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  • Born ready

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  • My father also was a MAGAt, up until his death. I'm pretty sure it's not genetic, thankfully.

    If you do start to thin, there are a ton of treatments to prevent and reverse it. As long as you get on them early, you'll likely not notice much of a difference. I was just super poor when I started balding, so I didn't have a choice. Now those poor follicles are toast.

  • Born ready

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  • If it helps comfort you, I'm an enby, phenotypically male, bald as a cue ball, and my natural testosterone is so high I'm practically a teen despite actually being three times older. I am and always have been left AF and a fierce supporter of human rights, including bodily autonomy. I had an incident earlier in life which led to my testosterone temporarily dipping by about half for a few months and nothing about my behavior or beliefs significantly changed. I did nap more but that might have been coincidental. That's about it.

    I think most people like the guys you mentioned are just assholes regardless of their testosterone levels.

  • In reversal, Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files

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  • We can only hope!

  • The Wheel of Time's Rosamund Pike wishes the show could be saved, but believes "we have to accept that it's over”

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  • Undoubtedly, at least until Brandon Sanderson took over. I enjoyed the last few books so much more due to the significantly better writing quality, but felt bad because Sanderson only took over because Robert Jordan died.

  • The Wheel of Time's Rosamund Pike wishes the show could be saved, but believes "we have to accept that it's over”

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  • Sword of Truth started okay, but I felt it quickly became a tract for Goodkind's libertarianism, fascism, racism, and misogyny.

  • This AI slop blanket is $40

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  • He probably developed his own internal colony of nitrogen fixing bacteria, feeding another colony of gut bacteria that churned out amino acids, providing 24/7 protein generation for maximum swole.

  • What would be the most optimal way to have good bodily nutrition with the lowest cost per meal?

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  • For anyone lucky enough to have a WinCo foods in their area, they're the cheapest I've been able to find for bulk dry goods. You can order 20-50 pound sacks of grains, beans, flour, etc., with a pretty decent discount on top of already low prices.

  • Right-wing media shrugs off latest Epstein document release

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  • I'm increasingly of the opinion it's cultural narcissism. Look into DARVO - Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender - and you'll see the majority of responses from these talking heads, including the shitty Garfield cosplayer currently in office.

  • Michelle Obama says the country is ‘not ready for a woman’ president | CNN Politics

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  • Their donors/handlers would be so angry!

  • Knows more than most scientists… according to one extremely reliable source: themselves

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  • Here on Lemmy, I recently learned of a far-reaching conspiracy that by its nature involves bribing research scientists and their support staff across the globe to falsify their data and support the falsified data of others.

    I was quite surprised, having worked as one for over a decade and never receiving a cent of my universal bribe income (UBI). I've filed grievances with requests for back pay from both ANSO and the ISC, but they're denying any knowledge of it.

  • YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg

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  • Age is the big factor. It does two things:

    1. Eggs gradually lose water, which introduces more air into the air cell and between the membrane and the shell, making it all a bit looser as you peel.
    2. The pH increases, reducing the attraction/attachment of the boiled egg white to the membrane, which is why fresh egg shells are more likely to tear strips of white off as you peel.

    Eggs in the US can be up to 60 days old at the time of packaging, then are considered good for another 45 days. Large flats of eggs can contain eggs from multiple batches of varying age, so some eggs might be two weeks old and others two or more months.

  • YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg

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  • Agreed, ice bath is only important for me if eggs are super fresh, which makes them harder to peel, or if I need them to stop cooking fast, like if I am making soft boiled eggs or have the sudden realization I started boiling the eggs and walked off at least five minutes ago but neglected to set a timer.

    I'm not ADHD, you're ADHD!

  • Scientists of Lemmy, explain:

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  • How about this one?!

  • Not impressed

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  • Yep, traditional (non-phylogenetic) taxonomy creates problems like protists, the grab bag of eukaryota.

    There are more species labeled protists than the sum of all their descendants.

    Are they animals, plants, or fungi? Sure, why not!

    Some are heterotrophs (eat things), some are autotrophs (energy from sun or chemicals), and others are mixotrophs (some of both). Some are motile, others immotile. Some are multicellular, most unicellular.

    The problem is all taxonomy is arbitrary, and traditional taxonomy is pretty inconsistent. Phylogenetic taxonomy is still arbitrary, but using evolutionary relationships instead of "this monkey looks like other monkey" at least gets you more consistency in that system.

  • If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences

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  • I'm a microbiologist. I can speak from experience (my grad research required attempting this a few times) that entirely sterilizing anything of microbes is incredibly difficult regardless of technology level. They are tenacious little fuckers. I'll lay this out for anyone interested.

    Gotta Kill 'Em All: Most microbes are fairly easy to kill using simple physical and/or chemical means. Some are more difficult, like spore formers, bacteria that produce little personal suspension pods when conditions are rough.

    What matters is you start with huge quantities of microbes, they're everywhere, and you can't see them. All you need is one to survive to potentially reproduce into vast legions of descendants. Even NASA's protocol is about lowering the total number, thereby reducing, not eliminating, the probability of causing an issue. Miss the wrong microbe in the wrong environment and you've inoculated a planet.

    Checking Your Work: How do you verify that you successfully sterilized your tool? You might say culturing - swab it and grow that on some type(s) of media. That's NASA's protocol! It's just not very effective.

    Not all microbes grow on all media. There are an estimated one trillion microbial species on the planet and we only know how to culture less than about 0.5% of them. The rest are a mystery, largely uncharacterized*. Most sterility testing is for known microbes of consequence, not every microbe in existence.

    Microbiology is very often a science of slapping your tool or workspace and exclaiming "good enough!", not absolute precision and 100% efficacy, both of which are practically required if you want to be sure you don't inadvertently pull a "smallpox blankets from space".

    *Fun fact: Sometimes people get sick with something atypical, that doesn't get IDed through standard testing. I worked for a time identifying these pathogens via gene sequencing. There was a whole lot of "that's a new one" out there.

  • Nobel peace prize winner María Corina Machado offers to sell $1.7 trillion of Venezuela's assets to US corporations

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  • Fuck, that IS depressing. Every four years we just hope for someone less awful than the last guy.

  • Nobel peace prize winner María Corina Machado offers to sell $1.7 trillion of Venezuela's assets to US corporations

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  • Agreed, the Obama administration was rotten, but boy, was he charismatic. My dislike of him has been one point of contention between my standard-issue US liberal neighbor while helping bridge the gap with my recovering MAGA other neighbor.

  • NEW TOAD ALERT

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  • TOAD! TOAD! TOAD! TOAD!

  • We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30.

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  • I found a blurb that Americans spend an average of $22/week at coffee shops. That's nearly $1200 per year!

    With a median US home price of $410,000 and a minimum FHA loan down payment of 3.5%, all you need to do it save that for twelve years and never have anything go seriously wrong in the meantime. Then you too can pay about $3300 per month for 30 years, ultimately spending nearly $900,000 for your $410,000 loan.

  • We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30.

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  • It took an MS for me, a BS for my partner, choosing to not adopt children, five years of saving, a minor inheritance from an unexpected death, and the housing market cratering due to the pandemic for us to be able to afford a house that we absolutely could not afford now without making 150% of our current income.

    All it took was accruing nearly $100k in combined school loan debt, plus over three times that much in mortgage debt. That's freedom debt! Murica!