Yup, that’s what I meant.

They’re a secular institution that was on the leading edge of stem cell research when it was far more controversial than it is now.

I don’t think those are “low-ass” standards.

Calling Duke a ‘religious school’ is disingenuous. They are a secular school that has a divinity program. The university pre-dates the divinity school by almost a century.

They are widely seen as a world class medical, business and law school. Contributions include, the first ultrasound imaging, the first CFD analysis software, and cochlear implant development.

They don’t focus on sports anymore than other peer institutions (think Northwestern, Stanford, Vanderbilt, or Notre Dame) they just caught lightning in a bottle with Coach K, and have been really good at basketball for a while.

I say all of this to highlight, they are a legitimate, well funded active contributor to academia and research.

They aren’t some hack religious institution that’s trying to play being a real school while shoveling indoctrination down your throat like BYU or Liberty.

Duke is a legitimate research university that should be criticized even more harshly for the decision outlined in the article because of their history as a top tier research institution, not because they’re “a religious school that doesn’t care about science.”

Sports. I can get a hundred tweets of highlights almost instantly on Twitter.

The youngest and least qualified member of the supreme Court who was forced through in the waning days of Trump’s administration, Amy Coney Barrett, was raised as and is still a member of the People of Praise, a para-church organization which consists mostly of Catholic members. People of Praise is a highly conservative organization that touts strong gender roles and is overall highly secretive.

At one point it is believed that Coney Barrett was the highest rank a woman could have in the organization, with the title of “Handmaid”.

During Amy Coney Barret’s confirmation hearings, the people of Praise purged all records of their magazine and member profiles from their website.

The People of Praise organization has been accused of covering up for child abusers on multiple occasions.

Source: Washington Post and the People of Praise Wikipedia article

Pranks can 100% be harmless and fun, but if you’re ever questioning whether or not a prank is harmless don’t do it.

Basically everything Just for Laughs does is gold. You can spend hours watching their videos.

I go for a variation of this if a coworker leaves their computer unlocked when they leave for lunch or the day.

Screenshot their whole desktop, hide all icons and the toolbar. Set the background to the screenshot. Boom a computer that looks exactly the same as before but doesn’t work.

Quick, non permanent, takes a few minutes to work out, lesson learned to not leave your machine unlocked.

My bidet cost ~$30 and took about 20 minutes to install to my existing toilet using basic tools. It’s great. I highly recommend it to anyone .

Do you have any recommendations on how to buy a domain?

There’s a microwave repair store in my city.

There’s always one person there when I dive by but never any customers. There’s a neon open/closed sign that changes daily so someone is there.

No clue what exactly is going on there.

Right? I can solve one in a minute to minute and a half. By normal people standards, impressive, by cyber standards I’m laughably slow.

I’m cool with that

Different crime.

It seems like people just want to be told what to do.

Yes exactly. Not many people like to figure out how something works, they just want it to work.

Apple’s success isn’t because it’s the best at any individual feature. It’s successful because All the features just work without having to figure anything out.

I never would’ve expected it until it happened, just barely above a whisper, loud enough for me to hear and not anyone else…

Softly spoken German in an intimate setting can really do it for me.

Loudly spoken German can also do it for me for entirely different reasons.

Not so much an incident, but an unsolved mystery in my life that I don’t think I’ll ever know the answer to:

A few years ago some friends of mine and I were going to a concert and left our cars in a parking lot in an office park near the arena and piled into one car.

When I came back a few hours later that night, there was a dead duck on the hood of my car. It was still warm, there was no damage to my car, no feathers floating around anywhere, no blood on the duck (it hadn’t been shot or attacked as far as I could tell), it was just there by itself on the hood of my car. It wasn’t duck hunting season, and this is in a city with over a million people so not a rural area.

I’ve asked all my friends, family if they know what happened, but nope. No one has confessed anything, and at this point I think anyone of my friends would’ve fessed up.

I’m just baffled.

It was like a duck landed on the hood of my car and dropped dead a few minutes before I got there on a random weeknight.

I have no clue how, why or what happened.

He is perceived as such by a large subset of the population.

I’m baffled at how much they screwed it up. They really didn’t need to change the formula much for the sequel to be a success. Just come up with a new portal or some excuse why the portal from movie 1 didn’t close and do the same thing as the first movie.

Instead they did whatever they ended up doing in movie 2 and killed what could’ve been a fun blockbuster franchise.

Hell they could’ve adapted one of the the hundreds of fanfics online and it would’ve been a better starting point than whatever they ended up with.

My advice, close Lemmy now and start studying.

Promise yourself to study just for 20 minutes (20 real minutes not distracted minutes) and then see how you feel.