• Thirsty - feeling thirst
• Thirst - a sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat associated with a desire for liquids, also : the bodily condition (as of dehydration) that induces this sensation

Jokes aside, why does everybody feel the need to gravitate towards the least popular definition here?

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puts either a Nazi dogwhistle or an unoriginal yet personally identifying mark in their username

88 is a number, which in a username, often denotes the birth year of the individual.

Can we stop usurping two-digit numbers and pretending they have magical meanings? Otherwise, we’re going to just have to throw out the whole Arabic numerical system, because every combination now has some other special meaning.

Treating corporations as people has warped US politics and harmed the climate. We need to overturn Citizens United.

Does she not understand which court case is which? Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. in 1886 was the case that established corporate personhood in the United States.

If you do not understand the history of corporate personhood, you cannot hope to attempt to overturn it. Corporations wield more power than ever, and they will spend billions of dollars to ensure it stays as court precedent.

Bricky shredded the single player campaign.

This is just the same garbage rat study that has far too much attention with the press.

Oh no… not my sports IPs.

Anyway…

Did you know that BG3 players exploit children? Are you aware that Qi2 slows older Pixels? If we wrote those misleading headlines, readers would rip us a new one

No, they wouldn’t. Those are the types of clickbait garbage headlines you use already.

What the hell? Was this even peer reviewed?

In a Petri dish!

It’s the size of the animal that’s important here. I’m aware that mice can sometimes have useful biomechanical similarities to humans, but this is the wrong animal to use in this case. Pigs would have been much much better.

Tattooing is a delicate operation that requires precision, even using different pressures between male and female human skin, and that does not scale well at all for an animal that is 100x smaller than a human.

And yet, this single study has already pushed through the news cycle in multiple directions, thanks to its dangerously deceptive headline.

It doesn’t matter if it’s gets disproven in later studies, the damage has been done.

Within a single city, hundreds of people get tattoos each day. A large cross-section of those probably haven’t refreshed their COVID vaccine, but only because they haven’t gotten around to it.

And yet, we manage to have hundreds of thousands of studies written about humans with human subjects. This sounds like a boatload of excuses that could be summed up as “science is hard”. Sure, it’s hard, but it’s better than putting out a flawed study that can’t scale properly.

There are far too many humans with tattoos that could have been researched extensively, but they chose mice. Mice do not have the same kind of skin density as humans, and I doubt a tattoo artist or researcher would have the talent to tattoo a mouse’s skin.

There’s just so many things wrong with using mice in this study. So many bad ratios with the size of the animal. I mean, for fuck’s sake, tattoo artists already practice on pig skin. Pigs would have been a better analogue, but honestly, they should have picked the millions of humans who were already tattooing themselves.

Of course, if they did that, they wouldn’t get the same result and be able to push this sensationalist science news title, now would they? Except, in this case, we’ve gone from research paper to straight to sensationalist news title in one step! Just let the institute PR department push the narrative for you, without having to wait for that pesky news cycle to crawl through the telephone game.

“Exciton dynamics”?! WTF am I reading?

EDIT: Aaaaand it’s gone.

Sony are a bunch of fucking dumbasses.

Elfen Lied? I swear the only thing I remember about that anime was the controversy about its gore and themes.

Journalists should be funded by the public, as they perform a public service, while simultaneously they should not be required to report favorably upon the state.

And that’s the crux of the issue, isn’t it? You can’t let corpos piss all over journalism to turn it yellow, and you can’t let a state-run press dictate the citizen’s world view.

Information wants to be free, and that’s realistically the only way it can work.

Name the cases.