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If you don't use uBlock Origin, you can also pihole or otherwise block the domain accounts.google.com. This is surprisingly non-destructive to active Google sessions, though you ca…

Some spam is just thrown away, not put into your Spam folder, so there's some lost opportunity to disagree (and it's hard to judge whether you would have without seeing the spam). …

Twitter capped the third party apps ages ago, but they wouldn’t die. It was still a LOUD death when Musk finally cut them off.

LA is a stranger place than it seems if you haven’t lived elsewhere as an adult. SV is definitely not the only better place, though the candidates may be similarly expensive due to…

I wouldn’t go that far. Often there’s a bigger and/or better community elsewhere, but the Reddit one is also passable because so many people are on Reddit.

> My guess Reddit also noticed most people using Apollo doesn’t create content, so Apollo users are just extracting value from Reddit. I’ve already seen one subreddit threaten to s…

Are you not in a city? I still see people masking all the time, though it’s never a lot of them unless the setting still requires masking. Most folk dance events I would otherwise …

It also depends on the type of heating. Heat pumps are not responsive enough for big daily setbacks, while fossil fuel-burning heating systems are.

Meat from a chicken is chicken. The class of edible animals to which chickens belong, and the general term for their meat, is poultry.

That’s their brand. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)

We got Ecobees as part of an HVAC overhaul; they're nice and it's impressive how many situations they handle out of the box, whereas we had to run a new wire to get the (pre-Google…

I think the point isn’t that you (or Cory Doctorow) has to use ublock to prevent fraud, only that one would expect such users to block ads qua ads and accidentally benefit from the…

The trick is to make stock in an Instant Pot (or other electronic pressure cooker). It’s low effort and can be done with accumulated frozen scraps.

Out of sight, out of mind, but they were mentioned a few times.

“It tastes like meat” is a good argument when combined with “it’s cheaper than meat.” It falls flat when it’s more expensive than meat.

The recommender used to work, before they decided it was more important to show you what they want you to watch, as well as not to show you what they don’t want you to watch. Wheth…

They also think caldo verde was invented after 1935.

It’s not about knowing the difference; it’s about recognizing the pattern and applying the appropriate measure of skepticism. It happens with complicated topics in other fields as …

The quotes are not particularly damning: a rumor that he hit on women, a report of unsubstantiated assumptions about the mattress, and a direct quotation of his hitting on a woman.…

Or that they're pretty out of spec for a 737. I think other people in the thread have pointed out that the extra lift from the engine position is considered normal in other airplan…

Yes, but those hours aren't actually a line item when salaried employees do it, so the expense isn't as visible as other expenses. I think the perception of a lack of quality engin…

I doubt it was racism when regular American (and Western) chauvinism is plenty to do the job of discrediting a third-world airline--not to mention that most Americans couldn't tell…

I don't represent the industry; I was just responding to a comment about pilot error. I was taking it as a given that we already know the ultimate cause was bad software. But that …

But hiring IS crazy expensive because of the hours of effort spent by existing employees on the hiring side of the process, and the difficulty of finding "good" candidates who are …

Getting over speed is an understandable error, and it's neither disrespectful nor racist to mention it as an error when discussing whether pilot error occurred. Lion Air as such de…