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chaogomu

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  • Cup cake

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  • Back in the late 80s and early 90s we had these things called malls, and they all played music without lyrics, because a mall is a noisy place and any lyrics get lost.

    Also I think there were performance fees for playing copyright music. The laws are obtuse.

    Anyway, most of the malls settled on this mass produced milquetoast "smooth jazz". And then piped that into all of their stores.

    This story has nothing to do with the creation of that pattern, which was made for a Sweetheart Cup Company internal design contest. The designer needed a name that wasn't just Gina's submission, and so a random word was picked.

    The fact that most malls had started using those same sort of pastel colors might have had some subconscious impact, but that's just my thoughts on it.

  • Scientists discover how to regenerate brain cells damaged in ALS, spinal cord injuries

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  • There's a pill that just finished phase 1 trials that can cure osteoarthritis.

    Well, it's a treatment that allows joint cartilage to regrow and heal properly.

    It also reverses age related muscle loss.

    Now, these things can come back, but they need to degrade naturally again. Probably. We don't know how fast the degradation will set in once the suppression of the gerozyme is removed.

    If you want to learn more, look up 15-PGDH inhibitors. I'd link to the Stanford study, but that's a bit hard from my phone.

    As someone who has arthritic knees, I've been following the various clinical trials closely.

  • Scientists discover how to regenerate brain cells damaged in ALS, spinal cord injuries

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  • I think it might. But that was years ago.

  • ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC

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  • The driving was kind of janky compared to previous games. I didn't mind the random hangers on that you're supposed to care about, it was the driving that got me.

    How do you fuck up driving in a Saints Row game?

  • ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC

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  • The first game had a phone number to call, that would bring back dead characters as zombies.

  • ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC

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  • Was that the reboot?

    I stopped playing fairly early, and I also didn't buy that game at full price.

    It might have been part of a bundle...

  • Men have lost our sense of style 😔

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  • I don't know the reason why.

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  • The real answer is that yes, they were red, but no it wasn't because they were poor quality.

    It's because the world's largest exporter was Iran, and Iran had a blanket policy of dying their pistachios red.

  • I don't know the reason why.

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  • Pistachios are native to Iran, and until the 1970s Iran was the world's largest exporter. They dyed their exports with a food safe red.

  • Poor guy...

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  • Did you not live in the world before owning a tiny piece of it?

    This same land ownership argument was made in the 1640s, and then again in the 1770s, all to limit the rights of poor people in favor of the rich landlords.

    The rich assholes won the English civil wars, mostly because the opposition didn't know what the hell they wanted or how to get it. And then Oliver Cromwell died without preparing any sort of successor.

    The new American government, having eventually learned its lesson, quickly abandoned the land ownership requirements for voting because it never made any god damn sense in the first place, and was just a way to keep poor people down, and the poor had just learned how to wage a war on absentee landlords.

  • Micro-agressions

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  • I read a book that made that argument.

  • What Does Trump Want With Cuba?

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  • I completely agree. Forced conscription is plainly slavery. And I stand with John Brown on that issue.

  • What Does Trump Want With Cuba?

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  • Trump is bone spurs. He's the one who dodged the draft that way.

    But otherwise, yeah. He's an abuser and will always look for someone weaker.

  • What Does Trump Want With Cuba?

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  • I wouldn't call Batista's reign "mob rule". It sounds more like a military dictatorship.

  • Red Dwarf to return in new format with "original and fresh" prequel from series co-creator

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  • Long abandoned, but not 3 million years abandoned.

    Unless this prequel is set after Lister goes into stasis.

  • Time for a Refund

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  • Tea, regardless of how compressed, would be weaker than the wall of the cannon. So it would be a mist of tea leaves.

  • Micro-agressions

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  • That's what Bram Stoker's Dracula was about, which has shaped modern ideas of vampires.

    Older stories were a little bit more "monster in the dark". There was a fairly famous case where 18th century New Englanders took the heart out of a young dead woman, burned it and fed it to her brother to break a vampiric curse.

    Since the actual curse seems to have been tuberculosis, this didn't quite work.

  • English Wikipedia bans archive.today

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  • Automation won't do it right. And that's the goal.

    Besides, Wikipedia has always been human written for humans. Or at least, that too is the goal.

  • EU sanctions German journalist in shocking first over Gaza reporting

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  • From the EU website (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ%3AL_202500965)

    Hüseyin Doğru is the founder and representative of AFA Medya A.Ş. which is a media company based in Istanbul. AFA Medya A.Ş. operates “RED”, which comprises a number of media platforms, and which has close financial and organisational connections with Russian state propaganda entities and actors, and shares deep structural ties, including interlinkages between, and rotation of, individual personnel with Russian state media organisations.

    RED has used its media platforms – often publishing under “redstreamnet” or “thered.stream” – to systematically spread false information on politically controversial subjects with the intent of creating ethnic, political and religious discord amongst its predominantly German target audience, including by disseminating the narratives of radical Islamic terrorist groups such as Hamas.

    During a violent occupation of a German university by anti-Israel rioters, RED personnel coordinated with the occupiers to disseminate images of their vandalism – which included the use of Hamas symbols – through their online channels, thus providing them with an exclusive media platform, facilitating the violent nature of the protest.

    Through AFA Medya, Hüseyin Doğru thus supports actions by the Government of the Russian Federation which undermine or threaten stability and security in the Union and in one or several of its Member States, including by indirectly supporting and facilitating violent demonstrations and engaging in coordinated information manipulation.

    They also claim his nationality as Turkey, and his address being in Istanbul.

    This was Dogru's legal response from last year. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ%3AC_202504627

    This one does list his citizenship as German. https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/Q134594800/

    I'm not finding a whole lot more, from either perspective. Just news articles from the time of the sanctions being announced. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/germany-says-russia-using-media-platform-red-sow-discontent-2025-07-02/

    Outside information here is sparse.