Peer-reviewed publication link

It should be illegal for news articles to report on articles without actually posting the publication link

Edit: pertinently, I’m not 100% sure that’s the same publication, as there doesn’t obviously even seem to be a journal with the title Microbiota (their citation)

The second-highest hit gives a clue as to why:

Relevantly to Lemmy’s existence in the first place, it suggests Reddit as a pretty pivotal training data source, which Reddit tries to cash in on while also killing 3rd party apps due to apathy

Up next: companies continue 5-day workweeks anyway, because they’re not even rational in their mandates. (See also: forces RTO).

Almost like they’re creating the problem in order to sell the “solution”

xkcd “standards” comes to mind

Same energy: kitchen implements

My wooden spatula is cracking and warping after being put in the dishwasher every time, but too bad. I’ll use it until it splinters into pulp

Not dishwasher “safe” for whom?

Nothing happened because he forgot to uncomment the commands im_stuff.jpg

False; it says “100% Safe & Secured” right there on that logo. How could that possisbly be a scam?

Can’t believe relevant xkcd hasn’t been posted.

Oh snap

How does this work lol. VPN is some third-party node that’s relaying network traffic. Do they mean stealing some kind of authentication credentials for said node (maybe baked into the VPN-connecting software itself?)?

Quadrupled (probably) healthcare costs

To be fair this does hit them first as they age

But also they just strike even by metabolizing their life savings / real estate to pay for this

Leaving us… with no inheritance and holding the bag

Emerald mine with heavy labor exploitation was involved, too, IIRC

Right — on Reddit, if you didn’t get to a post within say the first hour or so*, you were going to be banished to a vast wasteland of unseen comments with only one upvote.

Even if you did, well, your comment best be damned clever, funny, or interesting to be interacted with much.

This basically feels like a less lonely Reddit.

Mastodon also has this vibe for me (vs twitter). Basically, the superstar economy effect is less strong.

*or piggyback on an existing top-rated comment (trying to make one’s own relevant to it, or “hijacking” it)

apart of

Perfect, I’m glad it’s not integrated

Then, to the casual observer, it will look like everything is fine and dandy, furthering the astroturfing propaganda

Right. Technically, iPhone X batteries could be considered “replaceable”. Practically, when I did it, I had to purchase an $80 kit with tools, then take on substantial risk that I’d break it irreparably(say 20%), and put in a solid 4 hours of effort to do so.

Valuing my time at $20/hour, and the phone at $800, that’s $80 + $160 + $80 = $320.

Well, y’all are in luck because they’re switching to USB C for iPhone 15

Also managed to be pretty functional while blacking out nearly daily (at my worst), and interestingly enough, the anxiety during the hangovers (which became pretty much any time in between) is also what finally caused me to turn the corner.

His defense mechanism: