baltakatei
/ˈbɑːltəkʊteɪ/. Knows some chemistry and piping stuff. TeXmacs user.
Website: reboil.com
Mastodon: baltakatei@twit.social
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I wonder what Osaka is doing right now. I hope she’s okay.
Furry lovemaking right in the middle of the heteroromantic parade?
The HT in HTTP stands for HyperText, not HyperCode.
baltakatei@sopuli.xyzMtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•These Salmon Got High on Cocaine. That Wasn’t the Craziest Part.
2·4 days agoAssuming this wasn’t an elaborate scheme to turn research grant money into cocaine, this seems pretty interesting.
See also Jumpin’ Crack Bass (1997-11-02) from season 2 of King of the Hill.
Sounds like a King of the Hill episode in which Hank regrets letting Peggy fill out his medical forms.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•People who play piano, how did you learn to sight read proficiently?
25·5 days agoLook at score. Find key. Press key. Repeat a bajillion times until it becomes too bothersome to slow down to look at your hands.
¿Por qué no los tres?
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science@lemmy.world•African frogs haven't forgotten the ice ages. Scientists can tell by where they live.English
7·6 days agoDamn. You really transcribed the whole article.
Gary also funded the snuggling of a nuclear bomb in order to ensure his bet paid off.
For more retellings of US government atrocities, see the Relno the Storykeeper puppet shorts in Jason Steele’s Vulo Lives:
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Science Fiction@lemmy.world•Any good aspirational post-apocalyptic fiction about rebuilding society?
4·10 days ago- The Terraformers (2023) by Annalee Newitz. In lieu of a single simple reset, there is a continuous bargaining between capitalistic rentiers and enslaved residents who fight over hundreds of years throughout the final stages of a planet’s terraforming. Homelessness, mass transit, wealth inequality, and racism all are running themes.
- Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (2018) by Ed Finn (ed.) and Kathryn Cramer (ed.) is anthology of several science fiction authors who submitted stories with the purpose of specifically counteracting the trend at the time of (post-)apocalyptic stories anticipating a bleak future for humanity. One particularly aspirational story that persists in my memory is Girl in Wave : Wave in Girl by Kathleen Ann Goonan; it is a story about the sociopolitical impact of universal literacy, achieved thanks to the release of an inexpensive medicine that enhances human cognitive abilities, allowing anyone to overcome learning disabilities such as dyslexia. Other stories in the anthology are optimistic for other reasons, but this story comes to mind when I read your post.
Reminds me of the final pages of chapter 3 of the second volume of Maus (1991) in which a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust acts egregiously and unrepentantly racist to a black hitchhiker, surprising a friend who thought that the suffering would have engendered empathy for discriminated races.
page 259 of 296

Torture damages people, plain and simple; don’t expect victims to gain wisdom or empathy from the process. So, maybe don’t give them nukes and back the religious megalomaniacs among them who end up committing the same genocidal practices against others such as the Palestinians.
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politics @lemmy.world•Men with higher IQs are less conservative, study finds
15·10 days agoTraditional values are a crutch for the intellectually unambitious and a cudgel for the ambitious.
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Memes@sopuli.xyz•TFW you blow your nose and finally get that ONE stuck booger dislodged
2·11 days agoAntibiotics side effects if you haven’t had them in decades are wild. Suddenly inability to digest certain foods. Sudden clearing of sinuses. Sudden clearing of skin conditions.
Chat, are we cooked?
Hard mode: set time zone to UTC (or Reykjavik; it’s the same) and force yourself to add/subtract offset hours every time you want to know local time. Also, this forces you to track when exactly daylight saving time starts and stops.
Benefit: you know when space probe stuff happens because they’re almost always timestamped UTC. Also, playing Eve Online becomes slightly easier.











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