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science@lemmy.world•New Study Confirms Causal Link Between Poverty and Mental IllnessEnglish
4·22 days agoMendelian randomization does not a causal claim justify. It’s almost certainly the case that poverty causes mental illness, but this study’s design does not permit causal inference.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Find what you like and stick with it
3·26 days agoSharing what I eat would give away my identity to anyone who knows me in real life and happens to read my comment, sorry.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Find what you like and stick with it
27·26 days agoI’ve literally made the same exact meal for breakfast and dinner every single day for the last four years straight. Lunch changed because of an external factor, but I’ve had the same meal for lunch every day for about six months now. The meme isn’t referring to making your favorite meal, it’s referring to making the only thing you eat for that meal, ever.
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Technology@lemmy.zip•Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sitesEnglish
42·1 month agoKagi has its own search engine and internal web indexing:
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html#search-sources
As someone who worked at more than one grocery store where the manager scheduled more people per week if someone needed to constantly be on cart duty (e.g., during the winter, because folks were less likely to put their carts back during the cold), I often don’t put my cart back in the correct spot. I do so because at the stores I worked at, that would help people who want more hours be able to make a case for those hours to the manager. I often had to do so when I wanted more hours, and I was the person who did the carts. I never do this when cart duty is otherwise hard (e.g., late at night, in the cold, in the summer heat, etc.)—in those cases, I always bring my cart back inside of the store and put it completely away.
So, yes, but there are sometimes reasons to do something besides what’s courteous.
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science@lemmy.world•In a study of identical twins, Stanford researchers have found that a vegan diet improves cardiovascular healthEnglish
11·2 months agoTry eating the same number of calories on a vegan diet. It’s hard. More fiber fills you quicker. The diets can’t equate both satiety and calories. Lower calories on a vegan diet is a feature, not a bug.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you check if a story is written by a human or an AI?
1·2 months agoRecently, a company called Pangram appears to have finally made a breakthrough in this. Some studies by unaffiliated faculty (e.g., at U Chicago) have replicated its claimed false positive and false negative rates. Anecdotally, it’s the only AI detector I’ve ever run my papers through that hasn’t said my papers are written by AI.
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Europe@lemmy.ml•EU supports US invasion of Venezuela by claiming Maduro is an illegitimate president. Refuses to call the US invasion illegitimate.
613·2 months agoI did some searching and found this, which seems to be a pretty good source?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/947882
I don’t think any country should remove another country’s president under any circumstances, though.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library
3·2 months agoThings appear to have changed; thanks for drawing my attention to that. I may start editing some articles in my broader area.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library
2·2 months agoI can’t without doxxing myself more than I’d like. It wasn’t an article about himself, nor his research. This was about 10 years ago, so the rules may have changed. I’ll take a look and edit my post accordingly if so.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library
71·2 months agoA problem with Wikipedia is that experts are not allowed to contribute to their areas of expertise because they’re “biased”(see edit below). I know a professor at a top university who used to spend his free time editing Wikipedia outside of his specific area but in his broad area of expertise as a method of disseminating science knowledge to the public. When the higher-up Wikipedia editors found out who he was, they banned his account and IP from editing.Having the lay public write articles works when expertise isn’t required to understand something, butmuch of Wikipedia around science is slightly inaccurate at best. (This is still true, probably owing to the neutral point of view rule [giving weight to fringe ideas as a result] or the secondary source prioritization over primary sources.)Edit: current Wikipedia editing rules and guidelines would not support this ban, so things appear to have changed. Wikipedia still recommends against primary sources as authoritative sources of information (recommending secondary sources instead), which is not great. But, they explicitly now welcome subject matter experts as editors.
Yes, it plays a role. What exactly it’s doing is unclear, and it’s probably more that it’s setting up tau to do the real nasty stuff, but it contributes. We know that from experimental work in nonhuman animal models and converging longitudinal work in humans. See, for example: https://www.cell.com/neuron/pdfExtended/S0896-6273(22)00305-1
That’s just *56. Amyloid has been known for decades to play some role, even though *56’s data was fraudulent (for a lay-friendly discussion, see https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/what-we-do/researchers/news/explaining-amyloid-research-study-controversy). Amyloid is certainly not the only thing at play, but it does play some role.
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Good News Everyone@piefed.social•Gen Z has the highest rate of veganism in history and it's reshaping the food industry
3·3 months agoNot sure why you were downvoted. Take my Lemmy silver as a way of expressing my agreement.
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Good News Everyone@piefed.social•Gen Z has the highest rate of veganism in history and it's reshaping the food industry
5·3 months agoI’ve actually seen a lot of millennials likening 6 7 to 1337 and such that millennials made a big deal over at that age.
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Good News Everyone@piefed.social•Gen Z has the highest rate of veganism in history and it's reshaping the food industry
17·3 months agoMillennials bore the brunt of a ton of media framing their changes as evil, so they aren’t doing the same to subsequent generations. A similar inference could be made about the positivity towards veganism (i.e., coming from a vegan site).
OP isn’t implying anything about validity; they’re just explaining the article’s positive framing.
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People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Own your own fucking responsibility
12·3 months agoTaylor Swift also arguably contributes something of value–music that a lot of people really like. Doesn’t mean either of them should be able to amass that much wealth. The tax system in the US is broken. In the US in 1961, for example, stock buybacks were illegal (so stocks paid dividends, which are taxable income), and any income above $32,000/year was taxed at 50%, up to a marginal tax rate of 91% for any income above $400,000/year. In contrast, the highest marginal tax rate in the US in 2024 was 37% for any income above $731,200/year, and companies buy back stocks rather than issuing dividends most of the time. Further, most millionaires and billionaires amass wealth through stocks rather than income, using loans against stocks for cash, meaning they pay almost no taxes and continue to amass personal wealth.






There are some university presses that have started their own journals in response to these issues. It’s a broken system, but no one is stopping anyone from creating new journals. All it takes is to eat away at the margins of for-profit journals by publishing fewer papers in them for them to eventually lose interest in the sector.