In later trials, drugs aren’t compared against placebo, but a standard therapy regimen.

Because the PRC has set this as a red line. The Taiwanese would do it in a heartbeat.

He isn’t suing because of the amenities, but because he is being socially isolated. It’s not about the quality of his cell at all.

And horseshoes too.

Happy to inform you it’s actually a trilby, pleb.

The worst thing about Lemmy is it perfectly nercomanced 2010 reddit’s skin-deep atheism back to life.

If you’re a large online news outlet doing this repeatedly: Probably sue you.

But unlike in Russia, whether the western governments supports Ukraine is at least kind of dependent on wether the people support Ukraine. Pulling supports it might be a bad election tactic now (although it wasn’t in Slovakia), but will it be one next year or in 2025?

It’s 37 years old, you won’t find DiCaprio anywhere near that thing.

Every major country that has ever gone down the communist road has ended up a dictatorship.

Up until not too long ago, every democracy relied on slavery, disenfranchised large parts of the population, and eventually ended up a dictatorship. If you asked someone in like 1810 whether democracy could work, it’d be completely understandable if they pointed out all the horrible aspects of Greek and Roman “democracy”, American planations, colonialism and the Reign of Terror, and if they assumed all of these to be inherent to democracy.

“Sure, the king isn’t perfect, but he’s surely better than Robespierre (who was inevitably succeded by Napoleon). And besides, great thinkers like Plato argued for a philosopher king – and that guy lived in a democracy, who would know better about all of it’s evils?”

Yes, communism has failed in many respects so far.* The reasons for that are complex, include active sabotage by anti-communist states, but anyone who doesn’t genuinely and critically reflect it’s failures is (probably) doomed to repeat those mistakes.

Assuming those are inherent and inevitable based on less than a hundred years of history is imho short sighted.

*Some very early societies were probably kinda close to what we conceptualise as communism™ today, but applying the term is anachronistic.

Tipping has been prevalent in many Europeam countries for decades, though the amount is usually less than in the US.

The pressure is applied to the center of the chest, because that’s where the heart is, in both situs inversus and the typical layout.

Usually, the heart occupies more space on the left than on the right, but it’s more central than many people think.

According to Wiktionary, they all come from Latin “exitus”, which is a participle of “exire”, which literally means “to go out/outside, to exit, to leave”.

I think that’s pretty similar to the origins of success:

Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succēdō (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + cēdō (“go, move”). Partly displaced native Old English spēd, whence Modern English speed.

Both seem to (!) relate to finishing a task, and might’ve gained the positive connotation later on.

They can be, but that doesn’t make them completely interchangeable.

This headline is straight up propaganda then.

That’s called a lie, not propaganda.

Maybe we shouldn’t speculate about things we have essentially zero information on.

Nice.

A25

You’re thinking of the West Bank.

Tue votes of the flyover states would matter exactly as much as the votes of any other arbitrary subsection of the country with the same number of people. That’s the point.