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voracitude

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  • Texas becomes first state to end American Bar Association oversight of law schools

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  • Later, in Texas:

  • Um.... no.... 🫩

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  • Lol. Lmao, even.

  • Is Autism something old or has it been developed recently?

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  • I was responding when you posted that, so I didn't see it, and you didn't respond to me, so if you hadn't said that I might not have seen it at all. And you didn't bother to look before responding to me because...?

    Moreover, I did you a favour by responding with relevant information instead of just telling you to educate yourself, and you want to act like I'm an asshole for pointing out why your question seemed disingenuous? Cool, cheers.

  • Is Autism something old or has it been developed recently?

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  • Is Autism something old or has it been developed recently?

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  • This seems incredibly disingenuous when you can just go search the internet for the definition, and why autism isn't a classified as mental illness, but sure, I'll humour you.

    "Autism" is a spectrum of developmental disorders that stem from those brain structure differences I mentioned. An illness is when something is wrong. Not just different, wrong. There's nothing "wrong" in an autistic person; autism is not a disease or sickness caused by some outside force like a virus or bacteria or drug; it's not transmissible, and it cannot be developed post hoc (meaning you can't acquire autism, you're born with it). There's no innate reduction in function. It can't be treated or cured; the symptoms of the mental illnesses caused by dealing with neurotypicals can, but again those aren't something we're born with; those are acquired.

    At the root of it, we just process information differently than a neurotypical person due to our brains growing differently. It's like saying ARM is "silicon illness" because it's not x86_64.

    https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/publications/health-matters/what-is-autism

  • Is Autism something old or has it been developed recently?

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  • My only correction would be that autism isn't a mental illness. It's a difference in brain structure - synaptic density seems to play a significant role (https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/a-key-brain-difference-linked-to-autism-is-found-for-the-first-time-in-living-people/).

    "Eccentric" would indeed have been the word, even as late as the 80s. And that's just men; women often present symptoms differently, or different symptoms entirely and even today ASD can go unnoticed for much longer in young women.

  • [DS:R] Yo, which illusory walls are opened by rolling and which only by attacking?

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  • Yep! Unlike in Dark Souls 2, where some of them are revealed by hitting the interact key and some are revealed by rolling and it's not a bug or otherwise unintentional, it's just classic FromSoft game design (from the "fuck you and the crow you rode in on" school).

  • Baby's first Netflix movie 😍

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  • If it was indeed a take, maybe. What I wrote is known as a "joke". At least, that's what I call it when I say or write something that I don't necessarily think is true, but I do think is funny to write or say.

    As far as the actual act of prompting a "novel" out of an LLM and self publishing on Amazon goes, it's mostly harmless and I'm not mad. He could be doing much worse things with access to an AI model.

  • Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy

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  • This is pretty huge, the researchers conclude that:

    • "low weight, high reps" and "high weight, low reps" have about equal results on muscle growth, as long as you work to fatigue (but obvs, higher weight means quicker fatigue)
    • this muscle growth is consistent for each person, but differs wildly between people (meaning some people are just naturally bigger and stronger, all else being equal)
    • muscle growth is drastically reduced after 10 weeks of regular exercise (smaller gains in strength and endurance)

    I feel so vindicated, insisting on doing calisthenics where I'm at instead of joining a gym I won't go to 😅

  • Baby's first Netflix movie 😍

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  • Well you'd have to find something to be proud of, and if this is his greatest accomplishment then pickings must be slim indeed...

  • Colorado Pastor: Sign These Anti-Trans Ballot Petitions or “You’re a Traitor” to Jesus

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  • You know what they say:

    God helps those who help themselves

    Whatcha say? Wanna go punchin'?

  • 'Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping' has been renewed for Season 2

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  • The first season fell kind of flat for me. Nothing as memorable as Sir Digby Chicken Caesar or "Are We The Baddies?". Hopefully they find their feet in season 2.

  • What's a time you stuck to your principles despite it being inconvenient to you?

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  • Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years

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  • Danes will still be able to send letters, using the delivery company Dao, which already delivers letters in Denmark but will expand its services from 1 January from about 30m letters in 2025 to 80m next year. But customers will instead have to go to a Dao shop to post their letters – or pay extra to have it collected from home – and pay for postage either online or via an app.

    The Danish postal service has been responsible for delivering letters in the country since 1624. In the last 25 years, letter-sending has been in sharp decline in Denmark, with a fall of more than 90%.

    But evidence suggests a resurgence in letter-writing among younger people could be under way.

    Dao said its research had found 18- to 34-year-olds send two to three times as many letters as other age groups, citing the trend researcher Mads Arlien-Søborg, who puts the rise down to young people “looking for a counterbalance to digital oversaturation”. Letter-writing, he said, had become a “conscious choice”.

    According to Danish law, the option to send a letter must exist. This means that if Dao were to stop delivering letters, the government would be obliged to appoint somebody else to do it.

    And then, right at the end:

    Announcing their decision earlier this year, Kim Pedersen, the deputy chief executive of PostNord Denmark, said: “We have been the Danish postal service for 400 years, and therefore it is a difficult decision to tie the knot on that part of our history. The Danes have become more and more digital and this means there are very few letters left today, and the decline continues so significantly that the letter market is no longer profitable.”

    The point of a postal system isn't to generate profit (although they totally can), it's to ensure the populace can send things securely without having to do it themselves. But... if the Danish postal system (or at least the bit that delivers letters) isn't profitable... why would a private company voluntarily take it over? They'll have to make it profitable, which means gutting either the services offered and raising prices, or gutting the company itself and selling off assets. I'm not sure if they'll be able to do the latter, so maybe some kind of government subsidy to ensure a profit? But then, why privatise at all?

    It's hard to see this as anything but concerning, for the Danish people.

  • Hello, We're Firefox

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  • I'm four years old and I think it's funny. Also, "skeet" as slang for "blue sky"? I love it, you're a visionary, how do we make this happen?

  • Math is not a democracy

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  • If it helps, I saw what you did there, and I exhaled slightly harder out of my nose while smiling wryly. It's even better the op didn't get it. So like, well done and stuff 😊

  • Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something!

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  • Suggest Password Manager for me on Android

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  • I use 1password because I got tired of fucking around with KeePass. It works well enough; sometimes the password field won't show if the metadata isn't set up right on the page, but it's pretty trivial to open the app and copy me password to manually paste. I'm not sure you'll find one that always works 100% seamlessly.

  • Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

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  • "I was making a funny noise people were honestly crying laughing at," he claimed in the caption of a followup video. "She was the only person annoyed."

    And then everyone clapped at the noises he was making, all the way to the next stop, and then President Obama got on the train at the next stop and gave him the Medal of Freedom for his bravery and letting the woman sit down.

    Seriously did this motherfucker just move to the city, that he thinks anyone will believe that bullshit?

  • Off My Chest @lemmy.world
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    "I don't agree with who you call 'Nazi'", he said to me.

  • Anime @lemmy.ml
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    Jigoku Shoujo (Hell Girl) - subtitles?

  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online
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    Eric Calderone (331Erock) - Gerudo Valley Meets Metal

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    It's always the ones you least suspect

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Warhammer can be truly ludicrous at times

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Louder, for the American Idiots in the back

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    My body and I have an adversarial relationship

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    Gul Brannigan - The Perfect Crime