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What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
  • The sentence after the one you emphasized seems to be saying what I was: the virus is in aerosol particles or potentially droplets, which are what your mask protects you from.

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    What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
  • Because the virus is transmitted via spittle/moisture from other people not wearing masks. The virus doesn't just hang out in the air on its own; it's suspended in aerosol particles.

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    Right-winger Leonard Leo pledges $1B to 'crush liberal dominance'
  • Sure, our society is so progressive we could never backslide to the point that abortion is illegal or anything.

    Beside that, if he's throwing around billions, he's likely most interested in economic issues like unions and worker protections.

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    What books do you consider must reads?
  • Michael Crichton in a list of "best sci-fi"? Really? He just does mass market pulp. It can be entertaining, in the same way a Transformers movie can, but it hardly qualifies as "best".

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    Chat GPT appears to hallucinate or outright lie about everything
  • I absolutely agree that it can't create finished content of any particular value. For my D&D use case, its value is instead as a brainstorming tool; it can churn out enough ideas quickly enough that it's easy for me to find a couple of gems that I can polish up into something usable.

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    Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat
  • Growing up I remember hearing that red cars were the most expensive for insurance, as owners of red cars had the highest incidence of speeding and dangerous driving.

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    Kroger case tests FTC Chair Khan's bid to protect workers
  • Here's the first few paragraphs:

    Aug 26 (Reuters) - Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan's initiative to use antitrust laws to protect workers faces a key test on Monday when the agency will argue the merger between grocery chain Kroger (KR.N), and its rival Albertsons (ACI.N), would crush unionized workers' bargaining power.

    Khan and her fellow antitrust enforcers in the Biden administration have sought to use antitrust laws - deployed in recent decades mostly to protect consumers against high prices - to combat what they view as anticompetitive practices squeezing workers' paychecks.

    Labor has been an area of focus for Khan, a former law professor and congressional antitrust counsel, who took the reins of the agency in June 2021.

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    What about clicking a checkbox means I'm human? How does Cloudflare determine I'm human from that?
  • If loaded with pages didn't have access to keyboard events, you wouldn't be able to write comments on Lemmy posts. I'm not a front-end guy, but that should be limited to just white the browser is focused.

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    Trump Suddenly Looks Very Afraid of Being Sued by Taylor Swift
  • ... she's proudly left leaning.

    She's a billionaire. She's no more left leaning than Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos. She just flies socially progressive flags.

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    You’re Invited: Guild Wars 2 Community Meetup in Seattle! – GuildWars2.com
  • They haven't actually had a presence at PAX for ages. They did an event there to announce IBS when it was coming out, but I don't believe they had a booth then. They've had parties pretty regularly though

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    You’re Invited: Guild Wars 2 Community Meetup in Seattle! – GuildWars2.com
  • Will do! We went last year too; we're a PNW guild (primarily Portland, OR) so it's a reasonable trip. Gonna check out a couple of days of PAX as well.

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  • Hi all, I recently got into the world of ergo mech by borrowing a friend's old Iris v2, and I really love how powerful and customizable things can be with QMK firmware.

    Recently, my old n52te has started to show signs of age after a dozen or so years of abuse. If you're not familiar, they look like this: !

    There's definitely stuff that could be improved on--just being able to build your own firmware for it would be amazing. Having one or two more thumb buttons for layers would be sweet as well.

    The community of ergo mech keyboard builders are doing some super cool things with 3d printed builds and all kinds of neat stuff. Since I've just been dipping my toes in, my question is: does anyone know of any good replacements for my n52te? Is this something anyone has tried tinkering around with?

    Thanks!

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