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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Bill Lieske is not a real doctor.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/01/18/when-politicians-interfere-in-health-care/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSUEGM2ZfU8

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

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tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:

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• d55e07b18aa5ec8f.png (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I’ll take it, a good enough roll for the start of today

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• 2 D 20 rolled me a 13 and a 16 to predict the day. think of it as the modern version of yarrow stalks

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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

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iandunt@toot.community ("Ian Dunt") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

cool, citizen juries can still be a wonderful check on power. Nobel awardee Ressa reported to have been found ‘not guilty’ in the first of her current legal struggles. a solid win for Philippine democracy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ressa

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Half-eaten hamburger rescued from the dumpster and exquisitely plated

(This is about a movie filmed in the US and in English)

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• Screenshot of orange text on grey background: "About this fandub: Created this one a couple years back for myself when I was still fucking about with divx format, thought it might be worth uploading. It's the English audio from the Greek hardsubbed vhs-rip on site combined with the picture from a Russian dvd release."

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zoink ("Dylan Field") wrote:

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Online retailers who still haven't shipped anything three days after ordering:

Sorry, but Amazon will eat you for breakfast.

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Happy to see the #USWNT winning again. ⚽️🇺🇸

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play.

It does not include the beauty of our poetry, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning.

It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."

-- Robert F. Kennedy

bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

this was a real problem i encountered recently while setting up some flat pack furniture lol (but we had a finite number of shelves)

bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

let's say you have a bookshelf of total height H that you can partition into as many levels as you want. you want to maximize the number of books you can fit on it.

books all have the same thickness but they are equally likely to be be any height between 0 and H.

how do you partition it? (i don't know the answer!)

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• diagram of the problem (remote)

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

gawd, this story keeps getting more amusing as time goes by

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/breaking-liverpool-bbc-porn-noise-28981124

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

love to fly on Extravehicular Activity Airways

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• baggage claim slips from EVA AIR, a Taiwanese airline (they're actually a pretty good airline) (remote)

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J12t@social.coop ("Johannes Ernst") wrote:

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Frost. Stumbled upon this wintery picture while going through my collections. Feel free to enjoy and use as a wallpaper. (This is "desktop background image" for you zoomers :-) )

#wallpaper #bonsai #darktable

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• Close-up shot of a lightly frosted branches of a coniferous bonsai tree in blue-green tones.

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a@pdx.social ("Anthony Sorace") wrote:

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• The "sculpture" made from partially-melted CD jewel cases on a wooden table against a beige wall with two art gallery-style cards taped to the wall describing it, from both my and my partner's perspective. (remote)
• [An "art gallery" card for the "sculpture", black Helvetica text on a white background. It reads:

 The Illusion of Persistence of Data in a Universe Ruled by Thermodynamics
 CD jewel cases, baseboard heaters
 Anthony Sorace (b. 1977)
 In the world of Information Technology, we hear about “permanent” storage for data and perfect digital copies. This piece reminds us that, in the end, we are always dealing with physical, analog artifacts subject to universal physical decay.][7] ([remote][8])

• [An "art gallery" card describing the "sculpture", black text on a white background, from my partner's (more grounded) perspective. It reads:

 Thank God We Didn’t Catch Fire
 CD jewel cases, baseboard heaters
 Emma (remainder of name and birth date blurred)
 Jesus, we could’ve burned the whole house down. This could’ve been really bad. Wait, you want to keep this thing? You named it “The Illusion of Persistence…” …what? What the hell is wrong with your brain? Do you understand we could have burned the house down?][9] ([remote][10])

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

i know what this actually is, but i wish it were an article about the existence of webcams https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p7xj/scientists-are-getting-eerily-good-at-using-wifi-to-see-people-through-walls-in-detail

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• Motherboard headline: "Scientists Are Getting Eerily Good at Using WiFi to 'See' People Through Walls in Detail" (remote)

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jakobrosin@mindly.social ("Jakob Rosin") wrote:

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tojiro ("Brandon Jones") wrote:

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tojiro ("Brandon Jones") wrote:

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fugueish@infosec.exchange ("Chris Palmer :donor:") wrote:

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joepferguson@phpc.social ("Joe Ferguson") wrote:

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

@xor So that's what is happening! I've had that happen to me enough times to think there's some bizarro malware. 😆

Whenever it starts happening, I go into my browser settings and delete all reddit related things.

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randometc ("Tom Carden") wrote:

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

so like, I checked this weekend whether Lactaid pills expire and now I'm getting random push alerts to my phone of trending /r/ibs posts

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

At a functional level, this means that the burst of (forced) effort is not enough. We must not accept it in lieu of structural fixes.

Playing catch-up is an admission against interest, and should be read as consciousness of guilt. The disciplining function must be true browser and engine choice for iOS users. Not mandated use, but true competition. Apple have demonstrated that they can compete, and Safari will be _fine_ in that world. But never again should they be given a pass.