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  • In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements

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  • If humanity wants to live on another world, we will first have to terraform it to suit our biology.

    Likewise, in order to spread, brain worms would need to find a suitable host to terraform the rest of the species they want to inhabit. They should encourage unhealthy behavior, sow distrust in science, and be in a position of authority.

    Hypothesis: RFK Jr died years ago, and is being controlled like an undead meat puppet by brain worms looking to conquer earth.

  • Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task [edited post to change title and URL]

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  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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  • Well they say all new tech is driven by the porn industry, so, um....

  • Speaker Johnson pushed Medicaid cuts. His constituents worry about their own coverage

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  • The only people he thinks he's responsible to are enrolled in the White House medical plan.

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  • "I'm a lone wolf."

    OK, so you're too useless and/or immature to pull your own weight among your group and they kicked you out?

  • TIL the little things on strawberries are actually the fruit. What you eat is receptacle tissue.

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  • How do I delete someone else's comment?

  • Honest

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  • We can start with the opposite: deflation.

    If your money is worth less today than it will be tomorrow, you won't spend it. Burying every extra penny in your back yard would be the optimal saving strategy. But if nobody spent money outside the absolute essentials, commerce would grind to a halt. No jobs, no entertainment, no standard of living.

    So the central bank wants a little inflation. It encourages people to spend some, powering the economy. Too much is bad, though, so they target 2-3% annually. The number of levers and dials they have to make that happen is finite, so it doesn't always fall in that range over a given short time period, but it's pretty accurate in the long term.

    By printing more/less money, or making borrowing easier/harder (the fed rate, in the US), they can influence the amount of cash floating around to try to keep things in that ideal range.

    Whether a currency-based economy is the best way to distribute resources is a whole different discussion, but every modern society works essentially this way.

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    Are there any Lemmy instances that support freedom of speech?

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  • The neo-nazi playbook is to use benign language to soften their otherwise unpalatable ideology.

    Want to create an echo-chamber where the worst politicians can do whatever they want? "States rights".Want to disguise the racism as patriotic? "America first".Want to be able to say anything, any time, and play the victim card when people call out the bullshit? "Free speech".

  • So what are they teaching in U.S. criminal or constitutional law school classes right now?

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  • All the intricate rules of Calvinball.

  • What number is supposed to be here?

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  • BBD (best by date) is going to be 1 year, or some other legally specified number of days, from the date of manufacturing/canning. It can fall on the end of a month, but not intentionally. 28-Mar-2025 was a Friday.

  • What number is supposed to be here?

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  • What number is supposed to be here?

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  • I still vote for 3.

    The 7 above is also missing some dots on the right, so there's an entire vertical strip of erased ink. The numbers are up to 5 dots wide, but the existing 3 only has 4 dots on the bottom. It's possible that a fifth is supposed to be there one spot higher, matching the missing number, but it just got clipped by the erased part.

  • White House says slavery is being taught wrong, should not be so negative

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  • where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was

    'Bad' and 'negative' are synonyms here.

  • What is an anti-hero?

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  • It's like the saying, "is it wrong because it's illegal, or is it illegal because it's wrong?" It's a recognition that the law doesn't perfectly overlap what's morally correct.

    Anti-heroes live in that 'moral-but-not-legal' area. Contrast that with people who bend the written law to serve immoral ends. Fascists tend to be Lawful Evil.

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    What do you love the look of despite it being impractical, uncomfortable, or high maintenance?

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  • I would go even older, back to the 60s-70s. Some absolutely gorgeous cars, but the thought of actually driving one puts me off. Horribly inefficient, no modern safety features or comforts. It would be little more than an expensive driveway trophy, and that's just wasteful.

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  • Is that a research grant I hear calling?

  • I laughed when a guy came in from Doordash and picked up one can of Formula. I thought crazy someone would do that. But he claimed that he once delivered a candy bar. Anyone know if that possible?

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  • I choose to believe it was a disabled diabetic person who ordered one candy bar. They needed to quickly regulate blood sugar and couldn't get themselves out of the house alone and in time.

    Paying a few extra dollars would be a small price to pay.

  • Is there an actor you can't stand? Do they have any exceptions?

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  • I liked Farrell on SNL. Once he started doing movies, his likability, for me, drops off rapidly after about 5 minutes at a time. I still think he can be good in the right supporting roles, but he's too over-the-top for a leading man.

  • Ex-Superman actor Dean Cain says he's becoming ICE agent

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  • It's no coincidence this happened just days after ICE dropped all age requirements. Racist old man begs to join the gestapo, and the other racists in charge are all too willing to oblige.