Waldowal @ Waldowal @lemmy.world

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The only thing I'll miss is that gag they always do on SNL Weekend Update where they show a picture of him smiling and say something like: "Mitch McConnell, shown here watching an orphanage burn down..."

Gets me every time.

The CSV specification (RFC-4180) is pretty clear. If a value contains commas, you wrap it in double quotes. If the value contains double quotes, you double each double quote to indicate its part of the value and not the end of the value.

A properly formatted CSV should have no problems from Skeletor!

Here's one article that talks about it: https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/alzheimers-diabetes-link

I think it's more a high correlation between blood sugar, tau protien buildup, and Alzheimers risk. But it's not straight forward. If high blood sugar caused Alzheimers, most diabetics would get Alzheimers - which isn't the case. There's something else coming into play.

I don't have all the piece-parts, but I've also heard BCG being studied as a cure/therapy for Type 1 diabetes (Faustman lab studies in Boston). At the same time, I've read studies linking Alzheimers to diabetes - some referring to it as "Type 3 diabetes". Now this. These people should get together and talk.

Fuck these things. Even if they aren't bad for the environment, they absolutely wreck your yard. In the summer, each week, I'll go around my yard and clean out 15-16 massive webs. Some of them 40 feet up. Most of them face level. The webs are strong so they easily get filled with leaves. Your yard ends up looking like a fucking haunted house with webs everywhere and leaves floating in the sky. Not to mention the females are HUGE - 6 inches across the legs sometimes. Total nightmares.

I think they can work, but only when certain pieces are there. The protest must have:

• A clearly defined goal
• Existing support somewhere in the government, or a financial incentive for people in the government that oppose you.

For example, civil rights and women's right to vote had some governmental support. The protests had well defined goals, and helped raise awareness and support for those people already in government to enact change.

On the other hand, the 1% protests a few years ago, and more recently, BLM, had ambiguous goals. Without clear goals, no existing government support could be identified. And there was no financial incentive for others to act. The protests raised awareness but ultimately had little real effect unfortunately.

I do wonder if things have changed though. I think public shaming helped enact some changes in the past, but no one has shame anymore.

We often joke now about how the "foreign enemy" in every action movie in the 80s was Russian. Then, in the 90s, it wasn't cool to pick on Russians anymore, and they switched to "Chechin" and "Bosnian" militants. Then, after 9/11, all Arab terrorists. Now, we're getting back to Russians again.

I wouldn't say constant fear. We did duck and cover drills alot in school. That's about it.

Should have offered 100 million. You're right. He won't sell out his legacy for a million, but I bet he would for 100.

Pretty confident if this happened because they hired a new (real) support operator who just didn't understand the policy, they would have made a concession to the customer and the support person would likely just get more training.

But because it's a chat bot that they really don't understand (outside of their IT department), they go to court and shut down a system they likely spent hundreds of thousands of dollars developing.

This type of advanced decision making is why we pay CEOs the big bucks.

Yes, and now, anytime I'm trying to get to know someone better, I'm strategizing as to what childish/dirty joke or well placed cuss word will break through the "fake wall" and allow me to really know this person.

Eh, he's not commenting on the research though. He's commenting on the article. The headline says "Long COVID seems to be brain injury...", but we know that can't be the whole story. If the journalist were doing a better job, it should have said "Long COVID likely involves a brain injury...". They might have even asked the researchers how the brain injury theory could account for diminished lung capacity - but they didn't.

I get what you're saying. Without more context that this finding is one piece of a bigger puzzle, you can look forward to your Aunt Crazytown confidently informing you at next Thanksgiving dinner that you can't breath well because you have a brain injury. It's 50% a lack of journalistic probing, and 50% all the lead paint the Boomers ate growing up.

I guess it's technically part of the larger "Q-Anon" stuff, but I particularly like the one that says liberals have an underground submarine base under Central Park in NYC where they go to drink baby blood.

As a Gen-Xer who's been beaten into believing you can't realistically "fight the man", I fucking love the Gen-Z attitude.

Well, it's a dough flattened into a circle and covered with a base sauce. Usually a tomato sauce. Then, you can add whatever combination of toppings you'd like. Popular choices are pepperoni, mushrooms, ham, sausage, and black olives. Then it's all baked in an oven until the crust browns up and the cheese melts. It's typically cut into 8 pie slice pieces to serve. This particular one appears to include ingredients popular in Mexican foods.

I wonder if anyone found it yet.

Wait, you're telling me Trump has no sense of common decency?! Shocking.

Oooh, cool. Thanks. The way it's used, I always thought it was the Star Wars equivalent of "bullshit".

Doesn't it come out of the banthas?