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- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 3 days ago:
Stop listening to his words and report what’s actually happening, news media
- Comment on Shower drains and storm drains are the same thing in theory but not practice 4 days ago:
Storm drains usually lead straight to creeks, rivers, or other bodies of water, whereas your sewage goes to a water treatment facility first. Totally separate systems (in most places)
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Evolution as a theory predates our understanding of genetics by many decades. Even before we were able to sequence genes, we were using morphology and a variety of other factors to determine relationships between living organisms.
Well, along came genetics. We discovered that neutral mutations in DNA tend to happen at consistent rates, which meant we could compare DNA of two organism to see how similar they were, and could even use their differences to estimate how long ago they had a common ancestor.
How can you “confirm evolution is real?” Sequence the genes of many organisms and compare them. Build your very own tree of life.
- Comment on Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k? 5 days ago:
You just want to log in to your 401k account and take control of where your investments go. You always want to be invested in funds with low expense ratios, like index funds, but you can also pick funds that are invested outside the US. Most of my 403b now is in index funds or low expense ratio funds invested in Europe, Asia, and emerging markets. I just have a bad feeling about the US market for the foreseeable future for some reason
- Comment on What should I do with this patio? 1 week ago:
If you remove and repour just the center slab, you’re going to change the pressure against the ground which is likely to cause some shifting among all the surrounding tiles. You’re definitely going to find someone willing to replace just the center tile, but if you do that you’ll almost certainly be in a position in a couple years where you’re looking to replace the whole thing.
I’d save up to remove it all, and think creatively about what an entirely new patio could look like. You don’t have to replace it on its current footprint, but I can’t see enough of your space in this picture to give you any layout recommendations.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
Welcome to every technological advancement ever applied to the workforce
- Comment on The weather is definitely changing. 1 week ago:
Uhh…climate change denial predates widespread internet adoption by quite a bit
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 1 week ago:
A lot of detailed information on the Wikipedia page. There are a ton of different ways people can come into contact with mercury, and a ton of different formulations of mercury with varying effects. For what symptoms adults may exhibit from the most common form of organic exposure, look no further than RFK Jr., who himself has stated he has mercury poisoning from eating too much tuna:
Due to the body’s inability to degrade catecholamines (e.g. adrenaline), a person with mercury poisoning may experience profuse sweating, tachycardia (persistently faster-than-normal heart beat), increased salivation, and hypertension (high blood pressure).
It also causes memory impairment and reduced IQ. RFK Jr. seems to really fit the bill here.
But for something truly terrifying, try dimethylmercury. People can get one drop on their skin, then several months later start developing symptoms, and die within a year. It even soaks right through rubber and latex gloves: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury
For full symptom progression, check out Minimata Disease.
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 2 weeks ago:
Way to make someone expressing concern about someone else instead about your politics
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 2 weeks ago:
He shared a lot about his life on here and I worry he set himself up for failure moving to the UK. Based on what he’s said, he had a condition where he no longer wanted to eat, and then stopped working for a long time because of that. He seemed to expect that finding a job was going to be easy moving to a new country, but that’s not typically the case, especially after having not worked in years.
After moving, he talked a lot about finding a job, which had me wondering what changed. While he wasn’t working, he was spending 12+ hours on Lemmy every day, with like well over a hundred posts/comments per day, and constantly talking about not being able to work. Going from that mindset to desperately trying to find a job in a foreign country seems like a mindfuck.
- Comment on Amid Trump crackdown, illegal border crossings plunge to levels not seen in decades 4 weeks ago:
There’s been a precipitous decline happening every month since December 2023
- Comment on What ever happened to QAnon? 4 weeks ago:
QAA has become one of my primary information sources. They’re at least good at making all this entertaining
- Comment on Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86] 4 weeks ago:
No, but a week’s growth is far from a “wildman styled beard” lmao
- Comment on Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86] 4 weeks ago:
Like I said, a week of stubble lol
- Comment on Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86] 4 weeks ago:
Something like 15 years ago, I was in grad school and my elder boomer father in law told me “when it’s time to find a job you can shave your beard.” Only this wasn’t a beard, it was just me not having shaved for a week. Is that what he would prioritize if he were hiring someone?! I’ve met few people in my life who are less in touch than that man
- Comment on The Fed is stuck in neutral as it watches how Trump’s policies play out 5 weeks ago:
I sold my treasury bonds two weeks ago. I have a serious lack of trust
- Comment on Indeed 5 weeks ago:
Protection from what?
- Comment on I wonder if these still work... 5 weeks ago:
There’s something about Windows 3.1 I yearn for, I gotta say
- Comment on Thefuck 1 month ago:
*sisters
- Comment on Bumper stickers 1 month ago:
I don’t think you have to recognize the cutting-edge artwork of Richard Scarry to find this meme amusing
- Comment on Exclusive | HHS spent $22B on grants for migrants — including cash for cars, home loans and startups 1 month ago:
What are you basing that off of? Because I’m seeing the bulk of this money is going to refugee services. Those individuals have legal status to be in the US, and I’d rather they have homes and jobs than be on the street increasing the burden on our emergency services
- Comment on Exclusive | HHS spent $22B on grants for migrants — including cash for cars, home loans and startups 1 month ago:
Helping people who are legally immigrating to the US obtain housing and jobs seems like a really good idea. And this article uses every derogatory buzzword it can, “splurged,” “bilked,” etc. when this is just sound government policy. The NY Post sucks.
- Comment on Mexican president blasts US for harboring drug cartels 1 month ago:
Yes, that’s exactly what Sheinbaum is saying
- Comment on Mexican president blasts US for harboring drug cartels 1 month ago:
Did you see Sheinbaum “pretend Mexico’s corridors of power aren’t drenched in cartel bribes” somewhere? She seems to fully understand that based on what I’ve seen from her. What she said here is an accurate observation aimed directly at Trump in an effort to counter his persistent vilification of her country, no more no less.
- Comment on I mean I would totally give it a try 1 month ago:
Yes there are lots of beautiful women in prison wanting to exchange letters with you. Didn’t you know that? And when they ask you to send gift cards, it’s definitely only because they love you
- Comment on USA | ‘Poverty is not a crime’: outrage after California city passes law targeting homeless encampments 1 month ago:
I have to disagree on your view of local government responsibility somewhat. Here in the US, at least, people experiencing homelessness often flee or are pushed out of rural and suburban areas and go to urban areas with access more resources, creating a disproportionate burden for cities.
- Comment on Can I lose a beer belly working out one day a week? 1 month ago:
You’ve gotten a lot of advice on here, but I don’t think I’ve seen this…are you able to “suck in your gut” if you try hard and it improves how it looks? If so, it might not even be visceral fat, but just poor muscle tone in your abdominal area. If this is it, then core strength exercises are the way to go. Practice sucking in that gut more and more until it becomes the default, and strengthen your abs and obliques.
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 1 month ago:
If you make cocaine legal, you reduce overdose deaths significantly. Most OD deaths involving cocaine are due to dosing uncertainty and adulteration with other substances like fentanyl. Legalization would also decrease barriers to treatment and less criminal justice involvement would improve treatment outcomes
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 1 month ago:
Meanwhile, severe cocaine withdrawal makes you tired and irritable while severe alcohol withdrawal makes you have seizures and die. Most people who use cocaine never develop an addiction, just like most people who drink never develop alcoholism. As far as addiction potential, methamphetamines, opiates, and nicotine are the worst offenders.
- Comment on I am required to pay taxes to the US government, not elon musk running a fraudulent government agency, why should I pay? 1 month ago:
If you’re an employee, you should have filled out a W4 when you started your job to indicate your tax withholding. You are able to submit a new W4 at any time