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Lyrl

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  • What are some gross or disgusting facts about the human body that people aren't aware of?

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  • When fertile, women have significantly increased mucus volume in their vaginas.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervix

    Several hundred glands in the endocervix produce 20–60 mg of cervical mucus a day, increasing to 600 mg around the time of ovulation.

  • What are some gross or disgusting facts about the human body that people aren't aware of?

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  • Our noses have erectile tissue.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_concha

    Conchae are lined by pseudostratified columnar, ciliated respiratory epithelium with a thick, vascular, and erectile glandular tissue layer.

  • What are some gross or disgusting facts about the human body that people aren't aware of?

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  • Sometimes regular stimulation is enough. I saw one case where a man took on an orphaned infant where there wasn't even any animal milk available to hack together formula, and the starving infant attempting to get milk out of his nipple every hour for multiple days was enough to get the one breast to start making milk, and the infant lived thanks to it.

    The need for suckling to stimulate milk production is a catch-22 for women who don't make enough milk. They have to supplement with formula to prevent "failure to thrive", but the infant spending some of its sucking time on a bottle instead of a breast reduces their supply even more, so then they have to feed even more formula... There are devices that run a tube to the nipple so the infant can get formula from the tube while at the same time stimulating breast milk production, and they work, but look like a huge pain.

  • Fresh Unagi to Go

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  • Neat to see how different in size the primary and secondary flight feathers are.

  • Job applications want your whole life

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  • So they pay taxes to the correct state, and offer insurance that is valid for medical establishments near you. Sometimes they mail physical letters in the mail.

  • Job applications want your whole life

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  • I think large group chats. Benefits of larger audience posting without being completely public-facing.

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  • Graphical operating systems weren't a thing when the actually floppy discs were dominant. When icons started to be developed, the hard encased discs were the thing people were using.

  • Tucker loses sponsors after fawning interview with white supremacist Nick Fuentes

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  • Sadly, no, the article text states one sponsor has withdrawn. Guess the editor of the headline didn't think the truth was sufficiently click-baity.

  • Air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites

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  • Leadership believes they would be unable to cobble together enough votes to pass a budget if there wasn't the threat of a shutdown to hang over the Representatives.

    Voters in the US tend to elect Representatives who are unwilling to compromise. Being obstructionist is rewarded with way better re-election chances than getting anything done. Voters want to see their candidate Stand Up To The Enemy, although they will accept passage of a Perfect Bill (as annointed by their media of choice). Passing a bill that is later deemed by their media of choice to have any small non-perfection gets them primaried and booted. So any candidate that doesn't have extensive cover for passing a budget, that by its nature has to be a compromise, is replaced by a more obstructionist person.

  • Air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites

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  • Small businesses were already disproportionately suffering from the capricious tariff situation. And areas with large federal employment specifically were already suffering from the Doge chainsaw layoffs. This administration is just piling it on.

  • Scientists criticize ‘straw man’ arguments in Bill Gates climate memo

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  • The left isn't immune: you see similar framing with genetic engineering and nuclear power generation. Rejection of nuance is systemically fertilized in widely consumed right-wing media in a way that the current left-wing media doesn't, but the underlying psychological susceptibility is common to all humans and not particular to ideology.

    Any improvement needs to happen at the system level, not by villianizing individuals as "right wing, can't handle shades of grey".

  • Andrew Cuomo slammed for ‘embarrassing’ AI Halloween attack ad on Zohran Mamdani

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  • In our first-past-the-post voting system, politicians who address policy don't get enough votes to win elections. After consistent losses, evolution of election consultants and candidate recruitment has made the "address policy" meme near-extinct.

    I believe ranked choice voting could help, but it would take multiple election evolution cycles (at least a decade) foe the now-rare political memes to rebreed up to significant population levels.

  • Oops go bye bye

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  • For me, it happens especially with activities I do over and over again. Washing my hair, while rinsing I will forget if it's shampoo or conditioner I am rinsing out, have to try to deduce it. Morning stretches I have to do in the same order, because I can remember the order to recognize where I am and do the next thing, but I have no memory of what I just did.

    Keeping track of one-time sequences is also a problem, but at least in that circumstance I am more likely to have written material I am referring to anyway.

  • Pentagon admits it doesn't 'positively ID' people before boat strikes kill them: lawmaker

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  • They still have to give some veneer of accountability to Congress to keep the Republican Representatives in line. This wasn't a Pentagon spokesperson going to the media, this was a legislator talking to the media after being briefed by the Pentagon.

    "They said that they do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessel to do the strikes," Rep. Sarah Jacobs (R-CA) told CNN following the briefing.

    The lawmaker pointed to the Pentagon's admission to explain why the Trump administration "could not actually hold or try the individuals that survived one of the attacks is because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden."

  • Efficacy unparalleled

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  • It's nice for variety.

  • Chipotle stock craters as company says young people without jobs can't afford their food anymore

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  • Inflation depends on the resource people are chasing after and the timeline of the cash infusion. Most resources can be provisioned at greater quantity without price increases if given enough time (years to decades). If everyone poof had double their normal income, and immediately tried to spend it all, there would be supply chain constraints and inflation, sure. Any UI scheme would need to have a gradual rollout to avoid that.

  • Chipotle stock craters as company says young people without jobs can't afford their food anymore

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  • Not everywhere. Shockingly to many, cities with higher rates of apartment construction have falling rents.

    https://www.redfin.com/news/rental-tracker-may-2025/

    “Apartment construction in America has been hovering near a 50-year high, and even though renter demand is strong, it’s not keeping pace with supply,” said Redfin Senior Economist Sheharyar Bokhari. “Many units are sitting vacant for months, which means renters have power to negotiate concessions and landlords have less leeway to keep rents high.”

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  • Overall job loss is not what happened the last thirty-odd times the federal minimum wage was raised, or any of the times individual states raised minimum wage, but go ahead and believe it will happen the next time for sure.

    What has happened is the newly higher-paid employees spend that money, and the new demand creates new jobs, enough to offset the losses from the old employers deciding to manage with a smaller staff. As long as the size of the increase is in the same range as all the previous ones, there's every reason to believe the effect would be the same.

    I wish the federal congress would just do several years of catch-up increases, then tie it to inflation so we can stop arguing about it.

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  • The stock holders are the owners. The owners can in theory direct the board of people representing their interests to do whatever, but generally stock owners want the board to do things they believe will make the value of the stock go up. Like any average owner of a private company, just we all get to watch since it's a public company.