nolefan33 @ nolefan33 @sh.itjust.works

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Yeah, I'm not actually that worried. I've seen these in use at hardware stores for quite a while now. It's just useful to assume that Walmart is planning to fuck you over. That's a good point with BT though, many of the kind of microcontrollers that would be used for this sort of thing offer BT connectivity as well.

As long as you have a free market and not a coordinated one it will work out great for you guys too

Ah, so we're fucked

There's not really a way to do that with this technology. These are just price tags on the shelf, so if they changed the price it would change it for everyone in the store.

The deductible is an amount that you pay out of pocket before insurance starts covering anything. So if insurance doesn't get billed, the money doesn't count towards the deductible. This may make it difficult to lower the bill at all, it really depends on how much the entire bill is compared to your deductible. If you can't pay it though, they'll have to give you an affordable payment plan. Definitely negotiate and don't take a loan out from some other source to cover.

Well that's the strongest argument for making a Bluesky account that I've heard

I periodically stumble across Joel's blog and it blows my mind how relevant it typically is.

I don't know the ins and outs of the ADA, but I disagree with your analogy. What Starbucks is doing is akin to Walmart charging a different price for milk and oat milk, which I don't think anyone would say is not allowed. It's not like there's a sheet of lactose you have to walk through to get into a Starbucks or anything, there's just things on the menu that people with some food allergies can't order.

I found it here.

Holy shit, they really buried the lede with that headline. For sure, throw away the key.

The linked URL at the top is The Seattle Times reporting on this comment. The original comment was just being reposted here for full context.

Careful, I'm sure there's some asswipe from where I grew up who wants to throw a bunch of guns in and walk away to let them "sort it out" or some shit. If you go redneck enough reality begins to satirize satire.

Weirdly enough, being a member of the House is not a requirement to be Speaker.

Do you have any idea what sort of chemicals are in those frosted bulbs? Obviously you can't smoke meth out of them, it might cause health problems.

This new research has shown a specific protein is present in the blood and placenta in individuals with preeclampsia. That protein is also being investigated as a cause (or at least indicator) of Alzheimer's and lasting damage from traumatic brain injuries. Seemingly that's the only link so far, this particular protein. Assuming all this is repeatable and there's causation, the protein is probably a step along the way to a root cause.

1. I'm torn between face and balls, face would probably be more satisfying but balls are usually funnier.
2. Let's go no handle, the handle might impact accuracy.
3. I'm kinda feeling silicone, I think I'd feel bad about something harder. Silicone would keep the event fun and cathartic, ceramic might lead to blood everywhere.

Meta has repeatedly introduced features intended to scrape larger amounts of data about our lives and tie it all into one big profile that they can sell. This area of the internet feels like one of the few remaining areas that they haven't reached, and I'd bet everything I have that's why they're introducing this. I couldn't be more strongly against allowing them a way to link my data here with the data they have from my usage of their existing products. While I understand the idea of open federation to allow disparate communities to interact, one of the lines I'll draw is letting a massive corporation in like that.

I poked through the code some. They have some instructions to build the code for Android but I didn't see any built apks. They still have it marked as prerelease, so they may just be focusing on iOS for now.