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Mostly_Gristle

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  • AI is threatening science jobs. Which ones are most at risk?

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  • Given that the whole point of science is to methodically work your way to results that are reliable and reproducible, and AI is notorious for producing results that range from dubious to fully made up, you'd think AI would actually be on track to create more science jobs

  • They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war.

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  • My parents have belonged to one of those for years. One of the cool things about theirs is their farm usually grows much different varieties of vegetables than you can find in regular grocery stores. They regularly get white and purple carrots, and some variety of orange carrot that has a little bit of a peppery/gingery bite to it. One year they got some heirloom variety of celery which had too much flavor eat raw. Imagine biting into a stick of celery and being physically overwhelmed by the amount of celery flavor you're experiencing, like, "Jesus Christ... the celery... too... powerful..." It was absolutely killer in soups though.

  • Can you touch type?

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  • Yup, I can type about 90-100 wpm on a QWERTY keyboard if it's normal conversational English. Probably half that if it's something that contains a lot of long technical words. The thing that got me over the hump with getting good at typing was a game called QWERTY Warriors. It was a Flash-based web game that I was playing like 20 years ago, so I don't know if it's around anymore, but it was a tower defense game where you had to defeat enemies by typing the word underneath them. It was a pretty painless way to practice touch-typing.

  • What's your favourite album title?

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  • Circusized Peanuts by Warlock Pinchers

  • Why do they only put that little dab of roasted red pepper in the middle of hummus at the stores? That shit should be half the container.

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  • I just make my own. It's really easy. It's just a can of chickpeas (drained), a couple/three tablespoons of tahini, a couple/three tablespoons of olive oil, a few cloves of garlic, and a tablespoon or two of lemon juice. Add some cumin and paprika if you want it to taste like store bought. Throw all that in a blender or food processor for a couple minutes and you've got hummus. Then you can add as much red pepper as you want. Personally I like to make it with roasted and peeled Hatch or Pueblo chiles.

  • What are some uplifting/inspiring/empowering songs? (I mean like songs about personal struggles... or political struggles...) (pls link if possible)

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  • 'We Rely on Hispanic Labor': ICE Raids Trigger Economic Alarm Bells in Trump States

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  • Don't worry, once the camps are up and running there will be plenty of "free" labor to make up the shortfall.

  • Any Good Desktop or Phone Clients for Lemmy?

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  • One of features I really like about Summit is that it shows the age of new accounts next to the user name on comments by default. It's not a feature I knew I wanted, but I love it now that I have it.

  • Looking for recommendations for a conversation style podcast

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  • My Brother My Brother and Me probably fits the bill.

    The Box of Oddities is really good. Husband and wife team talking about spooky and Fortean topics.

    No Such Thing as a Fish, a podcast spinoff of the UK TV show QI. Four hosts each show up with an interesting bit of trivia to discuss.

    The Bugle. Comedians doing political satire. Is UK-centric but ends up being about US politics a lot of the time.

    If Books Could Kill. A couple guys tear apart popular self help books as well as pop-sci books like Freakonomics

  • Staggering evidence trove shows who put Trump in the White House — and controls him still

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  • Boy, you sure don't hear the words "deeply researched" used in reference to the Daily Mail very often.

  • CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

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  • Ironically us plebs who work with our hands are the people with the skill set necessary to build those things.

  • 'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI

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  • Windows 11 feels like Microsoft is actively punishing me for being foolish enough to keep using their products. Adding some janky AI bullshit machine to this garbage fire feels now they're just taking the piss.

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  • I think if you're going to go through the trouble to return your cart to the cart area then yeah, slot that bad boy into the stack the way it's supposed to go. Otherwise it's like those people who pick up their dog's poop and just hang the bag on a tree branch for someone else to put in the trash. Either do the thing, or don't do the thing. Doing it halfway just makes a different kind of mess.

    I found out a new (new to me at least) bit of cart-return etiquette last year when I was using the handicap parking spaces for a couple months following ankle surgery. Grocery carts double as walking aids for a lot of people with mobility issues while they're at the store. Many people with those issues will purposely leave their carts in the handicap area as a courtesy for the next person with mobility issues so they can have it right away and not have to struggle all the way to the cart area. So there's at least one instance where not returning your cart doesn't make you a horrible person.

  • What's the deal with that scary-looking green gas ICE is using in Minneapolis?

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  • It's just a regular ol' smoke grenade like the military uses for signaling. At least so say some people on the ground in Minneapolis who recovered one of the canisters.

  • How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times?

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  • I 100% read that as "carnitas," and now I'm thinking that whatever the solution is, it should definitely include tacos.

  • If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be?

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  • Meanwhile in Canada

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  • Any negatives?

    Yeah. You can kill people.

    When that stuff dislodges on the highway it's not like your car getting hit by a snowball. It's like having an entire wheelbarrow full of snow hit your car all at once at 50+ mph. Just the weight of it can KO your entire windshield. It's a super effective way to make someone crash.

    Also, it's not always just snow. If the snow on your vehicle sat there through a couple of freeze/thaw cycles, there can be a big sheet of ice underneath. If that goes through someone's windshield it can kill them directly. If you live in a snowy place, pretty much everyone you know has a story about the time they almost died because some asshole was too lazy to clean off the roof of their SUV, or because a huge sheet of ice flew off the top of a semi-trailer.

  • What show do you recommend to watch?

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  • Andor.

  • Why is kissing?

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  • I feel like I listened to this one like three or four years ago, but I listen to a lot of podcasts and unfortunately I don't remember which one it was. It might have been Science Vs, or RadioLab, or Sawbones, or This Podcast Will Kill You, or even Box of Oddities. But it also might have been none of those.