wkearney99

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Smokers gave a home to bacteria that now sicken people with CF(arstechnica.com)
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by wkearney99 5y ago
Smoking can really clog up the lungs, even for people who’ve never been near a cigarette. Turns out that smoking habits from the early 1900s are still inflicting damage—not on tobacco users or their families, but on people with cystic fibro
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by wkearney99 5y ago
and marketing didn't want some penny-pinching customer to fixate on HOW MUCH? would the system cost if it actually had all that RAM.
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by wkearney99 5y ago
I'd imagine a fair number here are thinking "uh-huh, no they're not."
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by wkearney99 5y ago
We have two 350' wells for loops at our house in Maryland. Tripled square footage in the new house and energy costs stayed the same. Moved from natural gas for heat, but still have it fir backup (which in a decade has never been neede
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by wkearney99 5y ago
Fear of killing others clearly hadn't been motivation enough. Fear of their own death, however...
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by wkearney99 5y ago
Maybe because convincing someone not to engage in behavior that puts EVERYONE ELSE at risk is considerably different than individual issues with obesity? It's not you can cough someone else fat.
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by wkearney99 5y ago
If it's square it's fish. If it's round it's chicken. Taco Bell, circa 1986.
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by wkearney99 5y ago
Handling lead isn't exactly 'eco friendly' Given how long the tech has existed it's no surprise to see recycling has developed for it. Especially given the ruinous effect mining for it has had in some places. No doubt
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by wkearney99 5y ago
And yet many ICE cars have caught fire in unattended "off" condition. did that 'sink' their movement? the car makers ARE taking big steps to address these things, much more so than in the past for ICE vehicles.
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by wkearney99 5y ago
The window decorations changes in Windows 10 are indeed horrible. I hope there's a special place in Hell for those that forced 'ribbons' onto the UI.
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by wkearney99 5y ago
And it's a bad situation made worse by malicious actors with whole other agendas in play that seek to deliberately twist the explanations.
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by wkearney99 5y ago
+1. Nearly all of what Tog set out as guidelines has been carelessly tossed aside. And for what? Some vain reductionist UX? Just stop already and let the users get work done without changing the look ever other version.
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by wkearney99 5y ago
When you live by yourself in a small place, sure, just reaching for switches seems perfectly fine. In a larger household, with many occupants it starts becoming more useful. Simple things like roll-backs on lights for spaces that haven&#x27
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by wkearney99 5y ago
We had our 9mo child take 'Infant Swim Rescue' courses, basically anti-drowning lessons. The concern being the waters near us are cloudy and it'd be impossible to see someone if they went under. Classes went well. At a neig
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by wkearney99 5y ago
And the Appalachian mountains are older than just about all animal life.
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by wkearney99 5y ago
From that tone though, would you have left? Or just hung around trying to continue to be a malcontent? Or is it recent behavior, contrasted against past participation, that encourages using shadowbans as a passive timeout rather than an out
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by wkearney99 5y ago
Given the range of things going on lately, what with plenty of issues that might drive one to be 'mean as shit', could you describe something more specifically?
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by wkearney99 5y ago
You first. Because it sure seems like it's you that's trolling.
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THIS. Far less worse to have the pollution at a facility where significantly better controls can be applied than belching fumes out on millions of vehicles with next to NO pollution controls.
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Coming from a Murdoch-owner paper... I have some doubts...
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by wkearney99 5y ago
That they deliberately conspired to skirt sanctions? Shameful, indeed. One has already plead guilty. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/iranian-national-pleads-guilt...
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by wkearney99 5y ago
more like investment scammers peddling automated vehicles can't overcome left turn and other challenging traffic scenarios, so they're pivoting to marketing against allowing them.
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by wkearney99 5y ago
by that same metric doing business with the US could likewise be problematic. Are you calling for that to stop, too?
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by wkearney99 5y ago
WHICH messages, from which 'fellow scientists'. The mails are out there now, cite them. Not just parrot assumptions.
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by wkearney99 5y ago
when first living in NYC I had a station wagon, previously gifted to me. Not being from the area I couldn't believe there wasn't a decent supermarket. I had another friend out in Long Island near one. I got several Manhattanite
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by wkearney99 6y ago
In a small sampling of places I've been in the MD metro DC area it's not uncommon they have a dispenser at the door, prominently placed to indicate suggested use. A few places have personnel dispensing it, some in a manner that d
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by wkearney99 6y ago
understanding isn't mainstream so, yeah, inertia is certainly a factor, but the staggering level of tech incompetence among the masses is also a likely factor.
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https://archive.is/0Zzgy
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by wkearney99 6y ago
well, there's also the audio issues. pulseaudio config for remote use isn't always reliable. but otherwise, yeah xrdp works great for access from machine that already have the client installed.

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