ragica

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Is there a way to have a less depressing Lemmy experience? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Voyager also has a web app interface that has keyword filtering which works well for me. https://vger.app/

The brain controls body weight and obesity by regulating intestinal fat absorption in c/science@lemmy.world
[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago

Link to study in Nature being reported on:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07929-5

Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations? in c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My suggestion for the steam winter sale is chech out the GOG winter sale. But maybe that's just me.

Israel bombs Damascus as an Israeli invasion seizes land in the Golan Heights buffer zone in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Misleading headline wording. Makes it seem one thing lead to the other, rather than reality being the other way around.

New Study Confirms LNG is Worse for Climate Than Coal in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

LNG = liquified natrual gas

How serious are you guys when you talk about punching nazis? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] ragica@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago

If you're punching with you fist, you are probably punching wrong.

‘Do not store guns in your oven’: Loaded gun stored in oven fires multiple rounds after getting overheated in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 28 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Amazed to see this. New old house. Used oven for first time. Some sort of stench and black gunk dripping from top heat shield. Gas stove. Investigate. Pull out pieces of a gun. Glock or something. Previous owner stops by for mail (unusual situation). I had over the melted pieces, "you forget something in the oven?" "Oh shit. No problem, I can fix it." "uh.. Okaaaaay... "

What's growing on, Beehaw? in c/greenspace@beehaw.org
[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

After a month of neglect my garden is compete chaos. I am (more-or-less) fine with this. It is better to have grown and lost, than to have never grown at all. As they say. Or something like that.

NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013] in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 48 points 11 months ago

As long as the backdoor is licenced GPL what's the problem?

i like nettles way too much in c/gardening@hexbear.net
[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Been meaning for years to harvest some seeds from a big patch of nettles growing not far from here on a country (canada) roadside. Then this spring someone decided to cut all the grass and weeds back along this road... the nettles disappeared. I watched for months and months hoping they would re-appear. I had almost given up hope, but finally just in the last month they have slowly appeared again by the edge of the cut. A meager little growth, compared to what I was. Will I ever harvest any seeds? All I know for sure is that I will continue to intend to.

Lemmings of ...uh... Lemmy who ate ramen noodles dry, whaddup wit dat? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Similar recipe:

Chop nappa cabbage
Couple of packs or ramen broken up.
Ramen seasoning powder.
Chopped or slivver almond
Sesame seeds.
Green onion / scallion
rice vinegar to taste
Neanderthals didn't truly go extinct, but were rather absorbed into the modern human population, DNA study suggests in c/archaeology@mander.xyz
[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Coincidentally just just watched this Gutsick Gibbon (primatologist) vid which touches on this a bit (though not the main topic). https://youtu.be/dy7_LousWVo

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Pets do not significantly benefit the emotional health of owners with severe mental illness, study shows (phys.org)
 

Paper: https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/hai.2023.0027

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Research group unveils properties of cosmic-ray sulfur and the composition of other primary cosmic rays (phys.org)
 

Charged cosmic rays, high-energy clusters of particles moving through space, were first described in 1912 by physicist Victor Hess. Since their discovery, they have been the topic of numerous astrophysics studies aimed at better understanding their origin, acceleration and propagation through space, using satellite data or other experimental methods.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) collaboration, a large research group analyzing data collected by a large magnetic spectrometer in space, recently gathered new insight about the properties and composition of specific types of cosmic rays. In a new paper, published in Physical Review Letters (PRL), they specifically unveiled the composition of primary cosmic-ray carbon, neon, and magnesium, along with the composition and properties of cosmic-ray sulfur.

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Gargantuan black hole 'switches on,' becoming one of the brightest objects ever seen (www.livescience.com)
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There's a Giant Gravity Hole In The Indian Ocean, And We May Finally Know Why (www.sciencealert.com)
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Could Earth be inside a black hole? (www.livescience.com)
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Medium embraces Mastodon - The fediverse is a breath of fresh air for writers and social media (blog.medium.com)
 

Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm to help our authors, publications and readers find a home in the fediverse. Mastodon is an emerging force for good in social media and we are excited to join this community.

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Ever thought about how much energy it takes to make pasta? (www.sciencealert.com)
 

Oddly, I hadn't put much thought into the energy costs of cooking pasta before....

This article estimates the UK spends £4,690,000 per week on it! And suggests possibly greener ways of cooking it. It's a small amount per person, but there's a lot of people (I hope) making pasta!

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How historical Toronto zoning laws has led to lack of midsize/mid-density housing (podcast) (99percentinvisible.org)
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Neil Young bows out of Farm Aid benefit concert over COVID-19 concerns (www.cbc.ca)
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Canada's oldest oil and gas trade association to drop 'oil' from its name in bid to upgrade image (www.cbc.ca)
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Plastic has been classified as environmentally toxic by the Canadian Environmental Protection Agency -- "Big plastic threatens feds with lawsuit" (www.nationalobserver.com)
 

It's an interesting approach. While plastic is (mostly) not directly toxic to us, the argument that it is toxic to the environment seems scientifically sound. The classification allows for more regulation and pressure on an industry which have proven (as usual) extremely ineffective at regulating themselves, to the cost of all of us. And when you think about plastic as a direct product of the petroleum industry things just worse.

Looking at the CEPA web site it currently only lists "micro plastic beads". But I got a government link or the order. It reads "Plastic manufactured items" and goes into great detail on the rational and background.

Coincidentally I saw another story today:Twenty firms produce 55% of world’s plastic waste, report reveals.

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Retired MPP who voted against its creation, appointed chairman of Ontario Greenbelt Council (after 6 previous members resigned in protest of government legislation). (www.cbc.ca)
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