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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days 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] 6 days 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 FL wants more child labor 3 weeks 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? 📈 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Do the terms of their employment change when they get rehired?
- Comment on New technology could save declining honeybee populations 1 month ago:
Honeybees are not the bee population that needs to be saved.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Maybe make it into a white Russian?
- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 1 month 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. 2 months ago:
They’ve been doing this with “natural intelligence” for ages.
- Comment on Intel Becomes Potential Takeover Target Of Broadcom, TSMC: Reports 2 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. 2 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 2 months ago:
The justification given was incoherent.
- Comment on I need a flicker free LED lightbulb running in the 3000 K range. 3 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 4 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 4 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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!! :) 5 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. 5 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 5 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.
- Comment on Why hasn't Kamala Harris's record of keeping nonviolent offenders in prison, despite SCOTUS ruling, while California AG been brought up much this election? 5 months ago:
Is there a directory of comunities compiled somewhere? I’m not sure how I would go about figuring out the best place to post something if I wasn’t already familiar with a relevant community.
- Comment on that's a huge sprout 5 months ago:
Similar to your third option, cut kielbasa into ⅓" slices. Brown in generous amounts of butter. Remove from pan and brown a similar volume lf sweet onions. Add in sliced cabbage about half way through and adjust your heat to keep everything browning. Get the egg noodles going. When the cabbage has cooked down enough to be tender add the kielbasa back in and turn down the heat. Season with salt and peper, and a couple splashes lf balsamic vinegar. Be conservative with the balsamic, but it will really make the seared kielbasa pop if you get it right. Then serve with the wide egg noodles when they finish cooking. The wide egg noodles should look more like a wide fettucini, not the short curly noodles that many stores carry.
- Comment on Does drinking coffee reduce the amount of nutrients absorbed from prior meals? 5 months ago:
Isn’t that just a crappier version of bulimia?
- Comment on Nvidia's Jensen Huang will be CES 2025's keynote speaker as RTX 50 rumors abound 6 months ago:
NVidia is an AI hardware/ software company now. Anyone expecting good news about gaming cards is set up for disappointment.
- Comment on Optimal PSU fan placement 6 months ago:
Are you 3D printing a new top plate for the psu? Remember that the steel housing also functions to contain the emi generated from the psu components. You could end up increasing electrical noise for other components if your new top plate isn’t conductive and grounded.
- Comment on Are captchas enough to stop bots? 6 months ago:
The whole point of captchas is to train bots. Did you think they were all road object and optical character recognition based because those are the categories humans really excel at?
- Comment on Weird PC PSU Capacity 6 months ago:
I don’t know the answer, but I found this discussion which seems relevant.
…stackexchange.com/…/atx-power-supply-front-end-h…
The explanation given says it has to do with the functionality allowing the psu to be used for either 110VAC or 220VAC.