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One of the major scientific achievements of the 19th century was milk that didn’t kill babies.

People seem to have forgotten the importance of that.

Illustration from the Chicago Department of Health circa 1912 describing how to
Pasteurize milk at home.

“A few bacteria in milk as It leaves the farm can become millions by the time it reaches the consumer in the city.
One-third of the city's milk supply contains more than 1,000,000 bacteria in each fifteen drops.”

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I have determined that the object in the "risk of explosion" safety symbol does not obey conservation of area.

I will not be taking questions at this time.

#BreakfastActivities #WHMIS #GHS #LabSafety #ADHD

The "risk of explosion" symbol, an inverted trangle containing an image of an apparently circular object exploding, with half the object disnintegrating into small chunks that are being propelled to the right and up. There are thin triangular wedges emanating from the object, to suggest projectile motion and perhaps force.

Next to the symbol, all of the bits of the object have been reassembled to show that the sum total is greater than the circle suggested in the original picture.

@foone Mispaste, or public service?

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We are 100% living in the upside down

Timothy Burke Follow @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us Meanwhile Ladapo's partner in anti- vaccination group America's Frontline Doctors, Stella Immanuel, says she's been nominated to join RFK Jr.'s staff. She's the one who claims alien DNA is being used in medical treatments and that fibroids are caused by demon sperm. Erin Reed @erininthemorning.bs... • 31m Politico is reporting Trump will name Dr. Ladapo of Florida to a senior spot, likely Surgeon General or Assistant HHS. This would be a horrifying pick for trans people. He's responsible for Florida's adult trans ban, and works with SEGM/ Anti-trans global movement. He's also an ardent anti-vaxxer.

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Real Talk 'Advertisement'

An activist-designed faux advertisement on a subway car window critiques NYPD actions, stating 'SKIP THE FARE? EXPECT THE DEATH PENALTY' and alleges that on September 15th, the NYPD shot four people over a $2.90 fare, challenging viewers with the stark juxtaposition of a typical payment system advertisement and a grave accusation of police violence.

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Or maybe this text is better?

A drawing of Elon musk in a spacesuit. He is floating in space. Two hands are coming out from the sides of the image and pulling on Musk’s helmet. These hands are referencing the hands in the old (and pornographic) “Goatse” meme. Words on Musk’s helmet say “GoatsX”. Words under him say “space billionaires”.

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did you know you can buy like Spanish doubloons on eBay? Wear some nautical clothing and be buried with a purse full of silver pieces of eight and give future archaeologists a headache

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Heh.

New Hampshire license plate with a printed moose and the letters &SQIRL as an homage to the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon. Caption reads “WELLPLAYED, NEW HAMPSHIRE DRIVER”.

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#StarTrek

TNG scene. Riker is sitting in quarters. Some nice gentle orange mood lighting emits from the window. (Spaceship window, mind you). That's about all that's happening visually. Closed caption reads, "The beard is an ancient and proud tradition."

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is miss piggy single

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Space Weather

Bad news for hurricane emergency networks:

An X1.8 flare peaked at 01h50 UT. An X1.4 flare peaked at 15h47 UT. These will cause periods of degraded HF communications.

A 10cm radio burst was observed at 15h45 UT. Type II and type IV radio emissions have been observed. These will cause short bursts of noise on higher frequecies, potentially disrupting GPS, mobile and satellite communications.

A strong S3 solar radiation storm started at 12h30 UT, causing degraded HF communications across polar regions.

Geomagnetic Storm Warning: A significant increase in geomagnetic activity on the 10th and 11th of Oct due to three Earth-directed coronal mass ejections arriving in short succession late on the 10th and the early hours of the 11th.

#spaceweather
#amateurradio
#aurora
#hurricanemilton
#milton

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I'm willing to die on this hill. If you type some words into suno, if you type some words into udio, if you type some words into dall.e, sora, chatgpt, you're not a creator. You didn't make that thing. The AI made that thing. Your involvement in the creation was minimal, like a friend saying hey wouldn't it be fun if? If you did that, and your friend then took your suggestions and did all of the work to make it happen, did you make it? If you go to a restaurant and say yes I want this specific dish, would you say you made it?
If you take the output and modify it manually, then we can talk. But until then, you're still just a consumer. Sorry, not sorry.

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Have you ever gotten a crush on someone just by reading about something they did?

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Have any of you heard of the Harvard MIT Pigeon Prank?

An MIT student dressed in a black-and- white striped shirt went to the Harvard football stadium every day of one summer, blowing a whistle while scattering breadcrumbs or birdseed to coax neighborhood pigeons down onto the field. At Harvard’s opening game of the season, upon the referee’s first whistle, it’s said hundreds of pigeons descended onto the field, causing a half-hour delay.

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god save the quing

One thing about the Euros is that the English still haven’t quite adjusted to the Queen dying so during the national anthem they keep singing “God Save The Quing” like there’s a non-binary monarch on the throne.

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In 1080 CE there was a man in Essex called Humphrey Goldenbollocks.

https://opendomesday.org/name/humphrey-goldenbollocks/

Folio 100 of the Essex section of the Domesday Book, with Humphrey's name highlighted.

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Today is décadi 20 Prairial in the year of the Republic CCXXXII, celebrating the pitchfork.

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People who bought these m4 threaded rods also frequently bought these m3 lock nuts

these people were very disappointed

a "Frequently Bought Together" screenshot from amazon's UI. The left item is a set of M4 threaded rods, and the right item is a 100 M3 hex lock nuts.

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I like ‘Star Wars’ way better. I’m a capitalist. ‘Star Wars’ is the capitalist show. ‘Star Trek’ is the communist one. There is no money in ‘Star Trek’ because you just have the transporter machine that can make anything you need. The whole plot of ‘Star Wars’ starts with Han Solo having this debt that he owes and so the plot in ‘Star Wars’ is driven by money [~Peter Thiel]

Your Honor, my client might’ve murdered mr. Thiel with a Lego model of a Star Destroyer, but as witnessed by Exhibit A he acted in good faith and as what can only be described as service to the community. We move for full acquittal.

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Economics: "Humans only value things monetarily."
Sociology: "Uh, I don't..."
Economics: "Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus."
Sociology: "Uhhh, Psy, can you help?" Psychology: "That's not how humans..." Economics: "ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!"
Physics: *drops teacup*

(Credit: source unknown)

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I saw a guy at the airport with a shirt that said “SAVE THE MANUALS” and I thought “Hell yeah, brother! You may need to reference them in the future. Glad to see another fan of documentation.” Then I saw a weird symbol like an H with a | down the center, and I realized it was a dude who just really liked stick shift cars.

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