Tangurena2

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by Tangurena2 2mo ago
Oh yes, let's grammar-nazi the nazis. not /s
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Is this why some heavy metal groups use umlauts all over?
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The number tattooed on people's arms were the primary key to look their records up in the system. Long ago, I worked with a woman who had one of those tattoos.
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Maintenance will be forever. Tax laws change annually, so the payroll app will never stop being updated.
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That used to be called "yellow journalism" in America (and "tabloid journalism" in the UK) which led to the Spanish American war in 1898. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism https:&#x2F
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Twitter/X has actually paying some of those creators. They're changing that program in September. https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2023/07/13/twi...
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by Tangurena2 2mo ago
When the dot com bubble popped, I was out of work for an extended period. I ended up living with some older friends (about 10 years older than myself and I was about 40 at that time). They gave the "hand out resumes" advice along
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by Tangurena2 2mo ago
This is why your grandparents (or parents if you're a greybeard) still recommend going down to corporate offices and trying to hand your resume to a person/recruiter there. Nowadays it is all online resume screening. It is frustra
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> Life was simpler for those in the know about how the world worked. If you were lucky enough to grow up with the right parents, friends, family members, and class mates to help guide you through how the world worked it was easy. This
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I did that when I was younger. Also, the advice was to print your resumes on heavy bond paper so that you looked upper class.
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Here's a venn diagram that may help: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Isles_Venn_D... The green circles are each a single island. The yellow circle are a bunch of islands.
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by Tangurena2 2mo ago
There are vaccines for Hep A and Hep B. None for Hep C yet. Nor Hep V for the True Blood fans. Twinrix is the name of a combined Hep A & B vaccine (2 doses) - your health insurance most likely pays for it. Hep A outbreaks are relative
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He has repeatedly stated that there are "no safe vaccines." https://youtu.be/G4vP4GdHhoA?t=293 > Trump said "vats" of vaccines are pumped into children's bodies. https://www.npr.org&
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Also politically impossible is that Congress made it illegal for state/federal health plans (Medicaid for poor folks and Medicaid for old folks) to negotiate prices with drug companies. Which is why it can cost $95k for a Hep C treatme
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And that guy ended up losing his medical license permanently over it.
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> "Ask your doctor about..." advertising should be banned in the USA. That advertising is illegal in almost all other first world countries.
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The HPV vaccination eliminates most forms of cervical cancer. Australia reports a 95% drop in cervical cancer in the cohorts that got mandatory widespread HPV vaccinations. I didn't look into how that changed pap smears.
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Not yet. Hopefully never, but I expect it to change before I die of old age.
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> the USA has no (federally robust) legal protection for citizens to guard against data collection and aggregation. In the US, laws and court rulings have held that the person/company that aggregates the data owns the data. In the
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"Rare earths" aren't rare, they're just hard to separate and produce quite toxic & radioactive slag (they're the bottom 2 rows of the periodic table and "rare earth" mines & refineries that were op
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> because they directly provide the service. This is typical lobby behaviour? Yes. Think of it this way: I make a profit from doing this, therefore I will lobby politicians to make my product mandatory .
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Nations that kept detailed records of religious membership tended to have their Jews & Jehovah's Witnesses rounded up much faster than occupied nations that didn't keep such records.
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> And they will be used to watch you. The next generation of cellular service, 6G, will include something called Integrated Sensing and Communications. ISAC will be a millimeter radar that uses cellphones to see all sorts of behavioral
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I think an equivalent thing would be to look at adoption of V-chips and how few parents turned the feature on. This version of parental control was a failure> I don't expect other versions to do a better job. https://en.w
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by Tangurena2 2mo ago
This sounds like an implementation of The Right to Read : https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/253671.253726 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1981/1981-h/1981-h.htm That essay seemed unre
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Nah, we just kept making our savings throws.
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My favorite was a goatse version of the Death Star.
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> how the US government had supposedly manufactured AIDS in a lab somewhere This was Soviet (now Russian) disinformation. The tactic is to make people (especially Americans) distrust the American government. Like claiming that the crac
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> When a politician is worried about your kids, you should be worried about your rights and freedoms. Not only for your own sake but for your kids too! I work with those politicians. They have kids too and they are just as susceptible
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When venues (bars, clubs, supermarkets) scan your ID, they are scanning the barcode on the back. For details of what is stored on that barcode: https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/99ac7057-0f4d-4461-b0a2-3a553... What'

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