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Bleeding edge tech is often used to satisfy our prurient desires. I am quite certain this is one of the directions AI is headed.

What makes you so confident that is the case? I listen to lots of classical music and certainly hear musicians breathing, even on older recordings. I would imagine fingernails on a…

Michigan is an exception. No AFCI required.

I saw a Dr the other week (to rule out Covid and strep) and despite testing negative for both and telling me I just had a cold she offered me antibiotics. I declined, not wanting t…

I used to work as a librarian and ran into the issues the author writes about. Less than she did - but it being a community that skewed older I have plenty of experience sheppardin…

"So pretty much, my entire career is built on one amazing stroke of luck." This, to me, is the buried lede. Much of success is due to luck. Not all; some people on balance are more…

I suppose "scare" was perhaps too strong a word. "Steer" would have been more appropriate. Search Apple's website for "repair" to get a sense of how important they think letting co…

Apple would like you to have them / their contractors repair your device, or better yet buy a new one. Everything about this program signals that Apple is grudgingly doing this. It…

So are vegan diets. (By which I mean: whole food, plant based.) But you don't need to pick a team with all the tribalism that's involved. It really is as simple as eating less, lik…

Have you experimented with blades? This was my takeaway after using Merkur blades and I abandoned safety razors for a while. I tried again using Feather blades and the experience w…

According to the CDC the majority of sexually active adults in the US will get HPV at some point in their lives.

Why do people care what anyone thinks about politics? Being a famous rock and roller does not exempt one from having a political opinion worthy of consideration or debate. It shoul…

There is a push to get rid of new natural gas hookups and force new construction to use all electric appliances. Some localities have legislated this.

This particular CDC page reports it was last updated in August.

The NY Post article you link to is about getting both Covid and influenza at the same time. That may be rare. Getting covid a second time after having previously had it (which is w…

This is incorrect, or at least very misleading. Excess carbohydrate consumption exacerbates insulin resistance but the cause is an excess of intramyocellular lipids.

Cloud providers are not required to scan for this content. They are, however, required to disclose it if they find it. That said, many cloud providers do in fact scan for this cont…

MacOS does this with “enable Siri” after every update and annoys me to no end.

Marriage is one of a very few things in life humans undertake where they are asked to commit to do something “for life” that they have never done before. And their closest vantage …

I don’t like paywalls but I have learned to live with simply not reading certain articles. I have a subscription to the Washington Post, and can access content from the Wall Street…

I have found zero medical societies/health institutes that recommend someone begin drinking alcohol who currently abstains for any reason. If you already drink alcohol, consuming a…

I for one will continue my post-737 Max strategy of only flying Delta (Airbus). Not that I fly often.

I'm in the US, and have had one colonoscopy at age 33 (to rule out cancer, I had rectal bleeding). It was hemorrhoids, but will have another any month now because of family history…

Reading this story, my fear is that, if successful, Trump would not have been able to help himself from making statements that would embolden other such groups in other states.