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He says in his comment that they inject the urine, then, a few days later, they kill the rabbit.

Those weren't his words, and his actual words (which he quoted above, acknowledging their ambiguity) could be (mis)read as meaning that injecting the urine killed the rabbit a few days later, especially since he also wrote "apparently [frogs] could survive the urine injection".

I do still find it odd that injecting urine into the frog repeatedly is OK for the frog, but perhaps the volume was quite small.

I think "call screening with Google Fi" is some kind of service/feature, which they have enabled.


Sounds...legit tho? I sure wouldn't want tinnitus, so if that can be softened, seems worth doing.


I think the implication is that people who don't have tinnitus can also claim it - there's no objective test to verify whether it's true.


Also, what is the point of a partial disability payment?

Is it to compensate you for the lost income you couldn’t have earned if not for the disability? That would be in line with the goal of normal disability.


Credit cards have better consumer protection than debit cards.

You are on the hook for like $50 max of fraudulent credit card, and like $500 of fraudulent debit. If you don't catch debit in time, you might be liable for all of it.


It's $0 for both credit and debit, under Visa and Mastercard "zero liability" rules.

Even under Regulation E, it would only be $50 as long as the issuer is notified within two days of losing your card, and $0 for other types of fraud (e.g. unauthorized use of your card number online) if reported within 60 days of receiving the corresponding monthly statement.



The people who tout "you can pause it" as an advantage of home theater are just not consuming movies the way I consume movies.

If you are in the theatre, no one is going to talk to you about the movie, or comment on it for no reason, etc.

I still regret pausing Lost Highway (like 25 years ago) so we could go out and smoke a cigarette. It completely broke the spell and the movie just wasn't the same from then on.


That sounds like accessibility, not durability.


Usually when people use the phrase, "But what do I know?", it's to flag that they think they probably do know.


They usually know, but they also know that their opposing party is willing to use bad faith tactics or outright violence to defend their position, and they are scared to some level.


Median household income is like $80k


Left arrow is not where my fingers are, but ctrl-b is.

I would have to move my whole hand over to the arrow keys, or I can use the edge of my right hand (on a full size keyboard, not laptop) to hit ctrl, and hit "b" with my left index finger.


I use F2. Unlike the arrow keys, I don't have to move my hands and I can hit it reliably. I use it enough that I want it within reach, but not so often that I need it on the home row, and all Ctrl combinations there are already tied to emacs operations in my mind.


I have heard that told with “VCR” in place of microwave. We still have a microwave that needs clock set when power fails. We do not have a VCR.


Only our gen knows how to hook up and how to enter the main menu of a DVD player.


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