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currency··on Amazon intentionally made it hard to cancel Prime subscription in secret project
Netflix wants out of physical media. They're hoping you forget to sign up again, and, when you remember, realize your queue has disappeared and decide not to renew.
currency··on I have no capslock and I must scream
It might also have to do with avoiding confusion with the word "ahistorical".
currency··on I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to
Would that look anything like the REAL ID system?[0]

[0]https://www.tsa.gov/real-id

currency··on Multiple Sclerosis Causality
This was a study conducted by the military on soldiers. They all contributed three blood samples over a period of time that were tested for a large number of conditions. EBV was the only one that contributed to MS.
currency··on Kagi: A Premium Search Engine
So... ko-gi? The phoneme used by the letter o in yogi is not something anyone is going to associate with the letter a.

There are multiple phonemes often represented by the letter a; the GP is asking which of those is correct.

Edit: all of these assume American English pronunciations.

currency··on The UX on this small child is terrible
Edge's translation of the Arnisia ameletita page is hilarious. I don't know Greek, so I have no idea how much of this is in the original—

"The composition of the recipe for negligentness is the product of deep study by the entire staff of pandespani, which dedicated its energy both to the symbolic significance of the proposal and to the gastronomic one.‎

‎ In order to enrich our indignant recipe with meanings and symbolism, members of our team, due to three days, rigged to Mani in order to find the most angry instruments from the well-known butcher shop of the Kourakos Brothers in Areopolis, but also to the popular one in Argos for potatoes, because of the slow salaries that the "castrated" taxpayers cover.‎

‎ With these and with them, yesterday we found all the pantespanic contributors and we pinched our neatness in two different ways"...

currency··on The World's Deadliest Thing
Sous-vide relies on longer time durations instead of higher temperatures. In most cases, a longer time at a lower temperature is equivalent to a shorter time at a higher temperature in the reduction of pathogenic organisms [0]

[0]https://douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html#Safety

currency··on Privacy Is a Human Right
Governments responded to the Arab spring by taking social media much more seriously. There are a lot of ways to use social media to suppress and discourage dissent, outside of arrests; it's a very powerful counterintelligence tool.
currency··on Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
Not the person you're replying to.

>> I was processing 16bit RAW images at full resolution.

>> ...using After Effects to render out full frame ProRes 4444.

Those are two different applications to most of us. No one is accusing you of making things up, just that the first post wasn't fully descriptive of your use case.

currency··on New York Public Library ends all late fees
Checking out a textbook for the duration of a course may seem reasonable, but there are internal incentives at university libraries not to provide this service. At my U, the bookstore would lose textbook sales.
currency··on Embedded social media posts might now be illegal
Plenty of addresses are designed to mislead. Twitter bots, especially. You can't actually assume good faith on the part of the owner of the address.
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