And here I thought he was about to sign an executive order that it’s spelled “Dow Joans” from now on and Pam Bondi was going to prosecute anyone who disagreed

Evolution as a theory predates our understanding of genetics by many decades. Even before we were able to sequence genes, we were using morphology and a variety of other factors to determine relationships between living organisms.

Well, along came genetics. We discovered that neutral mutations in DNA tend to happen at consistent rates, which meant we could compare DNA of two organism to see how similar they were, and could even use their differences to estimate how long ago they had a common ancestor.

How can you “confirm evolution is real?” Sequence the genes of many organisms and compare them. Build your very own tree of life.

You just want to log in to your 401k account and take control of where your investments go. You always want to be invested in funds with low expense ratios, like index funds, but you can also pick funds that are invested outside the US. Most of my 403b now is in index funds or low expense ratio funds invested in Europe, Asia, and emerging markets. I just have a bad feeling about the US market for the foreseeable future for some reason

Nepenthes

Love it

A lot of detailed information on the Wikipedia page. There are a ton of different ways people can come into contact with mercury, and a ton of different formulations of mercury with varying effects. For what symptoms adults may exhibit from the most common form of organic exposure, look no further than RFK Jr., who himself has stated he has mercury poisoning from eating too much tuna:

Due to the body’s inability to degrade catecholamines (e.g. adrenaline), a person with mercury poisoning may experience profuse sweating, tachycardia (persistently faster-than-normal heart beat), increased salivation, and hypertension (high blood pressure).

It also causes memory impairment and reduced IQ. RFK Jr. seems to really fit the bill here.

But for something truly terrifying, try dimethylmercury. People can get one drop on their skin, then several months later start developing symptoms, and die within a year. It even soaks right through rubber and latex gloves: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury

For full symptom progression, check out Minimata Disease.

Way to make someone expressing concern about someone else instead about your politics

He shared a lot about his life on here and I worry he set himself up for failure moving to the UK. Based on what he’s said, he had a condition where he no longer wanted to eat, and then stopped working for a long time because of that. He seemed to expect that finding a job was going to be easy moving to a new country, but that’s not typically the case, especially after having not worked in years.

After moving, he talked a lot about finding a job, which had me wondering what changed. While he wasn’t working, he was spending 12+ hours on Lemmy every day, with like well over a hundred posts/comments per day, and constantly talking about not being able to work. Going from that mindset to desperately trying to find a job in a foreign country seems like a mindfuck.

If you receive a message one day that shows it was sent on a prior day, I think the assumption is it was spoofed

It keeps coming from new profiles on new instances

Every time I open Lemmy, I’m incredibly fearful of what pearl-clutching material is going to be thrust in my face, so I come back over and over

This is the answer. Shredded memory foam 4 lyfe

That’s insanity. I can only imagine he doesn’t tell girls he tries to date all this up front, which is why they keep leaving him.

Did he write this or did you, based on your observations of him?

Strong incel vibes. Has your brother ever had a girlfriend before?

Isaiah Thomas is 5’9". He’s been an NBA All-Star twice.

Muggsy Bogues is 5’3". He had 146 career double-doubles and got to be one of the 5 players in Space Jam.

There are more

The primaries happened my dude. He won them

QAA has become one of my primary information sources. They’re at least good at making all this entertaining

I think you’re going to encounter a serious argument that European nations are not and have never been vassal states of the US

The dickbutt places this comic as old as shit or the person who drew this comic as old as shit