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9 days agoNature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.
-Wernher Von Braun
“No, maybe that wasn’t it. Words precede and surpass me, they tempt and alter me, and if I am not careful it will be too late: things will be said without my having said them. Or, at the very least, that wasn’t the only thing. My entanglement comes from how a carpet is made of so many threads that I can’t resign myself to following just one; my ensnarement comes from how one story is made of many stories. And I can’t even tell them all— a more truthful word could from echo to echo cause my highest glaciers to crumble down the precipice.” - Clarice Lispector
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See that man has such nice large muscles on him, don’t you just want to reach out and squeeze them? Massage them a little bit? To feel a real working man’s arms and their embracing strength is to feel the American Dream enter you, I dream about these men! Ha! - Trump probably
13·9 days agoGoogle being a trash company would be the major reason not to buy a Pixel.
1·9 days agoI only figured out this was vibe coded with AI after I posted this, but that may be why.
At the same time, the report arrives after a series of Trump administration policy actions that have already begun reshaping universities, federal agencies and federal research funding. The debate is therefore not simply about a future vision. It is also about how current policy changes may reshape the American research enterprise for decades to come.
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How is this not just a slap in the face to the reader?
4·10 days ago- Europe’s flagship reform agenda will not be implemented as designed, as the required fiscal and governance transformation is politically blocked and likely to stay that way.
- What Europe will deliver instead is narrower: sector-specific legislation, funding instruments and regulatory streamlining concentrated in defense, energy, clean tech and capital markets.
Whatever kind of country is a firm is also a person! Seems counterintuitive but the law is the law!
4·12 days agoYou’d think that a government that’s made the cost of living its top priority would be all over this like white on rice. And yet, there’s been nothing from Burnham on the drought. Angela Eagle, the secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, met with the National Farmers Union in late July, but so far hasn’t made any public announcements. Miatta Fahnbulleh, who’s got the net zero brief, has largely focused on the upside (record sunshine means record solar-generated electricity). When it comes to catastrophic climate change, our new PM is determined to keep it sunny.
Ha, but what you must buy to complement that wise investment are Spinning Leak Futures.
Even less intelligent than a GAN
Still sounds like a better and more likely survivable outcome than elon musk’s chances of having a positive and interesting interaction with a woman (from the woman’s perspective of course). If that occurs it may create a blackhole.
Vultures have been shown to reduce the spread of dangerous infectious diseases at scale.
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From this perspective, each vulture species features peculiar skin microbiota compositions, likely involved in singular protective mechanisms of which characterization is yet highly desirable, acknowledging the potential implications under diverse applicative fields. Altogether, state-of-the-art knowledge pinpoints that the cutaneous microbiota constitutes a barrier of microbial, physical, chemical, and immunological nature for the skin [25]. Skin microorganisms represent the first physical barrier against exogenous microorganisms of environmental origin [25]. Here, pioneering microbial specimens promote physical hindrance against the secondary colonization of pathogenic specimens, aside from establishing direct connections with the host, aimed at regulating the differentiation process of keratinocytes [26]. By employing various mechanisms of resistance to colonization, such as competition for nutritional resources, direct inhibition, and/or interference with environmental survival [25], cutaneous microbiota enable, de facto, a microbial barrier that protects from the myriads of pathogenic microorganisms encountered in necrophagic activities [4]. Intriguingly, health-promoting strains of the Staphylococcus genera adopt fine mechanisms to antagonize pathogenic strains of the same genera (e.g., quorum sensing, antibiotic production, etc.) [27,28,29].
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Vultures contribute significantly to maintaining ecosystem homeostasis. Part of their food intake is released as nutrients through their feces, promoting a cycle of nutrients that supports a healthy ecosystem [90]. From this perspective, efforts in the characterization of the fecal microbiota would elucidate the ecological service necrophagic birds provide to other animal species. Furthermore, vultures have been recognized for their public health benefits, primarily because they can efficiently dispose of vast quantities of inadequately managed carcasses, thereby maintaining adequate levels of hygiene in the ecosystem [5].
The pivotal role of the vultures’ unique ability to contain pathogens is attributed to the microbiota associated with the different anatomical districts of their bodies, with the cutaneous microbiota as the main actor [4]. Unlike other animals, vulture skin microbiota is the most populated in terms of microbial abundance and biodiversity. This is likely due to dietary style, since carcasses carry diverse and more specialized microbial communities, interfering with skin microbial development. It can be hypothesized that the taxa identified derive from the dead animal body, such as Methanobrevibacter smithii present in the intestinal district of the dead animals, or from environmental sources like, for example, Xanthomonas spp. and Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae [4].
Genes identified in the facial region include elements correlated with putrescine [47], one of the main molecules produced in a decomposing carcass, confirming the influence that the carcass microbiota has on the assembly of the host’s microbiota. Further support for this hypothesis comes from the extensive functional diversity observed in microorganisms residing in the facial region. It has been observed that these range from producers of antimicrobials to normal intestinal bacteria and bacteria linked to plants and soil [4], agreeing that there is a significant influence from the environment and carcass on the composition of the facial microbiota. In this regard, determining the carcass microbiota would be necessary for further evaluation of this hypothesis.
Guess who it will get taken out on!
Did they even use military bases in ‘Germany and many othet countries’ for their attack?
Yes
The easiest evidence to point to for that is how much shit Spain has gotten for not being gung-ho about the Iran War…
No, don’t listen to my opinions, disagree with them vehemently that is fine.
What you need to stop doing is conflating having an inconsistent, unexamined belief system handed to you by the society around you and the cues you took from it with not having a belief system which is literally impossible as a sentient human trying to make sense of the world around them.
I was kind of switching into a classist tone in my frustration and you are right to point it out, fair enough and genuinely that is a shitty thing to lean into I am sorry, I recognize education is extremely unequal and not knowing things is not a fair basis to judge people on… however please recognize that a lack of your awareness of parts of you does not mean those parts do not exist.
i don’t have a belief system.
facepalm I really hate being reminded constantly of how important a well rounded education with arts, language and critical thinking stressed as well as STEM concepts is…
Yes, you most definitely have a belief system just as much as you most certainly have biases, it is part of being a human being.
Btw: aljazeera is a no-no on Middle East topics here.
Ahh so y’all are a bunch of babies that can’t handle reading media from a different biased lens than your biased lens?
Of course Aljazeera is biased but damn that is pathetic…
Show me an example of Aljazeera having heinously distorted coverage of geopolitics from the recent past, especially in the aftermath of launching the Iran War when extensive coverage from different perspectives in the Middle East is as existentially necessary as it has ever been for people to develop a meaningful picture of what is happening… and until then don’t tell me Aljazeera is a “no-no”. Judge the article by its merits, not the url.
…but how does that help me create a blog post demonstrating I can make a thing in order to get hired? If I just use mostly the thing that already exists and just intelligently hook up a smaller more minimally scoped software to it then it doesn’t really help me get a job…?
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