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Re:Should you wash your solar panels? on Monday July 27, 2026 @04:26PM (#49075102)
Or in the actual writing of a book, for that matter.
100% discount outside of peak hours. That's a small, but quite important difference.

Actual 100% discount is €399,95/month.

Do minors drink less than they would if we allowed (or even encouraged) them to drink or use drugs?
*cries in ghettoblaster and Maglite D cells*
Re:Be Like Clippy on Saturday November 29, 2025 @03:23PM (#46090437)
This clippy white-washing is annoying as hell. Just like clipppy was.
Or more likely, they set up a temporary redirect 7 years ago thinking 'oh we need some time to figure it out', and promptly forgot about it.
Re:Scientists Growing Colour Without Chemicals on Thursday November 06, 2025 @06:26AM (#45834035)
I mean, even then you're growing it from chemicals. Unless you're straight up converting energy to matter (in which case, it would be kind of odd the first practical application they think of is making colors).
Re:Enigmatic Writing from the Republic of Georgia on Saturday December 14, 2024 @04:28AM (#42415776)
Trying to get the English name for the country to include a letter that does not exist in English is just the kind of trolling we've grown to expect.
Re:Fun facts about Google Scholar on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @01:47PM (#42186807)
>which is Google's primary product

Which used to be Google's primary product, way waaaay back when. Their primary product now is advertising, and has been for a very long time.

Re:Experimental digital camera with a color eInk display on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @01:10PM (#42186458)
Neat idea. But also, somebody's definitely going to take some kind of inappropriate picture just as the charge runs out, and will be stuck with it at the worst time. And somehow this makes it even better.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:45AM (#42062175)
And by 'pay more' he means 'buy more US weapons'. NATO is a conveniently captive market for the US arms manufacturers, and no way they're going to want to pull out of that while they still have stock to sell.
> To my knowledge this isn't recognized anywhere as a disability (though it is associated with a standard diagnosis)

I have the same issue, and I strongly suspect it has to do with my ADHD. I absolutely hate ads in pretty much all forms.

Re:The Lonely Funeral Project in Amsterdam on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @12:14PM (#39980953)
> But, just as much, the dead do deserve our attention and respect.

They do in a way, but don't fool yourself that it's actually about the individual dead. It's about humanity in general, and the contribution – good, bad, or meaningless – that every single human life has made to our collective existence. It's good that we admire rainbows, but that doesn't mean we should revere every droplet of water.

> The dignity of a person doesn’t cease when they are dead.

It doesn't 'cease' inasmuch as it becomes a meaningless term. The dead don't have dignity, they are no longer people. It's the memories of the dead have dignity. Those memories are not a part of the dead, they are a part of the living that remember them.

Sure, but nobody but chx even brought up Thinkpads in the first place.
> while also being dramatically better for the environment?

[citation very fucking much needed]

Re:Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner on Friday September 08, 2023 @04:23PM (#37438927)
Malaria used to be quite common in Europe and the USA...
Re:Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner on Friday September 08, 2023 @04:20PM (#37438888)
That is not at all what that paper is looking at.
They were basically the ultra-rich landowner class. The actual farm laborers doing all the work weren't quite as well off. There's a reason that area still has the last traces of the communist party still active in local politics.
Wow, that's quite an unfortunate name to use for a farming co-op. You can tell it wasn't started in the North of the country where the historical 'herenboeren' were an actual thing.
Re:How many shipwrecks are there in the world's oceans? on Monday June 19, 2023 @01:23PM (#36393838)
> the most powerful warship in the world.

Prime example of 'theory vs. practice'.

Re:Antidepressants help bacteria resist antibiotics on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:32PM (#34523023)
> by design

Yeah, no. Quite the opposite in fact.

Re:What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years? on Sunday September 11, 2022 @05:45AM (#32798266)
You don't expect the watch to hang around forever, either. You'll lose it, sell it, or it will break. We don't want a future with indestructible watches littering the streets.
Re:Spotify Wants You Hooked on Audiobooks on Thursday June 09, 2022 @01:08PM (#31683892)
Can't these platforms stick to a market? I'm paying for a music streaming service. Spamming me with podcasts and audio books, which I consume in completely separate settings and ways, only makes me inclined to stop paying them.
Re:Vivaldi Mail 1.0: Email client built into the browser on Thursday June 09, 2022 @12:52PM (#31683599)
Honestly, mail, notes, and calendar are the things that do make sense in a browser for me. Old-school Opera style.

Noways we basically do the same anyway, but just in a browser window, not locally.

[edit: and RSS feeds. RIP]

Re:The madness of reduced medical diagnostics on Friday May 20, 2022 @12:13PM (#31449417)
That has nothing to do with NAC. NAC supposedly helps protect against possible kidney damage caused by the contrast agent, nothing to do with radiation, ionizing or otherwise.

Doesn't seem to be a clear indication that it actually helps for that, but it's used for quite a lot of other things, like treating paracetamol overdose.

Well, 'everything' besides links breaking when users post them from new reddit, which for some godawful reason inserts escape characters, and removes them when displaying in new reddit only.
> I liked DDG because it respected the user.

Unless you were searching for anything recipe-related, in which case they will push results from their partner 'yummly'. Or if you were trying to get literal result from you search string, which it will apparently silently ignore if it doesn't find enough results.

Honestly, I'll dump DDG in a heartbeat whenever I find something even marginally better. Their only edge is the '!' syntax which I haven't yet bothered to find an independent solution for.

>Turkey's only unburned military bridge with a strong power is Russia.

Which is kind of odd, since in recent history they've shot down a Russian jet, and had an assassination of the Russian ambassador perpetrated by a uniformed police officer.

> without my consent

Not having read the TOS of the platform (or even ever having used it), I'll hazard a guess this isn't quite legally true.

> There is probably also a law specifying how to unsubscribe, but I can't tell how it works in the Netherlands.

The law here in the Netherlands is that you must be able to unsubscribe by the same method you subscribed in the first place.

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