EtherWhack

@EtherWhack@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you receive a high medical bill, don't pay it immediately. Ask for an itemized bill first.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it testing for something specific or was it just the standard panel you get with a physical? I only ask as that would be absurd unless it was specialized (like screening for a specific type of cancer), even for the US.

  If it was just a regular blood panel, that is shady as hell and needs to be questioned.

  To give reference, I just had my yearly and the three that they did would’ve been ~$200 without insurance; in the SF bay area, at that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neocities deindexed from Bing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Startpage seems nice. Uses sanitized results from Google and while it does have an AI feature, it’s opt-in (not out) and looks to also be sanitized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they meant we’ll be nostalgic about it in a decade, not that his damage will take a decade to complete

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess cachy wasn’t very catchy.

  (I’ll see myself out)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I read somewhere that we do have the technology to create a Dyson sphere but it would be too much of a massive undertaking time and labor-wise at our current level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two-shay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They also said they weren’t attracted, not that they couldn’t appreciate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They want consumers to have cheap low-resource systems so they are forced to use the cloud for storage and processing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bidet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨genius⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, one-offs aren’t really allowed outside of r&d. Everything has to have at least one piece in a batch go through testing, including destructive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know its hard to digest.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chyme

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC it’s because mitochondria have their DNA and keep it stored in a circular form similar to bacteria. I think also plants having chloroplasts, while animals have mitochondria adds more evidence, given that they are very similar structures.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_chromosome

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the HOA special⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gnomtron bomb

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard him call it dark scatting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alas!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My tactic is to have an ever-increasing CC list of the person’s boss, boss’s boss, the boss’s boss’s boss, etc…

  I think I once got to the director level before the issue was solved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking the right questions...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He forgot the security risk with deep fakes and scammers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Baseball could be called stickball, taking MLS so ‘soccer’ would need a new… Hey, that actually works out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say not as much sissies, more moronic cavemen who don’t know how not to hurt themselves or each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting too expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can finally buy a house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone curious, the privacy video is in their latest(?) blog post on their site. It should be viewable anywhere as it’s outside the NSFW area and before the 18+ notice.

  (Just bear in mind that while it should be SFW, it is still under a porn-site’s domain.)

  www.pornhub.com/…/age-verification-in-the-news

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m waiting for huge spike of trojan-infected computers from people trying to bypass the law by torrenting their porn from unknown sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of the responses for this account just seem a bit… off. It has me suspicious if it’s a chatbot or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s more the news article that’s upselling it and with it being “groundbreaking”, it is likely only at the initial stages.

  Mice are usually the first phase are they do have a similar immune response (systemically), have a fast metabolism and quick to mature. They’re also clones, which helps eliminate external factors that could contribute to what they’re studying. More or less, mice are just a quicker litmus test to just show that something is possible and if it warrants a study on a closer analog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, it more boils down to keeping my place within a web page or ever-updating feed.

  For instance… If I’m going down a rabbit hole, I could have 4 root tabs open. Those tabs may have lengthy articles and would reference secondary sites throughout the page. Rather then having a good chance of the browser losing my place down the page by clicking on a link normally, I open it in a new tab. This allows me to switch to it, skim down to where it was referenced to understand that part of it, then switch back to the root tab while leaving the secondary tab open to fully read through when I finish with the root one. As the rabbit hole deepens, those secondary tabs may eventually become root tabs which may also reference their own secondary sites or even each other. The number of tabs just keeps growing until I either run out of those secondary tabs or I am just satisfied with the amount of info I gained. This can also happen over several days or weeks and have other rabbit holes open at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAGA, rebranded!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wonder how big the user base is there. It could be a worthwhile endeavor to inundate it with troll accounts just to screw with him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_(Bill_Clinton's_dog)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you going to take the chance that he's kidding?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just an address and the company name

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What I’ve learned working at a startup in stealth mode and having larger projects in the back lot behind the building, is that those cars also do not respect ‘no trespassing’ signs and waymo will wait until it gets to the litigious point to bother to fix their routing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, keep the car inside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Master Race⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. Outside of the commercial usage (like data centers), liquid-cooing is used more just for show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have another: Animals as Leaders