Otter, otter@lemmy.ca

For anyone unfamiliar with him

The host of the show is Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon who developed an affinity for alternative medicine.[1] Throughout its run, various episodes and segment features have been vastly criticized for a lack of scientific credibility about the medical claims on the show. A 2014 study concluded that less than half the claims made on The Dr. Oz Show were backed by “some” evidence, and that fell to a third when the threshold was raised to “believable” evidence.[2] The website Science-Based Medicine goes even further, claiming: “No other show on television can top The Dr. Oz Show for the sheer magnitude of bad health advice it consistently offers, all while giving everything a veneer of credibility

On January 4, 2010, Oz endorsed spacing out childhood vaccines, a common anti-vaccine trope based on the false premise that the immune systems of children are incapable of responding to multiple vaccines at once, and said that his children had not been vaccinated against H1N1.[4] He also expressed suggestions that MMR vaccination may be linked to autism, infamously based on a fraudulent paper by Andrew Wakefield. However, in 2019, Oz endorsed MMR vaccination and encouraged his viewers to vaccinate themselves and their children against mumps, measles, and rubella.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_claims_on_The_Dr._Oz_Show

I find it odd, but a lot of newer users on Reddit go with the default suggested username and those follow the word-word-0000 template.

At the same time, it might be better for privacy to do that since it’s less likely that someone can track you across platforms if you use the generator built into each platform.

Thank you for the tag :)

That’s my account, we made some configuration changes on piefed.ca yesterday, and we have been troubleshooting an issue where old posts were being spammed. That’s why so many of the posts were removed / the account banned and unbanned while we figured it out. It should be fixed now

https://piefed.ca/c/main/p/506991/sorry-for-the-post-spam

As for the article / source, I do like TheConversation since the articles are by academics/researchers and you’ll often see decent analysis

https://theconversation.com/ca/who-we-are

Looks great!

If you end up pinning any related communities in the sidebar, there is also !ehbuddyhoser@sh.itjust.works

I remember seeing a caption to this image like

Taking photos at the club after becoming friends with some strangers

The original article: https://guessingheadlights.com/trump-and-xi-agree-on-one-thing-canada-shouldnt-be-building-cars/

Welcome! :)

The government definitely could have been the ones to take the lead on this. Reading the article, it seems like the solution is for Canadians to get on the platform and show that we’re here

Lamrock said that most of X’s value comes from the days when it was Twitter and the fact that many governments are still on the platform from those days.

The City of Fredericton recently stopped suing X, but spokesperson Marley McLellan said the decision was made after a survey that showed residents were using X less and less to find information about city services.

“The city looks forward to continuing to share information and connect with residents on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, the website and through newsletters,” McLellan wrote in an email.

Are people really getting government updates through LinkedIn?

I had to double-check what Deflock was for:

DeFlock’s mission is simple: to shine a light on the widespread use of ALPR technology, raise awareness about the threats it poses to personal privacy and civil liberties, and empower the public to take action.

This app makes it easy to view and report AI powered surveillance cameras, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), and other surveillance infrastructure near you.

Sharing information about where cameras are located is terrorism now?

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Retailers don’t have any control over the weather, but a backlog in goods shipped to the island has left many wondering what improvements can be made to existing services.

The article doesn’t mention any, but what ideas are usually suggested? Is this a matter of building up more production on the island?

To be fair, someone else did post about it last week and they had rules about that.

I love having new people here, but I also don’t want newcomers to feel spammed. Nor give Reddit any justification for going back to auto removing any discussion of Reddit alternatives.

I got Hexcodle #910 in 3! Score: 83%

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https://hexcodle.com/

Nice one!

Thanks 😄, I tried to help out the best I could

Pretty much, that’s what I understood it to mean anyway

I assume the phrase has been used in other contexts too

Would it be possible to have a button for logged out users, where you can type in your home instance and it will try redirecting you accordingly? For the case where someone finds a link on another site.

Mastodon does something similar, and Pixelfed is working on it with this FEP

https://codeberg.org/benpate/fep/src/branch/fep-3b86/fep/3b86/fep-3b86.md

You can see a CT scan of one of these

https://www.techspot.com/news/105863-usb-c-cable-can-hide-lot-malicious-hardware.html

I understood “making it” as accomplishing what you were pretending to be, often in the context of self-confidence

• someone is scared of public speaking and thinks they’re no good at it
• they pretend that they are someone who is good at it, in order to get through situations where they need to do public speaking
• they eventually just get good at it