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Cake day: October 11th, 2023

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  • So you say you’re autistic… <3

    You’re right that its the framing here that reads as very rude - if someone is expressing their desire to do something, coming in and presenting something else as a clearly morally superior choice and denigrating the thing they wanted to do is considered quite rude; both because it assumes they’re somehow ignorant of the alternative choices and thus couldn’t have made an informed decision, and because it comes across like you’re asserting your own preferences as “more valid” than theirs.

    Much as with all other forms of encoding (limerick, haiku, .mp4, web packets, semaphore, all written languages, etc) the format in which a lemmy comment is left is as critical to the communication of it’s idea as the actual content of the words themselves.



  • It’s a pretty recent one that seems to be gaining popularity in more and more subcategories as youtube’s hypersensitive demonization bot rolls out to more and more videos. Using the words ‘suicide’, ‘pedophile’ or any terms related to self harm reportedly set it off, regardless of their use in context. People are retaliating by using “youtube” as a euphemism in place of the censored terms, hoping it will catch on. So far it seems to be working, as no matter your political, ideological, social or cultural baises we can all band together and agree that youtube are just the worst.









  • It’s extremely strange that no details have been released in this case. I kinda doubt it’s actual full-bore corruption, that’s still fairly rare here, but man for a case involving a foreign citizen it’s sure suspicious they’re so quiet about it. And even in texas there’s so few situations where a fatal shooting doesn’t merit charges. It seems a little far fetched for her to have, say, been mugging someone who then shot her in self-defense. Was she shot by some kind of trained combat armadillo? A senile centenarian who passed away during the investigation? A very small child? (actually those last two are feasible, though in both cases the owner of the firearm they got ahold of would probably have been charged, though it’s texas so that isn’t 100%). Those are the only sort of examples where this might be justified, but lets be honest it was probably the cops.

    Just fucking weird. Her poor family.



  • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldHow im also raising my little guy
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    This is a public forum. You started this discussion, again, on a public forum. While I’m not particularly interested in winning (I can sate that desire by playing helldivers (lies I suck at that game)), I am interested in educating and reasoned discussion. I know you’re not, but you keep coming back despite that, and I’m curious why? What do you gain from this? If you didn’t want responses, why did you put your ideas out there? Was it just an excuse to vent, and if so, why did you come out to pick fights in the comments afterwards? Just… walk away, if that’s what you want.



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    I was in the building when when a 3F 1200V capacitor, part of a multi-rack mounted capacitor bank (powered a magnetohydrodynamic modeling experiment), failed. It ripped the rack’s 30cm mounting bolts out of the floor, launched the three-tonne rack hard enough to crack the ceiling and shattered every window in the facility. I want to say that afterwards I never broke the rule about not being allowed to enter the experiment room until the banks were discharged, but I’d be lying. Undergrads are idiots, and holy cow don’t fuck around with those caps…


  • Hard science / soft science typically refers to the distinction between disciplines like mathematics or physics vs. less quantifiable fields like sociology - it has nothing to do with the entertainment value, presentation or perceived testing rigor. nor my own personal feelings towards you or your beliefs. The difference in our opinion seems to come down to my opinion (that science education is both socially valuable and is science) vs. your opinion (that the presentation of results reflects their value and that the treatment of human remains with deference should be a primary concern of any scientific investigation involving them)? Is that broadly correct?


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    Velocipastor, The Brain From Planet Arous, Nude Nuns With Big Guns were all truly atrocious movies that were at one time part of the netflix catalog. Highly recommend all three for bad movie lovers.

    And if they hate their friend, the star wars holiday special. That shit is just truly unwatchable.


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    You can’t see the applicability in investigating the creation of surface indications of handheld objects on skin being subjected to various degrees of force, or demonstrating a method of investigating that question to the general television viewing public? Not even being slightly sarcastic or insincere here, I’m very curious what qualities qualify something as being ‘science’ to you. Not being in a lab excludes archaeology, and not publishing your findings to Nature excludes me the unfathomably vast majority of scientists from counting as ‘scientists’.



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    That sure is the conventional wisdom, isn’t it?

    In truth there’s only ever been one example of Prion disease transmission through cannibalism in humans - Kuru - a disease present in one incredibly tiny population (the Fore) in Paupa New Guinea, once. Incidentally, it was essentially only transmissible if you consumed the brain (or spine) of an infected person, which was the part reserved for young children / pregnant women. Stopping the practice of eating the brain would have effectively eliminated the disease, and conveniently the australian colonial government and local christian missionaries had recently outlawed funerary cannibalism. I’m sure that, by their reputation for extreme tolerance and cultural sensitivity, they would never exaggerate the dangers of cannibalism to back up their claims.

    Anyways, no new cases of Kuru have occurred since the Fore stopped practicing funerary cannibalism (voluntarily, once someone stopped just beating them and took the time to explain what was happening) and the disease has essentially been eradicated. So, though it’s probably best not to eat another member of your species without checking to make sure they don’t have parasites (and hypothetically Creutzfeldt–Jakob’s disease. Although there’s never been a case of it being transmitted via cannibalism, that’s simply because it’s vanishingly extreme rarity means it’s likely never had a chance to happen), there’s no particular harm that’s going to happen because of it.