OneLeggedCat

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Comment · 10 days ago
Just clicked and watched that. Amazing really. I can't figure out what I believe about his sanity.
Comment · 2 months ago
Maybe, so long as it's optional.
Comment · 2 months ago
> rampant insider trading by biotech employees

It also provides a big incentive for sabotage.

Comment · 4 months ago
If you're the kind of person who has bought a dozen pairs of cheap Zenni's... the lens coating gets visibly damaged every time I've used hand soap on them. I now just blast them with hot water and wipe dry with a lens cloth. I don't know whether hand soap is a problem for more expensive brands, but it definitely is for Zenni's.
Comment · 6 months ago
I (an American) had only heard the slang version in Holy Grail, and didn't know the slang meaning, and finally am now seeing your comment. Now to lookup the meaning of "manky..."
Comment · 7 months ago
> foreign-made consumer routers can still be sold, but they are going to look at them with a fine-tooth comb, and they are going to use FCC approval as leverage to try to increase domestic manufacturing

That is not what's going to happen. What's going to happen is that anyone coughing up payola to the current executive in chief's people will get approved, and anyone that doesn't will remain blocked. This practice is currently widespread, in the form of tariffs.

Comment · 11 months ago
In the rural areas that I've lived in, it's mostly about a strong desire to supplant science and history with religious ideas and principles.
Comment · 1 year ago
Perhaps sxp used an LLM to do his calculation.
Comment · 1 year ago
Counter productive to whom? Certainly not oil companies, nor the politicians that represent their interests?
Comment · 1 year ago
During the rut, I've seen muleys here in Montana act absolutely bonkers. I once saw a young but large buck darting in and out of traffic, playing chicken with oncoming 50 mph vehicles, to impress a group of does. He'd run across the road right in front of a car, then pronk around proudly while the does stared at him.
Comment · 1 year ago
> but no doubt other times it’s changing behavior in the app itself, OS decided to wipe cache, app has bad info, whatever

GaiaGPS, which advertises is offline capability, after an update (but not immediately after the update) recently required users to login to continue using the app. Which was impossible if you happened to be out of cell phone range 10 miles from a trailhead when this login popup happened. Incredibly bone-headed move, and dangerous for hikers that aren't smart enough to carry backup map sources. But Gaia has been trending this way for several years.

Comment · 1 year ago
Do you mean 90%?
Comment · 1 year ago
Now I want to see Doom in browser tabs.
Comment · 1 year ago
NYT reporting has been trash for at least 10 years. Anyway Matt Levine, who has as good an opinion on this kind of thing as any columnist, sees it as mostly a technicality, and believes Onion can just submit their bid again. Of course, Elon also now has an outside interest, and can outbid anyone via proxy or otherwise.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ignorance is bliss. My therapist hated it when I said it that way, but it's undeniably true.

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