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They refunded me all the money I spent on the Stadia + games and unlocked the video game controllers so I can use them with other systems... my only regret is that I didn't buy mor…

Which do you find best? I am using Claude Code but hit the 5-hour limits easily, and burn through the weekly allowance in 3-4 days... and I'm not even using it for work

I only see plans for $8, $20, and $250/month... which one are you using exactly? https://gemini.google/subscriptions/

I'm sorry, what is Awdah Hathaleen's connection to Hamas?

No X1 Carbon on the laptops page? That's surprising... or just interesting (if it's wrong) (I see the Yoga there, but it's a pretty different product)

Heads up, "ahead of it's time" should be "ahead of its time" Cool tool!

> Total sin tax burdens are poorly explained by demographics (including income). While two most-taxed clusters may be low-income, the researchers found a poor correlation between i…

Ironic from a website that requires me to allow javascript to run before I can read a text-and-image blog post.

Caught my attention too so I looked it up. Looks like a great list of goals to me. > Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted. > …

This is an amendment to a bill.

Is Tether now backed by a reasonable amount of real dollars? I'm surprised to see it being used in such a serious application after years of hearing how it was a scam. edit: looked…

Neither of those things have units on them, so that's obviously not the comparison they were trying to draw. The way I see the comment, labor is more valuable to society than putti…

Thinkpad X1 Carbon, although I'm not sure what the touchscreen support actually looks like (I bought the Windows version of the machine and installed my own Linux distro)

You're right, edited. Thanks!

The claim isn't that Telegram's encryption is worse, it's that Telegram's closed-source backend is unauditable. Your other points are a great example of FUD. edit: changed clients …

I looked up every newspaper in the list, and I don't see any evident connections to Murdoch (which I found surprising). Am I wrong?

You're ignoring the living, moving context that is the adtech industry. It's one with a much higher ratio of middlemen:customers than needed, representatives of whom appear in this…

One underreported angle of the blockade of Qatar was the fact that Qatar continued to supply the UAE with natural gas throughout the several-year affair. > It pumps around 2 Bcm of…

It says 2020 instead of 2021.

You're playing on literally the most playable platform there is (the game is even less buggy on Stadia than on latest-gen consoles).

Data collected on a FitBit (or any other device) is not regulated by HIPAA.

So much saffron! Just so I have more to add than that observation, I recommend anyone who's interested in the Middle English in these recipes to check out this episode of The Histo…

For more info on the nautical origins of the word "average," check out this episode of The History of English Podcast: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2020/04/06/bonus-episode.…