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by terr-dav 3y ago
> The researchers found a total of 45% of flavored and unflavored supplements tested positive for rancidity, with 32% of flavored supplements testing positive and 13% of unflavored pills. They added percentages of two separate groups to
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by terr-dav 3y ago
>Everything you said is true but it is also true for every other industry. Do you not think companies selling computer RAM for example not have the same motivations? How is that industry much less frustration to deal with than what we ar
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by terr-dav 3y ago
I have an eerily similar story, and a more general one. 1) I bought lift tickets for a mountain resort, and when I showed up I couldn't find the confirmation email to scan at the self-serve kiosk. I also wasn't able to find my onl
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by terr-dav 3y ago
Each separate party is a business trying to optimize for their own bottom-line. You said it yourself, "optimized to scrape as much as they can from your wallet." The system as it exists is a relatively organic outgrowth of the com
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by terr-dav 3y ago
This seems to have happened to me somehow. I was forced to sign up to unfreeze my credit report (after freezing it years ago without an account) and now it has 2FA configured with a phone number that isn't mine. I have no idea how that
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by terr-dav 4y ago
It does! And it seems that CRI is simply not a useful way to characterize LED light sources, as (i assume) it was established when incandescent and other non-semiconductor light sources were the only option. To expand your metaphor: it&#x27
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by terr-dav 4y ago
An important point in the article is that CRI for LED bulbs does not meaningfully map to the light quality. >Oh, but: Experts agree that the color-rendering index doesn’t really index how colors are rendered. Some bulbs with a 90 CRI mak
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by terr-dav 4y ago
I'm curious as to the reasons people have for down-voting this comment. I agree with the sentiment of your comment. Not only is the concept of property a recent construct, but so is binary gender, binary sexuality, and binary sex.
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by terr-dav 4y ago
When you think it's about a supply and demand curve, you give your lunch money to the bully and thank the bully for their service, when you think it's price gouging, the bully has to inform you that your lunch money is actually th
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by terr-dav 4y ago
My issue is with the concentrated control of where the surplus value goes, I see the existence of dividends & stock buybacks as more of a side-effect of the system than a core-problem.
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by terr-dav 4y ago
All I can say about the other commenters is – let them cook. They’ll understand eventually.
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by terr-dav 4y ago
It can mean those things, yes, but only as side-effects. The primary effect being to increase shareholder value. There’s no need to have market based competition to keep costs down. Look at USPS for example. That operation is run without a
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by terr-dav 4y ago
This takes me back to custom myspace layouts. Many people's first (and last) forays into coding!
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by terr-dav 4y ago
Of course there will always be people taking advantage of every system. I think it's more problematic when the people setting up a system is also participating in it. See: US Congress making rules for itself, including stock trading (s
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by terr-dav 4y ago
This is true for the vast majority of states, and the vast majority of people's interests. The political systems in this country have been shaped by -- and frankly, designed by -- by wealthy interests to make the US an oligarchy with v
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by terr-dav 4y ago
Souls? you mean other people? Or, f- them in favor of the existing residents... And 'affordable dystopian' housing? Only 20% of the units are required to be affordable. Who knows what private developers will come up with to maximi
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by terr-dav 4y ago
"workers aspiring to join the owning class" sounds more like effective capitalist propaganda to me. A socialist aspiration would be to remove the distinction between owner and worker. By transforming a business to worker-ownership
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by terr-dav 4y ago
>dissolving property rights and take whatever water or land they want without compensation... Not that I disagree... but this is roughly describes how the US was established.
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by terr-dav 4y ago
I also strongly disagree with this. In most places, the wealthy have the political power. The power in voting is diluted significantly when the choices are gate-kept by the wealthy.
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by terr-dav 4y ago
Cops don't need a criminal conviction to conduct civil asset forfeiture. They don't even need to arrest someone. They just have to claim that the property itself is suspected of being involved in a crime. Have a lot of cash on you
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by terr-dav 4y ago
It's not a natural disaster, nor an inevitable (& naturally occurring) phenomenon. The decades-long drought is a direct result of a century of burning hydrocarbon deposits that have been in the ground for millennia.
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by terr-dav 4y ago
Don't forget "recycling" [plastics] - another fossil fuel industry PR campaign!
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by terr-dav 4y ago
>He's drawn one of those circle-in-a-slot switches. I often have trouble figuring out what the on / off state of those is supposed to be. iOS has an option to display I/O labels on these toggles too, and as it turns out, n
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by terr-dav 4y ago
Aside from the loss of the Cold War, what you're describing sounds a lot like the United States.
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by terr-dav 4y ago
>Oxford Languages defines eugenics as "the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable." So, for abortion to be a eugenics project
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by terr-dav 4y ago
>The fundamental problem with democracy is, to not put too fine a point on it, that most people are idiots who really have no business having a say in how a city should be run, let alone a continental scale empire. >Meanwhile modern &
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by terr-dav 4y ago
Like any other addiction, it's a way of coping with painful emotions that you (and I) are hiding from (consciously or not). I've been in therapy for several years now and I'm still struggling.
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by terr-dav 5y ago
Here's some more entertaining coverage of Ginni: https://www.fivefourpod.com/episodes/we-need-to-talk-about-g... What's really notable is that she hasn't pulled out of the political sphere entirely, whic
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by terr-dav 5y ago
Or a dust cover?
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by terr-dav 5y ago
It's a shame that they can advertise the life of the diode itself with no regard for the rest of the electronics.

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