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    1. Vasectomies (+ birth control pills)
    2. animal testing for human research.
    3. I’m sure that anyone working in a hospital can cough up a few dozen more.

    RISUG has been invented in 1978,
    is reversable, cheaper, zero side effects,
    and with so far 0% failure rate when implemented properly,
    Vasalgel, an improvement on RISUG by having a longer shelf-life,
    has been invented around 2015.

    So this stuff has been invented in the same year as the first Star Wars movie,
    had gone through all trials multiple times with flying colors,
    and instead we use knives and pills with large side effects.

    If any invention could be been ubiquitous in use at a much earlier stage,
    then this would be it.
    It could and should have been widely used by the 1980’s.

    For animal testing we have 3D printed human tissue.
    So why test on animals if your question is “Does this stuff work on human tissue?”
    The answer you’ll be getting is whether or not it works on mice.
    Mice are not human.


  • folaht@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlweighing BRICS
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    I’m going with @Sandouq_Dyatha here and say that you are not all international elite spies.
    And it’s not that “countries I don’t like manipulate their GDP”.
    It’s more that GDP measurements, including the PPP kind, are fundementally flawed and that’s by design.
    China is around 2.5 times the economy of the US at this moment by looking how much they are manufacturing
    and how much electricity they use, surpassing the EU per person.


  • Arch is better because…

    • pacman, seriously, I don’t hear enough of how great pacman is.
      Being able to search easily for files within a package is a godsend when some app refuses to work giving you an error message “lib_obscure.so.1 cannot be found”.
      I haven’t had such issues in a long time, but when I do, I don’t have to worry about doing a ten hour search, if I’m lucky, for where this obscure library file is supposed to be located and in what package it should be part of.
    • rolling release. Non-rolling Ubuntu half-year releases have broken my OS in the past around 33% of the time. And lots of apps in the past had essential updates I needed, but required me to wait 5 months for the OS to catch up.
    • AUR. Some apps can’t be found anywhere but AUR.
    • Their wiki is the best of all Linuxes

    The “cult” is mostly gushing over AUR.




  • Unity would be the first example, and although Unity was actually a good DE,
    it was too bloated and almost non-modifiable.

    People jumped ship to Linux Mint that had its priorities straight.

    Mir and Snap were bigger issues though
    as Wayland and Flatpak were great replacements for
    X11 and AppImage and did not need another competitor.

    But the privacy issues were the straw that broke the camel’s back.
    People left windows for linux so they wouldn’t have to deal with this kind of nonsense.

    I actually jumped when Ubuntu jumped to Gnome 3.
    Gnome 3 was too bloated for me and it looked ugly.

    I decided to see what Arch Linux was about
    and eventually settled for Manjaro Linux.
    Arch + Xfce for the win.




  • So dumb people who can’t do multiplications, but can count months, won’t panic.

    On a more serious not, most people skim the headline, read “three times” and think
    “Wow! There’s some work to do!” instead of
    “Twelve times!? Then Russia is winning. Wait, Russia is winning?
    Why is this newspaper not stating that Russia is winning?
    There’s no way Ukraine can win with one bullet versus twelve.
    Shouldn’t this be a giant issue?
    Why is there no giant debate on this?
    Why is my newspaper demanding a debate on this?
    Should Ukraine even continue to risk sending its soldiers to fight a war
    where the enemy has twelve times the amount of ammo?”