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GiveOver

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  • Vintage

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  • I loved the PCs that had Ctrl + up as a shortcut to flip the monitor orientation. I think it was a Dell thing?

    My favourite prank was to flip the screen upside down then unplug the keyboard. Good luck saving your work fuck face

  • Quick! before the woke gets em!

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  • Whoa, wrong way round! The daughters got him drunk on purpose so they could rape him and have his kids.

  • Husband material

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  • I'm married and happy and we've played Stardew Valley together. Sometimes I leave the house and it's possible my wife plays stardew while I'm not right next to her. Doesn't mean I'm broken and lonely. Jesus fucking Christ.

  • Husband material

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  • How did he keep track of her heart progression? That's the most impressive part to me. You'd have to be hovering round with the ring in your pocket for weeks

  • Zara ads banned in Britain because of 'unhealthily thin' models

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  • Zara ads banned in Britain because of 'unhealthily thin' models

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  • Well the law in question here wasn't made because ads were normalising being a skeleton. The law was made because people were starving themselves on purpose to become like that. The adverts set an unrealistic beauty standard and women were becoming malnourished trying to reach it. So yes it matters. It's literally why the law was created years ago.

    Making an argument about "normalising" unhealthiness is a whole other ball game.

  • Zara ads banned in Britain because of 'unhealthily thin' models

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  • So no, then

  • Zara ads banned in Britain because of 'unhealthily thin' models

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  • The reason we target advertisements in this way is because they're saying "this is what you need to look like" which encourages young women to starve themselves as they strive to be size 4. This is a separate issue to merely "normalising" things. If you're concerned with normalisation of obesity, why are you focusing on adverts and not, say, The Simpsons or Family Guy?

  • Zara ads banned in Britain because of 'unhealthily thin' models

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  • Do you have any evidence that people are striving to be obese because of these adverts? I'd rather not have people call for laws based on vibes. Especially your shitty vibes.

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  • How could you believe that homosexuality is "rarely" justified? Being gay is a sin but it's ok if he's like SUPER hot

  • Domino’s Pizza profits dive as people cut back on takeaways in UK

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  • Actually if you faff around with vouchers and buy an extra pizza and change the garlic bread to wedges oh and spend another £5 to make it into the deal, you can bring the price down to only slightly overpriced!

  • Has anyone else noticed how dead most bars/clubs are now?

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  • I'm a Kagi user and you still had me thinking that the German word was "kagi" for a moment there

  • Good morning, please have a thought you probably never had before.

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  • Gazpacho-Os

  • Excellent idea

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  • You can be drop-dead Fred

  • Its the dream

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  • Yeah but what about the second/third/fourth time you see them. First contact is easy.

  • GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT

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  • I know it but I haven't seen a good way of doing a long quote. Do I need the on every single line? I've no idea why this time it put it into a code block, maybe something to do with my app (sync). The comment actually looks fine in a code block on my app so I thought it was good enough. Didn't realise how shit it looked on desktop until you brought it up.

  • GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT

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  • I didn't do it on purpose, I just copied and pasted

  • there's no escape! brew another cup!

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  • Just putting the finishing touches on GNAW (Gnaw's Not A Wheel)

  • GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT

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  • Here's an attempted explanation

     
            Quinones are produced by epidermal cells for tanning the cuticle. This exists commonly in arthropods. [Dettner, 1987]

    Some of the quinones don't get used up, but sit on the epidermis, making the arthropod distasteful. (Quinones are used as defensive secretions in a variety of modern arthropods, from beetles to millipedes. [Eisner, 1970])

    Small invaginations develop in the epidermis between sclerites (plates of cuticle). By wiggling, the insect can squeeze more quinones onto its surface when they're needed.

    The invaginations deepen. Muscles are moved around slightly, allowing them to help expel the quinones from some of them. (Many ants have glands similar to this near the end of their abdomen. [Holldobler & Wilson, 1990, pp. 233-237])

    A couple invaginations (now reservoirs) become so deep that the others are inconsequential by comparison. Those gradually revert to the original epidermis.

    In various insects, different defensive chemicals besides quinones appear. (See Eisner, 1970, for a review.) This helps those insects defend against predators which have evolved resistance to quinones. One of the new defensive chemicals is hydroquinone.

    Cells that secrete the hydroquinones develop in multiple layers over part of the reservoir, allowing more hydroquinones to be produced. Channels between cells allow hydroquinones from all layers to reach the reservior.

    The channels become a duct, specialized for transporting the chemicals. The secretory cells withdraw from the reservoir surface, ultimately becoming a separate organ.

    This stage -- secretory glands connected by ducts to reservoirs -- exists in many beetles. The particular configuration of glands and reservoirs that bombardier beetles have is common to the other beetles in their suborder. [Forsyth, 1970]

    Muscles adapt which close off the reservior, thus preventing the chemicals from leaking out when they're not needed.

    Hydrogen peroxide, which is a common by-product of cellular metabolism, becomes mixed with the hydroquinones. The two react slowly, so a mixture of quinones and hydroquinones get used for defense.

    Cells secreting a small amount of catalases and peroxidases appear along the output passage of the reservoir, outside the valve which closes it off from the outside. These ensure that more quinones appear in the defensive secretions. Catalases exist in almost all cells, and peroxidases are also common in plants, animals, and bacteria, so those chemicals needn't be developed from scratch but merely concentrated in one location.

    More catalases and peroxidases are produced, so the discharge is warmer and is expelled faster by the oxygen generated by the reaction. The beetle Metrius contractus provides an example of a bombardier beetle which produces a foamy discharge, not jets, from its reaction chambers. The bubbling of the foam produces a fine mist. [Eisner et al., 2000]

    The walls of that part of the output passage become firmer, allowing them to better withstand the heat and pressure generated by the reaction.

    Still more catalases and peroxidases are produced, and the walls toughen and shape into a reaction chamber. Gradually they become the mechanism of today's bombardier beetles.

    The tip of the beetle's abdomen becomes somewhat elongated and more flexible, allowing the beetle to aim its discharge in various directions.