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circularfish

@ circularfish @beehaw.org

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  • The Lesser of Two Genocides

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  • There is room for a lot of good faith debate here, but FWIW I reckon It is a mistake for the left to prematurely roll over and telegraph an inevitable Biden vote (whether on this or any other issue) just because Trump would be worse. The time for that utilitarian calculus is much closer to November. Right now, if you want policy change — you have to raise hell.

    As much as you love to hate ‘em, this is what the Tea Party and their ideological successors got right about wielding power within their own party. When the time comes, by all means circle the wagons and vote pragmatically, but during primary season you have to come across as a credible threat to the party power structure.

    I’ll personally be willing to (attempt!) to shame my progressive friends into voting blue, say, around October. In the meantime, I am proud of folks for speaking their mind and standing up for human rights.

  • Finished the cat paths!

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  • This is wild. Mine would be raising a racket at 3am playing in the tubes. Is it relatively quiet?

  • No, Sky-High Drug Prices Aren’t Funding Crucial New Medical Research

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  • The truth is, the biggest pharmaceutical companies aren’t really drug development companies at all: they’re marketing, lobbying, and litigation firms with patent portfolios. While Big Pharma holds vast portfolios of existing patents for prescription drugs, the innovation pipeline for new drugs actually has very little to do with Big Pharma. In reality, public sources — especially the NIH — fund the basic research that makes scientific breakthroughs. Then small, boutique biotech and pharmaceutical firms take that publicly generated knowledge and do the final stages of research, like running clinical trials, that get the drugs to market. The share of small companies in the supply of new drugs is huge, and it’s still growing. Fully two-thirds of new drugs now come from these small companies, up from one-third twenty years ago. It is not the research labs of Pfizer that are developing new drugs.

    This is completely true. The majority of research, at least for life saving drugs and not baldness cures, takes place at universities and small research firms, much of it funded by the NIH. If the investigators are successful, they spin off a company or license the IP.

    Big drug companies then step in, long after the initial “drug discovery” is done. They have captured the regulatory system and, yes, can fund and run Phase 3 trials with their deep pockets and armies of bureaucrats, but at that point they are acting more like record labels, extracting rent (loosely defined) from a convoluted regulatory and distribution system that they themselves had a hand in creating.

    Fuck ‘em.

  • How to Use Dye Plants: Plant Projects for the Home

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  • This is really cool.

  • Do It Yourself @beehaw.org
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    (September) New month, new projects. What are you working on now, DIY?

  • Turned a used Vape into a power bank

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  • I don’t know why this is such an appealing project, but it is. Adding an LED and a switch so it can be used as an emergency flashlight would be cool too.

  • "Wind and solar power pollute the Earth and make life miserable:" DeSantis's Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools

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  • Yep. I also think the ham-fisted way they are rolling this out is a projection of how they think the ‘libruls’ are brainwashing the kids.

    Rather than educated people coming to educated conclusions on their own across vast segments of society, it is almost as if they think there is this secret committee of hooded Illuminati that generates Disney princess woke coloring books to turn little Billy-Bob away from Jesus, and the rest of the country just marches unthinkingly in lockstep with those orders. So of course, that is the playbook they want to follow.

  • "Wind and solar power pollute the Earth and make life miserable:" DeSantis's Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools

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  • I somehow feel this will backfire spectacularly. Younger kids can be dumb like the rest of us, but there is one thing they are exceptionally smart about: spotting and mocking lame-ass adults.

    There is already little tolerance among (a lot of) younger folk for climate denialism and general right wing jackassery. Adding a cut-rate Donald Duck screeching about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion or how windmills are dangerous is just gonna’ cement the lameness for them. Now, if we could just do something about the grown-up idiots on Facebook, we’d be cooking.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 Review Thread

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  • Awesome game so far and remarkably well-polished due to the early access. My only real gripe is that the camera control is a little fiddly. It may be that I'm just not used to it, but a click and drag to rotate the camera would be chef's kiss

  • (August) What are you working on now, DIY?

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  • Nice

  • (August) What are you working on now, DIY?

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  • I believe congratulations are in order. Getting a good surface finish on a lathe can be really hard, but you did it!

  • Do It Yourself @beehaw.org
    circularfish @beehaw.org

    (August) What are you working on now, DIY?

  • Chair repair--looking for advice

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  • I'm grabbing popcorn for this one ...

    (Not to be one of those people who comments but doesn't offer help, if it were me I'd replace the entire base. One possible suggestion - find a different base second hand and adapt it to fit the chair. There is no karmic rule that says the base has to be the same brand as the chair, or even match it. It all depends on how the existing chair attaches. You might even take the modifications to an extreme).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqs9Awx5zgQ

  • À dérouler | An art project by a friend

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  • High tech scroll. Love it.

  • Does anybody else have an old house?

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  • The internet is full of places where low grade antagonistic sarcasm is considered a desirable way to communicate. Those places tend to be toxic shitholes, but whatever. Point is, if you feel like that communication style fits you better, go forth and prosper.

  • Do It Yourself @beehaw.org
    circularfish @beehaw.org

    DIY, what are you working on this weekend?

  • What are the bad patterns of Reddit to never repeat on Lemmy?

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  • Developing user cliques around fish names.

  • Do It Yourself @beehaw.org
    circularfish @beehaw.org

    The coolest robot I've ever built

  • Do It Yourself @beehaw.org
    circularfish @beehaw.org

    Build Your Own CNC!

  • 3d printing a tool wall at my desk. most of it is taken from printables but this hook I designed myself.

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  • Nice. Is that PETG or PLA?

  • Do It Yourself @beehaw.org
    circularfish @beehaw.org

    Building a CNC Mill Stand out of 2" Square Tubing and Melamine