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  • Character.AI sued after boy, 11, found sexting w/ ‘Whitney Houston,’ ‘Marilyn Monroe’

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  • Forgive me, but the kid had talked to these bots for 2 weeks? And after taking the phone away mom sent him to therapy? That seems... extreme to me, how much damage did those chatbots cause in such a short time?

  • Dutch Payment service iDeal becomes Wero: "Do not fall for scams, nothing is changing"

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  • The safety is a plus, but credit card protection is a downside for sellers (disputes are expensive). Additionally, Wero fees are going to be higher than iDEALs fees (percentage-based rather than fixed fee) which will cause some inflation.

    It's a nice step forwards but not one without downsides.

  • Limbs

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  • Now, that may seem weird to some, but to me what is really surprising is that some languages found it necessary to use two words to describe what is essentially the same fucking shit.

    Sucking on fingers is an entirely different kink from sucking on toes. So somewhat different I suppose.

  • Limbs

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  • Depends on your definition. Wikipedia is either ambivalent about it, or lists the thumb as a finger.

    In Dutch, thumbs are fingers, and there's word for "digit" in the context of fingers and toes.

  • It's totally safe. What are you afraid of?

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  • That's literally not how it works.

    Propofol slows down your brain and changes several "rhythms", but your brain activity does not cease at any point. To your conscious self it may appear as if you've "paused", but this is absolutely not the case.

    Hamsters and small animals can be partially frozen and unfrozen. Once fully frozen (or close to it) they can no longer be revived. Once brain cells die, they cannot be revived.

    His study showed that every animal in which 15% or less of the body water had been frozen recovered completely. Two-thirds of those in which 15 to 40%, and one-third of those in which 40 to 50% of the water had been frozen were fully resuscitated and survived long periods.

    Hamsters in which 55 to 70% of the water had been frozen subsequently recovered heart beats and breathing but not consciousness, whereas when 76% of the body water had been in the form of ice resumption of heart beat was the only sign of life.

  • It's totally safe. What are you afraid of?

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  • With such "revivals" they weren't fully dead yet. They would be, if nobody intervened.

    Human bodies are irrecoverable once life fully ceases. Before that happens revival is still possible. Afterwards, it isn't.

    There also have not been any revivals after brain activity stops. Once neurons stop firing (which happens on cell death), no revival is possible anymore. At that point, death is permanent.

  • It's totally safe. What are you afraid of?

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  • Your brain doesn't stop working when you sleep or are under. Your physiology keeps going.

    Killing and freezing a person kills them. You can't revive someone after doing that.

    We're unable to do piece-by-piece replacements of the brain(stem) so not much to argue about there. But if we could, it's probably still you since you're the continuation of your biological processes, which doesn't get interrupted, just modified.

  • Aspartame's long-term health risks revealed in new study

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  • Try not drinking from the toilet bowl.

    Seriously though is there something wrong with your water supply?

  • It's totally safe. What are you afraid of?

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  • I'd argue that an instance of life is it's continued existence. An interruption where it gets fully destroyed means that instance of a life has ended. Once reconstructed, a perfect, indistinguishable copy is created, but it is not the same life.

    If you were to create the copy without destroying the original, would you now be in two places at the same time? Or are there two you's in two different points in space?

  • Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases

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  • That was for the Steam release, it came out earlier on Epic/Switch on August 2nd, 2024.

  • Better not leave the house until you've finished this book series.

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  • Actually for some laws ignorance of the law is a legitimate legal defense. Famously in case of Hillary Clinton's emails, she couldn't be charged because they couldn't prove she knew of the specific statute and that she'd purposefully kept her emails in a separate server. Ignorance of the law saved her there.

  • Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading

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  • Controller updates were performed during system updates, or could be done manually from the settings iirc. I mention it because I mainly played on PS3 for years too and definitely remember updating those controllers.

    I don't think any of the updates were ever mandatory though.

  • Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading

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  • Even the PS3 controller received firmware updates. This isn't all that new.

  • Dog people vs cat people

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  • My cat knows she only gets food when I get up.

    Once she gets hungry she doesn't give a fuck about that and starts messing with everything next to the bed. I never give in to that and just put her outside the bedroom, but next time she will try doing it again anyway. She's determined to get her food, even if her ways have never worked. She might just be doing it out of spite tbh.

  • MONOCULTURE IS CANCER

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  • That's 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, not glyphosate. Entirely different compounds. Did you watch the video? It even shows that the cancer risks in mice occurred when they were exposed to much higher levels of roundup than the guidelines recommend.

    Glyphosate can be dangerous when misused, and Monsanto sucks as a company for downplaying and suppressing these risks. But as far as I am aware, there's no study showing an increased cancer risk when used at the recommended dosage. Feel free to cite a study stating otherwise though!

  • I upgraded to windows 11 by accidentally pressing spacebar on startup

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  • You think Microsoft didn't get your identity in Windows 10?

  • Tyler Robinson (Waluigi), accused of killing Charlie Kirk, appears in court.

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  • Hence Waluigi, Luigi's evil counterpart.

  • Girls and women fleeing Mali describe sexual violence by Russian military

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  • The rapes were documented in the Soviet archives... Goebbels was long dead when this evidence surfaced.

    Other Allied armies raped too, but there's evidence the rear echelons of the Soviet army were the worst.

  • MONOCULTURE IS CANCER

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  • I don't think I've seen a study claiming adverse health effects when glyphosate is used according to Monsanto's guidelines.

    Issue is is that deviation from it, e.g. using it in too high concentrations, does seem harmful. And it seems that it's quite easy to mess this up for farmers, making it a risky product.