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Re:Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes on Sunday August 09, 2026 @10:21PM (#49238544)
Highly suggest making an old fashioned flight to try it out. Choose your favorite bourbon (which has a corresponding rye), and make 3 old fashioned, 1 with only bourbon, 1 with only rye, and 1 with a 50:50 blend. You might be surprised which you prefer.
Re:Gavin Newsom Bans California from Requiring ID to Vote on Sunday October 06, 2024 @01:39AM (#41755008)
>Still, requiring IDs to vote just seems to make prima facie sense. Of course you want to (visibly) make sure that people are voting legally! That's a pretty important part of democracy. I understand that in practice, few cases of voter fraud are detected, and that in practice there are all sorts of mechanisms in place to make sure people aren't taking advantage.

In a vacuum absolutely. But in this country we have a rich history of voter suppression. And requiring IDs is a way to do that in practice (as you mention). So it becomes a matter of balancing what would be the ideal (everyone has an id easily, and we can thus require it for voting) to the reality (requiring it will lead to a magnitude more people wrongly disenfranchised than fraud prevented).

Re:How economical is your local Taco Bell? on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @11:51PM (#41507873)
Looks like this only includes ones that allow you to use the app, so it is missing ones like the most expensive one in Seattle (possibly the US?). https://www.thestranger.com/food-and-drink/2023/05/16/789929...
Re:This induction stove is cool as hell on Monday January 22, 2024 @02:26PM (#39094125)
I want an electric kettle that can run off 120 and has a battery for quick boiling. Bonus points if it's a gooseneck for coffee. I've never found one though.
Thought this was interesting in light of the recent submission "Amazon allegedly resells damaged books"[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38818578

I have been on pixel my last few phones (currently on 6a). While I've done 3p roms on my phones before, I'm not as interested in thinkering with them anymore.
This is the main driver for me in considering a switch to Apple. I almost did the last time I needed to upgrade, but the trade-in offers were good enough that I didn't. It doesn't feel like an upgrade though, I lost the back fingerprint scanner that worked great, but at least I get the security updates for a bit longer.
Re:Ball und Panzer Golf: making a Playdate game in a week on Saturday July 01, 2023 @10:50PM (#36557728)
It really feels like the first gadget I have gotten in a long time that continues to delight. It's the rare gadget that keeps updating the better.
There's a subreddit that popped up when Google last threatened to get rid of it. You might find it useful. https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuitelegacymigration/
Re:Rap artist Afroman sued by officers who raided his home on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:27PM (#35284310)
>Law enforcement officers were acting on a warrant that stated probable cause existed that drugs and drug paraphernalia would be found on Foreman’s property and that trafficking and kidnapping had taken place there, authorities have said. Those suspicions turned out to be unfounded, though, and the raid failed to turn up probative criminal evidence. No charges were ever filed.

>When cash seized during the raid was returned to Foreman, it appeared that hundreds of dollars were missing. A subsequent review by the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation determined that deputies had miscounted the amount seized during the raid itself.

It's disappointing that the AP doesn't even mention any of that, just a mention that some money was miscounted.

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