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VOIPThrowaway··on Mustard Watches (1990)
Love mine. I can discreetly squirt mustard onto boring hors d’oeuvres.
VOIPThrowaway··on The Era of the Business Idiot
Nitpick:

Maximizing shareholder values can include treating your workers well if you think happy workers are more productive and therefore help with profits.

Same with good customer service, environmental regulation following, and other things.

VOIPThrowaway··on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York
Not sure I'm happy with turning NYC into a playground for us rich folk.
VOIPThrowaway··on Email Forwarding for Your Domain
Run your text through ChatGPT or something. There are some grammatical errors on your website
VOIPThrowaway··on New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
My prediction is that car usage will go thought the roof when AI cars work.

People can have a stress-free commute to a nice house in the countryside and work in the cities. Because the car is electric, it will be inexpensive to run.

VOIPThrowaway··on [dead]
So far, RFK is getting rid of some rather unvetted chemical dyes in our food. I'm ok with this.
VOIPThrowaway··on Even Republicans are falling out of love with Tesla
When we all realized we needed a commuter car in the family to save a crap ton of money. Rather spend $4 in electricity than $25 in diesel for a 100 mile commute.
VOIPThrowaway··on A number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled
At that level of CO2, your brain is fucked even if you're otherwise ok.

I'm more ambivalent about CO2 than just about anybody, but I'd go to war over that concentration.

VOIPThrowaway··on I Hired 5 People to Sit Behind Me and Make Me Productive for a Month
My employees sit behind me to keep me honest.
VOIPThrowaway··on AI 2027
You're asking it to think and it can't.

It's spicy auto complete. Ask it to create a program that can create a violin plot from a CVS file. Because this has been "done before", it will do a decent job.

VOIPThrowaway··on We're Still Not Done with Jesus
That's the Christian viewpoint in that Christians view themselves as the valid continuation of the first convenient between god and the Hebrews.
VOIPThrowaway··on Measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico now 208 cases, 2 deaths
We're about to do that with Daylight Savings.

We nuked it in 1970 and came crawling back the next year. Futzing with the clocks is annoying, but apparently it's better.

VOIPThrowaway··on Kennedy and influencers bash seed oils, baffling nutrition scientists
Some seed oils are pressed under high heat and use hexane as a solvent like Canola/R@pe-seed.

While other seed oils are just crushed and filtered seeds we've used for millennia like sesame

It's the former that RFK is looking into.

VOIPThrowaway··on Prepare now for a potential H5N1 pandemic
Operation Warp Speed was Trump. It was a success.
VOIPThrowaway··on Effect of chewing hard material on enhancing cognitive function
As I understand it, when exhaling, the nose create backpressure that facilitates gas transfer in the lungs.

However, my nose is decorative, and I must breath though my mouth. No repercussions as I can mountain climb.

VOIPThrowaway··on Ask HN: How much employee resume verification is done in practice?
>>In general, many facilities have policies that mean they will not provide references for former employees.

We get around that by asking: "Would you hire this person again?" and we get a 80% answer rate. Tells us everything we need to know.

VOIPThrowaway··on Save Act would require all Americans prove citizenship when registering to vote
The intent of the amendment was to make sure Democrats couldn't say that former slaves weren't citizens.
VOIPThrowaway··on Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion
"Personal liberty" is not exclusively a right-wing idea.
VOIPThrowaway··on Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer?
BC grocery stores shelves are getting bare of eggs, and the pricing is significantly higher that typical.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/egg-shortages-bc-grocery-bir...

VOIPThrowaway··on Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today"
If you get an answer with anything other than "save the humans" you know the model is nerfed in either it's training data or in it's guardrails.
VOIPThrowaway··on The Physicians Are Healing Themselves, with Ozempic
>>The doctors know they are privileged.

The doctors are accomplished and astute.

VOIPThrowaway··on Cointelpro
As a conservative, I went to a later Occupy Wall Street rally. Interesting people.

The feds were obvious, and they were stirring up shit.

VOIPThrowaway··on Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024
Truly high-speed printers do that.

Think of the printer that prints out all the Chase credit card statements for millions of customers. It uses a "roll to cut sheet system"

Example: https://offtechne.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Roll_to_Cut...

VOIPThrowaway··on New Tesla Model Y
When the ADF and leader of Israel says it wasn't.
VOIPThrowaway··on 2400 phone providers may be shut down by the FCC for failing to stop robocalls
Most of us in this group failed to update our Robocall Mitigation information five months ago and are doing it now.

Honestly, the bad actors are not in this list. Everybody in this list has implemented rate limits per the previous filing and are in compliance with other aspects of the FCC.