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I was excited to read this study until I got to the sample...all men. So while the headline generalizes the findings, they actually have no idea about how exercise changes saturated fat metabolism in women because they did not study women. When reading studies, always look at the sample. Even today women are being excluded from health studies.
gizmodo.com/exercise-changes-s

I would love if all the people who did foss stuff because they like working with and helping other people moved to instances specifically having that in their rules, that way we could just block out all the foss instances that have people who are hostile because they only care about the product rather than the community and ecosystem.
The more I see of this (and thanks to blocking a bunch of domains I don't see these things often) the more I understand the issues people have with the foss environment.

I promise you, there are many many people out there wo will instead of yelling you for using proprietary software, will sit down with you, talk about what you need and want, and make a few suggestions for foss replacements so you can get back your freedom as a user. They will understand that sometimes you need features and that using something proprietary is unavoidable and they would hate that, but they wouldn't shame you for doing so. They are really in it to move away from the stuff that holds us as a society back, and they want it to be a smooth transition for all of us.

If you hate foss environments because they're just not that way, I promise you, there are other places that are. It's not foss as a whole, and we would hate to see you avoid foss because of those toxic people that most of us don't like either *sigh*

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@aaron @aral Note that Wayland is developed by the same organization of people. Think of it as the next version of Xorg, if that helps.

nix governance, politics-ish 

Important context here is that the process where this was brought up, was very explicitly a consensus-seeking process, and "raising concerns" was explicitly a core part of sorting things out. Even despite that explicit model, some people still felt no sense of obligation.

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political hot take, not safe for centrists 

passively approving of injustice is participating in it

nix governance, politics-ish 

During the Nix governance talks, a number of participants objected to things like marginalized seats - but crucially, they didn't seem to feel any obligation whatsoever to raise specific concerns.

I don't mean that they were just evading the question, or being shitty; I mean that they seemed genuinely unprepared for the question of "okay, but why?", and just did not consider or expect "raising a specific concern" to be a part of the process of objection.

I feel like there are some lessons to be drawn from this about what people's everyday decisionmaking processes look like, and how that ties into the political landscape we have today.

Never ceases to stump me that we have the technology to kill 99.95% of airborne viruses, proven to work, non-invasive, cheap to deploy and install, and is produced at scale already and we just like - collectively - kind of just don't really use it.

HEPA-grade air filtration is proven, cheap, and makes everyone's lives strictly better. It, like, makes zero fiscal sense for governments not to mandate its use in all covered public spaces ASAP.

I hate contact forms that delete newlines - I'm adding paragraphs for a reason!

@pixelistik @baldur Honestly I feel like the primary lesson here is that the license didn't prevent this (nor does it make it trivial to move), and that it's worth asking why that is

One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.

apparently there are rumors of lix being “lesbian nix”* and I can only say that were this the case, I would expect the project to be entirely coated in queer iconography down to a bright pink color scheme

checkmate, atheists

Sufficiently Advanced Bodging™ is indistinguishable from having used the correct pinout.

Er zijn nog steeds mensen die geloven dat je nooit klappen krijgt van de ME als je zelf geweldloos bent, met andere woorden, klappen krijgen = eigen schuld.

Die mensen moeten eens wat vaker buiten komen.

Here's a reminder, EVs are not here to save the environment, they are here to save the car industry.

De universiteit Leiden adverteert vandaag met mij op Facebook. De werkelijkheid is dat ik al 8 jaar geen voet meer in die universiteit heb gezet (en voor het maken van bijv. dit filmpje hebben ze me nooit enige steun gegeven).

nix, lix 

@necrophcodr It is not the job of the project to prove to random dudebros on Hacker News that there is work happening; the responsibility to figure this out lies on the part of the party who insists on opining about someone or something else's legitimacy, and if they do not wish to do that work, then they can simply... not opine, instead of making baseless claims based on gut feelings

nix, lix 

@necrophcodr If those users insist on opining about the legitimacy of the fork, then yes, I do actually expect that bare minimum of effort

A two-year study with over half a million children aged 0-5 finds nigh-irrefutable evidence that COVID-19 was behind the 2022 surge of RSV infections and hospitalizations.

It's not immunity debt, it's immunity theft. COVID-19 damages the immune and respiratory symptoms, leaving the body less capable of fending off other pathogens and resulting in more severe downstream infections.

"Immunity debt" is disinformation.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/378329

nix, lix 

It sure is remarkable how people are claiming "Lix doesn't seem to have done anything yet except rebrand Nix", when there's literally patches submitted to Nix that originate from Lix development... like, have you actually looked at anything at all or are you just looking for excuses to dismiss the fork?

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