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You can, but then you never know what the junk is hiding: patches of bare dirt, certainly, but also oil, transmission fluid or other toxic seeping into the ground, small bits of metal parts (you know they’re not going to find everything) that become missiles when bit with a lawnmower, etc.

Little blip at 1701 (NCC-1701). I wonder what the other individual blips represent.

Until they change their ToS (without telling you) and enable it by default (and hide the controls that let you decline).

In other words, meta is harvesting your WhatsApp data, and gives you a (potentially inaccurate) summary in exchange for feeding their LLMs.

There’s nothing to prove that you were home with your phone.

How is a manufacturer going to be held responsible for their flaws when musk DOGE’d investigating his companies?

Just a reminder that it’s illegal to wear masks in New Orleans unless it’s Carnivale.

Depends on how many people you’re envisioning in your commune, but you’ll likely need more than a one-acre garden. And working that garden is quite a bit of work!

Fuck spez.

“dynamically integrates positive content from Reddit users directly below an advertiser’s creative, putting community conversations front-and-center in the user experience and blending AI-driven efficiency with real human perspectives”.

the company is also introducing a “scalable, AI-powered social listening tool. […] Informed by proprietary metadata, it provides precise, real-time insights that help marketers confidently plan campaigns, validate creative ideas, and make smarter business decisions"

I wonder how much they had to pay a business major to come up with those sentences, or did they just use ChatGPT …

The APIcalypse.

Boo! :(

Those things that project images on walls and things - be nice if we could project images either in front or behind him, less likely to cause issues with the FAA, more likely to get media coverage.

I’ve tried the foam earplugs from a drugstore/chemist’s. They’re extremely difficult to put in properly

Take the earplug and roll it between your fingers until it’s a smaller size that goes in easily. Take your other hand and grab your earlobe toward the back and bottom. Pull your lobe backward and away from your head; that straightens and opens your ear canal. The combination of these two should make it easy to insert the earplugs.

[If you like, you can play around with putting the tip of your finger at the entrance of your ear canal and then pulling the lobe with your other hand, to feel how it changes the entrance to your ear canal.]

and get dirty after a few uses.

Maybe clean your ears? Also, most of the cheap foam earplugs aren’t meant to be a long-term solution, they’re definitionally disposable.

Yeah, I suspected you were a troll. Blocked. Goodbye.

Fuck spez, fuck his not-covert support of Trump, misogyny and the alt-right neo-Nazis, and fuck him blatantly trying to profit from my comments and submissions.

This is really cool - thank you for sharing!

Apparently there was some school of teaching for a while, where the teachers were emphasizing getting your ideas down on paper quickly, without regard for spelling, spacing, paragraph-ing, punctuation, verb tense, etc. I ran across it when I was trying to find out why there was this generation of fanfic writers who had interesting concepts but couldn’t write to any kind of standard - and who were extremely resistant to any suggestions. Some of the concepts sounded really interesting, too, but it was entirely too much work to try to parse the story.

When texting (ie, fast reading and writing), I’ll occasionally do it for legibility when using exclamation points, when the sentence I’m writing ends in too many thin, upright letters. Like in a text, I think I will !

reads faster than I will!

Crunchy almond butter and homemade raspberry jam, open-faced on slices of a really good baguette.