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Tina Belcher is my spiritual guide on this issue. Nothing wrong with a little erotic friend-fiction becoming reality.
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Cloning, once you have done it once, is a dead simple process, relatively. Figuring it out the first time was hard, but since Dolly (the first cloned sheep, born at University of Idaho) there have been high levels of publication on sheep cloning specifically.
Anymore, anyone who can parse reasonably complex instructions and has access to the kind of facilities any large animal vet might have could do this. It takes more money than I personally command but an even slightly well off person could afford it.
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Jean-Claude Van Johnson deserves to be on this list, perhaps as a sixth best-comeback honorable mention.
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Sorry, gone too far
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Ooh, since this is a safe space for dorks, I would like to be pedantic myself. Thank you for the opportunity. The oxygen catastrophe was caused by cyanobacteria-like organisms, which are photosynthetic, but are not plants. But it’s true, all bio-mass matters!
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The Azolla Event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event. I mean it is cool and the major climate shift it helped create certainly caused some extinctions. But plants can change the world, never forget!
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Overboard, right?
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Interesting enough, Morgan’s widow became one of Joseph Smith’s plural wives. It’s a small country.
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Idaho is just sitting there, not doing much of anything . . .
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Like tears in the rain…
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None of us know where any of this is going. That’s why we have this game of ‘dueling truisms’ here in the comments.
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It is so true. As a gay man I had to leave the Mormon cult but it meant committing complete social suicide. It’s not an easy thing, by far the most difficult part of coming out.
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I finally got a widget I modeled in OpenSCAD to print correctly in my resin printer. The shape is such that supports were really challenging.
It’s interesting to me because I have graduated from the ‘tchotchkes’ phase of printing into the realm of making functional parts that further my other projects.
Trying to get Cthulu’s tentacle-beard to print correctly was a good exercise, but designing and printing a useful part feels like a real step up.
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As a person raised deep in the Mormon culture in our lovely Deseret, I get it. Being bisexual and independently minded made it impossible to stay in the culture, but damnit, it is still part of who I am.
So many complex emotions that you need to use German to try to describe them.
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The purpose of a system is what it does, after all.
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I meditate as part of a dedicated yoga practice. When I am doing a group practice, i arrive early and perform a physical warm up and then spend ten minutes in a seated meditation before the class begins. It makes a huge difference in the quality of my workout to get my mind firmly rooted in the immediate experience.
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“Building on this literature, I propose a definition of shitposting that embodies four distinct elements: a reliance on absurdity or “meaninglessness,” the critique or disruption of online discourses, the employment of an “internet ugly” aesthetic, and the use of meta-languaging”
Good lord, it took them forever to spit out a coherent definition!
Does this paper itself represent a form of academic shitposting? I mean, the subject is sound but the convoluted and discursive presentation is maddening.
But, yes, shitposting is worthy of significant further study and all grant applications in that area should be automatically approved.
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An investment vehicle. Reserved Investor Fund
This is US focused but the principle of being involved in local issues is universal to all democracies. Can I rant for a minute? Why does every thread about voting devolve into *removed* about the flaws of the Electoral College? Fun fact: the Electoral College only pertains to the Presidency and there’s almost nothing you can do about that directly. Think local, that’s where you can make a difference. Your local school board has the power to either support students or drive them to suicide. Local races frequently turn on a handful of votes. So go ahead, sit out the election because the choices for president stink. I humbly submit that your superior moral stance may not be based on very firm principles. That trans kid down the block didn’t need your help anyway. /s
Aside from the fact it was a zoom meeting of almost 100 people mostly over 60, it was alright. I should edit my title: What sort of personal demons drive a person to participate in party politics?
I played this game back in the 00’s and had a pretty good time. My friend group was quite creative at the time so everyone got it. It was a raucous good time. I’m just contemplating trying again and was seeking experiences and maybe tips on pulling off a successful session.
www.nbcnews.com
Some mental health experts are advocating for religious trauma to be considered an official disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Hi, question for the group. I have a pi zero 2 running the lite OS suggested by the imager. I’ve been able to create a RAID with 2 240gb SSD on the usb port. Even during a peak read/write stress test, the power draw for the whole system doesn’t exceed 800ma. Anyhow, ideally I would like to boot from this volume and elimante the SD card completely, but have been stopped by not even being able to boot with the root set to the RAID and the boot dir still on an SD. I can get it to boot when /usr and / var are on the raid Has anyone any insights on different things to try? Perhaps even a good reason this can’t work would free me from this fools quest so my project can advance?
arstechnica.com
A book review on the latest Weinersmith creation. It’s true, there is so much we don’t know. Just throwing this out there on this forum because missing technology is the problem that kills the dream of Mars, according to the authors.
Morning glory in a bucket on a balcony. It’s watered automatically by a solar powered gizmo I made too.
wandb.ai
Is it? This review is pretty thorough with some realistic benchmarks. Spoiler: it won’t replace an entire data center, but it works for model development and testing. Enjoy!
www.strongtowns.org
I just wanted to introduce this group to Strong Towns, a non profit devoted to making development make sense. I worked with the founder of Strong Towns years ago when the idea was new. The issues and framework of Strong Towns transcend partisan politics and instead gathers people under the banner of demanding that our towns be built to upon principles most any reasonable person would want to see enacted. Principles like: development responsive to local needs and financial transparency. Please check them out.
I am trying to upgrade using the ansible playbook from 18.0 to the latest. I issue ‘git pull’ and ‘ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts lemmy.yml --become --ask-pass --ask-become-pass’. This worked the first time I upgraded to 18.0, but now I get: TASK [Install Docker Module and docker-compose for Python] ****************************************************** fatal: [root@lemmy.mitchday.com]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “cmd”: [“/usr/bin/python3”, “-m”, “pip.main”, “install”, “-U”, “docker”, “docker-compose”], “msg”: "\n:stderr: error: externally-managed-environment\n\n× This environment is externally managed\n╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install\n … Is there something obvious I’m missing? Much appreciated. Mostly confused what has changed since my own system config has not since the last successful upgrade and the changelog doesn’t indicate any needed config changes.
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slrpnk.netA cranky biologist who means well. My hobbies include long walks off short piers and anything science related.