Posts by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #B4SjwmC7rpzGEis9Kq by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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Benjamin Netanyahu now comparing Jesus Christ to Genghis Khan. "During the press conference, Netanyahu said, “You know, if people want to be naive, then they don’t see the kind of world we’re living in. In this world, it’s not enough to be moral. It’s not enough to be just. It’s not enough to be right.”...
(DIR) Post #B4SjwmOt6OCAsIqLE8 by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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... You know, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, someone that I admire a lot, was the historian Will Durant,” Netanyahu continued. “Now, he wrote many volumes—I read most of them—he also wrote The Lessons of History, a very brief, 100-page book, in which he said, well, history proves that, unfortunately and unhappily, Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan.”...
(DIR) Post #B4SjwmWKei9NFOKHpY by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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... Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good,” Netanyahu said. “Aggression will overcome moderation.”https://www.newsweek.com/netanyahu-jesus-christ-genghis-khan-remarks-11710457I'm not upset about the comment. Just make it an exhibit at his trial for war crimes. Thank you very much.
(DIR) Post #B4Sjwmlviicw1lck8u by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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Trump now saying NATO are cowards for not joining in his stupid ill-conceived incompetently-run "war".Pete Hegseth was very upset the military discharged him and now he's running it and his mental powers extend as far as "we need money to kill bad guys".I did not ask to be in this Netflix comedy special based on Idiocracy, and I am not enjoying it.
(DIR) Post #B4Sl9LE5XvSkJYLUjA by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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Yeah. About the Texas Rangers.They actually massacred Mexicans and hunted runaway slaves."They burned villages and slaughtered innocents. They committed war crimes, hunted runaway slaves and murdered so many Mexicans and Mexican Americans that they were as feared on the Mexican border as the Ku Klux Klan was in the Deep South. Throughout it all, Swanson writes, the Rangers operated a fable factory to burnish their image as heroic defenders of the innocent." https://www.npr.org/2020/06/08/871929844/cult-of-glory-reveals-the-dark-history-of-the-texas-rangers
(DIR) Post #B5AObjGc0YlkzdKX1E by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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@eff Welcome to fascism
(DIR) Post #B5HiM0xtnU6gRJ54me by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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@gutenberg_org Is the answer two? One to hold the cathedral and the other to turn ... the ... hilltop underneath it? I don't know. Was this not like a light bulb joke?
(DIR) Post #B5OGf1qFKClU3AV0Vs by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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@stux Source for anyone who wants it https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-raccoon-penis-animals-bear-roadkill-b2958627.html
(DIR) Post #B6Sm2oIJGXmpzmnhVw by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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In 1955, Wells published a textbook about airborne spread which modern doctors seem to never refer to. Public health doctors and infectious disease doctors should know it, but neither field is very curious (to put it politely).https://archive.org/details/airborne-contagion/page/3/mode/1up
(DIR) Post #B6Sm2pYIaaAdtfHz4i by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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"From the tube counts and computations of the volume of room air we estimated that from 10,000 to 100,000 nasopharyngeal parasites were expelled in an average sneeze (L.S.A.1., 1936d). The presence of streptococci in most samples of 5 cubic feet of air in schoolrooms, hospitals, and other occupied indoor atmospheres during the winter also provides natural evidence of atomization by expiratory processes (L.S.A.I., 1935b, 1936d)."
(DIR) Post #B6Sm2sTRj54UxU2eQa by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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"The presence in the air of organisms expelled in these smaller droplets was demonstrated with the air centrifuge. A quantity of “sneeze powder” used by practical jokers was dusted into an air-conditioner supplying an occupied experimental room. Large numbers of Streptococcus viridans and Micrococcus catarrhalis recovered on centrifuge tubes showed that these typical parasites of the nose and throat continued to be distributed throughout the air of a room for some time after it was vacated."
(DIR) Post #B6Sm2tVbsWOeAU3tRI by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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"Jennison (1942) found that individual particles between 5 and 10 microns in diameter could be clearly resolved and measured. By careful comparison with photographs of particles of known dimensions, he calculated that “at least 40 per cent, and perhaps 80 per cent, have a true diameter less than 100 microns” and that “at least 20 per cent, and perhaps 40 per cent, are less than 50 microns in actual diameter.” ...
(DIR) Post #B6Sm2uWi5us3KBaHnE by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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...If these final estimates are approximately correct,” he concluded, “they indicate that a large proportion of sneeze droplets, in spite of their physical characteristics of viscosity and particulate inclusions, evaporate in the air to a size which constitutes the smallest of airborne ‘droplet nuclei.’ In the most violent sneeze recorded, in which the droplets were so dispersed that they could be enumerated, an actual count made on a life-size enlargement showed over 40,000 separate particles.”
(DIR) Post #B6gqpAv431mXSVR1TU by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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@gutenberg_org what does it mean?
(DIR) Post #B7hxnQOslLgQDQ16xc by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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@eff yes, I expect
(DIR) Post #B7jlcCyxV5C4HShEpc by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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@eff I stopped using Google a long time ago and I haven't noticed a difference. It's running on fumes.
(DIR) Post #B7pMYQLUXdbof95u7c by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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Alien 1: We believe that they must have understood their computers to be conduits to godsAlien 2: why? Alien 1: well, even though their planet was overheating, they kept generating and feeding their computers more energy Alien 2: interestingAlien 1: in fact, even when their planet started running out of a necessary component of their biology, water, they would forgo it themselves to make offerings of it to their computersAlien 2: truly one of the weirder extinct lifeforms we've found
(DIR) Post #B85m7zukf5E8kxGiWW by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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@gutenberg_org "In response, slavery apologists mustered a vehement defense, citing economic necessity and religion in support of the institution."
(DIR) Post #B9dJT9RKQWZaMfX7dg by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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@gutenberg_org Thank goodness an AI company didn't get its hands on it!
(DIR) Post #BA6ZcyK21bIQmvOCQq by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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@eff This is a horrible take and I've just lost insurmountable amounts of respect for your organization