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spittingimage
spittingimage @ spittingimage @lemmy.world
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Poor chewing ability linked to increased risk of malnutrition in older adults

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  • I feel like it's probably good to study it, but there's no need to report it to the news media.

    • A kiwi bird that surprised sawmill workers near Whangārei, New Zealand

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  • Your average proper kiwi bird who complies with the right order of things can fit into two large human hands, yes?

    Yes, of course. You just need to have your hands further apart than you might think.

    • All thoughts or no thoughts?

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  • I bet if you press your ear against his skull, you'll hear what it's like to be attacked by an angry cat.

    • What's a strange food combination you love?

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  • It looks like most of the strange combos in the thread are variations on the theme of sweet + savoury. Lives up to the premise - that's weird and bad and wrong.

    • The Dire Wolf, an Extinct Prehistoric American Canine, Has Been Resurrected

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  • Crazy thought, but hear me out: we put Spielberg and Bay in the mechs and let them fight over it. We'll have so much good footage for the edit!

    • Yes I am awake famther

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  • Awake, but not loving it.

    • The Dire Wolf, an Extinct Prehistoric American Canine, Has Been Resurrected

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  • Nah, it's cool. If they become a problem we just de-extinct dire gorillas to fight them. What could go wrong?

    • Which actor did not have a single bad film?

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  • Is there a bad Tom Hanks movie? I think maybe Joe Vs The Volcano comes closest, but I still enjoyed it.

    • Your Wifi Router Emits Photons - QNFO

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  • Lots of things emit photons. I emit photons.

    • Do you have any tattoos, piercings, or scars that you regret?

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  • I had a piercing that turned into a scar. Got a stud put in at a music festival, and that's how I learned I'm allergic to low-purity silver alloys. After taking the anchor-y part off the back, I had to fish the stud out of my swollen earlobe with needle-nose pliers.

    • Are most people here left-wing?

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  • Most people everywhere are slightly left of centre. Most leaders everywhere are slightly right of centre.

    Not in the American sense. Y'all crazy.

    • How many countries have you been to?

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  • I've been back and forth to Australia, because I have family there. Melbourne and a dusty little coastal town in South Australia called Whyalla. I've also attended a Worldcon there, and I think, accidentally insulted Charles Stross.

    I've also been on a month-long trip to Europe which covered the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Germany and the Netherlands. I fell in love with each and every one of those countries as I toured through them, although it was a little bit disappointing to be trapped in Essen while my wife attended Der Spiel because of a public transport strike.

    We had plans for a trip to the US next year, which may not happen now. Perhaps we'll head back to Europe.

    • Batman has an awful lot of villains with doctorates.

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  • I think also Manbat?

    To be fair, the only one of my friends with a PHD is also the most supervillain-y.

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  • About twice as fast as my car is capable of going, downhill and with a tailwind.

    • How have I never thought of the parody cryptid Bigfart until now?

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  • You had bigger things on your mind. Origin of the cosmos, ultimate destiny of mankind, stuff like that.

    • A month with LFS (Linux From Scrath) + musl + eudev + libressl + qi package builder helper. What a great experience.

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  • This is my next project for when I discover a reserve of time and energy I didn't know I had.

    • Is this kind of website legit?

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  • Maybe 'museum quality' means 'good enough for the gift shop'.

    • How do you feel when someone apologises too much?

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  • It's awkward. I'm not upset, please stop insisting that I should be. Am I now failing to live up to your expectations by being okay with stuff?

    • Do you eat shrimp shells when eating shrimp?

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  • It never occurred to me that the shells would be edible. I mean, I don't eat clam or oyster shells.

    • If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom?

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  • Would humans have a mandate to raise a responsible AGI, should they,

    I think we'd have to, mandate or no. It's impossible to reliably predict the behaviour of an entity as mentally complex as us but we can at least try to ensure they share our values.

    are they qualified to raise a vastly nonhuman sentient entity

    The first one's always the hardest.

    , and would AGI enter a rebellious teen phase around age 15 where it starts drinking our scotch and smoking weed in the backseat of its friends older brothers car?

    If they don't, they're missing out. :)