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  • It's absolute nonsense on the highest level.

    There's an interesting frontier of microbiology/genetics/biochemistry where microRNAs (this is, of course, miRNA not mRNA (not to be confused with siRNA or RNAi)) are responsible for some functions of fetal development in vertebrate limbs (Harfe 2005). There's a bunch of your DNA that doesn't code for any proteins. So we were all "it's a bunch of junk and no longer functioning, ancient retroviruses!" but then it turns out some of it codes for little snippets of RNA that have affects that are (were?) not well understood. It's not really here nor there but it's interesting enough and it's part of what immunized me against the absolute drivel that comes out of people's mouths when it comes to RNA.

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    Black-footed cat - Novo General Megathread for the 14th-17th of December 2025

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  • It also got recommended to me on TikTok which was par for the course. I don't know who I pissed off. Perhaps I liked too many NBA x alcohol edits [1] so it tested the waters for the alt-right pipeline.

    [1] what's your favorite drink? the next one. Michael Jordan highlight fancam

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    Weekly Improvement Thread - Dec 14th 2025

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  • I had a horrible week and took massive Ls because I got sick and I couldn't focus for the life of me. But this week I want to focus really hard so I can cruise into Christmas weekend and enjoy myself. But I want to try going to bed and waking up earlier. I think it might help me with my sleeping issues (which I also need to endeavor to fix otherwise). Otherwise I have a couple deliverables that are each one step away from success. It makes it feel like I can't rest yet because it's so devilishly close to being ready to put into other people's hands.

  • What Do You Generally Think About Copyright Laws?

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  • There are two things I think are important: credit and resource allocation. So a socialist solution would be more restrictive and allow someone to take the benefit of their work. If a group makes a project then that's cool and good and they should get their flowers and people should generally be willing to give labor in exchange for it. You need a couple years to be like "yes, this is good, this is doing numbers for society. I've taken what I need to afford luxury, I've gotten my ELO gain. I will continue to monitor the open source space and move on to my next project."

    The limitations inherent to a more socialist resource allocation is when someone else could take that work, make it 10% better, and revolutionize industry or take us to the moon in respect to scientific advancement, scalability of industry, or automation. Like if someone made 90% Haber-Bosch process. If you're in the later stages of communism and you could go "well, you're going to be compensated with luxuries for this," they don't have to go back to scrubbing the proverbial toilet, and they are assuredly part of the narrative even after someone makes that 10% improvement (e.g. I can't add the final 10% and call it the WDYMP Process) then I could see them being in the presence of justice as they are compelled to pass the torch without copyright protection.

    But as I type this I realize I'm thinking a lot more about patents and inventions. If you published some kind of novel/entertainment product and someone started making a bunch of AI smut of your characters and you had no tool to tell them to piss off then it would be cringe. Beyond my wheel house because I would feel sad to see my characters be compelled into the public domain. But then again, my material conditions are like some Hasbro-Disney amalgam played by Chris Pratt completely missing the point and never having to ask my what my vision was - if I were in a less barbarous society people might do justice to my vision even if I don't control it with an iron fist

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    Black-footed cat - Novo General Megathread for the 14th-17th of December 2025

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  • Caught an ear worm from Kanye West...'s more... contemporary work. Sorry

  • You all want to ban hentai, you dont see the benefit of gooning.

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  • I was just considering that already having all the hanzi in your wheelhouse would help a lot. If it's just N2 for reading writing and not speaking you'd get an outsized advantage to how our baka gaijin minds operate. That's at least, the thesis of Remembering the Kanji.

  • You all want to ban hentai, you dont see the benefit of gooning.

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  • I can almost see it if you start with Chinese since you know all the Hanzi/Kanji. I can accept that you eventually get a grip on the sentence structure. But the conjugation? The vocabulary? You could probably say things are warm, big, and intense. You'd know all the family members, a lot of anatomy, and a couple different types of buildings.

    You would never be able to hear the word kimochii. Every time someone asks you how you are - really every 5th word you hear would sound like an innuendo.

  • UK 'rapidly developing' plans to prepare for war

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  • Imagine putting it all on the line, risking your corporeal safety, but you do it for fucking Britain. Grim.

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    So I joined the feds, literally

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  • wait, I love that colorful shirt behind it. How can I appropriate your style?

  • Is there a professional address for non-binary people?

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  • I would be down to have big dawg/blud as preferred pronouns

    Can you deliver the letter to big dawg?

    Blud wants the letter delivered

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    Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin - Novo General Megathread for the 9th-13th of December 2025

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  • Really fucked up of NYT to put Pride in the "things that aren't real" category in Connections today

  • Weekly Improvement Thread - Dec 8th 2025

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  • I've been trying to enjoy the process, so even when a brand new bug just decided to appear out of nowhere and I had to spend over a day to diagnose and debug it, I still got to expand my horizons and become a better coder. But now I have a sinus infection so severe I can't fucking think straight holy shit

  • Blue check. Opinion invalidated.

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  • I thought this image originated from an angry little sister.

    "On November 20th, 2020, iFunny[1] user Big_Ed posted a comic with the caption "I have decided to become a millennial comic artist. My original characters are:" followed by a depiction of two millennial stereotypes. "

    No, it was just some guy with a 404'd iFunny account

  • I remember a while back on a writing forum when I mentioned that in a story I was writing that a captain quit his position because he was ordered to commit a war crime, posters got upset

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  • Can I talk my shit again?

    I have no doubt that the forum dwellers were a bunch of dorks. I just want to talk about narrative structure because it's all the rage in my writing group and I want to synthesize something out of it.

    Whenever a character needs a dramatic change of heart we go on and on and on about how we have to understand their internal state when they're making the decision - it can never be a play by play until after the decision is made. It doesn't need to be the amount of time passing, but we need to know why they're personally so disgusted. But then I also get a lot of flak when it's someone in only in their mind because a character is almost always more interesting when they are in relation to other people.

    isn't just sadly smoking because he feels lonely; he's sadly smoking after hearing someone talk about him. So, in your story, if a superior is there talking shit or an underling gets emotionally overwhelmed and/or asks a resonating question before the change of heart it hits a little harder. It's at its best when it's combination thoughts and relationships, especially if you can show the emotions/thoughts through something like what Sanji's doing.

    I think you made a good decision doing some tooling of the character. At the very least, show him to be sympathetic to the plight of the targets of military might earlier in the narrative (or later on through flashbacks if you're fancy like that). It's technically possible that this is his first awakening of empathy, but it doesn't serve narrative structure well to not lead up to a big outburst. Part of being a fantasy novel isn't just being called to adventure, but also being thrust into it with little recourse because part of the authorship is letting the audience imagine what it's like being forced into adventure instead of having to choose it for oneself. In the same way, if your audience really expects this captain to have emotional attachment to his years of military service, you should spend some detail having him acknowledge the time he spent. Maybe he can tell his superior where they can shove their commendations. The final thing is that such a decision demands some kind of sacrifice. It gives the moment a little more oomph to have to sacrifice or lose something at that moment. Maybe he vows to atone for all the horror he caused for so long. Maybe he brings a lower rank soldier with him. Maybe he kidnaps one and doesn't know what to do with them. Maybe he has to kill a soldier on the way out so there's no going back.

  • FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals

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  • Yeah, I think it was about political violence. I think they basically scraped the site looking for keywords. I suggested, on badposting, that we just say a lot of sentences with probable keywords in it to skew the data. So that if they hung around us and tried to punch in data for every hit, their data would be nuked.

  • After back to back flops, Sydney Sweeney pulls a Hail Mary

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  • Yeah! It was LeninWeave! This is the fuck up I was telling you all about! Like a total pile a broken dreams and unfunny jokes!

  • What is your opinion on goofy scifi curse words

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  • I fucking love them. When I'm feeling a little silly I'll gasp and go "Stormfather..."

  • After back to back flops, Sydney Sweeney pulls a Hail Mary

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  • After back to back flops, Sydney Sweeney pulls a Hail Mary

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  • I always think it would be fun, and my indomitable human spirit opens me to being hurt, if someone genuinely got educated after some shit like this.

    The only instance I can recall is someone of prominence whose name completely escapes me. They jokingly called him "chairman" something, like Rose [1]. He had a full change of heart and started calling himself a socialist and decrying US foreign policy.

    [1] Chairman Rose is the main antagonist of Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield. He is the charismatic chairman of the Galar pokemon League and the president of the ...

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    Musings About Israeli Ex-UFC Fighter Natan Levy

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    Can I be dishonest for a second? Hitler made some good points and didn't die like a pathetic cowardly little weasel symbolizing the movement as a whole.

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    What if instead of leftist infighting it was leftist inn fighting and it was DnD PvP?

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    Girls go to college to get more knowledge. Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider. Theys go to Saturn to find a new pattern

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    "Imagine being desperate for attention" I DON'T HAVE TO IMAGINE! REPLY TO THIS THREAD NOWWWWWWW

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    "Are you on social media?" Yeah, the silly owl-bear site

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    Being a conservative communist is so funny because it feels like hiding a zombie bite from everybody else on the lemmy instance

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    OOOOIIII!!! You got a loicense for that loife less froightening?

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    How Nintendo Contributes to and Perpetuates Violence

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    Hara Urara has passed away at age 29

    friday.kodansha.co.jp /article/438213
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    Now that we have super powers, we can save gender!

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    "Who's going to clean the toilets?" is a civilization ending question? Why doesn't the public just put a bounty on methods of making it not suck?

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    So Khamzat Chimaev, a Chechen wrestler, became UFC Champion

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    I'm sorry, it's just that this emoji really makes my emotions flare

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    Kindhearted but misguided child whose only comment for someone who reveals their gay relationship is how cool it is that they have a combined 4 wolves inside them when they find out about polyamory:

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    /unbad you guys actually dislike the government? Isn't that like scary?

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    Fuck you and also dumbass

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    The comrade reading this

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    Unc is chopped huzz I fear

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    POINT/COUNTERPOINT: The militant opposition that the DPRK shows is reasonable considering the devastation they faced during the Korean War and the chauvinism since vs. Super Shy by NewJeans