[squeakitties]

cloth gown gridlock

[creepymutelilbugger]

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

strawberrie... v good fruit

[misledmagiard]

wrong! it is a very mediocre fruit. taateless to sour. tastes like watered down cordial/squash/whatever you call it. wild strawberries are way better but very small and mushy.

[sleepymaidgock]

I love listening to music in languages I don't speak so that I can avoid the tyranny of the lyrics. Music can be good sometimes if you approach the voice as an instrument in the composition and not the centerpiece of the composition. Destroy meaning, leave only form.

[stackslip]

the worse things get the more folks need to learn about affinity fraud because unfortunately a community being more impoverished and struggling doesn't make it less likely that someone from the community might use the situation to grift and take advantage of people's fears or extract the little money they have. quite the opposite in fact it's a perfect environment to do so

[stackslip]

you also need to stop treating grifts and frauds as Oopsies that aren't a big deal. sure the people creating them might do so for all kinds of reasons and aren't inhuman monsters who are a separate class in society or whatever. it's still incredibly fucking damaging and draining resources from people who desperately need them at this time as well as causing widespread lack of trust and/or panic. plus apologism for that kind of shit just becomes a gigantic green sign for all kinds of bad actors who will now see you and the people who trust you as perfect targets. you NEED to push back on this.

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[xphaiea]

Vinca culture copper-tin-bronze, 4650BC

[tchinoquenonai]

it’s really quite obvious these figurines don’t belong to the Vinča culture — an archaeological culture of the mature and late Neolithic, whose representatives certainly had no knowledge of copper, much less bronze. at a glance, they seem similar to artefacts of the middle Carpathian Bronze Age, particularly the sort of figurines associated with the Encrusted Pottery culture:

(the duck on the left was found in Bulgaria, south of the EPC’s canonical territory; I just like it too much to keep myself from showing it off.) a quick Google search reveals the original picture did, in fact, possess a caption:

it says (in Serbian) that the “ceramic cult figurines” were discovered in Cârna, a village in Romanian Oltenia, and dated into the Bronze Age. this almost certainly means the figurines should be linked with the Gârla Mare–Cârna group, a late variety of the Encrusted Pottery culture which flourished between 1,600 and 1,200 BCE (or whereabouts). old, but not 4,600 BCE old.

[karchsmusicblog]

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

"the computer is a machine that makes you be angry and have fewer friends" false. the computer is a machine for precisely the opposite. the computer has never had bad weather or played music i didn't want it to. outside is a machine that makes you be angry and have fewer friends

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

we must invent the silliest possible west germanic variety as a translation target for teenage dirtbag by wheatus. uck bung en teenage dreetsäckj baby, ouuhhh

[misledmagiard]

we should ban "teenage dirtbag" by """"""""wheatus"""""""" in the European Union. not only is it an extremely annoying song it is also a predictor of the worst kind of online socialization, i.e. the 2020 eternal september extremely online tiktok/instagram scroller!

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

finishing college. making it through my twenties. getting crappy jobs and working up to better ones. having awkward sex at sweaty parties. quitting my corporate job to join a scrappy startup. grinding to make a viable product that fills a need in the world. going on the conference circuit. having decent sex in hotels after better parties. my future children will have a few half-siblings. landing a big promotion. becoming a multimillionaire on exit. going back to school and getting an MBA and a wife. returning to my corporate job as a director. buying a house. having incredible sex at my house with my wife. steering the company through a recession that threatens collapse. exiting in the recovery. founding a scrappy startup of my own. putting my kids through school. there are four now with a fifth on the way. upgrading to a bigger house. each kid can have their own bedroom, even when there are eight. grinding to make a viable product that fills a need in the world. going on the fundraising circuit but still being there when my fifth child is born. building a notable business. making my first billion. making toys for my children. raising them to become worthy adults. training a worthy successor and planning for retirement. noticing a product need. stepping down from my empire to found a toy company. making toys for children who'll grow to become worthy adults. toys that cultivate and refine their abilities, that are educational but still fun. overseeing the development of a game line. using the best of current technology. releasing games that will define my grandchildren's generation. seeing my children grow up and have children of their own. growing older with my beautiful wife by my side. still having incredible sex in our house. planning again for retirement. ensuring that my company will be in good hands when i'm too old to run it. finally stepping down to spend time with my family. being there for my grandkids' birthday parties. being called unexpectedly to advise the government at a time of national difficulty. steering the nation through a crisis that threatens collapse. overseeing a rerelease of my game line for a new generation. in time, retiring for good, my health declining. going to hospitals. dying shortly after my hundredth birthday, surrounded by my loving family. after the press release, my admirers coordinate to install a monument listing my accomplishments and their messages of appreciation, sourced from all around the world, from harvard business school to twentysomething nostalgia blogs to artists to politicians, next to the humble gravestone i'd designed for myself, which reads: NOT BAD FOR A GAY RETARD

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

real 20th century names

Engelbertus Fukken

Odd Nerdrum

Sneed Body Collard III

Tweed Roosevelt

Ambrosine Shitrit

[misledmagiard]

Prods Oktor Skjærvø

Karel Peniš

Ratan Tata

Kjartan Poskitt

Ray Jackendoff

Chad Coomer

[udrug]

[udrug]

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

we must invent the silliest possible west germanic variety as a translation target for teenage dirtbag by wheatus. uck bung en teenage dreetsäckj baby, ouuhhh

[misledmagiard]

we should ban "teenage dirtbag" by """"""""wheatus"""""""" in the European Union. not only is it an extremely annoying song it is also a predictor of the worst kind of online socialization, i.e. the 2020 eternal september extremely online tiktok/instagram scroller!

[unconventiononthelawofthesea]

discussion of AI on here is like if you said "I'm annoyed they put up a billboard that blocked part of my view" and someone said "yeah! also all billboards are made of baby skulls and going to destroy the world" and you said I don't think that's right and they called you a billboardbro and then you went to work and your boss said that they're replacing all forms of communication in your workplace with erecting billboards you have to read and if you say that that's probably not the best use case for billboards they said you just hate progress

[thewayforward]

except in this metaphor, ai is made with baby skulls (plagiarism, environmental devastation; ppl being unable to earn a living and then forced to either starve in the land of plenty or turn to crime and get imprisoned and, well, enslaved, etc etc)

[unconventiononthelawofthesea]

see what I mean?

[hphatecraft]

They want to extinguish the glorious meritocratic spirit that burns at the heart of Haterism so everything can be homogenous slop forever

[misledmagiard]

this year's eurovision ratings:

good: portugal

decent: england, italy

ok: norway, sweden

bad: the rest

too reddit to be good (i.e. bad!): estonia

from 10 to -1000: poland