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Tarquinn2049

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  • Professor Reinstated After Being Fired For Charlie Kirk Post

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  • The apology is literally "sorry we didn't fire him properly", there is nothing about firing him being the wrong course of action. Every word of the apology is carefully crafted to avoid implying that firing him was the wrong move, just that they didn't fire him correctly.

  • Is there a self-help way to deal with fear of germs/"contamination"?

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  • It sounds like more knowledge about virus and bacteria lives can help too. So you know how long a surface just has to be dry for before no virus and bacteria could have survived that long, and stuff like that. There are definitely surfaces and conditions that can increase their life spans, but the average life span without water and in the light, can be surprisingly short.

    Definitely still a good idea to be careful, but very helpful to know more about how careful is the right amount of careful.

    Also, viral/bacterial load is a huge factor. Like, you have to notice how despite how "gross" everything "should be" people still aren't getting sick as often as you would expect. Just cuz some bacteria got somewhere, and is still alive, doesn't automatically mean someone would get sick if they touched it, or brace yourself >!licked!< it. Most traces are going to be too little to make a difference against someone's immune system. That of course goes out the window when there would be no defense, or very little defense. But even there, people on chemo are still exposed to "amounts" of bacteria and virus all the time and they only get sick sometimes despite being immunocompromised. There are alot of hurdles to getting sick even when a bunch of them are knocked down.

    But yes, definitely try to be more careful than the average person is, but you don't need to drive yourself crazy trying to get down to zero exposure.

    Especially since that can lead to lowering the strength of your immune system long-term. And then you really will "have" to be careful. You don't want to get there. Your immune system needs to keep taking it's new tests every day in order to not fall behind the rest of the class. The more often you come in contact with an amount of bacteria or virus that doesn't make you sick, the better. But it is of course a gamble, and more knowledge about what the actual risk is, is very helpful to win those gambles.

  • Eric Barone makes $125,000 donation to the C# framework Stardew Valley uses, as well as 'an ongoing monthly commitment' in what the team behind it calls an 'extraordinary show of support'

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  • The Harvest Moon games were also all dating sims. The main thing Stardew Valley does is have like 20x as much content and variety as a Harvest Moon game with significantly fewer bugs or abandoned concepts. And the Harvest Moon games were already great as they were. But yeah, if you literally rolled every single Harvest Moon game feature into a single Harvest Moon game, it would still come up short against Stardew Valley. And it was made primarily by one dude that charged way less than any single Harvest Moon game for it.

    For the purposes of this comment "Harvest Moon games" refers to the ones made by the real Harvest Moon team, that eventually moved on to "Story of Seasons" when their franchise name was stolen from them. And also includes Rune Factory.

  • 'An Absolute Joke': Trump DOJ Partially Releases Epstein Files, Many Heavily Redacted | Common Dreams

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  • There is always the chance they incompetently bungled something, like all the previous times. We'll know once they've all been parsed. Though this is the most important one, so we'll see.

  • Deputy AG: Bondi to hold back 'several hundred thousand' Epstein docs in Friday dump

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  • It's really kind of them to protect all the democrats they say are the only ones implicated in those files. They've gone to so much effort to protect people that no one wants them to protect. Other democrats don't want them protected, and republicans don't generally want anyone protected other than themselves, like each individual republican. So it's quite the uncommon situation to have so many republicans choose to protect people that are not only meaningless to them, but people you would think they would see as their enemies as well as criminals.

    So yeah, anyway.... it can be pretty tough to keep 100 lies straight, unless the person you are lying to is also invested in those lies being the truth.

  • A French supermarket’s Christmas advert is going against the AI trend and it's a hit with millions of people around the world

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  • Pescatarian is a pretty common restrictive diet, mostly just leaves out land meat. It's not generally a diet based on the same reasons for being restrictive as vegetarian or vegan. While some people can arrive at it ideologically, like this commercial is displaying, it's more commonly a conclusion people would choose based on health concerns rather than ideology. And from what I could read from the french I saw, it does seem like despite the depictions in the cartoon, the message is something like " it doesn't matter how you arrive at a healthy diet, as long as you make the effort" or something like that. So it seems like they are more concerned with health generally than ideology.

    But if you want to get creative, here's an ideological explanation. The forest critters government has spent decades if not centuries grievously 'other'ing fish to the point that their populace doesn't think of them as animals anymore. And their sex education is so attrocious that until any individual animal sees it for themselves, they have no idea where babies come from. And by then they are so traumatised by what they have already done to and with eggs that they can't bring themselves to accept the truth, they gaslight themselves into thinking that was a freak occurence.

  • How Many Members Does Antifa Have? Where Is Its Headquarters? The FBI Has No Answers.

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  • Yes, but they normally do their best to pretend it isn't the case. Though there is of course the argument that this 'is' their best.

  • Poor baby

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  • "Why did you make my food so hot and hard to get too. It's hurting me!" *takes another bite "it's still hurting me!"

  • What's you favourite movie with big plot-holes?

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  • Ant man is from the 1960's, it sucks that they have to use the same reasoning that was given then, as well as the same character abilities. It's inconsistent as hell. Wish they would have been able to at least update the science to fit the capabilities better. But of course we know of no science that could explain what they want him to be capable of doing. But then they get to make shit up, they love making up plausible sounding sciencey words.

    They a little bit try to make it seem like there is a cost for going super big, in that he gets tired really fast... but even that keeps slipping to being less and less immediate or important.

    I feel like the cost is literally the most important part of super heroes. Whether it be time constraints, or energy usage, or personality problems... having a tangible cost is what makes them "heroes", instead of just hypercapable beings doing awesome stuff for spectacle alone.

  • US Game Console Sales Crater in Worst November in Two Decades

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  • In those figures, do they count standalone VR headsets as consoles? Cuz they basically are. May not be the same shape, but they do the same thing. And would fill the same role in christmas shopping regards. With the Quest 3s going down to 200 USD for black friday, I have to imagine there were some units sold there.

  • How Many Members Does Antifa Have? Where Is Its Headquarters? The FBI Has No Answers.

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  • Did they do the math on that sentence?

    Anti-fascists and other anti-americans.

    Anti-fascist = Anti-american

    Divide both sides by anti.

    Fascist = American

  • Are you?

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  • Fair, I am probably using it wrong, hehe. I definitely am picking up quite a few names and occasionally socialising. For me it's just the current platform nerds are socialising on until this one gets too popular/ruined and we have to move again.

  • "Super secure" MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone's phone number

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  • Man, and they talk about how we are simultaneously all-powerful and blundering fools.... always the hypocrits.

  • Are you?

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  • Wait... is this not social media? What we are doing right now?

  • #NotAllGenAI

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  • The chat bot just assumes it's in the context of active war. Not that there isn't even a war. There are no active combatants or "effectively surrendering" combatants. There is just people accused of a crime they may, or may not, be guilty of.... and missiles.

  • id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine — Commander Keen title brought smooth scrolling to PCs

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  • I have to assume as a close friend of becky, that still hung out with her post-transition, that must have been something becky was ok with. Alot of older trans are not very sensitive about getting it all absolutely correct. And especially when their old name is the one they are famous/well-known by.

    Plus it was written in a timeline of their life and post-transition switches to they. It may not be how younger trans have setup the rules to work, but it doesn't strike me as something that becky would have had a problem with.

  • Holy Shit - I will never think about Eli Whitney the same again...(Cotton Gin —> Cott-engine)

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  • Yeah, I wish more teachers knew there is a difference between memorizing and learning. Learning is connecting all the pieces so you have a solid foundation and will never forget. Memorizing is getting ready for a test and then forgetting everything you ever heard afterwards.

  • This close

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  • Hehe yeah, the atoms of the separate fingers are closer than the atoms making up each finger, while I like the concept they were going for, they have accidentally made the fingers literally 'closer than' touching.

  • Watching the game

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  • "I told you I had a fix for the blown speakers"

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Tarquinn2049 @lemmy.world

    How long until someone is allowed to make a safety can opener with a long crank?