Dan Neuman / is on Nostr

🇨🇦Recovering engineer, ex-military (#RMC), triggered by injustice. Born 318.5 ppm CO₂. Raised in BC, but in Ottawa since 1990. (He/Him)

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2023-11-22 15:52:26

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@npub1ccn…czwu @npub1jw3…h3v8 I didn't say that applied to the current version of capitalism, did I?

2023-10-09 12:37:42

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub104e…r4uy It looks like the British Isles have only been hit by storms (big ones though) as hurricanes weaken to below the hurricane threshold before getting there. So far. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/17/how-does-storm-eunice-compare-with-uk-worst-weather-in-recent-history

2023-10-09 12:23:04

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@npub104e…r4uy @npub1psd…9sr7 Even worse, the hurricanes are moving North up the American coast because the Eastern Seaboard waters are now warm enough to support them. I imagine building codes there aren't designed for hurricane-force winds or the torrential rains and storm surges.
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2023-09-18 15:39:06

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@npub1nn8…8sed They can be male, right?

2023-09-15 20:27:54

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@npub1u27…3qfq Available only to mods. I'm surprised it has taken this long. I always thought a reputation score would be especially useful for people reporting as well: How likely is their report to result in mod action.

2023-09-14 13:34:34

My god this is cruel, Globe & Mail editorial board. #CanPoli #cdnpoli
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2023-09-11 11:57:17

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@npub18hh…shf3 @npub1zdp…vqv8 Heaven also sounds exceptionally boring.

2023-09-10 11:30:40

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@npub1grx…uxfe I don't understand why newspapers don't have a competitor to Apple News+. It would be trivial to have a non-profit agency co-owned by publishers that handles the monthly fee, hands out a web cookie to subscribers, and distributes the revenue equitably. The publishers keep their websites and additional ad revenue if they want it. #news #media

2023-09-04 18:41:42

Black Mastodon users are writing in frustration that people don’t believe that #racism exists on Mastodon. As a new moderator, I can assure you that racism is very real here. Be sure to report it when you find it so that we can stamp it out.
And please don’t tell people their experience isn’t real just because you didn’t witness it. Thanks.

2023-09-01 11:54:59

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@npub1e78…sa4p Climate change is a hoax, Gerald. Just follow the money!
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2023-08-31 03:29:30

An interesting aspect of schooling in Canada is that there is no such thing as parental rights. There are children’s rights, eg a parent doesn’t have a right to see the child, rather the child has a right to see the parent, unless it is unsafe. Also, Canada is a signatory of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The US isn’t. This convention gives a child the right to privacy. #CanPoli #cdnpoli
https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/convention-text-childrens-version
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMjL98QCo/

2023-08-22 12:23:35

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@npub1ulm…hweg Is this patent from 1970?

2023-08-20 20:07:43

Why won’t people wear #N95s despite the evidence? That’s the #Semmelweis effect. Semmelweis was the Hungarian doctor who discovered that if you washed your hands between performing autopsies and delivering babies, infant mortality drops immensely. But this conflicted with popular opinion at the time, and doctors refused to consider that their (in)actions were the cause of deaths. Semmelweis was sent to an insane asylum where he was beaten by the guards and died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

2023-08-18 21:21:31

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@npub15l7…aang ugh, too many pronouns.

2023-08-18 20:39:18

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@npub15l7…aang I’m not sure how you figure that. Imagine someone who is harassing you constantly. Muting means they get to bad mouth you on your posts. Blocking means they can’t even see you posts.

2023-08-10 11:50:32

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@npub1ulm…hweg I have to believe that you are just showing the outlier cases and that patent lawyers and judges are generally competent. I mean, Apple and Samsung lawyers are probably pretty talented, right? Or maybe that's the problem. The good ones work for the giant corporations.

2023-08-05 12:07:37

“Math is hard!” — Barbie
You’ve probably heard that women are constantly primed to do bad at math because people constantly tell them that women are bad at math. This is called #StereotypeThreat. But did you know that white men can be primed the same way? A study from 1999 pdf found that Stanford white men who were told about a widening gap in scores between white and Asian students did worse on a test than a control group.