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non-partisan? Get the fuck outta here with that lie.

Now they are usually applied for (and issued) at birth because the IRS requires you to provide one for dependants you claim on taxes since 1987.

Before that, usually you got one when you needed one, when you started working.

Missing: Shannon and Ryan.

Reddit is mostly bots, paid shills, and children, not a way to get useful information.

That was me with Revolutionary Girl Utena.

Apple watch starts at $250, Fitbit does sleep tracking too and starts at $70.

TMZ is and has always been a trash publication.

However, they have always been remarkably factual. They always verify everything they publish is true.

This was also true and widely known back in 2013.

Back in the early days of SO, around 2009 or maybe 2010, I asked a Motif question. I got told that I I was an idiot and I shouldn't be using Motif because it was obsolete, how dare I ask a question about it? Blah blah blah.

Yeah, no shit nobody uses Motif for new development, but if you haven't guessed, I was working on a legacy enterprise system.

Just rubbed me the wrong way and still kinda annoys me to this day. Not everyone is dicking around for fun or works at startups where you can light other people's money on fire. Some of us have paying clients, I'm not using Motif because I want to.

Average household size in 1960s: 3.7

Average household size in 2020s: 2.6

They have to recruit participants somehow, social media is popular with most people.

You just unlocked memories I have of playing with a typewriter as a kid. A big big clunky one. Hitting those keys would be so satisfying. I didn't have an ink ribbon, so no actual typing happened, just hitting those big ass keys.

This was before computers were common.

In a video Ann Reardon, a popular Australian YouTuber, tested a vintage hand-cranked stand mixer invented in Australia. She explained the context of a hand cranked stand mixer - that rural homes in Australia didn't have electricity until well into the 1960s.

A lot of people spend more on housing because standards have greatly increased. The average square footage of living space per person has doubled since the 1970s and tripled since the 1950s. A modest home in 2020s was a luxury house in the 50s. Families have gotten smaller and houses have ballooned.

Even when I was a kid in the 1980s I didn't know a single person whose household had multiple bathrooms, a dishwasher, or air conditioning. Not a single one.

Part of the reason why standards have increased is because incomes have increased.

Wow, you seem shockingly blasé about a fire inside the walls of your house!

Just because the fire didn't spread doesn't mean it didn't have the potential to, or either you or the firefighters knew if it did or not without the emergency response.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12500767/ - this is the study the GP is talking about.

Yes.

I don't think you need to "catch up," every Zelda game is self-contained. Also, it's a remake of a game you already played, so you already know the story. If anything, coming in fresh would be a benefit.

Idk why we can't enjoy Zelda games for what they are - each game has recurring core cast, similar mythological archetypes & thematic motifs, and similar gameplay, but are all independent of each other. Even the games that are direct sequels to each other are still very independent.

Can you tell us what the twist is, please? Just mark it clearly as a spoiler so people who don't want to be "spoiled" can skip your comment.

Dude, you're putting a lot of words in my mouth I did not say.

When I first heard of this company trying to do something that didn't appear to be physically or biologically possible I just assumed it would fizzle out eventually. Good for them if they find people willing to fund their reach for the stars. We need those!

Then the publicity came. I found the navel-gazing extremely strange because it was done without any proof they could do what they said they can do. Very little acknowledgement that they were able to do something that required a Nobel Prize level breakthrough and they did it without any bio-science investors or board members. It also came with a heavy dose of a cult of personality which gave me the ick and made me distrust it all even more. Was so weird and performative rather than hard science. Seemed extremely scammy. Certainly not the making of a company that made huge breakthroughs in biomedicine.

Then they announced their partnership with Walgreens. I assumed at that point I was wrong and they had to have been able to show Walgreens they were able to do what they claimed. I didn't think Walgreens would partner with them without doing their due diligence. I was happy to be proven wrong.

Shortly later it turned out, no, it actually was just a straight up scam and Walgreens didn't do their due diligence. Which is the most obvious outcome, but I was sad Walgreens would be duped so easily.

So I am not dismissive of them because I am dismissive of anyone who tries to find a way to do something that has never been done before - I was dismissive of them because they were an obvious scam based on a weird cult of personality.

>I cannot say what was missing from the trial because I do not know what was presented there in detail

What a bizarre thing to say, if you don't know what information was presented at the trial, how can you concluded "The access to the information required [to determine guilt] is not available to most people, we have no basis to judge the narrative for accuracy????"

>I am seriously concerned this is all some sort of ingenious marketing ploy to get people to watch the movie instead of just saying, “I genuinely don’t give a shit about Holmes any more now than I did a decade ago.”

Yes, these comments look like a very serious well-funded astroturfing campaign.

>The access to the information required for that is not available to most people, we have no basis to judge the narrative for accuracy

I followed the trial, what information is unavailable from that?

>I would rather like to see a detailed teardown of one of the machines to get a sense of how far from working they actually were and what were their blockers

The blockers is what they were trying to do isn't biologically or physically possible. When theranos first got publicity all the experts said what they are trying to do isn't possible with known technology and what we know about capillary blood. That's why I found the navel-gazing so strange.

Can anyone say anything of substance about this movie?

There a podcast that covers the trial - https://abcaudio.com/podcasts/the-dropout/

> I remember one Halloween when the Theranos scandal was at its peak, it seemed like everyone was dressed in a black turtleneck carrying tiny vials of fake blood. Holmes was everywhere.

Rolls eyes

I guess I travel in very different circles than this author.

>But the thing that often gets lost in the retelling of her story is that Holmes was actually acquitted of all four charges related to defrauding patients. She’s in prison because a jury found that she knowingly misled investors who poured more than $700 million into the startup. That’s a significant distinction

Now my eyes are getting sore from all the rolling. I don't think that fact gets "lost," and it's not a significant distinction.

I think I'm done with this article, whatever it's point is.

In the US you can pull your credit report to get that information.

That information can be pulled as part of a background check, if that's required for the job.

>“GLP-1 receptor agonists are being shown to benefit many chronic diseases over and above their effect on weight,” John Deanfield, FRCP, FESC, professor of cardiology at the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences at University College London, told Medical News Today. “These include liver diseaseTrusted Source, kidney diseaseTrusted Source, diabetes, and neurological diseasesTrusted Source such as Parkinson’s diseaseTrusted Source. They should therefore not be labeled merely as ‘weight loss’ drugs, but as drugs that can have a direct effect to improve patients’ health.”

>Building off this research, Deanfield is the lead author of a new study recently published in the journal The LancetTrusted Source that provides further evidence of semaglutide and lowered major cardiac event risk, regardless of how much weight a person loses while taking the GLP-1 medication.

>“Semaglutide has previously been shown in the SELECT trial to significantly reduce major adverse cardiovascular events in overweight/obese patients with known heart disease but without diabetes,” Chen explained. “This study analyzed the information from the SELECT study, and found that this benefit to cardiovascular health did not depend on how overweight patients were or how much weight they lost.”

>“This interesting finding suggests that the cardiovascular benefits of semaglutide act through a biochemical mechanism not dependent simply on changing the body weight of an individual,” he continued. “This may open up other avenues of research and therapies that could improve heart health.”

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/weight-loss-drug-h...

Luckily, like exercise, there are cardiovascular benefits even without weight loss.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/weight-loss-drug-h...

If you don't have diabetes, it would be off label use in that case, which is not illegal.

>I suppose we all could wind up with cancer in 10 years or something hypothetically

Extremely unlikely, GLP-1 receptor agonists have been on the market for more than 20 years now, exenatide being first used in 2005.