doephin @Doephin@awoo.space

I think someone is trying to found the UAC ahead of schedule :P

"Astronaut blood can be used to make concrete on Mars, scientists say"

https://globalnews.ca/news/8191909/astronaut-blood-mars-concrete-tears-urine/

Today is Parker's birthday! ish. day we adopted him :)

Soreth got him some lamb treats. He approves...and had his front legs on the fireplace mantel vainly trying to get to the top railing to steal the rest :D

Unrelatedly I love all the people online who bitched about the "CG" at the end where the wheel flies into the camera.

All practical effects!

Max hallucinates all throughout, seeing people he failed to save. Near the end they save his life, when a girl raises her hand at him. He flinces, and his hand stops a crossbow bolt.

but I just noticed that appears earlier! he gets the same hallucination midway in. right after, just a split second, there's the dude who shoots at him later

Max is getting visions of the future!

...mixed with really bad PTSD hallucinations. So you know mixed bag

Oop! not quite, the SR-71 did beat it by about 10k feet. Nothing else does though.

(the table I was consulting was not in order!)

Huh. TIL the highest crewed flight in an aircraft without rockets the aircraft had no power at all. It was a glider!

https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2018/09/airbus-perlan-mission-ii-glider-soars-to-76-000-feet-to-break-ow.html

Turns out playing with mountain winds and the jet stream can push you higher than an air breathing engine can go.

@Phorm Thank you for subscribing to GrubHub Facts!

"Unsubscribe from GrubHub Facts" #outofcontexttheater

Hah, that's...something. Modding factorio, it uses Entities to define the objects placed on the map, with lua.

You can edit one entity from inside another. o.O Took me a while to figure out why one thing was randomly not what I set it to, turned out the second thing had one line not renamed properly

Seattle folks: recommend me a primary care doc who's not an idiot about LGBT issues? After the saga of my last few posts, it turns out the new doctor the practice transferred me to is apparently only working two days a week. And both times I've checked the nearest appointment is three weeks + out. Not ideal.

Update: said doctor has now decided to retire. now I really feel like an asshole

Seattle has a (much smaller) local one that's open again. Time for a visit I think.

Looks like a big pinball museum in CA is closing, combination of COVID and that sort of thing being niche and kind of expensive to run :/

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/07/a-look-back-at-the-museum-of-pinballs-huge-collection-of-games/?comments=1&start=80

...probably for the best that I'd be outbid for any of them 2-3 machines I'd want to go for >.>

So I've been kind of iffy on my doctor for a while. He doesn't understand the concept of "acceptable side effects"- every time I mention I can tell the asthmamedicine is working because it does funky things he freaks out. He doesn't seem to consult or make notes at all, so he'll mention wanting to do tests then drop it unless I bring it up, cover the same stuff over and over. Oh and he's very reluctant to do any sort of pain management, gets very hand wringy about the potential side effects.

He's moving to a new practice soon, so I had decided to stay with the alternative doctor they offered, problem "solved".

A week ago my hip went VERY BAD and I was in the ER for eleven hours. X-ray, CT, MRI, all not very conclusive.

On the follow up visit, the new doctor wasn't available so I got the old one once more. When I mentioned the pain was less he said "So what do you want to talk about?" and I did a ???

eventually he came up with a list of several possibilities and after dithering referred me to a rheumatologist.

Then he outed me to the provider IN THE REFERRAL EMAIL.

I wrote to ask WTF and he profusely, over-reactedly apologized, and then I felt like I had to explain that wasn't the only reason I wasn't going to seek follow up care with him anymore for the reasons above and now *I* feel like the asshole for some reason?

Cursed discovery of the day: Gmail allows sending attachments not as attachments but as GDrive *links*. Naturally there are no indications which is which until you open the email

Result is I now have a bunch of emails with "attachments" that don't exist. I almost certainly have the files- I am a compulsive data hoarder- but it's still annoying as hell

So you might recall that WD Mybook Live mass wipe from ~last week. It gets weirder!

It turns out:
-The devs commented put the password check in their factory reset code
-The drives had been hit by another exploit that had them running a bot net
-User data was probably just collateral damage in a rival botnet taking that one out!

Internet of Shit everyone!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/hackers-exploited-0-day-not-2018-bug-to-mass-wipe-my-book-live-devices/?comments=1

And just when Seattle cools off a bit...the air quality drops to orange because fuck you.

(it's not wildfire smoke, the heat is from a high pressure dome meaning the pollution just will...not...leave..)

Hrm. They no longer make filters for my older portable AC. They're carbon filters, so I doubt DIY is a thing? Hopefully running sans filter works ok.

Did the math on a $75/ton carbon tax, because a group of Senators actually proposed a (much lower) one for once.

For my car it ended up being about a cent per mile. For a the US average light vehicle (cars through SUVs) about 3.5 cents a mile. Or $470 a year for the average driver. Very backbreaking, totally worth the huge conservative freakouts over this shit. /s

( and most of that would come back, because carbon taxes are designed to rebate. Also do the math in the other direction and it ends up being quite a lot more, but the "more" is in the future so GO TEAM RECENCY BIAS")

Story that popped to mind on reading some deeply stupid COVID conspiracy theories:

You know the "we got x to get rid of y to get rid of z" joke? That, but with zombies.

"Oh god zombie apocalypse!"
"Wait zombies eat brains, right? Engineer a prion!"
"Wait prions are infectious to normal people and impossible to sterilize, invent a bacteria to eat them!"
"fuck the bacteria is a problem invent a virus to eat it!"