Michael Porter / is on Nostr

Retired Chem/Physics/Earth Sciences teacher. I'm interested in everything.

I think society performs at its best when we take care of others, especially the weakest among us. That means a strong social safety net, with "free" healthcare, education, and public transit. It's a dream, I know.

30+ years of explaining stuff to teenagers has left me with some habits... I'm not a mansplainer, but I *do* like to find ways to 'splain stuff to receptive ears 😊

My Toots: https://justmytoots.com/MichaelPorter@ottawa.place

Pronouns: he/him
Size: XLT
Philosophy: Humanist
Politics: Woke AF

Last Notes

2024-09-13 14:20:58

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*Far* more civilized than the freakin’ robins who start the party at 4 AM!

2024-08-17 17:09:46

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Well the boys are gettin’ stinko
And the hotel’s full of pinkos
And we think no more of Inco
At the Sudbury Holiday Inn!

2024-07-09 16:56:17

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I think the etiquette rule is that you don’t bless/excuse farts because they aren’t supposed to be acknowledged at all (unless there’s a dog to take the blame 😉).

2024-07-09 15:37:02

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Oh, I wasn’t claiming they make money from vaccines - Just that the perception of those profit-driven motives leads to a general distrust about everything they do. And, of course, lots of people have no idea what makes money for these companies, and what costs they incur.

2024-07-09 15:29:26

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Spouting and conjecture? I’m in!
When you find out you have a child on the spectrum, the whole narrative of the life you imagined with that child shifts, or changes drastically, and you are searching for answers. Around the same time, your doctor is jabbing your kid with pointy needles and there is some stress associated with that. Our brains are constantly looking for patterns, and connections, and the stressful stuff registers the strongest. So it’s natural for people to confuse correlation with causation with respect to vaccines and autism. (I think the stress aspect, and the sense that something injured your child, is the reason why we don’t blame autism on size 4 shoes 😉)
There are a lot of other factors here, to be sure. That cretin, Wakefield, using shitty science to make money. Vacuous celebrities, and their followers, jumping on an idea they barely comprehend. The modern distrust of science thanks to the nuclear age. The profit-driven motives of pharmaceutical companies. The echo chamber of the internet, where every whack-job point of view can find a crowd of supporters. And so on.

2024-07-06 18:30:52

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The problem is that it all depends on the doctor. We had one family doc for the kids that was routinely at least 30-40 minutes late, always with some lame excuse (the worst was when we showed up for a scheduled appointment, had to wait over an hour, and then found out that the office didn’t have a record of it - lost in a move between offices or something - and the doctor suggested that *we* were mistaken 😠).
On the other hand, my personal GP is almost always bang on time. If I have to wait more than 10 minutes past the appointment time, it's surprising (and I usually hear an apology). The receptionists answer their phones, and I’ve been able to get in to see my doctor on the same day for things that pop up. I'm going to be sorry when she retires…

2024-05-27 21:00:18

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I’m looking for someone who is stable and emotionally secure, because *someone* has to bring that to the table 😄

2024-05-19 15:39:27

“Times” isn’t a verb.
#Math #Maths #Grammar