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If you're a Christian, yes. Not killing people is supposed to be like their number one rule.

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Things will have to get a lot worse before people rise up, but it'll happen eventually.

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There's a quota, so unless you have a few hundred million dollars laying around, it's a futile fight.

How long would it take to create a Pyramid today?

Just a shower thought. Seeing how these structures took decades to build in their times, and that too entirely with manual labour, I was wondering how long these architectural marvels would take to be built in this post modern era with the help of our technological advancements....

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Slavery wasn't used on the original pyramids.

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Yeah, and they're assuming you're going to power it off of a 5v line. In most instances you'd want to power it off the existing doorbell transformer, so you have to step down the voltage and convert it to DC somehow. That's $5-10 right off the bat.

Additionally, you'd want to have the esp chip and relay at the doorbell transformer, not at the actual doorbell. You'd need to have a second relay or power transformer for this, but that's not a huge deal.

The project would likely be around $10-20, assuming you're not going to 3D print an enclosure. Plus, if you already have a front door camera, chances are you'd already have a doorbell camera that can already do this.

Source: building custom smart devices is my hobby.

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They said she did it in less than a year.

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Look into the servarr suite. I just add what I want and it finds and downloads it for me.

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Rubber

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Those elk just hired a body guard.

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I mean, that might be true if you don't have any customer service skills. I did my time in food service, retail, and hospitality and I was good at my job because I broke pretty much every one of those rules.

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Now that one is true

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It's in the US, and it's been a minute, but things have always been bad regarding customers. You just gotta know how to handle the bad ones.

Israel Has “Systematically Violated” Laws Regarding Civilian Harm, UN Finds ( truthout.org )

Israeli forces have demonstrated a pattern of systematically targeting densely populated civilian areas across hundreds of attacks in Gaza that likely violate international wartime laws, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) found in a report released Wednesday....

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Congress sells weapons, not the president. Congress can even prevent a veto if the sale is large enough.

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Keep in mind that every person on this planet will experience every symptom of ADHD at some point. That's why it's so relatable.

It becomes a disorder when it significantly negatively impacts your life and ability to function as a human.

Like, the only reason I'm still employed is because my company is staffed by people who understand the limitations of adhd. If not for them I'd be homeless.

My house is still in a constant state of chaos, and that won't change until I can pay a normal person to help me.

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AI is great, if used properly. It's a tool, not a solution, and needs a ton of refinement.

My company has spent tens of millions of dollars and a year plus refining our AI platform, to the extent that we're directly responsible for a leading cloud platform's current and future offerings. We're even at the point of them offering their services for free because we're putting in so much work.

Properly using generative AI is possible, but most companies don't want to pay for it.

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The US government in a nutshell.

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Huh? Outlook gives you two clear options when attaching a document. One is to attach as a copy, and one is to share it.

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My wife is a tattoo artist, and she hands a decent amount of them out. But, really the point is that it has a QR code to her Instagram.

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But it's the 24h news cycle. They have to say something before the other guys!

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back ( www.windowscentral.com )

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

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Using an internet connected OS past EOL is definitely not privacy friendly.

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No, he said EOL and beyond

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As an American, me too. We're a virus infecting the rest of the world.

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I've always maintained that the name should be changed to executive functioning disorder.

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I didn't come here to be attacked like this.

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They should be controlling for those things

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And this is a surprise to absolutely no one.

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I also miss all of the clear cases on electronics from the same time period.

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To me it looks like the paint is old and flaking off.

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Tribalism is a bitch.

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My SO frequently includes me in conversations that they've already started in their head, and I have to remind them that I have zero context for what they just said.

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You don't need to supplement b12 if you eat meat unless you have health issues that cause malabsorption.

Netanyahu says deadly Israeli strike in Rafah was the result of a 'tragic mistake' ( apnews.com )

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a “tragic mistake” was made in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that set fire to a camp housing displaced Palestinians and, according to local officials, killed at least 45 people....

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Biden is actually against weapon shipments now, but congress controls that, not him.

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You can't nuke a country without killing civilians.

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The recent weapon sale was over $100m, iirc.

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You're suggesting the complete displacement of every civilian in Israel, which is pretty fucked.

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Return to what, exactly? A barren radioactive wasteland?

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I'm not sure what you think moving the goalposts means, but it doesn't mean what you think it does.

I'm just pointing out the how horribly flawed your position is and responding to you moving the goalposts.

What song should I play for my bathroom neighbors?

The work bathroom is currently a warzone, on their phone speakers people like to play music, play games at full blast, and one guy likes to chill to ambient rainforest. What song can I play to passive aggressively make it known that I don't want to listen to their tik tok feeds while I work out my demons?

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That's too much fun, though.

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They're likely talking about other nuclear waste besides spent fuel rods.

They're still wrong, but it makes a bit more sense from that perspective.

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No, I meant the radioactive waste water and such. There's different levels of radioactive waste that nuclear plants produce, and it's not just spent fuel.

ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study ( gizmodo.com )

The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....

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AI is a tool, not a solution.

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )

Tack "&udm=14" on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

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For me it's worse than Google. About half the time I have to run the search again in Google because none of the DDG links are relevant to my query.

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Probably talking about RISUG, although the US equivalent is Vasagel.

Basically Vasagel plugs up the Vas Deferens so sperm can't get out, and RISUG rips sperm to shreds as they come out. It lasts for 10 years, and is reversible with a shot of baking soda.

RISUG is approved in India (where it was developed), and Vasagel is being developed by a foundation instead of a pharmaceutical company, so progress has been slow.

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I said that.

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I can't remember if it was Asimov or Heinlein (maybe Clarke), but one of them said that an elected official should be drug into office kicking and screaming, and only be allowed to leave when they've done a good job.

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It activates the same areas of your brain as cocaine.

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I don't see how that has any relevance to my comment.

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Fair enough!

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