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  • What does "upgrade you from tagged to blocked" means?

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  • Go to Settings>User Tags and ensure "Enable User Tags" is enabled.

  • What does "upgrade you from tagged to blocked" means?

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  • You can. Tap on their username to view their profile, click the three dots menu in the upper left, then tap "edit tag".

    Alternately and much faster, long press on a username and the resultant menu also has the option. I didn't know that until today!

  • If you could have a small farm, what would you grow/keep?

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  • Figs. Straight figs. They're delicious, they sell for a decent price because finding ripe figs at the supermarket is practically impossible, and they're easily propagated by cuttings, which sell for a decent amount of money.

    I love figs so much.

    Next is corn, but not sweet corn. Field corn , what's used to make corn flour, masa, grits, etc. there are many varieties, like Blue corn, purple corn, and red corn, all of which are healthy and taste fantastic. You can use purple corn to make chicha morada, a Peruvian drink. Just keep in mind the kernels are seeds and therefore representative of the two parent plants. If you plant different types together, like blue and red, and they cross pollinate, the resultant corn kernels will be a variety of blue, red, and hybrid blue/red.

  • SHOCK HORROR

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  • These are the same people that believed in spontaneous generation - that life just popped into existence from nonliving matter, such as dirt, grain, or dirty clothing. It wasn't considered fully disproven until the 19th century.

    As uneducated as many people are now, they're practically savants compared to your average person just 200 years ago.

  • Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies

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  • Can confirm. I've spent several hours the last few weeks teaching a friend's 24 year old daughter basic computer literacy on a W11 system. None of her friend group could help because they know just as little. When we started, she didn't know how to shut down or reset the system.

  • High voltage

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  • I can't support this comment enough. My last job was chemical and biological safety oversight but had a lot of overlap with regular safety people. It takes no extra time to ensure a circuit is properly locked and tagged out because anyone working on that circuit should already have their own lock on it, using a gang lock if there are multiple people.

    Then you still prove test prove. For those not in the biz, this means to test your sensing equipment on a known live circuit, test the circuit being worked on, then retest the tester as before because breakers get mislabeled and meters break all the time.

    On that note, there's the time an energized circuit almost killed my sister-in-law. She said she understood 120v wiring, so was changing out a light fixture. She asked me for some help with getting it mounted, so I asked her if the breaker was off, and she assured me it was. As I was working on it, it let out a loud pop, slightly zapped me, and blew the breaker.

    I'm normally a very nice, chill person, but I was fucking livid. I asked her to show me the breaker she turned off and she pointed to the fucking wall switch. Someone had switched it on, likely out of habit. I inspected the wiring and found she used a cracked wire nut and overtightened it until the hot wire protruded well past the end. I wasn't grounded but I was holding the fixture... with my left hand. I could have had a heart attack if I had been grounded

    It's a boomer joke, but I was what almost killed her. I had never been so angry with someone before. We still love her, but we don't let her work on anything with stored energy anymore.

  • Phone saleman

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  • I worked at three call centers over two years. It was the longest two years of my life and it took years to recover. I was once written up for "lying to a customer" because I confirmed something I knew personally to be true but my employer hadn't included in our scripts. It's like being in a cult.

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  • A picture adds the missing context that the meme leans into to make this seem more awful than it is.

    The bone isn't broken as if it was cracked in half and the jagged shards protrude from the skin. The tips of the toe bones are sharp points, held in place inside by a tiny "claw rest"' bone at the end. The frog flexes a muscle, the bone breaks free from the bony rest, and the sharp tips protrude through the toe pads.

    Edit: actually including the picture helps.

  • Burning Gas Pollutes So Much, Dirty EV Battery Manufacturing Evens Out In About 2 Years

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  • Dude, it's the opposite problem. Where do you think the sunlight goes when it hits a solar panel? It sucks it all up! If we set up too many solar panels, they're going to use up all the sunshine and cool the globe until we have another ice age. Big brother petroleum has been saving us!

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  • Hey now, if you can tell me how light travels between two points without being facilitated by an entirely undetectable medium, I'm ALL ears.

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  • JFC, how many times do I need to explain the workings of luminiferous aether?

    /s

    Serious time: we actually did briefly learn about all types of debunked theories in university, but as a component of the historical progression of contemporary theories.

  • Tesla on Autopilot Smashes Straight Through Garage Door, Driver Says

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  • It's "full self driving (supervised)" last I checked.

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  • Haha, 100%. I'm a scientist, I haven't believed in phlogiston in years!

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  • Those are stir bars.

    That they're magnetic is propaganda to push magnetic field bunk to sell more so-called "magnets". Stir bars are moved by phlogiston, which is why the liquid medium is often heated in tandem.

  • TIL that cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling products of all time. It cost nearly $1,000 per pill, even though that same pill cost just 25 cents to make

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  • Keep in mind though that this research is often government subsidized, and sometimes by multiple countries.

  • TIL that cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling products of all time. It cost nearly $1,000 per pill, even though that same pill cost just 25 cents to make

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  • The price of biologics kills me. I know it costs about $20 dollars for a month of GLP-1 agonists, because I've made similar peptides myself in grad school. Something like a Solid Phase Peptide Synthesizer runs $10-250K, but the cost to synthesize a 40 amino acid linear peptide at industrial scale is like...$0.30 USD per milligram. Shorter chain peptides are even cheaper. A 15AA linear peptide can be as low as $0.01/mg.

    There are of course other expenses, especially labor, facilities, certification, and waste disposal, but these companies are still easily making 40-50% profit margins on biologics. Compare this to non-biologics pharmaceutical profit margins around 15-25%, or for other industry comparisons, grocery stores around 1-3%, restaurants 3-10%, and software at 15-20%.

  • Man jailed for a month despite Flock showing he was 5 miles from crime scene

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  • I still remember the rage I felt when I first realized that the United States justice system is fundamentally adversarial. Prosecuting attorneys don't want to find the truth of the matter. The build the strongest case possible and it's on the defendant to prove they're wrong. Attorneys are supposed to take into account all available evidence, but have no obligation to seek additional information that could exonerate the defendant, even if it's clear such information exists.

    It's absolutely fucked.

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  • It's a CT (computerized tomography) scan. It still uses X-rays but the results are in 3D so one can view "slices" of the image from different perspectives.

    The sternum is in the the same plane as the spine from this angle, so that's why there's only the slightest hint of a ribcage and only the sternum - this slice is well past rib bones.

    Similarly the shoulder is much closer to the viewer's perspective in the 3d model, so it's not shown at all.

    Edit: misinterpreted CT slice location.

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  • Great explanation, well done!

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