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cbxjkslson Rival to SpaceX's Starlink Goes Dark After Failing to Account for Leap Year

rolling your own time library is as crazy as rolling your own crypto

cbxjkslson Parasitic worms 'manipulate' mantises onto asphalt roads, say researchers

Sublingual B vitamins have turned around my chronic fatigue.

I've been taking it orally for years without the aame effect, so my running theory is that I have an issue with absorption in my gut.

Is there a way to test for candida?

cbxjkslson Greenland leader calls for independence from Denmark

China

cbxjkslson Yemeni Coffee Shops in Texas

I wonder how significant of a source of revenue the coffee shops are for Yemen, both from bean exports and remittances from immigrants.

cbxjkslson BioTerrorism Will Save Your Life with the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective [video]

You don't need to make aluminum foil at home because it's cheaper and higher quality to buy the mass produced version from Walmart.

For medications (and anything where artificial scarcity is created with IP), it can be cheaper to create the product at home instead of buying it. If homemade quality is 'good enough', that's a reasonable option.

For comparison, I make my own sauerkraut. The stuff at Walmart is fine, but it's cheaper and higher quality to make at home.

The same logic applies to lots of software.

cbxjkslson Why it's hard to trust software, but you mostly have to anyway

For most software, I trust the supply chain more than the developers. And I don't trust the supply chain.

A big problem is user hostile software (and products in general). I'm not able to walk into a Walmart and buy a TV or walk into a dealership and buy a new car, because there are no options that aren't user hostile.

Options exist, but I have to go out of my way to buy them.