It's drawn for comedic effect, but ideally it should be in a proper holster (it can still be in that area, like an appendix holster), that covers the trigger and protects the hammer - prevents it from falling out - and also ensures the weapon is always pointing slightly away from the body towards the ground
How sad
by a margin of 2,642 to 2,045, or 56% to 44%
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Analysts expected a difficult contest at the Alabama Mercedes-Benz facilities because the company conducted an anti-union campaign
Intriguingly, brain organoids preserved in MEDY showed similar growth and function patterns to those that had never been frozen. Incredibly, one batch was frozen in MEDY for as long as 18 months, and still showed similar protections against damage after thawing.
The team also froze samples of living brain tissue taken from a human epilepsy patient, and found that MEDY protected them from damage. The process didn’t disrupt the structure of the brain cells, and even preserved the pathologies of epilepsy – that’s important, because it means samples can be frozen for later study or analysis without damage from the freezing process confusing the results.
Very cool especially for research - hopefully this can allow for better research into how the brain functions as they're able to amass rare brain issues and study them together with this new found ability to preserve brain matter
In a way, yes.
Historically, the US fought a war to not be the UK. There was an earnest attempt to enshrine freedoms to privacy and thought from the beginning of this governments creation. With the ability to enforce free thoughts through explicitly allowing speech and weapons, along with the ability to reject search and intrusion from the state (outside of due process)
I think it's important for people to be able to be private and to have secrets. People act differently when there's trust that they are not observed and will not be observed.
I think it's cruel to confine the human experience to only being in the "observed" state of mind.
Being able to secretly meet people, and go places without others knowing, and have private conversations, and to own and make things secretly is important to me. They don't have to be nefarious or even embarrassing, a person on principle can just want something to be private, rational or not that should be allowed by default.
If I went on a hike alone to clear my mind, and then stumbled into a tracking camera on the trail, my mood would be changed. I would feel compelled to play a performative role and manage my appearance and actions and regulate what I say and do in a way that I wasn't before that feeling of privacy was broken. Even more so if I knew that camera was live reporting with ai identification and analysis to the government.
This privacy is already barely existing anymore, I feel compelled to oppose any new invasion of privacy and to make attempts to carve out new privacy where I can.
The crazed goal to turn all of America into a high security prison.
No need to ask questions that a person could invoke their rights on when you can pay our capital overloads our own tax money for records instead.
What websites, what locations, what friends, what we buy, and everything else you could care to ask.
Soon we'll have sensors installed on our toilets to make sure anyone with a dollar can know what we eat and what medicines we take and how regular we are.
Land of the free
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeidasTouch#History
The group name and slogan come from their mother and father, combining their father's last name, Meiselas, and their mother's maiden name, Golden,[14] while alluding to the mythological Greek king Midas known for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold.
On July 21, 2023, MeidasTouch filed paperwork to rename itself to Democracy Defense Action,[19] and later that year, news reporting indicated the MeidasTouch name was being used for a news network called MeidasTouch Network
Fucking pedophile
I'm not sure about this gate keeping.
When I was first accepting this part of my identity and thinking structure, and why I'd react in certain ways - it really helped me become comfortable by dipping my toes in and saying "well, I'm a little bit autistic, so what?", before getting more comfortable and understanding of who I was and the masks I was wearing and that it was ok to take them off and say confidently "I am autistic, so what.".
I think we should allow people that grace to slowly take off their masks at their pace, and if some people improperly co-opt that, so be it
Someone unsure of being "a little autistic" doesn't hurt me, provided it's only an introspective admission.
There's a difference if they say "well, I'm a little autistic, so I don't think someone else needs support or dignity" of course, and those people should be opposed.
Sexism is bad.
I fucking hate Spring.
The quickest way to get a team of 10 contractors to turn 100 lines of basic code from a decent engineer into 2k, with 50 janky vulnerable dependencies, that needs to be babied with customized ide's and multi-minute+ build times and 60m long recorded meetings.
Fuck Spring.
Go.com is Disney's main domain, and ABC is owned by Disney
The establishment is not going to give up, they must be beaten at their own game. Perseverance is key. If you give up, you give up on your cause and accept whatever the establishment wishes.
Do what you want, but I will persevere, and I will vote for my interests.
I haven't been paying attention, what was the original drama there?
It sounds like good things have come out of it with a more community aligned governance, and nixOS is very interesting tech that could solve some of my headaches with Linux
This...this is literally them listening to their voters?
They wanted to do something, and their voters said "we don't like that", so they stopped.
So many things to complain about this president, but this little story is good news if we want the president to listen to voters.
Why do you put today's date when it was in the 1980s?
Sometimes the original date is contextually important
It starts with a staff shortage while scaling up, or a small project that current employees don't have capacity for.
The execs have a decision, find and hire a long term employee(s), train them up, make sure it's a good culture fit, and pay their benefits and compensation
or get a contractor firm to fill seats and pay the contract.
It's all downhill from there once they pick a contracting firm.
The contracting firm is a Trojan horse for the short term philosophy, while also eroding away the skill pipeline of raising juniors to senior talent so the company eventually has to keep going back to firms.
Instead of scaling up and building the knowledge pool as the company grows organically, they want to massively scale up and down and cycle through many people and skim the good contractors off the top. But this does not work.
The bad contractors overflow the org with tech debt. Seniors don't have juniors to train, nor do they work on the core stuff to keep their skills. The seniors and good contractors skimmed off the top turn into contractor babysitters. The juniors don't exist. The seniors eventually turn into managers or leave for greener pastures where their original skills are wanted and respected and fostered.
Eventually the company is left a husk of past talent and mountain of tech debt, and no in-house skill to turn things around, so the options are to stay with contracting indefinitely or start at ground 0.
Combined with not increasing wages to match cost of living and inflation, not giving bonuses when there profits, and now you've got most of corporate America with their burnt out workforce skeleton crew.
Plants respond and react stressfully to being cut and chewed and digested.
To ignore this is just as bad as ignoring the plight of animals.
You don't have to be thankful for the food that you eat and sacrifice for your life, but I will. If you are vegan then you are already aware of some of this plight of life, especially the cruelty of factory farm animals, but I ask you to expand your mind to the plight of all living things.
I know that when I thank my food, especially fresh plants, that I can feel a warmth of gratefulness radiate from my stomach. I recommend you try it with your next salad and when you are at your garden.
I want my animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and all life that I interact with to live happy and fulfilling lives.
The ones I eat to continue my happy and fulfilling life I am especially grateful for.
It will be a constant struggle to ensure my food and all life I interact with is happy and fulfilled, and to reflect deeply on what I can change and improve when it is not.
Humans are uniquely capable to manage and ensure quality of life for ecosystems . The water, the soil, the air, the plants, the fungi, the animals. We can choose the well trotted path to exploit, or we can choose the harder path to heal and maintain.
My solution is to operate a homestead where I can ensure the food I eat and use have a quality happy fulfilling life, and a simple swift painless transfer of life to me and those I can provide for.
I enjoy NSFW when seeking it out, but I don't like being bombarded with every NSFW post in the lemmyverse at all times.
In the settings I only see all on or all off.
In the old sync I remember there being an option to hide NSFW on the main pages, but to show them when you go to a specific sub, I'd like that again.