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@ OofShoot @beehaw.org

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  • It's not like I just change things for the sake of change

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  • In all my life I've only experienced one UI overhaul that I considered an improvement, and even then there were a few specific features that were a step backwards, even by proper design standards (the same action did two different things in only slightly different scenarios.)

    Buuiuuuut I know half the time it's just because I'm used to the old way, only the other half is it some corporate bullshit trying to push a feature no one asked for.

  • America’s Frozen Housing Market Is Warping the Economy

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  • Hey here's a thought: let's get rid of all the laws requiring single-unit detached housing. That should open up some new housing in places people want to live.

  • Noble rule

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  • Perhaps I want clear. If you split helium, you lose energy. You have to go above iron if want to release energy from fission (mostly).

  • Noble rule

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  • Splitting helium requires energy. Go for Radon or something.

  • Ode to Pixel Recorder

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  • The title made me afraid it was going away! I love that app!

  • Why does Gboard replace spaces with characters I add between words?

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  • I couldn't find any information as to why, but playing around with other symbols suggests it only does it with symbols where they assume the space isn't supposed to be there. E.G. Colon, ending parenthesis, equals sign, etc. Digging around in the settings I couldn't find any option to disable this functionality.

    Folks elsewhere suggested switching to the Swype keyboard, but I don't have personal experience with it in a very long time so I don't know anything about the settings and automatic behavior.

  • Ukrainian artilleryman shows the menagerie of munitions at their disposal

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  • Now there's thinking with your head!

  • Ukrainian artilleryman shows the menagerie of munitions at their disposal

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  • God, the 21st century must be an operational security nightmare. Maybe don't post videos of your ammo cache? That's useful information to the enemy.

  • I can't believe nobody's thought of this before!

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  • In case you haven't been to a library in a while (yes I know this post is a joke) they do way more than just books these days. Depending on the library you'll get music, movies, videogames, computers, photography equipment, 3D printers, laser cutters, audio visual equipment, recording studios, meeting rooms, and probably other shit I'm forgetting about. Smaller libraries are obviously more likely to stick to the basics, but my suburban library where I used to live had nearly everything I mentioned.

  • I'll educate you one way or another...

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  • Gimme a soil fact!

  • Memes @sopuli.xyz
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    Lick Lips, Spicy Ships

  • What physicians get wrong about the risks of being overweight

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  • While race is mostly a social construct, it's easier to use race as shorthand for "populations with long-term historical ancestry in a loosely defined geographical area, accepting that population mixing has been occurring since the dawn of time and will continue to do so into the future" than it is to say that whole thing every time

    BUT, it's my understanding that, for example, Pacific Islanders are generally healthy at a higher body fat percentage than other groups of humans.

  • What physicians get wrong about the risks of being overweight

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  • BMI is useful for historical population comparisons because you can calculate it using just height and weight and it's already been in use for a very long time. It's so crude as to be very misleading when applied to individuals, especially if you decide to turn your brain off when deciding how to evaluate the information.

    The origins of the calculation are immaterial. It's value is in comparative studies, not direct judgement. The actual judgement of "good" vs "bad" BMI numbers is dumb(ish) but it is good for comparing populations across both time and space.

  • What physicians get wrong about the risks of being overweight

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  • When talking in a clinical sense, I think we need to standardize on a numerical standard, like body fat percentage or BMI. It's my understanding that people want to get away from BMI because it's crude, and I agree, but communicating in numbers will make things less confusing. Healthy body fat ranges depend on race, gender, and age, but it would still be better than using words the public has coopted to become unclear.

  • U.S. ambassador to Japan will publicly eat Fukushima fish in a show of support amid radioactive water release outrage

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  • Without knowing the numbers, it's impossible for me to make a judgment call on the release, but it's important to remember that literally everything around you is radioactive. Just because the water has measurable amounts of radioactive material in it does not mean it's unsafe. Ocean water is 3 parts per billion uranium, and yet people happily eat ocean fish.

    Again, without knowing the numbers I can't say for sure, but depending on what's in the water (and how much there is) it very well could be entirely fine to dump it.

    In any case, yeah I totally agree. It's a publicity stunt.

  • Are the characters used in syntax of most programming languages dependent on the keys of the standard keyboard or was the standard keyboard made specifically to allow programming with these keys?

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  • Programming languages are build around the standard keyboard. Keyboards had most of the symbols you're thinking of from their typewriter days. You can see most of the special characters in these small typewriters from the mid 1900s.

    https://dealdashreviewed.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/typerwriter.jpg

    https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gdj1kOXgkTY/UqYxNGAxBBI/AAAAAAAA8T0/DTeg3C_ydXM/s1600/71-6zsvcleL._SL1500_.jpg

    With things like electric Wheel Writer typewriters, adding extra keys and symbols were less of a complexity issue and you started to see a few more extra symbols.

    https://www.imagine41.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ibm_wheelwriter_2500_002_1.jpg

    Recognize that there never has been a hard standard for layouts and symbols, just the industry copying and converging on systems that became popular.

  • Which Mastodon client do you prefer on Android and why?

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  • Well shit, sign me up!

  • Which Mastodon client do you prefer on Android and why?

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  • I have no idea what F-Droid is, but I tried them all and I actually like the UI of the official app the best. It's missing a few features, but they're still improving it and integrating all the features.

  • What's some really unpopular opinion you have?

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  • There's a few places that didn't get cars until later and "no thank you" was a very common reaction. We really ought to just ban private ownership.

  • Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’

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  • It's not even a burn, if the officer is older they could very well look like that girl's lesbian grandmother. And if they do, so what?

  • Politics @beehaw.org
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    Fundraiser to Switch Missouri to Approval Voting

    actionnetwork.org /groups/show-me-integrity-action-fund
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    The CDC is Holding a Meeting on Vaccinations.

    www.regulations.gov /document/CDC-2023-0035-0001
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    What makes a COVID superspreader? Scientists learn more after deliberately infecting volunteers

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-023-01961-7
  • Humanities & Cultures @beehaw.org
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    Learning to Be Human Again

    www.si.com /nfl/2019/01/11/todd-marinovich-dad-marv-quarterback-drugs-rehab
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    A Subset of Mental Health Conditions may be Caused by Autoimmune Diseases

    www.washingtonpost.com /wellness/2023/06/01/schizophrenia-autoimmune-lupus-psychiatry/
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    As FEMA struggles to keep up with climate disasters, extremist groups see an opportunity

    grist.org /extreme-weather/boots-on-the-ground-fema-oath-keepers-natural-disaster/