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Medicalidiot

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    Comment #25065514

    This is why I was having issues watching Youtube 1.5 hours ago. I thought it was my internet, kept doing all kinds of stuff because I was having slow internet in general.

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    Comment #25059616

    I wonder if this is because people are dating more before getting married, which probably leads to more mature people who know what they're looking for in a spouse.

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    Comment #25047069

    I have only had getting the steam client to launch, and only after a fresh install. This was mainly on OpenSUSE a few years ago; I could get it working maybe 2/3 times after a fres…

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    Comment #25016735

    When you look at the bacteria that generate spores, the only population that is usually affected is neonates; which is why it's advised not to give honey to anyone under the age of…

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    Comment #25012250

    If we ever have a pathogen like Archaea I will shit my pants. Prions already are able to survive 242F for 15 minutes and caustic chemicals so we already have enough on our plates. …

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    Comment #24930907

    We had our computers go down for ~12 hours one day. Paper charts came out, which was a massive undertaking. I could not imagine my system being down for 5 weeks.

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    Comment #24819316

    PBS News Hour. I've never watched more boring and informative news in my entire life.

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    Comment #24765595

    My buddy moved into a closet there ~4 years ago now. His rent was something like $2,500 per month. I am living in an apartment now that has twice the space and better ammenities wh…

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    Comment #24679094

    Downloading science articles on an "open campus". Something that should be celebrated was instead castigated.

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    Comment #24627070

    Bachelor's degrees only went down slightly, which isn't too surprising. What's worrying to me is that associates and certificates have dropped significantly. Both are primarily for…

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    Comment #24455638

    France, the one country that challenged US intelligence because their own intelligence contradicted the CIA and NSA reports. Absolute studs.

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    Comment #24455611

    I didn't even think of that, but that's probably a good idea at this point.

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    Comment #24387486

    I went from Ubuntu to Fedora because of the recent decisions made by the devs and the hard push of Snaps. I use Chromium every once in awhile and am amazed at how long it takes for…

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    Comment #24305471

    I was an early adopter of Voat during the first Reddit purge but it turned into a racist cesspool. I'm wondering how many of these alternatives will follow that trend.

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    Comment #24224657

    Malaria is probably going to be one of the hardest maladies to overcome. There was some promise with a vaccine, but it looks like that was fairly disappointing. The selective press…

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    Comment #23775669

    Let me build some credibility here: I have been working out for roughly a decade, have gained over 70lbs, and was ranked in the advanced category (set by ExRx standards) of dead li…

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    Comment #23520427

    >A company's "main players" are its board and senior management Ah I see that we have different definitions of main players. I'm thinking of developers who are able to mess with th…

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    Comment #23511667

    >Zoom's product development team is largely based in China The main players are under CCP command. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications#Work...

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    Comment #23482663

    I've always been sketchy of Zoom after finding out it was started by a Chinese national when this is one of the top recruitment avenues for Chinese espionage agencies.

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    Comment #23405229

    "Secretly" is a misnomer.

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    Comment #23296529

    I'd love to have one of these in my gaming rig, but even with my 1700 I rarely have cpu bottlenecks.

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    Comment #23266469

    Personally, I would like to a see a government sponsored test where the study materials are provided for free. I feel like that would help decrease the amount of people who couldn'…

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    Comment #23264917

    https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

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    Comment #23262248

    How do y'all think this nationwide housing crisis will precipitate?

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    Comment #23262236

    A friend of mine lived in the bay area for a bit and ended up leaving because he couldn't handle the virtue signaling. From his experience a significant amount of people would talk…