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  • This is because Mary Poppins lied to us. It isn't a spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine go down, but something with a bit of salt in addition to that sugar. Salt masks bitterness.

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    MAGA Turns on Joe Rogan as He Endorses RFK Jr. and Not Trump
  • I have zero Joe Rogan on my feed. You are literally making it worse by engaging with his content in any way (down votes being a big one). Just completely ignore content you don't like and it'll go away over time.

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    Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled
  • I'm showing my age, but back when IE was basically the only browser and Firefox (Firebird back then) launched, people often lamented that things didn't work in Firefox. The solution? People used Firefox and web developers were forced to make their shit work in Firefox. When Chrome came out, suddenly we had three real options and the way to make everything work? Open Standards.

    Now, Chrome is in the position IE was back before Firefox came around. How ever will we make sure things work in Firefox??? Use Firefox. If enough people dump Google's malware browser, the web has to go back to supporting multiple browsers through open standards.

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    It's okay, tankies love fascism, so they're not put out by the result
  • How wonderful if that were true. It used to be commonplace and it made it harder to demonize the other side. People were able to compromise and work together on things. Now that they can't spend evenings reaffirming their mutual humanity, they spend their days talking past each other.

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    Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone
  • Your situation is more likely to be caused by Android's system to make sure you don't forget your pin. It has a number of unlocks (and a length of time) before it forces you to do the code.

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    Movies that “go from 0-100” in the last 15 or so minutes?
  • Jojo Rabbit goes from a heartwarming dark comedy about a boy that is living through WW2 and his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, into something very different that is too much of a spoiler.

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    It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription
  • On the contrary, during the great formula shortage of 2021/2022, Amazon Prime and the recurring delivery option was the only way I was able to get formula for my twins. Speed was important l, but so was Amazon's huge supply chain.

    Since then, we live in a remote place and getting some stuff just isn't possible at the one store near us. Amazon is really one of the best ways to get things we need. Now, of course, I hate them, but I also hate Walmart and don't really have choices beyond those or a gas station convenience store.

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    It's funnt because it's true
  • I respectfully disagree with one major caveat. I'll get that out of the way first; I think there should be a name for these foods that recognize the creators (e.g. Italian American food is American food that comes from Italian immigrants). We've traditionally been bad at giving credit or, worse, using names to mark a cuisine as "other" and weird.

    The thing is that there really isn't a food of a place. People use ingredients that are available and use techniques from the people around them. When cultures interact, they create remixes of cuisine that take unfamiliar ingredients and techniques and create something new.

    Let me use the food of my own home, New Mexico, as an example. The food of the region is a mixture of Spanish colonizers, later Mexican immigrants, and Native American foods using a crazy combination of techniques and ingredients from all three. It isn't Spanish food. It isn't Mexican food. It isn't Native American food. It is New Mexican food, a thing that arose from a place and its history. Now, with Asian immigrants moving in, the food has started to incorporate stuff from those cultures too.

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    No one is safe from these psychos. Please stay safe
  • Interestingly, they were designed for warmer environments where Kinder eggs would melt. The fact that they circumvented the weird US restrictions was a side effect.

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    The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On
  • Because most things like this are measured in average power per year and it is useful for comparison. Different technologies produce energy at different rates. Solar, only when the sun is up. How would you compare it to wind which has different rules?

    Taken to an extreme, consider some hypothetical new technology that produced 50 Gigawatts of energy, but did it in a second and then took a year to recharge before doing it again. Would it be more useful to say it had a 50 Gigawatt capacity or that it provided 50 Gigawatts of power per year when trying to compare it to other technologies?

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    The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On
  • Is there a technical reason for this (e.g. strength of materials) or are we forgetting that this is rotating around a point at the top of the tower and that it utilizes the space above that point?

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  • This is 100% correct. I'll add that the best thing you can do is to watch and listen to your crew. Everyone has a job, yes, but they also play a role on your team. Understand what those roles are, how work actually flows around, and what motivates people. Be a servant that helps facilitate that structure.

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    We're lucky that our bodies require sleep, otherwise our cultures would have us working 16-20 hour days.
  • I'm not sure how you feel about the limiting thing, but it is controversial in the US. Some departments do limit, others feel that isn't fair. Personally, I think we should understand why the academia system is set up the way it is and ask if it makes sense in the modern world.

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    We're lucky that our bodies require sleep, otherwise our cultures would have us working 16-20 hour days.
  • As a grad student mostly. That said, non-tenured professors also have to work their asses off. The pyramid scheme dream is becoming tenured and having a large pool of grad students to abuse help you with your work.

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