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NOT_RICK

@ NOT_RICK @lemmy.world

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My name’s not Rick.

  • Did you ever celebrate "take your kid to work" day? What was it like?

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  • Sure did. My pops worked in midtown Manhattan, I remember going to his office in April of 2001. His office had an automatic coffee machine that would also make hot chocolate, I thought that was the coolest thing. He took a long lunch with me so he could take me on a trip downtown. We ended up going to the World Trade Center and visiting the observation deck at One World Trade. That added a real crazy dimension to September 11th for me, I had just been there not even five months ago. My father was able to get on one of the last trains out of the city before they were shut down that day. He talked about how scary and confusing it was, watching fighter jets streaking across the sky above 5th avenue, not knowing what else was going to happen. Still, he was one of the lucky ones.

  • FTC reportedly begins investigating Microsoft's cloud business practices

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  • Now? Any chance this investigation doesn’t magically evaporate come January?

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  • Play video games, read, do chores, play with my dog

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    What are some good settings and musics for easing winter blues?

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  • Stardew Valley is always a good game for avoiding the cold and dark , imo

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  • Guy was only leaking to show off to a bunch of teenagers. Loser

  • Does anyone use in-sink garbage disposals anymore?

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  • They’re not legal where I live. Something about our sewage lines or treatment center not being able to handle it if I recall correctly. I have a clog resistant drain strainer that I clean out every time I rinse dishes in the sink instead.

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    What are some must-try American experiences a foreigner should try while visiting?

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  • Texas bbq is pretty damn good. Not sure if you keep halal but many places will have beef bbq in addition to the more common pork

  • Wife of former Marine to be deported to Mexico Friday, after 20 years in U.S. (2018)

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  • Alejandra ultimately decided to "self-deport" to Mexico, rather than turn herself in to be detained and then deported. After 20 years in the United States, she no longer has family or friends in the country, so she chose Merida, a city in the Yucatan where a small community of deported military spouses might help her.

    Pretty pathetic that a community of deported military spouses exists there. So much for “supporting the troops”.

  • Trump plans to dismantle Biden AI safeguards after victory

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  • He’d look great mounted over a mantle

  • Leopard Voters Got What They Wanted – Those who expect that the leopard will hurt others, and not them, are likely to be unpleasantly surprised.

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  • Like crabs in a bucket

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    If Trump (somehow) wins tonight, what will you do?

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  • I think you mean against him, but regardless I think that asylum claim would be an uphill battle in many countries

  • Case for dew-point ventilator

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  • Ah instead of running a dehumidifier 24/7 like some people I know, makes sense

  • Case for dew-point ventilator

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  • What’s a dew point ventilator for?

  • What is a "leopards ate my face" moment?

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  • I’m always reminded of this story when I think of Leopards ate my face

    On Monday, the New York Times’s Patricia Mazzei published a dispatch from Marianna, Florida — a small, politically conservative town that depends on jobs from a federal prison and thus has been deeply hurt by the government shutdown. In the piece, Marianna residents grapple with the fact that President Donald Trump, who most residents support, is playing a role in the pain created by lost wages.

    Most Marianna residents support Trump’s border wall, his key demand in the shutdown fight, and don’t blame him for the fight. But Crystal Minton, a secretary at the prison who is also a single mother caring for disabled parents, had a somewhat different reaction — one that reveals an essential truth about the core Trump’s political appeal.

    “I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” Minton told Mazzei. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

    Crystal had her face eaten and I’m partly sad the leopard didn’t keep going because Crystal sounds like she probably deserves it

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    Can you "grow" a human from 2 sets of same sex parent DNA?

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  • Interesting question, I found this

    You can’t make a baby with two moms by simply fusing two eggs or adding one egg’s DNA to another’s.  Even though the resulting embryo would have the usual 46 chromosomes, this wouldn’t work.

    The reason isn’t some special string of A’s, G’s, T’s or C’s found in dad’s DNA.  No, instead it has to do with chemical marks found on egg and sperm DNA.  This methylation (as the marks are called) makes the DNA from each parent unique, and you need both to make a baby.

    What these marks do is affect how at least 80 different genes are used.  In science speak, these genes are imprinted.

    As you may remember, we have two copies of each of our genes, one from each biological parent.  The chemical marks shut off either the copy from the egg or sperm, depending on which has the marks present.. 

    If an embryo’s DNA came from two parents of the same sex, then both copies of some of these imprinted genes will be shut off.  And for the rest of these genes, both copies will be turned on.  Embryos simply can’t survive when so many genes are out of whack. In fact, diseases like Angelman syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, and Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome can happen when just one of these genes isn’t passed on properly.

    You can read more here if you’re curious

  • What are you tired of helping and educating people about because you know they'll just be ignorant anyway?

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  • I never thought about that, but it makes sense

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    What's the most relaxing sound or sound effect to you?

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  • Crashing waves at the beach. Seagulls are little assholes but they add to the effect for me

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  • Yeah maybe to their three mile island project. What a weird sentence. Just a few years off from our Weyland Yutani future

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  • Gotcha, sounds like we’re measuring two different things then

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  • 79,000,000 / 2,550 = 30,980