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[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago

Holy crap you did it. Be very careful how you use your powers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They really help conserve water compared to hand-washing. Important with the many relatively dry arid places in the south and west of the US.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

So they can start advertising on it again in two weeks when people aren't paying as much attention again, duh. Just like when all those corporations stopped donating to insurrectionist Republicans, for about three seconds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, the EU is considering forcing Apple to open up imessage, so Apple doing this as kind of a pre emotive move to try and convince them that's not necessary anymore because see we're finally implementing rcs.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just like Rafael, I mean Ted Cruz. Who's actually Canadian. Can you take him back Canada? Please?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But that's different you see. Because money is speech and therefore needs to be protected, including by allowing total anonymity of donors. Whereas we're talking about online accounts, where people of course never engage in speech or express ideas. Hey, wait a second that can't be right. Hmmm, okay maybe it's because she's saying it's a security risk, because you don't know if they're a foreign national spreading propaganda online. This is totally different from political donations, which of course have never been bribes from foreign powers masked by anonymity... Hey wait! She got us again. Almost like she's some kind of shill who wipes her butt with the constitution while trying to create a crony supported facist state. No that can't be.

But yeah, according to Republicans, money is speech, but speech is not speech. I'm expecting their next campaign platform to be 2+2=5.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No worries, totally get it, just thought I'd offer up the direct link to the full story too for those who want it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Blog repost of a portion of a washington post story, found here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/11/09/car-dealerships-ev-sales/

or web archive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231111005720/https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/11/09/car-dealerships-ev-sales/

But please subscribe to new sources you use if you can, good journalism isn't free.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's because it's just a grant for preliminary design and research work. They'll review it after this stage is complete to see how feasible it looks before going forward with further stages. It's not 33 million to develop a whole new kind of rocket propulsion system, that would be a ludicrously low price. It's in the article, though the headline is a bit vague on what the award actually is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly. I was a big fan of the Batman, adapting the neo noir feel really helped it stand out.

Disney is kind of starting to figure this out on the star wars side with Andor and the Mandalorian. Creating unique stories with varying, structure, genre and tone. Every marvel movie just feels so generic and blends into every other, gets boring. Wanda vision had a glimmer of genius before devolving back to generic marvel meh stuff.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah 23 and me wanted to have their cake and eat it too. They wanted to run tests for genetic diseases but not have to comply with any of the regulations that would entail, including critical things like HIPAA, offering proper informed consent before testing (which is not just a form but is an actual conversation with a medical professional), and offering up included follow-up genetic counseling services for individuals and their families. This is critical for genetic testing especially, which usually have results that are far more complicated than just a simple negative or positive. Basically just the airbnb or uber models of skirting regulations for profit but applied to genetic testing. FDA stopped them though, so instead of complying with regulations there for good reason they cut out the actual medical tests and now just compile things like, your risk of heart disease may be ~4% instead of ~3% because of this SNP marker we found. All so that the FDA and others can't regulate them like true medical testing companies.

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