Not breaking rule 5. But how do I hide my 250k in a savings account for retirement and still get a student pell grant?
  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 2d ago 100%

    As someone who works in academia and has researched STEM education, wanting to do this is despicable! You have a quarter million dollars saved, yet you want money intended for low-income students. Like, what the actual hell?! I hope you attempt this and get caught, ideally they'll then fine you $250K and ensure you're unable to ever receive any financial aid. Screw you and you're comfortably committing fraud which will impact those who actually need the funding!

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  • U.S. boosts passenger screening as Africa grapples with deadly Marburg and mpox outbreaks
  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 3d ago 100%

    Marburg virus is no joke!! Fatality rate upwards of 88% due to it causing hemorrhagic fever. While monkey pox is no joke, I'd be exponentially more terrified if I had a Marburg virus infection.

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  • Is it worth becoming a Confidential Informant in Chicago where I am currently stationed? I was told by a cop that if I need to or can't afford a reckless driving charge I can become a CI?
  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 6d ago 81%

    It depends on your moral stance about working with the cops in this fashion. In many circles, becoming a CI will get you immediately ostracized and could lead to being physically assaulted. Alternatively you could tell the judge about your financial situation and hopefully work it off via community service. Also, fines can often be reduced by providing documentation demonstrating your income meets specific conditions. But to each their own, I mean based on your citation, what CI work would they have you do? I've only ever heard about CI's in the drug world.

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  • Trump makes last effort to keep hidden January 6 case evidence before election
  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 3w ago 20%

    You didn't read the webpage, ah? While the site can pair folks up as an absolute last resort, this was designed for people to make the pact with a family member or friend. But if a person has no one whose word they can trust, the site is an option, yet the pact wasn't exactly intended for them. But for everyone else, it's a valid and amazing idea providing a breath of fresh air.

    Third parties struggle to get on most ballots, as we've seen time and time again this year. Without being on enough ballots, they aren't given time on the debate stage. Meaning they struggle to reach enough voters through alternative outlets to have any chance of making changes in this dire bipartisan landscape.

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    Vote Pact - A Strategy For Voting Third Party Without Altering Election Results
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    Most voters don’t vote for—often don’t even consider voting for—third parties because they view voting for a third party as helping the establishment party they most hate. Disenchanted Democrats continue to vote for Democrats because they don’t want Republicans; disenchanted Republicans continue to vote for Republicans because they don’t want Democrats. Both are trapped by fear and loathing. Disenchanted Republicans should dialogue and pair up with disenchanted Democrats and both vote for third party or independent candidates. That is, instead of you and a friend canceling out each other’s votes, one self-loathingly voting for Harris and the other for Trump, you vote for the third-party candidates you actually want. You both get to vote your preference without helping the candidate you most dislike. VotePact frees up votes in pairs from each of the establishment parties. This liberates the voters to push the lever for their actual preference from among those on the ballot, rather than just pick the “least bad” of the two majors. It doesn’t change the balance between the establishment parties, but “syphons off” votes from them equally. The pair could each vote for different candidates, or they could vote for the same candidate. If the latter, it could open the path to an actual electoral victory for an enterprising independent candidate. We’re trying to free people from the fear of voting for candidates that actually represent their beliefs. Over the years, real independents, principled progressives, libertarians, authentic conservatives, and others have been unrelentingly manipulated by the establishments of the two major parties. They should wake up to the fact that they can join together, rather than be kept apart by establishment party apparatchiks who exploit their fear to maintain the ruling duopoly. It can lead to an independent or emerging party candidate winning.

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    Veterans Group to DOJ: Impanel Grand Jury, Indict Blinken
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    Totally normal transportation. Not weird at all.
  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 4w ago 100%

    It's a reference equating rebellion against tyrants and being obedient to God. Basically, God wants you to rebel against tyrannical overloads. Which is odd as Don literally put the pieces in place providing presidential immunity. A tyrant is defined as a ruler who has no legal limits on his or her power...

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    Green Groups Applaud 1 Million Public Comments Urging Biden to Protect Old-Growth Forests
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    Minneapolis Students Protest Inauguration of New U of MN President, Demand Divestment from Israel
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    What hip-hop song do you think demonstrates the most impressive artistic talent and why? (pls provide link)
  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 4w ago 77%

    Eyedea & Abilities always came with some of the best and most creative hip-hop. Their entire album E & A is next level with all the aspects you referenced. I love track #2, Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZVkW-HtSgA&t=9

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  • Arguments why Telegram is not a good idea for anyone
  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 1mo ago 81%

    A solid privacy conscious youtuber, The Hated One, just published a video on this exact topic. It's very detail oriented and should be easy for anyone to follow along. Here's the link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=A8ZXDiQLH9I

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    US confirms first case of bird flu with no known animal exposure
  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 1mo ago 66%

    Virulence is defined as causing damage to the host. If the virus kills everyone in that small proximity, the virus will no longer be able to reproduce or spread, plain and simple.

    Viruses are super crafty in obtaining their limited number of proteins from the host. However, some viruses bring enzymes with them to get the job done without much help from the host. These are typically larger RNA viruses. Influenza is in this group, but it still steals the 5' cap from the host. This happens without miss as it's able to interact with the host RNA polymerase undetected and then this cap makes it so the influenza RNA appears to be host RNA.

    The 1918 influenza was so deadly as it had just jumped to a new host, humans. The same exact influenza responsible for the 1918 pandemic has relatives still in circulation. It's not in circulation as the less virulent versions were more successful. This explicitly demonstrates the preference to be less virulent.

    If a virus doesn't need many proteins from the host, it's able to reproduce much more quickly than one dependant on more host resources. The more resources it needs, the increased ability of the immune system to prevent it's reproduction. So in many situations, a lower requirement for host resources can make it more successful. Regardless, it can be very dependent on host resources, like many DNA viruses, and still not be very virulent. A great example of this is Hepatitis D. Virology is a fascinating field and it's highly intricate as a virus is more like it's host than any other viruses. There's not a lot of commonality between different viruses and their reproduction cycles. So viruses in the same family are compared, and the 1918 becoming less virulent shows there's a preference for becoming less virulent over time.

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    US confirms first case of bird flu with no known animal exposure
  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 1mo ago 66%

    Then why does bird flu have more invasive symptoms and a higher mortality rate compared to human influenza's? I was taught by a virologist who's been around the block many times and got her PhD in the USSR. She was adamant that a parasite never wants to kill it's host, as this results in no longer being able to reproduce in the host and shortens it's reproduction time in future host.

    Most viral offspring are not capable of infection, as without mutations, viruses would not be able to reproduce effectively and could not adapt to changing environments. To disprove a hypothesis simply means one aspect of the statement is incorrect. So while the cause and effect occurs, the explanation for why wasn't dialed. Or at least, this would be my guess for how it could have been disproven.

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    US confirms first case of bird flu with no known animal exposure
  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 1mo ago 86%

    We've known since at least March that about 10 human cases of this new bird flu would allow the virus to mutate and adapt to humans. This is the 14th reported case in the states this year, and the first which could have been transmitted from human to human. We understood what was happening, yet have really done nothing to try to prevent it's spread.

    The mutation rate baked into Influenza's reproduction cycle is much more elaborate than coronaviruses, and this isn't exactly a bad thing. When a human catches bird flu from a bird, the mortality rates are pretty burly as this version of the virus attaches to the α2:3 receptor. While this receptor is found throughout the avian digestive and respiratory track, it's only found in the lower lungs of humans. A lower lung infection will always be gnarlier than an upper respiratory infection. Human influenza viruses have a preference for the α2:6 receptor, which is found throughout our airway. This is the primary adaptation which occurs when influenza mutates to infect humans. But a virus is a parasite, so in their ideal world, they wouldn't kill their host. Viruses often do the most damage when adapting to or having recently adapted to a new host. Hopefully, the mutation rate of influenza will result in a shorter pandemic compared to COVID if it ends up taking place.

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    Everybody in SoCal today...
  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 2mo ago 100%

    “Shots fired, into the sky, are now returning, where the fuck will you hide?”

    Rise Against — Rumors of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

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    Invest in Housing, Not Prisons: California's War on the Homeless
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  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 2mo ago 100%

    Oh, I see, I interpreted the statement as Mozilla handing over previously collected user data as payment for getting AccuWeather's widget.

    However, any webpage visited in a bowser provides this info. So if you haven't stopped it happening from the get, you're handing this data over in mass. But thanks for clearing that up for me!

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  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 2mo ago 78%

    Why would Mozilla pay AccuWeather in user data? This would cut into their revenue and be horrendous press. Doing so makes no sense, legit entirely illogical. AccuWeather paid to get placement on the new tabs page. But, if you're this worried about it and haven't spent time in about:config to prevent fingerprinting, tracking, and location data collection, start there for sure. Either way, this seems like a huge stretch and wouldn't make sense for Mozilla try and pull off.

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  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 2mo ago 91%

    Are you implying Mozilla paid AccuWeather to have placement on it's browser? It's always the other way around, think about Google paying to be the default search engine on Safari. If anything, I have to think Mozilla was paid to incorporate AccuWeather and not the other way around.

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  • Are there any individual cells that make decisions, or do they all react to their immediate environments according to chemical and mechanical laws?
  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 2mo ago 88%

    I mean, cellular/molecular biology is applied organic chemistry. It's all chemical based in some way or another. I guess with T and B cell receptor formations, each receptor binding domain is made totally at random. So much so, they go through training to ensure they won't attack self and are able to detect pathogen associated molecular patterns. Wildly, most T and B cells don't pass training and get recycled, more or less.

    So maybe, but you're talking about the world on the cellular level, it's all based on chemical reactions with environmental stimuli. To be alive requires responding to your environment, and chemistry is how that works at the microscopic level.

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  • Are there any individual cells that make decisions, or do they all react to their immediate environments according to chemical and mechanical laws?
  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 2mo ago 80%

    Immune cells form from stem cells. From start to finish in the stem cell differentiation process, four major changes occur. Some of these changes can have up to four potential outcomes each. Here's a map:

    While all cells react to their environment based on environmental stimuli and feedback loops, even bacteria and archaea, this is a great example of cell differentiation. All our cells started as stem cells, but the immune system's continuous and consistent use of the process is very unique. It's also the most elaborate and the image is surface level. Most the end cells pictured here will become more specific. Like there's many different T-cells, even T-cells which change so much they don't meet the classification of being a T-cell. The CD16 T-cell is a great example of this happening.

    I feel like this is what you were looking for, but I'm not totally sure.

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    'We tried everything': Another long-running Calif. music festival is canceled
  • ExtravagantEnzyme ExtravagantEnzyme 2mo ago 75%

    He's truly phenomenal, basically the Harry Mack of spinning. Their set together is unreal!

    https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ggLpFa6CQyU

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    Innovative study of DNA’s hidden structures may open up new approaches for treatment and diagnosis of diseases, including cancer.

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    Outrage as NYPD Arrests Cello-Playing Grandfather at Citibank Climate Protest
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    Indivisible’s Statement on Harris’s Choice of Governor Tim Walz as a Running Mate
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    Utica Streets Shut Down by 1,000 During Justice for Nyah Mway March
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    Harris Would Continue Genocide in Gaza
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    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/07/08/the-sahel-stands-up-and-the-world-must-pay-attention/

    This past weekend the heads of state from Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger met in the first summit of the Alliance of Sahel States.

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