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by avh02 2y ago
I'd love to do this but too often a call is made by an unknown number to me in response to an action, e.g i requested a dishwasher repair via email, i was called to schedule it by the contractor it was assigned to by my landlord. If i
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by avh02 2y ago
Would have been a good opportunity to inject misinformation after they noticed (assuming it's what happened)... Convoy passing by? Quick, splice in alternative footage that has equivalent traffic/weather conditions. (Or an infinit
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by avh02 2y ago
You're right, but I think there were a lot of other factors involved there unrelated to basic infrastructure. Not to get too in to politics but i think there was a lot of underestimation, dismissal of warning signals (focus was elsewhe
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by avh02 2y ago
Oh no, if only radio/emergency broadcast television/satellite/alternative cable routes/contingency plans had been invented!
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by avh02 2y ago
Because of the new ui? Seriously it's terrible, but the classic ui is still benevolently available as a plugin. Don't know for how long.
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by avh02 2y ago
You're going to have to explain the reasoning here
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by avh02 2y ago
In some places babies get a hearing test by default, definitely took one thing off our list of worries.
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by avh02 2y ago
You'd think something like that would require a death certificate to actually happen
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by avh02 2y ago
aye, and i'm not interested in having a chef prepare a tiny aubergine steak with a splash of tahini and charge me $500 for the honour of eating his choice of how to virtue signal to his chef friends. I don't necessarily listen to
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by avh02 2y ago
i like music from all over - i guess i agree the wording is a bit too on the nose - thinking if i edit and tone it down, but there's been a lot written after it already. The issue is almost every good music application assumes an organ
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by avh02 2y ago
and all those albums with filler "intro" and "intermission" tracks?
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by avh02 2y ago
let me flip it on you, i have entire albums i like as individual songs. but i don't put the record on the start, turn off shuffle and pretend to be of higher intelligence because i 'appreciate' the work the artist put in to i
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by avh02 2y ago
Don't get me wrong, I've started moving away from Spotify, but not entirely for these reasons. Music to me is mostly one big playlist and a few smaller playlists from the same library of my music. And where my music doesn't g
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by avh02 2y ago
you can still have an open and really big internet with these people, the question is if it remains anything like the bastion of great thought the "open and really big" part implies (along with the example provided in the original
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by avh02 2y ago
Some of them with wild ideas do things like try to storm the capitol on thought processes riddled with ridiculous ideas. I'm not an American, but watching that is scary. The same problem exists in other places and people believe absolu
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by avh02 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/technology/coronavirus-5g... oddballs, i agree. but a dangerous group of oddballs. > Across Britain, more than 30 acts of arson and vandalism have taken place agains
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by avh02 2y ago
> that it would be open and really big. I think that was the aspiration, but nobody realized there were so many people who thought 5G caused corona (and similar lack of thought process) until it was too late.
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by avh02 2y ago
the government is begging, because birth rates don't sustain the population which is aging out, and if you want to keep your economy in those conditions you either bring in people, or encourage reproduction (which has a lag). or let yo
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by avh02 2y ago
used to have spotty coverage underground with vodafone, when i switched to telekom, internet suddenly magically worked underground on the routes i used. I believe someone published a map of the data coverage of different providers on the be
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by avh02 2y ago
Right, it's EU parents or refugee parents. Nobody else lives here like actual, highly qualified people that countries like Germany are begging to import before all the "natives" retire.
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by avh02 2y ago
Henry Royce (of Rolls Royce) disagrees: > I have only one regret … that I have not worked harder. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Royce
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by avh02 2y ago
I guess at the worst case you could book the property for an evening to get the photos, then what are they going to say? it's illegal to take photos inside the place you rented? (though i guess they get a day of rent this way :( )
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by avh02 2y ago
> so airlines are incentivized to make the boarding annoying enough to make you pay for it. until you "board first" with a budget airline at an airport that makes you stand just outside the gate in a common (loses queue) and un
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by avh02 3y ago
Some people live in places with rolling blackouts and the UPS doesn't last long enough, so easier to shutdown cleanly and power off the UPS so you're not constantly cycling the battery for no good reason.
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by avh02 3y ago
Do ads on YouTube go away if you sponsor a channel? Patreon, etc? (Serious question)
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by avh02 3y ago
I can say this has its flaws too... I was recently trying to pick up a prescription but the first pharmacy i visited did not have it in stock, they gave me my card back and i went to another pharmacy who could not find a prescription on the
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Twitter blocks searches for Taylor Swift after explicit AI images go viral(bbc.com)
7 points by avh02 3y ago|2 comments
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by avh02 3y ago
saying things like "failed to detect mine!" allows them to go through their logs and see what they missed. This entire post is potentially a great honeypot.
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by avh02 3y ago
Surprisingly not just fancy new jets, f15 and f16s too: https://apnews.com/article/syria-airstrikes-iran-revolutiona...
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by avh02 3y ago
I'm a tall and large person, while i don't think that particular service would cater to me anyway, i once spent a day and a half running around hong kong to try to find a store that had anything remotely in the ballpark of my size

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