it's funny how quickly some left spaces went from "property is theft" to "AI art is IP theft"
— SDL (@SocDoneLeft) December 17, 2022
Ha! I was thinking about that earlier. It’s complete clown crazy crap. No one has any sort of self-consistency. It’s all, “Whatever benefits me is good, and whatever hurts the other person is even better.”
That’s why I think all success in life should be based on knowing trivia about obscure 1980s rap songs.
Current human quests summed up:
– create and enslave a God
– create and control a Sun
– cheat Death— Arnav โ (@itsarnavb) December 17, 2022
I’m ready.
somewhere out there in the quantum realm is an alternate timeline in which Donald Trump *loved* masks, loved making other people (especially service workers) wear them, loved having schools closed, etc, and in that timeline I doubt this article exists https://t.co/1PXWXGwbIO
— Kat Rosenfield (@katrosenfield) December 14, 2022
I think this is alas mostly true. If Trump had embraced masking, 80-90% of PMC libs would’ve turned against it.
In fact many were strongly against masking at first. Even at the time I was aghast, but in the early days of the pandemic I had many people informing me (even a few friends) that masks didn’t work, were useless, and also racist.
I usually say, “One day the universe will pay for its insolence in defying me.” Works a treat.
I wonder if the LGBTQ+ movement understands how badly the “biology isn’t real” crapola has hurt them? Probably not — most people and groups have shockingly little self-awareness.
When I was a kid, I wondered why people cared about the things that they did because I was not all concerned with all the preoccupations that others told me I “had” to be bothered about.
Turns out I was right. It’s both an advantage and kind of sucks having a mental age of 40 by the time you’re 10.
“The pathophysiology underlying the relationship between obesity and cancer is complex and incompletely understood. Until now, it has been unclear if excess fat tissue itself affects cancer progression or if this link is predominantly due to diet and lifestyle of obese individuals. Recent studies show that the state of obesity can accelerate tumor growth irrespective of diet. Based on the apparent link between increased adiposity and several cancers (colorectal, endometrial, breast, and prostate), it has been proposed that adipose tissue has a direct effect on tumors. An emerging body of evidence confirms that this cross talk indeed takes place at several levels.
Adipose tissue is composed of adipocytes, as well as vascular and stromal cells, secreting numerous soluble factors collectively termed adipokines. In addition, infiltration of the immune system cells in obesity leads to increased production of a number of inflammatory cytokines by adipose tissue, thus contributing to the establishment of the metabolic syndrome. Endocrine signaling by adipose tissue-derived molecules has been shown to promote cancer in animal models, matching clinical associations. Recent studies have shown that cells from adipose tissue are capable of trafficking to tumors, thus enabling paracrine action of adipokines from within the tumor microenvironment.”
–Adipose Tissue and Cancer, edited by Michael G. Kolonin (2013)
Still cannot get over the fact that people use FaceID and TouchID and its various generic incarnations on their phones. What the ever-livin’ fuck are you thinking there?
Canโt wait for queer tankies to explain how Ukraine unanimously voting in favour of banning anti-LGBTQ discrimination is actually Nazism.
— Adam Zivo (@ZivoAdam) December 16, 2022
Ian Welsh is probably on it already. He loves Putin with his whole heart and soul.
f35-b_source.mp4 pic.twitter.com/we9DuvvzU0
— ascari fanclub president (@aurabenobashi) December 15, 2022
That looks like a software error to me. The pilot put it down too hard but the plane shouldn’t have done what it did even with the pilot causing issues. The F-35 has built in stability control and that seems to have fucked up somehow (maybe because the plane got “confused” by the wheel touch and bounce.)
Mild pilot error combined with large software error.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Lilly announced on their conference call today that the triple agonist (GLP-1, GIP, Glucagon) retatrutide achieved 22-24% weight loss at 48 weeks with a similar tolerability profile to tirzepatide. They are moving forward with phase 3 for obesity.
— Todd Skelton (@xKloc) December 13, 2022
The Fat Celebration movement is probably in intense mourning. But very good news for everyone else.
People who believe prohibiting making minor UI changes increases security gotta be some of the dumbest motherfuckers ever to live.
But as I’ve observed before, propaganda works.
About HOAs, the only thing Americans love more than not being told what to do is telling other people what to do.
My parents had well below average salaries in Denmark yet not once in my entire childhood was it cold in our home. I have genuinely never felt cold inside before moving to the UK for uni. In Britain even rich people's houses are cold, it's mad! https://t.co/KGudb7W1Bd
— Lukas Slothuus (@lslothuus) December 12, 2022
Yeah, the UK has some of the coldest buildings in the universe. You’d think that entire country was on Pluto or something.