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Re:I Made Tinnitus My Friend (Then It Disappeared) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @07:56PM (#49237568)
It took a while but this worked for me (no gimmicks either)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vOHoeRYxBI

Next they should bring back round steering wheels.
Re:Electronics for Kids, 2nd Edition on Saturday March 21, 2026 @07:00PM (#47472413)
Is there a parts kit sold for this book? I couldn't find one online.
Re:The enshittification of Amazon paperback books on Monday March 16, 2026 @12:41AM (#47395293)
I first starting noticing bad print on demand editions from Oxford University Press almost 20 years ago.
Climate is obviously relevant to agricultural production.
Strangely no mention of the climate crisis.
Quite the qualification for self-driving: "as long as there are clearly painted lane lines."
Re:The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into on Friday November 28, 2025 @08:31PM (#46084501)
The problem UBI boosters have is not understanding how basic social welfare programs work, or somehow pretending their one weird trick replaces them (that’s why they’re always vague about the actual amount of the UBI).
Re:The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:00PM (#45905574)
That was before Trump v. United States (2024)
Sportswashing is coming to video games.
A swim coach told me that in 1950s people used to do the first lap of breaststroke underwater but people kept passing out. It wasn't safe for youth sports.
Re:Apple introduces a universal design across platforms on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @01:10AM (#44232767)
I'm getting older too and the last thing I need is more blurriness.
Trees are great but Las Vegas is in a desert. It would better to also build for shade, like old hilltop towns in Italy or Spain, or various urban designs in the Middle East.
None of this would have happened without the support of Silicon Valley billionaires.
Milwaukee started its shade program in the 1980s.
Re:Adults can learn perfect pitch on Friday February 14, 2025 @04:23PM (#43053199)
Looking at the graphs it appears that two people had big improvements and the others not very much.
Going to bed a lot earlier. Some people just can’t sleep past a certain time no matter what.
Practice will clearly improve your performance on puzzle questions like these. Is that really testing intelligence, or just interest and motivation for solving puzzles?
Re:USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut on Saturday September 14, 2024 @11:30PM (#41544988)
Yeah, these are awesome. It’s SUVs that are ugly.
Re:The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service on Friday September 13, 2024 @03:20PM (#41534263)
I used pinboard for years until I started saving web pages as PDFs in my Dropbox folder. I got the idea from pinboard’s own archive feature.
Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky on Sunday September 01, 2024 @12:40AM (#41414346)
People used it to organize an attempted coup against a democratically elected government and twitter is not cooperating with the investigation.
Plant names are changing constantly anyway so this is not a big deal, just a nice thing to do.

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