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Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fascism is incredibly dangerous and destructive, but it’s also SO fucking stupid.

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    • digdilem@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No it’s just stupid, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan were all fascistic and could be described as a cavalcade of idiots. A good example is Germany’s so called wonder weapons where the only one which was both effective and decently cheap was the V1 rocket, everything else was a waste of time and effort that if any other country did would’ve gotten someone shot.

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  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait till they find out all their big trucks have transmissions.

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wait… Are you telling me they WEREN’T born with those balls under the tailgate?

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      • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Man, say what you will about truck culture, and I’ll probably agree, but I fuckin’ love truck nuts. I don’t know why, I don’t think it’s just immaturity because bodily humor isn’t usually my thing. But something about truck nuts makes me laugh.

        I especially love that they trigger people enough that some places ban them.

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      • griff@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        that’s for Big Balls Broccoli Top to decide

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Combustion motors are more trans than EV’s apparently.

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      • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Most EVs have transmissions, they’re just usually single-speed. They have to adjust the RPM of the electric motor to a speed usable by the wheels.

        Some have two-speed gearboxes, like the Porsche Taycan. This is needed because EV motors produce full torque at 0RPM and it stays there as the power increases, but eventually you reach a point where the power plateaus and the torque falls off. If you want more power at high speeds, you have to use a second gear.

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    • vodka@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This just in, Koeningsegg Regera sales up 10000% in red states!

      (it doesn’t have a transmission) (an increase of 10000% over 0 is still 0)

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      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There are probably a few Texans that could afford it, but probably appear have the Hennessy scam car instead.

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    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I knew it! It’s been the trans mission all along to create big auto and make us a car centric society. It’s the trans fault! Come on Donny put a stop to the trans mission and ban all cars with a trans mission.

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  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The government AI got confused

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s A but it ain’t I

      Also does a recent college intern hitting ctrl-f and delete over and over count as AI?

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    • blargle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is same boneheaded DOGE AI that will soon decide whether you should lose your voting rights, due process rights, or citizenship for belonging to the terrorist organization Antifa.

      The actually smart AI is the one Palantir will be using to deanonymize all your posts on the internet and hand off the results to the first one.

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  • krox@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cis and trans are also very commonly used to describe bonds in chemistry. Cis bonds are both on the same side, trans bonds point in opposite directions (think trans-fats). That’s a rudimentary explanation but the point is cis and trans have been used in the sciences long before trans people were discussed.

    So silly to lose grants over, even if the research was actually about cis and trans humans.

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ‘cis’ being the opposite of ‘trans’ in regards to gender is literally borrowed from chemistry

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  • m4xie@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is not a mistake. Destroying science is the point, transphobia is an excuse.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These are the same people that would’ve supported the trans-atlantic slave trade.

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    • Kickforce@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They should remove the transmission from their cars, just weld the engine directly to a wheel, not efficiënt but it won’t turn the boys into girls.

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      • Skydancer@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, they need to stop using transportation altogether. I’d love to see a trend of repugnicans cutting off their legs to “own the libs.”

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    finally a proper use case for this saying

    PC culture gone mad

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    dumbfucks are using regex improperly.

    they’re using /.(trans)./ instead of /\s{1,}(trans)[- (sexual|[fe]male)]\s{1,}/

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    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You are giving DOGE way too much credit for actual using code. DOGE most likely hit CRTL+F and typed in “Trans” and called it a day.

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      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yup. Seems that way.

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You really think they know regex?
      They probably got grok to generate it and didn’t understand what it does

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    • monotremata@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The “Scunthorpe Problem” strikes again!

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    • WompWomp@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Big Balls followed the golden rule of “Move fast and break things” . Shit happens!! /s

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      • amon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Move fast and break things works well when you’re not breaking your own things

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    • Skydancer@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
      (partially) ftfy

      /\w{1,}(trans)(gender|sexual|(fe)?m ale)|masc(uline)?|(wo)?man|person)?\w{1,}/

      Spoiler is to prevent it from helping them, being dumbfucks who won’t be smart enoygh to open it.

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    • intheformbelow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maggats are basically cattle. They have animal rights but not human rights.

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    gack. I used to be in microbiology. This will decimate fields doing some amazing things right now.

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    • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      no more transformations or trans molecules, transmission is extra banned with Brainworm believing into miasma instead of germ theory

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    • griff@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      sic transit tyrranus

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People are losing research grants for using the words “female” and “woman” too. Not a single thought went into this list.

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And yet the GOP has women supporters despite the fact that it’s obvious they are trying to demarginalize them.

      It’s lunacy.

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      • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Handmaid’s Tale.

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    • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wonder how research on black maternal mortality is being treated.

      Considering how many of the women that have died due to Dobbs have been women of color… if one was “pro life” the fact that black women being 3.5 times more likely to die in childbirth should be concerning.

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      • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        POC is part of the list. Research related to POC is flagged.

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  • oo1@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Someone tell them microphones can be described as a transducer, maybe they’ll quieten down. I guess all combustion engines , furnaces and motors / generators are too technically.

    Make america amish again

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    • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t know, sounds like someone who uses the wrong bathroom to me

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  • qaatloz@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Time to complain on truth social to Donald.
    Why is my deal proposal not answered which was send in a mail with subject: “Transactional relationship improvement by affirmation of 100 million dollars to the expression program of the Trump foundation”

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  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can relate: I took my car in to get the manual transmission serviced and now I’m all woke.

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  • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Government: cd / && rg -l trans | xargs rm -f

    I’m sure it’ll go well.

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    • Tiger_Man_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      rm trans

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is more than mildly infuriating imo…

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  • FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is not really “mildly infuriating” and you should make the link point to the article, not to a screenshot from it.

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  • kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    they really implemented a regex filter on scientific papers ? lol that’s beyond idiocy

    but hey at least the voters identify with the main idiot in charge

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  • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s quite literally impossible to do any study in chemistry and biology, given the abundance if trans- and cis- molecules. This is the correct label to describe the spatial organisation of the molecule in the space it occupies (structure). If you do chemistry you must use these terms.

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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Whoever came up with that stupid word filter and decided to follow through on it without proper human review that the filter matched what they meant to find, is pretty trans-intelligent.

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    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tbf …this is a common problem

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

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      • don@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have tremendous respect for the heroic citizens of Penistone.

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      • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, which is why everyone of even mild intelligence knows to check the results

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is what happens when the stupid try to manage the smart.

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The stupid and evil!

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This just in, DOGE is fucking stupid

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  • WeavingSpider@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    At this rate, I am surprised the National TRANSportation Safety Board is still a thing in the US.

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  • octopus_ink@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These motherfuckers never even learned what a prefix was in 4th grade.

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  • amotio@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wow, that’s so stupid. Absurdistan looks more and more like a documentary.

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s how fucking stupid they who are enforcing this garbage are. Word processors have for decades allowed searching for “whole words only”, which would stop these words from being flagged. The tech exists, they’re just too stupid and lazy to implement it.

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Transformer-coupled transimpedance transistor amplifiers are also verboten.

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  • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    America, so great, wow.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I lost funding because I was attempting to revive the transatlantic accent for use in films.

    /this was a joke.

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  • kn0wmad1c@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    foreach (word in researchPaper) {
       if (word.ToLower().StartsWith("trans")) {
          shouldGiveFunding = false;
       }
    }
    
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