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- Comment on WTF is the teacher doing 1 week ago:
One could argue thats a severe problem
Yes
- Comment on WTF is the teacher doing 1 week ago:
You just repeated the same two reasons they gave like they were different.
- Comment on purpose 1 week ago:
Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are invasive in all of North and South America
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Astrophysicist?
- Comment on Artist Depiction 1 week ago:
T-Rex probably had lips
- Comment on Trump fires Trump 2 weeks ago:
And here I thought he was about to sign an executive order that it’s spelled “Dow Joans” from now on and Pam Bondi was going to prosecute anyone who disagreed
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2025-03-22: Moana vs. Elphaba vs. Godzilla vs. Biollante 2 weeks ago:
Oh shit, Godzilla vs. Biollante got a Criterion release. Badass movie
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 Elon Musk helping to investigate Signal chat leak: White House 3 weeks ago:
Lmao
- Comment on LUNGS WERE A MISTAKE 3 weeks ago:
When we return to lungfish, we can embrace our gills instead of coming on land and avoid this whole mess
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 3 weeks 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 LUNGS WERE A MISTAKE 3 weeks ago:
Reject humanity, return to
monkelungfish. - Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 4 weeks ago:
Way to make someone expressing concern about someone else instead about your politics
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 4 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 Will Box Office Rebound? Captain America, Black Bag, Mickey 17 Struggle 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I honestly hadn’t even heard of this movie before today. Maybe there’s also a marketing issue
- Comment on "Save the Bees, Murder the Wasps" 4 weeks ago:
You’re probably thinking of the big guys, like hornets and paper wasps. Most wasps are tiny, and the average person would likely confuse them with a fly. There are thousands of wasp species ranging from top-level predators to tiny parasites
- Comment on Will Box Office Rebound? Captain America, Black Bag, Mickey 17 Struggle 4 weeks ago:
This is attributable to movies not being interesting or good, given there have been 3 billion dollar movies over the past year and Disney had its biggest opening weekend ever with Moana 2. People want to go to the movies, they just aren’t willing to go to the movies for movies that aren’t interesting
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 4 weeks ago:
Every time I open Lemmy, I’m incredibly fearful of what pearl-clutching material is going to be thrust in my face, so I come back over and over
- Comment on Science has not gone far enough 5 weeks ago:
This is the answer. Shredded memory foam 4 lyfe
- Comment on If I don't have my lunch my sugar crashes and I get sleepy 5 weeks ago:
Old Settler’s Music Fest is 10a-8p each day. Kerrville Folk Fest is 8a to whenever, you can live there for two weeks if you want.
Daytime music festival crowds definitely skew older, and more people bring their kids
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
That’s insanity. I can only imagine he doesn’t tell girls he tries to date all this up front, which is why they keep leaving him.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Did he write this or did you, based on your observations of him?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Strong incel vibes. Has your brother ever had a girlfriend before?
- Comment on Elon Musk Calls Social Security 'The Biggest Ponzi Scheme Of All Time' 1 month ago:
This is a serious question: How how do you think Social Security is a Ponzi scheme?
- Comment on Elon Musk Calls Social Security 'The Biggest Ponzi Scheme Of All Time' 1 month ago:
That’s what I expected from you too. This claim is not based in observations of the real world, so you can’t explain it
- Comment on Elon Musk Calls Social Security 'The Biggest Ponzi Scheme Of All Time' 1 month ago:
What do you think a Ponzi scheme is?
- Comment on What ever happened to QAnon? 1 month 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] 1 month 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] 1 month ago:
Like I said, a week of stubble lol
