I think; if you dig deep enough in any larger fandom, you are bound to find some neo-nazis. A very loud minority of bronies painted a very large target on the rest of us with these beliefs. Especially because the outrage-fueled media ran off with a half cocked story again…
I still haven’t found out whether Aryanne was originally created as a joke or not. Unfortunately it’s hard for a brony to really-really hate a cute fictional pone like that, and there are a couple of great stories with her as a character (on the bad guy’s team of course).
I of course hate nazis with a passion, but nazi characters in fiction can be a useful vehicle for storytelling under the right circumstances.
A couple of nazis coincidentally being fans of a specific franchise does not constitute a “nazi-problem” within said fandom, in my opinion. I’m pretty sure bronies were quick to shun said individuals. It would only be a “nazi-problem” if that belief was a common trend in the group…
I always found it mind-boggling how some neo-nazis, could somehow identify with a show based around friendship and inclusion. There is some cognitive dissonance there…
That anecdote is true, but it’s also a bad comparison. You can’t really kick someone out of the internet… Or really stop them from claiming association. And like I said they were shunned after their beliefs became clear…
The DMA is meant to push us toward a world where you decide which software runs on your devices, where it’s easy to find the best products and services, where you can leave a platform for a better one without forfeiting your social relationships , and where you can do all of this without getting spied on....
They are for making “smørrebrød” in commercial kitchens. Basically nobody has these at home. We use normal hard boiled eggs, like everyone else. These exist solely to minimize waste when the “smørrebrød” needs to be “pretty”, with no slices of egg without yolk. And to save labour on peeling eggs.
Holy crap. The dehumanising of their enemies is straight out of the Nazi playbook. But also; how the fuck does the middle one make any sense as a defensive argument? “If you were to report on this unbiasedly, it would reflect poorly on us”. WTF?
“Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Lund University, Sweden, have used enzymes produced by a common gut bacteria to remove the A and B antigens from red blood cells, bringing them one step closer to creating universal donor blood.”
No-no. I was thinking more along the lines of: What if some of those enzymes for stripping blood cells of antigens got into your bloodstream and started stripping your own blood cells of antigens. If for example a blood donation hadn’t gotten “filtered” well enough after the enzyme process.
Well, the alternative is a good chance of dieing from cancer and/or radiation poisoning. So even if mRNA vaccines did actually mess with DNA, I’d take the chance for a permanent cure.
Well, kinda. Vaccines are tools for “educating” your immune system. Classical vaccines generally work by providing “dead”/harmless examples of a particular infection, so that your immune system will recognize the real thing and stop it early, so it doesn’t develop to much. The immune system takes a while to get going, so “teaching” it in advance makes a huge difference against aggressive, quick acting infections.
The mRNA vaccines skip most of the “learning phase” and provide the body directly with the template to produce the right antibodies. And this is where the “cure”-part comes in. The whole problem with cancer is that it consists of a variation of your own cells. Which is why the immune system won’t target it. It’s not an infection or foreign. To your immune system it’s just another part of you. mRNA can be used to tell the immune system to attack it anyway, leveraging it against the cancer. But it requires a sample of the cells to be attacked, so as to make the right mRNA for the particular instance of cancer. So it’s not really useable as a preventative thing. At least not yet…
No; in a free market without regulation. the bigger fish outcompetes the smaller ones, or buys them outright. Which then is exactly why enshittification works in the first place.
The Latvian government approved on April 2 around 5.3 million euros (roughly $5.7 million) in support of Ukraine's reconstruction in 2024, as well as 4.3 million euros ($4.6 million) in defense assistance via the European Peace Facility.
Good point. I just looked it up, and their GDP and population size is a LOT smaller than I thought. (41 billion dollars and 1.8 million people) I thought their GDP was probably around 10 times that, and a population around 8 million.
You know what they say about assuming…
So! Good effort Latvia. And sorry for being a dumbass.
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Sounds like a good solution (lemmy.world)
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The DMA is meant to push us toward a world where you decide which software runs on your devices, where it’s easy to find the best products and services, where you can leave a platform for a better one without forfeiting your social relationships , and where you can do all of this without getting spied on....
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Nazi-era bunker on the coast of France converted into a museum
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Bacterial enzyme strips away blood types to create universal donor blood (newatlas.com)
“Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Lund University, Sweden, have used enzymes produced by a common gut bacteria to remove the A and B antigens from red blood cells, bringing them one step closer to creating universal donor blood.”
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‘Real hope’ for cancer cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialled (www.theguardian.com)
Excitement among patients and researchers as custom-built jabs enter phase 3 trial...
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US vetoes widely supported resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine (apnews.com)
Arm skin patch system could warn of organ rejection (www.bbc.com)
Some people having a lung transplant on the NHS will receive a skin patch graft from their donor too as a way of spotting organ rejection sooner....
It looks like we'll soon be welcoming a lot of new Linux users here (www.theverge.com)
What song, when you listened to it for the first time, made you go: "This will be stuck in my head for the rest of the week."
For me it was this one: I Fought the Law
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Latvian government approves $10 million for Ukraine's reconstruction, defense fund (kyivindependent.com)
The Latvian government approved on April 2 around 5.3 million euros (roughly $5.7 million) in support of Ukraine's reconstruction in 2024, as well as 4.3 million euros ($4.6 million) in defense assistance via the European Peace Facility.
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