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marc_w

@marc_w@union.place

Retired #MathTeacher, #Union contract negotiator and treasurer, married, father of a wildlife biologist and an astrophysicist.

I currently prepare #fossils and help maintain the #herpetology collection at my local #NaturalHistoryMuseum, and lead public hikes through the deserts, mountains, and along the coast of #SanDiego, California.

When I was born, atmospheric CO2 was 316 ppm.

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grammargirl, to random
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My computer failed tonight, and I lost the entire hard drive. Fortunately, I have everything doubly backed up: once on a local hard drive and once on a cloud service. It's still stressful, but it could be a lot worse.

Consider this your reminder to back up your computer.

marc_w,
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@grammargirl

Backup, backup, backup! I have a second drive installed as a backup that gets updated every day, and two more plug-in drives that I alternate; one is local while the other is stored off-site. I have stuff from my TRS-80 mod 1 when backups were on audio tape. Never lost anything in over forty years.

marc_w, to random
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I spent the day preparing a mammoth’s mandible in the paleo lab. 12000-40000 years old.

(Yeah, it’s late Thursday, not Friday. Sue me.)

Jaden3, to random
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BHM nearly over . So I asked my grampa fo sum final memories living in mississippi.
He was only a kid during segregation but he told me it was normal for him as a kid. That black folk were only allowed in black spaces he didn't question it he just grew up accepting it.
We talking late 1960's/ 70s . This shit recent history. Fk that !
Also these racist mfs still alive now!
This shit gmfu ain gon lie #blackhistorymonth #blackmastodon

marc_w,
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@Jaden3 Is it recent history if it’s still happening, if there are still spaces Black people are made to feel so uncomfortable in that they just won’t go there? When does today become history rather than “same as it ever was”?

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Linux_Is_Best, to random
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Let me get this straight...

A public school is holding a fundraiser for children. -- Coats for kids.

And you are against it, because it "may" help illegals.

Of course, I banned them from the group. I wish I could ban their account altogether, but there is no official policy against being an a**hole.

This is an example of the extreme right. They would be perfectly OK with many children being cold, so long as it meant it may indirectly mess with so much as 1 person they wish to dehumanize.

marc_w,
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@Linux_Is_Best

Why would anyone want a child, any child to suffer in the winter cold because their parents aren't in the country legally? How does making a child suffer fix anything?

marc_w,
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@lachlan @shekinahcancook @Linux_Is_Best

Everything you say may well be true, but the vast majority of Christians are not standing up and telling their pastors "That's not the Jesus I believe in." The vast majority of Christian pastors aren't standing up in public spaces and saying "That pastor doesn't know the Jesus I know." The vast majority if Christians aren't saying in public "I don't know that Jesus." The vast majority of Christians agree with or remain silent, and silence means assent.

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@Linux_Is_Best @kkarhan

They seem unable to recognize that they are the cancerous cells in your analogy.

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@Linux_Is_Best @lachlan @shekinahcancook

The indifference of the many gives license to the few.

People who allow themselves to be counted among or identified with those who commit evil acts are little if any better than those who commit the acts. (That's why I'll never vote for anyone who still identifies as a Republican.)

theaardvark, to Autism
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How does everyone know how, when and how much they're masking?
As a late-diagnosed , I struggle to differentiate between "me but masking" and "me but in a diff situation".
Now that I know I'm autistic, I even miss the person I used to be in some situations before I knew.
I used to call myself a "social chameleon" - I just changed automatically to suit the circumstances.
But who actually am I and what is just a mask?
@actuallyautistic
@actuallyadhd

marc_w,
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@theaardvark @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd

Maybe it's all you, and you adjust your behavior, language, and demeanor to whatever is appropriate to time and place. That's what all social animals do, from dogs to naked mole rats to humans.

You're still more like the rest of us than you are different. If you don't feel that way, it's due to the way the of the rest of us have focused on the differences to the exclusion of the similarities.

marc_w, to queer
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#LGBTQIA

marc_w, to trans
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“Apparently Utah’s solution to people feeling unsafe in restrooms is to encourage folks to take photos of & focus extreme attention on the private parts of others who are taking care of a biological need to eliminate waste? What could go wrong?” she wrote in a post.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2024/05/03/utah-trolled-with-4000-hoax/

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    marc_w,
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    @angiebaby

    The number of Israeli Jews protesting the Israeli government might suggest to the thinking person that disagreeing with Israeli government policy isn't the same as hating Jewish people.

    mentallyalex, to random
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    That is correct. Your righteous anger is misplaced and you are at fault, yes.

    History will record you as complicit and cooperative to the groups you claim to demonstrate against and protest about. They will refer to you as a "useful idiot" and you will disagree and think it has value.

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    @JeanPDeliet @TonyStark @mentallyalex @GreenFire

    I taught eighth-grade algebra from August, 1986 through June, 2021. The kids were all just kids, no better or worse that I was in 1972, and their parents were pretty much the same as well.

    All the "kids these days" complaining is and always has been bullshit.

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    @JeanPDeliet @TonyStark @mentallyalex @GreenFire

    Who is this "me me me" generation? I've met lots of "me me me" people, but they span all ages.

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    @TonyStark @JeanPDeliet @mentallyalex @GreenFire

    "...but I see a lot of 'everything young people do is unquestionable' which seems nuts."

    Who says that? Nobody I've heard.

    marc_w, to fediverse
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    #FossilFriday

    American #Mastodon femur

    marc_w, to random
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    We moved my mother-in-law recently, and I found this...unopened.

    An old AOL disk - back side.

    marc_w, to random
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    marc_w, to random
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    #FossilFriday #Paleontology

    Leptoreodon,
    46-42 mya
    San Diego County

    This would have looked something like a small deer but is more closely related to camels.

    marc_w, to PetBirds
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    #Birds #WildLife
    Walked along the #SanDiego River Estuary this morning.

    Snowy Egret
    Hundreds of Caspian Terns
    Snowy Egret

    marc_w, to random
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    I spent Thursday in the paleo lab prepping this mammoth mandible. It's sitting on the bench bottom side up. Images 2 and 3 show the teeth. Image 4 is just a few of the random fragments I need to place.

    (Most fossils show their age.)

    Left tooth.
    Right tooth.
    Random pieces I need to glue where they belong, assuming I can figure out where they belong.

    marc_w, to Birds
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    Breakfast for the house finches.

    Breakfast for the house finches.

    marc_w, to sandiego
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    Things I saw on today's walk around Kumeyaay Lake:

    Black phoebe
    Swallowtail butterfly.
    Red Swamp Crayfish.

    marc_w, to hiking
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    It was a good morning for a hike, but then the rain came and it wasn't a good afternoon.

    Wind and clouds move across .

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    What kind of people call themselves Moses, Jesus or Geniuses. 🙄

    marc_w,
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    @StillIRise1963

    Anybody who has to tell you they're a genius isn't a genius.

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