AlolanYoda

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[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It did not. You never played Quake or Unreal Tournament and made your own skins. You never dabbled in map making for any of these games or games in the Doom engine. Nobody ever made skins for minecraft Java. Your life is a lie.

So is mine!

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 61 points 2 months ago (18 children)

Man, I know people dislike Macron, and I still think his handling of the Le Penn situation last year was a dramatic misplay, but I've always had a huge amount of respect for him. Maybe because I don't live in France (although I was almost accepted into a job there earlier this year!), but he seems like such a role model in terms of political leadership. He's been handling the Trump/Putin situation much better than most other world leaders, in my opinion

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

Similarly, it turns any random hike or walk into a pokemon collection session. I used to hate going on hikes but now I am always looking forward to the next opportunity to add to my ~~pokedex~~ life list

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Yeah I also don't understand this part. Can the antibodies targeting the bare spike protein attach to it despite the presence of the sugars? Or are there a few spike proteins in the virus which do not have the sugars, not enough to effectively develop antibodies but enough for already existing antibodies to attach to?

I may have missed it in the article, I'm not in life sciences so I don't have all the prerequisite knowledge for this

Edit: this came out sounding super negative, I'm actually super excited about this development and all I want is to understand a bit better how it works

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 55 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I have seen variations on this online for a long time, and this has always baffled me: do strangers in America really go up to random people who are speaking foreign languages and tell them "you are in X, speak Xese", a language they may or may not speak? Even among people who share their native language?

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 60 points 2 months ago (2 children)

OP rewatching TNG season 5 episode 2 (Darmok), his questions answered

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

The cockatiel has been starting every day by singing loudly in his cage, especially when the dog enters the room. He's still madly in love with her. Unfortunately I don't know if the dog even acknowledges the cockatiel as a living being (we never let him out of the cage while the dog is around as she is quite destructive).

The dog is getting old last week she had a bad leg. The vet said it was probably because of her age, so he gave us medication to prevent arthritis. She's all good now. Yesterday she had a zoomies session like I've never seen before, she somehow managed to push my mattress almost entirely out of the bed frame in a single jump while me and my sister were laughing so hard we were crying.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 94 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Maybe I am in a different environment (particularly not being American), but the old scientists still exist and are still hard at work. In fact, all scientists I know (and I work in academia) care very little for misinformation on their day to day lives. They'll make fun of it, but don't have any more contact with them than anyone else. They still spend most of their time working on their actual projects. The only thing that changed is that now they're bending over backwards to include AI in their grants to make sure they're accepted, but having to include the latest buzzwords is nothing new.

Science communicators, on the other hand, yeah, those probably have their hands full with fixing misinformation.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Did you write this? This is gold

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

You just wanted to use an unique example. It's a honest mistake.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait, didn't the Greeks famously lose at Thermopylae? They'd turn it around later but that's one of the most famous "celebrated losses" in history

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I propose dividing people into penised people and penisless people. I'm sure vagina is banned too but I can't remember

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