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water can be purified many ways, one of them is running it through a series of layers of particles much like you'd find in the ground. Let me recommend a book.

Worse. This;

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/australia-surveillance-bill/

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r6623

Data Disruption Warrants, which allow the AFP and the ACIC (or another person on the law enforcement officer’s behalf) the ability to “add, copy, delete or alter” files on a computer or device, so as to “frustrate the commission of crime”4 where a law enforcement officer “reasonably suspects” that one or more “relevant offences” are “being, are about to be, or are likely to be” committed.5

Network Activity Warrants, which “allow agencies to collect intelligence on serious criminal activity being conducted by criminal networks”6 by intercepting communications and using surveillance devices on computer networks. The AFP and the ACIC are permitted to do “any thing reasonably necessary to conceal”7 their access and modification to computers, allowing the warrant to be conducted covertly. This is available where there is a “reasonable suspicion” that monitoring the network activity of a “criminal network of individuals” is “relevant to the prevention, detection or frustration of one or more kinds of ‘relevant offences.’”8

Account Takeover Warrants, which provide agencies with the ability to take control of a person’s online account “through the modification of data” for the purposes of “gathering evidence to further a criminal investigation.”9 This is available where there is a “reasonable suspicion” that one or more “relevant offences” are “being, are about to be, or are likely to be” committed; an investigation is either imminent or in progress, and taking control of the “target accounts” is “necessary for enabling evidence to be obtained.”10

It looks like a novelty gift from Amazon.

What is it with business people and appropriating every imaginable moral text to the purposes of business? Aside from the usual suspects like The Art of War and Cicero on HR management, the most bizarre I've ever seen is "Aesop's Fables for Real Estate Agents". It's time to stop.

My kids never see ads. The small one wanted stuff for bathing, maybe something that colored the water. Big one a mattress for the outside shelter. My parents hate finding gifts for them. We said any small token is fine if they can't find something, even 2nd hand, if they insist on a budget add to their savings. They find a gift that matches the budget that ends up cluttering their room and never gets used.

-edit- since this could be misunderstood as a smug thing, my point was that kids that don't get exposed to ads and have most of the stuff they need, don't really wan't anything. I can highly recommend cancelling cable and putting a pihole on your network.

Whilst that might be how you feel, you are not correct. This situation is literally the dictionary definition of something to be disgusted by. From the Cambridge Dictionary:

>disgust noun/verb: a strong feeling of disapproval and dislike at a situation, person's behaviour, etc.:
>
>She walked out in disgust.
>
>We are demonstrating to show our anger and disgust at the treatment of refugees.

The bolded emphasis above is mine.

The Oxford dictionary agrees, stating disgust is "A feeling of revulsion or strong disapproval aroused by something unpleasant or offensive." This describes the situation in question quite accurately.

SEK (Swedish krona) is the official currency of Sweden.

110.0 SEK = 12.80 USD

I think the term is Imperialistic Warmongering.

Source: Shock Doctrine

Read Naomi Kleins book on the subject. It is a serious eye opener.

https://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0312427999

Short version here

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/naomi-klein-how-power-profits-from-disaster

Bad solution to a solved problem.

We have two of these in our house for home defense, one for a downstairs office and one for the bedroom, and might get more. It's 1/3 of the price, takes <1 second to set, and can withstand 800lbs of force (not including the extra strength from the doorknob).

I honestly recommend anyone get one. We have firearms to defend ourselves, but, it saves a lot of moral and legal problems to just stop them from getting to us in the first place while we wait for the cops.

As I said, pirating is illegal. I would certainly never recommend searching for TPB proxies, that's a sure fire way of reaching illegal content and god knows you want to avoid that.

However, I am a fan of using VPNs like NordVPN when I connect to the internet. They help keep me anonymous when I want to stream videos of cats and stuff.

Are we being hypocritical by using the greatest communication tool ever created to discuss the subversion of said tool (the internet) into a capitalist hegemony? I'd rather we all use open source, federated services, of course. But I'm going to keep using the walled gardens to spread the word.

On that note, check out matrix and mastodon.

you should try PiHole, it makes all requests to ad servers go nowhere in the whole network and only needs a raspberry pi attached to the network. it even works on obscure devices like tvs and probably fridges etc.

https://pi-hole.net/

Check out Pi Hole, I use it at home, network-wide ad blocking, no apps needed, no extensions, as long as you are at home wired or wifi all devices have ads blocked.

I love it, cell phone apps, any computer, any browser, any OS, doesn't matter. Ad free internet.

The top 3 results on google being ads will still show but clicking them goes to a dead page because it won't allow ad content.

If anyone wants a more specific case study, The Jakarta Method, by Vincent Bevins is a really good (and horrifying) historical account on the US/CIA's intervention in the affairs of another nation.

There's definitely a market for specialized walker feet covers.

How's this for irony? Special covers for your walker's feet, but they're &quot;tennis ball yellow.&quot;

I think they're talking about it not being a Judge decreed warrant?

Here's an article from earlier in the thread.

>What makes this legislation even worse is that there is no judicial oversight. A data disruption or network activity warrant could be issued by a member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, a warrant from a judge of a superior court is not needed.

So while there are warrants, it doesn't need to be approved by a judge which looks to be the change OP referenced?

Either way, I'll be over here with /u/XenosMind for confirmation.

Hi, Ive been a stagehand for 22 years, buy her this if she likes the technical side of theater.

Trump rewarding service with a cheap novelty then.

Just in case you're not joking (I apologize if I'm not detecting it), no. Very much no.

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Installing Windows on a machine makes most common Linux distributions look easy in comparison. Linux has stepped up its user-friendly game massively, by more than many people realize, in the past 15 years or so.

I'll throw out a recommendation to Ubuntu for anyone who is curious, since that's the usual suspect in terms of recommendation. Of course, it's far from the only Linux distro that is piss easy to install and use. Other honorable mentions include Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu), openSUSE, Manjaro (my personal distro of choice), deepin, elementaryOS (also based on Ubuntu), and Solus.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/skin-to-skin-hospital-bill-charge_n_57f40de0e4b015995f2b98e9

> Though she could not comment on specific patients, she clarified that the charge is not for simply holding the baby, but to bring an additional caregiver into the operating room “to maintain the highest levels of patient safety.”

“In the case of a C-section, where the bedside caregiver is occupied caring for the mother during surgery, an additional nurse is brought into the OR to allow the infant to remain in the OR suite with the mother,” said the representative."

If anybody is concerned with the potential biases of this article, the author has made the paper available here: https://www.academia.edu/37170642/Chapter_10_-_When_a_mans_home_isnt_a_castle.pdf

I just finished reading it and, while I'm nowhere near her field of study, I am more than familiar with Canadian homeless men and feel she's misunderstanding their positions at times and forcing them into a box at others. I was lost at points trying to figure out how these men should behave instead. A man feels betrayed because a woman leaves him after saying they have each other and that he can count on her, and thus he apparently feels robbed of having a woman to dominate. Why is that the conclusion? I'm confused.

My thought process at this point has pretty much become:

'Where is this?'

>Donald Trump hit the links with football great Brett Favre on Saturday at his golf club in the suburban New Jersey hamlet of Bedminster.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jul/25/donald-trump-brett-favre-golfing-bedminster

'Any freak lightning storms due in Bedminster?'

https://www.windy.com/40.681/-74.645?rain,40.204,-74.645,8,m:eMXad4K

'Dammit. One of these days...'

We had pens that looked like syringes and if anything they took away the fear from getting vaccinated or getting blood drawn as a child. Make pills /medical equiment not a topic to not speak about. Due to Media many children think that a loved one is deadly sick just because their grandpa takes pills for high blood pressure or a friend takes medication for Diabetis or allergies and things like that destimatize it a bit.

Mmmm you're throwing that around like you have a social studies background, but you've clearly never hung out in a climbing camp.

You think every poor person has a phone?

You think national parks don't have cell service already?

If you're fortunate enough to travel to a national park, you're already somewhat privileged. The entrance fees alone are part of that. I'd suggest you pick up a copy of, "the great New wilderness debate" if you're serious about the topic. Here's a link even gnwd

Just want to say, along with using this for submitting generated photos of people that don’t exist, there’s also this handy cheat sheet.

> an ambulance ride is prohibitively expensive

They charged me $800 for a two mile drive from my car accident over a decade ago. After fixing my broken leg they strapped a brace on it and charged $500 more (for something you can buy on Amazon for $70) - the exact model at the time was $50, a tenth of what the bill said.

... Fixing my leg was 36 hours in a hospital total, a surgeon and gas - over $40,000.

Not all disabilities that make using stairs difficult require ADA compliant rooms.

This is fake but the people excusing it suck major arse.

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Actually, technically not the EULA but the Terms of service, which Terms of Service, Didn't Read does a quick rundown of. The first bullet point, and the major issue, is indeed that

> You give us permission to use your name and profile picture and information about actions you have taken on Facebook next to or in connection with ads, offers, and other sponsored content that we display across our Products, without any compensation to you.

So, yeah, unfortunately.

That is not a Nerf gun. Nerf guns imply, to me, something that cannot be mistaken for a real firearm at any distance, like the stuff this guy is holding. They are also a brand of toy that tends to use foam darts rather than little plastics pellets like Airsoft toys, which can be much more realistic and are often used as the starting point for the weapons people use in costumes for conventions and stuff.

I'm not about to research this in depth but here's a quick snippet.

https://weather.com/news/climate/news/2018-05-17-earth-third-warmest-april-2018-cool-united-states

400 consecutive warmer than average months. And this winter has been very mild again for me despite this "polar vortex"

Whether or not you put copyrighted material in your video, you've still got a good chance of it being flagged for copyright with ads inserted as a result.

The copyright detection system is a computer algorithm which is quite open to abuse by "copyright trolls". Here's an example: https://thenextweb.com/video/2018/01/05/youtubes-problematic-content-id-says-white-noise-copyrighted/

I've got a few videos myself with false claims on them which have stood for years now. YouTube has no incentive to fix this because they make money whenever they have an excuse to put ads on a video.

Not sure how much of this is true, but here's a bit more about her

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/08/05/photos-of-a-young-mother-working-as-a-courier-in-moscow-spark-renewed-calls-for-help-and-fraud-allegations

The book is called The Pentagon Catalog: Ordinary Products at Extraordinary Prices, by Christopher Cerf. It was written in 1986, so inflation just jacked those prices more, including the price of the book, which used to sell for $4.99. It's a 64 page, easy read.

It offers a slim, durable flat washer for only $387, a deluxe, lightweight toilet seat for only $640.09, a space-age coffeemaker for only $7,622 and a P-3 Orion luncheon refrigerator for only $12,000.

Sources for the book were taken from real life, as well as from congressional investigations, news reports and expert testimony.

I highly suggest not buying it from Amazon if you can help it, the link was just the most convenient.

Basically everyone is a victim to capitalism in some way, ya just gotta look hard enough

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/08/05/photos-of-a-young-mother-working-as-a-courier-in-moscow-spark-renewed-calls-for-help-and-fraud-allegations

Firefox has an agreement with Pocket. By default the blank new tab has a bunch of random popular articles. When enabled, mine looks like this but you can turn those off.

Is NordVPN free? Otherwise I might prefer to just donate to Planned Pregnancy, because obviously all pregnancies are absolutely planned by God, absolutely. Although saying that, I do still feel the compulsion to report, so maybe both are necessary?? GOSH, what a bind, I’m so confused.

Finds hidden cameras. For a whopping $250 (34 hours at a minimum wage job) on Amazon you too can get some LED blinking lights and a piece of transparent plastic as well.

Hear me out:

I studied propaganda and persuasion while in college. According to Noam Chomsky and his Five Filters, as well as the textbook definition (Jowett &amp; O’Donnel), black propaganda is “essentially any statement without any refutation.”

If even the sky has marketing on it, we’re propagandized into materialism. I can understand TV (change the channel), radio (change the station), but the sky?

He was not even selling loose cigarettes that day, he was just known for doing so. Basically, following a comstat meeting, a Lieutenant saw a big black man on a street, and directed officers to get him off the street. Garner had just broken up a fight before he was murdered by police. The person who filmed it was harassed by police since and is now in jail, the police said to him "not so tough without a camera" which doesn't even make sense.

Matt Taibi wrote a great, sad book on this if anyone needs more evidence that just being big and black is enough to get you killed

Also let's never forget what happened to the Ferguson protestors

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If you're gonna go down that route, look at your first comment; cynical doesn't mean what you think it means

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/cynical

you meant to say we are "pessimistic", not "cynical"

Sort of, but not always.

https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/what-is-the-placebo-effect#1

It's worth noting that self reported stuff will generally be better because we're expecting it to be, but objective measurements aren't often affected.

The pin is in your passport. This is to prevent strangers scanning your passport by just standing next to you with a powerful scanner.

You just need an Android phone with NFC capabilities, plus this app.

Where in Oregon? Salem was mentioned in the OP, but the only thing I found was the Salem PD listing water sites and apparently actively helping with them: https://nextdoor.com/agency-post/or/salem/salem-police-department/water-stations-open-in-salem-and-turner-83798839/

I'm glad someone else looked into this.

I can't find a primary source for this either. All I can find is a secondary source: this exact quote is used as an epigraph for the chapter: "Was Hitler Ahead of his Time?" in the book Marketing the Third Reich by British Conservative (and apparent go-to expert on the appeals of NAZI propaganda) Nicholas O'Shaughnessy.

While I was researching this, the book disappeared from Google Books (no idea), but you can still see the epigraph on Amazon using the look inside feature, and jumping forward to the beginning of Chapter 8.

These data came from HMS, and were rendered in a mapbox application.

In other words, this was created manually using NOAA data and some programming.

Hey teachers, friendly reminder that you can download YouTube videos to show in class. That way you don't have to worry about them being taken down, your school's shitty internet, inappropriate ad inserts, or popup banners. Also, VLC will play just about any video file.

You're clearly young so I won't hold this comment against you but you have to ask yourself why it would be a cool thing to brag about.

If you really want to eat gold you could pick up 'GOLD Leaf 20 Sheets Edible 24k 999/1000 Gilding' on Amazon for less than $6.

What part of eating this would be cool or impressive to others though? The perception of it being valuable and hence you having a lot of money to waste? You could just go to the supermarket and buy the expensive 'luxury' frozen pizza rather than the cheaper ones (that are more or less identical) and achieve the same thing.

You could also probably eat diamonds (assuming you swallowed them whole rather than breaking your teeth trying to chew) without any harm too but it doesn't make it a sensible, impressive or worthwhile thing to do.

You'd get a much greater sense of satisfaction if you instead gave the money to someone who needed it to buy actual food and what better way of showing off and demonstrating how much money you have is there than literally giving it away?

>>A private company has your photo > >No they dont. Customs does. The govt.

No, they do. If you gave them your passport, they do.

If you have an android phone with NFC, you can test this for yourself if you download the right app.

If you scan your passport with it, manually insert your birthdate and passport number (this is to prevent strangers from scanning your passport by just walking next to you), it will decrypt the RFID on the Passport, and give you a digital copy of your passport photo.

This digital photo can then be used to cross-reference with the physical copy of your photo. It works on French passports. I assume it will work on American passports as well.

But coming back to my original statement, this means that once scanned, the airline could just keep the digital copy of your photo and your passport information.

She's a well known scammer, you know. The article above links to a lot of stories where people gave her money and she blew the money on something else.

There's no hard choices these days. There's only data and facts. The fact of the matter is a degree from an accredited higher learning institution isn't worth what it was before.

Tuition is free in 2020. Online courses are a thing. YouTube is a thing. MOOC's (massive open online curriculum) are a thing. You can get an Ivy League Education for free today (Google edx). You can give yourself an MBA for FREE, or if you're the type that needs some certificates to boost your self-esteem going into interviews (and that is totally fine, please don't get me wrong there.. Everyone is different), it's possible to get that and pay LESS than what the person I'm replying to paid in the late 80's.

The world has changed. Campus based networking is nonexistent in a post-pandemic society. Paper degrees began declining in value years ago when information began to flow freely. Now they are barely worth the debt that student loans are distributed upon.

If you're interested in learning more about why its so common in the rust belt, I'd recommend listening to the following interview. It's extremely interesting.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/01/sam_quinones_on.html

Here's a shorter interview, however with much less depth, with the same author. https://www.npr.org/2015/05/19/404184355/how-heroin-made-its-way-from-rural-mexico-to-small-town-america

I really recommend the first one though, its incredibly informative.

That sucks, I'm sorry to hear that. One thing I've discovered that really helped me was a website called Privacy. I use it for pretty much anything I buy online. You link your bank account with it. When you go to buy anything it creates a prepaid card that you can set to any amount or apply rules to ($5 per week/month etc). That way if the company gets hacked, your info is safe. It gets better though. Because there is a spending limit it will block the company from charging you money. No overdraft fees, so it works great for websites that ask for a credit card on a free trial. I believe it makes its money from the merchant fee most credit cards have, so the companies you're subscribing to are technically paying for this.

You mean pitchforks? https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896?cmp=ios_share&amp;pr=false&amp;autoplay=true We are lurching toward civil conflict because we don’t have enough zeal for common order and the rule of law. Capitalism is playing us for fools.

Btw, I just found something you might want to try out – could spare you the second router or the pi-hole that someone else recommended.

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html#instruction

This seems to be an ad-blocking DNS server you could add to your existing router as default DNS. I don’t know how well it works, but AdGuard is a trustable company as far as I know (I had once been using their mac app for a while). But it’s also meant to block ads network-wide for all devices, like your TV.

I think Anarchy + direct democracy has a shot with our current level of tech. Humans are only selfish and cutthroat because we've grown up in this fucked capitalist dystopia. Throughout history, mutual aid, gift economies, and self-governance has always been part of the human condition.

Plus, capitalism currently protects our worst criminals - corrupt billionaires - and does nothing to bring them to justice. Anarchy would not have this problem. How quickly would Comcast or the FCC have been ransacked and destroyed if the people had their way? And how much better would we be when the people, after, created their own moneyless TRULY democratic system?

https://libgen.pw/item/detail/id/613521?id=613521

https://i.imgur.com/K3dnVGH.jpg

A sector for The American Federation of Teachers is currently the one I've been helping with. My mom's a teacher with a Master's in Education and only gets $25k, and she's still in debt from education after 14 years. Thankfully it's now being publicly spoken about in School Boards that teacher's salary needs to be raised exponentially while many are threatening strikes. It's a difficult battle, but it's one that needs to be fought.

Believe me, I know the feeling though about corporate bullying. I work full time at FedEx and I'm sitting on my second write up because I asked the President of the company, Rajesh Subramaniam when we'd all get our raises in front of a few hundred office and warehouse workers. The higher ups on stage with him didn't appreciate me dropping that he's got 10 million in FedEx stock on top of his 5 million dollar minimum salary while many of us work two jobs to live in a town with a "low" cost of living. The whole room started yelling at him and the little turd walked behind the stage and a couple of my mangers walked me out of the auditorium to threaten my job (again).

Since that connection between cancer and sunlight is contentious, I think it's reasonable to consider this is wrong. If interested, I recommend this book about Vitamin D which makes a strong case:

https://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-Solution-3-Step-Strategy-Problems/dp/0452296889

I have a degree in Neuroscience, and while Dr. Chomsky is well known for his political and social activism, he is also known as the father of linguistics and one of the founders of cognitive science (oddly enough, I knew him as the scientist first and was surprised to later find out about his philosophical analysis and social criticism).

My favorite story about Dr. Chomsky (we’ve never met, and I hardly think I could ever refer to someone who is such a pillar of history by their first name) was based around his belief that language acquisition was a purely human-derived concept; animals and humans would never be able to communicate using the same language. A researcher wanted to disprove this, so he brought a chimpanzee to live with humans in an immersion-like environment to learn sign-language.

The chimp eventually did learn a few words/signs, but the researcher realized that he wasn’t using them to communicate ideas - he would mimic others’ signs or wait before signing, but he would never sign as a way to communicate things like feelings or concerns - the reason that language evolved past simple words into complex grammar.

Anyway, the whole point of that story was because this little chimp had become quite well-known; after his time at the linguistics lab he was sold to a tuberculosis medical lab. He had some supporters who rescued him, and he was able to live on an animal sanctuary until he died, but he also made an appearance on Sesame Street. This little chimp’s name? Nim Chimpsky.

There is also a book called Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human written by Elizabeth Hess. (That is not an affiliate link, just a straight link to the book.)

If you haven't yet, please watch "Requiem For the American Dream. It is an absolute work of art and I think is where this quote came from.

It is free with ads on Amazon video.

Thanks for the info. It's on the Play store. But, hilariously, it doesn't work on stock Android phones. Pixel 3a not eligible. Oh well.

I've been there, and it feels impossible to reconcile the cosmic and personal perspectives in a meaningful way with the tools we're usually given. It requires imaginative skills that aren't taught or valued in adulthood. I'm not gonna try and sell ya, but magic(k) and this book in particular helped me develop the tools to tackle this shit at a personal level. To be clear, I'm not suggesting new age crystals or theism or any of that baggage. It's just about using the imagination to make the world and our experience of it seem meaningful again.

You thick fuck.

Play store link: Relay for reddit

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well, there is the issue that school is in session during the coldest, wetest part of the year.

and it starts really early in the morning. Those single digit temperature days would have been "nice" /s

Even with Mullvad, you’re just taking their word for it. They have your IP address, they could easily report to your ISP what you’re doing, you just trust that they’re not going to do that.

They publish all these articles and reports about how private they are, they’ve passed audits. Seems safe. But unless you can access their servers, you just have to trust that nothing has changed.

Two examples:

https://www.amazon.de/Notfall-Zahnf%C3%BCllungen-Br%C3%BCcken-reparieren-MundspiegelW/dp/B09LVSZDZX/ref=sr_1_28?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;crid=18XJ60SH8ZB4E&amp;keywords=zahnzement&amp;qid=1665018646&amp;qu=eyJxc2MiOiI1LjM2Iiw...

https://www.amazon.de/Provisorische-Verschlussmasse-Zahnf%C3%BCllung-Selbstanbringung-Abwesenheit-Zahnarztes-30/dp/B012NQQLL0/ref=sr_1_5?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;crid=29ARWFHF02FAA&amp;keywords=zahnf%C3%BCllung&amp;qid=166501...

Just this past couple of days, in St John's, Newfoundland & Labrador up in Canada, they got hit by a bomb cyclone that dumped 30 inches of snow on them. A state of emergency had to be declared in the region, banning vehicles on city streets. Not that you could get to your car, or even out the door as low-level buildings and vehicles were completely buried in drifts up to 15ft high.

It's madness, and it broke a 20 year long record. All businesses in the provincial capital were ordered to close, so I doubt some minimum wage pusher up there could get by with forcing their employees to work when facing what's been named one of the worst winter storms to hit Atlantic Canada in years, but I don't have to imagine some employer in the States trying to.

"I don't care if you're buried in and a state of emergency was declared, you'll be here for work or you're fired!"

St. John's Bomb Cyclone

Generally people use Humberto Eco's 14 Signs of Fascism, which America largely ticks as a culture: http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html

Closest I'll get to bluetooth is using my Quedelix 5K. Personally bluetooth itself doesn't take down the quality too much but that's partially because I still get to use whatever headphones I choose with it which is whats important to me. Also has a built-in parametric EQ with multiple custom profiles which sets it apart from similar tiny BT receivers like the Fiio BTR3K.

Love that form of bluetooth but still have zero interest in ever having a full-bluetooth pair.

Translation : "Benevolent, Ali is always attentive and welcomes confidences without judgment. While minimizing nothing, it soothes by de-dramatizing. For him, all humans are worthy of respect and love.
In order to use Ali you must: Download the application Agree to share information

-NOT NOW

-CONVERSE WITH ALI"

It's so creepy

And by reading their therms of uses, I learned that they share everything that you type with your cégep and if you don't want your name to be attached to you just... Don't write your name. Except that they also collect : your name, IP address, address, and basically everything and it's store it forever.. not just to train their bot but also to analyse it and give it to whoever buys the company.

You can check the app on the Google Play store : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.optania.ali.prod

According to Amazon, St. Augustine’s <em>Confessions</em> is only $9.99, so it could actually be 2,000 copies of that

It's not a new phenomenon; I mean, Richard Hofstadter wrote &quot;Anti-intellectualism in American Life&quot; almost 60 years now. But yes, the foundations might be starting to crumble.

if you want stats, this book is the best imo:

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Bereavement-Across-Cultures-Second/dp/0415522366

i had to read the first edition back in college and it spends time on american deaths and it still chills me to this day 20 years later.

but you don't need to buy it to get it, google for death and bereavement and you can find lots of articles on it; just be aware that 2/3rds of them are wrong/anecdotal

if you insist... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aloudy-Ergonomic-Armrest-Forearms-Pressure/dp/B01M8F9IYC/ref=sr\_1\_7?crid=286UF938NY5E1&amp;keywords=arm+pads+for+office+chair&amp;qid=1657180705&amp;sprefix=armpads+for+%2Caps%2C92&amp;sr=8-7

As I said these outcomes don't happen. You can tell me to google like a smartass all you want, it just won't save you face when you're wrong.

Who said the law should be revoked? You might want to take an english class at community college, I'm sure they offer remedial courses for cheap. Alternatively, you might need to start here https://www.amazon.com/Babys-First-Book-Little-Golden/dp/037583916X

Hey, what a logical question: NordVPN, an American company, with the majority of its userbase in America, is not actually needed because the internet is free, right? People use VPNs for personal security reasons and to stay anonymous to their ISPs, that's normal.

Holocaust information isn't banned in Germany, the fuck?

“Information” that claims that the holocaust never happened or that fudges the death tolle numbers is not allowed to be spread in a non-academic field. Literal Nazi misinformation is banned in Germany, yes. Can you guess the historical reasons for that?

And yeah, the German government requests user data, but that has nothing to do with websites being banned, right?

You claimed that so many news sites are banned in Germany, right? Yet you've failed to mention a singular one up until this point, right? But now you go on a tangent about the German government requesting Google user data, but still claim the US, the country which runs the most expansive surveillance system in world history, has freedom? The US is the Nr. 1 requester for private user data from Google, Germany is at best second, which is not good, but also not the point you're making.

You said news websites were banned in Germany. When I asked you for proof you started mentioning something completely unrelated.

Now, Name a news site that is banned in Germany, then I'll take your ridiculous comments seriously again.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Innovation-Works-Flourishes-Freedom-ebook/dp/B07WSBV7YZ?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls&amp;dplnkId=0189bcb3-37f5-4d6e-9ee1-02cfbd600665

Take a gander in how innovation works. It's the same shit we are doing now around the world. Innovation will help us both adapt and mitigate. You completely missed my point, adaptation is a form of mitigation.

Nasa believes it as well: https://climate.nasa.gov/solutions/adaptation-mitigation/

But I guess you the authority on what's best, more than rocket scientists and the world's leading scientists. You are a mental midget

Not sure why you're getting downvoted here, but you're right that it is very confusing. Because while others have explained the filibuster and sure that can be a barrier . . . But yes, the Democrats have 1000% made their own bed. They've not delivered on anything, and have made no major changes to anyone's life. They point to their own spoilers like Sinema and Manchin, as though they are not known entities that they've done nothing at all about for decades. There are some major steps they could take to lock themselves into power, at least for a generation. But they won't do it because at their core, they simply don't believe that they should have power, or that they should ever exercise that power.

I'm not trying to make an equivalency argument here, but I imagine that I sound like it. They are not 'the same', but they are also, overwhelmingly, not the answer.

I would probably just read the book that got him killed:

Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion https://www.amazon.com/dp/1609806212/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_JFSC3CVA6AP0BHZ3EDDD

Honestly? Manners for Millions. I read that until it literally fell apart. I have no idea why I was so fascinated with that book at the age of 5, but I was. Maybe it's because I'm a WASP? I dunno.

There was this medical encyclopedia set my folks had from the early 70s. I don't remember what it was called, but I read that until it pretty much fell apart too. I gave it away when we bought this house 30 years ago and I cannot remember what it was called! Now I'm going to have to search for it. It was horrifically out of date but what the title was is going to bug me all night. :/

I also read a lot of the Time Life compilation series and Reader's Digest coffee table books. Fate magazine was a standard at my grandparents' house. I also read a bunch of books on video games that my father's side gave me for Christmas one year. Michal Blanchet wrote How To Beat The Video Games and How to Beat The Home Video Games. I had an Atari (still have it, too) and read those until they fell apart. I also had Craig Kubey's The Winner's Book Of Video Games and read that until it fell apart, too. I've been through a few copies of it and it's a collectible now. :/ It is also knee slappingly funny 40 years later.

I didn't read 1984 or Brave New World until I was 8 or so. Still love both of those, too.

Well that doesn't sound covid safe for a start.

Not that it makes the room acceptable but I bought a bunch of things like this to put on my walls at the start of lockdown to try and keep my sanity. Didn't have a control to see if they had any impact.

The actual title is Poker: for Fun and Profit. (Yes, I recognize the irony of using an Amazon link)
Books about the exploitation of Amazon workers are available readily. You don't have to make one up.

This video has a great high-level summary of The Dictator’s Handbook, which basically covers why this is the case.

In short, the bottom 90% of folks do not have enough power for political leaders to justify any focus of resources to keeping them happy. Because the bottom 90% lack resources, they cannot support leaders’ primary interest in maintaining power. Therefore, it makes more sense to support the interests of those who help them maintain power (rich people, who donate in the interest of supporting their own power).

In a resource-constrained environment (which is pretty much every environment), you can’t do all the things. So, spending any amount of resources away from your highest-priority items (I.e. supporting the interests of your highest donors) increases risk that your political opponents will focus more resources than you on the people who enable your power - Thus, risking you being ousted from your power-position. This is how political coups happen.

Hackeran, just so you know, I have never seen someone completely make up something that's as easily disproven as what you just said. You should be proud of yourself for that.

Chris Ferrie has a large range of science books that are specifically for reading to babies. They're illustrated with fun colors and simple short text.

The idea is that because babies have very impressionable brains, if you read them these books, then they'll develop a more scientific way of thinking earlier in life.

Babies won't know the exact meaning, so it'll stop help them fall asleep just like any "happily ever after" bedtime story.

Anything with that kind of "attention getting" "YouTube face" is an instant no for me. I don't even care anymore what the content is because the video is probably 75% "Hey guys, in this video I'm going to show you so much crazy stuff, but first click the like button, comment and subscribe, also hit the notification and share the video to 10 friends okay now to our content, but first let me tell you about NordVPN...."

I bought a set of these Surgicalonline 9 Pcs Basic Dental Surgery Extracting Extraction Forceps Elevators Set Kit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N6WRSCZ/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_HDAWHN262RJTJNDAFC69 and it hurt like hell

One of gold's amazing properties is being able to be flattened to such a thin amount, so it's not a good comparison. I'm well aware there's a lot of gold in electronics.

>and as such use far cheaper grades than those of gemstones

yup, but you can buy 30,000 carats of diamond dust off amazon for the price of the cheapest, lowest quality 5 carat diamond. There is a ton more diamond grit on a diamond grinder than there is gold on an AUX cable connector.

amazon.com/TechDiamondTools-Polishing-Windshield-Travertine-Gemstone/dp/B00I5APF8E/

>Corporations are bad

Missed the point. 5 companies have colluded in price fixing and since together they controlled a huge chunk of the market, they had a significant impact on the price. "Monopoly" is an extreme form of anti-competitiveness, but it is far from the only form.

The media has been running “the Super Bowl is projected to cost employers eleventy zillion dollars in lost productivity” every single damn year since the Nineties. Drew Curtis pointed this out in his book, published in freaking 2007.

https://www.oregonlive.com/resizer/TepRjGvsJbalWZyrdyfXwuReTiE=/700x0/smart/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/IZV7UZ3L6FBK3IJSSUTW6M7CRQ.JPG

literally a picture of blue skies.

https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/or/portland/KPDX/date/2021-2-16

Says it got to the upper 40's, with mixed cloud cover.

Except it was put up as a joke
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/landlord-note-pay-to-use-elevator_n_3829672?guccounter=1

It’s akin to A Modest Proposal which is about eating babies of the poor to solve a food crisis. It takes the format of one thing, and twists it to bring attention to another subject. In the case of the commercial, it takes the format of a back to school commercial but it’s message is about school shootings.

The podcast "Flash Forward" addresses this in one of her recent episodes (Desert Creep). They pick a topic about a possible future and then explore it! Definitely worth a listen: https://player.fm/series/series-2148559

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_1_diabetes

The cause of type 1 diabetes is unknown.[4] However, it is believed to involve a combination of genetic and environmental factors.[1] Risk factors include having a family member with the condition.[5] The underlying mechanism involves an autoimmune destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas.[2] Diabetes is diagnosed by testing the level of sugar or glycated hemoglobin (HbA1C) in the blood.[5][7] Type 1 diabetes can be distinguished from type 2 by testing for the presence of autoantibodies.[5]

I just read this book called the "9.9%" https://www.amazon.com/9-9-Percent-Aristocracy-Entrenching-Inequality-ebook/dp/B08VJNPMWM and it explains the whole process in more detail. While most poor people have unions that get vilified on Fox News, the rich like to use professional associations that pretty much act in the same way. Except there job is to keep people out and lobby on thier behalf.

Woman in this photo, Lada Koroleva, is accused of using her children as props to solicit donations:

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/08/05/photos-of-a-young-mother-working-as-a-courier-in-moscow-spark-renewed-calls-for-help-and-fraud-allegations

She does work as a food delivery person (Yandex food is a Russian version of Uber eats) and bring her children along on deliveries. Not a fake photo but possibly not fully honest intention

Woman in this photo, Lada Koroleva, is accused of using her children as props to solicit donations:

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/08/05/photos-of-a-young-mother-working-as-a-courier-in-moscow-spark-renewed-calls-for-help-and-fraud-allegations

She does work as a food delivery person (Yandex food is a Russian version of Uber eats) and bring her children along on deliveries. Not a fake photo but possibly not fully honest intention

Librivox has free audiobooks! Anything with an expired copyright and entered into public domain is eligible. Here's a link to Locke's Treatises.

https://librivox.org/two-treatises-of-civil-government-by-john-locke/

Why not let people park in the church parking lot and sleep in the church?
Perhaps they should read “The Bishop's Vison” in The Iron Heel by Jack London
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1164/1164-h/1164-h.htm#link2HCH0007

Creepy. Very unsettling.

A local womens shelter or your city's/ county's human services office would probably be able to help you get this Creepy little package to someone who needs it today.

Don't let Nestle's (and the formula company practices in general, that is) incredibly predatory and inhumane methods win you over... Check out the Swindled podcast episode The Formula for info on that.

Let your own through research about the pros and cons of different nutrition methods be what determines what you will feed your child during their critical, sensitive first months of life

Yeah id turn off those mic permissions too