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>Blue tissue and flesh can be a sign of rodenticide ingestion, which can occur by eating bait – which often contain dye to identify them as poison
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I just looked at the documentation and it seems there's some pretty robust mocking and even custom test reporters. Definitely sounds like a great addition. As you suggest, I'll temper my enthusiasm until I actually try it out.
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Everything I want to do is illegal [pdf]
(beginningfarmers.org)
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> I don't trust the state with the due dilegence Me neither. That's why I'm glad that in any jurisdiction I've seen it available, it always comes down to the patient's choice. > I want you to think of the mill
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> at the same time they slowly killed him with the morphine stopping his breathing, thankfully. Yeah, some places have two forms of assisted death available. Fast assisted death, or slow assisted death. Either way, you're getting me
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1y ago
> find their hidden assets and take them Asset security is exactly one of the reasons people seek foreign shelters. If you've got a ton of value to control, you want it to be secure, and sometimes your own government is the primary
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"Although well-intentioned, the current dermatology approach to sunlight only considers skin health, in particular, risks of skin cancers and photoaging, and fails to take into account systemic health benefits and modern research on me
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Sunlight: Time for a Rethink?
(jidonline.org)
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Yes, this was about his thoughts on the matter, not a summary or analysis of the predicament we're in. It was nice to hear honest commentary on this topic from an esteemed science communicator. For anyone who wants more specific inform
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> uncaring entropy So then if you were to consider a higher power in that case it could be the set of all permutations of stochastic possibilities in the universe, or something like that. The system itself is powerful, and is "high
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New quantum paradox clarifies where our views of reality go wrong (2018)
(quantamagazine.org)
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I've used ChatGPT almost daily for months. It has never said anything like "I've seen whispers, posts buried in niche communities..." as though it's some kind of secret agent. And if it did, I would ask for the link
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Probably not popular, but I like board game cafés. You pay an hourly fee to play one of dozens of board games while also enjoying food and drink typical of a coffee shop. I think the public library should be a great third place. They should
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Doesn't seem like a straw man to me. It's an extension of the unsupported claim that the cause for the action is racism. False equivalence perhaps. But I think the problem is that "The cause for the action is racism" doe
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It would save a ton of effort and lives if illegals would self deport. So, maybe they're adding in a lot of intimidation to try to increase the self deportation rate?
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1y ago
Well, I heard Cathie Wood refer to Tesla as the largest AI project in the world. So if you think of it that way maybe the sky's the limit. She seems 100% certain that people will be earning money renting out their Teslas as robotaxis
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> Your brain is telling you that it is not interested in the current task. The question is: Why? I think for a lot of us it's something like: Because it's nonsense busywork that I don't care about. Procrastinating isn'
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Yes, trying to live a healthy lifestyle is definitely an uphill battle in many (probably most) areas. I think the part the pisses me off the most is when I'm trying hard to get my kid to eat well, and he suddenly has to deal with a cho
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Yet Tesla market cap is four times that of Toyota's. Unbelievable. I had to stay out of TSLA after the first year or so because the valuation made no sense to me. Other than a FOMO / YOLO play like BTC. I'm shocked that the v
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I felt it difficult to continue with the story after that. If you're going to say, "Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans" and mention walking the streets, then you have to assume the reader is going to think of our w
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> wages - however high - are not a path to wealth and security. High wages provide the discretionary income required to invest though. So I'd say, they're not the goal, but if the word path is to be used, I'd say they are
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I thought this was going to be one of those cases where typography nerds are overreacting to something that 99.99% of human observers wouldn't even notice. Unfortunately, it is not one of those cases. If it were my family member, and m
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Sam Altman's Eye-Scanning Orb Is Now Coming to the US
(wired.com)
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According to the article: This decision follows identification and documentation of personnel issues involving contract staff that compromised the facility’s safety culture, prompting this research pause.
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Incompetence is rampant in government jobs. Schools aren't technically government jobs, but there are many similarities in terms of incentives, hiring practice, dismissal difficulty, talent pool, etc. In any normal (private sector) job
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In my experience and observation, as the age and school level increases, there's more actual learning going on. By the time you're 16, I'd say a significant amount of school time is decently geared toward learning, and you&#x
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The "I'm just doing my job" excuse goes a long way with people. Every once in a while you'll hear about someone who just couldn't stomach it anymore. Working in megacorp finance for example. Or insurance, where ther
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Surely there is more than 0 redundancy so that one power line failure would never result in this level of catastrophe.
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It takes more than a slogan. It's almost impossible to justify a significant percentage increase in price based solely on a questionable declaration of manufacturing location. There should be a quality improvement that goes along with
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First Lotus Domino gig in 1998 and worked with it for several years until SharePoint started competing in the same space and pushing out Domino seats. Interest in Domino was diminishing quickly, and the companies that were using it were try
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