Tavarin

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[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The whole story was bullshit

No shit, but the story still makes god an evil villain.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ah yes, because the story clearly talks about Noah easily finding land again because only a small part of the world was flooded.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Noah warned some people, what about the rest of the planet? I'm sure native Americans enjoyed suddenly being drowned with no warning.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Nah, just the Abrahmic god that decided to flood the world and kill nearly everyone on it innocent or not.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

I've had the same copy of excel since high school, and it's done a damn fine job processing experimental date through undergrad, my PhD, and 6 years as a working researcher.

It's also the software pretty much everyone has, so you can easily share data with collaborators and other researchers. And it has a ton of functionality so you can process and analyze data easily, and create the visuals for papers very easily.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It seems I was actually wrong, sorry about that. I was thinking of agents like ethidium bromide, and assumed benzene was similarly toxic due to it's planar structure. It seems it's actually the metabolites of benzene that cause cancer, usually through oxidative damage:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1469747/

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Benzene is what's called in intercolating agent. Essentially it can slip into your DNA strands between the base pairs, and hang out there so to speak. When your cells attempt to replicate DNA where benzene has sidled on in, it can cause errors in the replication. When cells build up enough DNA errors it can cause cancer.

Edit: this is an incorrect explanation, I was confusing benzene's method of toxicity with ethidium bromide's. Benzene metabolites are what's toxic, usually due to oxidative damage.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

But they wouldn't know how, or with what software. That is indeed protecting one's privacy.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Good, make them jump through that hoop and respect user privacy.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 70 points 2 years ago (15 children)

It about device detection and privacy. Websites in the EU aren't allowed to scan your hardware or software without your permission, to protect the users privacy. Adblockers fall under this.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

No, you see they subtracted room and board from him, that's why he only got $800k.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I've read estimates that miscarriages make up as much as 75% of all pregnancies, but many are early so women just think their period was late.

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