You might be surprised! My uncle is 170 cm tall, his wife about 165, and two of their sons are about 170. Their third son is nearly 195 cm. Yes, he’s their biological child - we’ve checked!

Both my aunt and uncle had tall fathers and very short mothers. Height is polygenic (multiple genes are responsible), so my cousin won the height allele lottery and inherited a higher proportion of the height increasing traits both parents carried, making him a height outlier.

If biologists don’t study viruses, who does?

Full disclosure: I’m a microbiologist, so I’m curious about where this will go.

Edit: it went to them ignoring my comment.

It’s crazy because I grew up “knowing that’s just how things were”. I’m brown and my name has way too many vowels, so I knew to keep my head down when the police might be involved. Then I learned that’s not the norm everywhere in the world and my mind was blown.

He was clearly guilty of a DWB.

Especially if it’s under 18.

I agree 100%. If I want help with something, people are generally kind and helpful on Lemmy. The worst that typically happens is no one responds.

On Reddit, asking for help in a sub specifically created for these requests usually results in being downvoted heavily. I might get a response or even a few, but it’s not uncommon to also get mocked and trolled unless my request is unusually interesting.

I recall being in a tough spot in a previous relationship and asking for advice. I got some helpful advice but it also resulted in one user mocking me and encouraging suicide and another user attempting to dox me.

They’ve just dropped most of the pretense now.

To be fair, C. diff does smell better.

Critical thinking is indeed dead for much of the population.

Linux has come SO far. I first tried it about a decade ago, wrecked my install, and came crawling back to Windows. A few months back, I installed Ubuntu (tease all you want, peanut gallery, it’s better than Windows) on my laptop and it’s so much better. It just works great, I have my system customized to how I want it to work, and the poor CPU fan is no longer blasting even when the system is idle. My battery life also gained almost an hour.

The blind or vision impaired would appreciate this. Past that, hard pass.

Unfortunately, even though it sounds adorable, that’s a myth. There’s nothing about bees or bumblebees that would make their flight theoretically problematic.

I’d punch the alleged deals into camelcamelcamel to find they’d been similar for years. I’ve even found prices that went up!

Seconded. Alligator Auschwitz is appropriate.

If only science could provide an answer. It must be a witch!

Any sources for this? It’s interesting and I’d like to read more.

At the least, suspended with pay while an internal investigation finds no wrongdoing.

Fuck yeah it is! Hawaii has RCV for some, but not most, elections. Still a step in the right direction.

I think you nailed it. There are definite upsides to macOS, especially for less tech savvy users, but they gouge the hell out of the denizens of their walled garden.