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I'd definitely agree that it's a Pit Bull cross with a shepherd of some kind. The shape of the face definitely suggests Pit Bull to me, but I get more of a Belgian Malinois vibe from those ears:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/70388e80-9be8-437c-924d-530b624b8772.webp

Could explain why two hours at a dog park didn't crush his energy levels, Malinois are renowned and/or notorious for their exercise needs.

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I noticed that Miss Vickie's has a new sour cream something or other flavour in a bag that's the same colour, or nearly so. Every time I go through the chip aisle I get very excited for a second, then I realize it's not actually the Harvest Cheddar and my hopes are dashed. I'm developing an irrational hatred of those impostor chips.

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I haven't actually tried the new ones, I probably should do that before I slander them. The Harvest Cheddar ones were so good though. I haven't seen them in at least a few years, unfortunately.

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He looks better in the right-hand photo because it's heavily altered. The hairstyle actually appears to be (mostly?) original, but the skin tone was definitely changed. Here it is side by side with the original image (source):

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Naw, the guy on the left is real and has a net worth of ~$165 billion dollars. The guy on the right is a digital creation. If money could make Zuckerberg look like the guy on the right, he probably would have done it already.

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$$$

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This story originally appeared on Ars Technica

Looks like you can read the article, without a paywall, here: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/am-radio-is-a-lifeline-lawmakers-say-tech-and-auto-industries-disagree/

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That was actually the rest of the comic:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/6bf6c77c-d13e-427b-99c5-39c8b70ff0e4.png

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The plow. It allowed early river valley peoples to generate semi-reliable food surpluses, and those food surpluses triggered everything that came after. I can't take credit for this argument, I first encountered it in this episode from the first season of Connections.

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    This seems a lot more plausible to me. Exit wounds tend to be pretty gory.

    Is there a standard/preferred list order for non-alphanumeric characters?

    Alphanumerical lists are sortable by alphabet and number, obviously, but if you have a list where each entry begins with a different punctuation mark (or any other kind of non-alphanumeric character), is there a similar standardised ordering method for them?...

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    There is a Unicode Technical Standard for this, called the Unicode Collation Algorithm. Whether everyone uses it, I can't say. As it says on the linked page:

    Conformance to the Unicode Standard does not imply conformance to any UTS.

    So in other words it's possible to conform to the Unicode Standard without adhering to the Unicode Collation Algorithm.

    whatever this is: ¦

    That is the pipe symbol, or vertical bar. When it has a gap in the middle it may be known as the broken pipe symbol or broken bar. It's considered the same symbol with or without the gap. Early terminals displayed it with a gap to make it distinguishable from lower-case L characters.

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    Yes because the security of barcodes and screenshotted tickets were such a huge problem before.

    I think what you just described is actually a problem. Friends of my parents were visiting somewhere, bought tickets to a show from a reseller, met up with the seller (normal looking guy, no red flags, gave some plausible story why he was selling) and paid cash for printed out tickets with barcodes. Printouts looked legit, dates on the printouts were correct, etc. Went to the doors, tried to scan their tickets, got told that unfortunately they'd just been scammed. The impression they get from the box office worker is that this sort of bad news is something they've had to deliver frequently. Anecdotal, but I doubt those friends of my parents were the only ones to get scammed in this way. TicketMaster still sucks as an organization but the extra security of rotating barcodes does serve a legitimate security purpose, just like the rotating security codes generated by an authenticator app.

    Airlines have recently been having problems with stowaways using screenshots of boarding pass barcodes or QR codes too. Such stowaways should get caught before departure by passenger headcounts or boarding ID checks, but clearly there are gaps or breakdowns in these procedures because some of these stowaways are getting caught at the destination. Others may have successfully flown for free. If it keeps happening I bet we'll see rotating barcodes come to mobile boarding passes too, if that hasn't already happened.

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    The reason you can't use screenshots or printouts is because they're now using rotating barcodes. Much like the rotating codes in an authenticator app, the number values behind the barcode are changing on some regular cadence. Only the most recent barcode value is considered valid.

    The only other option is to use a mobile wallet, but that prevents me from sending my friends their tickets, since I purchased them all together.

    Some ticket sellers allow you to transfer tickets from one wallet to another wallet, but of course TicketMaster isn't one of them because they're fucking TicketMaster. What TicketMaster does allow is transfers from one TicketMaster account to another. Of course then everyone needs to have a TicketMaster account, needs to have the app, etc. It's either that or leave all the tickets in your app or wallet and go in together. If you tell the door person "I have the tickets for these X people," they'll be able to handle that.

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    Oh yes, I don't mean to absolve them of any blame. They treated it as an expensive lesson, which is probably the best way for them to process it.

    Also while TicketMaster is going to sell this as being an "enhanced security" thing, it's pretty obvious that increased security is only a side benefit for them. Their angle in this is getting more control over the tickets they sell. As long as there are many people who want to go than can physically fit in a venue, there will be a reselling market for event tickets. TicketMaster wants to take a cut of these downstream transactions.

    While the security of rotating barcodes does hinder outright scams, mobile wallets normally allow wallet users to transfer items like tickets to another user if the ticket issuer allows it. TicketMaster does not allow this for their tickets, of course, because it could allow someone to resell tickets while cutting TicketMaster out of the transaction. Currently TM allows transfers using their app, but I'm sure they monitor usage of the feature and clamp down on anyone transferring many tickets. In other words if you try to resell in bulk without using TicketMaster's own platform (where they get to take a cut), they drop the hammer on you.

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    Jesus, what a bunch of needless “security”

    I disagree with this part. Ticket theft is an actual issue, there are lots of ways to get a copy of someone else's barcode and either use it before they do or (more likely) sell it to someone else online. TicketMaster's marketing is talking up the increased security to distract from their true purpose, which is of course to find more ways to take more money from fans. Of course it's debatable whether the increased security is worth the decreased convenience for ticketholders. That is the inevitable tension when it comes to security, where any increase in security always incurs at least some cost in terms of convenience.

    This is all for personal data mining.

    TicketMaster might be selling user data, but I don't think that's their main aim. They want control of the resale market so they can take a cut when tickets are resold. Note how they don't allow direct transfers between two mobile wallets, they only allow transfers using their app. That's so they can monitor transfers. If they see someone transferring dozens or hundreds of tickets to many other TicketMaster users then that person is likely reselling and they can clamp down on their account. TicketMaster's true intent is to force all resales onto their ticket marketplace, because that's where they get to take a cut of resales.

    I'm trying to find a physical copy of Rainbow War ( www.youtube.com )

    When I was 7, our class was brought to a neighboring elementary school to watch a projection of a short movie. It was about different nations of different colors, one blue, one yellow, and one red. Something happened and they all went to war against each other trying to paint each other with their own nation's color. This movie...

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    Not sure if any of these are close to you, but several libraries in western Canada seem to have copies available to borrow:

    If you're not close to any of those libraries, try asking at your local library. They may have some means of doing an interlibrary loan, or have other suggestions.

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    Hardly the first time. I'd argue the US made the same mistake in Afghanistan in 2003, diverting resources to Iraq because Bush Jr. had such a hard-on for Saddam.

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    Guy Gavriel Kay. First book published in 1984, part of a trilogy that was Tolkien-esque, quite decent, but not exactly ground-breaking. He's since gone on to something a little more unique, which he describes as "historical fiction with a quarter-turn to the fantastic." Impeccably researched but set an alternate world that's a close but not exact mirror of our own. This allows him to take a few small liberties with historical accuracy in service of telling a better story. Personally I think he really hit his stride in 1995 with The Lions of Al-Rassan, and almost everything he's written since then has been exceptional.

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    Why not machine certify and hand-count verify?

    Because the manual system works well and costs little.

    Could have both systems for quick results on the day and verified accurate results in the longer term.

    Canada already has hand-counted and verified results the same day the election occurs, in a country with a population roughly equivalent to the state of California. Adding machine counting would only add complexity and cost while producing no additional benefits.

    Have the voting machine

    Canada doesn't have voting machines, nor do we want them. Our ballot system is a piece of paper and a pencil. That's it. That's our whole voting "machine."

    The real genius is in how the vote counting process works. Every candidate is allowed to provide a representative, often called a scrutineer, to oversee the counting process at each polling station. Scrutineers are allowed to challenge a ballot if they feel it has been attributed to the wrong candidate or should have been considered a spoiled ballot. The doors to the polling station are locked while ballots are being counted, and no one is allowed to go home until the count is complete. Basic self-interest ensures that counts are done in a timely fashion, while also ensuring that every candidate can have a representative that was part of the counting process.

    Under the Canadian system, for all practical purposes it would be impossible to perpetrate election fraud. A candidate would need to somehow induce Elections Canada employees and/or volunteers at multiple polling stations to miscount ballots. They would also need to convince multiple scrutineers to turn a blind eye, scrutineers who were nominated by their opponents. Each riding typically has 4+ candidates (at minimum Liberal, Conservative, New Democrat, and Green party candidates, plus often some independent or fringe party candidates), and every single one of those candidates is allowed to provide a scrutineer at each polling station. There will be many polling stations across a single riding, so that's potentially dozens or hundreds of people that would need to be coerced or convinced to contribute to the election fraud. And that's just for one single riding.

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    It only “costs little” because you have a ton of people willing to do it.

    First off you say that like it's a bad thing. For the record, it is not. Second, many of the people counting votes are paid, i.e. Elections Canada employees. Scrutineers could be volunteers or paid employees of the party/candidate they represent.

    What if there’s something that prevents people from volunteering?

    That would equally inhibit people from voting. Besides which, elections can and have been postponed in cases of severe weather, and wildfires have been considered in cases where they've been occurring around an election. No politician or Elections Canada supervisor is going to send voters, employees and volunteers out to die for an election.

    Or maybe a worldwide pandemic?

    We had one, it went fine. Anyone who didn't like the thought of voting in public had the option of voting by mail, something that every Canadian has been allowed to do since 1993.

    There’s really no reason to not machine count with a matching hand count.

    Yes there fucking is. Machines add completely unnecessary complexity to a simple system that works.

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    Hey, don't get me wrong, it's not all sunshine and roses up here in the north. We have huge problems with cost of living, especially housing, which our current government is failing to address. We have a multi-party system but in my lifetime the national power only ever oscillated between two parties, Liberal (roughly equivalent to US Democrats) and Conservative (roughly equivalent to US Republicans pre-MAGA, or maybe even pre-Reagan). Based on current polling, Canadian discontent looks set to sweep out the incumbent Liberals and sweep in the opposition Conservatives sometime between now and Oct. 2025. I don't think the Conservatives are going to do any better at addressing cost of living, but fear that they'll bring in a bunch of regressive crap while they continue to fail in the same way the Liberals have failed. There are lots of other areas where Canada has room for improvement, but within the very narrow scope of how Canada runs its elections, that I will claim we got right.

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    Summing a balance column is never correct. Take any example that doesn't end in a zero balance and it's easy to see that the results is meaningless:

    https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f52be790-927d-4416-8e69-384a9d57cef9.png

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    Every time there's a bad-news dip in Boeing's stock price, traders are treating that as a discount to buy the stock because they don't think the US government would ever allow Boeing to fail. Sadly, they're probably not wrong. If Boeing's financials get into deep trouble the US government would likely bail them out because they're a large employer and a strategic component of US economic hegemony.

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    Depends on the color of the wall, but likely no. A matte black wall would absorb a lot of light, a matte white wall would reflect most of the light. Other colours would fall somewhere in the middle, reflecting some wavelengths and absorbing others. The only difference with a mirror is that it reflects light in a uniform fashion, whereas a painted wall will generally scatter reflected light. But scattered light still contributes to total light output! The only scenario where a mirror behind a lamp would come close to doubling light output would be if the wall we're comparing against is painted with Vantablack or some other ultrablack paint that absorbs 99%+ of the light from the lamp.

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    Oh believe me, the cat knows.

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    Just to make sure I'm understanding what I'm seeing, the plane gets hit at 1:03. The regular bursts of light from the start of the video to 1:01 are aircraft flares? Possibly parachute flares? At least some Russian aircraft apparently have parachute flares. At 0:23 you can see smaller flares being shot out to the side of the main flare. I think many aircraft flares fire in this sort of pattern because it makes the flares better mimic the shape of an airplane. Bonus points for looking really cool:

    A C-130 dropping flares

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    https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/1d9f28d3-82b0-449a-80b3-a30a6912c083.jpeg

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    The generation that came of age in the peak of the “greed is good” era?

    I can't speak for all of Gen X, but speaking for myself and everyone I personally know from my generation: we never liked that shit. That was our parents' bullshit. We just couldn't do anything about it, politically speaking, when we came of age because we were firmly outnumbered by boomers. We still are actually, except now we're also outnumbered by millennials. That's why all the media discussions of this topic are framed as "boomers vs. millennials." Gen X is rendered politically invisible by its comparatively small size.

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    Same playbook the IDF ran during the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Cordon off an area and let some militia do the dirty work. Bet they'll investigate themselves after the fact and conclude they had no "direct responsibility", just like they did previously.

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    When I fly to the US from Toronto I clear US customs in Pearson Airport, before getting on the plane. If I were to sign up for a Nexus pass I'd be able to pass through US customs even faster, but I don't travel often enough for it to be worthwhile. Not sure if either of those matches what you mean by pre-clearance.

    Could Taylor Swift tilt Florida blue? It’s Democrats’ wildest dream. ( www.politico.com )

    “Florida Democrats don’t know why Taylor Swift is naming an upcoming song on her new album ‘Florida!!!’ or the reason she chose to hold three concerts in Miami less than a month before the November elections,” Politico reports....

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    I'm not exactly a fan of Biden, but he's on the ballot for two reasons:

    • Incumbents historically have an advantage, and it would be crazy to throw that advantage away.
    • Who else would run in his place? It's not like there's some other obvious candidate. I can think of lots of progressives that I'd personally love to see on the ballot, but the reality is that none of those candidates are seen as being electable in swing states. Be nice if it were otherwise, but it ain't.
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    I respect Warren a lot, but she's 74 and I'd really like to see a US president who isn't well past retirement age.

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    I don't think dedicated antivirus software is really required anymore. I haven't run third-party AV software on any of my systems in the last decade.

    On Windows, the built-in Windows Defender is good enough for most use cases. When it first launched Defender had a pretty bad track record at stopping viruses, but now it routinely ranks at the top.

    On Linux, antivirus software has never really been required. One major exception I can think of would be if you're running a file server or mail server that talks to OSX or Windows systems. Even then the AV software isn't really there to protect the server, it's there to make sure you don't pass malware or viruses to those non-Linux clients.

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    There are some viruses that have targeted Linux, but they're rare compared to other platforms and their ability to spread is relatively low. One of the main reasons is just down to how software tends to be installed on each platform. Viruses have an easier time spreading on Windows or OSX where users are more accustomed to downloading an executable and running it. Once there's a malicious running process, it has a comparatively high chance to spread because it can attempt to escalate its privileges either by exploiting a bug or socially engineering the user to click through a privilege escalation prompt. That entire workflow is practically nonexistent on Linux, users just don't tend to download and execute random binaries. Instead most Linux software gets delivered in one of these ways, each of which has impediments that reduce the chance a virus could spread:

    • through an OS repo; it would be difficult for a malicious actor to get a virus through the release process and into a trusted repo
    • through a public source like Github; again it would be difficult for a malicious actor to get a virus into public source code without someone noticing
    • through a container image from an image library like DockerHub; I believe a malicious container would be sandboxed, making it hard if not impossible for that container to take over the host system
    • through an application image like a snap, flatpak or appimage; again, I believe these run in their own sandbox from which they would have difficulty breaking out

    There are some exceptions, for example some companies like Hashicorp will distribute their stuff as precompiled binaries. Even in that case you're probably fine as long as you don't run the downloaded binary as root. Users in the habit of downloading strange binaries from sketchy places and running them as root just aren't very common among the Linux userbase. I'm sure there are some (and they should really stop doing that), but there aren't enough of them to allow a virus to spread unchecked.

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    Serious answer, the question might be one that broke one of the community rules like Rule 5 ("No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda") or Rule 6 (No meme or troll questions, except on Fridays) and voters are expressing their displeasure.

    Silly answer, the question wasn't stupid. The name of the community is actually "No, Stupid Questions." The missing comma is a typo.

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    I know, I couldn't resist the urge to make a Lionel Hutz reference.

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    I didn't say I'd downvote in those situations. I would guess that Rule 5 needs to exist for a reason. Without it the community could get overrun with ragebait posts. Personally I wouldn't consider any of your examples questions to be ones that violate Rule 5, but I'm not a mod and I don't make or enforce the rules. I also wouldn't downvote such a question myself, but I would consider reporting it if it seemed like the OP was consistently trying to pull the conversation into fractious territory. Anyway, if we want to to discuss the rules and downvoting vs. reporting, that should probably go in a meta post.

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    Elon broke the seal on firing huge swaths of a tech workforce to make your numbers look better.

    Don't give him too much credit, it's hardly the first time the tech sector has gone through this cycle. Elon had to do it because he massively overpaid for Twitter. The fact that his layoffs came at the front of this wave is probably just coincidence.

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    You've failed the test.

    The shopping cart litmus test

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    Stay mad, savage.

    Ideas for setting up a media server compatible with xbox viewing? ( kbin.social )

    I have a TCL tv with (with google smart TV software) and have been ingesting TV shows, games, and movies primarily from an xbox using various paid streaming apps for like 15 years. As streaming costs go up I’ve wanted to set up a media server compatible with playing stuff from the xbox and have had some friends suggest Plex so...

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    People here seem partial to Jellyfin

    I recently switched to Jellyfin and I've been pretty impressed with it. Previously I was using some DLNA server software (not Plex) with my TV's built-in DLNA client. That worked well for several years but I started having problems with new media items not appearing on the TV, so I decided to try some alternatives. Jellyfin was the first one I tried, and it's working so well that I haven't felt compelled to search any further.

    the internet seems to feel it doesn’t work smoothly with xbox (buggy app/integration).

    Why not try it and see how it works for you? Jellyfin is free and open source, so all it would cost you is a little time.

    I have a TCL tv with (with google smart TV software)

    Can you install apps from Google Play on this TV? If so, there's a Jellyfin app for Google TVs. I can't say how well the Google TV Jellyfin app works as I have an LG TV myself, so currently I'm using the Jellyfin LG TV app.

    If you can't install apps on that TV, does it have a DLNA client built in? Many TVs do, and that's how I streamed media to my TV for years. On my LG TV the DLNA server shows up as another source when I press the button to bring up the list of inputs. The custom app is definitely a lot more feature-rich, but a DLNA client can be quite functional and Jellyfin can be configured to work as a DLNA server.

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    This shit has been going on since the 80s. It's mostly bullshit instigated by US lumber companies. Available softwood lumber in the US is mainly on privately owned land, and the owners of that land want the price of lumber to be as high as possible so they can make more money. The softwood lumber companies in the US are effectively acting as an oligopoly, and they lobby US politicians for legislation in their interests.

    Softwood lumber in Canada is mainly on public land, called "crown land" here in Canada. A lumber oligopoly isn't possible in Canada because the government would never sell all of that land to a handful of lumber companies. Instead lumber producers in Canada are charged a fee for the logs they cut, that fee is set by the Canadian government, and it is less per log than what US lumber producers want to charge.

    Instead of competing on price, US lumber companies lobby congress to impose softwood lumber tariffs for the umpteenth time. When the US lumber companies don't need to compete with Canadian lumber, they can jack up their prices. When they do that the only people who benefit are the US lumber companies and the politicians they've lobbied. Americans pay more for lumber, Canadian lumber companies and their workers suffer.

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    Sadly, yes.

    Canada’s logging industry devours forests crucial to fighting climate change

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    What an odd coincidence... I've been following this boat-building channel on Youtube for a couple years, and they talked about wood grain in the episode posted just today. Here's a link to the relevant timestamp in the video. I'm not a woodworking expert by any means, but if the boat people say tighter grain is better I'ma believe 'em.

    Roberta Kaplan says Trump threw papers across table at Mar-a-Lago deposition because his legal team agreed to feed her lunch ( www.cnn.com )

    Attorney Roberta Kaplan said former President Donald Trump threw papers across a table and stormed off during a deposition at Mar-a-Lago after learning that his legal team had agreed to provide her lunch....

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    C
    U
    Next
    Tuesday.

    He was calling her a cunt without using the word.

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    Reminds me of this classic.

    Social media image post of a woman with a target stuck to her forehead. Poster: "This is how it feels to be a white conservative woman." First reply: "i actually love this metaphor because it's a fake target and you've put it there yourself."

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    After reading the article, I’m confused about how it works. Guinea worms are parasites that you get infected with from bad water sources. Unless you eradicate the source (e.g. the worms themselves), can you really say that you’ve eradicated the disease?

    Many diseases can likely never be eradicated because they have a natural reservoir, some wild population of animal species in which the disease normally propagates. A natural reservoir will keep the disease in circulation and reinfection of humans can occur from contact with species in the natural reservoir. Ebola virus is like that, it keeps popping up now and then because it has a natural reservoir (believed to be fruit bats).

    Guinea worms isn't like that, which is part of why it's a strong candidate for eradication. Its reproductive cycle has a step that primarily goes through people or dogs, neither of which would be considered a natural reservoir:

    Guinea worm reproductive cycle

    As such, if we reach a state where there are no infected people or dogs then guinea worm could go extinct. There would be larvae left in the wild at that point, but as long as those larvae don't infect a suitable host then they never become worms. No new worms means no new larvae, and larvae have a fairly short lifespan so we would only need to maintain that situation for maybe a few years before we could confidently say that guinea worm has been eradicated (i.e. any remaining larvae must be dead by that point).

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    Apparently the technical term is protein poisoning. Digesting protein creates urea, and the body needs at least some fat in order to convert to ammonia that can be excreted. It's also called "mal be caribou" in French (caribou sickness, I think), which I find fascinating.

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