Eiri

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

I'd create an actual god with morals of absolute good that rules over humans with an iron fist. Political debates? There's an objective answer and the god knows it. Do something wrong? Get warned. Do something very wrong? It's brainwash time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

If it consoles you, I can explain the reason for that one.

They both come from the verb restaurer (to restore). Restaurant being the present participle in this case. In French, "ant" is equivalent to the English suffix "ing".

And restaurateur is "one who restores".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I meant English dialects.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I dunno if it's the weirdest but "pronunciation" is pretty weird.

Why is it "pronUnciation" but "pronOUnce"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is this universal or are there places where they pronounce it closer to its spelling?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Hah, I had the exact reverse experience. For years when I had a delivery they would come by once (of course not staying nearly long enough to allow me to answer the door) and leave a notice saying the package would be at their warehouse the following day starting at 17:00.

The warehouse was pretty far. The round trip would take nearly 2 hours by bus. And since they opening hours weren't ideal, if I happened to have a class or be otherwise busy the one night of the week they're open late, well I guess I'd better find a solution, because they'll only keep it for a week.

I would plead with them. Can you come back? Can you leave it at my door? It's not even worth that much! I'll take the risk! No. At least one thing they did agree to do was keep my package a bit longer once when I realized I had absolutely no way of retrieving it in time. But they only gave me two days.

It was only when COVID hit that delivery companies started just leaving packages. Sometimes they just wouldn't tell you at all about it, and you'd have a surprise when you'd open the door and hit your foot on a surprise package, if you hadn't kept up with the tracking.

Some people complained, because they were scared someone would steal their stuff, but I was so glad they were careless. I've worked from home ever since COVID.

Finally, I can order a thing and actually receive it at home.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

You know, it's not always, but apple does sell things that are price-competitive with similarly performing competing products.

Some iterations of the Mac Mini have been hard to beat with a tiny PC with similar performance.

The M1 MacBooks had some surprisingly cheap options for the relatively premium laptops they were.

Samsung's Ultra phones tend to cost more or less the same as the Apple Pro Max phones.

The main difference is sometimes just that Apple doesn't make low-end or low-mid-range, or sometimes not even anything below "relatively high-end", products in a particular category.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

There can be a lot of reasons for that, but too much internet wouldn't be my first idea. Histrionic tendencies, autism spectrum disorders, anxiety, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's pretty impressive. I hadn't even thought oral treatments were possible!

It's amazing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Elden Ring. Welp, at least I guess i revive on death now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I wish you were wrong. But...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

CRISPR makes gene editing easier, but unless you've got a way to deliver it to every cell, it won't do much unless you're targeting such a small number of cells that it's realistic to have a technician physically inject it into a cell.

That would work for an embryo. Ignoring the plethora of ethical issues and the lack of data on long-term effects, it would probably be pretty easy for a scientist to make the change in an embryo and then go through the normal in-vitro fertilization procedure.

For a whole organism, though, it's more difficult. One obvious solution is a specially modified virus, and that's under research.

There's a lot of stuff here if you want to dive deep:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7356196/#sec3-biomolecules-10-00839title

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