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Gene Hackman died one week after his wife

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  • https://youtu.be/nWwKJxCa_Ao

    Notable points:

    • Betsy likely died on or shortly after Feb 11.
    • Gene's pacemaker recorded last heart activity on Feb 18.
    • Betsy died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, likely transmitted to her by a mouse. Hantavirus mortality rate in the US southwest is 38% to 50%.
    • The pills in the bathroom were thyroid medication.
    • Gene's cause of death was heart related. He showed severe cardiac and pulmonary problems, had a history of heart attacks and related surgeries.
    • Gene's brain showed advanced Alzheimer's.
    • Gene did not have hantavirus. Neither had Covid, flu, or any other common respiratory disease. No effects of carbon monoxide were seen.
    • No mention of the dog, but with the time frames involved, it's not hard to speculate.

    • Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada, including 250% tax on dairy

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  • Sure, but you have to buy it in a bag.

    (Stay strong, Canada, we deserve it.)

    • The word "Luigi" is now flagged by automod for violence on Reddit

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  • A small number of reddit users leaving translates to a large number of new users here, comparatively speaking.

    • American CEOs sour on Trump's economy

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  • Lucky by birth or lucky by happenstance or both.

    • What if we called instances providers?

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  • Lemmy is a server application. Mastodon is a server application. Pixelfed is a server application.

    I don't use Lemmy. Never have. And yet here I am.

    • Bruuh

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  • Which content? Yes, I know that they're not saying on purpose because "people could game the system" "trust me bro."

    • Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time?

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  • All efforts, great and small.

    • Bruuh

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  • Guess I'll die

    • What if we called instances providers?

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  • Yeah it's even worse than that.

    fedia.io is a specific "provider" in this context. fedia.io runs on mbin. Lemmy is analogous to mbin. Many "providers" run on lemmy: lemmy.world, lemmy.dbzer0.com, lemmy.wtf, etc.

    What is being provided is fediverse access. "Fediverse" is not my mostest favorite term, but it's the one that's most accurate.

    • Bruuh

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  • Wow, they don't even tell you what they decided your "violating actions" were.

    • Elon Musk Calls on Trump to Pardon Ex-Cop Derek Chauvin, Who Murdered George Floyd

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  • Do you want riots? Because that's how you get riots.

    • What if we called instances providers?

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  • Oh god no. That's like "I chose Burger King as my McDonald's provider."

    • How to open a post to their home instance or using another instance?

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  • Since you're on fedia.io, which runs mbin, I can answer some of that for you.

    Under a post (or a comment for that matter) there is a "More" link. "Open original URL" will open a new tab of that post or comment at the instance the user the post or comment was from.

    So if I Open original URL on this post, it will open a new tab at fedia.io for this post - because you posted it, and you posted it from your fedia.io account, at that instance.

    However, if I Open original URL for the comment by @meldrik@lemmy.wtf a new tab will open of that comment in this post at lemmy.wtf.

    That's how that function works, but the reasons you'd actually want to do it are limited. Perhaps the instance you're viewing the post through is defederated from some other instance, and so you wouldn't see comments from users at that instance. Opening the post "somewhere else" that wasn't defederated from the instance you wanted to see comments from would then let you see them - but not interact there, unless you also had an account at that instance.

    So far as I know, fedia.io is only defederated from a very small number of tankie-heavy instances (lemmy.ml and hexbear/chapo.chat are the ones that come to mind). I don't think the thing you are asking about doing really has a use case.

    • Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time?

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  • Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

    • NIH abruptly terminates millions in research grants, defying court orders

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  • A court order doesn't stop anything. It just says that the thing should stop.

    Enforcement of court orders stops things. There is no enforcement.

    • American CEOs sour on Trump's economy

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  • It's not uncommon for a CEO to be a major (if not primary) shareholder, as well as board chairperson.

    They are the oligarchs.

    • NIH abruptly terminates millions in research grants, defying court orders

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  • When does "defying court orders" become "constitutional crisis"? Because it sure as shit isn't becoming "enforcement of court orders".

    • American CEOs sour on Trump's economy

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  • A few will be able to buy up corporate assets from the many who end up being forced to sell low.

    • American CEOs sour on Trump's economy

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  • That's all completely correct, but --

    Isn't it amazing that these "paragons of business" failed to recognize that Little t would be bad for their bottom line in October 2024? Because I sure the fuck did, and I am no "paragon of business."

    • Trump says he is pausing tariffs on Canadian goods until April 2 - In another major climbdown, president says tariffs on hold for a month

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  • Minutes? I literally do not believe he has the capacity to recall anything from "minutes" ago.