To those of you who have refrained from talking about Halloween until now that it is actually October, a heartfelt thank you! 🎃💐

Something I never understood about the original Transformers—how does Megatron transform from a handgun into a giant robot that's as big as Optimus Prime, a semi that turns into a robot? Where does all the extra mass come from? And when he transforms back, where does that mass go? #RandomThoughts

AI doesn't really come up with bizarre wrong answers; it's trained on data stolen from incredibly ignorant people who make lots of bizarre wrong statements. Which prospect is truly scarier? 🤔 #RandomThoughts

Late identified Autistics, before you knew, how would you have felt if another Autistic suggested that you might be autistic? #ActuallyAutistic #AskingAutistics @npub10v4v...s27h

Do you view individual servers as separate platforms or do you view the Fediverse as one platform? Also, do you view Mastodon, Peertube, Pixelfed, etc as separate platforms or do you view the Fediverse as one platform? #RandomThoughts #Fediverse

Does the fact that we have a nitrogen atmosphere with a fair amount of oxygen influence the appearance of rainbows here on Earth? Would rainbows in other atmospheres appear different in any way? Or is the medium in which they appear completely irrelevant? #RandomThoughts #Physics #Optics

Is dried pasta just fresh pasta that they let dry naturally, or do they do something to artificially dry it out? #RandomThoughts

Polls?

Brazil is right. We should all ban X. #MyUnpopularOpinion

Doctors Give Black Women Unneeded C-Sections to Fill Operating Rooms, Study Suggests—Sarah Kliff, New York Times #Healthcare #InstitutionalRacism

Doctors Give Black Women Unneeded C-Sections to Fill Operating Rooms, Study Suggests (Published 2024)

Healthy Black women with low risk factors were far more likely to get C-sections than white women with similar medical histories, a large new study...