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Agreed, and I think conflating these two is one of the reasons for the resistance towards the lab leak theory that gp mentioned.

Lab leak is one thing, "deliberately created and escaped" is a different story.

A lot of these aren't "strange or scientifically unsound ideas" but downright racism. Whether Nobel prize recipients are less or more racist than their contemporaries is debatable …

At least in Europe the heroin gap was mostly filled with crack from Latin America.

> Especially because so many of them aren't tuned for paying any attention at all to what their users are doing before prompting them I had Napper, a baby sleep tracker, ask me to …

They cover that in their sales pitch. There's supposedly a market for trading timeshares, so you can trade in your timeshare for someone else's, specially if you have a highly cove…

Yeah I also got dragged into one of those while on vacation in a timeshare property in exchange for some tour tickets. The tactics are truly despicable. They insisted that me and m…

As a new father that will eventually get into that situation: how do you ban Roblox in your house? I imagine it’s popular among your kids’ real world acquaintances (school etc). Do…

Something similar happened to me once. You need a valid CPF number (something like a ssn) to create an account on most webshops in Brazil, so fraudsters will use stolen ones. They …

I don’t know if this is the case, but I’ve noticed questionable news outlets reposting their own old articles, possibly to game google news search or something

> I remember seeing a claim that the Bluetooth part was a feature since you could just "pass the controller" inside the cabin but I haven't been able to find a source for it. Here:…

> If Google gave me the ability to block certain sites from my search results uBlacklist?

> Think about what that means for the future of all auto mechanics. Will there be far fewer? Definitely. This is one of the reasons why dealerships are reluctant with EVs: apparent…

Yeah that's the most interesting thing for me as well. I'm also curious about how wfh was granted and then removed: was there a contract change to guarantee it? Or did they simply …

Well SBF was a big dem donor, let's see how that works out for him

After the 1000th "last nail in the coffin" I gave up believing that this will end someday. I see it becoming one of those ever-lasting scams that go up and down in popularity, like…

How are these channels monetized? I heard a while back that YouTube kids had no ads or heavily restricted them. Did something change there?

Yes, I've been in this situation too. What at a first glance might look like the best of both worlds - low bureaucracy and solid funding - turns out to be the worst of both worlds:…

Yeah, such a silly take to imagine that politicians would go down with a blatant fraudster like that just because he gave them a couple of mil for their candidacies. A big part of …

A gun has many purposes, some legitimate (law enforcement, "defense" etc), others less so. A code change that allows the company to do illegal things has no legitimate purpose. I t…

The writing is usually on the wall for a while before the layoff actually happens, so there's time for you to let your manager know that you wouldn't mind getting the boot.

Exactly, thanks

I heard a similar story a couple of years ago: some no-name artist with a fairly good amount of plays on Spotify who could not be found anywhere else online. It was less obviously …

I think one point you might have missed in your analysis is the form factor. I'm in Europe and I'm seriously considering getting a Pixel 6a because it's the smallest one amongst th…

How's the battery life? My wife got a 12 mini and while I love the size, the battery is abysmal and barely lasts a day for her.