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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • This is honestly the reason why I don’t think we can achieve a successful uprising anymore. Probably not a nuke, but drones definitely could and would be used to tear through even the largest of mobs if they formed today. Marie Antoinette would be happily eating her cake watching her people get mowed down by autonomous turrets if the French revolution happened today.


  • I’ll be honest, this is the first I’m hearing that Time’s person of the year isn’t a celebration of a given year’s most positively-influential person. Granted, I don’t read Time, but I don’t think it’s all that common knowledge that “person of the year” isn’t always a compliment. I mean, I’ve seen several of “___ of the year” awards, and most ended with applauding and rewarding the winner; if Time wants people who don’t read it to know that its award doesn’t follow common conventions, it should probably title it something to obviously differentiate itself.






  • Signtist@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldSemantics is divisive
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    14 days ago

    Hardly semantic. The way you fix a broken system is by working within the system to gradually shift it back to normal. The way you destroy a working corrupt system is by literally tearing it down French revolution style. Which path are we going to take? It’s only semantic if we ultimately decide to take no path at all, and simply lay down and die.



  • Inbreeding generally stops being a notable factor around 4th degree relation between parents. Even first cousins, 3rd degree relatives, only have about a 6% risk of an anomaly at birth when having a child together, compared to the 3% normal rate for all pregnancies. There’s likely been a LOT of inbreeding in any one person’s family history.

    The nice thing is that once a new non-relative is added to the mix, the risks associated with past inbreeding largely go away; you only pass on 1 copy of your genes to your kid, so even if you’re personally affected by a family history of inbreeding giving you a bunch of identical copies, if your kid’s other parent isn’t related to you, their copies should be different from yours, and the kid will have 2 different copies just like anyone else, helping protect them from recessive familial conditions and the like.



  • Signtist@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzCrystals
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    3 months ago

    My mom died of cancer a few months ago because she was convinced that a combination of sunlight’s natural vibrational frequency and some expensive “medical” herbal teas would cure her. Placebos affect people, but if you let them believe that they’re an alternative to actual science and medicine, then they’ll use them as such.