FoxyFerengi

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[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 10 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

It does feel like there's a new wave of change, I have no idea if it's due to new reddit refugees or general discontent. But yes, there does seem to be a lot more down voting, more quarrelsome comments, less cohesion within some communities.

There's also been a few posts sprinkled across instances discussing some accounts that do nothing but down vote. No comments, no posts, just down votes

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 28 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

An example of this is George Santos, who is the only Republican to have been expelled

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 11 points 3 weeks ago

I lost a lot of cute erasers to the back of these desks

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You're right. Broken neck during delivery, caused by excessive force from the doctor.

Absolutely horrifying

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Zone, soil type, and sun would help narrow things down.

Lemongrass did well for me, but that won't survive most winters. Unless you're okay with keeping things in pots and wintering indoors

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, I am also a millennial, but most of my friends were surprised when I told them about that correction I received from the younger generation. I guess that says more about my friends than millennials overall lol

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I haven't worked in retail for over a decade, but that was the biggest fight I kept having with district managers/corporate. They kept telling me to hire more associates for one shift a week, when I already had keyholders and associates who were begging for more hours.

Shit, sometimes I "called out sick" just to give them more hours without letting anyone else know ahead of time. That lack of financial security is not good for morale or productivity, and I hate that the bosses refuse to acknowledge that

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I've heard from Gen Z that ending a text response with a period is passive aggressive. So "cool" may have seemed glib on its own, but the punctuation might be giving an additional, if unintentional, tone

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 132 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Add that any products grown for trade are sitting unwanted in fields, or for aid rotting in warehouses because the government canceled the contracts for them. Food is often held in special warehouses where the oxygen is pumped out, but there aren't enough of those to hold all the excess that was expected to be sent elsewhere

It's a colossal mess, with an incredible amount of waste

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But there’s a tradeoff. The patients, however, require immune-suppressing drugs for life, so that the immune system doesn’t destroy the cells.

That was my question on reading the headline. Type 1 diabetes is an immune disorder, what they did here is replace the cells that had been killed by the immune system.

A second patient, according to the study, died of severe dementia.

Also, wtf. Why did they allow a patient with severe dementia into the study? If it's only a one or two year long study that person would have been displaying dementia already and likely couldn't actually consent to it

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is anecdotal, but 22 years ago I attended an event where the US Air Force proudly played a video of a Predator drone strike. I was a teenager who avidly gamed, and felt horror at what I was forced to witness because I knew these were real people who were dying agonizing deaths

To this day I still feel the same emotions when I think of it, and I can't listen to Drowning Pool's "Bodies" because that's the song they played to accompany the footage

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