Recently, we merry mods have been noticing many-a-comments being in the report queue for perceived negativity (the aim of the community being to provide "a break from the incessant negativity and rage"). What actions should we do about these, if any? Do we need a newsome another-rule for this?

Here's what I think: Some skepticism and scrutiny is always quite needed knowledge—especially against information that's actually untrue/misleading—and any bars I can think of for removing negative comments would apply to reasonable skepticism as well. Thus, the mod team is asking y'all to drop some bars!

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::: spoiler Assorted examples of reported comments

Actually, you’ve missed the mark. It’s not whining about an advancement, it’s legitimate criticism of the US health industry. He’s just saying what we all know to be true which is that regardless of technological improvements, lifesaving care will continue to be ruinously expensive for those that are able to access it and gatekept from many others.

If you have a problem with comments like these undermining celebration of scientific progress, then maybe you should think about the structural political issues that lead people to disillusionment and cynicism rather than labeling people as conspiracy theorists.

You know “big red“ voted for Trump. It’s a cute story, but I hope he gets what he voted for In the end

It’s too bad that curing patients is not a sustainable business model. Even if this did work we would only ever see it developed if you had to take it twice a month for the rest of your life in order to survive.

Edit: sorry, I just noticed this is in Uplifting News. So, let’s be optimistic. Maybe global capitalism will collapse and governments will start trying to take care of people.

Nobody said anything about ICE, we’re talking about the military known for bombing weddings in multiple middle eastern countries and then bombing ambulances when they respond.

If you have the money to commit atrocities in a dozen countries at once, you have money to spare.

That’s .world for you; complaining about Reddit while trying to recreate it exactly

It’s very sad to see hype like this. They only had 30 enrolled, this was just a safety study, and while the data looks promising, there is certainly not enough statistical power, which is why there is no approval yet.

Shame on the BBC. If you are going to quote invesigators, you should state that they have paid consultancy deals with UniQure. The same two people were equally excited about a Roche therapy years ago…

But UniCure stock went up 200% today, which is the point.

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Since it's slightly less than easy to glean the rules from the sidebar, here's an itemized collection of rules. For example, the schadenfreude rule can be referred to as a)1.

a) Posts must be uplifting.

1. This excludes schadenfreude.^[1]^
   Try ![email protected] instead if the subject involves powerful people.

b) Posts must not overtly deal with toxic politics.^[1]^

c) Links must not be low-effort.^[1]^

1. Links must not go to a copy of a copy of a copy.
   (Try finding the original source instead! Links do not have to be textual, so there's no need to find a content farm to post a video.)
2. Posts must not be fake news.

d) Comments should foster open discussion.

1. Negativity/spreading doom and gloom in comments is currently allowed.^[2]^
2. Comments be civil and must not include personal attacks towards other commenters or non-public figures. (Swearing is allowed as long as it isn't directed towards those.) Please engage with others' points respectfully and fully.
   The rest of the lemmy.world instance rules apply here as well.

[1] https://lemmy.world/post/30918729
[2] https://lemmy.world/post/36475489

If there's something you think that should be on here but isn't, feel free to say so!

The discovery of two lost species is 'exceptional' and rare, scientists say

This entire article is gold:

• The bird is called Bebe
• Bebe was fine. He was there for 15 minutes, and there was a lot of practice, safety, and care. Bebe is also used to shenanigans of all sorts
• The submarine is called the Bebosphere
• 'Stephen Lawyer, who really is a lawyer'
• His wife is called Cher
• People do the most beautiful unhinged shit with paintball cylinders
• Bebe answers phonecalls
• Bebe's other hobbies include indoor cycling, outdoor cycling, and skydiving
• Precisely none of this was AI

What a treasure to be the person writing this story, congratulations Mr. Moran

Video here

three strangers searched for a tourist’s wedding ring in river rapids for three days / and found it

A survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has discovered that the once endangered species is thriving.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52872413

How it used to look:

A better world exists if you want it.

Wētāpunga or Little Barrier Island giant wētā ( Deinacrida heteracantha : Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) underwent significant decline across Northland and Auckland, New Zealand, and by mid‐20th Century was restricted to Te Hauturu‐o‐Toi/Little Barrier Island. However, surveys of wētāpunga during the early 1990s reported low numbers and concerns that the population was declining. Subsequently, a recovery plan specified the need for at least four wild populations. After Pacific rat ( Rattus exulans ) eradication from Te Hauturu‐o‐Toi in 2004, the abundance of wētāpunga was resurveyed annually for 5 years from 2005 with low detection rates. Here we report the establishment of two ex situ colonies using cohorts of 12 individuals collected from Te Hauturu‐o‐Toi every 3–5 years. Over 11,000 wētāpunga were produced for translocations from 2010. Ten new populations have been founded on eight predator‐free islands and inside two predator‐proof fenced areas on the mainland. Post‐release monitoring on Motuora and Tiritiri Matangi Islands has verified fourth‐ or fifth‐generation individuals at two release areas on each island. Ranked as Nationally Endangered in the New Zealand Threat Classification System at the start of the recovery programme the threat ranking for wētāpunga has improved to Nationally Recovering.

Insurers and employers have been required to publish their negotiated rates for hospital and physician services every month for more than four years under what is known as the Transparency in Coverage regulation. But those data files have been filled with unusable data known as “ghost rates” or “zombie rates” — prices for services that would never happen, like if a dermatologist were to perform an open-heart surgery. Some research has suggested more than 90% of the prices are ghost rates.

Trump officials said insurers and their vendors have been purposefully gumming up the datasets with these numbers to make it more difficult for the public to understand what the true, relevant prices are, and they are attempting to put a stop to it.

“The evasive action was just to flood the zone with so much information that instead of enlightening the process, it actually obscured it further,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at an event Monday. “The information was impossible to decipher, and even the employers who have hundreds of attorneys working for them could not figure out the differentiation in prices.”

Karure, the New Zealand’s black robin (petroica traversi) is an amazing story of how a species on the brink of extinction, with one breeding pair left, has now recovered to approximately 350 individuals in 2025. All of these individuals are descended from one female called Old Blue.

(Text from: https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/images/old-blue-the-story-of-the-black-robin )

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/16402696

geteilt von: https://lemmy.world/post/52617918

Hooray for the wildcat! Must be so exhilarating to see them in the cairngorms, crossing the spey no less!