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  • [Continued post] I took your advice

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  • I didn't see your original post, but reading this update has really made me smile. As someone who has been in a somewhat similar situation, I'm really proud of you. It's hard, but it does get easier. Things might not always go as smoothly as it did today, but each interaction is a learning experience. I'm glad that the lesson you learned today is that being open in your interactions with other people can lead to delightful surprises

  • Lo, peasants! Feast thine eyes and know thy mortality

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  • The look certainly helps with the confidence though. Sometimes when I goth it up, I notice myself carrying myself in a way that would leave a younger version of me in a state of awe and terror

  • Samsung reportedly set to distribute up to $26.6 billion to staff in AI-driven semiconductor bonuses after last-minute union deal — average payouts could approach $400,000 per chip employee

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  • The catch is that it took threatening a strike to get to this concession, and even after they were projected to lose (I think) more than a billion a day. This isn't a free gift out of nowhere, but a hard fought victory for the union

  • Residents burn an Ebola center in Congo as fear and anger grow over the outbreak

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  • My best friend died of COVID. His loved ones weren't able to be by his side in those last moments, for obvious reasons, and that left a wound that really disrupted my ability to grieve in the wake of his death. If I had been allowed to be there with him, I know that to actually do so would expose myself to a lot of risk, even though it was likely that we had been infected with the same strain of COVID (due to us being bubbled together and falling ill at the same time — me and his housemate had recovered by the time he died, but it would've still been risky for us to be there).

    Despite this, I honestly don't know whether I would have been able to stop myself from being there with him at the end. It's easy to have disdain for people being foolish in this way, but I also have a lot of sympathy for people who make this choice — it's not necessarily a case of people being unaware of the risk.

  • Residents burn an Ebola center in Congo as fear and anger grow over the outbreak

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  • I feel like the ideal world would be if there could be collaboration between healthcare workers and members of a community to find a compromise solution that would allow burial practices to be preserved as much as possible, whilst also minimising risk of transmission. I imagine this might look like healthcare workers being involved in the process, rather than simply handing the body over to the family members as would happen if someone died from something other than an infectious disease. It seems like something that should be possible, in theory.

    Of course, the problem is that healthcare workers and services are already stretched thin enough as it is, and I don't imagine they'd have the capacity to even consider doing something like this. I was reading the other day that Trump's cuts to things like USAID has really impacted the ability to respond to this epidemic

  • 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars

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  • I did not know that, so thank you for sharing. I'm disappointed, but not surprised to learn this

  • The 4th Linux kernel flaw this month can lead to stolen SSH host keys

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  • Yes but the problem is that people keep submitting the same bug again and again and again. Some bugs exist because they haven't been spotted, but there's a heckton of bugs that are known about, but no-one has been able to put forward a fix for them yet. Overloading people with duplicate reports just means that they have less time and brainspace available to spend on fixing bugs.

    Duplicates don't add anything to the conversation

  • The 4th Linux kernel flaw this month can lead to stolen SSH host keys

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  • Yes but the problem is that people keep submitting the same bug again and again and again. Some bugs exist because they haven't been spotted, but there's a heckton of bugs that are known about, but no-one has been able to put forward a fix for them yet. Overloading people with duplicate reports just means that they have less time and brainspace available to spend on fixing bugs.

    Duplicates don't add anything to the conversation

  • The 4th Linux kernel flaw this month can lead to stolen SSH host keys

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  • Yes but the problem is that people keep submitting the same bug again and again and again. Some bugs exist because they haven't been spotted, but there's a heckton of bugs that are known about, but no-one has been able to put forward a fix for them yet. Overloading people with duplicate reports just means that they have less time and brainspace available to spend on fixing bugs.

    Duplicates don't add anything to the conversation

  • The 4th Linux kernel flaw this month can lead to stolen SSH host keys

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  • Yes but the problem is that people keep submitting the same bug again and again and again. Some bugs exist because they haven't been spotted, but there's a heckton of bugs that are known about, but no-one has been able to put forward a fix for them yet. Overloading people with duplicate reports just means that they have less time and brainspace available to spend on fixing bugs.

    Duplicates don't add anything to the conversation

  • You're immortal and sent back to Dec 1945. How do you survive until modern day?

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  • Yeah, the 60s would be insane. Everyone fucking because they live in a world where they are far less aware of STDs. Ignorance is bliss

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026

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  • "Like, the new textile mills may have been massively disruptive to people who had previously been skilled labor, but at least the efficiency gains meant that you could make a lot more cloth a lot faster. The affected workers bore the cost, but anyone could reap (some of) the benefits."

    Though with the textile mill thing, the quality of the cloth is much worse; I have a few historical reenactment friends who have been unable to find linen of the quality that even poor, working class people would have used (and Bernadette Banner has a recent YouTube video on the topic that my friends found validating and cathartic to see).

    I'm not disagreeing with your point or anything — this is a bit of a tangent. I guess the point that I'm making is that textile mills did make everything worse, in terms of the availability of quality cloth, but this problem wasn't noticed for a long time because the mills also made cloth cheaper for the average person. Whereas AI doesn't even give us a benefit like this (which is why my comment is mostly irrelevant to your point and is just some bonus info because I'm a nerd)

  • Samsung starts winding down chip production six days before planned 18-day strike — company enters 'emergency management mode,' daily losses could hit $2 billion

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  • Well the point of the strike is for the workers to flex their power, with a hope of gaining more favourable outcomes in the negotiations. Along those lines, just the threat of a strike could be enough to force Samsung to make a better offer — especially after the news of the impending strike hit the news a few days ago

    In an ideal world, the workers wouldn't have to be striking at all, so it's reasonable to at least try to avoid that outcome

  • Alabama woman sues alleging she gave birth on prison floor as guards watched

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  • Something that's been made very clear from existing penal systems, both in America and elsewhere, is that incarceration doesn't actually solve anything: it does give people the chance to reform, and whilst punitive justice may give some initial catharsis to people who have been victimised, restorative justice is a much better path for healing for all.

    That doesn't mean we should let them get away with the awful things they've done. The damage that has been wrought was done so largely by people who have power, and thus they should not be trusted with that kind of power again (tbf, that kind of power is stuff that no-one should have, but still). We don't need to take away their basic rights in order to do that.

    I know that there would be a heckton of people for whom figuring out a way forwards is far from simple, in terms of how to remedy past harms when the people responsible may have no inclination to try help with that. This would be such a radical departure from how justice has typically functioned that there would be a tremendous amount of learning to be done in terms of how to implement this, as well as difficult periods whilst the benefits of a more compassionate society would not yet be fully evident yet. However, I don't think it'll be possible to build something genuinely better if we give into our desire for punitive justice.

    Because don't get me wrong, I want to punish them. I want them to suffer for what they've done — I want to be one of the people hurting them, even. But I don't want to be the kind of person who wants that kind of thing, because I don't think it's productive for society or for me. If we want to be better, we have to choose to be better

  • insert mental health condition here

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  • "However, STEM folks tend to reassert the authority of science as an institution of capitalism and settler-colonialism by not recognizing that these are not "illnesses" or pathological conditions naturally. Yes, they are behaviours that we have no reason to believe are divergent or new from typical human life, and their status as pathological is conditional on the specific social and material conditions that are facilitated by this system."

    There's a lot in this that I agree with, but in the past, I have been quite irked by people who take a hard line version of this stance, who say that I'm being ableist by referring to myself as disabled. Whilst the majority of things that being autistic and ADHD cause me to struggle with that are better understood as a function of our environment, there are plenty of ways in which I would consider to be independent of societal structure.

    For instance, I struggle with sensory hypersensitivity, such that a bright sunny day, or loud sounds cause me physical pain, and also cause me to become fatigued quickly if exposed to them for a while. This sucks, and I think it would even in a society that was structured radically differently

  • The totally hypothetical button thought experiment

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  • You could do a version where he's wearing shoes and is fully on the button board, chair discarded in the background and he's basically just playing Twister with the button board

  • Emojis are the laugh track of the written medium 😂

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  • Nerds on this thread may be interested in linguistic research on emoji as gesture by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne.

    Here's an open-access academic paper for the mega-nerds out there

    With an overview of that article written for a more general audience, in The Conversation

    For those who prefer their edutainment in audio format, McCulloch and Gawne's podcast is a fun and eclectic listen. Here's the episode on emoji as gesture.

    Further Reading

    For those wanting to learn more, McCulloch's 2019 book "Because Internet" is a delightfully fun read that I can strongly recommend. It looks at the wider picture of how the internet has changed communication, with a chapter dedicated to emoji. There's been a lot of productive discussion (both academic and informal) in this area since then, and McCulloch's work has been a key factor in driving that.

    Also, I've not yet read it, but Lauren Gawne has a more recent (2025) book titled "Gesture: a slim guide " that says it's "suitable for readers of all backgrounds".

    If you're interested in either of these books, then you should support the authors and purchase the book(s) if you have the means to. Certainly, that's preferable to downloading it for free from a shadow library like Anna's Archive(Wikipedia has reliable and up to date links to this site (so you know what sites to avoid, ofc) and pointing you there means I'm not directly linking you to the naughty site.

    N.b. I am a biochemist, not a linguist, and so my word-nerdery is purely of the hobbyist variety. I don't have particular domain knowledge in this area.

    Also, this comment is in part because I linked these resources to a friend not too long ago, so I had it mostly to hand.

  • Irish TV to air Father Ted instead of Eurovision final in protest against Israel’s inclusion

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  • Israel also benefits from the growing genuine antisemitism that arises from a combination of their weaponisation of the term "antisemitism" and their attempt to equate Israel with the Jewish people; Jewish people overseas feel unsafe (whether due to genuine antisemitism, or the exaggerated rhetoric of constant and extreme antisemitism everywhere), and thus more convinced of the need for Zionism.

    It's pretty fucking fucked.

    I like that quote. Anti-zionist Jews who have been protesting Israel's actions have my infinite respect. I have some friends in that scene, and the amount of work they have been putting into anti-zionist activism is honestly insane. I'd say that I don't know how they manage to keep up such high amounts of protest up for so long, but I already know the answer to that: they find strength in their Jewishness — regardless of whether they actually believe in God (I know a couple folks who are fairly observant despite being agnostic/atheist), they know that what Israel is doing is an insult to the Jewish culture and ethics that shaped them. That, and they lean heavily on a community of other anti-zionist Jews who understand what it means to be Jewish.

  • Non-Conditional

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  • I think the key thing is to have the conversations at the right time, in the right context. Like, the best way to avoid saying "I support trans rights but [valid tangential belief]" is to separate out those two clauses so that the valid tangential belief isn't appearing to undermine one's support for trans rights in general. Like, even rewriting the sentence so that it is two separate sentiments without the "but" can make a big difference.

    A tangential analogy that comes to mind (and I want to emphasise that I don't think your example comes anywhere close to this kind of behaviour) is when assholeish "Men's Rights Activists" (MRA) will complain about feminists not caring about men's suffering, but then be suspiciously quiet whenever feminists try to involve them in the conversation (I say this as a feminist who is passionate about understanding the ways that men also suffer under the patriarchy, and who has become a much more effective feminist through solidarity with men).

    But then when a feminist (or any woman, really) starts to talk about things that has affected them as a woman (or someone perceived as a woman), then suddenly the MRAs will jump in to shout over whoever is speaking. It makes it blatantly obvious that they don't actually give a fuck about men's struggles, but just want to derail the conversation and suppress women's voices.

    Like I said above, this is a completely different scenario than the hypothetical you described, but they're similar in that the more appropriate response in both cases is to show some grace and make sure we discuss our issues in the space and context that's most appropriate. Like, if the phrase "I support trans rights" is being said, then the conversation is probably about broader issues, and is likely to involve some people who don't support trans rights. Discussing issues like animal derived medication is probably more suited to an environment where everyone there is either trans, or a trans ally — and not just because of the harmful effects of the "I support trans rights but..." framing, but because if someone cares about whether people use animal derived medications, then the last thing one would want is for that point to be hijacked by anti-trans activists who don't give a fuck about animal derived medications

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    Do you know any songs about trains?

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    Beware of rule

  • Ask Electronics @discuss.tchncs.de
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    What kind of resistor is this?

  • ADHD @lemmy.world
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    How to Be Composed and Focussed: ADHD edition (crosspost from a comment on a meme)

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    What are your gaming highlights of 2025?

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    meme request

    Dinosaur or frog memes for a sad friend

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    rule was also in the race

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How do you build a life up from scratch?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Harm reduction tips for an All Nighter

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    John Finnemore is Peak Autistic-gaze Media

  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    Leaded fuel still used in small private planes in UK (2022)

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2022-12-12/uk-underestimated-lead-pollution-from-small-private-planes-by-14-000-times-study-finds
  • Ask Electronics @discuss.tchncs.de
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    What's this thing called?

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    Cis-admin rule

  • Linguistics @lemmy.ml
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    Combining Maths and Linguistics with Category Theory

    blog.juliosong.com /linguistics/mathematics/a-new-application-of-category-theory-in-linguistics-part-1/