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Mon Mothra
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Mostly complaining about politics and structural biology. At the end of everything, hold on to anything.
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Important to remember that this isn’t $1,800 a month for transportation it’s $1,800 a month for Gender.
one of the least sympathetic microgenres of post is, "I financed an extremely expensive truck at fairly normal APRs and am paying HOW MUCH in interest?!"

my uncle is broke as shit in his 60s in large part from making this exact sort of decision multiple times
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
There’s an interesting culture/class signifier here is if you made this post about a bmw m5 instead of a truck everyone would just call you a twit even though it’s the same amount of money
one of the least sympathetic microgenres of post is, "I financed an extremely expensive truck at fairly normal APRs and am paying HOW MUCH in interest?!"

my uncle is broke as shit in his 60s in large part from making this exact sort of decision multiple times
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Cost effective lab grown meat is worth working on for a couple reasons, one is that being able to have high quality meat without killing animals would be cool, the other is that you have to solve a lot of difficult cell biology problems to do it which will have cool implications in other places
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I was about to make a joke about how you should be able to place a wager on the date of your own death and then I realized that’s what life insurance is
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Kinda surprised MRE Steve on YouTube hasn’t gotten ahold of this one yet
Who doesn’t like a heaping helping of thermostabilized wet meat product on Thanksgiving? Behold of a turkey with gravy prototype for NASA’s Apollo program, cooked up by the kitchen labs at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center in 1969.
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan

“The units had been trained for nighttime raids targeting suspected Taliban members, & were accused by human rights groups of widespread killings of civilians.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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The vibe here is really "guy who was part of a U.S.-aligned death squad got told he's getting sent back to Afghanistan to die"
well that tracks

(also should put to rest any bleating about “vetting” but we live in hell so)
November 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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sorry: in this commercial

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4fH...
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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This post and the subsequent replies are, and I mean this as a compliment, *extremely* good propaganda especially for the short video documentary age. Come learn some things.
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Guy from Washington state drives across the country, kills two West Virginians who should've been at home, and not deployed in D.C., and so Trump sends 500 more guardsmen to D.C.
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.

www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Huh.
White House pooler S.V. Daté releases a statement about President Trump's video on the DC shooting not NOT saying it was AI-generated

(VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcj...)
November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
AI successfully automates the critical work of making an absolutely awful TOC figure for your paper
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The scammer community is gonna love this thing
this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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No one suggests that we kick out white Americans because of Jeffrey Dahmer. Why not extend Afghans the same right to be treated as individuals, especially since many Afghans who made it here risked their lives to help our soldiers?
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Just logged back on are we gonna invade afganistan again and if so before, during, or after we invade Venezuela
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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The kinds of databases:

• Fancy files
• 1970s stays winning
• This would be so cool if it worked at scale
• Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Oh for fucks sake
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration orders 500 more National Guard members to Washington after shooting, Hegseth says.
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
“Like and subscribe you disgusting hogs” is one of several subtexts or this and with each passing day I find my opinon of Ryan lizza somehow getting lower
this fuckin guy ...dropping allegations of journalistic malpractice and source betrayal in separate piece meal events like it’s delicious media gossip and then writing, “we haven’t reached the halfway point, and I haven’t yet described the most bizarre, consequential, and newsworthy events”
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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For fucks sake
The governor of West Virginia is now walking back his initial post, where he stated two National Guard members died after being shot
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"

"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"

"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"

"About as intelligent as a border collie."

"So, intelligent. Why?"

"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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2 kids who should never have been sent to DC and who likely did not want to be there are dead bc of a political stunt. Regardless of the proximate reasons these deaths happened, the ultimate outcome will be days of right wing rage followed by worse decisions that put more people at risk.
NEW: The governor of West Virginia says that two members of the state National Guard shot today in DC have died.
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM