

Phenylephrine is back on the menu, boys!


Phenylephrine is back on the menu, boys!
Because, frustratingly enough, he hasn’t actually been convicted yet.


Counterpoint: the fact that the moral “don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs” even exists is proof that people are indeed greedy and/or stupid enough to do that very thing.


Oh, I see.
You think this is a “politicians don’t understand the tech they’re supposed to regulate” issue, and not a “Elon Musk is bribing every greedy asshole in Congress to prop up his businesses at taxpayer expense” issue.


Twenty-one offenses? Come on, Andrew Taint is more offensive than that!
And sports:
Disney’s 0.2 point gain over March was partly driven by cross-network coverage of the NFL Draft, the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship and the first round of the NBA Playoffs.


I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Americans are real good at ignoring issues that don’t affect them personally.
Oh I won’t wreck my car, I’m a “good driver”!
I can’t catch Covid because it’s not real!
School shootings are just false flags the government uses to pass gun control laws!
Donald Trump only wants to remove the dangerous immigrants, not the ones I hire for my business!


Yeah, that’s not a deal. That’s capitulation.
I did say I use Firefox. I was asking those who don’t.
Yes, I already do.
I asked because I don’t know if anyone who does use a Chromium browser has noticed an uptick in ads.
Last I checked Alphabet had something like $60 billion in profit.
At this point, they probably consider YouTube to be a loss leader while they siphon up everyone’s data.
I use Firefox. Is Ublock Origin still effective on YouTube since Google shoved out Manifest V3 onto Chromium-based browsers?


It takes at least a month to ship things from China to the US. I’ve got a post in my history going over the math.
If the ports are empty now, that means ships stopped sailing a month ago. If they sail today, they’ll be here mid to late June. If none have sailed in-between, it’s going to be a while before any do. And I’m not sure any ships will be sailing soon because no deals have been reached.
Lots of companies bought extra supply in the months leading up to Lie-beration Day, so they can hold for a bit. The only question is how long will they, compared to how long Chinese shipping will resume?
This sums it up:

AI can’t tell you what’s true or not, so it can’t tell you when you’re wrong.


More like mark of the hambeast.


It can literally resurrect 10 year old computers.
I’ve got a 14-year-old Toshiba that I used in college that runs a weird variant of Ubuntu called Kumander (it’s designed specifically to look and feel like Windows 7, which I think is properly nostalgic for the hardware). As long as you don’t expect the battery to last more than an hour (which about par for the course for a laptop from then) it’s perfectly serviceable as a SOHO-type machine.
Also it can double as a self-defense weapon cause it weighs like 10 lbs.


This is exactly how YouTube’s DMCA takedown system works, and how media companies have been abusing it since it’s inception. Someone claims copyright on your video, and Google immediately takes it down. You then can contest the claim and Youtube will put it back up. But the claimant can contest your contest, and Google will then tell you that you can’t have it up and have to settle in court with the claimant. Oh, and you get a strike to boot.
The whole process is automated, because there’s so much content now it’s impractical for every single takedown request to be addressed by a human. And because there is no punishment for bad-faith takedown requests, there is no incentive for the claimants to ensure their IP is really being infringed.


Google Maps
Edit: one interesting thing about their mobile app is when you use the GPS for directions, it changes where the audio comes from depending on what your next direction is. If your next is “turn left” then the instructions come from your left-side car audio.


Also, assuming the Ops are closer than the max length of the cable, you can fly it in circles or backtracks to make tracing it that much harder.
According to Citizens United it doesn’t matter. Part of that ruling held that both individuals and associations of individuals have a free-speech rights. Or to put it another way, you as a person have a right to free speech, and the right doesn’t go away just because you choose to associate with other persons.
So Harvard has a right to free speech, because the individuals who make up “Harvard” have that right.