“dude” as an interjection is widely used gender-neutrally in modern slang, although there are still faint connotations of a male listener.

“We can’t do protest because the ultra-wealthy pay the working class to clean it up. I am very enlightened.”

Article is good, but here’s the original Nature article, as BBC News doesn’t link to it.

Here’s the link to the mentioned Reuters article.

Solar Wireless

Freaking

Roadways

Another comically pathetic attempt to compensate for cars’ ridiculous inefficiencies.

It’s a soft paywall based on the number of articles you’ve read. I can read it just fine, for instance, but archive.today is there if the wall shows up for you.

I think he usually works for Zelda.

I advise you to swap out that MSN link with the original Reuters article. MSN is notorious for link rot; this one will likely be dead in just a few months.

They were apologizing to Shizuo Aishima, one of three executives […] who were wrongfully arrested and charged in 2020 with the unauthorized export of sensitive industrial equipment.

Aishima […] was diagnosed with stomach cancer while he was detained. His lawyer filed bail requests eight times in hopes of getting Aishima proper medical care, but all were denied.

Aishima was finally sent to an outside hospital but it was too late for treatment. He died in February 2021 at 72, five months before prosecutors dropped the charges against him and two other company executives.

[…]

The company officials consistently denied that their equipment was subject to export restrictions. Prosecutors eventually dropped their case in July 2021, saying there were doubts if there was any illegality involved.

You shouldn’t get the privilege to issue an apology to this man at his grave. Get the fuck out of there, stop defiling his grave with your presence, and pray for him from jail on your own and not as a spectacle for the media if it really soothes your bastard conscience.

^hearsay*

I did think of it and visualize this image in the shower, for what it’s worth. The gorgeous illustration™ and written explanation are there because 99% of people are sane and therefore have no idea what the fuck any of this means.

He’s probably the reason I have any interest in marine biology.

Oh, 100% true. Sandy needing a suit to breathe would be seen as very “alien”. I just thought it was funny phylogenetically. Maybe a funnier question given this setup is why Gary is a pet (see: “why is Pluto a pet but Goofy isn’t?”)

Haha, for what it’s worth, I knew what this tree structure looked like in my head and just had to map it out in an image so this post wasn’t nonsense. The one thing I added that I didn’t think of in the shower was how much closer the crustacean characters are to the nematodes. (Edit: also Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy now.)

Yup! You’ll be happy to know, though, that amphibians (class Amphibia), mammals (class Mammalia), birds (class Avia), and reptiles (class Reptilia) all have their own pigeonholes.

What you won’t be happy to know is that a lot of things that are called “shrimp” aren’t actually shrimp. Shrimp are specifically the decapod infraorder Caridea. Anything else – presented in order of decreasing relatedness – like prawns (decapod suborder Dendrobranchiata), amphipods (order Amphipoda), or mantis shrimp (order Stomatopoda) are not shrimp.

I for one agree that what’s being done is unjustified. Bolsonaro doesn’t belong cooped up in his house like some kind of animal. He belongs hanging in the public square like treasonous, seditious, fascist filth.

Ratchet: “I’ll just call you… ***** for short.”

The 12% were charged for the war crimes not being severe enough.

It could just be my joke wasn’t that funny or original. In disgrace, the Lemmy.World admins will be transferring me to another instance where I can keep making shitty jokes.

Will baseload power generation be provided by a team of molestors running after their congregation’s children on a hamster wheel?

This man looks like the evil Karl Jobst.