Apparently there are quite a lot of people doing gene editing on themselves and their pets in their own homes. It’s apparently fairly accessible.

Sushi is not raw fish. Sushi is vinegared rice.

Here in Sweden the government recently lowered taxes on groceries so that the stores would lower their prices for customers. lol

I grew up in a very male-as-default English-speaking culture. Any animal, robot, or plant would be referred to as it or he, unless that creature/thing has additional female markers such as wearing pink, makeup, etc.

For examples look at the designs of Mickey and Minnie Mouse or Babs and Buster Bunny. If you draw a little blob with eyes, people will say “He’s/It’s cute.” If you put a pink bow on it, they will say “She’s cute.”

You can even look at the word “woman” itself. “Man” originally just meant any person, but “woman” was invented to speak specifically about a “wife-man.” Going to your German examples, why did they make special words for female bakers, etc. and none for male bakers? It’s because male is the default and female is a deviation from that norm. You don’t need a special word to describe the default assumption.

There’s this old riddle:

A father and son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene, and the son is rushed to the hospital. When he is taken into the operating room, the surgeon says, “I can’t operate on this boy! He’s my son!” How is this possible?

It plays on one’s assumptions about gender.

The predator in the films is also an alien, so 🤷‍♂️.

This is the first time I’ve seen a red circle without knowing what it’s supposed to be indicating. It centers on the number of shares??

Ideally they could just stop using AI to generate both the text and practice problems.

I can stay up literally the entire night with an analog book and dim yellow light. But as soon as someone in my phone starts shining a floodlight directly into my retinas, it’s off to sleepy town.

Notice how every word in the second-to-last sentence of the first post is capitalized, and how a lack of capitalization is the default. This is to add emphasis and meaning in a way I can’t quite describe. Like there’s a big difference between referring to someone as “the boy” and “The Boy”, but I can’t explain it.

I don’t speak Tumblr dialect natively and therefore can’t explain it, but I do recognize it and can confirm that the capitalizations are done with explicit intent and meaning. None of them are random or accidental.

I never saw that before because I never tried hiding read posts. That’s good to know, thank you!

I think they meant “safe” with regard to reproductive ability. It sounds like they’re happy with targeting meiosis, not with using JQ1 specifically.

The “in mice” part is actually really exciting to me because male pet mice have to be kept solitary to prevent pregnancies and aggression with other males, but they still have social needs. It would be amazing if they could be kept with females full-time with no pregnancy risk.

Would also be nice to keep mixed-mischiefs of rats since their personalities and behaviors are somewhat sexually divergent. You could have a couple busy girls and a couple cuddly boys without having to take turns free roaming.

Our supply vendor works like that. Looking for brown paper bags? Here’s every brown and paper item in the catalog, along with some plastic bags!

I use Summit and I don’t know the feature you’re referring to. Could you explain it?

I’ve used the instance name filter to block lemmy.world from my feed because it drowns out less popular/new comms, but it’s really annoying to have to go into the filter menu to add and delete the filter all the time because I don’t want it filtered permanently.

I think it’s because bozo is an insult to intelligence while twat and shithead are insults to behavior.

It’s not impossible at all. You just have to blur the faces and any identifying marks unless you’ve obtained explicit consent. Kind people already do this regularly.

I get what you mean, but I do think this brand of humor can help crack certain people’s indoctrination shells. Edgy standup comedy and memes turned me gay.

It’s not necessarily everyone’s primary goal in life to appeal to you sexually.

The hair doesn’t harm or otherwise negatively impact the organism’s survival rate. The organism’s immune system didn’t evolve to prevent and kill hair cells as they arise.