Our primary outer protein is basically keratin, which can be tinted orange(carotene), beige (collagen) or brown/black (melanin).

The green pigment is a byproduct of bilirubin catabolism, which we don't have because we use a different pathway to metabolize and recycle it.

When I was an American I witnessed an obvious Russian agent get elected... twice, and destroy the standing of the US completely.

This isn't blackmail, this is just expressing clear dominance.

The blackmail happens behind closed doors, and blackmail is such an ugly word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG6vgzAswgE

I lived in the shithole parts of the country, it made perfect sense.

Many 'Americans' would eat shit if they knew the smell would piss people off.

I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it’s not just lack of real news, it’s lack of history knowledge too."

Man, it's like you spend centuries brutalizing all your neighbors, if not outright conquering them and enforcing holocausts, and this is the thanks you get!

And polls continue to call the race a tie.

At some point we have to acknowledge that roughly 30% of our population are just evil, fascist monsters. Having lived in those states, this isn't a surprise.

lemmy.ml: But how dare you call China an open-air prison!!!

You're making a mistake.

He's not the disease, he's only a symptom of something we're otherwise able to ignore.

There are vast oceans of his supporters who love him because he "tells it like it is", ie he helps them speak more openly about their own bigotry.

Trump going away will only give us someone else, and honestly, they'll probably be moderately competent.

Trump is a godsend, because he is so absolutely, perfectly stupid and incompetent, a real operator would be devastating. Use this opportunity to gain resistance to their form of plague before it's too late.

Optimization, son.

That was so much more fun than it had any right to be.

Interest rates going up means investors are demanding more profit so all the tricks web companies have held off on till now are coming out.

Nailed it, investors are demanding profit increases, it's not just interest rates (though they're the main reason) but also the corporate tax cuts in 2018 basically dumped a ton of profit onto corporations because they repatriated all their offshore cash they'd been hoarding.

That bump lasted 2 years, but the expectation of higher revenue is still there, it doesn't matter if you got lucky at slots last month, if you make your normal salary this month investors will be absolutely pissed.