Trickle down economics would only work if you gave them a tax cut, and then forced them to spend whatever money they saved. And then they’d have to ensure that the money is being spent in ways that benefit the working class, like supporting a small business or union shop. But they never take it that extra step, so it will always fail. it’s only ever been a handout to the wealthy, designed to inspire loyalty and garner future favors.

A summary of the story, scene breakdown and scripts should be distributed to all cast members in advance.

performers should be able to request a closed set where access is kept to a minimum.

A competent intimacy coordinator should be engaged.

These are not big asks.

In one recording for a major game she first learned it was explicit only when she turned up for work.

“This was actually a full-on sex scene,” she said.

"I had to [vocally] match the scene and through the glass in the booth was the entire team, all male, watching me.

“It was excruciating… at that stage I had been in the games industry a while, and I had never felt so shaken”.

Not unreasonable to say that this situation should not be repeated.

Non US countries have super high everything taxes effective social welfare

God I hate these floating video players you can’t get rid of.

here’s the archive version

Another article that can’t even bother linking to the actual research

Astronauts have an unusually high rate of kidney stone formation, with 1-year post-flight astronauts experiencing incidence rates of 2–7 times that of pre-flight estimates, and in-flight risk estimated to be double that again5. This is of mission critical significance, one Soviet in-flight renal stone episode nearly caused a mission termination due to the severe symptoms, but was relieved by spontaneous stone passage by the cosmonaut just before an urgent deorbit was initiated

It has been demonstrated that spaceflight associated changes in urinary biochemistry favour kidney stone formation

the kidney is an exquisitely radiation sensitive organ; it is the dose limiting organ in abdominal radiotherapy

Our data robustly and orthogonally supports tubular remodelling occurring in microgravity with and without GCR (Galactic Cosmic Radiation). This is highly likely to have functional consequences, as tubular remodelling does in other scenarios39.

Renal remodelling in microgravity (possibly related to the cephalad fluid shift) may therefore be a primary event that causes subsequent dysregulation of serum and urine electrolyte homeostasis. This is supported by the prompt return to baseline of humans on return to terrestrial gravity.

Sounds like GCR is a big concern to Renal functionality due to it’s sensitivity to radiation, but they don’t think it’s the main driver of astronauts subsequent renal dysfunction. Interesting stuff.

OK I was going to read the links but I’m nearing the end of my daily Lemmy time and I need to ask, turtles can breathe through their skin?!?

Wait, what does this mean? I genuinely thought fossils were the bones, preserved through lack of oxygen

The allograft they made was from the patients own pluri-potent stem cells, which developed into a piece of tissue comprised of islet beta cells which produce insulin. They took this tissue, cut open this huge vein that goes into the liver, stitched this tissue into the opening, and closed the patient back up.

Out of 500 cats and owners, only 30 completed the entire trial, shrinking the sample size considerably. Within that sample size, the cats showed clear preference for the box-like illusions over the controls. Still, to further cat cognition research, the paper recommends future studies only require owners to perform the experiment for one day (rather than six) to increase likelihood of completion.

Wow that’s some next-level laziness exhibited by cat owners during the pandemic… You’d think being stuck inside would increase likelihood of completing the 6-day citizen science course.

Hey it’s cool. I came out to my parents thinking that they would have a similar “awakening.”

They didn’t.

So, way to go this guy, you’re better than my parents. admittedly low bar, but hey, good news is good news!

Another of the writers affected was Paul Weimer, who was excluded from the fan writer category. One of the several points raised about him in the emails is that he had previously travelled to Tibet. But Weimer said he had only been to Nepal, not Tibet. “It’s not even competent political censorship – it’s haphazard bullshit,” he said.

How I yearn for the days of competent political censorship /s

Kitty is like

The Expanse is an amazing sci-fi series that just gets better every season. Politics, war, discovery of new life, all within new civilizations cataloguing the early expansion of humans from the Earth to within our local system. Acting is top tier, graphics get better each season due to it’s meteoric rise in popularity.

But yeah, nothing quite like those pure gold episodes of Star Trek: TNG. The new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is more like TNG than the other series going on right now, but only has 2 seasons at this point I believe.

no, I mean, they have short legs. dwarfism. That’s not breeding a dog that can’t breathe or give birth and is prone to disease. it’s short legs. like a dachshund. what does them being “used” correctly have to do with it?

i mean, do you have the same reaction to Dachshunds?

some pretty cool stuff, especially the one about unfreezing of rat kidneys in a way that doesn’t damage the organ.

I’m passionate about the idea of space exploration, and there are two things we desperately need to figure out before we can make real manned space exploration possible. one is cold fusion so as to power long haul flights, and also the ability to freeze ourselves without dying. If they can freeze a rat kidney, unfreeze it, and have it still work like it should is incredible. We’re closer and closer to a manned mission to mars and beyond.