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- Comment on Can harmless viruses be engineered to deliver vaccine payloads for different actually harmful viruses? 2 days ago:
That’s what you call a viral vector. Apparently the Sputnik V vaccine for COVID used this approach.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Perhaps a better question is why aren’t more people shunned. There are some good answers already, but I’ll throw in another reason that seems to come up sometimes.
The US is highly polarized on a lot of issues. If one can frame their shunning as one of those wedge issues, they can probably get enough people to rally around them that they escape accountability.
“I’m being deplatformed because of racism against white people!”
“We have freedom of speech in this country, so if you take everything in the Constitution absolutely literally like I do, it’s obvious I should be able to spew whatever bullshit I want. You don’t hate the Constitution and the founding fathers, do you?”
- Comment on What would be the best Fediverse sub/community/place for questions about probability and statistics? 6 days ago:
I don’t know of such a community, but I’ll point you in the direction of conditional probability.
Also:
Six Sigma “graduates”
Lol fair description
- Comment on Video game libraries lose legal appeal to emulate physical game collections online 3 weeks ago:
Are there any instances of a 3rd party making digital copies of games available and paying some licensing fee back to the copyright holders? Something akin to how book libraries handle ebooks?
- Comment on Guess who’s suing the FTC to stop ‘click to cancel’ | Companies fight back to make subscription services easy to cancel 3 weeks ago:
Some of the companies involved that are mentioned in the article:
- Service providers (Comcast, Charter, Cox)
- Entertainment (Disney, AMC, Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery
- Those connected to advertising (Google, Netflix, Amazon, Meta, Vizio, the NFL)
- Home security (ADT)
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Wow, today I learned. Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
This would mean that there was more uranium around millions and billions of years in the past so why isn’t there any evidence of prehistoric nukes in the fossil record
- Comment on Intuit possibly succumbs to the Streisand effect 4 weeks ago:
As another comment said, I also dropped everything and read the article. So yeah I guess that’d mean Streisand effect is coming into play.
Regarding the topic at hand: I don’t care what these companies say at this point. The fact is that in the past, I have used their services, clicked the “free” button, did some things, and then ended up having to pay them money.
Until the day comes that I get a letter in the mail from the government saying, “Here’s how much you paid in taxes, if you’re cool with that then please disregard”, I will not be satisfied.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Klan.
I don’t care the intent or the season or the laws or the lulz. You wear a white fucking sheet to a polling place in a southern state, it looks like the fucking Klan. Fuck them.
- Comment on Consume 1 month ago:
Imagine a universe where plants were responsible for modern climate change, Earth Day celebrated deforestation, and Impossible Foods was developing this monster fiber-chicken.
- Comment on What do allergies feel like for you? 1 month ago:
As far as I know, I have 2 main allergies: pollen and metals (some metals, not sure which exactly).
Pollen
- It feels like my nose is a leaky faucet. It will run and run and I’ll have sneezing fits for hours. If I blow my nose, it makes the inside feel super-dry and itchy, which just kicks off more running and sneezing. So it basically feels pointless to blow my nose at all, and I usually settle for sniffling instead. But if I do that too much, I start getting mini-sinus headaches.
- Flare-ups. Sometimes I’ll see the plants that trigger it and I’ll start sneezing within 10-20 minutes. Other times I’ll go outside and it’ll start out of nowhere. It’ll last for hours.
- Meds do not seem to help at all. Maybe they shorten what would be a 6-hour episode into a 3-hour episode but who tf knows. I have yet to find anything that kicks in faster than a couple hours after use.
Metals
- I break out in a highly localized rash. It’s red, bumpy, and itches like mosquito bites.
- Flare-ups after prolonged contact (several hours) with a metal. It’ll last anywhere from a couple hours to a couple days.
- No meds. It’s pretty easy to ignore when it flares up, and it’s easy enough to avoid exposure.
- Comment on Chavtar 1 month ago:
Don’t forget Eeto, the fabled fifth element.
- Comment on The two types of jobs 1 month ago:
And in the precise moment I saw this, I realized both of my monitors were displaying Excel on full screen. Sigh.
- Comment on The return 1 month ago:
Holy frijoles
- Comment on Lord, I was born a scramblin' maaaaan 1 month ago:
I’m gonna make some hedgehog stew today
- Comment on I'm listening to a motivational speaker at a corporate conference when I realize... 1 month ago:
To me, this says that your workplace has acknowledged and accepted that the way they do business is leading to burnout, at least for some people. But rather than using that as evidence that their business practices need to change, they’ve instead opted to individualize the problem. Our growth projections aren’t unreasonably ambitious, you just need to do more deep breathing.
It’s like how I’m told to take a vacation to relax, only to return to the same (or an even larger) pile of to-dos that I left behind.
- Comment on 2real5me 1 month ago:
Me, looking for technical writing jobs after writing a highly fucking technical dissertation: I have a PhD but I’m pretty burned out on being a try-hard so I’m just looking for a straightforward 9-to-5.
Them: We’re worried you’ll be bored.
Me: Anyone would get bored doing this, at least I’ll be good at it.
Them: No.
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 1 month ago:
- Comment on Cuttlefish 2 months ago:
Search engine challenge of the day: Find another source for this behavior.
- Comment on The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter 2 months ago:
Does it need to be online and continuous?
- Comment on The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter 2 months ago:
Hot take of the day: academia doesn’t need social media.
- Comment on Vectors 2 months ago:
Vector also wears a gold chain and headphones all the time
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
We’re already using that on the org chart.
- Comment on Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle office instead of relocating 2 months ago:
Gosh. Thinking about all the time I wasted on the damn bus today made this sting more than usual.
- Comment on Only ever played OOoT, MM, and WW. Just ordered an Analogue Pocket. Suggest an order. 3 months ago:
Unhelpful idea: practice as-is until you’re good enough to beat it in one sitting
- Comment on Well fancy that 3 months ago:
H~0~, H~1~, and H~bruh~
- Comment on Well fancy that 3 months ago:
That’s the face I make when an experiment that should only have 2 possible outcomes somehow leads to a completely uninterpretable third outcome.
- Comment on 2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed 3 months ago:
What if this was just a scheme to get everyone free monitoring
- Comment on Burninate 3 months ago:
Closed up real good at the top for his head
