oh my goddddd
researchers built a smartwatch heart beat monitor that uses a slime mold for its operation. the slime mold has to be fed and cared for, so the users in the trial... developed an emotional attachment to it 😭😭
"the first sports event without drug testing"
BRO
FUCK yes, i want to see someone with legs as wide as a fucking tree run the 100m at 45 miles an hour
i want to see the swimmers with gills and webbed hands
i want to see marathon runners ramp the cori cycle up and never tire
He is the fastest man in the world. He has broken Usain Bolt’s 100m record.
But the world isn’t ready for him. The Olympics hate him.
He has been vilified. He will be vindicated.
Come watch him compete at the 2024 Enhanced Games.
My "Nerd Urban Dictionary" list of fancy words nerds use to prove how smart they are now has more than 200 entries!
I'll bet you're guilty of a few of them (I know I am)
also, and this is noted in the forced neglect section, the whole thing of "if your slime mold 'dies' you stop seeing your heartbeat" is some great design
learning that 20% of iceland are millionaires, absolutely floored by this information
it's like ~15.5% in luxembourg and swtizerland lmao, what is going on there
estrogen: has limited effect on sexuality or gender identity
amphetamines: seems to frequently produce radical shifts in sexuality and gender identity
maybe we're treating transition entirely wrong
@LinkofSunshine
>drop block of metal into water
>it sinks
>stack blocks of metal together to create a bigger block with empty space in the centre
>it floats
I can’t believe I’m actually writing this.
The North Atlantic sea surface temperature has been at record warm levels for an entire year now, setting daily record highs every day for 365 consecutive days and counting.
Yes, you read that right.
i set out to research the use of amorphous computation using slime molds as Turing pattern-formers/symmetry-breakers and found out about the most precious little friends instead :)
of course, i disagree with the premise. i think it's good when everyday conversation is pretentious and inaccessible
(also so many of the alternatives given here are just *wrong*. not like, less precise, but "does not actually convey a correct meaning")
i'm like actually losing it at these, holy shit
it reads like someone who wants people to stop using words they don't understand, evidenced by not actually understanding what these mean or how they're used?
"you're so intimidating on twitter but in person you're just like an excited kid" yeah thanks i don't remember 16 years of my life so i'm basically a 9 year old
>looking for a new partner
>ask if she's lonely or afraid
>she doesn't understand
>pull out diagram explaining what is lonely and what is afraid
>she laughs and says "i have secure attachment ely"
>date her
>she's afraid
quite a lot of you who are replying to this and agreeing with me are like, an order of magnitude fucking dumber than this post and seem to be either wilfully misunderstanding the article or are just illiterate. fuck off, learn to read, then criticise it for the *right" reasons
the mass communication that enabled these cultures to form grew, breaking down barriers between them, so now we have a diffuse multimodal mixture distribution rather than the tightly clustered one we had before
this has wildly left my immediate circle of amphetamine-abusing transsexuals so i'm just gonna say that this is obviously a fucking joke, oh my god (well... mostly, there's something interesting here)
also you should try both estrogen and amphetamines, highly recommend them
lmao i wonder if their angle is "look, trans people support unfair sports competitions, so we shouldn't listen to them!"
because this? this is my least controversial bio-autonomy position
so like, people talk about how kids now don't have tech literacy, can't navigate a filesystem or copy and move files, can't even make a desktop shortcut
but... what happened to in-school computing? do they just use 365 and open MS Word online these days?
rather than sex-segregating prisons and then having debates over what prison trans convictees should be sent to, have we considered exerting the smallest amount of effort into not making prisons inherently unsafe?
they're the most heavily surveilled environment in the world ffs
trans enthusiasts: i love hormones! they're so cool!
clinical specialists: i only get a blood test when absolutely medically necessary and i stock a cyanide capsule in case anything is wrong
endocrinology experts: i wish i was unicellular
@jessald
it has a rather low inequality in its wealth distribution (median $413k, mean $498k) so this seems unlikely, GDP ~$79k
contra the US, GDP ~$80k, median wealth $108k, mean $551k
lmaoo omg, how did i miss the fact that a) trump was in the habit of ripping up documents that displeased him as president b) officials had to pick through the pieces, tape them back together, and send them off to the national archives hahahahaha
guys you all know that the problem with second hand smoke isn't inadvertent exposure to the psychoactive substances in what is being smoked, right? second hand smoke isn't about nicotine exposure, it's about the products of incomplete combustion
give me a lab and a blank cheque and i will throw the most wild cephalopod rave you have ever seen
we'll have octopodes candyflipping while a cuttlefish rails lines of coke off each of its arms, and our researchers hook the squids up to a ketamine drip
"Do you dunk your penis in a penis beaker after sex?" the greatest thread in the history of mumsnet, closed by moderators after 40 pages of heated debate
@hammerotass
it has ~50k millionaires, 37.5k more than if it had a millionaire proportion the same as the US. that difference is not dominated by stochastic effects
@hyperdiscogirl
that's the charitable read, but the opening paragraph suggests that it's not about people using them incorrectly ("common-use matches" seems at odds with that), but the fact that their use makes a conversation less accessible
wait, why is this not universally understood? is it just a novel idea for most people, as in, it doesn't occur to them because they aren't exposed to it? or is it non-obvious even when they are?
Starting to think the real reason finance runs the world is not 'greed' but because prices are information and information flow is of critical importance for the health of the global cooperation mind. Its value is fundamentally misunderstood by cynics
can dogs lie with their tails. can they pretend to wag to trick people or other dogs. can they refuse to wag
do dogs ever feel socially compelled to wag? is this emotional labour? would it be cruel or kind to breed intelligent dogs that have these dynamics?
how do you tell someone you're into them but not in a "i want to date you" way, more of a "you should take this as a credible signal that you have features people find attractive" way?
incredible how quickly we accepted the pussy in bio as part of the ecosystem, our natural local fauna
truly deranged honestly, imagine if this happened in physical space. some robot walks up to you and says "pussy in bio" every time you start a conversation. truly surreal
this is so fucking based, i don't just want an order book on burgers, i want options on burgers. i want futures on burgers. i want reverse dual burger notes between different chains in different cities and i want to lever myself up to the tits on the fries market
kind of insane that the black hand's assassination of archduke ferdinand actually ended up being a massive success from their perspective, it accomplished their whole ideological mission
christ. this is entirely explainable scientifically, this tweet is following in the long tradition of "i can't understand this, therefore Spooky Woo"
just replaces lightning and celestial motion with biochemistry
i love how ever picture of the black-footed cat makes them look like they have *exactly* the same mannerisms as domestic cats despite diverging a few million years ago
have we considered the possibility that matt darling was cursed by a minor trickster deity to have to explain the difference between the mean and median for the rest of time?