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Haus of (Brain) Decline rule

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Took me a while, too.

There's a character called "The Brain" on the children's cartoon "Arthur" that was previously voice acted by "Steven Crowder". After Crowder left the role, it was taken by "Haus of Decline" (person in the post).

Hard to parse if you don't know what 3 of those 4 names are.

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Thoughts after my first month on Lemmy

One of my formative experiences here was regularly commenting on a new and small, but active Stardew Valley community. I also got like 11 upvotes for my comments, but those upvotes and the few responses felt so much more qualitative than those on Reddit. It actually felt like a community where you recognize the people after a while.

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~~True Facts about the Humans~~

The wikipedia article on humans is written like this and fun to read:

"Humans' thinner body hair and more productive sweat glands help avoid heat exhaustion while running for long distances."

"During sleep humans dream, where they experience sensory images and sounds"

"Humans commit violence on other humans at a rate comparable to other primates, but have an increased preference for killing adults, infanticide being more common among other primates."

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It hurts.

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Where I'm from cities like Boston are the norm. When I was in a grid city for the first time, I immediately got lost on the roads because everything just looks the same.

On the other hand, Americans seem to have a more intuitive sense of the cardinal directions than Europeans do from my experience. Which makes sense if you're used to roads aligned with them.

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"Counterterrorism" now officially means targeting trans people. The White House will prioritize the “neutralization” of groups it considers “anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”

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Berlin of the 20s was probably the most liberal place for queer people in the west. Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and wrote the first paper on trans identities, gave people counseling, hormones and recommended surgeons.

He was able to decriminalise homosexuality and have trans people allowed to present "sex non-conforming" in public if they had a slip from him.

The Nazis used this for culture wars and promise a return to the golden time of tradition and morality.

His institute was raided in the first book burning, thousand of scientific papers are lost forever, his patients hunted down. He managed to flee to France.

It's important to treat his persona critically though, because as a scientist of his time, he also adopted some problematic stances on eugenics and racial teachings. On the other hand, he was also one of the few that criticised the rigor of the science behind those teachings from time to time.

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Trump calls on "God Squad" to bypass endangered species laws for offshore drilling

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I suppose the argument is about offshore windparks. Whales specifically have insanely sensitive hearing and can communicate over hundreds of miles, so it seems like an intuitive argument that the turbines' vibrations affect them negatively.

Conservational efforts are definitely important when picking a location. But in the end, it's probably similar to the bird argument, which is not a completely fabricated concern, but has been distorted and overblown so much that it doesn't have much to do with reality anymore.