I prefer whatsapp to telegram and discord, and especially WeChat.

I definitely try to force people onto signal but apart from that whatsapp is decent. Whatsapp collects your metadata, and likely sells it, but your messages are encrypted using the signal protocol, which makes it better than discord, telegram, or WeChat, in my view.

And especially better than the alternative my american friends like to use, which seem to be snapchat and instagram messages.

Now the same is happening but Russia has overtaken the US as the number 1 kneecap buster.

Great world to live in as a leftist innit.

Researchers identify gene linked to origins of spoken language.

More like: Researchers identify gene change in humans, that is leads to vocalisation differences when changed in Mice. Researchers speculate gene change is linked to origins of spoken language.

We really need more nuance in scientific reporting. These headlines are so filled with hyperbole they become close to outright lies.

Is this automatic?

Yeah. RFI is funded by the french government after all.

Good to see some of the Egyptian Military dictatorship’s tourist money will be used for good, instead of oppressing it’s own citizens.

I know someone who went to uni with me who has been in Egyptian prison for 3 years now because of his political views.

Avoidance works pretty well for a lot of things. There’s a reason humans have evolved these behaviours.

Makes the caption “oh just die already” feel quite cruel

Sorry to hear that. FYI this is unintuitive but “strong immune system” would mean you would have a worse reaction to the infection.

People often die just as much because their immune system overreacts to infections, than the infection directly killing them.

All that stuff, fever, coughing, phelm, is a consequence of your immune system fighting the infection. Not inherent to the infection itself.

(This is one of my pet peeves, sorry, a strong immune system is just as bad as a weak one, from your life experience it sounds like yours is perfectly balanced).

Context on 80/20 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

Ah I hate that. TFW I wake up to like 30 inbox messages after knowing I said something controversial.

(With me it’s usually when I posted something about advancing disability rights).

And I just don’t have the mental energy to check it out, so I mark all as read and pretend nothing happened lol.

WHO doesn’t have a great track record on COVID either. They denied it was airborne for years even though we had sufficient evidence to say so in 2021.

Right wing media usually don’t acknowledge Russia messing with elections because they can’t admit their saviour Trump had outside help.

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Nobody fucks? Russia is fucking with elections all over the globe.

It blocks popular VPN services. I doubt your work is a recognised VPN IP.

One of those laptop academics was just promoted to head of the NIH 😭😭

I want to leave this timeline.

I’m not gay, but as someone in another minority group (severe disability). I won’t make it my entire identity when I am given equal rights. Until then, it’s a big part of me, because I have faced a flavour of oppression that has shaped me in a certain way and can only really be understood by those in the same shoes as me.

The thing though is they replaced polluting single use straws with less polluting single use straws.

If they actually wanted to do something useful it would have been nice to have multi-use straws ie. metal/wood/or even hardened plastic.

But I guess that wouldn’t be as suitable a source of income, and wouldn’t fit well with american consumerism and fast food culture, so here we are debating on the best type of single use straws.

As you said, the base problem comes from capitalism.

I honestly dont really like paper straws, I never got why metal or wood (ie. reusable) straws aren’t more common.

Not that I even need straws for most things. Most straws given out are mostly unnecessary.