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- Comment on Regardless of where you are in the world, the clock above the driver on buses is never accurate. 16 hours ago:
Computerised system here, clocks appear synced up to NTP
- Comment on Do drug dogs ever get addicted when working or during training? 1 day ago:
Do drugs work the same way on dogs?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I was curious about what it’s in, so I looked up Wikipedia:
Diethanolamine is widely used in the preparation of diethanolamides and diethanolamine salts of long-chain fatty acids that are formulated into soaps and surfactants used in liquid laundry and dishwashing detergents, cosmetics, shampoos and hair conditioners.[5] In oil refineries, a DEA in water solution is commonly used to remove hydrogen sulfide from sour gas. It has an advantage over a similar amine, ethanolamine, in that a higher concentration may be used for the same corrosion potential. This allows refiners to scrub hydrogen sulfide at a lower circulating amine rate with less overall energy usage.
In things found at home it appears to be mainly soaps and cosmetics. These substances in particular:
Some of the most commonly used diethanolamides include:
- Cocamide DEA - DEA-Cetyl Phosphate - DEA Oleth-3 Phosphate - Lauramide DEA - Myristamide DEA - Oleamide DEA
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
In all seriousness, alcohol tends to kills bacteria so I would expect that it would make them sad. But we know so little about our gut microflora, either way.
- Comment on The phrase "my world is brighter with you" is literally true 5 days ago:
You’re not so bad yourself!
- Comment on France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year 1 week ago:
Ban it for everyone imho.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 week ago:
The situation has changed. Overtime pay is now mandatory, and so is the reporting of the number of hours worked. Whether the hours are accurately reported or not is another matter. 25 years is a long time to assume that nothing has changed, I must say.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 week ago:
I’ve been considering using my phone only for tethering, and doing anything on the go on a ultraportable Linux laptop. If anyone is doing this already, I’d love to hear about your experience.
- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 1 week ago:
The Dexcom is far more uncomfortable also, in my experience. The filament causes a red spot and aching in my arm, but the Libre 2’s does not.
- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 1 week ago:
Is this behaviour for a particular sensor, like the Libre 2, or do they affect all of them?
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 weeks ago:
They do, but perhaps they haven’t expanded yet into your market. I see some here sometimes.
- Comment on Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026 2 weeks ago:
I stopped using Visa a while back, haven’t missed it.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 2 weeks ago:
Is there a manufacturer that doesn’t ship a bunch of bloat with its televisions? Maybe Panasonic or Sony?
- Comment on TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims 2 weeks ago:
Don’t use Tiktok. But also, don’t use any social media run by large corporations. You’re better than that.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
Windhawk and ExplorerPatcher will allow this while windows still resize correctly, so it’s a mystery to me as to why MSFT won’t do it.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 4 weeks ago:
If I could buy a 48" monitor I would.
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 5 weeks ago:
I had a peritonsillar abscess and it took a long time to heal up even after the antibiotics. The doctor was proposing that I have my tonsils removed but I decided to wait and see. Supposedly this is a rare complication that can develop after a bad sore throat. I’m really careful about sore throats now.
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 5 weeks ago:
I can’t say I’ve noticed. I’ve had a bad cold and one particularly bad throat infection that took months to resolve since, but run-of-the-mill colds seem the same to me.
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 5 weeks ago:
Did you catch Covid? How bad was it, if you did?
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 month ago:
You’ll find that based on 3.7 - 4.2 that most li-ion batteries are indeed charged from 0-100 and not 20-80 as you previously claimed. Manufacturers have no reason to overprovision consumer products that are made to be replaced in 5 years or so.
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 2 months ago:
For someone called freedom advocate you sure don’t sound like one.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 2 months ago:
You can if you’re a spider
- Comment on Mid Career Marine Biology 2 months ago:
Khalifa,
I don’t know who you are. I don’t know why you are asking. If you are looking for closure, I can tell you that I won’t give you any. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let this go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and you know what a Marine Biologist does.
Regards
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 2 months ago:
If you disable TPM in your bios, W11 won’t install, nor update if it is already installed.
- Comment on Sony trying to warn the player they're settling for a lesser horse 3 months ago:
Why is the opposite of ‘Yes’ ‘Not now’?
- Comment on Old games with high GPU requirements (and look great) 3 months ago:
Any of the Battlefield titles look pretty great.
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 3 months ago:
CF aside, i’m not the biggest fan that Ladybird decided on Swift, since it’s such an Apple-centric language.
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 3 months ago:
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted for stating a fact, because Pixel hasn’t had competitive hardware for several iterations now.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 3 months ago:
The problem was using Cryptocurrency in the first place.
- Comment on We got rid of acid rain. Now something scarier is falling from the sky. 3 months ago:
They are, at the very least, endocrine disrupters: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7926449/
Also see: www.endocrine.org/topics/edc/…/pfas