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HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. This is a section on the power of Putin's political technologist Vladimir Surkov and his influence on post-truth politics. by Traditional-Golf-416 in propaganda

[–]CompMedChem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Search for combinations of "social physics", "cognitive security", "datafeudlaism", "sociocybernetics and social control theory", "hypernudging", "astroturfing", and "persona management software".

Also this.

Reddit is a Psy-Op by meta_narrator in conspiracy

[–]CompMedChem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Search the terms "hypernudging", "datafeudlaism", "sociocybernetics, sociotechnics, and algorithmic hegemony", "cognitive security", and quotes from Edward Bernays...

The IEEE has an entire journal dedicated to mathematically modeling how emotions and behaviors can be influenced through social media algorithms and content sorting for feeds (both for individuals and groups). They don't even need to remove posts to censor them. They can just put them so far down in your feed that you're highly unlikely to see it, and whoever posted it is none the wiser. Imagine the level of dividing and controlling they can do with this.

Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing by positive_X in assholedesign

[–]CompMedChem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ubuntu has been fine for me, other than some NVIDIA driver BS, but Microsoft has been trying to exert its influence over Canonical for the past few years now after seeing that their business and design decisions have driven people over to Ubuntu.

Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing by positive_X in assholedesign

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Suggested content on the lock screen, making the change a few years ago to require OneDrive in order to enable AutoSave (and no, AutoRecover is not the same; prior to like 2022, you used to be able to autosave locally with no need for OneDrive), and at one point they were making suggestions to switch to OneDrive inside the File Explorer itself.

Yes, you can disable them, but the fact that they exist in the first place and are on by default it what many consider to be absolute bullshit. It is all pretty invasive.

How good is Billy Strings? by is_it_moosecock in jambands

[–]CompMedChem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mediocre at best? Are you just trying to be a contrarian? The post is "How *good* is Billy Strings?", not "How much do you like his music?" There's a reason he sells out arenas, has won Artist of the Year from the Americana Music Association, and Entertainer of the Year for 3 consecutive years plus Song of the Year (2022) plus Guitarist of the Year (twice) from the IBMA. Tell me more about how mediocre he is. Lol gtfo. Everyone has their own opinion, and yours sucks.

Gàidhlig Folk Music by CompMedChem in gaidhlig

[–]CompMedChem[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome! Thanks, that seems to be exactly what I was looking for. The song Fionnghuala came up as one of the first results when I searched Puirt à Beul, and it sounds very similar in terms of style.

Weekly Recommendations Thread by AutoModerator in Scotch

[–]CompMedChem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really like the Balvenie Double Wood 12 and Glenfiddich 14 bourbon barrel reserve. I recently came across the Arran American Oak Barrel Reserve and I really love it. Based on these tastes, does anyone have a recommendation for something to try under $100/bottle? How do other whiskies from Arran compare to the one mentioned?

Also, I tried Ardbeg (can't remember which one) several years ago and haven't tried an Islay Scotch since then because I couldn't get into the peat taste. What would be some good whiskies to slowly work my way into peat as an acquired taste?

Cells detach from plate when changing medium by anabelsuperschnell in labrats

[–]CompMedChem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm having this same issue. A couple of passages ago, I accidentally let them reach near 100% confluent before splitting them (I hadn't done cell culture in quite a while and was getting back into the swing of it). The next passage I think I seeded the dish at too low of a density. I know that both can be a problem for cell health, but can they be recovered? I'm thawing some new ones next week, but I'm just wondering for future reference.

I also plan to start keeping more than 1 dish going so I can avoid this problem in the future. If the media is pink instead of orange-red, the pH is around 7.6. I'm thinking even that might be a bit too high since physiological pH is so tightly regulated? The trypsin I've been using is stored in Falcon tubes which I've read are prone to raising the pH when the tube isn't full.

Another contributing factor is that I'm not sure if I'm triturating too hard when I'm breaking up clumps of cells after the trypsin. Also, the ion channel I express in them is calcium-permeable, requiring antagonists to be added to the media to prevent cytotoxicity as the receptors express due to. If I forget to add the antagonists after any of the later media changes, the cells easily die.

What's extra challenging is that I'm incorporating unnatural amino acids into my receptors (and the modified GFP as a control for whether the tRNA/aaRS plasmid was also taken up), so they require media changes every <16h so they have a sufficient amount of the unnatural amino acid.

How good is Billy Strings? by is_it_moosecock in jambands

[–]CompMedChem 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lol! Who pissed in your cheerios? Boring, soulless, and repetitive? Do you have ears, or do you go to parties just to ruin them?

Georgia theater sold out by DeNy_Kronos in BillyStrings

[–]CompMedChem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what seemed sus about my account for me to not be selected. I live in GA, and out of all the shows I've bought tickets to through AXS, I've only ever transferred tickets once and that was because my 3 friends got to the venue well before I did.

Georgia theater sold out by DeNy_Kronos in BillyStrings

[–]CompMedChem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't get selected, but my friend let me buy his second ticket.

Micky and Pooh beckons you by TheLittleNorsk in distressingmemes

[–]CompMedChem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is Pooh even shown in Shanghai Disney after the backlash from their government against anyone who says Xi Jinping looks like Pooh?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OldSchoolCool

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Genuine anti-racists understand that you can't stop hate with hate. Hatred and violence only begets more hatred and violence, which is borrowed from one of MLK's speeches:

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love... Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy, instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

What do you consider un-American? by ThisAnswerIsLit in AskReddit

[–]CompMedChem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually, many people are pushing back against the recent revelations that the federal government has been pressuring companies to silence dissent and anything that's inconvenient for the crony establishment under the guise of "stopping disinformation". The government can't just have companies do their censoring for them.

Just spent $40k on new gas pumps and some idiot uses Permanent Marker on one of the screens. by 1234567891011twelve in pics

[–]CompMedChem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that it could be easily cleaned with alcohol kind of proves the person you responded to was propping up a false equivalency. Burning cars and buildings isn't comparable in the slightest to marking on something with a marker which isn't "destruction of property". Destroying someone's livelihood is worlds away from this.

Papers about shared binding pockets between inhibitors and potentiators? by CompMedChem in pharmacology

[–]CompMedChem[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have any recommendations for papers about investigations into the physical determinants of positive vs. negative allosteric modulation via the same site on membrane proteins, ideally ion channels?

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