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[–] pageflight@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I have wondered if there's something useful to do if an apparent relative is making someone visibly uncomfortable in public, or if a stranger's attention would just lead to more abuse later.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 46 points 3 days ago

And so many of them can't stay on their side of the line. Glad nobody was opening doors.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 58 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Taken together, the study’s findings represent a crucial step forward in addressing many unresolved issues regarding Long COVID. The systemic increase in AMPARs provides a direct biological explanation for the cognitive symptoms, highlighting a target for potential treatments. For example, drugs that suppress AMPAR activity could be a viable approach to mitigate brain fog. Interestingly, the team’s analysis also demonstrated that imaging data can be used to distinguish patients from healthy controls with 100% sensitivity and 91% specificity.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Brings new meaning to the word "uniform."

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 22 points 1 week ago

The articles self summary pretty much covers the content:

A study out of Japan showed how targeting genes can regrow teeth in animals. Now, the team has turned to a human clinical trial. By targeting the USAG-1 gene, researchers believe that they can help people without a full set of teeth regrow teeth. The team says that humans have a third set of teeth available as buds, ready to grow as needed.

Sounds cool!

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 161 points 1 week ago (16 children)

That's horrible.

Also, why would anyone visit the US at this point?

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Fun.

A kite surfer from West Sussex has set a new world record for the highest "tow up" after being pulled 1,587ft (487m) into the air by a paramotor then gliding back down.

Doesn't quite match my intuition for the definition of "jump" though.

 

I've heard people say you can mix sawdust from your workpiece with wood glue to make an invisible patch, but I've tried it twice (once in oak, once as pictured on ash) and both times it came out significantly darker and the surrounding wood. The glue is Tite Bond 3.

Does a different glue work better? How wet should the sawdust paste be? This is on the back so it doesn't matter a lot, but I'd like to have a good process for filling little mistakes.

 

I was wondering how she wrote such convincing technical detail for Murderbot's data wrangling and hacking. This interview explains:

What most of my experience comes from is when I graduated from college, I worked as a programmer doing system management, creating databases and making interfaces with databases for users and that kind of stuff. It's all in my experience in software. So that's what I drew on in the end: I worked for a software company for a while.

So basically, the frustration of getting different updates, the update that destroys everything because it wasn't quite finished, and the way an AI or any intelligence would work with databases to figure out what it's supposed to do and how it's supposed to organize its thoughts. It all came from my experience as a programmer.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

According to local news reports, all three victims were detainees. FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed no law enforcement officers were injured, and suggested he believed the motive was political:

While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an idealogical (sic.) motive behind this attack … One of the unspent shell casings recovered was engraved with the phrase ‘ANTI ICE.’

Huh, don't know how to interpret that.

Following Wednesday’s shooting, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pointed blame for the incident on rhetoric from the far-left: "For months, we’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed. These horrendous killings must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences. Comparing ICE Day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences."

Or, you know, acting like the gestapo has consequences.

 

In the 12–0 vote, the committee of advisors selected by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. adopted a recommendation for adults 65 and older and people aged 6 months to 64 years to get a COVID-19 vaccine based on shared clinical decision-making. After this story was published, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted the recommendation, which will broadly maintain requirements that federal and private health insurance plans cover COVID-19 vaccines at no cost.

But the panel today also heard from outside sources who presented unvetted evidence and associations, suggesting COVID-19 vaccines cause cancer and nefariously linger in the body. The members themselves brought their own conspiracy theories and bunkum to the table.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Crispng adds:

Court documents show Ruth was previously charged with stalking, trespassing, and prowling at night, but had no felony convictions.

 

The shooter was stationed inside the house and immediately began firing with an AR-15-style rifle, Barker said. 

Investigators also discovered a black lab shot dead in the basement of the house that belonged to the ex-girlfriend of the shooter.

[The ex girlfriend] also told investigators that she believed Ruth had set her pick-up truck on fire while it was sitting in the home's driveway in August, according to an affidavit.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks. Sounds to me like a person who reasonable gun control laws would have prevented from gun ownership.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Aljazeera has a scant few additional details:

Police said the officers were there to serve a warrant. At a news conference, Christopher Paris, the state police commissioner, explained that they were following up on an investigation that began the day before, but he shared few other details. “The general heading of that investigation, I would say,

From the original article:

“This kind of violence is not OK. We need to do better as a society,” Shapiro said.

Seems like quite a juxtaposition there. I wonder what the "disturbance" was, and what de-escalation approaches were attempted.

 

2nd try yielded very successful bao (steamed buns)!

I followed whattocooktoday's recipe , which has lots of helpful explanations of rationale and alternatives. I used corn starch (didn't have wheat starch or pastry flour on hand) and it worked just fine, the steamed bao are very light and delicate. I also used active (not instant) yeast; it didn't bubble much when using cold milk (Oatley's what I had) but the buns proved nicely in an hour at about 90F.

My 1st try was following some notes from a relative, which were about 65% hydration all AP flour, and came out much too dense/chewy.

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