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Assuming you’re using a browser, on the main community page, expand the sidebar. The modlog is linked at the bottom, just above the list of mods. Here’s the modlog for /c/nostupidquestions

This is likely bunk.

There was a nice comment when this was posted on one of the science communities digging into the history and affiliations of the authors of this preprint: https://kbin.social/m/science@lemmy.world/t/249222/-/comment/1110464

Just by looking at the authors, this is not real:

Of the three, the first author (and corresponding author) and second author claim Q-centre as affiliation. If you check the webpage, it is not a research lab but just a commercial company selling this as a product. The third author claims KU-KIST as affiliation, but the only one I can find in google scholar has no background on superconductivity at all, and actually I can't even find them as a current faculty member of KU-KIST.

If you look at the other paper they have in arxiv about the same, list of authors from the same Q-Centre, plus a last author from Hanyang university, but researchgate shows him as last publishing in 2006, so I assume long time retired by now. Not in the field of superconductors either.

I am looking for other work from any of the authors, and I can find none. Science is an incremental process, with some breakthroughs, sure, but incremental. Cancer won't be cured in a day, and room temperature ambient pressure superconductors won't just happen out of nowhere. Even room temperature superconductors at very high pressures aren't really a thing, as the recent retractions of Ranga Dias' papers shows.

As an aside, here is an interesting talk about the work that went into showing that the data was manipulated in those high-pressure room-temperature superconductor papers - as much as papers with manipulated data are a terrible thing for science, the fact that people will go to these lengths to prove them wrong is very reassuring. A paper that is wrong only misleads for a while, actual science pushes through and buries it eventually.

There have been A LOT of room temperature superconductor claims, thus far all have been irreproducible, either due to measurement error or likely fraud. I wouldn’t take this one seriously, especially since non of the coauthors have any previous publications in this field. That’s a big red flag.

Yeah that’s fair. Especially since in my experience, when so much of the experimentation process involves questions like “what if we raised the voltage?” or “can we fix it with duct tape?”

Yeesh, you guys have been working on this app for less than 2 months and already a few of your users have developed a serious sense of entitlement.

Take it as a compliment, you’ve set an insanely high bar with Memmy - both in terms of its current state and the speed at which you made it. Please keep up the good work, and don’t let a few overly dramatic critics ruin it for you. They definitely don’t speak for the majority of your users.

I didn’t know it would come off like that

I overfed him :(

It looks like you’re on lemmy.world. That instance let’s you create communities. If you’re viewing the site in your browser, tap the hamburger menu on the top right (3 horizontal lines) and select “Create Community”.

It looks like you’re on lemmy.world. That instance let’s you create communities. If you’re viewing the site in your browser, tap the hamburger menu on the top right (3 horizontal lines) and select “Create Community”.

I’m not having issues with this article, but occasionally daily beast articles will say that you need to subscribe to keep reading. I haven’t noticed a way to close out the dialogue and access the article, but “reader view” on iOS safari gets past it fine.

The one advantage that Reddit’s r/all has over the lemmy “all” is that it blocked posts from porn subreddits (and a few other controversial ones).

I’d like to browse all more often since there are so many communities to discover, especially now while new ones are constantly being created. But I won’t do that in public due to all the porn in the feed. Hiding nsfw posts doesn’t really solve the problem since there are plenty of non-pornographic nsfw posts I’d like to see.

They’d like to hate on gays like in the good old days, but that’s no longer socially acceptable. Trans folks are the next best thing.

They were but the guy leading that push, Chris Licht, was fired last month.

I agree with everything here except that the right wing anti-vax nonsense began with trump and Covid. That definitely accelerated things, but there was a strong anti-vax sentiment in the Republican Party even before trump.

During the GOP primary debates for the 2016 election, every single candidate cast doubt on the standard childhood vaccine regimen. The candidate who came closest to supporting vaccinating children was Rand Paul. And even though he definitely knows better, he argues vaccines should be given at a slower rate to “spread out” the effects.

I think the aversion to vaccines comes from the republican mistrust of science and expertise in general. This “know nothing”ism has been growing for a while - see Sarah Palin in the 2012 election.

It’s weird how correlated these things are. Are all racists antivax? No. Are all antivaxers racist? No.

But the overlap is so high that it’s unsurprising to learn someone who is one of these things is also the other.

Copper will certainly veto it but the problem is the GOP has a veto-proof majority in the state legislature, so they can potentially override his veto.

More like antisemantics

Beehaw’s been around for like 2 years. They’ve specifically designed their instance to be a small, heavily moderated community. If anything, the massive growth they were getting a month ago was unsustainable with their existing ethos.

Them’s fighin’ words

-the entire state of NC

Are you on the TestFlight beta? The swipe to up/downvote animation is now fancier (the arrow direction flips with a little flourish) while being really smooth and clear.

Oh dang, I hadn’t even noticed till you pointed it out. It’s just so natural.

Well done!