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- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 1 week ago:
It’s not about that either. It’s about connecting photo ID to browsing profiles and deanonymising the internet.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The trick to getting the pit off the knife is to not whack it in to begin with. Hold the knife parallel to the first cut and use the point on the heel to pry the pit up. It doesn’t take much force and the pit pops right out without sticking to the knife.
- Comment on The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers 5 weeks ago:
I had a neighbor who was rather compulsive about her yard. She would mow her yard/have it mowed 2-3 times a week and would use a leaf blower to push the grass clippings onto her neighbors yard every time. She would also leaf blow her roof with surprising frequency.
I gotta say, I was a little relieved when I saw the for sale sign in the yard earlier this year.
- Comment on If my county passes a new tax for um lets say a new jail. They staff it and build it and everything with the tax money. How come it seems the tax is there forever? Why not get rid of it when built? 5 weeks ago:
Usually that kind of thing is done through a bond measure. The increased tax isn’t enough to pay for a big project while it’s under construction. Big projects are financed by selling bonds. Those bonds need to keep being payed back well after the project is complete.
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2 1 month ago:
He hasn’t had a great streak in completing progress in haunted chocolatier because he keeps getting pulled back into stardew valley ports and making new content for stardew valley. If he and his collaborators soon have to support both stardew valley and haunted chocolatier across multiple platforms, I don’t expect development on a new stardew valley game to progress quickly at all. I would expect half life 3 like timelines.
- Comment on Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision 1 month ago:
Based on the subject matter, I thought this was going to be a StuffMadeHere video.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 1 month ago:
The recruiter sent you a non-elligible candidate. That’s just as much their problem as it is yours.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The North Carolina legislature has a supermajority of far right republicans. The NC GOP is currently brazenly attempting to throw out legitimate ballots to steal a state supreme court seat, and the courts are going along with it. If they want to move for political concerns, I don’t think NC is enough of an improvement to justify the disruption involved.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Another way to view it is that college classes are filled with your future colleagues, and should be treated similar to a workplace. Students should generally dress similarly to how they expect to dress in their future workplaces. Whether that excludes a tank top is a matter of discretion, but clearly the proffesor did not find it to be professional. There’s no hard and fast rule, but I am surprised by the indignant tone in the comments here. Lectures are the domain of the professor and its not outlandish for them to set expectations about what they consider acceptable conduct for their lectures.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They already thought of that. The department of education has already been dismantled. If there are no school nights there’s no problem, right?
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 2 months ago:
Is the sales tax in your area 7.5% by any chance?
$16 x (100/107.5)= $14.88
I don’t see any gloves priced at 14.88 on their website at a quick check. I wonder if the store is trying to set a price that tallies to an even dollar amount and doesn’t know the connotation. I only recently learned about those numbers being associated so I would like to believe a benign explanation. Maybe you could ask to talk to a store manager next time you see it an make sure they know to avoid that price point.
- Comment on CISA fires then rehires security crew, and puts them on hold 2 months ago:
Do the terms of their employment change when they get rehired?
- Comment on New technology could save declining honeybee populations 3 months ago:
Honeybees are not the bee population that needs to be saved.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Taking an oral steroid like prednisone can help prevent asthma attacks for milder allergies, but that might not be sufficient for a severe peanut allergy.
Epinephren is not a gentle drug. You do not want to have to use an epi pen if you can avoid it. It causes the heart to race and result in lots of side effects that would make a flight extremely uncomfortable. I think it’s also metabolized quickly enough that a single dose is not going to last a whole flight.
I’m not an expert though, I just have multiple family members with moderate to severe allergies.
- Comment on People who say water doesn't help after eating piment are just wrong 3 months ago:
Maybe make it into a white Russian?
- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 3 months ago:
I see it as an extension of the myth of American purity and external corruption. “This person is evil, some outside power must have compromising info on them.” “Immigrants are violent criminals preying on innocent americans.”
These attitudes ignore the reality that bad people can come from anywhere. There are plenty of villians with very mundane origin stories. What matters is if everyone else has the will and ability to keep bad people in check and hold them accountable.
The grifters in charge need no other motivation than a sense of superiority and an opportunity to make a buck.
- Comment on Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces. 4 months ago:
They’ve been doing this with “natural intelligence” for ages.
- Comment on Intel Becomes Potential Takeover Target Of Broadcom, TSMC: Reports 4 months ago:
The scavenger predator formerly known as Avago Technologies Limited currently wears Broadcom as a skinsuit to disguise hostile takeovers as normal tech mergers.
- Comment on PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well. 4 months ago:
From wikipedia
Zelle (/zɛl/) is a United States–based digital payments network run by a private financial services company owned by the banks Bank of America, Truist, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo.
So PayPal does not seem to own an interest in Zelle, but the group of owners isn’t necessarily better than PayPal.
- Comment on Sadge 4 months ago:
The justification given was incoherent.
- Comment on I need a flicker free LED lightbulb running in the 3000 K range. 5 months ago:
The neighbors just point their solar panels at that house.
- Comment on NATO plans to deploy sea drones to monitor and protect undersea cables — Admiral expects drone fleet patrols to begin from June 2025 6 months ago:
Cutting a single cable feels like a means of probing the response. Where does the traffic get rerouted through? How long does it take to repair a cable? Which handful of crews even have that capability. Could selective sabotage be used to force traffic through a compromized node?
I definitely think there’s a bigger game at play and Russia and China are both trying to characterize communications infrastructure.
- Comment on sampling bias 6 months ago:
Or some portion of people generally prefer throwing surveys in the trash, but for unknown reasons decided to complete that one.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 7 months ago:
Would he? I’m terrified of his ability to double down on obvious bullshit even when presented with facts directly countering his claims.
As bad as Trump is, I’m almost more concerned about the people who saw his first clown show and thought either “I have got to get in on this” or " I can use this to accomplish my goals. "
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 7 months ago:
Do you want president Vance? This is how you get president Vance.
- Comment on LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors 7 months ago:
Is this what you’re referring to?
instructables.com/Face-Changing-Projection-Mask-B…
That’s pretty neat and I didn’t know that existed. The whole external projector requirement is rather limiting though. A cloth like screen could be a nice improvement to the concept.
- Comment on LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors 7 months ago:
Make a mask with this that continually changes the appearance of the wearers face to confuse ai surveillance tracking.
- Comment on Baby Showers!! :) 7 months ago:
Were they drinking soda in a lab room filled with fissile material?
- Comment on PS5 Pro just got even more expensive as Sony admits these accessories won't work. 7 months ago:
There’s no risk for a factory condition unit. This rumor started after people with units that had been dissasembled and reassembled had issues with vertical orientation. It turned out that it’s very easy to mess up the seals that keep the liquid metal thermal interface in place. So units that had been previously taken apart had liquid metal slowly leak, causing overheating and/or shorting.
If you haven’t taken the cooler off the mainboard, using the vertical stand is just fine. I haven’t seen any evidence of factory assembled units suffering leaking.
- Comment on Eat lead 7 months ago:
Yes, and lead is produced in much greater abundance than uranium.
The part that’s missing in the post is in looking specifically at uranium deposits and making assumptions about the initial composition of the deposits, since the crystalline structure excludes lead when the crystals form. So if you detect lead contained within zircon, it is assumed to be the product of radioactive decay.