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Comment · 1 year ago
IIRC even LASER was seen as a novely demonstration of quite an obscure effect…
Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe someone with a really interesting voice?
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, you should have a medical tricorder. It’s a scandal these don't exist.
Comment · 1 year ago
The EU can comply with its own regulations, it’s just that EU citizens (sometimes) can force it into compliance if it does not. That’s a nice feature.
Comment · 1 year ago
So your point is that even with a IFR of less than 2.6% bodies had to be stored in freeze trucks? Ugh.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
So Google is rewriting what your online banking site is showing on the fly?
Comment · 1 year ago
“I am sure” of many things I have no idea about, too. It’s called Dunning Kruger effect.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you don‘t seriously talk about politics but consider it sports and entertainment and about “winning”, you get Dr. Oz and RFKjr to decide about your health and Matt Gaetz overseeing justice.

Politics is everywhere and it has to be everywhere but politics is not Joe Rogan or Fox news. That‘s propaganda.

Comment · 1 year ago
That’s an interesting point to add to the feature list of a future product: “Proof” of deletion that is plausible to laypeople. Of course one has to delete according to the law, too, but that plausible proof may get rid of a lot of support calls escalating to your level.
Comment · 1 year ago
Interestingly the only people who are not supposed to “push a political agenda” are usually accused of being “woke” in one of the next sentences. “Keeping politics out” brought the US - and the world - Trump, two times. Most things in life are political.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Threads was immediately political and I assume bluesky is too.

Life is political. Believing that it’s not only means that someone who is also pretending that life is not political will make the rules.

Comment · 1 year ago
Oh, you’ll be hearing it for much longer. Greetings from Germany.
Comment · 1 year ago
What is the average life expectancy in India compared to the US?

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