@GossiTheDog I notice that Twitter tries to make their low engagement look better by emphasizing the "X number of views" metric, which in all likelihood is either inflated by bots or straight up fabricated
@deeznuts@naffrespect nothing too exciting. Many subreddit wiki pages broke today which in turn broke a couple of our bots. I was able to work around this and fix the problem before anyone noticed
@Reshirams_Rad_Slam Yes but also kinda no. The end goal is to not require animals at any point in the process, but during the current R&D phase there are live donor animals for the cells, dead donor animals for the medium, and dead rats for the FDA approval. But of course, if lab-grown meat becomes readily available, many many animals will be saved
In a 2003 version of the song I Hate This (M-Phatic Mix) the lyrics bemoan politicians selling their souls for “a V6 Jeep”. In a later version of the song, the lyrics bemoan politicians selling out for “a V8 Jeep”.
From what I can tell, the benefit is that it gives me the option for another face. If I want to be mildly unrecognizable, I can just grow out my facial hair.
But other than that, I have no idea why men grow beards.
@petes_bread_eqn_xls I've got my portable AC running behind me at the moment. Never felt like I needed AC in Seattle until the last few years. My first summer in my apartment when we had the mixture of smoke and heat it got up to 90 degrees inside which was miserable
I kinda don't want us to find life anywhere else in the solar system, mostly because we, uhhh, don't have a great track record when it comes to preserving precious things.
@Legit_Spaghetti NASA actually has an organization dedicated towards avoiding contamination of other planets called the "Planetary Protection Center of Excellence" which I find quite funny
They also make sure that, if there were microbes on other planets, they wouldn't be able to contaminate Earth
@Slyence@ty04 can't speak for gen x myself, but as a late millenial I totally agree. I feel like I grew up in a narrow window during which computers had become essential but hadn't yet become user friendly
That said I grew up in a family of nerds so my perspective is going to be a bit skewed. It probably wasn't normal for me to be using Windows 3.1 as a kid haha