33 [5]

Ah….

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Happy cake day :)

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 4 points 4 days ago

While he publicly ruled out nuclear weapons today. And therefore the risk of something like that is quite small.

I absolutely am not resting easy knowing in US law as commander in chief the president has sole authority to launch nuclear weapons, no entity can veto this decision.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip -1 points 4 days ago (5 children)

The critique isn’t that canadians are basically USians its that the US appropriates the name of the entire continent(s) “America” for it’s own country name.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I agree with the anti-billionaire sentiment.

But the headline is written in a misleading way. I don’t know why we’re sharing a low quality substack with 2 likes when there are plenty of higher quality pieces that come to this conclusion.

“Study:” in the headline implies that they are repeating what a single study said. It’s the journalistic convention for using university press releases. In this case they are not doing that. But compiling a bunch of sources (none of which are academic as far as I can tell) and coming to their own conclusions. Nothing wrong with that. But it makes the title misleading.

Secondly in their own first couple paragraphs they show that the 0% while existing in some cases is not what usually happens. The truer “in practice” average is 3.4% or 8.2% depending on how you calculate.

So we can all agree that’s shocking and needs to be changed. But no point in making misleading headlines because it just makes us seem less serious when arguing about this to people who need to be convinced.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Unlike leeches, the ecosystem won’t collapse if they go extinct. Billionaires are artificial leeches.

 

The English Channel

From Wikipedia

At the time it was built, it was the heaviest self-propelled ship of any kind. With a laden draft of 24.6 m (81 ft) and a length of 458.45 m (1,504.1 ft), the ship was incapable of navigating the English Channel,[6] the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal. It is generally considered the largest self-propelled ship ever built.[7][8]

 


Lake Nasser
 (Arabic: بحيرة ناصر Boħeiret Nāṣer, Egyptian Arabic: [boˈħeiɾet ˈnɑːseɾ]) is a large reservoir in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. It was created by the construction of the Aswan High Dam and is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world.[1] Before its creation, the project faced opposition from Sudan as it would encroach on land in the northern part of the country, where many Nubian people lived who would have to be resettled.[2][3] In the end Sudan's land near the area of Lake Nasser was mostly flooded by the lake.[4] The lake has become an important economic resource in Egypt, improving agriculture and touting robust fishing and tourism industries.

 

A recent survey among Quebec healthcare workers demonstrated that the cumulative risk of developing long COVID from an acute infection is 17% and increases with each infection. The estimated prevalence of long COVID in this population was 5.6%. Other research places the global risk as high as 40% among healthcare workers who have contracted an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. …

Nevertheless, many healthcare workers still don’t believe that long COVID is real, despite dramatically disabling symptoms in people with no preexisting risk factors. “The me before and the me now are such opposites,” said Pinard. “I would swim three mornings a week before going to the office. I was running 40 km. I was traveling every second week. Now I leave my house only every 2-3 months….I was where I was supposed to be [with COVID vaccination]. I was in good health. I wasn’t depressed; I wasn’t anxious.” …

Hulme and other interested parties have tried to help build the infrastructure needed to provide care for patients with long COVID, but they have faced many barriers. Although the condition shares many features with fibromyalgiamyalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, guidelines for those conditions could not mention long COVID by provincial government decree. “There are many, many political reasons as to why [long COVID] should not become a big deal,” said Hulme. “There are still little pockets of money for research, but they are very small.”

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Black Cube (en.wikipedia.org)
 
 

Ie. This video doesn’t load for me.

https://peertube.wtf/w/tJ5n8G8bXc3gZz5u1F8c1v

I tried waiting a day. Still doesn’t load. Tried from a different instance. Tried turning my VPN off.

Wondering if I’m missing something obvious. Or I should stop expecting youtube style uptime and not stress too much ahha 😅.

 
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