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JohnnyCanuck

@ JohnnyCanuck @lemmy.ca

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  • wrong again

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  • They were not "making the mice transgender".

    From the Whitehouse's 6 evil studies list:

    Three of them were studying the long-term effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy on the growth of the skeleton, how it affects fertility, and if it changes your breast cancer risk. These are all things that people who are against transgender care use as reasons to stop transgender care. So they were potentially a way for the government to say "no" to this kind of hormone therapy and have some scientific backing for why. (Note: the results of these studies weren't going the way anti-trans numpties would have liked. I'm sure that has nothing to do with it though.)

    One is studying (as best I can determine) how GA therapy works, I guess because we don't really fully understand it. This one used "transgenic" mice (scary!) to help isolate the processes. That means they were genetically modified.

    There was a very scary one about how such hormone therapy affects the effectiveness of the HIV vaccine. (They made sure to list this one first with its homophobantitransantivax trifecta).

    One study they claimed in their list was actually just a comparison of asthma between men and women (nothing about transgender, but it mentioned "gonadal hormones" which is like, so gross).Edit to add: This one also accounts for over 1/3 of their claimed savings and is only tangentially related to transgender women because of the estrogen they take. It was mainly focused on laying a basis for future therapies for everyone with lung disease.

    A bunch of the info came from here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/white-house-scared-of-trans-mouse/

    I also read through the abstracts from the studies listed and linked in the Whitehouse press release.

  • Paint Markers are great for writing on your Cybertruck

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  • If it's bought and paid for, how does it support Nazis?

    How does trashing a working vehicle fight Nazis?

  • Development Methods

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  • That's why agile was created. Because people don't know what they want in panel 1.

  • Development Methods

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  • Yeah, it requires replacing the "you test the rocket" with "you test the rocket and it fails or doesn't meet the updated mission specifications" and the "you go to mars" with "you want to go to mars"

  • US commerce chief says Trump to meet Canada, Mexico in middle on tariffs

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  • We can't really afford to do that. I'm not actually convinced we should respond with tariffs because it will hurt us more. They certainly shouldn't be our only or primary tactic. We will have the double whammy of less exports giving less money coming in and less jobs (because of US tariffs), and more expensive imports that we rely on but can't afford (because of our tariffs). Trump is trying to wreck our economy and adding tariffs on US products won't help us prevent that. Our tariffs are meant to be punitive, to get Trump to back down, and I'm not convinced they will succeed in that. He's going to war to destroy Canada and he's willing to sacrifice poor Americans to win that war. We can't survive a tariff-to-tariff boxing match, just as much as we couldn't possibly survive a toe-to-toe fight. We need to be creative and think guerilla (trade-) warfare.

    We need to find specific ways to make it painful for rich Americans while not making it worse for the majority of Canadians. We need to move manufacturing back to Canada and we need to find new trade partners and repair old deals, and improve trade internally. Some of that will take time and it still won't remove our need to import from the US, but it will give us a better long term outlook.

  • Vaccine critic RFK Jr. backs measles vaccine amid deadly Texas outbreak

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  • I guess he's seeing the inside info now? What a fucking tool. He should go to Texas to show his support. Maybe kiss a few babies for good measure.

  • Utah set to become first state to ban fluoride in public water

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  • Yes but what about all the autism. Or mind controlling. Or whatever the hell it is that fluoride is evil for?

  • Musk: Canada is not a real country

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  • More than 250 Canadian citizens and residents have signed a petition calling for Elon Musk to be stripped of his Canadian citizenship.

    It was 250 thousand. But I'm pretty sure it got even higher than that.

  • Musk’s purges suddenly take a horrific turn—and wreck an ugly MAGA lie

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  • Destruction Of Government Enterprise

  • Musk’s purges suddenly take a horrific turn—and wreck an ugly MAGA lie

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  • Cancelling contracts already in progress. The epitome of "efficiency".

  • frfr no cap

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  • What happened to her left side?

  • fireflies

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  • Now let's talk about the Kentucky bluegrass lawns the leaves fall on...

  • 28 February 2025

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  • The Kite Runner is a great book that describes this but in Afghanistan.

  • TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"

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  • Bah, I was there. .jif was barely used and came 5 years after. They should have used a different name!

  • Is FitGirl not accpeting Seeds?

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  • This could be a router or VPN issue, or both. Is FitGirl private? They probably have info about port forwarding and seeding in an FAQ.

  • TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"

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  • Gagascript. One is soft, one is hard.

  • TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"

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  • It doesn't matter what it stands for. That's not how acronyms work.

    You don't say "yolwa" for "YOLO"You don't say "Ah-ih-dees" for "AIDS"You don't say "britches" for "BRICS"You don't say "sue-knee" for "CUNY" (City University of New York) Etc.

    And if you want to argue specifically about G:You don't say "Jad" for "GAD" (generalized anxiety disorder)You don't say "joes" for "GOES" (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)

    It's not a hill I'm going to die on, I use both pronunciations, but the only argument I've ever believed for the proper one is that the creator pronounced it "jif". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Pronunciation

    Now let's talk about "gibs" you heathens.

  • TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"

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  • GIF like Geoffrey the giraffe, if you get my gist. Always has been.

  • How Can I... Regain lost resolution

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  • You can do super resolution in post if you take multiple photos of a still subject. They do this in astrophotography.