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As I understand it, birth defects are like 99.999% of the time unhelpful. But that 0.0001% of the time the genetic freak is a huge advantage and that gets passed down in the gene pool and thus, over many many generations, evolution.

Alcohol, which is known to increase birth defects, should increase the speed at which that happens. Right? Like playing the lottery with more tickets.

I just randomly remembered something about Steam coming to PlayStation, in a capacity where you could just access your chats/groups and upload content to your media center (not playing/streaming games at all) which made me wonder why it's not still a thing, but I can't find a single fuckin' thing about this... Did... Did I just make this shit up subconsciously? 🤨

Every time I come back to a thread later - it's gone. What gives? This is the only community on Lemmy or heck even on the internet in general where I've seen this, it's so odd.

Guess I said some shit that wasn't liked many months ago. Just wondering if there is a place to have my acct reviewed for reinstatement or those communities? Not a bad person, just have some issues in speaking/getting my point across and it can easily be construed as aggressive/harsh when they isn't my intent.

He's never getting out of there alive.

It's said that we need to sleep because a waste product called adenosine builds up in our brains while we're awake. When we sleep the brain does this thing where adenosine gets flushed out by csf. Adenosine also makes us feel sleepy and can cause hallucinations if we've been awake for days. I looked up adenosine and it's a cns depressant, like a sleeping pill is. I remember reading an old news article where a man from China stayed awake for 11 days to watch football and he died. If the adenosine levels in his brain were so high to kill him why didn't he just pass out and sleep before he died if it's a cns depressant?

More precisely, is there a "natural" statement (a statement that isn't deliberately constructed to be an example) that can be stated in PA, proved in ZFC, but not provable in PA?

I have a scope set up on this CYMA CM.401 airsoft MP5 replica. It's compatible with 11 mm rails by default, hence the adapter between the scope and the 22 mm MP5 rail.

I've lost one of the... "clamps"(?) for the adapter alongside the screw a few months ago in an airsoft match, and I thought that I'd get by with just one screw since "oh come on, it's just an airsoft gun", but it turns out that even on an airsoft gun the force from the electric motor is enough to throw the scope's aim off with only one screw.

I want to purchase a replacement "clamp" (and a screw if possible, but not necessary, since I can just borrow one from my red dot), but I don't even kinda know where to start looking for one. Can anyone help me out?

I mean, it kinds seems inevitable to me. Books has become e-books. Cash is becoming digital transfers. China has done it. The west is mostly doing card-swipes. One day, that transition will be complete, and cash would be phased out.

What happens then? Think like the power outage in Spain recently. Some people had cash. But in 20-40 years. There might not even be any cash in existence. What then?

What if, instead of a few hours, its a few days? Or weeks?

I guess riots break out all around the world?

(Seriously, has none of the politicians ever thought about this? Where are the backups? Are we just going full "YOLO" on the reliance on the power grid?)

I don't know about y'all, but if I grew up in a country that never has the news criticizing its leaders, I'd be very skepical and deduce that there is censorshop going on and the offical news could be exaggerated or entirely falsified. Do people in authoritarian countries actually just eat the propaganda? To what extent do they believe the propaganda?

@nostupidquestions What's up with the hyprland hype?
Is it lighter than lxde/lxqt/xfce?

How does the smell affect your life, how do you deal with it, do you have any stories.

Im a trivia nerd and sometimes facts connect in an "oh no" kind of way.

Today the fact of "smell is the strongest scent tied to memory and emotions" hit the fact "pigs are very close in alot of ways to human tissue"

That leads to the "oh no"

Its got to be difficult entering after a terrible fire and smelling food, possibly even remember you nyanas famous pulled pork.

Sorry to be gruesome but that's what I'm asking about.

How do you put that aside? Do you get sick when Nana makes what used to be your childhood favorite?

I couldn't deal with that, the thought alone shook me. How do firefighters deal with that? Do family members change meal plans if you had a bad situation that day? Do some firefighters become vegetarians? Is it something you kinda just get over after a couple times?

A while back, I stayed at a friend’s house and slept over on their guest bed. The sheet on it was like a double-layered sheet. It was super comfortable. It had an enveloping feel to it similar to a comforter, yet it was as thin as a sheet. I’m a hot sleeper so it was perfect for me.

Does anyone know what kind of sheet this is? I’d like to buy one for myself.

Especially for technical documentation matters. 100% of links are old or just hallucinations.

@nostupidquestions So does remastered oblivion have remastered dlcs or is the remastered compatible with old dlcs and mods like NWN Enhanced seem to be?

@nostupidquestions Did the fighter/rogue/cleric/wizard core and its various iterations come from tournament play?
Or maybe there's just not that many permutations for team compositions in early dnd?

AI says
"Character Class Distribution

For AD&D tournament play, successful teams typically included:

At least one primary fighter (Fighter, Paladin, or Ranger)
One primary spellcaster (Magic-User or Illusionist)
One healer (Cleric or high-level Druid)
One skill specialist (Thief or Bard)"

Reddit admins forced the mods of /r/changemyview to ban the discussion of transgender topics. Is there a version of /r/changemyview here that allows transgender topics?

You can have a face-to-face conversation with a friend, but how do you do that if you want to talk to a therapist? No therapist is gonna make an exemption and leave their phone in another room, not to mention, they literally write their notes into the computer system, instead of on paper.

And with lawyers? I just read about how Luigi Mangione's conversation with his lawyer is being unlawfully recorded. How do you even have a conversation with your lawyer if you are in custody and they could just hide recoding devices all around the jail?

Sure, maybe they can't use the evidence in court, but they could just leak an out-of-context audio clip to the press to win the "court of public opinion".

Our waterways are becoming more and more polluted due to PFAS, plastics, medicines, drugs, and new chemicals made by companies that just hand over the responsibility of cleaning to plants paid for by public moneys. Detecting the different chemicals and filtering them out if getting harder and harder. Could the simple solution of heating up past a point where even PFAS/forever chemicals decomposes (400C for PFAS, 500C to be more sure about other stuff) be alright?

You'll mentally bond with whichever one you pick so they won't kill you and you'll be able to train them.