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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      that’s for Big Balls Broccoli Top to decide

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Combustion motors are more trans than EV’s apparently.

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    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• krox@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yup. Seems that way.

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  • towerful@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The “Scunthorpe Problem” strikes again!

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  • WompWomp@lemmy.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • amon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    sic transit tyrranus

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• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The government AI got confused

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  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• qaatloz@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is more than mildly infuriating imo…

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• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tbf …this is a common problem

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

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    • don@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have tremendous respect for the heroic citizens of Penistone.

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    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This just in, DOGE is fucking stupid

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The stupid and evil!

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• anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Soviet Union shit. Republicans have become the Maoist party

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• octopus_ink@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• amotio@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  foreach (word in researchPaper) {
     if (word.ToLower().StartsWith("trans")) {
        shouldGiveFunding = false;
     }
  }
  

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  America, so great, wow.

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• griff@lemmings.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  probably some kinda transmission error

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They will do nothing about this until crypto transfers are banned…

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• fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is this some DOGE script that Big Ballzzz whipped up by asking ChatGPT for a bash script to Make America Great Again?

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