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Mostly_Gristle

@ Mostly_Gristle @lemmy.world

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  • Highly illogical and dangerous

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  • Because they still have guns in Star Trek, and Spock and his crewmates carry them all the time? Those TOS phaser pistols don't even have trigger guards, so it'd be logical to think trigger discipline would still be a thing.

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    We Asked Trump Voters Who They Blame for America's Problems - More Perfect Union

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  • I feel like a ton of conservatives would actually be socialists if they had any idea what socialism actually was. Mostly they have only known the word as a synonym for 'thing I don't like,' but I always find it striking how much socialist language conservatives use when they want to get their base on board with something. Even the introduction for project 2025 goes like: socialist idea, socialist idea, socialist idea, statement condemning socialism as the cause of the world's problems, positive sounding authoritarian statement presented as a solution. Then it goes back to socialist statements to keep the reader engaged and feeling like the author is working in their best interest. It's like some weird rope-a-dope bait and switch strategy.

    I bet if socialism got a rebranding that stripped out all the language that usually triggers the conservatives, you'd see a lot of conservatives jump on board with it. At least until the billionaires spin up their media machines to destroy it again.

  • Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first

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  • Patriot cells.

  • JD Vance's past remarks on car seats deterring people from having kids go viral

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  • I mean, they deter people from having children go headfirst through the windshield.

  • Jane Fonda rallies disaffected young US voters: ‘Do not sit this election out’

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  • To my understanding, she's pretty reviled by boomers for being anti-war.

    Depends on the boomer. Some people thought what she did was important and brave, but for the people who hate her it wasn't just that she was anti-war. A ton of celebrities were anti-war. It was that she flew out to Vietnam, embedded with the North Vietnamese army, and filmed what a lot of people considered anti-American propaganda.

    I used to work in a machine shop where a bunch of the old-timers were Vietnam vets. I made the mistake of talking about Barbarella one day, and ended up with an earful about "Hanoi Jane," and her "crimes" against America. They absolutely despised her. For a long time after that they'd all take turns asking me how my communist girlfriend was doing.

  • MAGA is straight up losing it after Taylor Swift’s Harris endorsement

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  • I caught the cat eating thing, and the post-birth abortion thing. I must have been too distracted by the Venezuelan gangs that are supposed to have taken over my city to catch the other stuff.

  • MAGA is straight up losing it after Taylor Swift’s Harris endorsement

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  • Did I miss the news cycle where Democrats started dismembering children?

  • ‘It’s okay to poo at work’: Australian health department praised for tackling taboo with humorous campaign

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  • Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime

    That's why I poop on company time

  • (Only) Trek Connect: Episode 1, Round 1 [Trivia Game]

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  • You should watch the actual Only Connect show (a lot of them are up on YouTube). It's absolutely bonkers what some of the players are able to figure out. You'll be like, who are these people, and what laboratory were they grown in? How the fuck did they get that? But after you watch enough episodes you actually start to get the hang of it and start solving them yourself. A lot of the time just knowing that there's definitely a connection is more of a clue than you might think at first.

  • Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body

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  • Did the mushroom learn to control a robot, or did the scientists figure out how to connect a robot to a mushroom in such a way as to make the regular processes happening inside the mushroom trigger a set of robot legs? Because the article makes it seem like the mushroom is intelligent and has agency, and was thus far only lacking the proper robot body in order to express that; but the video makes it look like the legs were all pumping in unison, and the resulting movement was more or less coincidental.

  • Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission

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  • This bullshit was basically my first experience with Windows 11 when I got a new PC last year. Literally, "Why is my internet so slow? What's this OneDrive thing? Oh, holy shit fucking stop Jesus Christ!"

    Just automatically started uploading everything on my hard drive to an account I didn't set up, without even a prompt telling me it was happening, and no obvious way to make it stop. I didn't even know Windows had added a cloud storage option. I actually had to completely uninstall OneDrive to finally make it stop.

    I might have liked having a native backup service in Windows if it was like, "Hey look at this handy cloud storage tool we've added to Windows! Would you like to pick some files to save?" But as it is, it might as well just be another piece of spyware.

    There's a big long list of reasons why I hate Windows 11, but this OneDrive shit is the thing that's making me think maybe it's time to ditch Windows for good.

  • Lemons(?) of Lemmy, what is something that feels so obvious to you that you just get lowkey pissed at the world for not knowing?

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  • For people who don't know, the theory of chiropractics is that the light of God somehow shines into the human body through the top of the head, travels down the spine, and on through the nerves. If you can just fix any blockages (aka "subluxations") in that flow then it will be impossible for disease to exist in the body. Because God's light.

    The founder of chiropractics was told this information by a ghost.

    I know some people swear by chiropractic adjustments, but this is information I wish I'd known when I had my back injury because going to a chiropractor set my recovery back by at least three years. And the money I lost to that quack could have paid for not only the legit physical therapist that actually got me feeling better, but probably a decent massage chair too.