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by vlark 2y ago
There is a difference between laws and regulations. Law determine what is legal. Regulations dictate HOW to act/behave to be within the government's interpretation of the law. Courts determine whether the government's interpr
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by vlark 2y ago
Find a strawberry farm near you that lets you "pick your own". Chances are these will be the best berries you taste that season. Same for any fruit or vegetables, really. There's a farm near me that does pick your own potatoe
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by vlark 2y ago
This is an enormous effort for an academic joke article. I am reminded of Upper's classic "The Unsuccessful Self-treatment of a Case of 'Writer's Block'" ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/a
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by vlark 2y ago
Are they going to sue Microsoft next since the database is available publicly on the web?
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by vlark 2y ago
I have my Android phone's power button set up to turn on/off the flashlight feature with a double click. It's immensely convenient. I have a low-end Samsung A23 5G.
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by vlark 2y ago
This is a highly entertaining recounting of the event: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/309921
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by vlark 2y ago
Pretty cool! Two of my cheesy old stacks are included in the massive index card and one of my original online friends from the days of eWorld has his stack featured on the second card (the "Are You A Space Alien" stack). I notice
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by vlark 2y ago
Specifically, this journal: https://mattioli1885journals.com/index.php/actabiomedica
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by vlark 2y ago
The takeaway they don't say: When you tire of your goldfish, kill them instead of releasing them.
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by vlark 2y ago
Eddie Lampert killed Sears, plain and simple: https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2bsxn8l0u5yr6z...
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by vlark 2y ago
I don't see adverts as I use an adblocker, as any sane person should do.
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by vlark 2y ago
Battle of Wesnoth fits the bill and is on the list.
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by vlark 2y ago
It's tone deaf, for sure, but it's really a bad ad because Apple isn't showing any originality but simply ripping off an old LG ad: https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/09/controversial-ipad-pro-crush-..
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by vlark 2y ago
So much social media drama would subside if people wrote their hot takes but never posted them.
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by vlark 3y ago
The movie Electric Dreams taught me back in 1984 never to trust home automation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6agO47o96c
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by vlark 3y ago
Me, I'm just waiting for the Great Bovine Rebellion of 2026.
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by vlark 3y ago
Best I can tell, the Logitech Pebble might fit the bill. It does slope a bit so is not entirely flat and is a two-button mechanical mouse with a scroll wheel (that can also act as a button).
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by vlark 3y ago
They use an Epson.
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by vlark 3y ago
The TL;DR = Not really, according to our methods & analysis. But maybe.
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by vlark 3y ago
Nothing to see here. Just another case of continuing enshittification. Move along.
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by vlark 3y ago
These developments are being built "stick and brick" style, with highly flammable softwood two-by-fours for their framing structures and less-than-an-inch thick brick veneers for the overlay over the Teflon building wrap. I don&#x
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by vlark 3y ago
My voice is my passport. Verify me.
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by vlark 3y ago
You can tell the writers and designers hate the PDF format because they made the damn thing so difficult to read, layout-wise. They went 1990s PageMaker/QuarkXpress crazy here.
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by vlark 3y ago
Appropriate George Carlin clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
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by vlark 3y ago
I, for one, can't wait to order a 2024 IONIC HYUNDAI SILVER WHEELS LED HEADLIGHTS 4WD HIGH SPEED OFF ROAD ELECTIRC VEHICLE CAR AUTOMOBILE 300 MILE RANGE.
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by vlark 3y ago
You might claim Yahoo! is irrelevant, but it still gets 3.6 billion visits a month: https://www.similarweb.com/website/yahoo.com/#overview Drudgereport gets 57 million visits a month: https://www.simila
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by vlark 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220623195738/http://www.barnes...
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by vlark 3y ago
This is your reminder that Selective Service is still a thing and that Congress and the President could authorize a draft if they really needed to boost fighting force numbers (unlikely, given our current in-fighting & partisan Congress
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by vlark 3y ago
This study is not representative of all teens' smartphone use, as iPhone users were not included in the study: "iPhone users were not included because data collection access for detailed app usage (i.e., names of specific apps suc
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by vlark 3y ago
And the enshittification continues.

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