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asdfasvea··on Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
You mean the primary where Biden ran virtually unopposed and then Harris got the nomination?
asdfasvea··on NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing
'Walkable' has been heavily influenced by the car culture we live in.

Too many, crossing an intersection with a traffic light makes that commute unwalkable. In my suburbia, going from one shop to another 5 doors down requires driving.

asdfasvea··on SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
Further the 'hate-' prefix in an accusation makes it one I immediately tune out.

It's just a manipulative word that lets you incite people while not actually revealing what was said.

asdfasvea··on Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Fast forward to blackjack and hookers.
asdfasvea··on Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level
No, people who do it are to blame.
asdfasvea··on Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan
>>>Feel free to look at my comment history on matt's previous articles

Feel free to post one simple link for us.

You can't do that but you can follow the above sentence with 1000 more words?

asdfasvea··on How Does Microwaving Grapes Create Plumes of Plasma? (2019)
Everyone do yourselves a favor--go to a thrift store and buy a few microwaves. Find a field, string a hundred feet of extension cords from an outlet and start microwaving all the things your not suppose to.

My favorites: Ivory soap--bubbles outward; Grapes--see article; Incandescent lightbulb --lights up; Wine bottle--explodes, do this last

Also lots of things you think would be bad do nothing: spray paint can, soup can, silverware, cup of gas with aluminum foil in it.

asdfasvea··on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
Thats not really the ACA\Obamacare story, but it's still funny:

https://navigatorresearch.org/the-affordable-care-act-remain...

Explain the program and then call it'ACA' and people loved it. Explain the program and call it 'Obamacare' and polled people disliked it.

Shakespeare was wrong about roses.

asdfasvea··on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media
Yeah, everyone in the 80s remembers what a hell hole america was thanks to what Pepsi and coke were engaged in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola_wars

asdfasvea··on Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players
How could more cheating avenues not equal a more likelihood of being caught?

Car analogy--I never had to take my 1976 Olds Cutlass in because the key fob got out of sync or because the touchscreen got fried or the electronic power steering module shorted or... or .. or

More points of failure = more failure.

asdfasvea··on Doomsday scoreboard
The term "religious fact" always puts a smile on my face.
asdfasvea··on Chat Control Must Be Stopped
You've not been paying attention. Laws can be undone easily with laws.

Pass your 'no KOSA' law. And then when they want KOSA, they just pass KOSA with a sentence that says this KOSA law supersedes prior 'No KOSA' laws.

You need to limit their power to do that and the only way is constitutionally.

asdfasvea··on Are we decentralized yet?
No it's definitely ironic, in the rain on your wedding day kind of way.
asdfasvea··on Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims
What's the * doing? Is that you civil disobedience? Is that how you stick it to the man? Do you think it's the way to sway people who are in the fence about trump?

I just don't get people and their nano aggressions.

asdfasvea··on [dead]
Free speech for all. Well, except those I disagree with.
asdfasvea··on Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?
First, what is there to wonder about? Stakes. There are things to be gained from winning (and purposely losing).

Second, no one sport has more cheating than any other with similar stakes.

Third, "cheating" is more of a spectrum than binary. Travelling with the basketball is cheating and sometimes penalized. Having your husband kneecap your Olympic skating rival is cheating as well.

Fourth, "cheating" is relative and always in flux. You could head slap an NFL receiver in the 1970's, but no longer. Forward passes in the NHL were illegal in olden times, but fine today.

asdfasvea··on The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety
You sound just like the adults he was talking about.
asdfasvea··on I deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – I'm a citizen
Oh good, more semantics to the rescue. You're as great as those people who ended homelessness with 'unhoused', ended racism by lumping all non-whites into 'people of color'.

I'd say 'God bless you sir', but that's hate speech as well now.

asdfasvea··on I deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – I'm a citizen
My pity and my respect are mutually exclusive. This author seemingly wants both and gets neither. People like this are worse than the bullies.

Either be brave enough to stand up for what you believe in or shut up and do your capitulation in silence.

asdfasvea··on Pa. House passes 'click-to-cancel' subscription bills
Sinmilar thing happened in Missouri in the 90s, but without supreme court help. Voters put a law on the ballot, it passes, legislature passes another law cancelling it out.

So now when the voters want something they no longer put a law on the ballot, they put a Missouri amendment on the ballot. Those can't just be overwritten by a legislature law, those must either be found unconstitutional or canceled out by another amendment.

It's a fun game the voters of Missouri and their representatives have created for themselves.

asdfasvea··on The story behind Caesar salad
..and blackjack and hookers.

In fact forget the salad.

asdfasvea··on FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores
Depends on your definition of 'penalized'. FICO is all about identifying good ROI candidates.

Say you are a lender, you want someone who constantly uses credit, always pays their bills and has the capacity take on new debt. That's what FICO is for.

It's not some consumer reward system. It's not your score to game, it's a score on you for companies to game. Quit playing the game.

Credit score NULL.

asdfasvea··on Have I Been Pwned 2.0
With blackjack and hookers. In fact forget...
asdfasvea··on China had executed four of Canadian citizens earlier this year
Why not just use the actual article title:

'Ottawa condemns Chinese executions of four Canadians on drug charges'

Instead of that weirdly tensed one? 'Had executed' makes it seem like they undid the executions.

asdfasvea··on There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage
'Tax' like most words, does not in fact have a real well defined meaning.

Remember how Pluto stopped being a planet because 'planet' went from just a word to a technical term with a well defined definition? Most words don't have that.

So, tax is any money given to the government. Income tax, sales tax, fees for registering cars, admittance to national parks, etc etc. Anytime the government collects any money that is a tax.

To paraphrase a great statesman---a lottery is just a tax with extra steps.

asdfasvea··on FiveThirtyEight Gets the Ax as ABC News Slashes Jobs in Major Shakeup
define 'clearly'. I'll take my answer in the form of a link to any of his work.
asdfasvea··on Trump says he has directed Treasury to stop minting new pennies
Royale With Cheese. But let's not start sucking each other's cocks quite yet.
asdfasvea··on Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "
Whats race got to do with it? Trumps 2-0 against women regardless of race.
asdfasvea··on I deleted my social media accounts
Remember, the most important step in quitting social media is telling everyone on social media you're quitting social media.
asdfasvea··on How Blackjack Works (2007)
I haven't seen a beatable game in 10 years.

Less and less single and double deck tables, dealers placing the cut card nearer the middle of the shoe, more restrictions on doubling down and they changed blackjack to pay 6 to 5 instead of 3 to 2.

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