This weekend, found my old motorola phone. For giggles, i plugged it in- still boots! Can I do anything with it or did I just wasted a bit of electricity on nostalgia?

Just a bit of a fact check, courtesy of Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaëtan_Dugas?wprov=sfti1

“In 2016, a group of researchers led by evolutionary biologist Michael Worobey conducted a genetic study that looked at blood samples taken from gay and bisexual men in 1978 and 1979 as part of a hepatitis B study, and based on the results of the data, concluded that Dugas was not the source of the virus in the United States. “On the family tree of the virus, Dugas fell in the middle, not at the beginning.””

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood_products?wprov=sfti1 - here was a big one. Note the FDA role.

But where else do cheese curds grow??

While I’m nit a canook, I love learning and visiting your country, thank you!

Thank you! People keep saying “just search”, but honestly I’ve done various iterations of that (including subscribing the most popular lists) and its hard to find any non ghost towns.

While I’ve been on Lemmy for a while, I haven’t really seen any hobby - centric or geek centric areas.

I’ll miss the movie threads in particular, but there were a ton of active crafts, art & ttrpg threads to get inspiration from. Any suggestions?