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@ takeheart @lemmy.world

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  • Donald Trump signs order to 'make America's showers great again'

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  • Safe professions

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  • Sure, a skilled human is still better at the job. But you don't always need to capture every nuance. And AI does it at the fraction of the cost.

    I see this with lots of German product descriptions on big store fronts like Amazon. They often seem entirely machine translated. It's not great, but "good enough" and serviceable.

    Machine translation also increasingly shifts the process from the sender of the message to the recipient. It used to be that the web page of a Vietnamese company was inaccessible if you didn't speak Vietnamese or they specifically had an English version. Nowadays a visitor can choose to get the entire site translated automatically (by the browser, for instance). Is it as good as the translation by an expert? Of course not. But it costs the company nothing at all and the visitor a negligible amount. And it works for a plethora of languages.

    That's another (invisible) way that the world needs less and less translators. I wrote this post in English but for all I know someone could be reading it in French or Bengali. No further input required from my side.

  • Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice

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  • new Pokémon just dropped?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL the black scales of gaboon vipers are super hydrophobic. Water running off washes away any dirt on them too. Dirt will thus only stick to light scales leaving their camouflage pattern intact.

  • TIL of a boy in Pakistan that would stab himself with knives to entertain others. Researchers found he carried a rare gene mutation that prevents pain nerves to transmit their signals to the brain.

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  • It's a valid question. I originally read about it in a physical book, then wrote the (misconstrued) headline from memory before finding a digital source that people could click on. I've corrected it now.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
    takeheart @lemmy.world

    TIL of a boy in Pakistan that would stab himself with knives to entertain others. Researchers found he carried a rare gene mutation that prevents pain nerves to transmit their signals to the brain.

    www.npr.org /2006/12/13/6620733/newly-found-gene-mutation-banishes-pain

  • Eye of newt... [Mr Lovenstein]

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  • Search engine optimization ruined the web. Change my mind!

  • [Last Place Comics] Turn the Tables

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  • ¿Where is the hat coming from tho?

  • Mike Pence emerges as one of the few Republicans willing to challenge Trump 2.0

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  • The crowd was literally chanting "hang Mike Pence". Kudos to him for not going along with Trumps plan of overthrowing the election.

    Yet still I can't help but wonder whether he was secretly hoping for Trump to lose the 3rd election and the Republican party returning to its old ways somehow. Why? Because he's been suspiciously silent ever since when he had the cachet and moral standing to be one of his greatest detractors (from the Republican side).

  • Cardi B Blames Trump for Ruining Her $3000 Shoes at Super Bowl — Demands Return of Deported Uncle as Payback

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  • Ha, reminds me of how grassy lawns started out as a status symbol to show off that you were so rich that you needn't use your land for agriculture or gardening.

  • Senate urged to recall Kash Patel and put him under oath over FBI purge

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  • Hmm this section sounds familiar:

    The persecution drove hundreds of directors, managers and workers – including the author – into exile and/or imprisonment. In their place, the government appointed political operators, lacking knowledge and experience in the oil sector, who provided unconditional support to Maduro’s policies but damaged the company’s operational capacities, bypassing all control or accountability mechanisms.

    That's essentially what Trump admin wants to do. Fire civil servants en masse, replace with loyalists (proficiency for the job is optional).Then if something is goes wrong, and it will, just blame it on DEI, Biden, wokeness or something.

  • Senate urged to recall Kash Patel and put him under oath over FBI purge

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  • Honestly, there's nothing wrong with career bureaucrats // civil servants per se. ¿Do you want to swap out every geologist, accountant, teacher, interpreter, ranger, manager, safety inspector, lawyer, technician, secretary every 4 years? These people literally run the country and by extension allow society to continue. And they are part of the idea that power and expertise are spread amongst many people.

    Is it fair to criticize individuals, agencies, institutions. Yes. Is there corruption, mismanagement, incompetence? All the time, happens for any sufficiently large enough organization.

    But no need to spin this into some bonkers conspiracy theory.

  • Senate urged to recall Kash Patel and put him under oath over FBI purge

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  • I've updated my initial comment.

  • Senate urged to recall Kash Patel and put him under oath over FBI purge

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  • This guy literally wrote a book about what he dubs "the executive branch deep state" including a list of high profile names he wants to target.

    It's all out in the open. Confirmation hearings are supposed to weed out people like him.

    Edit: the way I previously worded my comment it might have been construed as me stating Patel was rightfully going after these people. Instead I meant to indicate that they rightfully resisted/investigated Trump.

  • Dunbar

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  • It's crazy to think that while we now live in a globalized, interconnected society with billions of peoples yet Dunbar's hasn't changed from when we formed tribes and harmlets thousands of years ago.

    A lot of the structures and institutions of modern society essentially center around somehow overcoming or side stepping Dunbar's number: to reliably interact with strangers, ease tensions and achieve greater things (from credit scores to spelling dictionaries to standard sized clothing to electing representatives to online wikis to opening hours, calendars and time zones; the list goes on an on).

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

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  • One of her arguments against the allegation of her spewing Russian talking points was that she doesn't follow Russian Propaganda.

    Truthfulness aside, that argument is not the elegant dodge that she probably thinks it is. Because that speaks against her informedness. As someone applying for this job she should be interested or better yet well versed in what current Russian propaganda is, how it is disseminated, who the target audience is, how well it is working, and how it relates to the wider goals of the Russian regime.

    Strangely enough Robert Kenney also made use of a similar defensive veil a couple of times. Well I'm not a medical expert, so I really couldn't tell you. 🙄 Bro, why are you applying for this position then?

  • FBI Agents Involved In Trump Cases ‘Escorted Out’ of Offices in Friday Night Purge

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  • There's so many parts and pieces that all failed to get to where we are today. Each time you reflect a moment and realize that we shouldn't be be here in the first place:

    • The FBI // justice department shouldn't be a tool of personal revenge.
    • But wait Trump/Musk shouldn't have become presidents to begin with.
    • Voters should be educated and well informed enough to simply not vote for an autocrat.
    • Merrick Garland should never have become attorney general and even so Biden should have pressured him hard to do his job.
    • Trump should have been impeached multiple times already.
    • But the democrats too should have had a better alternative candidate.
    • The democrats should have had a real primary contest.
    • Biden should have never announced to run for another term out of the blue.
    • And his handlers shouldn't have tried to hide his frailty for so long.
    • If only Donald Trump should have been sentenced for his many crimes.
    • And he shouldn't have had the backing of the Republican party for this long.
    • Arguably voters should have realized he's inept the first time around.
    • The media shouldn't have sensationalized him as much when he first ran as a publicity stunt

    The list is not exhaustive and goes on and on...

    And in the background there's all the systemic failures and problems that enabled this: terrible public education, ignoring a large chunk of the electorate for too long, citizens united, social media and outrage culture, rampant disinformation and propaganda disguised as news, the electoral college and de facto 2 party system, too few checks and balances being hard codified, obvious loop holes like presidential pardons, ...

    Petty sure historians will analyze this for generations. If we will still live in a world where historians are allowed to about their work freely.

  • Private emails show RFK Jr. making false claims about Covid-19 shots, linking vaccines to autism

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  • ¿Remember how much Trump administration bungled the COVID response? Imagine again, but this time with his guy in charge. I see dead people.

  • Right out of a children's storybook

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  • Fun fact: the monikers used for these children in the book are used in coloquial speech to describe children that misbehave or exhibit behavioral discrepencies:

    • shock headed Peter: an unkempt, filthy child
    • fidgety Philip: ADHS or hyperactive child
    • Johnny-Head-in-the-Air: daydreaming, absent mindedness
    • wicked Frederick: cruelty to animals (sociopathy, lack of empathy often reveal themselves this way early on)
    • Soup Caspar: eating disorder, perhaps
    • etc

    The original book was written by a medical doctor dealing with children, go figure!

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    takeheart @lemmy.world

    Orangutan hipsters use slang to stand out from the pack

    www.zmescience.com /science/orangutan-hipsters-use-slang-to-stand-out-from-the-pack/

  • Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram on the rise after Meta ends fact-checking | TechCrunch

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  • Yeah, 

     
        
1 + (1*5000%) = 51

    Honestly I prefer just writing "51 times more frequent".

  • It's a Unix system! Elon knows this!

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  • Waddaya mean we can't just arbitrarily delete stuff of a public server once we know its ip address? It's not fair! 😡

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    What's your take on the situation, stork? What's that? Can't hear you...

  • memes @lemmy.world
    takeheart @lemmy.world

    seriously, it's the one thing keeping the web usable

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
    takeheart @lemmy.world

    TIL about Titivillus a medieval demon that would feed on misspellings, mispronounced syllables and mumbled words. He was considered a natural enemy and tempter of scribes.

    blog.lostartpress.com /2021/01/17/my-old-nemesis-titivillus/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    takeheart @lemmy.world

    Utah Supreme Court Rules That Alleged Sexual Assault by a Doctor Is Not “Health Care”

    www.propublica.org /article/utah-supreme-court-sexual-assault-david-broadbent-ob-gyn
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
    takeheart @lemmy.world

    TIL in 1995 NASA tested psychoactive compounds on spiders. Each drug affected their web patterns differently.