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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could we create an adventure/treasure hunt game involving git ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well said⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fries contain vitamin A and your body needs carbs and fat. Also, fed is best. Shut up, professor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also a Muslim and a Jewish thing. Their Sabbath is on Saturday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t think there’s something wrong with stealing people’s stuff, faking things for propaganda purposes, overloading power grids and destroying the environment, you either don’t know about this stuff (although you should) or you’re not a very nice person.

  I’m not talking about AI manually trained for medical purposes or anything like that, I’m talking about generative AI and LLMs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pro AI people are either ignorant or nasty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Learn to read and spell and then come back so at least you sound vaguely educated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple “overreports” on mine. Because they get their temperature from the business park down the hill. It’s cooler where I am.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You do realise that tap water isn’t free in many European countries, right? They have a meter and get a bill every month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of the mineral water you buy is tap water. It’s the same water the people in the area where the water is bottled drink. It even says so on the bottle sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wildfire Griffin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are far too many “hilarious” books like this out there and not enough good ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Top Movies" in Amazon Prime is full of series⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t do this if you live in Germany. They actually monitor this stuff and you’re in deep doodoo if they catch you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Many art museums have recorded guides for kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with all the captions on short form videos?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google auto dubs. Aaaaaaargh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I constantly see testostorone being put into evreything from pills to candy bars but its illegal for trans men to get it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Women in the menopause. They aren’t just low on oestrogen and progesterone but also on testosterone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can travel anywhere in late June, not sure where. Anecdotes/advice?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Southern Poland? It’s not been discovered by the masses yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech support for mum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit (and menopause) happens. Time for post it notes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech support for mum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say tell her to write it down, but my MIL always writes them down wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech support for mum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad hasn’t installed banking on his phone. He also doesn’t know the password for his email and his phone logged him out. So what happens when his credit card is declined for a b&b he’s booked and (after calling him) they send him a link to arrange a bank transfer, but he’s only logged in on the tablet he doesn’t have with him?

  🥴

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate it when they constantly repeat it. It’s a stupid management/politician thing and it isn’t natural. But why should I mind “Hello Mrs X” or “Hello Starling”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨live by the inaturalist, die by the inaturalist⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Merlin, actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If A zombie is dead. Completely dead why does a shot to the Brain kill them? Is the brain keeping them semi alive? Also how do they keep sharp teeth to bite you and not rotting away?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a fungus in The Girl with all the Gifts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If A zombie is dead. Completely dead why does a shot to the Brain kill them? Is the brain keeping them semi alive? Also how do they keep sharp teeth to bite you and not rotting away?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that the, er, documentary where a guy crawls out of the grave, waves his arms around blindly, finds his glasses in his pocket, puts them on and says “aaah!”

  Probably not, actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep doing what you’re doing, sister.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How worried should we be about hantavirus right now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the flu cause heart attacks? Covid is a systemic disease, flu is a respiratory disease.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How worried should we be about hantavirus right now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And a German is being airlifted to Düsseldorf, a Dutch person to somewhere in the Netherlands and a Brit to Britain.

  This entire thing would not have been a problem whatsoever if the ship had been quarantined and stayed quarantined. Something similar happened in 2018 and thanks to the measures taken only 30 people got infected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How worried should we be about hantavirus right now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the women who got infected (she knew, her husband had already died and she was very ill) got onto a plane to Johannesburg and died in Johannesburg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How worried should we be about hantavirus right now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Covid plays the long game, though. People who only had a rough time of it can die as a result of it years later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How worried should we be about hantavirus right now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I sat next to an army medic of the German-French brigade at a concert yesterday. When I scooted closer to her because other people wanted to sit down I said “Don’t worry, I don’t have the hanta virus” and she said “How do you know? You could catch it on the Schwäbische Alb, it’s not a tropical virus.”

  So I’m not particularly worried, especially because journalists are notoriously bad at interpreting WHO communications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is it like traveling with two passports at the same time?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, the rules have just been changed in the UK and people are getting stuck abroad because they forgot their UK passport for the way back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child’s school updated the uniform policy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jeggings are meant to look like jeans. The girls wear leggings.