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There is a difference between laws and regulations. Law determine what is legal. Regulations dictate HOW to act/behave to be within the government's interpretation of the law. Courts determine whether the government's interpretation of the law is fair or not to those who bring suit. Every court decision is, to a certain extent, also a regulation.

Find a strawberry farm near you that lets you "pick your own". Chances are these will be the best berries you taste that season. Same for any fruit or vegetables, really. There's a farm near me that does pick your own potatoes, asparagus, snap peas, etc. Barring that, buy directly from the farmer at a farmer's market or roadside stand on the edge of their property. The closer you can get from farm to table, the better the food will taste.

This is an enormous effort for an academic joke article. I am reminded of Upper's classic "The Unsuccessful Self-treatment of a Case of 'Writer's Block'" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1311997/pdf/jab...) and Goldberg & Chemjobber's "A Comprehensive Overview of Chemical-free Consumer Products" (https://blogs.nature.com/thescepticalchymist/files/2014/06/n...), not to mention Zongker's "Chicken Chicken Chicken" (https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf).

Are they going to sue Microsoft next since the database is available publicly on the web?

I have my Android phone's power button set up to turn on/off the flashlight feature with a double click. It's immensely convenient. I have a low-end Samsung A23 5G.

This is a highly entertaining recounting of the event: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/309921

Pretty cool! Two of my cheesy old stacks are included in the massive index card and one of my original online friends from the days of eWorld has his stack featured on the second card (the "Are You A Space Alien" stack).

I notice that this simulator doesn't load XCMD and XFCN plugins; I distinctly remember using an XFCN to include graphics in pop-up windows and my stacks running in the emulator don't trigger that functionality. It doesn't affect the main stack functions but no one will ever find the easter eggs in my stacks without them.

Specifically, this journal: https://mattioli1885journals.com/index.php/actabiomedica

The takeaway they don't say: When you tire of your goldfish, kill them instead of releasing them.

Eddie Lampert killed Sears, plain and simple: https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2bsxn8l0u5yr6z...

I don't see adverts as I use an adblocker, as any sane person should do.

Battle of Wesnoth fits the bill and is on the list.

It's tone deaf, for sure, but it's really a bad ad because Apple isn't showing any originality but simply ripping off an old LG ad: https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/09/controversial-ipad-pro-crush-...

So much social media drama would subside if people wrote their hot takes but never posted them.

The movie Electric Dreams taught me back in 1984 never to trust home automation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6agO47o96c

Me, I'm just waiting for the Great Bovine Rebellion of 2026.

Best I can tell, the Logitech Pebble might fit the bill. It does slope a bit so is not entirely flat and is a two-button mechanical mouse with a scroll wheel (that can also act as a button).

They use an Epson.

The TL;DR = Not really, according to our methods & analysis. But maybe.

Nothing to see here. Just another case of continuing enshittification. Move along.

These developments are being built "stick and brick" style, with highly flammable softwood two-by-fours for their framing structures and less-than-an-inch thick brick veneers for the overlay over the Teflon building wrap. I don't want to be at the mercy of someone else's misplaced cigarette, grease fire, or electrical short circuit. We need to build more affordable, smaller homes instead of more ugly McMansions and apartment buildings.

Additional reading: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-13/why-ameri...

Non-paywalled version: https://archive.is/rfnFz

My voice is my passport. Verify me.

You can tell the writers and designers hate the PDF format because they made the damn thing so difficult to read, layout-wise. They went 1990s PageMaker/QuarkXpress crazy here.

Appropriate George Carlin clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q

I, for one, can't wait to order a 2024 IONIC HYUNDAI SILVER WHEELS LED HEADLIGHTS 4WD HIGH SPEED OFF ROAD ELECTIRC VEHICLE CAR AUTOMOBILE 300 MILE RANGE.

You might claim Yahoo! is irrelevant, but it still gets 3.6 billion visits a month: https://www.similarweb.com/website/yahoo.com/#overview

Drudgereport gets 57 million visits a month: https://www.similarweb.com/website/drudgereport.com/#overvie...

Blogger gets 38 million vists a month: https://www.similarweb.com/website/blogger.com/#overview

Salon gets 8.4 million visits a month: https://www.similarweb.com/website/salon.com/#overview

So, not totally irrelevant to the overall social conversation, but getting there. Except for Yahoo.

This is your reminder that Selective Service is still a thing and that Congress and the President could authorize a draft if they really needed to boost fighting force numbers (unlikely, given our current in-fighting & partisan Congress). But if push comes to shove, the option is still on the table.

This study is not representative of all teens' smartphone use, as iPhone users were not included in the study:

"iPhone users were not included because data collection access for detailed app usage (i.e., names of specific apps such as YouTube, Snapchat, etc.) was not available for researchers at the time of data collection." -- Methodology section of the acutal report: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/researc...

According to an April 2023 report from Piper Sandler, 87% of teens use iPhones (https://www.pipersandler.com/teens). If the CommonSense Media report doesn't include 88% of teens, then it is not representative of the majority of teens' use; it is only representative of teens who use Android devices.

This report is probably under-reporting teen smartphone use and notification overload.

And the enshittification continues.