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  @marcioaleks@fosstodon.org Important detail: most probably you won't get this at home unless you buy whole-grain rice, because most comercial rice sold is processed and the germinal part is separated from the starch reservoir.

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  @summerbeth@mastodon.me.uk As a Biologist: [Jack_Nicholson_smiling_nodding_slowly.gif]

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  @rstevens That's because it's powered by Semiotics and you get double the meaning from the same amount of words.

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  @joewo He hasn't quoted Umberto Eco yet he's defined fascism.

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  Watson, Crick and Willikins must live in the memory of infamy in science for their fucking robbery. https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/rosalind-franklin-knew-dna-was-a-helix-before-watson-and-crick-unpublished-material-reveals

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  @lproven I can only recommend the biography of Hammerstein by Hans Magnus Enzensberger ('Hammerstein oder der Eigensinn'). A really interesting reading about a complex person with a complex character who comes across as an honest decent man in indecent, degenerate times.

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  Mamdani: [makes a speech full of references to Mario Kart] Some VerySerious™ pundit: "Who are these childish video game references for?" Me channeling Kurt Vonnegut: "THE GENERATION I WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL WITH IS IN CHARGE OF THE WORLD!!! AAAAAHHHHHH!!!" [Runs through a wall leaving his silhouette like Wile E. Coyote]

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  @maestrapaladin Nonono… bueno, sí.

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  Today, in another episode of 'the rich are a bunch of tight-fisted motherfuckers whose word is worth shit', the Rhinelander vs. Rhinelander case, its settlement, and its aftermath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinelander_v._Rhinelander

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  LB: civilization, LDL levels and cardiovascular disease all correlate.

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  ¿Demanda inelástica? ¿Eso qué es? ¿Lo que va en el borde de la ropa interior?

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  Also re: music. I can perfectly understand if you don't like Angine de Poitrine. Perfectly legitimate, it says nothing about you as a person or your tastes. But if you consider they are <not> important, you are iredeemably wrong. Maybe in another moment in time they would've been "a dadaist excess", "a joke", but today they are human resistance to the AI machine. They may not have chosen the symbol they are, but they are that symb...

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  Ooooooffff. It's starting to smell like corpse. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5u54z2qgkq43dh2nzwzdbbhb/post/3mhxiem2ztc2r

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  This article is tremendously interesting and pointed WRT how the US have been conducting war for decades. The most remarkable point is that USAmerican military planning and performance is based around a non-strategic principle because "The system’s own output was the only measure of its performance" when that happens, you detach from the real world and are, in practical terms, fucked. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-...

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  "Expat" is one of those very British, outwardly innocent, but implicitly very fucking racist, words that should be erased from common use by shaming whoever uses it.

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  They can tell you who's Banksy, but not who was on the Epstein Island. They can tell you who's Banksy, but not that Meta is behind all of the "check your age in social media" bullshit. They can tell you who's Bansky, but not who paid Milei for the promotion of the Cryptocoin. They can tell you who's Banksy, but not who is building the data centre that is stealing your water and polluting your air.

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  Bueno, Lidl lo ha vuelto a hacer y ha sacado dulces de temporada de Favorina que parece que lleven drogaína adictiva. Esta vez son los huevos de Páscua de barquillo con chocolate.