astura

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by astura 5d ago
You're on social media right now, Hacker News is social media.
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by astura 6d ago
> Using real food to carefully craft a scene, no matter how "done up" it is, is still representative of what's in the product. False, food ads use fake food, not real food "done up," straight up non-edible fake f
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by astura 7d ago
7 onion soup is a favorite of mine. I'm vegetarian so I omit the bacon and use veggie broth. https://www.emerils.com/127311/seven-onion-soup-parmesan-gar...
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by astura 7d ago
>That needs to be illegal. I thought it _was_ illegal. Ummm.... I have news for you, pretty much all ads have used fake food since the beginning of advertisements. Nobody ever cared that McDonald's ads makes McDonald's food loo
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by astura 7d ago
The funny thing is, 10 years ago, people said photos on menus was a sign of extremely poor quality.
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by astura 7d ago
pspspsps is biological , it's common noise to get a cats attention (in many places) because it stimulates their prey drive.
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by astura 9d ago
Only a handful of states have any concept of a recall election.
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by astura 10d ago
That's why they make fitness tracker like FitBit Air that looks like brackets, so you aren't wearing two watches.
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by astura 10d ago
I get this point of view totally, so I'll give you a different one. I pretty much wear one (cheap Fitbit) as a gentile constant reminder to do my workouts, keep active, and to increase my fitness. I also noticed that if the readiness s
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by astura 13d ago
Chromecast requires a network
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by astura 14d ago
Yep, it's mostly bots, shills, and children and it's nothing new. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2017/02/20/reddit-i...
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by astura 16d ago
I have friends who dealt with the same thing with their father except the father insisted absolutely nothing was wrong, he was fine, everything was fine. They eventually got him diagnosed and into assisted living but it took literally years
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by astura 16d ago
Agreed, $95.91 a month in 2021-03 is $120.91 in July 2026 dollars. The current cost is $154.41, so it grew $33.50 a month after accounting for inflation. I am probably an outlier but I don't honestly know how much someone can watch on
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by astura 16d ago
Most people are losing their facilities years before any formal diagnosis and plenty of people, especially those who don't want to lose their freedom simply won't go to the doctor for a diagnosis. Nobody can force someone to see a
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by astura 16d ago
Yep, for all the moralizing about sports gambling people on HN do, they sure love to prime their children for it. It also just helped me understand the value of money, which to say has served me well is a massive understatement. Plus a real
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by astura 16d ago
I would have killed to play carnival games like that when I was a kid but they were absolutely strictly forbidden, because 1) they are obviously not worth the price (scam) and 2) prizes are just junk that we didn't have room in the hou
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by astura 17d ago
>It's good as long as you don't get sunburn or skin cancer... too much sun ages you badly even without any sunburn. Hot dog skin.
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by astura 17d ago
Sadly most dog owners only pick up after their dog if someone else is around/watching. Most people on rural neighborhoods won't pick it up at all. https://archive.is/lcEzs
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by astura 22d ago
Which pharmacy is that?
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by astura 23d ago
Someone tampered with the weather equipment at Charles de Gaulle airport for a Polymarket bet. This sort of thing is going to become so much more common going forward. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr&#x2
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by astura 24d ago
>If anyone has the link at hand, please post it. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank...
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by astura 24d ago
Not just allowed, required. Banks, doctors, etc.
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by astura 25d ago
Shit posting looks like natural use of social media so it's actually preferred https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2017/02/20/reddit-i... “I have worked over 100 of these kinds of campaign
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by astura 25d ago
It comes from a Iroquoian word meaning "great lake." And yeah, the name predates the Canadian province.
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by astura 25d ago
I've only been birdwatching since spring and I got 28 species already. Lots of seabirds because I spend a lot of the time at the beach.
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by astura 26d ago
These are commissary fridges, not galley fridges.
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by astura 29d ago
I have twin cousins who have severe autism, one of which is institutionalized. When they were very young we (their caregivers, family, and doctors) understood their diagnosis to be "mental retardation." Nowadays they are known as
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by astura 1mo ago
>Almost completely wrong (ask your parents, astura) Dude, My parents are in their 70s and haven't been practicing Catholics in 50+ years, they don't know the current teachings. It's a fact that at the time they went to Cat
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by astura 1mo ago
No it wouldn't have. This treatment is for pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Steve Jobs had pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, which is a rare form of pancreatic cancer. Same organ, but fundamentally different diseases. Pancreatic neuroendocrin
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by astura 1mo ago
The word doesn't contain the letter T. It means you previously guessed a word with T in it and it wasn't marked at green (correct spot) or yellow (word contains letter in different spot).

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