The energy you’re reading is non-ionizing, can’t cause cancer.

If an energy source is high enough frequency, and strong enough, it can knock electrons out of their orbit, creating ions. Hence the name. Ultraviolet rays from the sun can knock your DNA around, cause cancer. Radio waves simply cannot. Get the idea?

Nothing coming out of a laptop is energetic enough to even begin stripping electrons from the atoms in your cells.

I could probably tell a little more if you can say how and what “energy” you’re measuring.

Apparently a shitload of Mexican men came running over the border since Sheinbaum was elected in June. So they could get away from the woman and vote Trump. Yeah.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden was convicted Tuesday of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.

Lying on an ATF Form 4473 is almost never prosecuted because much of the language is wishy-washy. Ever filled one out?

The odds of being charged for lying on the form are virtually nonexistent. In the 2019 fiscal year, when Hunter Biden purchased his gun, federal prosecutors received 478 referrals for lying on Form 4473 — and filed just 298 cases. The numbers were roughly similar for fiscal 2020. At issue is when Biden answered “no” on the question that asks about unlawful drug use and addiction when purchasing a gun.

https://www.ncja.org/crimeandjusticenews/few-prosecutions-for-lying-on-atf-gun-purchase-form

How’s that moral high horse ride for ya? Winning any elections? No?

looking down their noses at the “dumb country bumpkins” in the flyover states

Lemmy, every single day.

Forgot about the donation angle! I’m signed up for organ donation, need to get that more clear in my will, but whole-body donation would be great.

Worst case, med students can have a go, see how bones heal, stuff like that.

Anecdotally, I’ve only heard women use that sort of argument IRL. Kinda falls in the, “This widget is 80% so I’m saving money!”

Well, no, not if you didn’t have to purchase the widget in the first place.

Men are hardly immune, but in my experience it’s more so women.

Back of the napkin math in my comment:

https://old.lemmy.world/comment/13749448

You can get a fair picture here:

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters

Nothing you can part a hard number on, obviously. But you can derive trends easily enough.

For example, check 2024, a year that’s trended down. Let’s pretend that number was 100,000 immigrants/month for all of that year, and we’re being ridiculously conservative here. That’s 1.2 million souls. These are real people, that require food, water, shelter, medicine, all that. It’s a bit staggering just imagining the infrastructure needed, let alone humanitarian needs.

So, using stupid low numbers, that adds to 4.8m people in 4-years. We could drill down forever, but that count is not going to get lower. 7.2m strikes me as a reasonable figure. Especially if we’re including immigrants from sources other than the Southern border.

I got some blue ones off Etsy in my vivarium! Super cool little dudes. Along with the millipedes, springtails and snails I find, they eat all the plant detrius. Being, ya know, detritivores and all.

This is not that discussion, even remotely. Try to stay on topic.

Oh! That’s who he is and why he was chosen. Say no more fam.

Exactly where the notion came from.

Because lemmy is a bunch of teenagers screaming, “NOOOO!”, through clenched teeth, like my 9-yo.

Ah, who am I kidding? Vote up for likes, down for hates! This way we can have civil, adult conversations.

Problem being, that was a well thought out, well written letter. Not exactly the words of a distraught parent.

Very little emotion here, except in the truthful (to the author), heartfelt sense.

☝️

“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Try $20-$30. I do this for a living.

They’ll get something big enough and it’s off to the races.

While we’re throwing around our favorite TED talks, here’s the meat of my favorite in animated form.

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

Looking back over my jobs, hobbies, life in general, yeah, this hits hard. And yes, they found some surprising results.

EDIT: I was wrong. Not a TED talk. Watch it anyway and learn!

Uh, I have 4.