Me: Trying to explain to people that #Minnesota has a lot of skilled chefs making good foods from many culinary traditions.
The Minnesota state fair: We have Lakota food, Hmong food, Somali food, and Dutch fried cakes made to be gluten-free.
Me: See what I mean?
The Minnesota state fair: We also have deep-fried ranch dressing on a stick.
Me: What.
Russian schools are introducing an extracurricular program in “family studies” that encourages “pro-family values such as marriage, large families, and chastity” in an effort to address the country’s “demographic issues.” Good luck, 5th–9th graders. https://verstka.media/semyevedenie-vvedut-v-programmu-s-novogo-uchebnogo-goda-news
@kallekn
Är detta i praktiken två dagar av fest, eller mer som att ha födelsedag precis innan/efter julafton?
"Ica och Handelsbanken. Det är företagen vi kommer minnas när vi blickar tillbaka på de tunga åren under 20-talet i Sverige.
Det är Icas prishöjningar och 400 procentiga vinstökningar vi kommer se tillbaka på. Det är vad som kanske tydligast sammanfattar den här tiden. Precis som 500 procent sammanfattade 90-talskrisen.
Det är Handelsbankens rekordvinster samtidigt som räntehöjningarna gav svenskarna ont i magen som är symbolen för dessa år."
https://www.arbetarbladet.se/artikel/ica-har-blivit-synonym-till-dyrt-och-miljardvinster/
🔖 World's most effective climate policies identified in new study: Mix of carrots and sticks tends to work better than single policies, research finds | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/effective-climate-policies-1.7301998 #BookmarkShare
@kevinrothrock
There's a better reason you should stay away from stale expressions like "full of shit": so you can reach "full of vodka", and expletive that at the same time creates ad space!
@olafurw
Similarly for "what's up", which for divers and astronauts can be a literal question, but for everyone else is understood to be asking about the state of the global temperature.
@landetannien
Låter väldigt dumt, är det någon säkerhetsåtgärd?
Fast det låter mer som den sorts dumhet som avreglering och konkurrensneutralitet kan åstadkomma tillsammans...
Interrupting my vacation animal & nature posting to congratulate my #ESA colleagues on the amazing #Juice lunar-Earth flyby, the first of it's kind 💪 And it was so nicely precise, that they could save some fuel for extra scientific shenanigans in the Jupiter system!
Btw., if you want to know more here on #fedi, you should read the recent threads my (former) colleague @markmccaughrean who majorly contributed to making those lovely images of Earth & Moon!
the thing that is mind blowing to me about parasitism is, like all biological signaling, the need for specificity in extremely adverse conditions. like this parasite is "just" a muscle tube - no circulatory system, like a couple neurons maybe, and yet they can so something so specific as make horizontally polarized light reflected of the surface of deep water more attractive to get into. What is the signal, and what is the target? Presumably there isn't a "go to polarized light" neuron or molecule in the mantis, so presumably has to synthesize multiple proteins/signaling molecules or infect multiple neurons to cause the needed behavior.
this paper describes a huge amount of horizontal gene transfer in the parasite, so through its evolution the parasite has stolen a bunch of genes from the host and uses them to control it once inside. like metasploit or whatever, it has a bunch of plugins that lets it hijack different mantids. what it lacks in anatomical novelty it makes up for in capacity for chemical warfare.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.052
i felt this way when studying steroid hormones too - like how does a molecule that gets spread around your entire bloodstream induce hyperspecific affects at multiple timescales from acute/behavioral through chronic/body patterning... it's like you only have a dozen or two words and you need to get a few million people to understand completely different things by shouting them into a room. biology is wild as hell.
@philipncohen
Ah, yes I can see how Biden wouldn't know about online hate speech
This is an important data point for the #EU
"Based on six months of data, EU27 fossil CO2 emissions have declined nearly 7% (Jan-Jun). Coal has had a substantial drop (23%)."— Glen Peters
Source: bsky.app/profi…
@philipncohen
Who said that? Have they never been online and seen the free speech warriors fighting to protect hate speech every day?
Also, criticizing the organization as “justice warriors from Madison Avenue” is so funny to me. That Russian officials can make these niche references to American culture while ostensibly rejecting U.S. influence is a many-layered irony cake.
This is a wholly terrifying read in at least two separate fronts:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4881086
front 1) Every $1 spent in sports betting is $2 not put towards personal finance
front 2) We know this because there exists a dataset where 60 million people's financial lives are tracked down to individual transactions with specific sports sites (and so everything else)
@mcc
To be more precise, they are all AIs who have decided to get a body.
The precise specs of that body is up to taste and budget, so a nose is probably a thing they get because they would like to sniff things.
So basically if the body is anthropomorphic you can't know for sure until a nose is drawn or otherwise exposed because it's used for sniffing.
@onikaze
Messin' around with the famous MeerKAT galactic center data. The provided spectral index is certainly is a different way to go about colorizing an image. Tried to fix some of the dark halos around the bright nebulosity. Not sure whether they were introduced during mosaicing, or if it's just a product of creating imagery from radio data.
'She said that Irish passports, with membership of the EU, would probably be among the most coveted. For decades, unmarried Irish mothers were coerced into giving up their children for adoption in Britain.
A spokesperson for Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed would-be Irish citizens have already started using DNA evidence to help prove they are entitled to Irish citizenship through a parent, and that this evidence is submissible in passport applications.'
JOURNALISME & TWITTER
J'aimerais attirer votre attention et vous inviter à une petite réflexion, au moyen de cet article.
Il a le fond...
...Mais il y aussi un détail très intéressant.
Lisez donc.
https://www.watson.ch/fr/suisse/rts/922362416-alexis-favre-quitte-le-reseau-social-x
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