To be fair, it's not completely made-up. There is a body of evidence that suggests that even non-ionizing EM radiation may have so-called "biological effects" in humans.
Organizations like the Environmental Health Trust have been banging the "cellphones cause infertility and cancer" drum for years, and cites numerous studies on their website.
Of course, much of this research is of questionable relevance to real-world use cases involving actual phones and actual humans as opposed to, say, a bunch of rats being exposed to low-power microwaves in a lab for hours on end, but it exists nonetheless.
Disclaimer: the study this discussion was based on does not appear to literally show that increased belief in DYOR sentiment correlates with less actual research done.
The findings were:
Finding 1: Positive perceptions of “doing your own research” were associated with less trust in science institutions.
Finding 2: Positive perceptions of “doing your own research” were associated with holding more COVID-19 misperceptions.
Finding 3: Positive perceptions of “doing your own research” were not associated with concern about COVID-19.
There are three main types of "liberalism" that generally exist in Western democracies, and each of them is quite distinct.
Classical liberalism - emphasizes individual freedom, limited government intervention in the economy, and the protection of natural rights, such as life, liberty, and property.
Neoliberalism - emphasizes free markets, deregulation, privatization, and reduced government intervention in the economy.
Social Liberalism - combines the values of individual freedom with a belief in the role of government in addressing social and economic inequalities through healthcare, education, and welfare programs.
Typically these days, especially in the US, most people think of #3 when they hear the word "liberal" in a political sense, I'd say.
Thunars split view. I get tired by the Gnome developers, who removed this feature from Nautilus, explain that two Nautilus windows side by side are equivalent to a split view. It is not
I think the intended usage in Nautilus is to use tabs, not to have two windows side-by-side.
Personally, I find tabs preferable to a split-view.
American are just as bad. A similar thing happened to my wife last month.
She and a bunch of other passengers missed their connecting flights due to the airline's incompetence. She stood in line for four hours, without food or water, to wait her turn for American to get her on another flight but as she neared the end of the line the staff closed up their desks and said "sorry folks, come back tomorrow" and walked off, leaving her and about 50 other people to basically sleep on the floor and wait for them to re-open five hours later.
No mention of finding them a place to stay, nor providing even a bite to eat. Zip. Nada.
While it's not quite as bad as what these poor people went through, it's the same "not my problem; sucks to be you" energy from the airline.
The entire build-up to the Trinity test, the explosion and then the shockwave was awesome on a 50 foot tall IMAX screen. It wouldn't have been the same just watching it at home.
But, they could evaluate excess weekly deaths by age, state, county, and party affiliation. They found that the gap in excess deaths was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates, suggesting that lack of vaccination among Republican voters may partly explain the higher death rates.
The format actually has a lot of benefits - it supports transparency, animation, and compresses very efficiently. So it could theoretically replace GIF, JPG, and PNG in one fell swoop.
The downsides are that many apps don't currently support it and that it's owned by Google.
Personally I use webp for images that are not intended to share (e.g. banners and images on my blog), but stick to JPG/PNG for sending to other people.
“Hi. I’m not a doctor. I’m just a simple man of 37 years who pays attention to trends we can see with our own eyes,” far-right commentator Benny Johnson said. “I’m here to tell you that it is NOT NORMAL for thousands of healthy teenage athletes to be collapsing – some dying – from cardiac arrest. Now ask: Why?”
Hmm, aside from the obvious possibility that sudden cardiac arrest in professional athletes has always been a thing, particularly in black males, what on earth could possibly be an exacerbating factor? Oh, I don't know - maybe the deadly virus that we've just spent three years dealing with and still hasn't gone away - that is up to seven times more likely to cause myocarditis than the vaccines?!
Oh thank God, I can finally get rid of Sync. 🍻