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On one hand… way to be assholes “scientists”.

On the other hand… I didn’t know technology existed that could possibly fix a broken spider leg and I need it.

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Seriously, just a quiet quad copter with a fairly sensitive microphone can hear these things from miles away.

Turbine engines in tracked vehicles have a very distinctive sound.

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If a civilian comes at you with a weapon, trying to kill you, are they still a civilian?

If a civilian stands in front of relief trucks, sending food/medicine/clothes/tents while the military destroys food/medicine/homes, are they still a civilian?

If a civilian cheers every time one of their country’s soldiers shoots a random person or when a bomb in dropped on a hospital, or when missiles are fired at the places went to get away from the fighting, are they still a civilian?

'Cause, from where I’m sitting, being okay with slaughtering people kinds makes it seem like they aren’t ‘innocent’ in this.

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Why would there be Israeli children inside places like the West Bank or Gaza?

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So now it switches from civilians to “innocent” civilians.

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Why would an Israeli family be living in the West Bank or Gaza? And who would be more likely to be killing their children, Israeli occupation forces or Palestinian resistance to the occupation forces?

When / why / how did "I hope you are well" become a standard email intro?

Practically every email I’ve received in maybe the past year has started with “I hope you are well”. I even had an LLM draft a placeholder email for me and it started with the same thing. This has not always been the case and it’s strange to me that everyone I interact with begins their emails with this line. Frankly,...

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Pretty sure nobody has any real idea how to send text correspondence anymore.

Like, I work in a building 10+ miles away from my boss and often communication is done through text, email, occasionally by voice, but almost never in person.

Every time I send a work email to my boss/coworkers, I find myself staring at the screen wondering…“Wait, is there any particular way to start these things? ‘Dear So-n-So’ is really weird. ‘First/Last Name’ seems fine unless I’m sending the email to multiple people, which happens pretty regularly. Would just jump straight into the body of the text, but that seems… wrong somehow… and potentially confusing if an email address is not something that is human readable or mixed in with a list of email addresses.”

Eventually I just bang something out and figure, whatever, its not like 90% of my emails seem to get read by anybody anyways.

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“Hello” is probably the best answer but I find myself having a knee jerk “but it seems too informal to use in a work setting” that I will need to get over.

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I have yet to stumble across a sci-fi short story about space travelers finding an entire civilization’s worth of dead bodies floating round in space only to realize that they were all time travelers who only got part of the time traveling math correct. They figured out how to get through time but couldn’t figure out how to get through space, but since all their volunteers died, they never figured it out and just kept sending people to their doom.

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Sounds like one of the asides from “The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy”.

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I was all on board until, “… anime art … Parasite Monster Girls”.

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With no way out of a worsening war, Zelensky’s options look bad or worse

…Zelensky’s options look bad or worse

…look bad or worse

… bad or worse

This title looks “bad or worse.”

The status quo is awful. With the fight now a grinding stalemate, Ukrainians are dying on the battlefield daily. But a cease-fire is also a nonstarter, Ukrainians say, because it would just give the Russians time to replenish their forces.

They don’t have problems resupplying, Ukraine does.

…If partners who have promised to give us ammunition don’t give it, of course the situation gets worse. But the image of the U.S. will get worse in the world.”

Tell me you’re fighting a proxy war between the USA and Russia without telling me you’re fighting a proxy war between the USA and Russia.

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Frogs are not toads…

the-more-you-know

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Three missiles hit three vehicles directly that were spaced hundreds of meters apart. Nothing on purpose about that, nope, not at all.

How Would You Handle Students Cheating?

I gave my students a take home exam over spring break. (This is normal where I teach) One of the questions was particulary difficult. It came down to a factor of three in the solution. That factor inexplicably appeared with no justification on many of their exams. I intend to have the students I suspect of cheating come to my...

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One of the questions was particulary difficult.

If its the only question that the kids “cheated” on, probably just make that question weigh less compared to the rest of the questions. Bonus question or something.

I mean, unless the point of the test is to weed out kids who shouldn’t be taking the course…

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Disagree, if the centrists, liberals, and Vote Blue No Matter Who crowd worked him over half as hard at they work over us there’d be no reason not to give in.

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A chunk of the funders hedge their bets though, right?

And what organization that has spent potentially MILLIONS of dollars at this point is just going to walk away from their investment instead of allowing their pet capital critter a bit of slack on the leash to give some crumbs to the unwashed masses to quiet us down?

American intelligence withheld information on Moscow terror attacks out of fear of exposing intelligence sources or methods (www.nytimes.com)

The adversarial relationship between Washington and Moscow prevented U.S. officials from sharing any information about the plot beyond what was necessary, out of fear Russian authorities might learn their intelligence sources or methods.

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I mean… if it was the US’s agents doing the coordination and planning, then yes. This makes perfect sense.

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r/chapo diaspora, spent a week on the Discord that popped up and it was just too much for my old eyes. Shifted to chapochat (now hexbear) and got all comfy.

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(experiences from small scale agriculture)

Things will always cost more than you think.

Learn about book keeping, even if you don’t start out doing your own book keeping, and do your best to maintain good book keeping practices… the easier you make it for an accountant to look for tax credits, profits, losses, depreciation, and potential write-offs the easier it will be to spend money paying an accounted to make sure the stuff is done correctly. And if/when you start doing your own book keeping and working on summaries if definitely helps to mentally make sense of what’s going on in your business.

If you only have one source for some vital supplies or service, its a very good idea to be on the look out for alternative sources and be ready to find substitutes for those supplies/services.

You get to say “no”. If you only want a small shop that does business with a “X” amount of clients/customer, you are under no obligation to try to provide goods/services to “X + N” amount of clients/customers. So long as you can work sustainably, its not your job or purpose to supply the entire “market”. If there’s more demand than supply, its okay for some other person to start their own thing and serve some of that ample demand. So when people start to complain that you aren’t “big enough” or that “you could have a bigger business” when you aren’t interested, tell them “no.”

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only-throw No happiness… just material needs.

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Defrosting a skeleton with turkey baster injected microwaves.

Appreciation post for db0 admins in light of .world blocking /c/ piracy and similar /c/'s .

I understand why they did what they did and it makes me think of how db0 and other admins are saying fuck all and taking a very big liability for making and supporting a free internet and i want to say all the work you do is very much appreciated. Also shoutout to lemmy.ml admins for running a similar community on their own ....

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Well… yes. And its a good thing.

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walter-breakdown

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TFW: A writer gets paid by the word…

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The optics of a potentially publicly traded company (what ever happened with the Reddit IPO thing?) openly having a “how to steal other companies copyrighted work” forum is more of a negative than IP farming with no method to actually do anything useful with the IP addresses.

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Porn is less of a legal liability than copyright claims is my guess.

Also… like… if somebody is dumping money into Reddit as a user of Reddit which is more likely to make them stop: killing the piracy forums or the porn forums?

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Specifically, the executives and shareholders want their Publicly Traded Shares of company stock to be increasing in value. Advertisers are good for getting long term holders of the stock to keep holding and buying, but everybody else is looking to quietly pump up the numbers and sell what they can without upsetting the apple-cart.

I’d bet a shiny metal dollar that after the IPO starts, the porn subs will slowly start being winnowed down. Give it a few years and if any exist they will be private.

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Call me in 12 months with the rockets explode on the launch pad… I’d be interested in reading how the fallout is handled.

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There will be so much particulate matter in the air that it will be years before anybody starts to breath easily again.

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o7 to the hexbears who’s comments were “removed by mod”

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The Onion: “Chinese “made” metro train celebrate 100 days of safe operation in Portugal.”

AuThOrItArIaNiSm!

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spoilerand everybody forgets about the robots…

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At least the original movie (the “bad” one from 1984… wait … what the fuck? ooohhhwweeeeooohhhh) was interesting to look at.

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A man makes blankets and he “works in textiles” a woman makes blankets and she “has a hobby making quilts”.

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There’s sending in a “resignation letter” and then there’s just not showing up to work.

A US President could just refuse to send money, troops, or straight up redeploy US troops back to the USA.

Man o man that would be fun to watch…

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They channel is less about “playing” games and more about finding and talking about old/forgotten/indy games… but there’s RagnarRox.

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Somewhere (and it keeps moving) is a small pile of cellphones that I haven’t gotten around to getting rid of. Every few years I’ll do some cleaning/rearranging and stumble across an old Motorola Razor flip phone and I kinda miss it.

The size and weight were good. Solid construction (dropped the thing a few times and it took the fall like a champ). Doesn’t do smart phone stuff, but hey, there was enough memory that it could store some audio files and simple text files.

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lefties at the beginning of the Special Operation

“Hey, uh, this seems like an unsustainable thing. Maybe somebody should put effort into getting a cease fire pretty quick?”

liberals at the beginning of the Special Operation

“Fuck you Putin-bot, Viva Ukrania!”

liberals now

“Its time for Ukrainians to face the fact that they can’t sustain this level of military operation and to start working on cease fire/peace deal.”

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Global warming messing up the cocaine supply causing all sorts of unintended consequences…

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Every single one of these things is something that will obviously point back to you.

Some of these things not only could get you fired but hauled away by the police.

So… no.

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If HR and manager do nothing to address the problem, wouldn’t it be a better strategy to start working the least possible and let the company fire me, while looking for another job?

Solid tactic.

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“Become the flatulence you want to see in the world.”

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Raises Confederate Flag and shouts

“ONWARD TO MISSISYPHILIS!”

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x.com/ufo

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Don’t have time to read the research paper linked by the article at the moment…

But isn’t the research just looking at how people view the message and not “were you pirating stuff and now you’re not?”

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oohhh… spicy…

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Aren’t Ukrainian drones attacking Russian civilian targets now?

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