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- Comment on What are some ways by which disabled people can discover and volunteer for stem cell treatment? 10 hours ago:
Direct with researchers.
Usually thru universities but grants are drying up.
Studies by companies sometimes take participants from volunteering, but usually they start with lists from healthcare workers.
So talk to their doctor and make sure they know about desire to volunteer, check “local” universities and hospitals
- Comment on How much human individuals resemble cells 12 hours ago:
Are we enslaving the cells in our body
Whoever wrote that must have slept thru every biology class they’ve ever taken…
Like, there’s some decent questions in there, but they’ve all been asked for over a thousand years.
It reads like someone used a chat bot and told it to try and sound like a philosopher.
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 1 day ago:
Remember when American tax payers gave billions to telecoms to install fiber in rural America?
It’s actually happened multiple times…
I remember two off the top of my head, but it’s possible there was a couple more
- Comment on US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione 1 day ago:
Trump is going to fuck around and make this an inflection point with his voter base.
I knew he wouldn’t be able to stay out of it. And it’s only going to get worse during the trial when mainstream media keeps trying to demonfy this guy while the vast amount of Americans view him as Robin Hood.
This is going to be a bigger trial than OJ or Casey Anthony, and this is going to be one of the rare cases where the people side with the defendant. Other big cases most people wanted the defandent guilty but they got off.
But Luigi is either going to get off and likely get into politics, or lose and become a literal martyr.
There’s no path for the wealthy to win, especially since everyday thousands of Americans cross the line to “nothing left to lose”.
- Comment on The rise of far-right political support among the rich is partly a diversion, so that people start getting more upset at the far right than at being exploited by the rich 1 day ago:
Right/left only exists to stop us from realizing it should be top/bottom
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 1 day ago:
It was William Caxton about 600 years ago who owned it.
Everything I found just now talks about how great a historical figure he was.
But if you dig deeper you should be able to find reference to the Dutch workers he brought with the press who knew how to use it and actually set the type on the presses.
I don’t have the time at the moment, but if you’re interested then that’s enough to start researching
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 1 day ago:
Is this an English grammar rule
English grammar and spelling rules were made up on the fly by Dutch workers with a tenable grasp on the language themselves.
They just operated the first English printing presses and the owner valued quantity over quality. So they just did fucking whatever.
- Comment on Just found an interesting quote from buffy the vampire slayer for our technodystopia. 2 days ago:
Meh, the evil was usually based on humans.
Steve Bannon made a lot of gold selling virtual wow gold, but even worse he learned how toxic and impressionable young male gamers were. Which lead to Gamergate and the radicalizing of a lot of the current generation…
If anything, Gile was underestimating the dangers.
- Comment on Greenland’s new pm rejects Trump’s latest threat to take control 2 days ago:
Ah, so one Kevin Bacon away, thanks!
- Comment on Greenland’s new pm rejects Trump’s latest threat to take control 2 days ago:
The largest shipping company in the world (and the one the dod relies on) is based on Greenland.
If they stop DoD shipping it would fuck us. If they stopped performing any stops in America at all it would basically make us reliant on using Canada and Mexico as a go between, and Trump’s already fighting them.a
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 2 days ago:
So can guys like Epstein…
- Comment on US | Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House 2 days ago:
Lol, after being explained why option 1 won’t work:
Trump replied, “Well, that’s one.”
“But there are others too. There are others.”
When pushed to detail those methods, Trump said, “No.”
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 3 days ago:
It is, but we stopped teaching it literally decades ago, so what are kids supposed to do?
That was a victim of No Child Left Behind, along with a lot of other important shit.
- Comment on UK: Couple arrested and shut in cell after complaining about daughter's school on WhatsApp. 3 days ago:
Link is a little questionable, so I googled the names
independent.co.uk/…/parents-arrest-school-whatsap…
They had been banned from the school already, had been banned from harassing the school online, so they started a WhatsApp group to manipulate other parents into doing the things they legally couldn’t do…
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 1 week ago:
The same thing it always does…
Bounces around wildly because it’s based on hype not actual value of the company
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 1 week ago:
If I lived within driving distance of DC or a Tesla factory I would be…
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 1 week ago:
Protesting a dealership when no one wants to buy one is performative.
Where protests should be happening is factories because even if Musk has to shut down one day, that is expensive, and it’s expensive to start it back up again.
So what’s really effective is protesting factories and not letting workers in.
For a day or two.
Then leaving till it’s started back up for a couple days, and just repeating that. Make them open and close production constantly. Make Tesla workers tires of the bullshit, better yet make Musk fire them so they get severance and unemployment.
So:
Look at the risk/reward of what you want to do/say at a dealership. Nothing you put on a sign is going to change anyone’s minds.
To quote a saying that’s been around for way to long:
You can beat the charges, but you can’t beat the ride
Meaning it doesn’t matter if what you’re doing is illegal, cops can still beat you, take you to jail, and just drop charges 10 minutes before you get to see a judge.
- Comment on Zionists media owners speak out 2 weeks ago:
If Israel would stop killing foreign journalists…
We wouldn’t have to take Hamas’ word on death numbers.
Until Israel stops, we don’t have any options besides taking Hamas at their word.
- Comment on X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t 2014, most twitter accounts aren’t even people, let alone employed people
It’s just bots arguing with bots with a sprinkling of idiots.
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 3 weeks ago:
Just because you make an argument, doesn’t make it true
Mate…
I “made an arguement” that it wasn’t just Nazis that did this …
And used an example of people who were not Nazis doing it to show that …
And you accused me of saying both groups are the same.
There’s not an easier way to explain this, I’m sorry but I’m not helping you anymore.
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 3 weeks ago:
Obviously not, which doesn’t matter because the behavior isn’t unique to either group:
It’s not even a Nazi thing, it’s a human thing.
I thought that by stating that nice and clear in the beginning would prevent confusions like yours, but I forgot some people read something and instantly forget it.
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 3 weeks ago:
It’s insane to me
How?
This isn’t the first time, won’t be the last time.
It’s not even a Nazi thing, it’s a human thing.
Reddit said you can’t say “Luigi had a good idea” so idiots try to find the furtherest they can take it without repurcussions, and when they face repurcossions they screech that their free speech was violated because they were dog whistling.
So people get banned from reddit for it, and come here and they’re *still stuck on trying to find the line in every situation so they can put their toes on and screech “freeze speech” like teenagers playing the penis game.
Obviously the people saying “Luigi was right” and the Nazis are different.
But it’s the exact same human instinct to push boundaries and see what they can get away with, then claim innocence when faced with consequences. Little kids do it constantly, and with our education system lacking on critical thinking since No Child Left Behind, people aren’t learning the critical thinking to internally make the call on what’s ok, they just try shit and see if there’s negative consequences. That’s all that matters: can I get away with saying this.
We just saw it on a national stage where trump kept talking about tarrifs on Canada, he wanted them to engage in a bad faith conversation about fentanyl while his tarrifs were active and free of consequences. Instead Trudeau finally ovaried up and hit back with retaliatory tariffs.
trump got consequences and he’ll stop. But if there wasn’t he’d have kept pushing it.
- Comment on does anyone know the american dad episode where deputy director bullock scrapes his leg? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, one of the rare episodes with a lot of Bullock in it.
I dunno if it’s because they can only afford so much of Sir Patrick Stewart’s time, or if he just doesn’t want to do a lot
But I’m still amazed every season he’s still doing the voice.
- Comment on 'Investor' is a dirty word for first-home buyers — but are they the real villains? 3 weeks ago:
Exponential tax rate increases…
The more you own, the higher percent you pay in tax on all the properties.
Eventually it would get to some level where the increase is prohibitive and would stop companies from expanding.
But the real benefit is giving smaller landlords a way to compete. Otherwise a corp with 100 homes in an area can depress rent short term so the small landlords sell. Then when the corpnowns the majority, they jack up rent and there’s virtually zero options. People pay or move from the area
- Comment on What is the number one reason why we do not have peace on earth like on other planets? 3 weeks ago:
Are you asking why the USSR didn’t send a missile to blow up the US moon lander on the moon? What purpose would that serve?
Fun fact:
In 1969 the US had a plan to nuke the moon, just to show Russia we can.
An Aussie rapper made a song about it.
- Comment on Trippin' Bastards - a bastardized version of Db0's Ye Power Trippin' Bastards 3 weeks ago:
Genuine question:
Why do you keep making accounts?
I’ve blocked you like 4 times now…
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 4 weeks ago:
I hate people can even try to blame AI.
If I typo a couple extra zeroes because my laptop sucks, that doesn’t mean I didn’t fuck up. I fucked up because of a tool I was using, but I was still the human using that tool.
This is no different.
If a lawyer submits something to court that is fraudulent I don’t give a shit if he wrote it on a notepad or told the AI on his phone browser to do it.
He submitted it.
Start yanking law licenses and these lawyers will start re-evaluating if AI means they can be fired all their human assistants and take on even more cases.
Stop acting like this shit is autonomous tools that strip responsibility from decisions, that’s literally how Elmo is about to literally dismantle our federal government.
And they’re 100% gonna blame the AI too.
I’m honestly surprised they haven’t claimed DOGE is run by AI yet
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
You can.
You can subscribe to every stupid brain rot meme sub you want, and when you’re ready to turn your brain off just switched to only viewing subscribed communities.
No one is saying not to do that, burnout is real and what fascists hope for.
So by all means, take your breaks. Check and don’t think about it for a day or two. But come back and care about the important shit again.
But when viewing /all and seeing the top post be actual discussions on serious topics is a good thing.
It means right now more people are choosing that then the brain rot at the moment. Hopefully it becomes the norm, but we still need to rotate off for a break, it’s not gonna be a short fight against fascism. No on is going to make it to the end without some breaks.
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
Can you do me a favor and reply with your alts?
I’ve blocked at least 3 so far but it’s like playing fucking whack a mole
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
What happened?
People pay attention to memes more than news…
I blocked all the stupid meme communities as soon as I started using Lemmy, glad to see actual discussion is replacing brain rot tho.
It’s a good thing.