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This could be a turning point

submitted 23 minutes ago • 3 comments

TIL (thanks XKCD) that no archaea cause human diseases Turns out his is an understatement and no archaea are presently known to be pathogens for any other living thing And it's not clear why There are archaea living in & on our bodies tho, like bacteria pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14579252/

submitted 44 minutes ago • 2 comments

Would love someone to do a reported piece on what it means to have a governing class stuffed with guys on Barry-Bonds-in-2001 levels of gear.

submitted 6 hours ago • 94 comments

i think one thing that people don't understand about synthetic video and images is that the weird shrink-wrapped ultra-glossy aesthetic is an intentional modeling choice which can be altered by fine-tuning and not a property of all synthetic media

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

No popularists in foxholes

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

Russia-Ukraine and India-Pakistan are two sets of neighbors where one rival is obviously stronger in population and GDP, but where Pakistan is armed with nuclear weapons to protect its territorial integrity, Ukraine was armed with UK-US 'guarantees'. The world is going to notice the difference

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I've spent a lot of time around immigrants, and let me tell you that there's no form of YIMBYism that's anti-immigrant. Becoming American should be like saying the shahada. Let's get ready to take in the world and then do it

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

please do not do this. i am begging you.

submitted 2 hours ago • 15 comments

i think its in no small part because they hate their younger family members and the younger family members of their peers

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Like I kept my mouth shut for a while, but I'm 0% surprised. Just think about what the incentives are for the syndicate on the other end. And here's the thing, I *do* think this started organically and got aid to people who needed it. It's just that things shift

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

Ouch lol. I hope some lessons are learned

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

One thing I wonder is whether this gives those companies liability in other countries, I know that bribes abroad can incur liabilities here in the United States. I'm no lawyer, though.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

It can't be a coincidence that every time the "drone striking Russian soldiers is a war crime" discourse flares up, it always coincides with a particularly intense Russian terror bombing campaign

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

It's dialectical, you see

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My favorite part about a 1SS is how the politics would be exactly this cursed

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

I've got some TOS violations to say

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

I've been seeing a lot of this lately: obvious pro-Russian bots taking on pro-Israel talking points as a side hustle. The pro-Israel side is losing people with sophisticated taste

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

An organization called "third way" being fashy? Totally unthinkable

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

The article blithely acknowledges that this is indefensible morally but it is also indefensible politically. Democrats amplifying right-wing messaging and publicly disavowing their own base is not a good strategy!

submitted 4 hours ago • 56 comments

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

These groups are not your friends

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Dialectical voice: an even better approach is to make them campaign on being weird by proposing a federal ban on child marriage and watching them split their base

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Absolutely devastating to the bulk of the Imagine Dragons fanbase

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

And Democrats [women] must cancel the gender language police [women], recognizing when someone’s [man's] heart is in the right place, not insisting on using new and controversial terms that are in flux.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments