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Disappointing. The shopping experience is mediocre and prices/quality are no better than other local supermarkets. However, I love my local Amazon Fresh store because it's a super …

I have an ancient minecraft account (so old I paypal'ed 9 euro to Mojang) that doesn't have an email associated with it. Does anybody have experience with MS helping recover an old…

Here is a much longer writeup of the situation. https://www.science.org/content/article/this-scientist-accus...

If anyone is interested in more in depth examinations of parts of the Odyssey I would recommend 'Watch What You Hear: Penelope's Dream Of Twenty Geese' by Edward Teach(The Last Psy…

Did a bird write this study?

“For aging research, the Bay Area is one of the best places in the world to be,” I've been laughing about this fact for years. Give a guy a billion dollars and all of a sudden he w…

I read the same "fact"* in Graham Robb's 'The Discovery of France". *scare quotes because I've only seen one reference

This is an interesting hypothesis, even though on first blush it seems obviously wrong. I'm glad the article was more nuanced than the headline. This reminded me of an interesting …

Yes it is, but launching it from the system tray icon forces you to use their interface and it is a pain. Like I said, this specific issue is not a deal breaker, but if their other…

I have been a long-time Dropbox+ (and now Dropbox Family) user. I don't mind so much that it is more expensive than the paid personal G/M offerings. It (usually) just works for me,…

Out of the peels? Perhaps. It depends on the kinds of chemicals that are in there. The question is, why bother? This quora thread goes over some of the reasons why synthesizing THC…

Ah, yet another company that has a process to create CBD from the terpenes found in orange peels. This isn't the isolation of CBD, as you would from hemp, but the creation of CBD f…

This service was a big help to anyone who spent long portions of the day in reception-less areas.

One of the interesting effects of Prop 65 is that it allows private citizens to bring suit alleging violations. This has wrought a similar effect to the ADA violations lawsuit rack…