The Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Penitentiary

From JPEG.org, jpeg stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. Ph = F, ergo JPEG = JFEG. I irrationally dislike jpeg, so I will now try to call it jfeg as some light fun. I think more people shoulda normalise calling common things silly alternate pronunciations that are still clearly recognisable as the original word, just to add the whimsy of getting to chuckle silently to yourself thinking "that's not how that's said!"

20:1 is crazy! Maybe I'm just interested in niche stuff, but I struggle to keep mine in the 1:1-2:1 range :(

Ironic coming from someone with wombat in their name 🇦🇺

It was just for a pico second, but I ate the headline XD

Part of the reason there's not more evidence and it's hard to prove a causal link is because it's next to impossible to find enough participants for a control group because of how prevalent microplastics have become in our food and subsequently our bodies. You can't exactly run peer review observational, experimental and double blind studies on only one half (more like one third, as a causal study would need to induce change from a->b) of the required test groups. t- and p-tests also are much less valuable if the sample size is too small.

Actually, 50% of people are less intelligent than the median. 99% of people could be smarter than average with just 1 extra stupid dumbfuck. In today's day and age, there are a few prominent contenders for that position.

The default answer to everyone who has ever asked this question (including me last year) is to read K&R C, the 2nd edition of the original book published by C's inventor.

I wouldn't recommend powering from start to end like a normal book, I wouldn't even recommend a hard copy, but it's a comprehensive reference and the appendeces etc are good. I haven't read much of it at all tbh but it's nice to have. It's still being sold but you can get it from a tonne of libraries etc. I got a pdf from a "friend".

Otherwise, I recommend watching and following along with Free Code Camp's several hour C tutorial. Their editor of choice is so outdated I was't able to install a working copy, but using JetBrains Clion or VS Code or Visual Studio etc etc are all good replacements.

I'm still new to C so hopefully someone will come along who's been doing it since the 1900's.

The Malloc and Nick Barker YouTube channels also have some excellent C videos that you might like.

I think the point is more that the Space X IPO is overpriced for the same reason milk is overpriced: a bunch of rich people have been devastating everyone else's back ends extra hard recently, resulting in an economy that is not only inflated but has a completely loony price skew.

My bank had been sending me emails about the IPO. Of course, they ARENT to warn consumers that what was once a valuable company (Space X does actually have utility and until recently was decently profitable) has been forcibly married into so many of Musk's failures (Grok, X, pretty sure there was something else) and had it's valuation ballooned by volatile AI hype that it's almost certainly just an opportunity to dump an increasingly red line-item off Elon's books and onto the bagholders general public's automated ETF funds (because he extorted the NASDAQ into breaking its own rules to list on an exchange that people trusted enough to not allow fraud like this that they put their retirement into auto-buying and -selling securities based on its data). NO, besides the tiny disclaimer that they put on every correspondence with their customers to research and learn about the risks themselves (which is good of them to do, but pretty sure is required by law anyway) they then go on to basically advertise how to buy into the IPO, even though it's listed in a different country and standard retail investors like myself normally have to jump through a couple hoops before investing in global markets. It's downright irresponsible!

Don't call me put like this just after I wake up!

This is pedantic, but I don't think an equal tax would be fair at all. I take equal to mean everyone pays the same absolute amount, eg $10 a year. It wouldn't be fair to make a newborn baby with $0 to their name pay $10. Similarly, it wouldn't be fair to make a multi billionaire only pay $10, because they relatively cost more and benefit more from the infrastructure, institutions, economy and every other part of society; taxes of course contribute to funding that society. Sorry the paragraph where a sentence might've sufficed. Think that all the semantics I'm allowed to argue about on the internet for this week.

Honestly I'm 50/50 on whether this deserves downvotes bc on the one hand, wtf, who asked? On the other, it's c/memes, and this is a MEME

This was a really interesting read for me as someone who's done immunology at uni, but might be harder to understand for others. However it's still communicated really clearly so I would recommend anyone who's interested to read it as I'm sure that the authors have done a good enough job to prevent education being a barrier to entry.

I'll disclaim the rest of this comment by saying I gave the article a casual read and am putting minimal effort into this summary so am at risk of mischaracterising the article. It gave a more in depth explanation to why the Astra Zeneca COVID19 vaccine was dropped in a lot of places. Previously I just had a shallow understanding of an increased risk of dangerous blood clots, but the article did a great job of explaining more in depth what caused those blood clots (the development of unexpected autoimmune platelet antibodies). It also talked about the subsequent investigations and studies into what caused these reactions. One of the reasons it was such a rare side effect, 1 in 200,000 iirc from the article, is because it relied on both a rare side effect of the type of virus that they engineered to carry the vaccine into your body and a rare mutation in patients' B Lymphocytes (an important white blood cell from your adaptive immune system that produces protective antibodies). It is standard in epidemiology to measure incidence, risk etc per 100,000 people, so the fact that this is only 1 in every 200,000 shows how rare this is, but because so many people were getting vaccinated against COVID the medical community still decided the risk was too great.

Sorry for any errors, hope my comment was helpful/interesting!

Github?

The sins of the parent are not the sins of the child. I'm sure you said this because you are hurting unimaginably more than I am (I live several timezones away). However difficut it is, I think it's worth trying our damdest not to be pulled down into fascistic vitriol, thinking children deserve a broken life for only the blood in their veins. I oppose ICE and other similar groups around the world because their actions conflict directly and harshly with my ideals, and I sometimes start to lose sight of those very ideals when I get more and more angry at the news. I'm very glad for the few voices I've heard that remind me to look up and try to rise above my feelings, not in a "turn the other cheek, we can't stop the horrors bc red tape is our #1 priority), but just in a way that reminds of you of why your fighting, so you don't find that you've started fighting yourself.

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What, then, is a third party launcher to you? How many launchers do you know of that allow you to launch games that you bought somewhere else? I can think of only that one Linux launcher I can't remember the name of. Maybe you would count GOG Galaxy, because you can add non GOG games to it, but I'm like 85% sure you can do the same thing on Steam.

I think that Steam IS a third-party launcher. It started as a first-party launcher for valve games. Nowadays, though, they (the third party) allow you (the first party) to buy and launch games from unrelated publisher and developers (the second parties).

Is there a Hussein hiding ar the base of his hat? Maybe I've seen too many memes but that made me chuckle 😁

This, too, shall pass.

My brother told me about it, said that there's an old legend about a king who had it (but in Latin/Greek/whichever language) engraved onto a ring. During parties, he looked at it so he wouldn't get carried away, during hard tomes he looked at it to stay strong in hope of a better future.

Are you perhaps thinking of fedi.tips and its sister websites? The author posts lots of guides for the fediverse.

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