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nells··on Is algae the new kale?
Because it’s not organic. Of course if you reject “conspiracy theories” then you will reject the answer.
nells··on Flu and colds are back with a vengeance
There’s no driving pathogens out of existence. Forget about that.
nells··on Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021
Yandex mail is better and it allows custom domain for free.
nells··on Macs running macOS 13 Ventura have buried white noise generator
Recent versions of iOS also have a noise generator somewhere in accessibility settings I think.
nells··on Microsoft tests 'upsells' of its products in Windows 11 sign-out menu
Eeeeh… yes?
nells··on Tesla Is Recalling 40k Cars in Its 17th Recall of the Year
It’s a battery and you won’t be able to put it out in days.
nells··on Tesla Is Recalling 40k Cars in Its 17th Recall of the Year
With EVs, you lose
nells··on Tesla Stock Is Plummeting and Reddit Investors Are Blaming Musk’s Twitter Chaos
”VW will perform better because their workers are unionised” is a non sequitur.
nells··on Ask HN: Why is there no way to lower amber alert volume on headphones?
I’d rather they didn’t get managed at all ;)
nells··on TikTok’s greatest asset isn’t its algorithm, it’s your phone
In the meantime they will happily spend 12 hours a day watching cnn or fox.
nells··on Qatar World Cup ambassador says homosexuality is 'damage in the mind'
Where’s he enforcing anything on westerners? He’s not going around France telling them to cool it with the sodomy.
nells··on UK grocery price inflation hits record 14.7%
Is it better or worse in Europe? Prices have gone up by a lot but it’s hard to quantify.
nells··on Toxic smog has turned India’s capital into a ‘gas chamber’
>India
nells··on Was everyone stupid back then?
What is “social problems” (mentioned in the comic) if not politics?
nells··on China is quietly rewriting rules that run the world
The “possessive apostrophe” is the Saxon genitive. I was replying to that part but I admit that it was confusing. I should have quoted the part I was replying to
nells··on Alcohol death toll is growing, US Government reports say
Ban people from leaving their homes and then ban alcohol so they don’t kill themselves from the depression. We’re gonna need a bigger hammer.
nells··on China is quietly rewriting rules that run the world
It’s called Saxon genitive.
nells··on Make your DOM look like an eye that can focus on anything
A bit odd that there isn’t a single reference to xeyes in the readme.
nells··on Microalgae promise abundant healthy food and feed in any environment
Zou will eat the microalgae and zou vil be happy.
nells··on UK government set to extract hospital data to Palantir without patient consent
I don’t think anybody outside the UK knows of or cares about the difference.
nells··on Worries Grow That TikTok Is New Home for Manipulated Video and Photos
This must be part of the policy that the New York Times has that they have to report negatively on tech.
nells··on It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon
Algorithmic makes no sense to me. Imagine being in a group chat with friends where an algorithm decides which messages you can see and the way the messages are sorted. It would be absolute nonsense.
nells··on AstraZeneca patients data exposed for over a year due to password snafu
When will people stop being incompetent at their jobs?

In the case of computer engineers maybe they need to be legally responsible directly for this kind of stuff.

nells··on Communities Now Available
>You can already do this in the Privacy options.

Whoa, that’s new! Thank the Lord.

nells··on One in four have accents mocked at work – survey
I don’t know why the onus should be on classist people stopping being classist. One may as well say that it is part of their character.
nells··on How Tucson is facing up to a megadrought
Where does capitalism enter the picture here?
nells··on Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares
Then buying any digital good or licence is extortion. After all it’s just an INSERT query! They could just do it for free, yet they refuse to…
nells··on Tcl is faster than Python for database benchmarking
Let’s make a list of languages that are slower than Python. That will take less time.
nells··on Shanghai Disney shuts: Visitors unable to leave without negative Covid test
It takes a special kind of person to cover half their face with a dirty mask and make it harder for themselves to breathe just so they don’t catch a cold.
nells··on Shanghai Disney shuts: Visitors unable to leave without negative Covid test
Some people here in HN said that the pandemic would normalise using masks - the way things are now every time I see someone wearing a mask I can’t help but think that they are ill and infectious; it’s very very rare.

So glad that we are back to the way it was.

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