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BertramDitore

@ BertramDitore @lemm.ee

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  • Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness?

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  • I started losing my hair when I was a teenager, so I’ve been bald for most of my life. I’ve been shaving my head for decades because it’s the only way my head and face don’t look absurd. I’m totally used to it, and long ago accepted that I’d never have hair on my head again.

    But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want my hair back.

    If this turns out to be legit and works on most people, there could be a worldwide explosion of self-esteem in adults.

  • Trump’s push for ‘efficiency’ may destroy the EPA. What does that mean for you?

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  • I’m always shocked how few people know about these. We’re still not even close to cleaning up existing leaks.

    even a pinprick-size hole in an underground tank can send 400 gallons of fuel a year into the ground, polluting soil and water. Spills can also destroy habitat and kill wildlife.

    Roughly 81 million people live within a quarter-mile of an underground storage tank that’s experienced at least one leak

    More than 516,000 leaks have been cleaned upsince Congress directed EPA to begin regulating underground tanks in 1984, but more than 57,000 known sites still await a full cleanup

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  • Does anyone else readily choose the handicap stall if it is available?

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  • No, those stalls are reserved for people who actually need them. They’re not for your comfort or convenience, they’re a basic necessity for people who have very different daily lives than you.

    Even if all the other stalls are occupied, you should still pretend that the handicap stall is also occupied, even if it isn’t. There’s always the possibility that someone who needs it will arrive after you’ve gone in. You don’t park in handicap parking spaces, do you? Same deal, just one is based more on the honor system and basic human decency, and the other could get you a ticket.

  • The 9 Best Space Shows That Aren't Star Trek

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  • I remember really enjoying Earth: Final Conflict when it was on the air, though I don’t know if it holds up today. It was based on some Gene Roddenberry notes and produced by Majel.

    They had some very cool futuristic gadgets that I wish had made it into the mainstream a bit more. The design for this communicator was awesome, for example.

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  • It took a few years to fine-tune the exact amount, sometimes he’d finish the bowl too early and whine the next morning, sometimes there’d be too much leftover and he’d whine because he wanted a fresh bowl. I finally landed on the exact amount where he always has enough when he wants it, but there’s never any extra. It’s second nature by now so I don’t remember the exact amount, but it’s somewhere just over half a cup of dry food.

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  • It might differ depending on the cat’s personality, but I feed my cat a full serving once a day in the morning, and that’s it. He nibbles on it throughout the day whenever he wants, and by the next morning the bowl is empty. No whining or begging, thankfully, since he does a surprisingly good job of pacing himself.

    He’s pretty old now, so we’ve got a good routine going, but I know some cats just won’t accept this and need their meals to be separate and eaten in one sitting.

  • ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases

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  • I wish this was all true, I really do. But there is a time and a place to be calm. This is not that time, and this is not that place.

    These systems are supposed to have COOP plans (Continuity of Operations), but not all of them do. Systems are supposed to have some degree of backups, but I can tell you from experience that this is almost never the case in any meaningful way.

    I’ve spoken to a number of feds who said their work disappeared overnight. They didn’t choose to comply, and didn’t have sufficient backups in place because of a lack of resources. Their manager or an administrative assistant somewhere most likely went on a deletion spree, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

    Sometimes when this stuff is gone, it’s really gone. And we have every right to be furious about it.

    100% agree about the media incentives, but sometimes outrage is not only warranted, but essential.

  • 36 Million People at Risk of Having Health Coverage Taken Away by Medicaid Work Requirements.

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  • Republicans hate the American people.

  • Trump Administration Scrubs EPA Staff’s Pronouns from Their Emails and Websites Without Their Knowledge.

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  • It’s just common decency to call people what they want to be called. If you pronounce someone’s last name wrong or don’t use their preferred nickname (not all Davids like to be called Dave, for example), they’ll correct you and then it’s part of our social contract that you’ll do your best to get it right in the future. The pronouns in email IDs was a super helpful reminder, and they’ve only been gone a minute but I’ve already gotten some pronouns wrong for colleagues I didn’t know that well, and I feel terrible about it. If those labels had stayed, I wouldn’t have made such a simple mistake.

    This shit might seem trivial, but it has real impacts on real people on a daily basis.

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  • 8, inside and out. A terrified, angry, and exhausted ninja turtle.

  • Tulsi Gabbard faces growing concern about her nomination after a tough confirmation hearing

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  • I’m frankly surprised how ravenous and aggressive the democrats have been about Snowden. I know he’s a controversial figure, he broke the law and he may have done some limited harm, but I think he did way more good on balance by exposing some truly terrible secret shit our government did and continues to do. Mass surveillance used to be treated as a joke before Snowden. I hate that he’d never get a fair trial in the States (the reasons for which are truly Orwellian and dystopian). I think he deserves that at least, and maybe not to be shouted down as a traitor in Congress.

    But also, fuck Gabbard. I wouldn’t trust her to feed my cat.

  • ‘Efforts to … erase the insurrection’: Deletion of Jan. 6 database by Trump administration appears to violate federal law, watchdog says

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  • Yeah, they can cite the language of the statutes all they want, but Trump is still above the law. And any of his subordinates who break the law will get a pardon, so we’re genuinely in lawless territory now. The media needs to get their fucking act together and call this out every single time, and stop pretending any of this is normal.

  • USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House

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  • To add to my earlier answer, the Federal Protective Service is a division of DHS that guards federal facilities. So in all likelihood it was them, but the article doesn’t specify so we don’t know with certainty.

  • USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House

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  • Article says “security agents” which for a federal building are probably DHS agents or private contractors.

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  • I definitely understand that reaction. It does give off a whiff of unprofessionalism, but their reporting is so consistently solid that I’m willing to give them the space to be a little more human than other journalists. If it ever got in the way of their actual journalism I’d say they should quit it, but that hasn’t happened so far.

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  • Corporate media take note. This is how you do reality-based reporting. None of the both-sides bullshit trying to justify or make excuses, just laughing in the face of absurd hypocrisy. This is a well-respected journalist confronting a truth we can all plainly see. See? The truth doesn’t need to be boring or bland or “balanced” by disingenuous attempts to see the other side.

    I will explain what this means in a moment, but first: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha. It is, as many have already pointed out, incredibly ironic that OpenAI, a company that has been obtaining large amounts of data from all of humankind largely in an “unauthorized manner,” and, in some cases, in violation of the terms of service of those from whom they have been taking from, is now complaining about the very practices by which it has built its company.

  • State Department freezes new funding for nearly all US aid programs worldwide

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  • making exceptions to allow humanitarian food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt to continue.

    Because fuck everyone except those perpetrating a genocide, I guess. How lovely.

  • I heard you need to work from home. Would be a shame if I were to sit on the work computer

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  • Hahaha I totally identify with this. My cat 100% knows my recurring meeting schedule like the back of his paw. Right on the dot he trots out and demands my undivided attention.

  • She's dreaming about hunting monsters

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  • My cat freaks out when my controller rumbles.

  • She's dreaming about hunting monsters

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  • rumble rumble….scratch punch! hissssss

    Or so my scars tell me.