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Normal Google rollout process: Bard is deprecated, Gemini is not ready yet.

"good for you" and "not meaningfully harmful" are different things. Please don't move the goalpost.

I do not think it takes a decade-long longitudinal study to conclude that seed oils are not mercury or thalidomide.

Americans eat 12.51 million metric tons of it a year, so it is clearly not exactly poisonous. And "inflammation" is very vague... most people would be better off just increasing their dietary fiber intake and not worry about swapping one fat for another. It doesn't require thousands of people with no education in the area creating social media content about it.

Ha, poor Naomi Klein getting confused with the other Naomi... I guess it was inevitable she'd write a book about it.

I find it deeply weird that seed oils have become a culture war topics and a tabula rasa onto which people projects all manner of societal ills.

54% of [US] adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level - https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-s...

Not surprising that books like this succeed.

Poverty in America is a moral failure and why would you give money to people who are immoral?

Is this grid tied? Are people tying these to batteries and then running their appliances off of them? Seems like too little power to properly backfeed the grid.

It's certainly too early to see if this class of drugs extends lifespan, but it does improve numerous biomarkers that are associated with longer lifespan. And a longer functional lifespan as well.

Sony built Crackle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crackle_(service) but it's failed at this point.

likely end-to-end drm

"Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" by Malcolm Harris is a really, really fantastic book that shows how far back this line of thought goes in the region.

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/malcolm-harris/palo...

Impressive that it was fixable in the end! Quite brave to keep taking it apart, although I suppose the monitor couldn't get any worse at that point.

I've never cut a wafer, but I assume cutting is hard and single straight lines are the easiest.

I completely admit I have a limited, second-hand account of the situation. It's quite possible that the circumstances were such that this was planned in advance of the wife's passing.

I believe they had a funeral together. That was part of the reason for the short waiting time.

I remember Jesus explaining to one of his bodhisattvas about how you can relieve suffering through the cessation of desire.

Very innovative but it seems to require a level of precision that I don't think I've achieved on a phone keyboard.

Yes, I know very little other than that he was a cancer "survivor" - he wasn't about to die of cancer imminently but I think he had some sort of long-term ongoing health issues. But he was apparently well enough to drive a car!

I'm sorry for your loss.

He had apparently expressed his intention before she passed. I do not know all the details and this is second hand, but he apparently had a plan.

My Canadian parents are in their 80's so naturally a lot of their friends of the same age are dying. And two of them have been via MAID.

In one case, which was surprising to me, a man who had survived cancer - he was not terminal but certainly wasn't getting any better - elected to die via MAID after his wife died. She passed, he called his doctor and less than a week later he was also dead. He got a chance to visit his family, apparently drive around his hobby farm one more time and then that was it. He didn't want to deal with being alone and seriously ill.

Another friend was in renal and congestive heart failure and possibly could have lived longer but they were driving 100km daily to get to the nearest dialysis clinic and again, this person was definitely dying. So made and appointment and decided to go sooner rather than suffer along for an indeterminate amount of time.

It's quite surprising to me, but these people are in their mid to late 80's and of sound mind and know what they want.

A much improved successor to Tomatan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOJaDDO38kk

I think you're overestimating your knowledge of what causes obesity.

We have a retractable on our south-facing patio door/window near San Jose and it's made a huge difference in terms of heat rejection after we installed it. On hot summer days it makes a noticeable difference. And since it's retractable it doesn't make the back room permanently dark. It's one of the major items that lets us survive a south bay summer without air conditioning. We'll probably upgrade our gas furnace to a heat pump eventually and get AC "free" but in the meantime this was a much cheaper stopgap.

This advice goes back to previous generations of web entrepreneurs, way back to 2015 or earlier: https://www.roughtype.com/?p=634

" It’s a sharecropping system, but the sharecroppers are generally happy because their interest lies in self-expression or socializing, not in making money, and, besides, the economic value of each of their individual contributions is trivial. "

"Driving (at times) should be about 45 minutes"

Most people aren't commuting to work in the city at 2 AM on a Sunday.

It can be considerably slower at peak times.

It's not the Canadian fave that is the Bloody Caesar (where you add clam juice, of all things)