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BedSharkPal

@ BedSharkPal @kbin.social

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  • Fertilizing the oceans with iron could help remove a gigaton of carbon dioxide per year

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  • What if we just like... just do it over the poles?I'm an idiot.

  • [Analysis] This Is How We Finally Kill Turbotax

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  • That's true of so, so many things when it comes to the US.

    Though to be fair, Canada is in the same boat here, and the whole situation is frankly sad.

  • News: McConnell says he's 'fine' after freezing during news conference | CNN Politics

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  • At the risk of sounding like an ass.... why? He's done a lot of horrible things that affected a LOT of people.

  • News: McConnell says he's 'fine' after freezing during news conference | CNN Politics

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  • There's a lot of "Weekend At Bernie's" going on in Congress these days huh?

    Ironically Bernie is one of the least comatose of the bunch.

  • Ubisoft Can Delete Inactive Accounts, Making Users Lose Access to Their Games

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  • It's crazy (sad) how much we are all starting to have to rely on the EU to save us from the BS.

  • Planting trees in cities will be an essential, life-saving adaptation to climate change in the coming decades

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  • Plus you know, they're just nice to look at and good for mental well-being too!

  • Scent dogs can detect COVID-19 more rapidly and accurately than current tests, finds review study

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  • Less drug sniffing dogs and more COVID sniffing dogs at airports please.

  • Science @kbin.social
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    Scent dogs can detect COVID-19 more rapidly and accurately than current tests, finds review study

    medicalxpress.com /news/2023-07-scent-dogs-covid-rapidly-accurately.html

  • Millennials in retirement

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  • A reflection of the state of the world then?

  • Twitter traffic sinks in wake of changes and launch of rival platform Threads

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  • I'll take my slightly good news where I can get it. I'm begging for scraps over here!

  • rule 💦

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  • Spare some knowledge stranger? That's a dark path I don't wish to travel.

  • Threads is All The Worst Parts of Twitter And Instagram in One Very Bad App

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  • Honestly surprised there isn't more. There's a lot of money that would be lost if the fediverse became more mainstream.

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    One night of total sleep deprivation shown to have antidepressant effect for some people

    medicalxpress.com /news/2023-07-night-total-deprivation-shown-antidepressant.html

  • Tear-resistant rubbery materials could pave the way for tougher tires

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  • We're going to need to do something as heavier electric vehicles become the norm. It's actually kind of insane how many microplastica come from vehicle tires.

  • Scientists discover repair process that fixes damaged hearing cells

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  • Obvious a very low level study, but as someone with tinnitus any progress in their area is exciting!

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    Scientists discover repair process that fixes damaged hearing cells

    medicalxpress.com /news/2023-07-scientists-cells.html

  • Study says drinking water from nearly half of US faucets contains potentially harmful chemicals

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  • Ever feel like you're just a subject in a giant plastic and forever chemical experiment? Yikes.

  • From the CEO of Mastodon: What to know about Threads

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  • I see no way they aren't a competitor. Meta is a company. Companies exists to make money. Meta makes money by driving engagement and then monitizing via ads or user data sale for others to target ads.

    Like are we all supposed to pretend a company, Meta of all companies, is an altruistic entity? Because that's not how it works... At all.

    Remove corporations from social networks.

  • From the CEO of Mastodon: What to know about Threads

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  • A company exists to make money - period. I struggle to see why Meta making money off ActivityPub is a good thing.

    There's just no good reason to have a profit motive in social media when it simply doesn't need to be there.

  • Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, briefly showed up on Google Play

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  • The idea of adding a filter between human connection that will distort the message for profit is crazy for a few reasons. Most of all because it simply doesn't need to happen.

    I mean how many of the current worldwide ills are a direct result of algorithms designed to increase engagement through ragebaiting? Disinformation is effective in no small part due to these algorithms making sure you're made enough to engage and doom scroll. As long as you have a profit motive in these discussions this will be inevitable as far as I can see.

    When you imagine a world without Fox/Twitter/Meta/Reddit/Google (not all as culpable of course) force feeding things intent on making you engage (most easily though anger/rage - thanks evolution) it's hard not to picture a better world. The internet pre-corporate control was a very different place due to a number of factors. I would argue mostly due to a lack of profit motive on social connection.

  • Lemmy.world grew by about 40% on the first day of reddit migration

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  • The sooner we realize corporate control of social media was a massive mistake, the better the world will be. Imagine if corporate social media algos that drive engagement through ragebaiting hadn't existed for the last 10 years...

  • Lemmy.world grew by about 40% on the first day of reddit migration

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  • Give kbin a shot if you find Lemmy confusing. I found it much more approachable personally.

  • Science @kbin.social
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    Novel drug could treat long COVID and prevent re-infection

    medicalxpress.com /news/2023-06-drug-covid-re-infection.html