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  • Headline is written like "previously recalled meat found its way into Trader Joe's, Aldi and more"

  • I have it a test with some operators from the search bar instead of using the form and it did exactly what it was supposed to. I'll keep this on hand. Thank you.

  • You know what I miss? Search engines that honored Boolean operators. I am often looking for niche results and being able to -, ! and NOT is incredibly useful. But that's just not a thing anymore. I know part of it is that SEO includes antonym meta data that ruins this but it would still be helpful on occasion.

  • This could have used more context. At the time Trump said covid wasn't a problem. He said it would blow over. Yet he is sending off tests to protect Putin from this non-issue.

  • Nitpick: From Russia's point of view Ukraine isn't a foreign territory, this is a civil war.

  • The more fine-tooth details you put in it the easier it is to exploit or get exceptions. It's how you have a tax code where 10% tells you what to pay and 90% tells you how not to pay it.

    But the only thing I would change would be a software patents should be dramatically shorter than hardware patents given the life cycle of software.

  • The patents are expiring and once they do regulators will kind of have their hand forced. Trying to mandate a solution only available through one provider is a nonstarter. And that's part of the darker side of Sawstop. He did try to have it mandated by law after companies didn't buy in. It was a very self serving move that made a lot of enemies.

  • If one company took it up it would have created a war in the industry. Everyone decided to play it safe with business as usual. Because companies don't care about anything other than profit.

  • Disagree. Look at Sawstop. It took years to even get to the patent filing phase. Then he tried to get companies to adopt it. They didn't. So he spent years building a company and manufacturing base to support it. By the time he finally got things into stores and had a chance to pay back his investment the patent would have expired under your idea. There would have been zero incentive to do all that investment and the technology would have never become available.

    Your five year rule would harm anyone not already extremely wealthy. It would further incentivize corporations to maintain control over markets. It would also create a situation where companies would be trying to recoup all their investment costs in that 5 year period which would result in extremely high prices. Like the pharma companies on steroids charging a 5000% markup.

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  • On par except that are three of them at once.

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  • I'm not doing any more bottle babies until I'm collecting Social Security and don't have to work or sleep.

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  • Capitalism.

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  • No lynx native to my area. But a bobcat is always an option. Some legends tell of cougars. I can always hope.

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  • The guy who just made a billion dollars with the metal clawed Canadian dude.

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  • We had four cats die within a year. All orange boys.

    Then one day I get a call from a place I'm doing Trap Neuter Release. Some mom just dropped three kids on a porch. I go grab the kids and set a trap for mom. I get the kids home. Three orange girls, two are bobtails. I've been on the hunt for an orange girl for years. Jackpot.

    Really hoping we get mom because these are bottle babies. Get mom. Orange girl with even less tail.

    I know I'm probably keeping mom no matter how feral she is. Definitely one of the kids too.

    Time to make the decision. Which kid to keep. Wife vetoes me. We are keeping them all. Plus two more orange girls that will show up over the year. I have six orange girls. Probably more than anyone on the east coast. So much foster fail. So few braincells.

    Eventually tame mom after 12 months and multiple attempts on my life. So many orange girls.

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  • I foster extra spicy kittens and tame them so they can be adopted. Each time one bites me I think about how I have almost no insurance and this could be the one that unalives me. Those puncture bites are amazing. This little predator weighing less than 1% what I do can do me in with just their teeth.

    My pet geese are so much safer.

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  • How did we get this many comments without a single Rob Liefeld reference?

  • For a bit and then a rapid drop. The point is that crime rates have been crashing since the 90s and these people keep telling us that crime is up. They either don't know that or they are lying to us to knowingly manipulate people and not enough of them get called out on it.