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Article

Scientists Trained a Lump of Goo to Play Pong

The goo only got a little better at playing pong, but scientists are confident it could improve if we teach it to feel pain.

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[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 86 points 4 months ago

Someday I hope to build up the courage to visit/participate a nudist beach. It seems far more comfortable and “normal” in Europe than in the States from my travels. Remarkably humanizing.

[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 157 points 6 months ago

Hold up. That actually got through to publishing??

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Edit: Article with some background and history on her + a better and longer YT vid (hilariously titled “The Weaker Sex”)

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Anyone have resources for finding book summary pdfs? I have Blinkist already.

I am interested in Shortform but they never run any discounts. Their summaries are fantastic.

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[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 269 points 1 year ago

My god. This deliciously tasty excerpt:

In various campaign biographies, a résumé and interviews, Mr. Santos said he graduated from Baruch College in New York City, where he was a volleyball star on a championship team. He boasted of working at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs and amassing personal wealth. He claimed to be descended from Holocaust refugees; that his mother was in the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11 attacks; and that he lost four employees in the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.

None of those claims were true.

[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 157 points 1 year ago

The part of the speech that was removed:

“History isn’t history anymore. Truth is not truth. Even facts are being replaced by alternative facts and driven by conspiracy theories and ugliness. In Florida, young students are taught that slaves developed skills which can be applied for their personal benefit.

The entertainment industry isn’t immune to this festering disease. The Duke, John Wayne, famously said of Native Americans, ‘I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.’

Lying has become just another tool in the charlatan’s arsenal. The former president lied to us more than 30,000 times during his four years in office, and he’s keeping up the pace in his current campaign of retribution. But with all his lies, he can’t hide his soul. He attacks the weak, destroys the gifts of nature, and shows disrespect, for example, by using ‘Pocahontas’ as a slur.”

Meanwhile:

The actor appeared onstage at the ceremony on Monday night for the presentation of the Gotham Historical Icon and Creator Tribute to Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon, a film distributed by Apple that focuses on a series of murders targeting the Osage people in Oklahoma during the 1920s after oil was discovered on tribal land.

[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago

I did now and I realize I’m an ass.

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[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 121 points 1 year ago

In response, Trump's defense attorney, Chris Kise said, "Based on my understanding this was truly inadvertent."

"The Truth Social post was taken down when the court asked," Kise said. "Truth Social was taken down and Trump never made any more comments about court staff, but it appears no one took it down on the campaign website. It is unfortunate and I apologize on behalf of my client."

Whoops! My bad. All good here, nothing to see.

[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 201 points 1 year ago

My. God. The pearl clutching and oppression of the female body these days. We may as well go back to corsets and chastity belts.

I’m not going to encourage a HSer to twerk, but c’mon! You’re going to punish her for having fun at an unrelated and offsite event? Get real.

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[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago

The fact that things like this never occur to me as possibilities goes to show just how naive I am about how the world works

[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 113 points 1 year ago

This is what infuriates me about these reports and talking heads. Who cares how many jobs were added if wages remain low, or better paying roles are replaced by lower wages and no benefits, or workers are losing job security, or their stifled wages afford less?

[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago

Incredibly and with a perfectly straight face, they’d dog him for his mental and physical health.

[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 122 points 1 year ago

I’m just waiting for Omni Consumer Products (OCP) to open in Detroit.

[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 230 points 1 year ago

I’m discovering levels of brown nosing I’d never have thought to exist.

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