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by smeej 9mo ago
To solve digestive problems, I managed to eat the exact same meal every single meal for 20 straight months. And it didn't help me lose weight. So I dispute this statement with some enthusiasm.
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by smeej 9mo ago
> existing for them must be utter HELL. You've certainly hit upon why they use the same password for every single thing.
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by smeej 9mo ago
> There is no question if I want to do it, it is set at that time and I have to do it, period. Gosh it must be nice to have at least an ordinary amount of executive function skills. Is it really this easy for neurotypical people to build
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by smeej 9mo ago
Also a possibility: An on-screen keyboard. I'd happily click the keys. Or even the lines on the staff for that matter.
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by smeej 9mo ago
This would be comical but for the years I did live in poverty. In what world does my being able to afford it now mean I've somehow always been well off? This is ignorance, plain as.
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by smeej 9mo ago
> Insurance companies completely dictate what she can and can't do, and frequently she is unable to do more in-depth, best-practice analysis because insurance won't pay for it. The distinction between "can't do"
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by smeej 9mo ago
Neither does collective responsibility, for the same reason, particularly in any sort of representative government. Or did you expect people to pause being idiots as soon as they stepped into the ballot box to choose the people they wanted
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by smeej 9mo ago
To all the people saying this doesn't go far enough to change things: Of course it doesn't. This is a symbolic beginning, not the whole project. Things like the composition of school lunches were determined for years by the recomm
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by smeej 9mo ago
Also came looking for this comment. I get the symbolism of leaving grains at the bottom, but it's dumb. Just turn the darn thing over. I won't even complain much about having the bottom bulk be "meat, vegetables, and fruit&qu
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by smeej 9mo ago
What got to me was when my own doctor was telling me I was "healthy at any size" when I was telling her about things like plantar fasciitis in my feet that clearly got worse as I gained weight. Like, it would be one thing if I
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by smeej 10mo ago
I mean, you're citing goodereader.com as though that's somehow an authoritative source and not just a blog by a guy who likes ereaders, but has no special legal knowledge. Much more useful would have been if you had linked to an a
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by smeej 10mo ago
I do at least appreciate that emails from one Proton account to another Proton account are secured by default. It has made it much easier for me on the few occasions I've needed to send someone something securely but haven't wante
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by smeej 10mo ago
The recipient's email service provider seems to be the "third party" at issue here.
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by smeej 10mo ago
> "These books were added to our catalog using our self-service platform by a third-party who did not have the rights to the books," spokesman Drew Herdener told the Guardian. "When we were notified of this by the rights h
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by smeej 10mo ago
The linked article is about Amazon's having realized they had no right to sell the books they thought they had sold and reversing the transaction, not revoking a license to something they thought they had licensed to you. You seem to
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by smeej 10mo ago
Yeah, my reading story is apparently really odd. Didn't realize that until I was much older. My mom read to me a lot when I was really little, pointing at the words as she read them, and as she tells it, one day when I was 3 I just tol
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by smeej 10mo ago
This was taught by default in my elementary school. I found it frustrating, though, because I don't actually read a word at a time. I've always processed blocks of text, a few lines together. I can read one word at a time if som
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by smeej 10mo ago
Plus, even if you wear the watch on one arm and the ring on the opposite hand, they're only ever a maximum of your wingspan apart when in use. I'd just love the "customizable button on a ring" concept, and that battery c
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by smeej 10mo ago
I think I'm as interested in it from a pure "button that's always with me" perspective. I already have my original Amazfit Bip watch configured to send a "track back" signal to Snipd via Gadgetbridge to snip po
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by smeej 10mo ago
In the vast majority of U.S. markets, it's almost always better to buy--or even rent --the cheapest house that meets your space and safety needs and invest the rest in index funds. Anyone who ends up with their primary residence as th
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by smeej 10mo ago
I just genuinely thought this had been the case for at least ten years. That's what makes it so surprising. That they haven't monetized it like this when this is how basically everything is monetized and they spent so long burni
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by smeej 10mo ago
That was my thought too. "Starts"?? I assumed they had been selling aggregated data about user trips the whole time.
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by smeej 10mo ago
Fixed-rate 30-year mortgages have been around for generations now. They're long since priced into the market. Whether any specific person actually thinks through whether spending as much money as the bank will lend is prudent, instead
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by smeej 10mo ago
I still don't understand how this means you "can't afford to sell your house." It just means you can't afford to buy another house at the same price as the one you have now. That's a different problem, and one
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by smeej 11mo ago
I found the vehicleprivacyreport.com site awfully misleading. The "Vehicle Privacy Label" only lists what the manufacturer's current policies are, not what applies to my vehicle. It makes it seem like Toyota is somehow remo
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by smeej 11mo ago
There are already so many ways (and reasons) not to do free or open source software. People who find them convincing are using them. People who don't generally are not. It seems like the author of the post is just potentially having a
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by smeej 11mo ago
I think I probably would use a project that had a license that said "you can use this for now, but if I later decide I don't want evil people to use it, you'll have to maintain your own fork based on the last version before I
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by smeej 11mo ago
Most people are internally stuck in movie logic. They can't possibly be honest with other people because they can't bring themselves to be honest with themselves. Who wants to admit their problem with someone is that they see so
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by smeej 11mo ago
Of the six old Android phones I have around, two of them I don't dare turn on due to swollen batteries. I guess it depends how old the devices are whether this was a real risk, but I won't leave devices plugged in anymore for this
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by smeej 11mo ago
I think it's more just an example of the flawed methodology. Like, it assumes a 4-person household, right? Two adults, two kids. If the kids need full-time childcare, it's because the parents must both be working full-time, right?

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