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Gordon_Freeman, in Is there anyone moderating this community?
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Mane25,

Blaming spambots is one thing, but whoever set up this community should lock it if they’re not going to mod it because there are loads of spam messages here that haven’t been dealt with in days. It’s a pretty bad look. I’m unsubscribing but I also want to add shame on whoever set this up and abandoned it because it reflects poorly on the fediverse.

Gordon_Freeman,
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Is not really abandoned, the owner of this community is also the creator of Kbin. He is still working on developing kbin so there's not enough time for moderation

Mane25,

OK, then he should lock it, it’s spamming my feed, maybe I should move to something defederated with Kbin. No moderation is dangerous.

osarusan, in Anyone want to mod m/science to get rid of the spam?

Remember, too, that it is super easy to block an individual user on your own end.

It's not the best solution to get rid of spam, but it works wonders all the same.

DougHolland,

Report a spammer once, for the good of the community, and then block the 'user'. Problem solved. :)

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some_guy, in A three-eyed organism roamed the seas half a billion years ago
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Simpsons did it first

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe, in The revolt against reality: Harassment of scientists is escalating
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They give conspiracy theorists a bad name.

Saganastic,

Did conspiracy theorists ever have a good name?

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe,
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Sure back when it was the British and American aristocracies coming up with shadowy organizations that must have perpetrated the French revolution.

Doesn't seem to be tarnished when Smedly Butler unveiled the business plot, nor when the Pentagon papers leaked or evidence of MKULTRA was discovered. Then all the sudden right around the time they stopped teaching humanities at public schools all these groups appeared with very specific very laughable conspiracies they were blindly dedicated to.

And now it's just shorthand for pedophile racist.

Madison_rogue, in Bicycle
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This has been very helpful reminding me that I need to get my bicycle fixed. It's been almost a year since I wrecked it and broke my arm.

shroomaroomboom,

I wrecked my bike almost a decade ago. Not the first time, but the most violent wreck I've ever experienced.

Got thrown into traffic, broke some ribs, messed up my shoulder, and cracked my helmet almost in two.

After healing tried riding my bike again. Absolutely did not expect PTSD, but could not otherwise explain how wholly unconfident I felt while trying to ride a bike, even til this day.

zalack, in World's 1st 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan - The Mainichi
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Unless I'm misreading the article, right now this seems to just be regrowth for a very specific medical condition where teeth didn't come in in the first place?

The article mentions the possibility of stimulating growth in a latent third set of buds all adults have. But that doesn't seem to be what this specific breakthrough is.

a-man-from-earth, in New studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild
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Nah. It was pretty conclusively shown by Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag that covid came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology: https://public.substack.com/p/first-people-sickened-by-covid-19?r=58hqy

DarkGamer,
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@a Did you read the article? The evidence cited there seems more compelling to me than the suspicious-but-circumstantial evidence that supports a lab leak; cases statistically clustered around the part of the wet market that sold the suspect animals, and genetic similarity to a bat strain of covid.

Still, it's possible, I just no longer believe it's probable. This quote from the article sums it up:

“Have we disproven the lab leak theory? No, we have not,” Andersen said. “But I think what’s really important here is there are possible scenarios and there are plausible scenarios and it’s really important to understand that possible does not mean equally likely.” ...

“Both of these two studies really provide compelling evidence for the natural origin hypothesis,” said Aliota, who wasn’t involved in either study. Since sampling an animal that was at the market is impossible, “this is maybe as close to a smoking gun as you could get.”

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