baltakatei
@baltakatei@sopuli.xyz
/ˈbɑːltəkʊteɪ/. Knows some chemistry and piping stuff. TeXmacs user.
Website: reboil.com
Mastodon: baltakatei@twit.social
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 1 week ago:
Mitochondria are actually parasites with their own genome and means of replicating. They will even actively defend their turf when other intracellular parasites appear.
- Comment on The Black Cockerel 1 week ago:
That time fundamentalist Mormons almost got Big Bird killed.
Specifically, about how Morton Thiokol o-ring subcontractor HydraPak (originally Utah Tool & Die, later Western Precision, and now “NewEra Manufacturing” based in Cedar City, Utah), which made the o-rings of the Challenger that failed on 1986-01-28, killing the entire NASA crew, was started and run as a front operation for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) religious sect by its prophet Rulon Jeffs (father of currently imprisoned prophet Warren Jeffs) as Utah Tool & Die. For more details, read the book Prophet’s Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints by Sam Brower.
- Comment on ugh 1 week ago:
It’s “a” step, not “the next” step. Evolution has no direction except “different”.
- Comment on The teacher challenged his students to remove a mandarin from a glass full of water without spilling a single drop 4 weeks ago:
I want to be smarter than those around me without me having to put in any actual effort.
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Existing is political.
- Comment on Housing prices 2 months ago:
People should be taxed up the wazoo for any property they personally do not occupy.
- Comment on Is Anon the asshole? 2 months ago:
It’s like taking someone’s tried and true Windows 7 machine and upgrading it to Windows 11.
- Comment on The perfect date 2 months ago:
date -Ismy beloved. - Comment on The perfect date 2 months ago:
- Comment on The perfect date 2 months ago:
YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS+zzzz
- Comment on ‘Lettuce or Salad Greens’ Identified as Potential Source of Cyclospora Outbreak 2 months ago:
Meanwhile, processed high caloric food products full of legal addictive stimulants remain relatively safe.
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 3 months ago:
- Comment on Finally an explanation 3 months ago:
People that treat people as things deserve the same courtesy.
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- Comment on Tru 3 months ago:
The trick is to have a really good imagination so imaginary-you can perform all stupid without consequences. The process of training your imagination to do this is called “education”.
- Comment on This one has pom poms! 3 months ago:
A small mercy of losing your country to oligarchs is that you’re under no obligation to save them from themselves. Well, until the mandatory conscription stage, anyway.
- Comment on When you tell the average mf in 2009 that you watch anime 3 months ago:
- Comment on $1$ 4 months ago:
Like robbing a bartender. Or your 401(k).
- Comment on Shirley, you can't be serious 4 months ago:
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 4 months ago:
Publicity to increase donations.
- Comment on DNAddy 5 months ago:
“I’m not black! I’m a tabby, like you officer!”
- Comment on These Salmon Got High on Cocaine. That Wasn’t the Craziest Part. 5 months ago:
Assuming this wasn’t an elaborate scheme to turn research grant money into cocaine, this seems pretty interesting.
See also Jumpin’ Crack Bass (1997-11-02) from season 2 of King of the Hill.
- Comment on TFW you blow your nose and finally get that ONE stuck booger dislodged 5 months ago:
Antibiotics side effects if you haven’t had them in decades are wild. Suddenly inability to digest certain foods. Sudden clearing of sinuses. Sudden clearing of skin conditions.
- Comment on Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha 5 months ago:
Chat, are we cooked?
- Comment on America 5 months ago:
Hard mode: set time zone to UTC (or Reykjavik; it’s the same) and force yourself to add/subtract offset hours every time you want to know local time. Also, this forces you to track when exactly daylight saving time starts and stops.
Benefit: you know when space probe stuff happens because they’re almost always timestamped UTC. Also, playing Eve Online becomes slightly easier.
- Comment on Yeeeesh, tough choice. 6 months ago:
“On one hand those trans kids give me the creeps. On the other, I get to call high school girls hot without consequences!”
- Comment on It hurts. 6 months ago:
A grid is still most efficient
May I introduce you to Magnasanti: No road grid. A map of mostly skyscrapers, libraries, and subway stations. youtu.be/NTJQTc-TqpU
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