[-] LurkyLoo@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

Obnoxious, but also NOT correct. As another poster pointed out baby talk does serve a purpose in language development, and is a pretty universal part of child rearing. It's not some recent cultural phenomenon that's holding people bad from their full potential (or whatever BS this person is trying to imply). Using big words or skipping the baby talk stage doesn't lead to more rapid or better development.

[-] LurkyLoo@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

That's a good clip, well worth the very short time needed to watch it.

[-] LurkyLoo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Yeah it's a shame because there was a time that Toms hardware was so good and often neck and neck with Anandtech in terms of great articles to read, but at some point it became more sensationalist and the line betweens tom's guide and tom's hardware blurred (with tom's guide seeming to take over). There are still nuggets that are okay, but just not like it used to be.

[-] LurkyLoo@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago

May want to read you own article before posting it....from the article at 11:35, a few minutes after the gunman entered the school....

" Three Uvalde police officers rush to the same door that the gunman used to enter, which was closed. Surveillance footage shows the officers all have pistols, and two of them have rifles. One officer has external armor, and two are wearing concealable armor."

They had armor, pistols and 2/3 had rifles.

This is a tragedy any way you slice it. There is so much gun reform that needs to happen, and police did not handle things well here. People with guns are hard situations to handle, but police handled a bad situation on a way that made it worse.

[-] LurkyLoo@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

The argument starts with the presumption that the universe would turn out this particular way. To use their own analogy the issue isn't whether the bullet fired goes through the donut hole, but rather whether it ends up anywhere at all (I like those odds).

[-] LurkyLoo@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

You can usually call or check out a website rather than driving. Most people save them up, then take them all at once or take them when they are going there anyway with other stuff to dispose of.

Also be really careful if one breaks (get everyone out of the room and air it out first).

https://www.epa.gov/mercury/cleaning-broken-cfl

[-] LurkyLoo@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

And then he gets mad :(

[-] LurkyLoo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's not quite it. Placebo is actually present for most/the majority of people, but they (researched of various kinds )are looking for effects that are above and beyond the level demonstrated by the placebo alone.

One fun thing to think about is that most (maybe all) treatments include some degree of placebo effect inherently.

[-] LurkyLoo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

What does the fox say?

(Uhee ahee ahee)

[-] LurkyLoo@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Apparently Apple backed it.... Color me confused.

[-] LurkyLoo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looks like someone wasn't paying attention then.

Edit: okay that was a little harsh. But maybe I will still say if that was what you focused on and took away from the pandemic it seems like you missed the bigger picture of politics and perspectives of who was actually using science to guide choices and who has people's best interests in mind.

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