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it's buck wild how they forgot that people need to be able to buy things for the store to make money

Honestly, Bill Nye the Science Guy's Big Blast of Science was *everything* to me when I was 8. I feel like it had a tremendous amount of respect for children, and their capacity to be curious about & comprehend complex topics.

asteroidtroglodyte Follow TIL the reason you don't find much Lyme's Disease in California is not because we don't have Ticks, or Lyme Disease Vectors; but rather: because the Western Fence Lizard (if you live anywhere in California this is your regular Garden Variety Lizard) has adapted a passive immune response that makes their blood lethal to Lyme Disease Bacteria. Any Tick that feeds on one gets its gut cleansed of Lyme Disease as a side effect. Fucking neat. iheartvelma + * There is a new vaccine going into Phase 3 trials from Valneva and Pfizer as well as a monoclonal antibody-based prophylactic treatment being researched at UMass! dragon-in-a-fez ..- "the only cure for this weird disease is the special lizard blood" is a Star Trek TOS plot that escaped into the real world

Give me the Special Lizard Blood

Are they all the 0x20 space character?

I could MAYBE see something replacing any non-printable/non-ASCII-safe characters with a placeholder to, like, avoid a homograph attack, but I'd think that all of the {}:" etc json characters would remain.

The very best english teacher I had in high school took the "weekly vocabulary words" requirement from the state and made us memorize greek and latin roots.

You might not know what a chronograph is, but you can crack the word open & figure out that it's some kind of time-writer.

I think, of all the slides in this report, this is the most important -- it's really worth examining closely. This illustrates why the triumph of electrotechnical is inevitable.

In a significantly weirder case, "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" is a 1928 oil painting by Róbert Berény. It was lost in WWII, and considered looted by the Nazis and likely destroyed afterwards in the chaos... until someone recognized it as set dressing in the movie "Stuart Little."

Yes, really.

Sean Connery wearing yellowface in You Only Live Twice, except honestly he looks more like a Romulan than a Japanese man.

Where would you start? A boat or ski chase has been fertile ground. Maybe try watching the other Bond movies for ideas?

Christ, no one is pissing themselves saying "James Bond canonically got that surgery to make him look like a racist Japanese stereotype, how am I supposed to work with this?"

Screenshot of Tweets that say: "Once at my granny's house my uncle excitedly said a James Bond film was on the tv. My Da said "sure they're all the same, a load of lads shooting at one lad then a mountain blows up." My uncle got really mad at how reductive that was then became furious when the mountain blew up. My Da, of course, knew it was the one where the mountain blows up at the end. This was a foundational lesson which illustrated to me that walking the path of the hater means knowing more about something that people who profess to like it."

He is in many ways the opposite of Buttigieg, who IS moderately charismatic (my mom loves him!) but is so transparently transactional and careerist that I'm wary to trust anything he says.

Debate club is where they assign you a position and then teach you to argue persuasively regardless whether you agree with it or not.

Being good at debate has nothing to do with being right, and you're honestly better off reflexively distrusting anyone who debates well.

i've watched a bunch of those "how i escaped the right" videos that young men post on youtube and a big commonality that I've noticed is that the stories usually don't involve someone directly debating the person and changing their mind, as much as them watching a video they thought was interesting

I don't think anyone is a monolith; we're all made up of a million different contradictory impulses, and we really do feel all of them, whether we want to or not

It's impossible to know someone's secret inner heart - you just have to judge whether they're going to hurt you again, & if it's worth it

second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard

Someone with the time and money to cook chili from scratch (instead of microwaving Hormels from a can) will likely have the time and money to get regular exercise, plan a varied diet, and go to the doctor if something "seems off" instead of waiting for it to blossom into an emergency.

Wealth of Nations is about maintaining the gold standard - the "wealth" that only nations have access to - a stable currency in which to do their business. :smugdog:

r/ExpectationVsReality u/Additional-Simple858 • 3d Join Al 'doctor' said my back pain is depression, not a slipped disc. Now physical therapy won't get approved. Al Expectation We are reviewing claim #& submitted on 09/28/2025. Our records indicate the claim was filed under diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while the corresponding prescription and referral history list treatment for lumbar disc herniation (back pain).

Re: Incorrect Diagnosis in Record Hi Thank you for reaching out. We have reviewed your visit documentation and can confirm that the notes in question were generated using our Al scribe system. It appears the Al tool assigned diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while your visit notes and treatment plan reference lumbar disc herniation (back pain). Per compliance policy, certain Al-generated fields cannot be manually updated by clinic staff and require vendor correction. We have escalated this to our vendor support team and opened ticket # . We'll notify you once we receive confirmation or correction from the vendor.

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Frank N's wife

Maybe it's time for someone else to be in charge, Chuck.

"appearing to close his eyes," yeah that photograph you posted was probably an optical illusion.

No.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.

My response ⬇️

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

I mean, SNAP is administered via the states; I'm pretty sure that Trump doesn't have any authority to do this.

Now, I'm sure that *some* states will, but that's because they want to, not because they have to.

I had something suddenly go wrong last year & ended up needing 3 major surgeries. My insurance was billed about $300,000. My out-of-pocket was about $10k, which is still A LOT, but something I can recover from.

And, I have to stress, I was perfectly healthy before this. It just came out of nowhere.

A bright pink mailer with a happy cartoon dollar sign telling you that you could save $900/yr by refusing to pay union dues. (1/2)

A release from the bureau of labor statistics that points out that unionized workforces typically earn about $200 more per week ($10,400 per year). Full text: The union membership rate-the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions-was 9.9 percent in 2024, little changed from the prior year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.3 million, also showed little movement over the year. In 1983, the first year for which comparable data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million union members. These data on union membership are collected as part of the Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly sample survey of about 60,000 eligible households that obtains information on employment and unemployment among the nation's civilian noninstitutional population age 16 and over. For further information, see the Technical Note in this news release. Highlights from the 2024 data: The union membership rate of public-sector workers (32.2 percent) continued to be more than five times higher than the rate of private-sector workers (5.9 percent). (See table 3.) The highest unionization rates were among workers in education, training, and library occupations (32.3 percent) and protective service occupations (29.6 percent). (See table 3.) Men continued to have a higher union membership rate (10.2 percent) than women (9.5 percent). (See table 1.) Black workers remained more likely to be union members than White, Asian, and Hispanic workers. (See table 1.) Nonunion workers had median weekly earnings that were 85 percent of earnings for workers who were union members ($1,138 versus $1,337). (The comparisons of earnings in this news release are on a broad level and do not control for many factors that can be important in explaining earnings differences.) (See table 2.)

This is like those obnoxious mailers that point out that you could save $900/yr by refusing to pay union dues (meanwhile, union workers tend to make about $200 more per week than their non-union counterparts).

This is how you encourage your employees to avoid approaching customers.

"To my colleagues on Council, those I worked with and those I disagreed with: I open my hand to you to work in collaboration... but let me be clear that I will not compromise on our values" is the kind of thing you say when you win over 78% of the vote. @alexis4seattle.bsky.social

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