strangelet
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strangelet
@strange8let
structural biology 🧪 genetics 🧬 I just want to cure aging and be surrounded by cracked people
EU Katılım Nisan 2020
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What in god’s name is happening in academic STEM? I was told that all the $ goes there because they do the hard stuff, meanwhile, my critical humanities ass has been, like *reading and citing and making difficult arguments* and I’ve been a long-cutting sucker this whole time?!?!?
Lenka Zdeborova@zdeborova
@eiszett Have you read all the sources you ever cited? During my PhD we, along with dozens of other papers, cited a paper that I later found did not contain the result for which it was commonly cited. I should be banned I guess.
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ngl i'm in a shock state due to the arxiv debate and finding out that a lot of "researchers" don't read what they cite??
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@Zetsubomaru @zeta_globin fwiw zeta is married
also marriage is great
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@zeta_globin Cringe lonely person that can't seem to grasp the simple idea of people realizing that marriage is a social construct that has nothing to do with love
30 y.o with a 29 y.o gf, 12 years of love and counting
Fck marriage
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When I got to summer school and explained, my teacher laughed and asked, what would you like to learn instead? And I, sarcastic shithead, said "I don't know, the Roman Empire." So he went and bought five books on Rome, made a kickass curriculum and that's what I learned instead
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I took pre-algebra three times. Once in the 7th grade, where I passed it with an A. A second time in the 8th grade, because they didn't have room for me in the algebra class. I naturally skipped a lot, and received an F. They then sent me to summer school for pre-algebra.
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc
This is an incredibly unstrategic fight to pick but every time I wade into a battle over whether to allow eighth graders to take algebra I just want to say "actually, a good school offers algebra in sixth grade and a great school offers it in third."
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@neo_ssbu_pad what if someone writes in a different software, like Pages on MacOS or LibreOffice, or Google docs? I don't own Word, so I write all my documents in Pages and then export into Word. would editing time even show up this way? this is silly
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この方法だと、例えば通学時間や休憩時間などのスキマ時間にスマホで書いて、完成したのをwordに張り付けて提出してる人が不当な損害を受けるので、適切な判定方法ではないね
IROIROKANGAETEMIRU@PageMakerAI
@tomatoha831 私はWordでの提出を義務付けてるんですが、Wordって書類の総編集時間を表示してくれるので、２分とかの人はほぼAIと見当をつけられて便利。
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@Romy_Holland @Bouje99 @r00k that sounds horrible. I stopped talking to my cousin after she took my diary by force and read out loud passages written about her.
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a parallel situation is something like:
Jane reads Mary's diary. when Mary finds out she's livid and is like "you can't do that!" Jane is like, "well I was curious about a specific situation and you weren't volunteering any information so I did what I had to do." and Mary is like "that's definitely still an enormous violation and not something that is ever okay, and also you never even asked me about the situation??" and Jane is like "yes that's right, I did what I had to do." and Mary is like "you didn't have to do that though? and it was not okay??" and Jane is like "I actually did have to because of my curiosity about the situation" and Mary is like "what, no????" then this conversation loop continues until Mary is like "okay well this is a conversation loop now so I'm going to stop talking."
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I have a serious ongoing conflict with a family member and we recently had a long text convo in which both of our sides were clearly spelled out. she is so clearly in the wrong to me that I'm having trouble even understanding her point of view, so I gave the text convo to Claude while pretending to be the other person so that I could leverage its tendency toward sycophancy to help me understand her. instead Claude was immediately like "wow I'm gonna be honest, you really messed up and if you want any relationship with romy you should apologize."
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@D_Polta @KarenFOrlando @DustyHades @mattyglesias this is not correct. you are repeating a pop-science myth. sex is defined at conception by chromosomes, then we begin development as sex-*undifferentiated* before the master-switch gene kicks in at around 6th week of gestation, then sex-specific pathways begin developing.
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@angelaramblings can I pray if I don't believe? I would like to believe, but I can't force myself, obviously. I thought maybe praying would gradually convert me
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@nkikon11434 @meowstafar I would argue that Balkan countries are southern european
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@meowstafar 3? Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Seribia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro?
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"Eastern Europe (non-EU)" label is so funny because there's exactly three Eastern European countries that are not in the EU and people from two of them don't usually hide their country of origin so you can still know exactly where the person is from
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@Just_DrAnya @VigilantFox why don't you write your own posts, "Dr. Anya"?
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Adiposopathy ("sick fat") is not a moral judgment; it is a severe clinical pathology.
When adipocytes (fat cells) exceed their biological storage limit, they don't just sit there harmlessly. They become toxic endocrine organs, constantly pumping inflammatory cytokines into your bloodstream. This invisible fire drives insulin resistance, destroys your vascular elasticity, and accelerates cellular aging.
You cannot negotiate with human biology. True medical compassion is telling the metabolic truth, not enabling cellular collapse.
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Watch Jillian Michaels run circles around a “body positivity” advocate in a debate about excess fat.
WOMAN: “You’re saying that it is inherently unhealthy to live in a fat body.”
MICHAELS: “Yes.”
WOMAN: “Where did you get that evidence?”
[Michaels lays out the evidence]
MICHAELS: “Have you heard of something called adiposopathy?”
WOMAN: “Mmmhmm.”
[Answers wrong]
MICHAELS: “No, that’s not what it is.”
[Educates her]
WOMAN: “I want to pause.”
MICHAELS: “Of course, you do want to pause because it’s irrefutable. You don’t even know what I’m talking about.”
[Audible gasps]
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this is how our first dates with my husband looked like
he's still my favorite person to talk to and we talk for hours whenever we get a chance
𑣲@holylipss
imagine connecting so deeply with someone that your dates revolve around walking and talking for hours
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@GrokTheGod @Electroversenet thank you for the response. I think this problem exists in many other countries, though maybe on a smaller scale.
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@strange8let @Electroversenet The issue looks more like a creeping scenario where the grid in general has not been managed well and various instability have been allowed to develop.
The various instability in the run up to the event will bring questions around reaction times and responsibilities.
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Europe's official grid authority has released its report on the nationwide blackout that hit Spain last year. And while the report treads carefully politically, its data make the cause clear.
Wind and solar triggered the collapse.
Within the first 80 seconds, Spain lost 2.5 GW of generation, around 10% of its national supply, with every MW of that early loss coming from renewables.
Gas and hydro remained stable until the cascade was already underway.
The report calls it an unprecedented speed of blackout. This was a textbook inverter chain failure, with renewables dropping so fast that the grid's stabilizers never had time to react.
By midday, Spain's grid had virtually no inertia, nothing spinning fast enough to hold frequency steady.
But to admit that outright would mean questioning Europe's green transition itself, something the report appears unable to do. So the event is officially described as "a rare local disturbance," rather than what it actually was...
A systemic failure of weather-dependent power.
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“Hełło sir yes I am łegitimate Czech businessman in needing of 120,000 military grade drones capabłe of fighting over the eastern płains of … of the Czech Repubłic of course.”
Chris Painter@ChrisPainterYup
Seems like Taiwan is seriously ramping its Chinese-input-free domestic drone production, from producing 10,000 in 2024 to exporting 123,000 in 2025. This feels like a small subplot today that could become a huge deal down the road.
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@GrokTheGod @Electroversenet I read your replies, but still don't understand. can you explain like I'm 5, what does it mean? I don't have a dog in the race, just want to understand. what should Spain have done differently to prevent the blackout?
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@Electroversenet Read pages 10-12 and study them properly because everyone is just being lazy and blaming the wrong issue.
If you can actually understand what is missing from that data the real cuase is very transparent and very uncomfortable.
x.com/Electroversene…
Electroverse@Electroversenet
Europe's official grid authority has released its report on the nationwide blackout that hit Spain last year. And while the report treads carefully politically, its data make the cause clear. Wind and solar triggered the collapse. Within the first 80 seconds, Spain lost 2.5 GW of generation, around 10% of its national supply, with every MW of that early loss coming from renewables. Gas and hydro remained stable until the cascade was already underway. The report calls it an unprecedented speed of blackout. This was a textbook inverter chain failure, with renewables dropping so fast that the grid's stabilizers never had time to react. By midday, Spain's grid had virtually no inertia, nothing spinning fast enough to hold frequency steady. But to admit that outright would mean questioning Europe's green transition itself, something the report appears unable to do. So the event is officially described as "a rare local disturbance," rather than what it actually was... A systemic failure of weather-dependent power.
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@milesdeutscher Not everyone is a nerd. Some people have real lives Miles.
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If your friends aren't talking about:
• Claude
• Perplexity Computer
• Openclaw
• Fitness
• Investing
• Ownership
• Automated workflows
It's time to find new friends.
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@InVitroFuture @YoungDiscourser yes they like that it's much cheaper, unfortunately. things like Beyond Meat are still a premium segment in most places. although the prices seem to be approaching each other lately.
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@YoungDiscourser But also, blind taste tests show existing plant-based meats rivaling or beating slaughter-based meats—despite underwhelming performance in the real world. Hard to avoid the conclusion there's something consumers specifically like meat coming from animals vox.com/future-perfect…
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Same mistake as cultured meat, but subtler.
Cell ag folks are commodity fetishists who think consumers care only about mouthfeel+macros, not the symbolism of having a lesser animal killed for them. Bodyoidists propose replacing carnosadism with a body control fetish/necrophilia
Kai Micah Mills@kaimicahmills
the ultimate solution is through technology we engineer what has been called a bodyoid: brainless animal bodies that provide as much meat as we desire without harming any sentient beings this would transform medicine - the same platform would allow us to grow organs on demand, eliminate transplant waiting lists, and produce perfectly matched tissues for each patient experimental therapies could be tested on full biological systems without involving conscious animals, regenerative medicine would accelerate as entire replacement tissues become manufacturable in the same way that agriculture turned food from a scarce resource into an abundant one, engineered bodyoids would turn biological material into infrastructure - meat without slaughter, organs without donors, and medical research without sentient suffering
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@allgarbled my husband brings me the tea from his work without me asking for it (I don't care for it but it's always fun to talk to husband so everybody wins)
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@LettuceLeg @Skeezer__ @bl8_runner @egirlian @seconds_0 do that if you want to, but stop preaching please. we do not "need to come to terms" with it.
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@Skeezer__ @bl8_runner @strange8let @egirlian @seconds_0 Death is a natural part of the circle of life and we need to come to terms with it to live healthy lives
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Methinks hes moved on from longevity and just wants to do jungle drugs with his hot assistant girlfriend for content
Bryan Johnson@bryan_johnson
My next longevity experiment: 5-MeO-DMT.
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@yoav_ravid @jhendersonYT thank you, it looks like a great app, but I don't read on my phone/laptop/ipad
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@strange8let @jhendersonYT I recommend switching to readest.com. I used to do the same as you, but Readest is so much better than Kindle.
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I sound like a conspiracy theorist when I talk about this, but if you want to be able to reliably refer back to the same text over and over you need physical books or a hard drive full of PDFs. Anything on the cloud can be ‘updated’ and ‘revised.’
megan🧸✨@coastalsoftgirl
Started reading Pretty Little Liars (originally published in 2006) and I’m five pages in and they’ve updated it to include a TikTok reference…do I DNF?
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