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Eating the rich is cringe rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

Lets hear your takes lemmy:

Eating rich people. Cringe? Yes/No

Opinions on "The Day of the Jackal"? in c/television@lemmy.world
[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

I think Lashana Lynch killed her role (positive comment about her acting). I think the story was already facing an impossible climb in being adapted to the modern world.

The original movie showed that aside from the Jackal being better than competent government agents, there were also practical logistical difficulties trying to find one unknown bad guy in a liberal world. And the internet basically solved all of these.

  • Magical anonymous internet chat that can be carried around on a USB stick. At a minimum that's a reboot of the computer to run on the USB stick.
  • A wealthy person being traced with publicly available information because I guess they hid their money trail themselves instead of letting a professional handle it. That's boots on the ground investigative reporters at a minimum looking for a single slip up.
  • So many burner phones.
  • Forged passports that don't just trigger an alert when the person doesn't exist on the passport database.
Opinions on "The Day of the Jackal"? in c/television@lemmy.world
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Opinions on "The Day of the Jackal"? (upload.wikimedia.org)
 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24053860/

I think it's a lot closer to The Day of the Jackal (1973) in spirit. Far far superior to The Jackal (1997 film).

I'm halfway through but still not feeling the romance story of the Jackal and his wife though. Think the show could have done better without it.

Congressional Republicans conclude SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab leak | A textbook example of shifting the standards of evidence to suit its authors' needs. in c/skeptic@lemmy.world
[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

He didn't even give a single citation. I decry sanctus@lemmy.world worse than the Republicans in the article.

A single group photo of Republicans would have been the bare minimum to back up his claim.

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Congressional Republicans conclude SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab leak | A textbook example of shifting the standards of evidence to suit its authors' needs. (arstechnica.com)
 

Staff Pick Comment:

You essentially can't perform a randomized controlled trial on masking during a pandemic for a LOT of reasons.

  1. Your institutional review board would never approve it because there's enough evidence of masks reducing disease spread generally that it would be considered placing participants at risk of harm for limited scientific benefit.
  2. You would have largely insurmountable confounders, ESPECIALLY during a pandemic when there are likely to be rules people need to follow regardless of what mask group they were randomly assigned to.
  3. Behavioral confounders would be enormous. Since people would be randomly assigned to a mask group, and participation must necessarily be voluntary; the only participants would be people who don't care about wearing or not wearing a mask or truly don't have any opinion about if it's safe or dorky looking or socially unacceptable in their circle to be seen wearing/not wearing a mask. The sample would not be at all representative of most people.
  4. Adherence would be terrible. The same applies to virtually any study about diet, activity, changing habits, dependence on things like caffeine or nicotine, etc. If participants don't follow the prescribed behavior of their randomized group the data gets weaker and weaker until there is no longer any visible signal.
  5. Even if all else was solved by magic, the study would still not be blinded. People would know if they're wearing a mask or not and those around them would also know. This would create it's own set of confounders.

Observational data is likely to be the best and only data you can get on this topic. To throw it out because it's not randomized and controlled is to admit that you have no idea what any of these words mean or how such studies are conducted.

What is the unhealthiest habit you have? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think people will change their mind when presented with facts

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Chat Control Being Voted on Tomorrow (www.consilium.europa.eu)
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DC Circuit Upholds TikTok Ban In Alarming Ruling, Claiming It Actually Enhances Free Speech (www.techdirt.com)
 

from the reimagining-the-first-amendment dept

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GOG’s Game Preservation Program Gets Tested Early By Blizzard (www.techdirt.com)
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Dr. Vinay Prasad “Sabotaging RFK Jr’s Confirmation Will Increase Vaccine Hesitancy” & “Doctors Criticizing RFK Jr. Paved the Way for His Ascendancy” (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
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Learning and Improving Every Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 173 (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
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Nancy Mace Calls Trans People A Slur After Sit-Ins In Capitol Bathrooms (www.erininthemorning.com)
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How many gigabytes are in a terabyte? Storage capacity explained (proton.me)
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Power-To-X and Climate Change Policy (theness.com)
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Pycnogenol – Does maritime pine bark extract live up to the hype? (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
 

So when it comes to Pycnogenol, I wouldn’t recommend it as a daily or routine supplement, but I wouldn’t dismiss it if someone wanted to use it for one of the more evidence-backed reasons for use. Hopefully more trials will be conducted to better establish its place in therapy.

Square Enix Appears To Be Using The DMCA Takedown Process To Silence Criticism in c/gaming@lemmy.ml
[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

Nay, it's what the founders truly intended when they wrote the first amendment!

Late Stage Private Healthcare Rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 weeks ago

That's not at all how it works. The rich already fear the poor. They won and yet are perpetually afraid all the time about the poor actually doing something about it. Source: all the journals from royalty to plantation owners.

The elected politicians need to fear the poor. Start actually making life better for them so they can get elected. But the rich pulled out the "he useless priests, lets team up" card to practically nullify that.

Bottom Text in c/memes@lemmy.world
FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 3 weeks ago

That is a terrible idea. The basic privacy advice is to use end to end encryption wherever possible.

Redact, but open source? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

There are grease monkey scripts which should still function on the old.reddit site, even though they haven't been updated for a long time.

Late Stage Private Healthcare Rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

his family is obviously devastated

Maybe it might even be a slam dunk life insurance payout.

spoilerGIF of woody harrison crying and drying his tears with US $100 bills.

A little Russian invasion comparison to put it all in perspective in c/noncredibledefense@lemmy.world
[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 3 weeks ago

bUt iF MeXiCo sIgNs a dEfEnSe pAcT WiTh gUaTeMaLa tHeN ThAt's bAsIcAlLy aN AtTaCk oN Us! AnD We'lL NuKe tHeM If wE'Re aTtAcKeD.

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