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Re:I Don't Have a Smartphone on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:51PM (#49542367)
At lease one issue I want to push back on is this one

> That person owns a smartphone (which is at least a couple hundred dollars).

Smartphones can be bought for under $100 these days.

I've been having the same issue
Re:Sunlight After Dark on Thursday August 22, 2024 @04:41PM (#41324226)
I came across this company that is claiming to put satellites in orbit to generate solar power on earth after dark. Is this feasible?
Re:Make sports betting taboo again on Thursday August 22, 2024 @10:50AM (#41320942)
The author mentions an undisclosed $10 fee on every $100 invested in Robinhood. I've had an active Robinhood account since 2017 and I've never been charged a fee to invest.
Her about page on https://patricgagne.com/ says this

> B.A. · University of California Los Angeles

> M.A. · California Graduate Institute

> PhD · California Graduate Institute of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

Re:The Invention of a New Pasta Shape on Saturday January 27, 2024 @11:38PM (#39162632)
That's too bad. I would love to try the Sfoglini brand but it doesn't have kosher supervision, as opposed to the TJ's.
What's with the file download when opening the site?
Re:African Ports Overwhelmed by Red Sea Reroutings on Friday December 22, 2023 @10:06AM (#38734813)
What nonsense is this, At the Babi Yar ravine just outside Kyiv, 33,771 Jews were massacred on September 29 and 30, 1941. Months before the US entered the war. Additionally there were Jews being slaughtered from 1939.
Re:New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly on Thursday October 19, 2023 @12:23AM (#37938364)
I've had Covid at least three times myself. The first time was in Feb 2020 and was my roughest bout. I didn't fully lose my sense of smell or taste but it was very confused. Oranges tastes like parsley and other foods got swapped. I've always prided myself on my sense of smell and have been able to differentiate ingredients in a dish. After about a month my sense of taste and smell seemed to go back to normal but for about 2 years I felt that they had not recovered fully. I love to cook and my taste clearly changed. I started drinking more full bodied wines and eating blue cheese, things that had not been my favorite.

I've had at least one but I suspect 2 brushes with Covid in the intervening years. They were pretty mild with no fever and only cold like symptoms.

Around March of this year (2023) I experienced a bout of Covid that reminded me of the original time I had contracted it. Fever, body aches, lightheadedness etc. The symptoms were the same just lighter in intensity and over quicker. The interesting thing is that I never lost my sense of smell and I feel like I've regained what I'd lost from my first bout of Covid.

No more blue cheese:(

Such a sad story, I could not imagine living with what feels like a ticking timebomb strapped to my head.
What are the advantages over https://devdocs.io/ ?
People are throwing the word fine around, what there needs to be is jail time...
Re:Turn the Radio Volume Down for Adverts and DJs Talking on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @04:59PM (#33991210)
It blocks in video creator ads not Youtube ads
Re:BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff on Friday December 02, 2022 @12:11PM (#33833326)
Idk about cost, DevBootCamp was about 11k in 2014.
Re:Why to not use JWT (2021) on Thursday September 29, 2022 @01:02PM (#33023687)
If there is an expiration in the JWT, logging off is still an issue. You can't log out until the JWT expires.
Re:The Secret Life of Leftovers on Thursday August 11, 2022 @11:45AM (#32427471)
Reading about food waste has always bothered me. Growing up in a Jewish orthodox household wasting food was verboten. There is even a mitzvah (commandment) regarding wasting food and or resources[1].

I think that mindset drove me to be named the "leftovers king" by my extended family, as I repurpose leftovers into delicious meals.

There are a couple techniques that can help turn fridge leftovers into really good meals besides for soup. You can make an amazing Frittata using whatever leftover veg and protein you have.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_tashchit

I've been hearing about this lawsuit for years now, but I've never seen what the ruling was.
Re:No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @08:45AM (#31326402)
Weirdly I just opened YouTube on my phone in a browser window (something I don't do very often). And the dislike button was there.
May I ask what computer it is?

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