evatronic

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[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago

A huge swath of Republican voters are not voting for Trump. They are voting against "Democrats". Propaganda in the US has turned politics into a team sport, and you always root for your team, even if your team is having a rough season.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago

Ours has leaned they are not allowed in the counter when we're watching.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

It's cute how you think things will be alive.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I keep an eye on these types of treatments. Type 1 diabetes being autoimmune and all.

So far, I'm putting it in the bucket with all the other "cure is just 5 years away" things we hear about.

It's promising, and neat it's worked in these cases, but I remain skeptical. Twice over as it appears to be research from China, who doesn't have the best track record for robust scientific integrity. We'll see how repeatable this stuff is soon enough.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

The tricky part about T1 is... We don't know why the immune system is malfunctioning, only that it is. Without that vital piece of research, everything that presents as a cure is temporary at best.

Dr. Faustman out of Mass General has been conducting some trials into phase two or three using the BCG vaccine to treat / cure the immune response.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There's a problem there, though. The propaganda was basically various versions of "The government (when run by Democrats) is bad, don't trust the government."

If they put up a notice saying, "This domain was seized, here's the real facts!" the target of the propaganda isn't going to buy it for a hot minute.

If they put up replacement content that doesn't mention the government seizure, tha target of the propaganda is already primed to shout, "Fake news!" at anything that disputes their existing worldview.

It's best to just let those domains return like a 504 Internal Server Error and die a quiet death.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A "Library of Congress" for published web content maybe. Some sort of standard that allows / requires websites that publish content on oublic-facing sites to also share a permanent copy with an archive, without having the archive have to scrape it.

Sort of like how book publishers send a copy to the LoC.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Technically,

The president and vice president are chosen by the electoral college in separate votes.

Though, for some time, it's always been the winning candidate's selected running mate... there is no requirement there. The electors could pick Mittens the back flipping poodle for VP if they wanted.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

Usually people that are either lying about being Democrats, or people very much stuck on a single issue and have decided that "The establishment" is wrong (yet, still, identifying as a Democrat).

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Remember too that the President doesn't write the laws, and pretty much every solution for a single payer healthcare solution involves legislation.

Blaming or crediting a President for something that only Congress can do is a long American tradition, and an exceptionally stupid one we need to get over.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

I find the AI summaries of reviews Amazon does on product pages to be fairly inoffensive and generally a decent use of AI.

But it's also clearly marked as auto-generated.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

"Tiajuana? No, that's too easy. Ensenada!"

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