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https://www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-may-not-actually-be-a-brain-disease-expert-reveals
#Science
#Immunology
#Alzheimers
The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years witnessing several important controversies.The Conversation (ScienceAlert)
New life hack:
When the dudes at the home improvement store insist on knowing what you're working on *before* helping you find things, just tell them you're working on an art project.
They'll stop telling you "how you should be doing it", and instead just help you find the thing you're looking for.
Dangit, why'd I have to use such a good password for work.
Where is my phone.
2FA
something you can't remember
and something you can't find
Just come across this rather brilliant version of the #London #Underground that takes into account geography!
Would it ever catch on? Or is the old iconic one too ingrained in our brains - even though it leads to us making some rather silly choices that you only realise once you know what the distances between stations are above ground?
http://www.tubemapcentral.com/webshop/webshopposters/london_circles_v2.jpg
I'm so used to the official design after a few years of using it daily in the 90's that I think a big change would be difficult for most regular users, who will know the misleading station distances and worse places to connect to other lines.
I think the circular one is no more accurate?, but just a different more rounded design.
TFL issued a geographic version a while back, very spaghetti. https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-information/foi-request-detail?referenceId=FOI-0525-1920
"Should we privatize this thing?"
And
"Should we give control over this thing to an unelected rich person who has no reason to act in the public good?"
Are exactly the same question
I sometimes see people complaining about how much code gets "thrown away", viewing it as waste.
I can't help thinking of movie directors. How much footage got thrown away by Stanley Kubrick, vs how much got thrown away by Ed Wood?
Kubrick famously did many takes, trying many different things. Wood, famously, gave the actors one take.
IME, teams who "throw away" a lot of code tend to deliver a far superior end product. I'm wary when most of the code that gets written makes it into production.
“I asked chatgpt, and if it can be believed then [potential answer to a question neither person knows the answer to]”
So you really just wasted a load of processing power to get a useless bunch of paragraphs that you even know you can’t trust?? 
I do love goggles as an accessory! Let me see your 'sonas and characters that rock the goggles! ^^
First photo with Woger and taken by Roofur
Ground floor: perfumery.
Remix for all of us who grew up with late night PBS.
https://youtu.be/pinYgTWT6Ik?si=9fZYG5caZvqgXVJ8
Provided to YouTube by PIASAre You Being Served? · Matt BerryAre You Being Served?℗ Acid Jazz RecordsReleased on: 2018-07-23Producer: BerryMixing Engineer: B...YouTube
I've just witnessed a completely civil and righteous rage against the machine by an elderly man (80s+) at supermarket self-service checkout here in small city Aotearoa #NewZealand and it was a little bit wonderful.
He'd just finished paying for his groceries when the machine started saying "Please take your items" every 15 seconds or so. At first he just says "I'll do it in my own time thank you," while bagging things up.
The machine keeps telling him to take his items. After around the 5th time, he starts really arguing back:
"I don't have to do what you tell me to do."
"I'll take as long as I need thank you."
"I'll thank you to stop harassing me."
On around the seventh or eighth request that he take his items, he stands back, crosses his arms and says loudly snaps, "No! Not until you be quiet!"
The machine keeps going. The man just stands there, crossed arms, chin stuck out. A standoff is on. Staff come over and ask if they can help and he tells them that if they switch the voice off, he will continue bagging his things and go. If they don't, he's retired and can wait all day.
Machine is turned off/down with sympathy from supermarket staff. Moments later the man leaves the supermarket with the air of someone who's just won a war, expression completely stoic.
Hi. Person with 20 years experience in information security, IT and networking here.
Just wanted to let you know I just spent 3 minutes digging through the settings on my computer to figure out why my mouse was being weird.
I was holding it upside down.
Finally the fullsuit photos of Tomkitty!! Again, welcome to the family 💜 He will be on his way home soon for many adventures :D
(Please note, that I'm way too small and my hips way too thick for this fursuit, we made the best of it ;P)
Population activists: We'll run out of food on <date>.
Scientists: Invent nitrogen fertilizer, pushing the problem into the future.
Capitalists: See, no problem! We can grow forever!
Peak oil activists: We'll run out of oil on <date>.
Scientists: Invent fracking, allowing extraction of previously unprofitable reserves, pushing the problem into the future.
Capitalists: See, no problem! We can use fossil fuels forever!
@coffeepine
When people bring up wind turbines and bird deaths, I used to send them the below and something like
"Thank you for caring about the birds, join us in eliminating the biggest killers of birds"
They tend to shut up quickly.
Content warning: CW: mentions Nazis and deadnaming.
You may not like it, but this is what peak posting performance looks like
📸 @chadthegryph.bsky.social
*Technically* you are allowed to run your own PDS (data server) on bluesky, but in addition to the site silently unexisting* your posts if you make any interesting code changes, when *bluesky* changes the PDS code on github they expect your server (which they expect to be running their exact docker scripts, which include an auto update feature) to pick up that change more or less immediately or the app and bsky.app website may stop working with cryptic errors
* Like a shadowban but more shadowy
Random fursuit photo from the archives.
Rodents & rabbits during the Midwest FurFest 2016 menagerie.
Today I learned: apparently, PayPal is creating a "who knows who" peer graph to suggest people for your search. Combined with the the real name enforcement and username choice, that creates, uh, *something awful*.
Now I know the real names of some furries I never had anything to do with, but my friends did. That's not what I was looking for, but now I have them shoved into my face anyway. Thanks, PayPal.
I often hear people saying how good UK plugs are. They are OK but have their problems at high currents as the internal fuse gets hot and can melt the insulation and connections.
This example is 9 months old and was used a couple of days a week for car charging - load was about 12A.
The Bussmann fuse in this good quality plug cooked everything and ended up welding the plug into the socket with the heat.
@storyworker @violetmadder
> “from whom am I to rent?”
Landlords, of course, in the same way that feudal peasants would have received the same answer to the same question.
I’m not telling you that you’re doing anything wrong. “The system in which we’re forced to live is unjust” doesn’t mean you’ve done anything wrong by renting. I too am a renter.
> “They have provided me more than housing - they have provided me a home, one where I have been able to dramatically rebuild what was a pretty awful life.”
No, they are using their control of a scarce resource to extract rents from you. Unless they’re renting to you at a loss, your rent is paying for the capital costs on the house—the mortgage, upkeep, etc. *You* finance their ownership of the house in which you live, with no ownership rights despite paying those capital costs.
You might also be paying them wages on top of buying them a house, if your rent is greater than those capital costs.
Passively accepting one’s role in an unjust status quo is a perfectly reasonable survival strategy, but it doesn’t make that status quo good or just.
Your landlord isn’t providing you with housing. You are providing your landlord with housing. If landlords did not hoard more housing than they could personally use to collect feudal rents from tenants like you, then housing costs would be dramatically lower, all else being equal.
