I get that D3 is a pre-hormone, not a vitamin. And that deficiency can be disastrous. But when you call it "HRT", are you implying it supports feminizing hormone activity?
Do you have any confirming documents? I've seen a bunch of conflicting research done on knockout mice with severe E deficiency, but nothing relevant to healthy humans...
Random thoughts: it’s funny what you think is important.
When I was younger, I wondered about who people credit with investing the incandescent light bulb. Many people will say Thomas Edison, others will say Joseph Swan, and others from outside the angliosphere may give yet another answer.
But ISTM now that it’s a really weird thing to focus on. The light bulb was obvious. Its invention is trivial, and the fact that several people did it simultaneously should tell us that. It wasn’t a great breakthrough. Everyone knew wire glowed when it got hot. The problem in using it for light was that it burned.
It’s not the invention of the light bulb that’s important. It’s the invention of the vacuum pump.
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Presumably trolleybus still has much smaller batteries though than a bus that runs entirely on batteries? Otherwise what would the electricity wires be doing?
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@FediThing @stevelord well yes, the bus that charges at each stop will have a bigger battery than a trolley bus but much smaller than a non-cantilever type. And doesn't require *very* expensive line work, and can go anywhere ( in Notts at least it wasn't the car that killed the tram/trolley, it was the diesel motorbus that was far more convenient than fixed route trolleys)
@Sarah Brown I like it, although I wonder how much dwell time it needs at each end to keep topped up enough. Maybe “less than it would if you were pratting about with wires” is good enough?
I can't find it now, but there was a relatively recent video about trolley buses which ran along overhead lines when possible but had enough battery to skip between them if there was a diversion. That apparently made the installation/convenience costs lower as it didn't have to be 100% coverage.
Wonder if this system could become a stepping stone to something like that? Maybe have charging lines running along the most popular streets that have lots of buses, to reduce the minimum battery size required for the average journey?
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@FediThing @Kincaid @Steve Lord Can’t see the quest to save weight at the expense of installing large scale physical infra structure and limiting routes to be that worth it, TBH.
Battery tech is improving all the time, and if your concern is about lithium availability, sodium ion batteries may be the future.
Betting against cheap plentiful EV storage batteries coming along soon seems like a bad bet, to me. There is so much money being thrown at it, and given the amount of “EV bad” FUD that’s currently doing the rounds, I suspect the oil companies are frightened as hell.
@FediThing @stevelord the marginal cost between a trolley electric and pit-stop-charging bus battery will be negligable - electric double deck bus costs £450K, (diesel is £300K) says google, for reference. More google says £200 per kilowatt hour, big 300kwhr battery is £70K, so you'd save maybe 50K per bus
Overhead line gear is in the millions per km on a good day... and then you have to *still buy a bus*.
@FediThing @Kincaid @Steve Lord As I said, were I investing in this, I would not bet against battery tech. That’s a sucker bet.
The problem with covering cities in metal string for trolley buses is not a technical one. We know how to do it. We’ve known how to do it for over a century. Technically it’s a solved problem.
The problem is social and logístical.
It’s entirely possible, of course, that trolley buses are the right horse to back, in the same way that it’s entirely possible that everyone in between me and the throne of England will die tomorrow and leave me to inherit it.
My guess is that it’s calming down because they know there’s not going to be any significant movement on trans rights.
Labour are going to tinker but not reform, the Tories have run out of legislative runway to change the Equality Act. They know this match will end as a no-score draw, so they’ll save their breath for next time.
@benofbrown They’ve found a line that keeps the press off their backs, for now. They’ll stick to it.
The only things that might meaningfully change things:
1. Scottish Government defend GRR, and lines soften on self ID in England over time 2. A major win for or against trans rights in court changes the ball game (which paved the way for the Gender Recognition Act in 2004) 3. Hung parliament forcing Labour into coalition 4. Tories lose so badly they even lose the Official Opposition.
Ah, people on social media being knobs about the orcas again. Apparently they are “trying to send a message to humanity” by ripping the rudders off the boats of middle class people pottering about on what are basically floating caravans.
Fine, if you’re gonna anthropomorphise the murderfish, I’m gonna do the same and suggest that, given the attacks are being carried out by adolescent males, the message is, “nice boat, be a shame if anything happened to it. Now toss some tuna and dolphin hentai overboard.”
Portuguese listening practice. Been listening to podcasts.
One today, interview (cis female) talks to doctor (cis female) and mother of trans kid (cis female) about trans people.
And I have THOUGHTS about this stuff in English, and it’s going to be useful for me to formulate them in Português, but they’re basically this:
Cis people keep talking to cis people, for a cis audience about us. They decide what we are, and then they explain their thinky thoughts. Many of them, as these were, are well meaning. I do not want to piss these people off. They are allies.
But they talk over us, and some of the stuff they say is just plain wrong.
It’s the usual stuff: sex is about chromosomes and your body, gender is about how you identify, blah blah blah, social role, society imposes stuff, trans people feel uncomfortable from a young age. Now let’s talk about a girl who wants to be a boy, or vice versa.
NO!!!!
For the love of golf (that’s a typo, but I’m leaving it, because it’s funny)! Like, lots of tran
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Portuguese listening practice. Been listening to podcasts.
One today, interview (cis female) talks to doctor (cis female) and mother of trans kid (cis female) about trans people.
And I have THOUGHTS about this stuff in English, and it’s going to be useful for me to formulate them in Português, but they’re basically this:
Cis people keep talking to cis people, for a cis audience about us. They decide what we are, and then they explain their thinky thoughts. Many of them, as these were, are well meaning. I do not want to piss these people off. They are allies.
But they talk over us, and some of the stuff they say is just plain wrong.
It’s the usual stuff: sex is about chromosomes and your body, gender is about how you identify, blah blah blah, social role, society imposes stuff, trans people feel uncomfortable from a young age. Now let’s talk about a girl who wants to be a boy, or vice versa.
NO!!!!
For the love of golf (that’s a typo, but I’m leaving it, because it’s funny)! Like, lots of trans people have thought long and hard about this sex/gender thing. We’ve developed some pretty complicated ideas. Nobody ever asks us about them though. Nobody ever asks us about who we are, and whey we do what we do. They tell us.
And the things they tell us are wrong, and we tell people that the things they tell us are wrong, and they don’t listen.
“Being trans is not a mental illness” - true.
“Trans people experience distress and a feeling of ‘wrongness’” - true, for the most part.
“Trans people have existed in every society and every time period” - also true.
“Transition alleviates the distress.” - generally true.
So given this, maybe instead of trying to shove us into your boxes of what it means to be male or female, consider that, given we keep popping up, give good accounts of ourselves, and transition (medical and social) WORKS, maybe consider that our very existence shows that maybe the way you think about how human sexual identity works is incomplete.
You have taken the sum total of humanity and divided it by two, and expected the answer to be an integer, because integers are all you think about.
Stop trying to make us fit that. Consider that the answer might have a remainder.
And for the love of golf (I’m keeping that), stop referring to trans women as “men who want to be women”, trans men as “women who want to be men”, and the same thing with kids. We have told you who we are, and we have used VERY SIMPLE LANGUAGE, because apparently it still fails to go in.
So I will reiterate. Trans women do not want to be women because we are men who want to be women. Trans girls do not want to be girls because they are/we were boys who want to be girls.
Trans women want to be women because we are women. It’s that simple. Why do people keep not getting this?
Trans women are women. Trans girls are girls. Trans men are men. Trans boys are boys. Non binary people are valid.
That’s why we are distressed without transition. It’s not because we are “unhappy with social roles” - if I was the only person alive on a desert island, I’d still be a trans woman.
I’d still be a trans woman, because I’m a woman. When I was a child, I was a girl. Always have been.
If you (the world at large) stopped talking over us and, given you agree that we aren’t “insane”, actually considered that we might have some insight into our condition, then we might be less “ooh, so mysterious, nobody can understand!”
You’d understand if you listened to what we told you.
Nada sobre nós sem nós - nothing about us without us.
I definitely have a soft spot for neurotoxins that interfere with acetylcholine mechanisms, but I have to say I prefer acetylcholine esterase inhibitors more.
Just got told I “know nothing about computer security” by someone posting boomer sucker bait “copy and repost this or Facebook will own your precious bodily fluids” memes on Facebook, and resisted the urge to say, “don’t quote the deep magic at me, I was there when it was written”, but FFS!
Tip for well-meaning people doing diversity monitoring: if your form expects trans women to, at any point, tick anything that says “male”, then that is profoundly offensive and most of us will just lie to you.
There will come a time when the Raspberry Pi Foundation does not require a super secret mythical combination of USB C power supply and cable that is only dubiously complainant and can only be obtained on the third Thursday of the months with no R in them.
I am once again begging them to stop thinking they know better than the whole world when it comes to USB C power delivery. If Fred in his Wuhan shed can make shit that powers up without you feeling like you’re playing a game of fucking Myst, RPi with their impressive collection of computer science degrees and personal computer heritage should be able to.
Given how they were told of by the AUTHOR of the power delivery portion of the spec because of what they did to the 4, you'd think they'd have made *some* effort on the 5.
@ajlanes network stuff is all black magic to me. I've tried to configure firewalls and bridges and stuff and it's always been an exercise in bafflement.
Pi5 is fussy about its USB cable in the opposite direction to a Pi4: older Pi4s, if you used a USB Superspeed cable then it wouldn't come up. Pi5: if you DON'T use a USB Superspeed cable, it gets all arsey about booting from USB.
@joshie 🏳️🌈 I have mine on an Apple iPad PSU which does 5V/4A which it seems to like: the magic "I'm not going to be a twat about USB" flag comes on anyway.
Well, if they were different, you could've shouted 'the other team is better' and then hijinks would've ensued!
The best you can do is look up a random controversial victory on google for the team and say that out loud when in trouble, and they'll be stuck in a loop of self-congratulatory talk, letting you off.
many years ago when smoking was still allowed on trains in the UK, I was in a carriage when a large group of fairly well lubricate lads came in. One was smoking and one of the others said loudly "you can't fucking smoke in here, it's a fucking no smoking carriage". They all duly left...
Was in Waterloo station just before 11 (waiting for a train). The police were there in force, looking very nervous. I think the fash (who, it turns out, were busy fighting the plod on Whitehall) may have overplayed their hand.
@mercedesallen And there will be no consequences for the suffering they caused. At a minimum there should be public, permanent oppo files on these monsters.
@mercedesallen I’m sort of hoping this - the whole counterrevolution against any process made since the 60s - is all an extinction spike, like the anti abortion referendum in Ireland in the 1980s.
@electrocutie yeh i'm imagining something that's sage-dominant with salt & black pepper & I'm over here like 'yep, i'll eat way too f*ing much of that.' @goatsarah @6a62
I have two Linux and one FreeBSD. Since Sonoma they randomly hang after running for a few days. After this latest update (14.1.1) I had a hard time trying to even boot them up. UTM couldn’t start the VMs at all, didn’t get to the phase where it shows fhe big UTM logo in the window just before handing the console to the guest OS.
Every so often I encounter someone who is very stridently advocating for understanding and sympathy for narcissists, to the point of sacrificing yourself to give them what they crave: supply.
And every time I smile, nod, and then instantly file them in the same mental drawer as “psychotic tiger in a bad mood”.
@Llwynog yeah. Once you’re wise to their shit, you can defend yourself.
But if you don’t understand, and they’re in a position of power over you, that’s when they can do profound damage. A lot of us who were raised by them evolve coping strategies, but when you’re a kid having to defend yourself against the person who is supposed to be nurturing you, it causes life long damage.
We also tend to be on high alert for them, constantly. If someone behaves in a way that triggers my narcissist response, it’s instant fight or flight, with a heavy dose of grey rocking.
This has actually served me quite well, but it’s a fucked up superpower to have.
@Llwynog I’m not sure I can put it into words. There’s usually something “off” about them. Very self absorbed as you note, and feeling the need to constantly have someone or something ready to blame, even for stuff that doesn’t actually require it.
When small things all align to make them the best / most hard done by person in the world. If it is a pattern then you can guess they are lying or just making stuff up to fit the narrative. For example Brenda said she wanted to move house when she retired because she didn’t know anyone in the village but my dad disagreed. Then he went into a care home but she couldn’t move house then because it would be too awful to abandon the friends in the village she’d known her whole life.
@Adam @Eleanor LNR Blair @Sesquipedality @mobbsy Laptops don't generally have GPIO pins and suchlike. They also, IME, make extremely poor servers because of the form factor. Horses for courses.
@sesquipedality @lnr @mobbsy That finds me a zero for a mere €26 including delivery, which I guess is an improvement but is still quite a lot for the minimalist option.
@lnr @sesquipedality @mobbsy Oh, I get that. It's just galling because there's SO MUCH MORE STUFF in a laptop.
It's like the cheapest cotton T-shirt is about a quarter the price of the cheapest 30x30cm square of cotton fabric. But if you don't want your fabric made of T-shirt material, you have to pay the extra.
@Sesquipedality @Eleanor LNR Blair @Adam @mobbsy I’ve found that if it’s doing video processing for HomeKit secure video, a 4 will will run the fan once every minute or so, for a few seconds, to prevent throttling.
So far the 5 seems to run a fair bit cooler. IME, 4S idle at about 60°. The 5 seems to be idling at 50°
So it seems there are still, despite increasing numbers of “leaders” involved in “crypto” ending up in prison for being con artists, true believers in NFTs (if you’ve forgotten about those, they were briefly bigger than COVID 19 and about as beneficial to humanity) held a party in Hong Kong last night.
The organisers thought they were lighting the stage with black lights (like they have at LaserQuest to make your clothes glow).
They were not.
They were lighting the stage with UV-C sterilisation lights.
Apparently everyone involved is now in accident and emergency with extensive sunburn and BURNS TO THEIR RETINAS!!
In 18 months there are going to be a bunch of people wearing dark sunglasses and refusing to meet outdoors trying to sell you something expensive to do with “AI”. You probably shouldn’t buy it.
A number of Bored Ape Yacht Club holders who attended Yuga Labs' ApeFest event in Hong Kong have reported burns, damaged vision and “extreme pain” and suggested they were exposed to UV lighting at the event.
Killing Crypto with UV instead of Chlorine - Crypto. also known as Cryptosporidium. The CDC defines it as"one of the leading causes of waterborne disease, or disease caused by contaminated
Likely cheap white, UV LED arrays without filters, or UV disinfection lamps which must be filtered or positioned to (dramatically) reduce exposure and avoid damage.
(Edit: Corrected reference to this not being UV-C since a similar 2017 incident at a Hong Kong party WAS caused by UV-C disinfection lamps. Source: hongkongfp.com/2017/10/26/part…)
Just tried to listen to the “new Beatles song” and had to stop within seconds because the digitally extracted voice was so uncanny valley that I literally felt like throwing up.
it's not very good anyway. You can see why Lennon didn't complete it himself. It's a bit like those horrible records where they take Johnny Cash (for example) and add orchestral arrangements. Shudder.
@Susan Lewis Less than 30 seconds has left me on the edge of having to lie in a dark room in silence. No way am I able to listen to enough to make that determination.
I heard part of it and it just felt flat and empty anyways.
If someone (good) makes a cover I’ll listen again. Just to see how it is. Don’t expect it to exactly blow me away. I get it if a massive Beatles fan find it exciting, but for the rest of us it’s just a song amongst songs.
@Sarah Brown Theirs is a particularly weird definition to me because the VPN I first met was the Sinister Greenend VPN, which is a collection of nodes and works very much like Tailscale.
LorenAmelang
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I get that D3 is a pre-hormone, not a vitamin. And that deficiency can be disastrous. But when you call it "HRT", are you implying it supports feminizing hormone activity?
Do you have any confirming documents? I've seen a bunch of conflicting research done on knockout mice with severe E deficiency, but nothing relevant to healthy humans...
Sarah Brown
in reply to LorenAmelang • •@LorenAmelang It’s a hormone, that you replace, hence hormone replacement therapy.
This is not a trans thing.