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jbrins1··on How bad is your stove for your health?
https://archive.ph/ObTWP
jbrins1··on Show HN: Car Chomper – A tool to visualize car sizes
This is something I could be interested in but looks like the "Request API Access" link does not work.
jbrins1··on Plastic Laundry Jugs: The Dirty Secret You're Still Pouring into Your Washer
Is this greenwashing?

Laundry sheets are made from polyvinyl alcohol which is a plastic and potentially damaging to the environment [0].

Edit: According to a study by Michigan State, PVA will break down completely if certain microbes are available [1]. Which is not always the case.

[0]https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8199957/ [1]https://cris.msu.edu/news/trending/trending-polyvinyl-alcoho...

jbrins1··on Ask HN: Am I Alone Here?
I can see your post.
jbrins1··on We Faked the Moon Landing
Five different countries have taken pictures of the Apollo 11 landing https://petapixel.com/2024/07/24/which-country-captured-the-...
jbrins1··on The EPA's $10k Bounty on Your Modified Car
Actual link https://www.carsandhorsepower.com/featured/the-government-is...

"The rumble of a modified exhaust used to be the soundtrack of American freedom..." give me a break. No one wants to hear you showing off your anti-lag at 3am.

"Snitches, sellouts, and surveillance tech..." because of course you want the freedom to make as much noise as you want whenever and where ever you want to.

jbrins1··on Sex-specific energy expenditure during the Alaska wilderness ski classic
looks like the url was incorrectly pasted. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10....
jbrins1··on 25yo from DOGE pushing untested code to production Treasury payments system
What evidence do you have to support this assumption?

Also, if weight-loss is measured by “pounds saved” and speed of implementation then amputation would easily win over other solutions.

jbrins1··on Ask HN: What do you listen to while you work?
Synthwave at a low volume. Somehow this vocal-free genre generates subtle optimism and energy in my millennial brain.
jbrins1··on [dead]
None of these individuals had moved on to other companies?
jbrins1··on Judge grants restraining order against expert who exposed Columbus OH hack
Missing a link here?
jbrins1··on Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees
https://www.accessmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/20...
jbrins1··on Mid-sized cities are struggling with growing pains
https://archive.ph/X51Jy
jbrins1··on Twitter loses payroll dept, other financial employees from mass resignation
Yes, but who is left to onboard and train the contractors?
jbrins1··on Tell HN: Spotify Premium is full of Ads
One could argue these modals would be considered promotional / recommendation of content rather than an advertisement. That aside, the Spotify ToS states "In any part of the Spotify Service, the Content that you access, including its selection and placement, may be influenced by commercial considerations, including Spotify's agreements with third parties." which I suspect covers recommendations.
jbrins1··on [dead]
The argument being that culture wars over gender emboldened Russia to invade Ukraine in order to stop the spread of Western 'degeneracy'...so Russia is saving the Ukraine by attacking it?

Russia having the right to invade Ukraine because of trans rights and gender theory in the US is quite a stretch of the imagination.

jbrins1··on Netflix loses subscribers for the first time in 10+ years
What is “feminist agenda trash” exactly?
jbrins1··on Why do you use this site?
Seemingly civilized discord.