Martin Vermeer (not Jesus)

🇳🇱🇫🇮🇩🇰 🇪🇺 Retired geodesist. 'Elämäntapafinlandssvensk'. Born 315 ppmv. Star sign: Ursa.

Helsinki/Bromarv, Finland

#geodesy #geoid #SeaLevel #GPS #climate #democracy #EU #Antifa #linux #latex

Website: https://users.aalto.fi/~mvermeer/

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2025-12-09 20:03:01 UTC

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Precisely. Estimates are Brexit cost 4-8% of GDP, benefit of joining Customs Union, 2.2% of GDP. Nothing to spit at, and I believe that Starmer's cabinet is seriously talking about it. No other way now to deliver their other manifesto promises, while also delivering on defence and Ukraine.

2025-10-04 09:47:07 UTC

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And note that (assuming I understand this correctly) the six sticks between the oxygens and the sodium ion are not 'true' chemical bonds, but just paths of electrostatic attraction. The sodium ion carries really one positive charge as it is lacking the valence electron, but the oxygens are just polarized negative on the side pointing to the sodium. So actually the whole assembly is a one-plus cation...

2025-09-17 14:49:24 UTC

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Funny you should mention this... good to see that the Commission is still complying with the 'but do you condemn Hamas?' compelled performative outrage game.
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/220/180/597/021/277/original/096b52950b0e6186.png

2025-07-14 14:51:19 UTC

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Or 'woke'. Having your eyes open, seeing injustice, rather than sleepwalking past it. Good thing, right?

2025-06-09 11:55:26 UTC

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So lost. They used to be a leading example of a public-service broadcaster 😬

2025-05-19 14:58:38 UTC

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I still have to find a proof convincing to myself that a magnetic field is frozen in in a superconducting plasma... this could be similar.

2025-05-02 17:30:24 UTC

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> trying to protect from the abusive conservatives by trying to make all conservatives feel unwelcome just in case
That is not how this works at all. A 'conservative' server - one run by and for conservatives and with mostly conservative accounts - that moderates in good faith against abusive conservatives will *not* be defederated by the bulk of ordinary, well moderated fediverse servers. Perhaps you should disabuse yourself of the 'woke mind virus' virus...

2025-05-02 14:31:46 UTC

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I am also talking about federation. Servers have the right and the power to protect their users, and I for one am happy that they do so also in this way. They are private actors operating competitively, and their users choose them for this reason (among other considerations, of course).
One pertinent observation by me and many others is that the 'freedom of speech' argument made by the right is invariably about the right to say nasty things about other people without suffering consequences. They love free speech so much that they want it all for themselves, just like it has been said fundamentalist Christians love religious freedom so much that they want all of it for themselves too. Well, defederation is a consequence, as well as a free-speech act. I like it.
About it not being hard to read what's on blocked/defederated servers: go to a private window in your browser. You are no longer logged in to your home server, and the whole fediverse will be an open book to you.

2025-05-02 14:09:09 UTC

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I disagree. Hate speech is / should be also a valid defederation ground. And disinfo. And defending violent ideologies. All that is banned on my home server, which is pretty middle-of-the-road.
And also, a MAGA server policing for harassment is a pink unicorn.
And BTW it is not hard to get into servers that your home server blocked. Just one more step away.

2025-05-02 08:46:19 UTC

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Joo, muistan 2001 Avaruusseikkailun 3D-tulostettuja ruokapillereita, jotka olivat minusta ihan jees.

2025-04-28 16:18:29 UTC

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Wuhan has what is now the University's School of Geodesy and Surveying that back in the days had also tens of thousands of students. Probably still has. The sidewalk in front of the main building was frequently used for exercises and was said to be the best surveyed location in the known universe...

2025-04-10 18:36:27 UTC

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Why women should stick to their maiden name just like men. Would have the side benefit of female scientists keeping all their publications recognizably together rather than fragmented over multiple last names.

2025-03-24 12:32:02 UTC

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As if looking forward to playing golf on the grave of a nation isn't damning enough. And your mention of Israeli law as if it means anything in this context is just plain silly.

2025-03-23 22:19:54 UTC

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Easiest and fastest would be to ask France to station some of their nuclear weapons there, as is already being considered for Poland.

2025-03-22 07:25:43 UTC

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So we better work to make sure he cannot spare that billion
#TeslaTakedown

2025-03-19 09:06:34 UTC

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"hate group ADL" is right

2025-03-01 14:49:55 UTC

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Just getting started. Anyone else using https://www.boycat.io/ ? Has anyone created a campaign for boycotting the US?

2024-11-27 08:32:50 UTC

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Näin samaa argumenttia toisessakin paikassa. Se tekee selväksi, että on turha jäädä X:ään 'puolustamaan totuuta' tms, kuten jotkut ovat selitelleet. Anna vaan kiehua omassa sopassa.

2024-11-24 10:56:39 UTC

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Isn't this old news?

2024-11-23 16:45:30 UTC

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... and as the Wikipedia article points out, his evidence was obtained using a type of variable stars called *Cepheids*, probably the first 'standard candle' method for determining the distances to stars discovered already in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

2024-11-12 08:08:24 UTC

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And likely for Ukraine, my biggest worry
https://www.help99.co/

2024-10-23 15:23:39 UTC

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But their pictures are always pretty
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/113/357/421/258/646/781/original/78182ac2cc573c27.png

2024-06-17 15:46:13 UTC

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Is it understood why? I know of course about the longer term down trend, likely at least partly due to the effect of environmental lead in the womb.