SoleInvictus

@SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You too, eh? I could type before I could write! I loved our VIC 20 and C64.

Come with me on a journey of nostalgia! Do you remember any favorite programs?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I stil don't know why they thought it was ok to be this on saturday morning cartoons for young kids to watch back on the day. Ren and Stimpy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I didn’t know about Kricfalusi. Damn.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major L⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

You wanna take some time to gather your thoughts first?

Either you’re quite condescending or there is some confusion here. I’m going to assume it’s the latter; if it’s the former, well… life is an adventure.

Yeah but, which part exactly should I not understand because of my American education?

I’m not referring to you in my original comment^1^, but to the person to whose comment I’m responding.

So you’re not talking about Marx and Engels, but you are somehow talking about socialism AND scientific socialism no less?

The vocabulary I said I wasn’t referring to is the list of terms provided by Prole^2^ in response to your question^3^. My original comment was offhand, not intended to be a detailed analysis, so their response was assumptive. I’m familiar with the user and they’re good people, so I’m sure it was in good faith.

To answer your original question, here are specific terms in the Wikipedia article^4^ I would suggest are not covered in US public education with sufficient depth or frequency to give the average citizen the functional vocabulary necessary to fully understand the article without significant further reading. I.e., most Americans would be unable to provide even a basic (correct) definition if asked.

Materialism
Historical materialism
Dialectical materialism
Utopian socialism
Scientific government/Technocracy(though briefly described in line)
Classical liberalism
Marxism

And by extension…

Scientific socialism

The United States ranks 36th in the world for population literacy, with 54% of Americans reading below a 6th-grade proficiency level and 21% being functionally illiterate^5^, so I’m pretty comfortable with my suggestion but am willing to be convinced otherwise.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major L⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Those aren’t what I’m referring to. The comment I was replying to was about the theory density of this wiki article:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_socialism

I’m referring to the vocabulary contained there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major L⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If you’re from the US, much of the vocabulary is unfamiliar because education on these concepts is intentionally avoided in public schools. I can’t imagine why…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And toxic in large amounts!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s actually used a lot in food, along with other agricultural waste materials. You’ll find it listed in ingredients as cellulose. It’s processed to hell and indigestible, so it doesn’t really do much nutritionally beyond adding a bit of dietary fiber.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electricity explained⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Horny is biology, which is chemistry, which is physics. You triple scienced.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Double Plug Experiment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I originally studied environmental microbiology, can confirm.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millennials Owe 500% More in Student Debt Than Their Parents Did⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It IS the smartest of the stupidest moves for some of us. I make much more money than I would have without a degree, so I’ll still come out financially ahead. In would have been so much nicer to have gotten a decent education and not be saddled with enough debt to buy a small house (at the time, before the housing market went insane), though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millennials Owe 500% More in Student Debt Than Their Parents Did⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My parents and in-laws: $0 student debt My spouse and me: just shy of $150k

In America I’m free to accrue massive debt! 🦅💵🇺🇸
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't drive 55⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Do do na na nyah nyah nyaahhh
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, a real name for your penis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
… Skin Unit. Gross!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Now that is equality.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Second and final day of cheesecakeposting. Here. You degenerates.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This is why I’m here.

I mean on earth in general.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Second and final day of cheesecakeposting. Here. You degenerates.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That would be bangin if topped with adzuki beans in a strawberry glaze.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨po-tay-toes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’d agree if you weren’t misquoting me and referring to another statement out of context.

Do you have any specific criticism based on both what I actually wrote and actual medical science?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨po-tay-toes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You’re also overstating their dangers by providing incomplete, inaccurate information. I worked on a pharma study on long-term benzo usage, so I’m familiar. Needless, inaccurate fear mongering like this is exactly what individuals with anxiety, recalcitrant insomnia, or seizure disorders do NOT need to read when looking into treatment options.

Benzodiazepines are an effective, appropriate treatment for a number of conditions, including treatment-resistant insomnia, anxiety and panic disorders, and epilepsy.

Long-term use is safe if prescribed and used correctly. Taking a low to moderate dose 2-4 days weekly is unlikely to result in tolerance or addiction. Higher-dosage and/or daily treatment is also safe under the care of a knowledgeable physician. Other modalities, such as SSRIs, tricyclics, and MAOIs, are preferable first-line treatments for anxiety and panic disorders, but some individuals have symptoms recalcitrant to treatment and require adjuvant therapy. Benzodiazepines are used as rescue medications by epileptics, and some have such serious symptoms that their use is a major facet of treatment. See Lennox-Gastaut syndrome to get an idea.

Abrupt withdrawal symptoms can be unpleasant but “seizures and loads of horrible symptoms” is more fear mongering. The most common symptoms of “quitting cold turkey” from frequent and long-term usage are minor but unpleasant: agitation, irritability, increased anxiety, increased sweating, etc. Seizures are rare and tend to be in individuals… wait for it… using these medications for acute seizure treatment. These can be easily avoided by tapering down the dosage over time.

I don’t know what your motive here was, but consider the impact before trying to give people a scare.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world if USA just stopped fucking with other countries for no reason at all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
As an American, I’m certain only the citizens, and only the stupid ones (which is the majority), think we’re the world police. It’s just the propaganda used to justify imperialist resource grabs.

I never know what to say about it. I try my best, but I’m vastly outnumbered by aggressive idiots. If I leave, it actually makes the country a little worse because it’s one less person to push back. The whole situation just sucks for everyone and I feel awful I can’t do more.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Cancer, and Wolf, refers to the old common term for cancer: wolf. It was thought to be a parasite that ate up the afflicted, like a wolf.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s the same as chrisomes. Infant mortality was so high, the ones who died without obvious cause just get lumped together by age group.

Chrisomes refers to those who died within the first month, during the time they’d be baptised. The baptismal cloth, the chrisome, would often be just as a burial shroud.

Teeth meant they were old enough to have one or more teeth, 6-24 months. Teething was thought to be potentially fatal because so many infants died during that period. Correlation, causation, yadda yadda yadda.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes Mario⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Did you ever play any of the early online 3D games where you could build your own little spaces? I remember one where you started in a central hub then could move to this endless plane of green space where people had built homes and similar. It was so empty of people yet full of random things. Nightmare material.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Fruit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Just to preface, I’m a scientist: micro- and molecular biology. I’m not saying to take what I say as gospel, just giving context that I might know things. Sometimes.

Outbreeding depression has more possible implications than fertility decrease and infant mortality increase, entirely dependent on the heritable traits responsible for the depression effects. While the probability of persistent outbreeding depression as a result of one or more crossings would be lower in traits subject to higher selective pressure, such as increases in early infant mortality, the overall probability of outbreeding depression itself isn’t influenced post facto by its results, just its persistence.

Given we don’t know the original extent of neanderthal/human interbreeding, what we’re seeing now COULD be the “much lower percentage” you mention and still could come from multiple events. In fact, if these crosses resulted in stronger depression effects, I’d argue a greater number of crossings would be one factor behind the persistence of some genes today.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Fruit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Two ways.

First, sex chromosomes. In mammals, sex is determined by the sex chromosomes - males have XY, females XX. If interbreeding was equal between the sexes of both species, this would be reflected in the frequency of neanderthal genes on each chromosome in the current human population, but it’s more heavily skewed toward the Y chromosome than we’d expect if equal pairing was true. This suggests a higher proportion of successful male neanderthal/female human offspring.

Second, mitochondrial DNA. While genomic DNA in a sexually-reproducing species is a mix between the parents, in most species the inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is purely maternal. This is because only the egg’s mitochondria typically survive, though on rare occasion paternal mitochondria are also passed on. There is no known existent neanderthal mtDNA in the human population. This suggests either female neanderthal/male human crosses didn’t happen much and/or didn’t often produce offspring capable of further reproduction.

Of course, there are many other explanations for all of these. These are just amongst the simplest possible options, and in population genetics, it’s not uncommon that the simplest answers are frequently correct.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Fruit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Keep in mind heterosis isn’t always the result of hybridization and even then the magnitude of isolation doesn’t always positively correlate. Outbreeding depression can also be the result, increasingly so when two groups are more genetically distant or when one group is already subject to heavy inbreeding depression, as the neanderthals were thought to be.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ouch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I can smell both this comment and the people that would seriously say something like this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Womp womp womp.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Is that an electrophoresis gel?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Womp womp womp.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two sides to every story⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If you haven’t seen Vice Principals, I can’t decide if I should recommend it or warn you to avoid it. Both. Let’s go with both.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨deez nutz save lives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m allergic to coconut, so I would.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I purchased two 12 TB HDDs last year when they were on sale and wow am I glad I did so. I joked how they’d last us the rest of our lives and now that might have to be true.