In my area, “Don” is pronounced with the mouth wide, jaw open. Force a smile as you say it, and you should be in the ballpark.

“Dawn” is pronounced with the lips pursed. Kiss your grandmother on the cheek.

I’m going to reject that criticism in this particular case. PiHole is a significantly more complex setup than Tailscale or ZeroTier. While I agree that it is beyond expectations for the “average person”, so is PiHole.

An OpenVPN server on a dynamic IP address is not that far beyond the skillset of the average PiHole user, especially if they are using an open source router with OpenVPN and DDNS preinstalled.

Tailscale or ZeroTier are well within the capabilities of a PiHole user.

Tailscale, zerotier, or any other VPN server on your home network can keep your mobile device on your pihole network regardless of physical location.

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I’m told there are differences between “merry”, “marry”, and “Mary”, but I don’t believe it.

My daughters just brought me a shot and a beer…

Chuck Schumer currently has less power than Jon Stewart.

Seeing what Chuck Schumer does with power, I’d say this is a good thing.

Does he still fuck Ivanka, or has he moved on to his granddaughter?

We are comprised of tangled chains of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, with a sprinkle of various others. Plastic is slightly more complex chains, developed from the dead and entombed carcasses of ancient flora and fauna. That entombment process adjusts, but doesn’t fundamentally alter the chemistry of those chains.

Yes and no.

If you regularly donate, your PFAS levels will be well below average, so your blood/plasma will actually lower the recipient’s concentrations. Not quite as low as it brings down your concentrations, but still lower than average.

Further, with plasma, they extract the proteins to produce various medications. That process leaves the PFAS with the remaining, depleted plasma, which is then discarded.

But, even if your concentrations are significantly above average, and the recipient receives whole blood/plasma from you, they are only receiving 1 unit from you, adding to 8 or 9 units of their own. Their net blood concentration rises only 1/8th above average as your own concentration.

The lifesaving value of your PFAS-contaminated blood is infinitely higher than the risks posed by your PFAS.

Tl;dr: Don’t discard your blood.

This might come as a shock, but that “MD” behind their name isn’t a guarantee they dont hold quackish beliefs either.

Regular plasma donation is the most effective treatment. Blood donation works, too, but you can only donate blood every two months, versus plasma donations up to twice a week.

What a garbage site, and garbage article. The first 14 paragraphs do nothing but repeat the headline and sell ad space.

Here ya go:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_Immigration_Reform_and_Immigrant_Responsibility_Act_of_1996

Far easier ways to make/acquire gun powder, and far better explosives available. Fireworks make a lot of noise and light, but they aren’t particularly strong explosives.

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Do you not?

Beer and bread share a common ancestor: gruel. Put grain in water to soften. Works better if you also heat the mixture. Now you have a carb-rich slurry or paste in which bacteria have been killed off, suitable for staying alive.

Don’t eat it all right away. Let it sit around for a bit, and wild yeasts will grow in it first, before bacteria start colonizing it.

Pour off the liquid: that’s a primitive beer. Let the remaining mash dry out a bit; that’s a primitive bread.

Actual beer and actual bread are just evolutions along the same lines.

The point is that, because it’s a flat rate, you end up paying more the more money you have.

The rich dont spend much of their money on consumer goods. They spend most of their money on investments, financial services, etc.

So when you and I spend nearly 100% of our money on consumer goods, we are paying 25% of our income in taxes. But the richest among us, whose consumer spending amounts to 10% (or less) of their earnings, pays just 2.5% of their income on taxes.

Flat rate taxes on consumer spending are wildly regressive.

You now seem to be fairly clear you’re talking about the former, largely doable and indeed mostly implemented case.

Quite the reverse, actually. That “dynamic” environment hosted by a separate service is not nearly as significant as you portray it. The entire point of a meeting is for every observer to share the same experience.

Again, it is completely trivial for the underlying AI to recognize it has been asked to sit in on the same meeting, and act as the personal representative for each of 25 separate people.

If you’re under the impression that there is a personal, private relationship between an individual and an AI instance, I suggest you disabuse yourself of that notion. If there is any distinction, it is only because the underlying AI has been instructed to schizophrenically simulate it.

You shouldn’t underestimate profit motive. They aren’t going to do it for the sake of efficiency, but they will certainly do it for the sake of money. It is ludicrous to think this degree of cost optimization hasn’t already been implemented.