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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • Semi-related PSA for when Disney is eventually uncancelled…

    If you find yourself at Animal Kingdom, try to get on some of the later safari rides. Like, closer to dusk. Usually not much of a line. Totally different experience than during the day.

    That’s when you might hear the kitties meow like 15 feet from the van.


  • Let’s take a look at plus-size models. That’s a really good example.

    It makes this rift between haas/body acceptance and what’s really actually healthy.

    But on the flip side, super-skinny models aren’t exactly healthy, either.

    Both normalize unhealthy weight and lead to population-wide body image problems and related eating disorders. Then you get things like social media throwing rocket fuel on that fire.

    I don’t see how either is “woke” though.


  • Link shorteners and redirectors, especially new and lesser-known ones tend to get caught in the fray with things like Google Safe Browsing (which FF uses as well) and Smart Screen.

    It’s because the original/shortened link gets reported and not the real/destination site. Then the domain (of the shortener/redirector) gets flagged, instead of the real site.

    This happened to me at work this very week, with a redirector service that’s a part of our email security stack. FF and Chrome were both blocking links that were safe, because the redirector service itself was classified as sus.
















  • JasonDJ@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzScience wins again
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    9 days ago

    It’s actually not uncommon. People expect and manifest symptoms all the time.

    What side effects a drug would be likely to cause, the pharmacologist likely knows long before ever giving it to a human. When the human reports side effects that the drug is unlikely to cause…that human was probably a placebo.