AlolanYoda

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[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 125 points 3 months ago (34 children)

I can hear CRT screens. They emit a high pitch noise that nobody else in my family can hear, I assume most people actually can hear it but never noticed it. My family used to think I was crazy or had tinnitus (jury's still out on both) until they tested me by making me close my eyes and tell them if the TV was on while turning it off and on at random, with sound off. It was a weird test from my perspective, since I could hear it fine anyway. So far I haven't noticed a decay due to age, but if it had little use when CRTs were widespread, it's now completely useless.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

I'm a summer kind of person, but it's not like I hate winter or anything. There's just fierce competition.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 19 points 4 months ago

Can you explain this a bit better?

I've seen many journals with this "open access" option (where the authors pay for open access, rather than the readers paying to read it). But the paid option never skipped the peer review process, as far as I can tell.

I just think the last author of this paper is a big deal in his field and can do whatever

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

Genuinely appreciate your and the other commenters' inputs, I really did only focus on his image outside of France. Thank you for all these examples!

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

I didn't play any Star Trek game... Except for Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Final Unity, which I found at a local flea market a few years ago. So it's that one by default!

It's an ok point and click adventure, I don't think it's even the best Star Trek point and click adventure available. I've never been too much into these sorts of games but I confess it was extremely nostalgic even though I had never played it before!

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It did not. You never played Quake or Unreal Tournament and made your own skins. You never dabbled in map making for any of these games or games in the Doom engine. Nobody ever made skins for minecraft Java. Your life is a lie.

So is mine!

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 61 points 4 months ago (18 children)

Man, I know people dislike Macron, and I still think his handling of the Le Penn situation last year was a dramatic misplay, but I've always had a huge amount of respect for him. Maybe because I don't live in France (although I was almost accepted into a job there earlier this year!), but he seems like such a role model in terms of political leadership. He's been handling the Trump/Putin situation much better than most other world leaders, in my opinion

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

Similarly, it turns any random hike or walk into a pokemon collection session. I used to hate going on hikes but now I am always looking forward to the next opportunity to add to my ~~pokedex~~ life list

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Yeah I also don't understand this part. Can the antibodies targeting the bare spike protein attach to it despite the presence of the sugars? Or are there a few spike proteins in the virus which do not have the sugars, not enough to effectively develop antibodies but enough for already existing antibodies to attach to?

I may have missed it in the article, I'm not in life sciences so I don't have all the prerequisite knowledge for this

Edit: this came out sounding super negative, I'm actually super excited about this development and all I want is to understand a bit better how it works

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 55 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I have seen variations on this online for a long time, and this has always baffled me: do strangers in America really go up to random people who are speaking foreign languages and tell them "you are in X, speak Xese", a language they may or may not speak? Even among people who share their native language?

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 60 points 4 months ago (2 children)

OP rewatching TNG season 5 episode 2 (Darmok), his questions answered

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 6 points 4 months ago

The cockatiel has been starting every day by singing loudly in his cage, especially when the dog enters the room. He's still madly in love with her. Unfortunately I don't know if the dog even acknowledges the cockatiel as a living being (we never let him out of the cage while the dog is around as she is quite destructive).

The dog is getting old last week she had a bad leg. The vet said it was probably because of her age, so he gave us medication to prevent arthritis. She's all good now. Yesterday she had a zoomies session like I've never seen before, she somehow managed to push my mattress almost entirely out of the bed frame in a single jump while me and my sister were laughing so hard we were crying.

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