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Wish there was easier way to customize/set favicon for bookmarklet. Right now you can export bookmark, edit in data, and import. If you have multiple chrome sessions you need to im…

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>it's impossible to know whether any of the Chinese brands are actually trustworthy and of high quality. IMO people buy cheap generic Chinese brands for the same reason they buy ch…

IIRC EU/EUCLIDES exploration of EUV light source concluded synchrotron easier/cheaper to _technically_ operate long term, but exploration limited to 8W, compact designs. As far as …

Is the suggestion elites were controlling access to procreation? Maybe men were also just killing each other extra fierce in the land grab. Uncompletely uneducated speculating on m…

Framing is America foreign policy, WW2->Coldwar was US helping Soviets defeat the Nazis on the battlefield and subsequently coordinating with Nazis to try to undermine Soviets / Co…

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Full circle is splitting it off again to Google Listen. Either way I wanted to migrate to podcasts for a couple years but they never had opml support. I just hope they might take i…

They had one of the OG podcast apps, Google Listen from 2009, year after first Android phone release. Probably part of someones 5%. Which was surprisingly functional, and of course…

lol wut, reality is PRC urbanization is increasing at 1-2 percent per year. Housing sales are down by 1/3 due to RE crackdown, but they haven't stopped. Speculators have stopped bu…

Baseline PRC unemployment is 5%. CNN cherry picking some interviews of milleninials in tier1 cities who don't want to work hard, i.e. not do well compensated manufacturing jobs bec…

No, the problem is PLENTY of people want to buy to speculate in PRC RE bubble, which cost even more in terms of misallocation long term. Hence RE crackdown, now there's vacancy rat…

>Why? Because they are doing exact same thing they are afraid of. By this measure, US would be saturated in Huawei phones like PRC is in iPhones. And US streets would be clogged wi…

Because US manufacturers will eventually get out competed even with reciprocal 25%-50% import taxes. With how things are going I'd be surprised if US even allows PRC cars from Mexi…

>storage. My meal prep uses lots of stackable take out containers, in different sizes that nest into each other, with interchangable lids, that take up a fraction of the space. Rea…

>Possibly save up for a better backpack TBH this does address a lot of problems, but many people don't like backpacks or whatever packs they use everyday isn't built for ergonmics …

As someone not weary of using plastic in microwave, for some reason I am very distrustful of silicon used in cookwear, especially equipment that interacts directly touches hot meta…

Are there any no plastic microwave containers that doesn't get hot?

They also get hot after microwaving, which for inpatient people like me is a deal breaker. E: obviously I can spend extra effort to handle a hot glass container, but I'd rather dea…

There is no difference. The point wasn't level of support/theatre/posturing but presence of support at all that tacitly indicates the level of intelligence behind Canada's accusati…

US admin disputes the WP piece. >"Reports that Canada asked the U.S. to publicly condemn the murder and that we refused are false and we would strongly push back on the rumours tha…

It's not shared with public, which these things rarely are due to usual sources/methods excuse. US formally supports Canadian allegations against India, which means intelligence at…

The allegations is tied to FVEY credibility at this point.

They can probably train an AI to filter based on human appeal. But IMO there's still room for artists with taste and technical talent to manipulate images closer to a curated ideal…

There's also just general balance of attrition to consider. PRC with 4x population has 3-4x more infra to hit, and homeland strikes will beget homeland strikes - PRC conventional i…