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- Comment on Herpie Gang Rise Up 1 week ago:
Herpie Gang is also a great name for a herpes support group
- Comment on 🏃♀️ 🏃♀️ 🏃♀️ 1 week ago:
In Capitalism, Science becomes an Industry.
- Comment on Datacenter diplomacy: Australia commits to help Vanuatu build bit barns to keep China at bay 1 week ago:
Libertarian Socialism. Like Rojava.
Not specifically for Vanuatu. It just seems a superior system if the wellbeing of the people are what’s judged most important.
- Comment on Datacenter diplomacy: Australia commits to help Vanuatu build bit barns to keep China at bay 1 week ago:
One of those projects is a pair of datacenters valued at A$120 million ($79 million) that Vanuatu’s government announced last year as part of a strategy to develop an e-commerce industry and ensure the nation can connect to the global digital economy.
… Not a fan of that. Hate that capitalism has been forced upon the people of Vanuatu.
- Comment on AI to help police catch criminals before they strike 1 week ago:
1984 Here we come. The Thoughtpolice have arrived.
- Comment on Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone? 1 week ago:
Usually, it ends up in the hands of the elite.
Otherwise they wouldn’t lobby for it.
- Comment on Is there a place online where I can apply for a bunch of free books? I was thinking of creating a library in my local county jail to help educate and pass the time in a healthy way? 1 week ago:
Don’t be shy to put up a book donation flyer in the local wallmart or something if allowed.
Lot of people have books rotting away in basements they wanna offload.
- Comment on Nice argument. 1 week ago:
ah yeah, the founder of modern psychiatry.
Given he founded it no wonder they treated being gay as a mental illness and often still do for trans people.
- Comment on Every damn time. 1 week ago:
Not for fun.
For grants, citations, and professional legitimacy. Ie. to keep up with the metrics required to not lose your job in modern research.
- Comment on Byeeeeeee 1 week ago:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Mercii
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Could you share the reply. It doesn’t show up on lemmy :(
- Comment on 1 week ago:
They are on mastodon and as far as I understand probably won’t see your reply unless you tag them?
- Comment on Every damn time. 1 week ago:
The success rate in humans for something discovered in mice is about 1 in 100.
So a lot of the scientific journalism presenting a mouse model as a major discovery that will revolutionise [X disease] is straight up bad faith clickbait.
- Comment on Le Penguini 1 week ago:
Assuming they survived would probably fuck with fish populations and thereby the predators of fish and the predators of predators of fish.
- Comment on Le Penguini 1 week ago:
- Comment on Le Penguini 1 week ago:
It’s actually bears. The north is named by the Greeks after the Ursa Major constellation in the north literally “big bear”. So it’s the bear place. While the south is the opposite of the bears.
Happy coincidence it ended up matching polar bear ranges.
- Comment on Le Penguini 1 week ago:
Apparently you could spot these bois chilling in Souther Spain or Florida.
- Comment on Le Penguini 1 week ago:
I have great news for you, There’d a documentary series narrated by David Attenbrough called prehistoric planet. And is does exactly this. The next season will be on the most recent period (ie. ice age), so possible we will see these great auks that look like penguins.
- Comment on Le Penguini 1 week ago:
Colonial name for Aotearoa
- Comment on HELP HIM. 2 weeks ago:
I know… :(.
I’m sure some of it is worthwhile. But knowing a couple applied researchers who work in animal labs, according to them a large amount of what is done is absolutely useless and only serves to get out a new useless product TM or publish a paper that looks good.
- Comment on HELP HIM. 2 weeks ago:
Not really. It causes them stress. “Safe” and “Humane” are variable. But it definitely isn’t the “best” restraint method.
As for example explored by this paper: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10844733/
- Comment on The UK needs a new electoral system – should it copy Scandinavia? 2 weeks ago:
Abolish the State
- Comment on HELP HIM. 2 weeks ago:
Noooooo. Poor rattie :(
- Comment on Dubious UK local news websites with Russian links are receiving cash for coverage 2 weeks ago:
GB News has claimed a major milestone for its TV ratings as it beat BBC News Channel and Sky News for average viewership in several key slots in July.
However Press Gazette understands the total weekly reach for the BBC News Channel through July remained more than twice the size of GB News while Sky News was almost double.
This means GB News appears to be engaging fewer people in total each month but the high average viewership means their audience stay watching for longer.
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 2 weeks ago:
Probably not a good idea, since measles tends to increase risk of something going wrong in the immune system thus triggering autoimmune diseases.
We have drugs that do similar things to measles in the specific sense of wiping out “immune memory”. Like Rituximab or Daratumab that deplete memory B-cells in different ways. They are effective for some subsets of autimmune diseases.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 weeks ago:
Also Japan, India, Malaysia.
Even the UK has covert influence from politics on district drawing tho officially its “independent commission”.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 2 weeks ago:
I hope they make a deal with the greens and manage to not split lefty votes too much.
- Comment on It must have been a whole lot more difficult to design and build tall buildings before computers existed 2 weeks ago:
Thanks. I now realise that the Gothard Base Tunnel was only completed after the book was released. Which explains why it wasn’t mentioned.
- Comment on Expert here. 2 weeks ago:
I bet indigenous peoples knew about it at certain points.
