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what the fuck

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I can't decide if this AI generated clickbait ad about how to avoid clickbait is 1) the grossest and most manipulative ad I've seen on this site, or 2) the funniest fucking thing imaginable

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This paper focuses on the unusually high young adult mortality observed during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Using historical records from Canada and the U.S., we report a peak of mortality at the exact age of 28 during the pandemic and argue that this increased mortality resulted from an early life exposure to influenza during the previous Russian flu pandemic of 1889–90. We posit that in specific instances, development of immunological memory to an influenza virus strain in early life may lead to a dysregulated immune response to antigenically novel strains encountered in later life, thereby increasing the risk of death.

this is fascinating: it's not just that the average age of death from Spanish Flu pandemic was 28, it's that 28 was the peak age of mortality, with the hypothesis that it was caused by exposure to the Russian flu pandemic in early infancy 28 years earlier!

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love wins [source]

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Aldo makes me curious as to what the deal with the outsiders’ existence is in the first place. Were they created by the gods with the first world? Already there when they arrived? Probably they’re influenced to some extent by the souls that their respective planes receive, but if only the Material Plane is a pantheon-constructed thing, that begs the question of whether the Outer Planes even need gods at all!

Newest Order of the Stick: Oh, that is interesting. Of course the IFCC would be angered when they found out about the Gods' little memory trick. And given that the erasure of souls is the only way they have to hit back, they would do it out of spite. It's not clear what their next step would be: I've been assuming that outsiders get supplied whatever belief-sustenance they need from an aligned God, so doing this would probably lead to them getting starved. Maybe "fuck you, eat shit" is the whole point, maybe they've got a few centuries of supplies in a pocket dimension they think they can hide out in, maybe it's only Gods that really need mortal-belief-fuel and outsiders can scrounge by with scraps.

It does raise the question of why they don't try throwing their lot in with The Dark One. Thor says he kills any representative the other gods try to send, so presumably they don't want to risk getting splatted before making an offer. But "go down there, help the High Priest to get control of the gate, and make sure to mention you were sent by the IFCC" would be a pretty good plan.

Maybe they don't know the dark one's real plan, maybe they think he wouldn't be grateful even as a lawful God, maybe it's just that being evil makes you spiteful on a certain level and even the IFCC's general "can't we all just get along?" Schtick isn't enough to cover that

Anyways it's clear the endgame for this plot is Nale sacrificing himself to stop the gate from exploding, at the cost of being erased from existence.

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how to make sure you never get broken up with?

if you are a plasmid, you take extra energy to maintain. you are a burden. you know this. so you give your host bacteria something. usually antibiotic resistance. boring, insufficient

if you want EVEN MORE RELATIONSHIP SECURITY as a plasmid, you can simply produce a stable toxin and an unstable antitoxin. every bacteria that reproduces without you dies because you poisoned them and every living bacteria needs you in them to keep making the antidote. enjoy :)

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YOU.

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where did they start? The answer is rather different if the motorcycle is the getaway vehicle after a sick-ass heist at Amundsen-Scott Station

all i want is to get hellsitegeneticsed. i want to know what kind of creature my post is. god i want it to be something cool sooooooooo bad do you think they have the genetic code for werewolves

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Everyone thinks of Austen as victorian and Stalin as russian but they were actually both georgian... one of many shared traits

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I am a machine which turns tea into commutative diagrams that don't do what i want

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HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (2022) dir. Mike Cheslik

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When the moon hits your eye Count your blessings, say bye-- you're no more When the stars start to shine It's the end of the line-- you're no more

When you walk in a dream But you know you're not dreaming, signore Know the slings and the arrows And moonshots will soon be no more

shoot for the moon, even if you miss, the moon will be scared shitless.

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"dolphins are completely evil" I actually don't think we should assign human morality to animals with no concept of law or civilisation with an intelligence roughly equating to that of a toddler

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things I want at my funeral:

song about death

2-hour speech by the president of harvard

the gettysburg address

glee club!

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It strikes me sometimes how the universe is still so young. It’s easy, looking at its past chronology—how much it evolved in its first seconds, years, millenia—to assume that the comparatively static universe we see now represents more or less its mature form. But it doesn’t. Not even close. This is not the final epoch, the big changes are not all done. 14 billion years seems like a long time, but there are red dwarfs in the sky right now that will still be burning 10 trillion years from now. There are neutron stars that will live orders of magnitude longer than that, and black holes that will outlive the neutron stars by even greater margins still. All the planets, stars, and galaxies we see right now are transient artifacts amidst the chaos of a fledgling universe still reeling from the Big Bang, thermodynamics not yet having had time to smooth out the mess.

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tes THDPSSSSPS 💜

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on some level it makes sense that when i ask an LLM for a book rec on a given topic it will just make one up, like, "which books exist" is a totally arbitrary fact, its crazy that somehow predicting the most likely token correctly identifies books that actually exist much of the time. but it's such a bizarre experience. the idea of someone giving you the title, author, and publishing year of a book, with some specific details about it too, and the book being totally fictional, is kind of freaky. like. if someone did that to you in real life, that guy would be real weirdo