[-] arotrios@kbin.earth 12 points 22 hours ago

This guy got an $18k raise for 162 stops over a two month period. That means he's getting paid about $111 per attempted kidnapping.

And then has the audacity to claim "he doesn't like to break up families".

My brother in Christ, there's about a million easier ways to make $111 than destroying someone's life. You're not doing it for the money.

You're doing it because you want to.

[-] arotrios@kbin.earth 13 points 1 day ago

Wait until you see the new pilot for the Judge Gowran show...

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Abstract:

Over the past 5 to 7 million years, humans and chimpanzees have diverged in brain size, structure, and cognition despite high conservation of protein-coding genes. However, retroviral infections within host genomes have introduced numerous species-specific regulatory elements. Chimpanzees harbor lineage-specific PTERV1 endogenous retroviruses that are absent in humans, but their role in brain evolution has remained unclear. We performed an epigenomic analysis of PTERV1 insertions in chimpanzee neural organoids and found they are heavily DNA methylated, forming over 150 species-specific heterochromatin domains with the potential to influence gene regulation. We identified a chimpanzee-specific insertion on chromosome 19 that silences the long noncoding RNA LINC00662 through DNA methylation spreading. CRISPR-mediated deletion of this PTERV1 restored LINC00662 expression in chimpanzee induced pluripotent stem cells. We show that LINC00662, a human-specific transcript expressed during brain development, plays a role in neuronal maturation, axon outgrowth, and neural organoid development. These findings reveal a mechanism by which endogenous retroviral insertions contributed to human-chimpanzee brain divergence.

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[-] arotrios@kbin.earth 28 points 1 day ago

Pedantic Putz Punted by Petulant Pedo

[-] arotrios@kbin.earth 7 points 1 day ago

L4D2.

$0.

Christmas of 2013.

Yes, I am the Ghost of Christmas Present...

[-] arotrios@kbin.earth 20 points 1 day ago

I think this gal has a better chance at making it to Mars than Liz...

[-] arotrios@kbin.earth 32 points 1 day ago

Not gonna be impressed until they teach it to fetch.

[-] arotrios@kbin.earth 15 points 1 day ago

That's odd. When I wear my "Not a serial killer" shirt, I don't get any questions. Or any conversation for that matter.

It does make the supermarket checkout lane move extra fast tho...

[-] arotrios@kbin.earth 30 points 2 days ago

I wouldn't. I'd let the community decide via voting. You don't engender discussion by silencing speakers because they don't meet your requirements of legitimacy. If there's a question of legitimacy or bad faith discussion, identify it, talk about it, and downvote the hell out of it if needed.

But don't remove it. Once you do, you're no longer curating a discussion. You're promoting an agenda.

Rejecting a voice out of hand because of whom its coming from is blatant censorship, and a tacit admission that your ideas can't compete with theirs in the arena of public discourse.

[-] arotrios@kbin.earth 46 points 2 days ago

/c/politics is a hive of scum and pedantry, with a healthy dose of hypocrisy. If you say:

Social Media adjacent hosts like Substack are allowed, but ONLY if they tie back to a company/subsidiary. No personal or friend group blogs and no self-promotion. Articles should be worth reading

...while allowing articles that are blatant AI summaries from trash rags like the DailyBeast and Business Insider simply because they're tied to a company, you're not fostering political discussion. You're advancing a corporate agenda.

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Scholars disagree on when, exactly, Rome fell. But if you watch the new video from City 3D Timelapse above, you'll understand the lack of debate on the question of whether it fell.

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