#mechanism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mechanism, aggregated by home.social.
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@sanders.senate.gov Even summaries are too long to put here (full report below), but it says it's a great idea you have. It easily works in #Washington State. Of course it would work so much better if we could come together nationally. #AI is the perfect #funding #mechanism for ending #homelessness.
Washington Housing Endowment E... -
@sanders.senate.gov Even summaries are too long to put here (full report below), but it says it's a great idea you have. It easily works in #Washington State. Of course it would work so much better if we could come together nationally. #AI is the perfect #funding #mechanism for ending #homelessness.
Washington Housing Endowment E... -
@sanders.senate.gov Even summaries are too long to put here (full report below), but it says it's a great idea you have. It easily works in #Washington State. Of course it would work so much better if we could come together nationally. #AI is the perfect #funding #mechanism for ending #homelessness.
Washington Housing Endowment E... -
@sanders.senate.gov Even summaries are too long to put here (full report below), but it says it's a great idea you have. It easily works in #Washington State. Of course it would work so much better if we could come together nationally. #AI is the perfect #funding #mechanism for ending #homelessness.
Washington Housing Endowment E... -
@sanders.senate.gov Even summaries are too long to put here (full report below), but it says it's a great idea you have. It easily works in #Washington State. Of course it would work so much better if we could come together nationally. #AI is the perfect #funding #mechanism for ending #homelessness.
Washington Housing Endowment E... -
Low Sinuosity Meandering Rivers Before Vascular Plants - Cambrian Tapeats Formation, Arizona, USA
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https://doi.org/10.1130/B38336.1 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #Arizona #bars #braided #streams #Cambrian #channels #clastic #conglomerate #floodplains #fluvial #hydromorphology #sedimentation #landscape #LowerCambrian #meander #mechanism #migration #mudstone #Paleozoic #Plantae #pointbar #rivers #sandstone #sedimentary #Silurian #sinuosity #UnitedStates #USA #TapeatsFormation
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#Covid causes what we in the biz call "#cardiovascular events," among its other nasty effects. #Heart attack, #stroke, pulmonary #embolism, deep vein #thrombosis. All things you should try to avoid.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49634-x
The covid #vaccine—any of the currently approved vaccines—helps protect against such events. A #mechanism isn't yet clear: the obvious hypothesis is that it works by reducing the incidence and sincerity of covid, and therefore reduces the effects of the disease. Say it with me now: further research is needed. Send me a pile of cash and I'll be happy to get on that, BTW.
(It also helps protect against #cancer, by an entirely different mechanism. I can natter about that if anyone wants.)
But the effect itself is clear. Has been from the start of the #mRNA vaccine era, really. Now a very large-scale study has confirmed it. There will be more studies, as there should be. They will show the same result. I'd bet my fortune on that, if I had a fortune, because then I'd have an even bigger fortune. Have I mentioned lately that #scientists need to eat?
As it is, all I have to pledge is my life and my sacred honor. I take both of those pretty seriously.
Of course this runs directly counter to the #antivax narrative. Based on a transitory and maybe illusory increase in clotting risk from an early vaccine that's no longer on the market (Johnson & Johnson) they've built an entire mythology about "the #clot shot." Lately they've added "#turbo cancer," which is not a thing that exists, to the canon.
So when dedicated antivaxers see any of the large and ever-growing number of studies showing protective effects against more than the #infection itself, especially against the exact same problems they claim the vaccine causes, they react with mockery and/or rage. It's all they know how to do.
Years of bitter experience have taught me there's no point in trying to reason with them. I still hold out hope that at least some antivax sentiment isn't that dedicated, that a lot of people are scared of getting vaccinated out of the general unease brought on by ignorance.
Oh yeah: the Methods section in the linked article provides details on data collection and analysis. It looks good to me, and I have a whole lot of experience in study design. Note that no vaccine manufacturers provided #funding. For a full list of funding sources, see the Acknowledgements.
I don't suppose I have many if any antivaxers left in my audience. If I do, well, I guess there's a reason you're still here. And if you like me or trust me or respect me at all, please pay attention to my words.
For everyone else, if what I've written here is useful, please do with it what you can.
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New Explanation For Siberia’s Permafrost Craters
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https://news.agu.org/press-release/new-yamal-craters-explanation/ <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108987 <-- shared paper
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"KEY POINTS
• Surface ice-melt water can migrate downward driven by the osmotic pressure associated with a cryopeg, a lens of salty water below
• Overpressure can cause the frozen soil to crack resulting in mechanical explosion.."
#permafrost #hydrates # Russia #YamalPeninsula #BatagaikaCrater #Siberia #climatechange #geomorphology #mechanism #process #climatechange #methane #thawing #frozen #soil #Yamal #Taymyr #cryopeg #ice #water #hydrology #infiltration #osmotic #pumping #explosion #greehousegas -
Progress on the laptop stand, too. Got the folding mechanism sorted out. Gave up on not using metal, because I'm running out of patience on this project and we've got some other stuff going on.
Grabbed some threaded rod and done. Then marked where the slots need to go and carved them out.
Just some glueing and coating left to do. The side table is already in the garage with two coats of woodstain on.
Oh, and plug some wrong holes 😳
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Progress on the laptop stand, too. Got the folding mechanism sorted out. Gave up on not using metal, because I'm running out of patience on this project and we've got some other stuff going on.
Grabbed some threaded rod and done. Then marked where the slots need to go and carved them out.
Just some glueing and coating left to do. The side table is already in the garage with two coats of woodstain on.
Oh, and plug some wrong holes 😳