ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

While everyone is distracted with "aliens" a major environmental catastrophe is unfolding in #Ohio
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/health/ohio-train-derailment-white-noise/index.html
https://www.newsweek.com/fox-dies-owners-arms-after-ohio-train-crash-releases-toxic-gas-1780529

Some technical info about the event here, and testimonies about animals dropping dead.
https://cen.acs.org/safety/Safety-questions-remain-Ohio-train/101/i6

#vinychloride #environment #spill #disaster #chemicals #transportation #derailment #EastPalestine

It’s not vehicle speed that kills, it’s vehicle *momentum*. A smaller car going faster may deliver less impact than a large vehicle going slower (momentum = velocity * mass).

We already have the (table stakes) technology to apply geo-fence-based speed throttling. And this should definitely take momentum into account. So if someone decides to use a 40% larger-than-average car in cities, their speed limit should be throttled to be 40% lower-than-average. Momentum-based limits!

me: pendants annoy me

him: why?

me: they think they know everything

him: I think you mean “pedants”

me: *under breath* fucking pendant

@wjmaggos @jbouie "you can understand the reason for the law, even though it can cause psychological distress"?

You mean, even though these laws will kill kids?

Because we have the receipts. This has been studied. There is *no* debate in psychology or medicine anymore: preventing trans kids from transitioning kills a *huge* portion of them, and the number who desist are vanishingly small--of all kids who transition, 97.5% still ID as trans as adults, and virtually all of that 2.5% who desisted were extremely early transitioners and went back to their AGAB by the time they were 10--so, before any medical intervention.

There's only one reason for those laws, and that reason *is to kill trans people*, friend. They even named one "The Millstone Act," after the Biblical method of execution by drowning. Genocide experts say their arguments are genocidal.

Please stop both sidesing and listen to the experts.

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/2/e2021056082/186992/Gender-Identity-5-Years-After-Social-Transition?autologincheck=redirected

https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/bills/3730.htm

https://www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-new-page/statement-on-the-genocidal-nature-of-the-gender-critical-movement%E2%80%99s-ideology-and-practice

Queer update: Still feeling splendidly queer.

Ironically, it’s my stunning humility that makes me so much better than everyone else.

@ScottSoCal but vast sequences of DNA are identical for plants and humans

Inspired by little free libraries, I made a little free art gallery

#art #artwork

#Introduction

Hello

I’m John a Fintech Product Leader from Canada living in London.

I post mostly about #Fintech, #Prodmgmt and #London this new and exciting city I find myself in. I also blog at https://www.johnschaub.ca

I'm a 59 year old African American woman. I've desegregated a town, a school system and many other spaces. When I discuss racism in this nation, I'm not going to ameliorate my speech for the comfort of anyone. I don't exist to comfort others about the reality of what I was born into - what we all live in together. If that's a problem for you, I suggest you embark on some self-reflection to determine what your actual role is within this system.
#racism #politics #blackmastodon

@eric I was spanked and I am not fine. When my kids push my buttons, especially when tired or fed up, I feel the urge to lash out, but I never have. I control myself because I know the only thing I'd accomplish is to permanently damage my kids trust in me.
I have never, and would never hurt them. But that programming is still in my brain, and I hate it.

Though honestly, it's gotten easier over the years. Controlling reactive anger is a skill.

An #introduction:

By day, I’m a content writer and graphic designer for a company that supports veterans in getting their disability ratings increased.

By night, I write young adults novels and play #videogames.

I’m a big #hockey fan. My teams are the Chicago Blackhawks and the Seattle Kraken, but I’ll watch any game that’s on.

Other hobbies include reading as much as possible, #crochet and other fiber arts, #drawing, #hiking, #bullet journaling, and napping.

Oh, and I'm #bisexual 🏳️‍🌈

Warning, yo

That’s twice this week that I’ve walked into Mastodonia only to find…

::gasp::

People discussing my books! One witchy novel series, and one non-fiction magic book.

This is seriously an author’s dream.

#bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon
@bookstodon

If you want to survive on Mastodon, here's what you gotta do. On the first day, go up to the biggest account you can find and kiss them on the lips

In the 1989 film "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," Chekov, posing as the commanding officer of the Enterprise, speaks with the renegade Vulcan, Sybok, on Nimbus III. Sybok requests that Chekov and his first officer transport down to the surface. The fact that Chekov does not respond with "Beam me down to the Paradise City, where your blood is green and the girls are kitties" is why Star Trek V is widely regarded as the worst of the franchise. #StarTrek

@ScottSoCal Excellent idea. I was going to get a jetboil anyway for coffee on my photo hikes so it can double for emergencies. Can't beat California for earthquakes, mudslides and wildfires though they probably don't happen in the same location (throw in some rattlesnakes for good measure).

My guess is that:

1. Life changed the composition of the atmosphere, weathering of rock, the seas everything. So it's just not the same now.
2. Nothing as simple as early life, which might not even have cell walls could cut it in the hurly burly of a modern puddle. So maybe it happens but never goes anywhere.

But I don't think this explains ALL life having a common ancestor as DNA suggest. Even plants and people have some common DNA.

Is there some other factor?