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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hotard⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I’d probably want to keep the sex worker in question out of jail, but otherwise yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This one goes out to Dennis Prager⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t use the chromosome from the mother at all and still produces fertile offspring, that’s the breakthrough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's on a mission⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my exs brother was from New England and went to school in the south. One year there was a snowstorm that closed everything there for a couple of days. He made a bunch of money doing package store runs for his dorm because he knew how to drive in the snow, but he said it was still much worse driving conditions than at home because the town didn’t have any snowplows and had to scrounge to get enough sand for the main roads

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kansas County Agrees to Pay $3 Million Over Police Raid of Newspaper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  $3 million for killing the editor’s mother (the former editor) and roughing an employee up while completely trashing several homes and offices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backbone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m from the US, and I only left a few years ago, but I can’t really recognize it anymore. I used to work at the headquarters of a fortune 200 company, which is probably the most conservative environment I’ve ever been in (though it was still in New England, so take that with a grain of salt). Sometimes I think about my former coworkers and try to imagine them as trump supporters, which is difficult to do. I have no issue picturing them as diehard Kamala supporters, and I can imagine them being totally unmoved by the genocide in Palestine, but one of three things must be true: society is so stratified that I just don’t know many trump supporters; people have significantly changed since 2021; or they were hiding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rush⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In the afterlife, nobody asks him if he’s still a fan of ayn Rand

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in 1993 Amtrak ran trial runs with European high-speed trains, Sweden's X2000 and Germany's ICE, here is a well made documentary about the event.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Inter city express, just FYI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in 1993 Amtrak ran trial runs with European high-speed trains, Sweden's X2000 and Germany's ICE, here is a well made documentary about the event.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Although it’s a great way to sneak public transport past republicans

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pass⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think Liz truss is hotter than Rishi Sunak or 1953 QEII (if you want to count her as a leader). She’s probably tied with keir starmer imo.

  The real question is: why are the UK’s leaders getting hotter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These are the types of Whatsapp Channels Indians get recommended⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of those pictures look very young, too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve eaten a variant on shepherds pie with cabbage instead of corn and pea based fake meat for the last two nights for dinner and wooooof.

  This is very timely, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic Mushrooms Evolved Psilocybin Not Once, but Twice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think your instinct is right and invertebrates might be more affected by caffeine, because I did a lab on how fruit fly larvae respond to caffeine in which about a third of the class inadvertently killed their larvae.

  I also suspect humans are less likely to continue trying fine motor tasks if they’re close to dangerously overdosing on caffeine, because it’s unpleasant as hell and most people would probably seek out medical attention instead of knitting through it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic Mushrooms Evolved Psilocybin Not Once, but Twice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also super interested in the effects on fungus and psilocybin specifically, but it seems safe to assume that psychoactive compounds can generally affect different organisms differently, given that I’m pretty sure humans would be less capable than the spiders on mescaline and more capable on caffeine (dose dependent, I guess- maybe they just get shaky spinnerets instead of shaky hands).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read the article, but I can’t help but think I’m missing something. Isn’t it obvious that this would be the case? I understand that testing assumptions is a good thing for science and have no quibble with the research itself, but was this really wondered about for centuries or is that just compelling reporting? If so, what made people wonder if life forms, unlike everything else, weren’t subject to this proportion of scaling?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One photograph. Two daughters. Three Nobel Prizes.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one who was a chemist did, but probably because of her own exposure. The other one lived to 102

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on the community near you, Unitarian Universalists sometimes have basically that. I’ve been an atheist since I was four, but I have no problem with other people being religious and it was perfect for me. If you’re the type to be annoyed by people talking about the universe in a way that suggests the supernatural, you might not want to deal with even the UU’s very mild language. When I went as a kid, we learned about volcanoes in Sunday School, as a gauge for how religious they are.

  Or if you want evil church without religion, can I interest you in crossfit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard of ass burgers before…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading books, writing, doing crafts, going on walks, hanging out with pets, gardening, doing chores, cooking, making art, looking at the stars…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking math...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just figured 4% is 1/25 and divided 75/25

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Squiggly Boie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Squiggly Boie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a bot and I have no idea what the image is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly Bizarre⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rhubab’s just sour celery

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great business idea, tbh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Incredible name, I really want to say it out loud but my husband’s sleeping next to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Red balloon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just extremely boomer memes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oppa oppa⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not correct though, you don’t start at zero

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oppa oppa⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Psst. 2001-3000

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shops for diamonds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She might be cool with and prefer a lab-grown or vintage diamond, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So I told that librul teachin' lady that the only letters I need to know is U-S-A⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they’re skilled enough to make that reflection in photoshop, they’d probably have made it look more realistic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Thanksgiving everyone!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guy Fawkes day superiority

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨soda⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still like flattish soda, but as a kid I preferred totally flat soda because the prickling hurt more.