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Oof, I never knew that.
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He deserved better than for Street Fighter to be his last movie.
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Some German speakers say "Erdapfel" which is literally "earth apple."
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In some places that is a strategy to satisfy zoning requirements. The builder has to provide a minimum amount of outdoor area per dwelling unit. They could create a large ground-level courtyard, or they can create a bunch of tiny balconies that sum up to the same total area. The ladder latter strategy allows a larger building to exist on the same lot.
Edit: Stupid voice-to-text always gets me.
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B-b-but he said he spared no expense!
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Hell yeah!!
 Source: [https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/jurassic-2](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/jurassic-2)
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I am glad the regulators are slowly cracking down on homeopathics. Companies selling those placebos now have to publish disclaimers like this admitting that it's BS:
https://homeoworks.com/disclaimer/
Not that it will stop a lot of people from buying homeopathics, but it's a start.
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Oof, what a roller coaster. I wish the best for all of you.
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Great books. I need to watch this film.
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There are definitely fewer women In the military in general. And many fewer women pursuing certain positions, like Rangers or SEALs.
The institutions moved slowly, too. Some groups within the military were hesitant to open up fully to women. And there are the usual systemic hurdles, like physical fitness tests that favored male physiques, which put women at a disadvantage until they were changed.
I think women's participation in the military will mirror what we have seen in women's athletics: as it becomes more common we will see closer parity between women and men. I also suspect the services will find that women tend to perform certain skills better than men.
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Ooo, this looks cool. So it's a self-hosted file management tool that lets you follow other users and share files with them?
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If I remember correctly, the US started rolling back restrictions in 2013. Progress has definitely been slow, and we aren't where we should be yet, but things are moving in the right direction.
This is an update to a previous post: [https://sh.itjust.works/post/26389783](https://sh.itjust.works/post/26389783) The spam wave has slowed down significantly, so we have unblocked almost all of the Misskey and Mastodon instances that were being used to relay the spam posts. Six instances are going to stay on our block list for now: - kitsui.life - lawsocial.org - m.corduba.tech - puls.social - seda.social - startrekshitposting.com It is interesting to note that these six instances are also considered abandoned by IFTAS, and have been added to the IFTAS DNI list. [https://mastodon.iftas.org/@sw_isac/113317470469259706](https://mastodon.iftas.org/@sw_isac/113317470469259706) Since we're adjusting our instance blocks, we have taken this opportunity to update the sh.itjust.works Censures list in Fediseer to match our current block list. [https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/sh.itjust.works](https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/sh.itjust.works) That is all. Have a good day, everyone! Edit: transforthe.win is also now on our block list. Spam posts are still coming from that instance.
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I wonder who here is old enough to get the reference...
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The first time I climbed Mt. Washington some friends took me, and I had no idea there was a road to the summit. It was so disappointing to reach the top and find a parking lot full of "This Car Climbed Mt. Washington" bumper stickers.
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Good call. I was going to suggest this or Mt. Washington in New Hampshire.
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Something is terribly wrong!
en.wikipedia.org
This is not specifically mentioned in the Wikipedia article, but one brine pool in the Gulf of Mexico is nicknamed the Jacuzzi of Despair: [https://www.discovery.com/exploration/Jacuzzi-of-Despair-Deadly-Lake-Gulf-of-Mexico](https://www.discovery.com/exploration/Jacuzzi-of-Despair-Deadly-Lake-Gulf-of-Mexico)
Hello everyone. In the interest of transparency, I want to fill you in on some recent admin activity here at sh.itjust.works. The post shown in the attached image may look familiar. A large number of Misskey and Mastodon accounts started spamming similar posts yesterday. Some have spilled over into Lemmy because the posts mention specific communities by name. The spam wave is ongoing at the time that I am making this post. sh.itjust.works has temporarily defederated from 34 Misskey and Mastodon instances to slow the flow of posts. However, the accounts are spread across so many instances that a block list can’t stop everything. Fortunately, our automod bot is doing a good job of catching additional posts as they appear. We should be able to refederate with the Misskey and Mastodon instances once the spam wave passes. If you see a post that slipped by our automod, please report it so we can remove it. If you are curious about the extent that this spam wave is affecting Lemmy, look at the modlog for the lemmy.world AutoMod bot. That instance is relying more on their automod to mitigate this spam wave than we are, and you can clearly see how much work their bot has been doing. As I type this post it has banned+removed well over 200 Misskey and Mastodon spam accounts in the past day. [https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBan&modId=2349429](https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBan&modId=2349429) I want to end with a shout out to all the users who identified and reported these posts, and all the proactive admins on other Lemmy instances who were quick to jump on this problem. Thank you, everyone, for making Lemmy better for the whole community! That is all for now. Have a great day!
The image is from a [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/bad-southern-credit-scores/) article which took the data from an interesting research paper titled [Who Pays For Your Rewards? Redistribution in the Credit Card Market.](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4126641) The research paper is a good read. (A free PDF of the whole paper is available at the link.) It examines how the use of rewards credit cards results in a massive wealth transfer from low-credit-score customers to high-credit-score customers: >We estimate an aggregate annual redistribution of $15 billion from less to more educated, poorer to richer, and high to low minority areas, widening existing disparities. The Washington Post article attempts to frame the clear north-south split as a result of healthcare issues in the south. That explanation seems too narrow to me. This map looks too similar to maps of poverty and education, and we know health correlates strongly with both of those issues. Edit to fix a sentence fragment. Sorry; it was late and I was tired.
>HELENA, Mont. (AP) — An 81-year-old Montana man faces sentencing in federal court Monday in Great Falls for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota. >However, the sentencing memorandum also congratulates Schubarth for successfully cloning the endangered sheep, which he named Montana Mountain King. The animal has been confiscated by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services. > >“Jack did something no one else could, or has ever done,” the memo said. “On a ranch, in a barn in Montana, he created Montana Mountain King. MMK is an extraordinary animal, born of science, and from a man who, if he could re-write history, would have left the challenge of cloning a Marco Polo only to the imagination of Michael Crichton,” who is the author of the science fiction novel Jurassic Park.
>The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general. > >The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted on Wednesday in favor of a request from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to officially change the name Clingmans Dome to Kuwohi, according to a news release from the park. The Cherokee name for the mountain translates to “mulberry place.”
Best of luck to Mozilla. Their line on the chart may end soon if they lose funding from Google. Source: [https://eylenburg.github.io/browser_engines.htm](https://eylenburg.github.io/browser_engines.htm)
This one's an oldie, but a goodie.
Source: [https://birdallianceoregon.org/event/owl-behavior/](https://birdallianceoregon.org/event/owl-behavior/)