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  • sleeprule cell

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  • El Cargo and maybe Displaced are my two favorites from the album, and El Cargo is the more... listenable of the two, so odds were good that that's what I was going to think of when I read Splinter Cell and music (it also helps that I don't remember the music from any of the other games, Chaos Theory is just that iconic).

  • Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years

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  • I've seen one of these talked about before, and the mechanism seemed to be in that one that there's a gene in our DNA that triggers us to grow new teeth (that's how we replace our baby teeth with adult teeth), but that that gene turns off after we grow in our set of adult teeth. It's apparently the same gene that allows sharks to grow new teeth. What the drug does is it turns that gene back on, allowing us to grow new teeth to replace lost ones.

    This might not be the same study though, as I've also seen one previously years ago that was about a drug that turned on a gene in our teeth to allow them to repair the enamel in them and fill in cavities by putting biodegradable gauze soaked in the drug inside a cavity and letting the tooth do the rest.

  • sleeprule cell

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  • It's like how anime and Metal Gear have a better grasp of American politics than Americans do. We've seen it from the outside and have a clearer picture of the absurdity of the whole.

    Gender can be summed up as a bunch of rules we made up to simplify the human condition into a few boxes because our brains don't like it when stuff is complicated. And then the Christians came in and told everybody that they can't have more choices than two boxes because anything more is wrong and ignore the fact that the man in the sky is actually non-binary and likes nonbinary people more because they're more like him. And one box is better than the other because nature says so don't question it.

    Tldr: gender is a performance, so you might as well set yours to Rules of Nature

  • sleeprule cell

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  • How did I know what song that was going to be before I clicked the link.

  • Study of men who embodied a young woman in VR finds they felt disgust & anger when catcalled

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  • I don't know of any studies, but I have heard anecdotes from trans men that say the same thing.

    I once read a very well put together comment by a trans man on the subject of their experience with this before and after transitioning, and basically, because men are never supposed to show emotion, their relationships lack a level of emotional intimacy at a fundamental level. They said that their relationships with other men felt hollow and largely superficial.

    It's also why men seemingly mistake friendship from women as flirting so frequently - because women can have a true emotional connection in their friendships with other women, but men can only get that same level of connection in romantic relationships or life or death scenarios such as war. Women also often treat men more coldly than they do other women as a result of this to avoid being mistaken for flirting with every man that they talk to (or because they view men as dangerous).

  • Rule of the planet Omicron Persei 8

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  • It's probably a 50/50 shot on the pain scale, as some people have it worse than others when it comes to laser, and I think the worst part of laser is the sunburn effect the day after. And you can always use a numbing cream beforehand if you're concerned about how painful it might be. I think the biggest difference between the two is how long it takes. Laser covers large areas at a time while electrolysis takes something like 15 seconds per hair, but you know immediately whether or not you killed a hair because you will be able to pull it out with basically no effort and it works with any hair color while laser is dependent on the melanin in your hair to heat it up, making it dramatically less effective on blonde hair vs brown or black hair.

  • Rule of the planet Omicron Persei 8

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  • Meanwhile, Bazzite be like:

  • Rule of the planet Omicron Persei 8

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  • Saying "don't tell people questioning their gender whether they're trans or not, they should decide for themselves whether or not they're trans" every time is a lot more effort than simply saying "obey the egg rule/prime directive/whatever." Though I personally prefer "don't break any eggs."

  • Rule of the planet Omicron Persei 8

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  • Very different processes that have similar end results. Laser is quite literal, shooting a laser at your hair to heat it up and kill the hair follicles, while electrolysis involves using a metal probe to poke into the base of the hair follicles and deliver an electric charge to kill the follicle. It's also the only method considered permanent, because when done right it kills 100% of the hair that it's used on, while laser will need repeat treatments on the same hairs and is less effective the lighter your hair color is.

  • w e a k n e s s

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  • When you ask a Mechanicus player what their type is: 316 stainless.

  • Bazzite has seen a massive jolt in growth over the holiday season, surpassing 50k active users. The Fedora Atomic image has gained 38.8k users total in 2025 since it began counting in April 🥳

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  • I think a lot of people are basically looking for "Windows but not Microsoft/Windows". So it's their gaming PC where they also browse the internet/social media and watch YouTube or Twitch (sometimes at the same time that they're gaming), and maybe do some other ancillary stuff like art (digital art, 3d rendering, music, video or photo editing, etc.) or some other hobby related stuff.

    So Bazzite is kinda at the center of this perfect storm where plenty of PC gamers have seen the SteamOS/Big Picture mode and gone, "If I could use SteamOS as a traditional desktop, I would in a heartbeat" while Microsoft is also fumbling harder than they ever have - which is saying a lot - and Linux is the easiest to get up and running that it's ever been - to the point where immutable distros are as plug and play as Windows. Then Bazzite comes along and says, "Hey, SteamOS isn't desktop comparable yet, so we went and made it ourselves (with blackjack, and hookers)."

  • Peter Thiel and Larry Page are preparing to flee California in case the state passes a billionaire wealth tax, report says

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  • I know Massachusetts has a law similar to this as well, though I don't remember the details. I think it's even something like you have to claim money that you make outside the state and taxes that you pay in other states so that the state can adjust your taxes accordingly. But there's definitely something about needing to live there for at least 6 months or something in order to claim primary residency.

  • you can just do stuff

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  • I've noticed this trend with "You Laugh You Lose" videos as well (yes, people are still doing those). Oftentimes they're 50/50 neat facts and incredibly niche brainrot memes.

  • How many of you are actually fine with living in USA or are you planning on moving some where else?

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  • My problem is that I love the state/region I live in, but large swathes of the rest of the country are a risk to my life and my age, skills, and minority status don't make me appealing from an immigration standpoint, let alone that many places have just as much of an issue with people like me as the Republicans do.

  • How many of you are actually fine with living in USA or are you planning on moving some where else?

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  • The thing is that it would take an extremist left wing government to bring it back to some level of normality. FDR was a Democratic Socialist (officially), and the New Deal was one of the best improvements for the country we've ever had (minus all the blatant racism and destruction of minority communities that the highway projects caused). It was American socialists and anarchists who fought a bloody struggle that won the world the 40 hour work week and weekends. And even that was merely considered a stepping stone on the path to a 20 hour work week. The Overton Window has been pushed so far to the right that we've forgotten what it truly looks like to have 2 sides in the government.

  • Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?

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  • The bigger and more intrusive screens have gotten, the more sales of new cars have flagged. People are sick of them, and lawmakers are starting to catch up on regulating physical controls back into vehicles.

    The last time I bought a car one of my stipulations was a car no newer than 2016 because that was the last year that RAV4s had the small screens in the middle of the dashboard instead of mounted practically on the windshield, and the guy at the dealership that I talked to said that practically everybody who came in looking to buy a car had similar sentiments. People generally hate the big, intrusive screens, it's just that car makers aren't making any other options and then claim that that's what people want.

  • Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”

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  • I'd argue that that's probably already the case. Sunk cost fallacy at play. Your posts, comments, blocks and stuff don't follow you from one account to another.

  • Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”

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  • You beat me to it. I was gonna say "non-political" means "make it harder to spot and avoid the Republicans".

  • An almost inexhaustible reserve of lithium discovered in Canada

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  • Washington and Oregon at least are part of the West Coast, and I don't know how much Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas would complain. Outside of urban areas the country seems to be pretty red regardless of where you go, and those states are definitely not known for being very urban.

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    Elon Musk’s Cronies Locking Federal Workers Out of Computer Systems

    www.yahoo.com /news/elon-musk-cronies-locking-federal-215905907.html
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    Elon Musk’s Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency

    www.wired.com /story/elon-musk-lackeys-general-services-administration/
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    Elon Musk’s Cronies Locking Federal Workers Out of Computer Systems

    www.yahoo.com /news/elon-musk-cronies-locking-federal-215905907.html