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1·16 hours agoLooks like they’ve changed it now.
Pedantry: plummets, with an e. I miss the days when newspapers employed people to catch stuff like this.
3·1 day agoSure. Just do this cheek swab, let us scan your retina and fingerprints, show us your government-issued ID, provide a little blood and a stool sample, and unlock your phone so we can review your social media posts and messages for the last 5 years. We’ll need bank statements and a credit history too. If you’re approved you can rent shared space on a Chromebook for only $30 per month. Terms and conditions apply.
6·1 day agoSounds like it’s already a thing. From the article:
Andes virus is an especially contagious form of hantavirus, an infectious diseases physician and medical micro-biologist said Friday.
[The] germ can be spread through salvia [sic], bodily fluids, and droplets from the respiratory system, Dr. Donald Vinh said in an interview with CTV News Channel.
‘In general hantaviruses are transmitted from rodents to humans, but what has been known since the ‘90s is that there’s a specific type of hantavirus, in this case the Andes virus,” Vinh said, “that has been previously shown to have the capacity to spread from one person to another.”
9·2 days agoSure, you may be able to buy a cheaper motherboard for a while. But you’ll pay through the nose to populate it, hence the falling motherboard sales.
10·3 days agoThe old Israeli approach to ceasefires.
There’s going to be a lot of us running 2019-vintage PCs indefinitely.
4·3 days agoThe report reflects that the alerted products have, in their vast majority, an Asian origin: 80.8%. Within that block, the weight of China is decisive: 212 out of 276 national alerts originate in this country, which represents 76.8% of the total. Far behind are products of European origin (8.7%) or those whose origin could not be identified (10.1%).
How much of that imbalance is just because China makes more stuff than other countries?
Elon’s socialism is of the “national” variety.
That’s quite a big downside for a phone.
Casio digital watches.
If only the prices were not so 2026y.
19·5 days agoOr at least take its penis for later.
1464·5 days agoThe macOS port, built by New York-based developer Andrey Letov using AI-assisted development workflows…
Yeah now I can see why he’s unhappy with it.
Basically no change in 10 years then.
3·5 days agoThanks - that was interesting and informative, if a little depressing.
The warships should probably be in the water.
28·5 days agoAre Microsoft OK? Has someone been over to check on them?
They won’t understand. 33% of Americans will swallow whatever incoherent excuses he pulls out of his ass on the day. 33% will object. 33% won’t be paying attention.