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I was looking for some more stories about the 12 percent decrease in the US murder rate and just look at the suggestions from search.

Naturally if you take these suggestions you'll find material that gives you the impression the rate is rising.

Some kinds of misinformation feel huge and intractable. No one wants to hear this, no one wants to looks for this, no one reports it and when they do it's literally headlines like "After Rise in Murders During Pandemic a Sharp Decline"

@szescstopni Ciekawy artykuł. Aż człowiek żałuje, że tak mało wie na temat procesów dziejących się w naturze.

A na zachętę wrzucę suchara: chodzenie po bagnach wciąga.

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I (non-techie) advocate always to use switching.software , riseup mail and pad as well as framadate.
But hell, it *is* difficult for the laypeople not to just use a google drive...

Let´s celebrate, today is Public Doman Day!

Plenty of new titles are available now and volunteers at @DProofreaders will have plenty of work ahead.

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
The Giant Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Money for Nothing by P.G. Wodehouse
The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
Hunting for Hidden Gold by Franklin W. Dixon

#books #literature
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This afternoon we set up the 11yo’s new microscope. While preparing her first slides, she dropped a pair of sharp tweezers on her bare foot and started to bleed. She immediately grabbed a slide, wiped a little blood on it, put it under the microscope, and snapped her first photo!

Zosia update: yesterday she killed our internet, today she tried to dig her way out of the house and managed to remove some unsecured polystyrene foam insulation (she basically made a hole in the wall, as I feared :). Right now temperatures at night hover around 0°C, but they might fall below -10°C in the next days. Will have to buy some instant insulation that I can apply myself – people around here practically don't work now and celebrate until January the 6th. She's not hungry and became picky – it's getting more difficult to feed her antibiotics. She's getting acquainted with , but there are some territorial disputes. We didn't find her humans so we're now looking for a new home for her, but it's hard to find people who will take in an old mutt bitch.

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Wild geese in northern Europe – some of them – have a high time on New Year’s Eve. Evidence for that appears in a study called “Wild goose chase: Geese flee high and far, and with aftereffects from New Year’s fireworks“. The facts, presented plainly, show what the geese were up to on those nights... newscientist.com/article/mg260

A kebych tak zaczōn pisać tooty po ślōnsku? 🤔
Mastodon nawet przizwŏlŏ ôbrać ta gŏdka!

Didn't realize my wireless plan capped tethering speeds, but now it makes sense. When your phone gets ~10-15 mbps and your tethered computer gets .5 or .6 consistently, you know they're screwing w/ the service you paid for.

Welp, I'm ashamed it took me this long to realize, but changing the TTL on my computer seems to have released the throttling.

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Heloł, w kolorowej czapeczce ze śmigiełkiem. tak będę wkraczał w 2024 rok. Rok w którym trzeba nareszcie obalić kapitalizm i zaprowadzić demokrację, tzn. dyktaturę proletariatu. Z farcikiem.

Przypominajka że jest to 2024 r. naszej ery (w skrócie: n.e.) a nie żaden 2024 r. po Chrystusie. Jezus Chrystus jest postacią mitologiczną lub legendarną i nie ma dostatecznych dowodów by uznać go za postać realnie istniejącą tzw. "postać historyczną".

Aha no i

In desert climates of the US a suburban lawn, with irrigation and soil aeration "maintenance" is basically a fire ant paradise. Fire ants love direct sun. They hate bushes that shade the ground, diverse clumps of plants, and fire ants can't live in the desert. They are tropical and the sprinklers for lawns complete the picture. Fire ant paradise!

But then people get so angry when they show up to live in something clearly made for them.

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