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MoonMelon

@ MoonMelon @lemmy.ml

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  • NSFW

    Why did America betray us?

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  • You know what's also funny, the gorillas were different sizes because of sexual dimorphism. Decades later I was at a lecture about animal morphology and the lecturer mentioned that, among primates, humans are actually fairly androgynous. I think about that a lot too.

    For all the cruelty we inflict on one another about it, an orangutan probably couldn't even tell you what the fuck we're talking about because male humans don't even have giant cheek flaps. Like the "angle measuring" bullshit that so-called "transvestigators" do would be absolutely hilarious to other primates because we invented this four hour long Voight-Kampff test since males aren't literally three times the size, with a nose like a tomato.

  • Is there a way to view Facebook posts without an account?

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  • Plenty of choices out there…

    Not for me unfortunately. There's a number of businesses with zero online presence. They maybe have a facebook page with one entry congratulating Becky's son Roger for graduating with the class of 2015, and that's how you find the phone number. It's like the 90s again, except there's no phone book now. I don't understand it. These guys must be making a living purely off the business they get at church.

    The guy who dug my well asked why I decided on him specifically and I said, "Honestly? You're the only one who returned my call." I asked him why guys with a lease on a million dollar drill rig wouldn't return calls and he wasn't sure.

    I really didn't want to interface with Facebook at all but, fuck me. I have to join the Ruritan Club, or some shit, just to find an electrician.

  • Is there a way to view Facebook posts without an account?

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  • Yeah, disappointing.

  • Is there a way to view Facebook posts without an account?

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  • I ended up making a burner account for this. I used a proton mail address and a plausible but fake name. My vpn kept getting flagged for special review where they, I shit you not, want you to send in a photo of a government ID. Eventually I found a VPN server that, for whatever reason, got passed this.

    Then I spent 15 minutes hiding and locking every privacy setting I could find because I really didn't want to be shown to other people as a potential "friend".

    I use the account just to monitor local emergencies and whatnot. An infuriating amount of local businesses and services only use facebook.

  • NSFW

    Why did America betray us?

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  • Trans people are vulnerable, that's it. You did nothing to deserve it.

    When I was a kid I remember being at the zoo during feeding time for gorillas. The zoo keeper was chucking sweet potatoes and other things into the pit. Two gorillas were sitting next to each other, a big one and a small one. The big one got hit on the head with a sweet potato and immediately responded with violence onto the smaller gorilla next to him.

    Gorillas are smart, there's no way he thought that the small gorilla was responsible for the yam to the head. But he couldn't attack the one throwing potatoes. That other gorilla was vulnerable and accessible. That's all. I think about that a lot.

    Also, same gorilla enclosure where Harambe would be killed years later. It's like "come to Cincinnati, see our pit of cruel metaphor!"

  • Do you expect people to remember your birthday, or do you just let them know when it's coming up?

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  • I think the last time I celebrated any holiday was buying some champagne when Kissinger died.

  • Learn to code

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  • Bugs? My favs are buggy to the point some of these bugs became their own mechanics

    This is pretty much half of competitive Brood War.

  • What are you surprised that people pay for, when there are free alternatives in existence?

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  • Also quite a few great books in the public domain. Here is a website that curates, fixes up, and publishes free copies of classic public domain literature: https://standardebooks.org/

  • Is the FDA good or bad?

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  • I'd like to specifically highlight the Swill Milk Scandal also.

    The New York Times reported an estimate that in one year, 8,000 infants died from swill milk. The milk from swill-fed cows, produced in dense urban areas and often priced as low as 6 cents per quart, was affordable to most of New York City's poorest residents. Swill milk dairies were noted for their filthy conditions and overpowering stench both caused by the close confinement of hundreds (sometimes thousands) of cows in narrow stalls where, once farmers tied them, they would stay for the rest of their lives, often standing in their own manure, covered with flies and sores, and suffering from a range of virulent diseases.

    Sound familiar?

    The Tammany Hall politician Alderman Michael Tuomey, known as "Butcher Mike", defended the distillers vigorously throughout the scandal—in fact, he was put in charge of the Board of Health investigation... Tuomey assumed a central role in the ensuing investigations and ... shielded the dairies and turned the hearings into one-sided exercises designed to make dairy critics and established health authorities look ridiculous.

    Sound familiar? However people were so enraged that eventually laws passed regardless, and then finally at the federal level.

    Most people don't know about it, but this was basically THE incident that led to the modern FDA. It keeps coming up too. Recently we've had the raw milk fad, but also various melamine adulteration incidents (melamine is used to fool modern protein assays, but is basically the 21st century version of swill milk). There's also occasional "grass roots" efforts to loosen the regulation on milk labeling, ostensibly for plant based milks, but I am suspicious this is astroturfing by the dairy industry because it's exactly what they've been fighting for since the Pure Food and Drug Act passed.

  • What do you mean, increase soil fertility?

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  • What do you mean, increase soil fertility?

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  • Yeah I know this is just an AI generated meme, but people who look like this are actually pretty solar punk, in my experience. I first heard of fracking radishes from a 70 year old farmer, 15 years ago. This meme just promotes culture war bullshit.

  • Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus

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  • Coming from Python I feel like it's my partner and best friend. In fact the whole damn tool chain is amazing.

  • We're (probably) doomed: Experts think the Sun may produce gigantic, electronics-destroying superflares much more often than we previously thought

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  • Just long enough for it to happen, fuck everything up, claw our way painfully out, create a strategic transformer reserve, neglect it, cannibalise it, revise history, then have it happen again. Hey but at least private equity would get all the contracts.

  • What are some signs your getting older?

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  • School dreams are very rare now, and when I have them the "cast" is all people from various adult jobs. I never knew my actual school mates as adults, so I guess my brain just can't fill it in. If I was actually transported back to high school and saw them again it would probably feel like being surrounded by babies, so makes sense that "central casting" sends in adult stand-ins.

    I'm always an adult too. What's weird is I remember being a child. I remember my body being clumsy and awkward, I remember being confused by adult concepts, I remember being small. It never comes out in childhood dreams, I'm always my present age.

  • Solarpunk praxis enters the chat

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  • It depends on the forest, but there are fire adapted forests that benefit from fire. We've completely changed the understory by suppressing fire, meaning the succession of the forest is totally different now. Also many non-native invasive plants, that aren't fire adapted, are thriving and blocking sunlight to native seedlings. The lack of fire has also made the tick problem worse.

    BTW I should mention, when the forest burns often (once every 6-10 years), then you get "good" fires. Fires which are less than a meter tall and quickly move through the leaf litter and scrub layer. Trees are left intact, nutrients are recycled into the soil, new growth of fire-adapted species returns quickly.

    If you don't get frequent fires all that stuff builds up, and in fifty years you get a total conflagration that climbs into the overstory and creates a raging inferno. This is what you see on the news. These are bad and can completely destroy a forest for decades or even centuries.

  • COSMIC Alpha 4 Released For System76's Rust-Based Desktop

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  • That's one kind, and Rust's "ownership" concept does mean there's built-in compile time checks to prevent dangling pointers or unreachable memory. But there's also just never de-allocating stuff you allocated even though it's still reachable. Like you could just make a loop that allocates memory and never stops and that's a memory leak, or more generally a "resource leak", if you prefer.

    Rust is really good at keeping you from having a reference to something that you think is valid but it turns out it got mutated way down in some class hierarchy and now it's dead, so you have a null pointer or you double free, or whatever. But it can't stop the case where your code is technically valid but the resource leak is caused by bad "logic" in your design, if that makes sense.

  • Healthcare solved rule

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  • My dad survived colon cancer but then any further colonoscopy was denied for five years because it was no longer "preventative".

  • Brain roll

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  • Coder

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  • Last place I was at called them build "masters" for this reason.