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A bit of digging, and it turns out there's a Coca-cola bottler in Aberdeen, the same area as Dees Bees Apiary. I'm willing to bet that purple honey coincides with grape Fanta spill…

any soft drink plants in the area? A bottler near where I used to stay got caught dumping out expired flavourant packs when honey in the area started turning red.

The same applies for plant oils though. Only high value oils like olive oil are commonly shipped packaged and debulked.

Is it not commonplace for US banks to send a text notification for card transactions? In my country, this is considered table stakes when choosing a bank card or credit card.

It's also similarly great for killing braincells when auto-applied orally

Cope

In the grand scheme of all social issues the UK is beset with, this is small potatoes. It's not hugely important, it's just hugely important to you because it's an emotional issue.…

You seem well versed in anime - can I give you a few math proofs to work out?

Academia has been in trouble for a while, what with the exploitation of PhDs and postdocs and low wages - they can't attract or retain the necessary talent. This will just accelera…

What makes you say that teenage girls are the most chemically imbalanced group?

If you've exhausted possible causes, you might want to consider nuking your gut flora and getting a stool transplant from a healthy donor

What's the motive for Taiwan to cut Baltic Sea fibre cables?

Cookie banners are not mandated by law, disclosure of and consent to tracking and capturing private user data and its sharing to third parties is. Cookie banners are just the easie…

As a warning to US citizens: this is similar to how state energy production and regulation was captured in my country, leading to massive corruption. A crisis was whipped up, and e…

Using env vars for secrets has become semi-normalised because of container-based development and deployment. It's okay-ish in the limited context and scope of a container, but it's…

Afaik, there does exist a decree in most teams at MS to not use null if it can be avoided, and any attempt to do so is likely going to be flagged in code review - or so I'm told.

Jean-Pierre, This is an internet forum. Structuring your replies like an email is entirely too formal and comes across as stilted. Please feel free to treat it like a text message …

Kinda makes you wish there was a massive earthquake while everyone was safely tucked away at a Beyonce concert in an earthquake-proof stadium.

I've organised security for tourists wanting to film in sketchy neighborhoods, and this app would have been much easier. Gig work makes up a surprising amount of all jobs for VIP p…

They (VIP protection outfits) tend to recruit former law enforcement into their ranks so they can maintain connections that allow them to skirt the law

I think some law work is non-goon: contract law, family law, human rights law, to name a few

I love desperate cheeto

The best quote I've seen to explain this is from the Men in Black movie: a person is smart, but people are dumb. Group dynamics and identity politics are massively underestimated b…

No - underperformance is relative to a benchmark, be it based on a median plus a set percentage or a set percentile. Only one person can take the top spot in a rank stack, which ma…

I just want to point out the difference between the Red Cross and the American Red Cross, who are known grifters