@DolfDoofinsky @DutchGirlJenni No there were just many many more children (many of which never became adults)
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@DutchGirlJenni I guess grandparents didn't exist until the 21st century
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100 years ago we spent triple as much time out in the sun, had no sunscreen, yet skin cancer was extremely rare.
healthbot@thehealthb0t
Brecka: "The parabolic rise in skin cancer is almost perfectly superimposable with the parabolic rise in sunscreen use." O’Neill: "Exactly. Author Ian Whishart claims sunscreens themselves are causing basal cell carcinomas."
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@1995BCu @tenobrus @KurtzMina13 Meant telomeres are a universal system that gives all cells the same limit even if they aren't synced up with one another.
Idk if the length of telomeres and Hayflick limit is same in all cells though tbf
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@MedicSnaps @tenobrus @KurtzMina13 > why not
> they aren’t synchronized
> not centralized
I mean, that’s your answer lmao
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"i've never seen a car with an old left half and a young right half. that means there must be a central synchronizing car clock and if we just turn back the odometer the whole car will de-age"
how the fuck does elon musk somehow get even more retarded with every passing year man
X Freeze@XFreeze
Elon Musk says that extending human life and even reversing aging is highly possible "I've never seen someone with an old left arm and a young right arm ever in my life. That means there must be a synchronizing clock that is synchronizing across 35 trillion cells in your body," If our cells are aging in perfect unison, it means aging is driven by a central, coordinated biological mechanism rather than random, subtle decay "When we figure out what causes aging, I think we'll find it's incredibly obvious it’s not a subtle thing it's just a solvable engineering problem"
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@tenobrus @KurtzMina13 Why not? I mean they aren't synchronised but they are found in all cells and with the exception of cells that express telomerase like stem cells they restrict cells to a Hayflick limit? Not centralised but still a common mechanism
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@KurtzMina13 telomeres are actually very much not the same thing as a centralized synchronous clock!!!!
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@GoogleUK @transportgovuk Unironically and just unequivocally a good feature
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Technology is at its best when it solves everyday challenges. 📱
In collaboration with @transportgovuk, we’ve started rolling out live bus tracking for Maps users across England. This update gives passengers the info they need to plan journeys with confidence and precision. ⏱️🙌
Making travel smarter, one stop at a time.
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@moralfagging how do you do gentle fellow. I bestow upon you wishes for the merriest of April fools' days
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Just posting this interaction for reference. This is how you politely and appropriately celebrate April fool’s day. There’s no need to trick or prank your friends. Once you betray someone’s trust, you can’t take it back. Stay safe out there and celebrate responsibly.
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@n00dles71 Nobody is at fault this played almost exactly as it should have. The van passing was fine since it had already pulled out though the second car should probably have given way to the cyclist before going onto their side of the road
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High table at St John’s College Oxford after speaking at the Cortex Club this evening #obesityisnotachoice
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@peterrhague @Thomaspetersen ICE vehicles won't be allowed in the high speed tunnel network
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@Thomaspetersen This is at least an honest preference - but consider, a lot of people are fond of the physical sensation of riding a horse, of being in tune with the animal. We still ride horses, but don’t use them for mass transport anymore. And we don’t allow them on motorways.
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EVs are the future. The speed that future comes and how evenly distributed it is is uncertain, but all the arguments against EVs are essentially dead.
But because they have become politically coded, many on the right (and a few on the environmental left) have declared them A Bad Thing and keep hammering away at discredited and factually flawed arguments against them.
No, their lifecycle emissions are not worse than those of an ICE, even if the grid remains fossil fuel powered for now.
No, the battery won’t need to be replaced during the life of the car - that’s a myth based on a specific issue with early model Nissan Leafs.
No, the car won’t become useless in winter. The range drop is small and the Norwegians get on fine with their EVs.
No, they aren’t more expensive once you properly account for fuel savings.
No, the battery isn’t sourced from artisanal mines in the Congo.
Get over your partisan bias and just buy one.
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This is great but trying to watch a 3 hour video on X is a terrible experience compared to YT. So easily to accidentally start scrolling X and click away from the video. And they you have to find it again and spend 5 min scrubbing through to try and find the spot you left off. This happened 3 times in 20 min and I gave up and checked if the video was on YT. @nikitabier
John Collison@collision
Please enjoy this Cheeky Pint / @dwarkesh_sp crossover with @elonmusk. Dwarkesh was most interested in how Elon is going to make space datacenters work. I was most interested in Elon's method for attacking hard technical problems, and why it hasn’t been replicated as much as you might expect. But we got into plenty of topics in this three-hour session. 00:00:23 Space GPUs 00:35:39 Alignment 00:58:48 xAI 01:15:01 Optimus 01:28:03 China 01:40:46 Management 02:16:38 DOGE 02:34:58 Space GPUs redux
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@TrevorScottReal @karthikavl This isn't how they rate vehicle safety. It's based on active safety features like obstacle aware acceleration and automatic emergency braking which still come standard. Rating are based on tests carried out by EURONCAP/NHTSA not histroical crash data
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My wife.
My office (if you even want to call it that, it's a room with all my computer junk) gets extremely hot because of all the computers going beep boop and doing science for me.
It gets so hot I begin to profusely sweat.
My wife would come in the room and say something along the lines of, "Oh my God, it's hotter than Hell in here. Why don't you open the door?".
Our conversation would eventually turn into her calling me something like, "Oh, you're my smelly man" and giving me a hug and kiss before leaving the room and closing the door. I would then return to internet nerd stuff such as coding or poking stuff with a stick.
When I made my website I needed an alias which sounded cool, badass, and mysterious so people knew I was hardcore. I couldn't think of one, but I remembered my wife called me "smelly" a lot.
That is when I decided my super cool and badass and mysterious online alias would be "smelly".
Ruthwik@0xRuthwik
@vxunderground Whats lore behind people calling you "Smelly?"
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@SkylarSkye3 @juasanalghaib Agreed. Apparently I'm the only one here who tthinks this but people vasty underestimate the diversity of brains/emotional state/rational thinking of the population both due to genetic and environmental factors. People are really different mentally.
Unless this is bait.
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some absolutely electric benefits cheating here. fair play mate
Sky News@SkyNews
Frazer, 18, was shown a traumatic, violent video by another pupil at school when he was in Year 8, without his consent. He's since been diagnosed with PTSD and has suffered for years with his mental health. 🔗 trib.al/lW912lw
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Can someone tell our President that the iPhone recharges and he doesn’t need to keep getting a new one every time the battery dies
Robert Sterling@RobertMSterling
Donald Trump sat for a two-hour interview with the New York Times last night. With not just one reporter or two. But four. No handlers at his side screening out hard questions. No note cards with softball questions written down in advance. Just two hours with four hostile reporters. Biden and Kamala never did this. It’s laughable to think about them trying. Their press aides had them locked down like Fort Knox, and even sympathetic reporters (which were most of them) never got unfiltered access. Whether you love Trump or hate him, you’ve got to respect this. There’s no one else like the guy, and there probably never will be again.
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@_Temaj17_ @Finehairr_ My stupid brain is actually being so stupid. Of course air resistance would be so high is would prevent anything like this from occuring. Forgive my insolance
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@MedicSnaps @Finehairr_ Actually, friction between the tires and ground stops being a factor the moment the plane takes off. The reason is that the atmosphere rotates along with the Earth. Because of inertia, the plane, the air around it, and the ground are all moving at the same speed.
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@heymxple @Finehairr_ This is wrong lol. Your example is about linear velocity while the original question considered angular velocity
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@Finehairr_ you idiot its because we're already moving with the earth. Its like when your driving and you bounce a baseball in your hand and it doesnt just shoot to the back window.
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@scottsantens This could be true. For many the choice it not to use a paid or free viewing site but to use a free viewing site or not attend at all
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Spoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.
Big Issue@BigIssue
Homeless people were given £2,000, no strings attached. Here’s what they spent the money on #Echobox=1767095119" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bigissue.com/news/housing/h…
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