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- Comment on [deleted] 11 hours 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? 12 hours 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 2 days ago:
Lmao
- Comment on LUNGS WERE A MISTAKE 6 days 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? 6 days 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 1 week ago:
Reject humanity, return to
monkelungfish. - Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 1 week ago:
Way to make someone expressing concern about someone else instead about your politics
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 1 week 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 1 week 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" 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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 2 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 2 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] 2 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] 2 weeks ago:
Did he write this or did you, based on your observations of him?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 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' 3 weeks 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' 3 weeks 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' 3 weeks ago:
What do you think a Ponzi scheme is?
- Comment on What ever happened to QAnon? 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks ago:
Like I said, a week of stubble lol
- Comment on Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86] 4 weeks ago:
Something like 15 years ago, I was in grad school and my elder boomer father in law told me “when it’s time to find a job you can shave your beard.” Only this wasn’t a beard, it was just me not having shaved for a week. Is that what he would prioritize if he were hiring someone?! I’ve met few people in my life who are less in touch than that man
- Comment on Thefuck 5 weeks ago:
*sisters
- Comment on Bumper stickers 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think you have to recognize the cutting-edge artwork of Richard Scarry to find this meme amusing
- Comment on Exclusive | HHS spent $22B on grants for migrants — including cash for cars, home loans and startups 1 month ago:
What are you basing that off of? Because I’m seeing the bulk of this money is going to refugee services. Those individuals have legal status to be in the US, and I’d rather they have homes and jobs than be on the street increasing the burden on our emergency services
- Comment on Exclusive | HHS spent $22B on grants for migrants — including cash for cars, home loans and startups 1 month ago:
Helping people who are legally immigrating to the US obtain housing and jobs seems like a really good idea. And this article uses every derogatory buzzword it can, “splurged,” “bilked,” etc. when this is just sound government policy. The NY Post sucks.
- Comment on I mean I would totally give it a try 1 month ago:
Yes there are lots of beautiful women in prison wanting to exchange letters with you. Didn’t you know that? And when they ask you to send gift cards, it’s definitely only because they love you
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 month ago:
“Volume control disabled.”
Then the windows all go opaque so you can’t be distracted by the outside world