8bitguy

@8bitguy@kbin.social
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Yes. They stated they would vote for a clean bill and then did what they said. Like adults.

Vote with your wallet. Deezer is pretty good. I switched to them when Spotify decided I needed Rogan in my life despite their algorithm undoubtedly indicating otherwise.

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The adult broke it up.

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I can only imagine the hellish commute a NYT tech worker must endure. Let them work from wherever the fuck they want.

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As someone who has had to walk the "I don't do computers" public through basic things over the phone, I can confirm that yes, a lot of people are way too lazy to learn anything new. They will instead call the support folks and blast some poor person just trying to deal with their day. Call center volume goes up anytime any barrier is added. Agreed though, SMS OTP is constantly becoming less effective. Email OTP is somewhat pointless.

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She also received $20M in stock, and $4.
5M in cash as a sign on bonus, as well as free use of a private jet and a yearly salary of $1.5M. CEOs deserve competitive compensation, it isn't an easy job, but that's enough to hire 163 pharmacists at an average of 150k/yr.

“They don’t want to engage in this banning of books or censoring of honest history or undermining who kids are,” Randi Weingarten, the teachers union president told The Associated Press on Wednesday, characterizing the candidates who won as “pro-public school.”

It's sad that we've gotten to a point where this has to be a fight.

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Email is commonly compromised. It's an easy target for bad actors executing a takeover.

In Tennessee, one has to buy liquor from the government, but can buy a gun (including semi-auto rifles) from a random person in a parking lot. No questions asked.

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I don't think they're concerned about the constitution at this point.

I have a good idea of where they could have found about $200M.

They don't get very granular, but they give a fairly detailed overview of the methodology here:
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/who-makes-the-most-reliable-cars-a7824554938/

Edit: I used to subscribe, and as a result received their surveys occasionally. They seemed pretty well done, but people are people and probably aren't always objective in their reporting.

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Similar to calling in sick and calling out sick.

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I view it as confidence.

Drama

Six Feet Under
Pushing Daisies
Dead Like Me
After Life
Doc Martin

Sci-Fi

Misfits
Firefly
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Stargate SG-1
The Star Trek Franchise (of course)

Comedy

Fresh Meat
The Young Ones
IT Crowd
Green Wing
Miranda
Black Books
Peep Show
The Mitchell and Webb Look

Murder Mystery

Death In Paradise (if you like campy)
Poirot
Inspector George Gently
Wallander
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

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Eich resigned Mozilla and started Brave over pressure from Mozilla because of his opposition to same sex marriage, and financial support to anti-same sex marriage intiatives.

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You can prefill the needle and keep it in a pencil case. Syringes work fine through clothes, although not ideal.

I'm an insulin dependent (T1) diabetic. I keep a glucagon kit on hand in case of an emergency. It's a syringe and vial that needs to be mixed. The idea is that if you're unconscious, someone that is close can administer. If I were severely hypoglycemic I'd have problems, but my partner wouldn't. I could pull it off if it were prefilled, but you can't prefill glucagon.

Edit: I totally get it and agree though. Life saving medicine shouldn't have any barriers.

I think you win. Glad you and doggo are okay.

Support local and independent!

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/what-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-move-from-seattle-has-to-do-with-taxes/

I'd like to pile on because I agree with the sentiment, but in reality it probably doesn't even make a dent in his wallet or thought process.

The arrow affected the aardvark.
The movie had great special effects.

Somewhat grim for the poor aardvark, I suppose. It's useful though.

I hear ya. The KitchenAid stand mixers are still tanks though. I have one that's a couple years old. I abuse it a lot. It cares not.

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I don't think there's really a comparison, but the US Fed increased the prime rate significantly more than how you worded that. They did it over a year or so depending on how you interpret the data. The rate was increased by 5%, which is more than double, from 3/22 to 8/23.

https://www.jpmorganchase.com/about/our-business/historical-prime-rate

And if you have heart issues, know that pseudoephedrine is a stimulant (as well as caffeine of course).

I like Deezer.

I've always wondered why those that might need an epinephrine shot don't keep a vial and needle on hand. A vial of epinephrine goes for about $35. No judgement, just genuinely curious.

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Perhaps any candidate, irrespective of age, should undergo a trusted, impartial cognitive test as a condition of candidacy.

That's pretty sound advice for cleaning a multitude of linen related oopsies.

That goes for about $70 here, in a competitive, urban market. $50 for 300.

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You should bring your own hardware wherever possible. I'd never trust my local network to the ISP.

The way I read it, the fine is capped to $1M NOK.

They send a survey to their subscribers.

The next paragraph states:

We weigh the severity of each type of problem to create a predicted reliability score for each vehicle, from 1 to 100. We use that information to give reliability ratings for every major mainstream vehicle. (The reliability rating is then combined with data collected from our track testing, as well as our owner satisfaction survey results and safety data, to calculate each test vehicle’s Overall Score.)

The Federal Government should just fund the other $2.2M and shame them. "Okay Iowa, if you can't feed your state's children, we'll pick up the slack for you. Please remember who cared about you in November."

Because it works well and smells absolutely amazing.

Definitely. Robert Sheehan is a force. You made me realize how much I forgot!

Deezer is decent.

The best.

Coldfusion (Adobe) comes to mind. There is an open source CFML clone or two, but the real deal is a bit pricey. It's mostly used by government, higher ed., and healthcare. It's not terrible, but it was cooler when it was younger IMO.