How to spot a stroke. (The faster you can get them to care, the less damage that occurs. Better to call 911 and have them checked out at the ER than wait and possibly have major, permanent damage). #FirstAid #strokes

Hmm, I wonder if anyone has calculated the cost of visiting Socorro Island...

Yeah, so since people may have missed what sent me on this tangent:

CBC: Kentucky nurse gives CPR to drunk baby raccoon trapped in a dumpster

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/drunk-raccoon-cpr-1.7630379

***SIX DEATHS -- holy moly.

"...The rabies virus invades the central nervous system and is almost always fatal once symptoms start. Early symptoms, which can begin about a week or up to a year after exposure, may resemble the flu and progress quickly to confusion, paralysis, salivating, hallucinations and difficulty swallowing, followed by death within weeks...."

#rabies

Missed this from a few days ago!!

NBC News: Outbreaks of rabies seem to be rising across the U.S., CDC surveillance shows

The CDC's rabies team says it's tracking 15 different likely outbreaks from New York to Oregon.

"...Aug. 31, 2025, 2:00 AM PDT
By Marina Kopf, Linda Carroll and Anne Thompson

Six deaths from rabies have been reported over the last 12 months in the U.S., the highest number in years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rabies-outbreaks-rising-us-deaths-vaccine-rcna227771

#rabies #death #vaccines

"WHO: Transmission and pathogenesis

In most cases the disease is transmitted via the bite of rabid animals which shed infectious virus with their saliva. The virus enters the body through transdermal inoculation (i.e. wounds) or direct contact of infectious material (i.e. saliva, cerebrospinal liquid, nerve tissue) to mucous membranes or skin lesions. The virus can not penetrate intact skin."

https://www.who-rabies-bulletin.org/site-page/transmission-and-pathogenesis

#rabies

Note: Wilderness First Aid Tip: if you exchange saliva with a raccoon, no matter how cute it is, get rabies shots anyway. #rabies

Hmm, apparently Utah is now the wild west, people are walking around with rifles and handguns and whatever the heck they want, loaded. (this apparently happened after I left)

Utah House passes bill allowing 18-year-olds to openly carry loaded firearms

"As a "constitutional carry" state, residents can conceal carry firearms without a permit, and adults over the age of 21 can legally openly carry loaded firearms in most public places. Lisonbee told KSL.com last year that the distinction between 18-year-olds and 21-year-olds when it comes to open carry law likely runs afoul of anti-age-discrimination law, citing a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision."

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2025/02/05/utah-house-passes-bill-allowing-18-year-olds-to-openly-carry-loaded-firearms/

Hey, all those worries privacy advocates have had about Stingray (fake cell phone data collection devices) being abused? GUESS WHAT.

Forbes: How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones

https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/09/09/how-ice-is-using-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-peoples-phones/

#privacy #cybersecurity #stingray #fascism #ice #bigbrother

@coolandnormal @ChrisKillat

I have to say, my "boomer" relatives all have Apple Watches. So do all my college age students.

I believe "normal watch" (and particularly, CHEAP ANALOG normal watch) is an extreme minority now. Just the geeky people here on Mastodon, LOL.

@ChrisKillat Does such a place exist? Do people under the age of 45 even wear non-smart watches anymore?

Hmm, now that I have restored my two childhood Casio watches to working order, what should I do with them? LOL. (Not worth anything on eBay)

Interesting, you can use viewshed analysis to calculate likely location of the shooter.

Oooh, looks like the local university wants me to teach my GIS class again! Will get to work on improving my lectures. I will need to find another or different textbook, the one I used last time was only so-so... Any GIS folks here have any favorite books on practical use of satellite/remote imaging? (I used Lillesand's Remote Imaging and Interpretation, but it's less applied skills and mostly theory. Less math and algorithms, more concepts would be preferable--teaching this to Environmental Science and Resource Management students).

#gis #gischat #satellites #remoteimaging

Founders of Ben & Jerry unhappy with the brand:

"When we founded Ben & Jerry’s in 1978, we had a simple but radical idea: that a business could thrive by making great products while standing up for progressive values and social justice. Over the past five decades, Ben & Jerry’s has become successful precisely because people know it stands for something deeper than ice cream...

...For several years now the
voice of Ben & Jerry’s has been silenced by Unilever, particularly when the brand has tried to speak out about social justice and unjust wars. That is not the Ben & Jerry’s that we founded, or the one that we envisioned when we agreed to join Unilever 25 years ago...."

https://freebenandjerrys.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BNJ-Final-Board-Letter.pdf

#icecream #politics

The moon is so bright it is generating .21V on one of my solar panels! #moon

AP: Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Asia and the Mideast

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2025-09-07/red-sea-internet-cables-cut-19004255.html

A new ham radio amateur got an antenna I gave for him for free a couple of years ago on the air (recently got General Class). Hooray! 17m dipole. Cost a whopping nothing (SO-259 connector removed off a non-working CB radio, soldered to a couple of pieces of salvaged wire, LOL). New radio amateurs always ask what brand of HF antenna to buy, and how much to spend, and I always tell them to NOT pay money for antennas and just build a dipole to start. #hamradio

LA Times:People can’t get COVID vaccines as cases surge. Anger is building against Trump

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-05/covid-vaccines-are-harder-to-get-under-trump-and-people-are-angry-about-it

#politics #vaccines #covid

Also this...

"...if you want a search experience without AI-generated images, without Search Assist answers, and without Duck.ai prompts and entry points, start your searches on noai.duckduckgo.com instead of duckduckgo.com...."