fallinghawks

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by fallinghawks 9mo ago
Ironically, last year i decided to relearn piano after some 40 years. Learned one piece (a pretty good one, fortunately) and a once a day play triggered it. So. It's more like once every 2-3 weeks now, not long enough to forget, but lo
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by fallinghawks 9mo ago
The joint at the base of my thumb started telling me it's 60 years old. I stopped being able to open jars easily last year and would like to get my grip strength back.
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by fallinghawks 10mo ago
Just recently, Twitter started making the default view "For You" instead of "Following" with no way to switch back. Fortunately there's an extension that fixes that and lets you eliminate the For You view entirely.
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by fallinghawks 10mo ago
Any way that doesn't involve a boatload of oils is fine, I'm sure. One of the things I'm surprised they didn't mention is cooling. Cooling converts the starch in rice, potatoes, and pasta into resistant starch (and it st
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by fallinghawks 11mo ago
> In all cases it should be a website, not a "download our app" Increasingly often, it is "download our app". And they will try to force it by sabotaging their website. I did a pickup order from Walmart once. You&#x
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by fallinghawks 11mo ago
My garbage disposal service sends me a survey once or twice a year asking if I would recommend them to my friends. Where I live, garbage disposal is a county contract. You get get whatever company your county has engaged. Do they think peop
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by fallinghawks 11mo ago
The first time I saw them was around Christmastime and I was just stunned by the sight of surfers in the middle of a snow-filled park.
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by fallinghawks 11mo ago
Mustard is not OK. Where do you think mustard gas comes from? ;) That guy was deploying a chemical weapon in violation of the Geneva protocol.
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
It's all transactional. Do something Trump likes, he'll help you, laws, morals, and ethics be damned.
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
The administration's sowing of distrust in medical community also played a big part. Recommendations of useless and/or unproven remedies as "cures," claims of big pharma driving the decisions, and hyping up the changes i
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
Google has been clamping down over the past year or two on sideloading too. I used to be able to install games restricted to Japan if they were uploaded to apkpure, but every one lately gets stopped either by Play Services or the Play Stor
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
I've lived in California all my life and was in San Mateo during Loma Prieta. How close you are to the epicenter has a strong effect on what you experience (it's undoubtedly more complicated than that but distance is a big factor)
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
Air pollution [1] but since things like pollution and climate change are too woke, I'm sure RFKJr will have a different reason. [1] https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/air-pollution-linked-with-incr...
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
Trump has a trope about saying he'll have a big announcement or deal with something "in 2 weeks" -- something that sounds lofty but the delay is long enough for it to pass out of the news cycle. I think RFK is doing the same
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
While I very much enjoy Derek Guy's posts, I find "dressed better" very vague. That were the way clothes were made in the past, that was the style then. I recall seeing an older lady (75-80ish) waiting at a bus stop in San Fr
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
My parents were with State Farm for decades. SF withdrew from the commercial market since last year, forcing owners to find new policies, naturally for quite a lot more. And it seems like they aren't writing new policies for private re
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
Yes and no. OP's title says alarm: great fear and concern. However, there was reporting back in 2015 ( https://gilroydispatch.com/blue-pig-shot-at-morgan-hill-ranc... ) about this identical issue. The cause and the solut
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
https://boingboing.net/2025/07/29/american-fascism-ice-arres...
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
I was pretty irked by that as well. The change from smiling to not smiling affects face shape. But at least the building and car photos were stationary enough to illustrate the fisheye quality.
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
> real diamonds are 'better' and everyone knows it. Personally disagree. That whole "3 months' salary that will last forever" thing? A lab diamond will last just as forever as a mined one. I'd personally rat
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
Inflation is probably why the number is higher now. A year ago I picked up a 1ct hearts and arrows (D/E. VVS1/2, IGI certificate) from AliExpress for $360. I can see the hearts and arrows and it tests as diamond. A few months late
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
I'm option 3: Asian. In this context, Black Americans are assumed just as American as whites because their ancestry was forcibly removed from them. All Asians are assumed to be immigrants -- forgetting, of course!, that all White peopl
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
I'm not sure why people are using AI for a task far better/easier done with a normal image editor. The badge could have been just superimposed at the top; it doesn't have to look like it was part of the original image. And if
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
I completely agree with the "You're all American, period" sentiment, but I suspect you haven't had the lovely experience of being asked "Where are you from" and have your <American location> repeatedly no
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
ReviewMeta worked great while it did, but I've had a ton of problems using it in the last 1-2 years. IIRC the site creator was going to shut it down then but didn't. It very often seems overloaded or has problems finding the produ
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
I've driven around Queens a little and bicyclists, even e-bikes, seem to be both rarer and more law abiding than the delivery people on scooters. I haven't driven much, but every close shave I've had there was with a scoote
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
When you're doing your business I hope your pants are down
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
I was driving from Albany to Binghamton last week and spotted my first BE in the wild over 88. Fully mature, bright white head and tail. I'm into hawks and falcons and don't go out of my way to look for BEs, so it was lucky, and p
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
The Cooper's hawk is known to falconers and rehabbers as fitting perfectly inside a (clean) Pringles can. ;) I must correct you on hacking, though. This process starts with just-fledged raptors, already grown to full size, fully feathe
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by fallinghawks 1y ago
Now do Hawks in Socks! (Nylon stockings are commonly used when transporting a wild bird for an hour or two).

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