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I clicked out.

not for me...

hopefully we get better options for black hair styles.

I think he would have done a good job, but Colin Farrell was great in his role.

I'm glad to see him play the character again.

bump

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D2uSwItbBAg

time well spent

thanks.

I guess it is hard to convince people to want to have kids when they have more options, since it's a big ask.

I can see how focusing on maternity/paternity leave, benefits, etc. can help, even if by a little.

that one scarlet rot area in the main game, where you had the dragonkin(?) mini-boss pissed me off, so hopefully this isn't worse

never thought I'd see pro-baby making propaganda (not all propaganda is bad, and I'm not criticizing).

how does it look in movies/TV - do the characters have a bunch of kids, is it getting more steamy, where you might see newer married couples be really horny towards each other (like in the later seasons of Boy Meets World), or other?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JugxpebuS_E

Heavy_D_Forever posted...

Why are there 75 people on stage? What the fuck is this shit lmao

they're all parts of different LA area gangs, where members have a history of beefing to the point of killing each other.

this is to show a moment of unity and peace between them.

I wonder if this is about to be his next album cover

truu

great concert.

from Mr. Morale, I was hoping he'd either play N95 or Rich Spirit

nice to have Dre show up

weird to have this without Snoop though

there's also Veggy, and I bet you crushed him after editing your post

with a couple of rabbits and parrots, for some reason

https://streamable.com/x9kqwe

ayy

I wanna see how Ab adds to this

not yet

nice, my favorite song

NoxObscuras posted...

Could also be exhibitionism. But yeah, the stuff she wears is either really weird or really revealing. The stuff Kanye wears is only weird.

true

Microplastics are plastic fragments that are smaller than 0.04 inches and can be found in many places in the United States, including:

Waterways

• Microplastics can be found in lakes, rivers, and aquatic animals. They can come from decomposing plastic bottles and bags, or from being intentionally manufactured into some products like toothpastes and lotions.

Food

• Microplastics have been found in nearly all American proteins, including meat, fish, and plants. A 2020 study in Italy also found microplastics in fruits and vegetables.

Air

• Airborne microplastic particles can circle the globe in days and fall from the sky like rain. According to a 2024 Cornell study, U.S. residents inhale about 300,000 microplastic particles per month.

edit: taken from Google AI

Drake's crying rn

pjnelson posted...

How does she dress?

basically naked with see through trash bags

people believe they might have some dom/sub relationship and/or that she has a humiliation fetish

Scientists have found microplastics in human penises for the first time, as concerns over the tiny particles proliferation and potential health effects mount.

Seven different kinds of microplastics were found in four out of five samples of penis tissue taken from five different men as part of a study published in IJIR: Your Sexual Medicine Journal on Wednesday.

Microplastics are polymer fragments that can range from less than 0.2 inch (5 millimeters) down to 1/25,000th of an inch (1 micrometer). Anything smaller is a nanoplastic that must be measured in billionths of a meter. They form when larger plastics break down, either by chemically degrading or physically wearing down into smaller pieces.

Some minuscule particles can invade individual cells and tissues in major organs, experts say, and evidence is mounting that they are increasingly present in our bodies.

Study lead author Ranjith Ramasamy, an expert in reproductive urology who conducted the research while working at the University of Miami, told CNN that he used a previous study that found evidence of microplastics in the human heart as a basis for his research.

Ramasamy said he wasnt surprised to find microplastics in the penis, as it is a very vascular organ, like the heart.

The samples were taken from study participants who had been diagnosed with erectile dysfunction (ED) and were in the hospital to undergo surgery for penile implants to treat the condition at the University of Miami between August and September 2023.

The samples were then analyzed using chemical imaging, which revealed that four of the five men had microplastics in their penile tissue.

Seven different types of microplastics were detected, with polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polypropylene (PP) the most prevalent, according to the study.

Now their presence has been confirmed, more research is needed to investigate potential links to conditions such as ED, Ramasamy said.

We need to identify whether microplastics are linked to ED and if there is a level beyond which it causes pathology and what types of microplastics are pathologic, he said.

As for the wider implications of the findings, Ramasamy said he hoped the study would create more awareness about the presence of foreign bodies within human organs and foster more research surrounding this topic.

Prior research has found that one liter of bottled water the equivalent of two standard-size bottled waters contained an average of 240,000 plastic particles.

more at link: https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/19/health/microplastics-human-penises-study-scli-intl-scn-wellness/index.html

I couldn't bring myself to watch it after seeing the trailer :/

yup, I might give it a chance unless if it turns out to be horrible like the Good Times animated series.

https://Twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1803089404837179856

they come back at middle-aged, or they live up to that point?

The Y chromosome in primates including humans is evolving much more rapidly than the X chromosome, new research on six primate species suggests.

For instance, humans and chimpanzees share upwards of 98% of their DNA across the whole of the genome, but just 14% to 27% of the DNA sequences on the human Y chromosome are shared with our closest living relatives.

The finding surprised scientists, given that humans and chimpanzees diverged just 7 million years ago a blip in evolutionary terms.

"I expect my genome to be very different to that of bacteria or insects because a lot of time has elapsed, evolutionarily speaking," study co-author Brandon Pickett, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health, told Live Science. "But from other primates, I expect it to be pretty similar."

It's not clear exactly why the Y chromosome is evolving so rapidly. For starters there is only a single copy of the Y chromosome per cell in primates, females carry two copies of the X chromosome, while males carry an X and a Y chromosome the Y chromosome plays a critical role in sperm production and fertility. Having only a single copy of the Y chromosome presents a vulnerability if changes happen to occur, there is no second chromosome to act as a backup.

And changes are likely to occur due to something called mutation bias. The Y chromosome may be so prone to change because it generates many sperm. This requires lots of DNA replication. And every time DNA is copied, there's a chance for mistakes to creep in.

In the new study, published May 29 in the journal Nature, scientists compared the sex chromosomes of five great ape species chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus), western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and Bornean and Sumatran orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii) and one more distantly related to humans, siamang gibbons (Symphalangus syndactylus).

The team studied the chromosomes using telomere-to-telomere (T2T) sequencing. T2T can accurately sequence repetitive elements, including the protective telomere "caps" of chromosomes that have proven difficult to read in the past, Pickett said. The researchers used computing software to make comparisons between the sequencing results, by creating alignments to reveal which parts of the chromosome had changed and which parts had stayed the same.

The chromosomal X and Y sequences of each of the six species were also compared to the human X and Y chromosome, already sequenced in an earlier studywith the T2T method.

The findings revealed that across all the studied species, the Y chromosome evolved rapidly. Even species in the same genus have very different Y chromosomes to one another. For instance, chimpanzees and bonobos diverged just 1 million to 2 million years ago, yet there is a dramatic difference in their Y chromosome lengths, said Christian Roos, a senior scientist at the Primate Genetics Laboratory, German Primate Center, who was not involved in the study.

In some cases the difference in length caused by chromosome losses or duplications that occur when DNA is copied amounted to up to about half of the observed differences. For example, the Y chromosome from the Sumatran orangutan is twice as long as the gibbon's Y chromosome.

In contrast, the study found that the X chromosome was highly conserved across the primate species, as might be expected for a structure with a critical role in reproduction.

One reason the Y seems to have thrived despite such a high rate of mutation is that across all the studied species, it contains stretches of highly repetitive genetic material, such as palindromic repeats, where the sequence reads the same forward and backward. Nestled within these stretches of repeating DNA are genes. So the repeated DNA may safeguard important genes from replication mistakes and thereby preserve essential biological material, the researchers wrote in their paper.

The study did have limitations though; it looked at only a single representative for each primate species, and it couldn't say how much the Y chromosome would vary within animals of the same species, Pickett said.

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/evolution/y-chromosome-is-evolving-faster-than-the-x-primate-study-reveals

I've even seen people say good things about the PlayStation SoP because it showed the kind of games they like.

people feel like the circle they're a part of is bigger than it really is. like, if it's not CoD or GTA, or something on their level, idk if the general gaming community even follows directs like these, and only might watch a few trailers that interest them.

also, I don't deny there are Nintendo fans (or even gaming fans in general) who thought it was a good showcase. however, I thought it was lame, but never claimed to speak for anyone else.

I do like Nintendo, and admire their ability to differentiate themselves, but I just didn't think what we saw was that interesting this time around.

general consensus? where?

anyway, even I acknowledged the Nintendo Direct was better than the PlayStation State of Play with my initial post.

I was (mostly) joking that Xbox should be the big dog, and both Nintendo and Sony should be the small ones.

obviously it's a personal thing; isn't that what opinions are?

also, I'm not saying they're the same thing as other titles, but that they are "samey" - the resemble other titles, in some way, so much, that it's hard to get excited for them, for me.

like I said, I'm not saying that they look bad, but they're not first-day purchases, either.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6d1280fb.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7e3845b0.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e902bfc2.jpg

I guess certain people have taken offense to certain elements this season

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a559090e.jpg

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_boys_2019/s04

fwiw, I was saying that the new Zelda game & Mario & Luigi looked samey, not the whole presentation.

they either use the same engine as previous titles and/or have similar looking mechanics as what has been recently released.

not saying either one looks bad, but they don't look interesting to me.

for the JRPGs, I didn't care for what I saw...but I might check out the DQ3 remake, depending on its reception.

DKC was alright, but its remake isn't something that I would say I'm anticipating.

it's cool to see that they're working on MP4, and I'll wait to see how that turns out.

those were the standouts for me, and that's why I ultimately thought it was disappointing.

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I liked the Xbox one, since it had so much to offer.

and as far as Sony goes, I liked what I saw of the Silent Hill 2 Remake, but that's about it.

it would be cool if a patch for SoT & FbW came out changing his name to Tolkien, messing with people's minds

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I don't necessarily disagree, and I tend to not be impressed by those games, either.

as a joke

the final season of Mr. Robot, for me.

seasons 4 of both The Wire and Breaking Bad are also up there.

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