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riley0 ,

Some work; some don’t. Google Scholar is a good way to find out whether testing’s been done. Here are 2 less time-consuming ways 1) ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/list-all/ 2) examine.com The other thing to watch out for is whether the bottle you’re buying actually contains what it says it does. The only verifying organizations I know of are NSF and USP. Manufacturers have to pay for those lab tests, and if they do, they post NSF or USP logos on the bottles. If you just look for “natural” or “organic,” you won’t find anything about the presence or absence of the supposedly active ingredient. As jmp242 said, there’s no regulation in the USA, so there’s a lot of snake oil.

riley0 ,

We know that people who have less tend to be more generous than people who have more.

riley0 OP ,

Or click on the link on their Wikipedia page

riley0 OP ,

Thanks. Here’s a screenshot. If I understand you, the answer is that if anyone from federated instance A subscribes from there to a community X on federated instance B, then community X’s posts get cross-posted to instance B. But that doesn’t explain cross-posting to specific communities on instance(s) B, so I think I’m missing your explanation.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/f0d9067e-506a-4076-b8fa-bbff0aaa3b2d.png

riley0 OP ,

Maybe the answer is that other users cross-post, and those cross-posts are displayed. …reddithelp.com/…/15484385684628-How-to-Crosspost…

Who downvotes honest questions?

riley0 OP ,

Dessalines’ 8/7 response must be the answer github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3827#:~:text=des….

riley0 ,

not at all

riley0 ,

Depends on what you can afford. Foam mattresses are easy, b/c you can have them shipped, but you can’t try before you buy. Hybrid mattresses are popular. They have springs inside and foam on one side. You can’t flip them over, like you can with old-fashioned mattresses. Recently, I saw in a Goodwill thrift shop, a decent hybrid mattress for little money. They have a deal with a US manufacturer. I know this b/c I needed a new mattress a couple of years ago. In the process of looking, I found a couple of online sites comparing different brands and types. I seem to remember they weren’t affiliated with any sellers. If I’d saved the links, I’d share them. Figuring out exactly what they’re selling and comparing between brands is complicated. Good luck. P.S., Low-quality foam deteriorates quicker than pricier foam.

riley0 ,

I’ve wondered how you ship one back if you don’t like it.

riley0 ,

manifest v3

riley0 ,

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/d5a22412-d0dd-4ad5-9a7f-e8f653b8847e.pngOh, hell no!

riley0 ,

FF does PWs well.

riley0 ,

I don’t want Google to use my emails and documents to train their AI.

riley0 ,

Is that a devil’s-advocate question? Anyway, I don’t know, but I suspect. I’m not their customer, I’m their product. The more access they have to data, the more money they make.

riley0 ,

Don’t ask for other people to identify you, please.

What can we do to re-shape society for the better?

If top of the society is immoral psychopaths with power, and most of the society is composed of people with good intentions, then there is not much hope for “beta uprising” until things go way beyond point of recovery, because powerful psychopaths will not let their power get taken away....

riley0 ,

Bonhoeffer says stupidity is a social thing. I mostly agree. Things didn’t turn out well for Bonhoeffer. Shoveling against the tide is exhausting.

riley0 ,

Yup. Look at how the best-and-brightest theory worked out in the mid 20th century–e.g., the Clintons. Technocracy doesn’t work.

riley0 ,

Yup, but it’s a question of whom society recognizes as smart. Bill and Hill met at Yale. They sold us a bill of good with free trade. They thought they could get away with Hillary crafting a national healthcare system, almost in secret, and that everyone would accept it b/s she’s brilliant. Obama, Columbia/Harvard/Univ of Chicago, bailed out bankers, not home owners. That was a disaster.

The term, best and brightest, came into common use in describing to the Kennedy adminstration. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_and_the_Brightest They really bungled Vietnam.

I don’t know that we’ve ever been governed by the best and brightest. Sometimes I think we’re governed by the most venal and greedy.

riley0 ,

Matt Stoller has a good newsletter about monopoly power www.thebignewsletter.com

riley0 ,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracyen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement

riley0 ,

And it was IA’s increased activity during the pandemic that spurred the current trouble. Brewster Kahle is a saint.

Is this true?

Hello, smart people. Filling out an online form to volunteer for something, Firefox’s Facebook-fence icon appeared on the email field. Confused, I clicked on its question mark. On the next page, Mozilla wanted to sell me Firefox relay for $7/mo. (That’s their VPN + email masking + phone masking.) I used my yandex.ru email...

riley0 OP ,

That bites, and thank you.

riley0 OP ,

I just looked up fingerprinting. Yuck. Is there anything FOSS that defeats it?

riley0 OP ,

look here --> letmegooglethat.com/?q=yandex+free+email

riley0 OP ,

🤣 I like that.

riley0 OP ,

I just looked up user agent. If I understand correctly, that changes every time I change browsers. Does it also change every time I clear the cache?

riley0 OP ,

Thanks, everyone, for the info and education. I’ve just discovered and added Privacy Badger to FF. Tracking makes me feel slimed.

riley0 OP ,

Perhaps, you shouldn’t make assumptions

I didn’t sign up for Yandex instead. I’ve had a Yandex account for a long time. Also, your comments aren’t clear, but I don’t care. 'Bye.

riley0 OP ,

Thanks. Magnolia does the paywall thing for me. :)

riley0 OP ,

I knew that, but thanks. FF’s advertisement hit me out of left field and offered things I already have. I’ve got Proton’s new PW manager, which offers email aliases, but I’m used to doing it the old way.

riley0 ,

Qbittorrent and LibreOffice

riley0 ,

Section 230 requires "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230#:~:text=good fa… Selection of click-bait algorithms is a choice. At least, they could select out promotion of murder and maiming without a sled ride.

riley0 ,

In the 1984-sense, daily at work.

Voyager and Paramount Plus

I just started watching Voyager on Paramount Plus today, and noticed that the first two episodes, which are shown together, are presented as the appropriate 4:3 aspect ratio, but Episode 3 “Parallax” is presented in a distorted 16:9 or 16:10 format. I see no option to change this in Paramount Plus settings, and my Vizio TV...

riley0 ,

the cheaper one has ads That used to be over-the-air, broadcast tv. Monopolies gotta gouge.

riley0 ,

I’m using 2 extensions from the Firefox store, Simple Translate and Translate This Page. If one goes down, I use the other. Sometimes I use translate.yandex.ru as well.

riley0 ,
  • Fukushima
  • Chernobyl
  • 3-Mile Island to name a few
riley0 ,

Wind turbines can be located off shore. Energy can also be harvested from wave action.

riley0 ,

If you’re referring to the nukes-are-statistically-safe argument, then to be fair, you also have to take into account the scale of their failures.

riley0 ,

now trying to blame Ukraine

Blaming Russia was either stupid b/c putting the Nord Stream out of commission hurt Russia, or cynical b/c they thought we’d be stupid enough to buy that story. Blaming Ukraine has a basis in reality. reuters.com/…/us-had-intelligence-ukrainian-plan-… We may well have done it, as Biden promised, in concert with Ukraine or without them. wsj.com/…/B5942F2D-E4E5-4BD1-8CB3-8816A2ECAF19.ht…

riley0 ,

🤣

Does anyone else act more 'human' when solving captchas?

Whenever I have to do a captcha where you must select all tiles with bicycles, I know I can just click through super fast, but I feel like that might make the website suspicious, so I purposefully slow down like “Geez, this is a melon-scratcher!” or click and then unclick a tile like “whoops, silly me, thats an umbrella...

riley0 ,

Usually, under the box containing the visual captcha, there’s a headphone icon. Click that.

riley0 ,

The last laptop I bought is a Dell Inspiron from 2013. I got it at a ReStore (Habitat for Humanity) thrift shop for $125 ~2 yrs ago. i5 processor; built like a tank. Had to replace wifi chip b/c original was very slow. Got that on ebay for $25 (pkg of 5, but that’s the only way they came). When W10 goes away, I’ll make it a chromebook, if I haven’t first figured out how to install Linux on it. If I need a usb c port, I’ll find an adapter, as that would put less strain on my budget.

riley0 ,

Try adding YT enhancer. I’ve got UBlock Origin and that installed. IDK which one is still blocking ads, but they’re still blocked.

How do you handle being upset about something online?

like either a dumbass posting stupid shit, unfair bans, idiotic arguments, etc etc. i feel so incredibly stupid letting it affect me at all, but then also there’s real feelings mixed in there because it’s a real argument i give a shit about to some degree. so it’s this odd double crossing where i know it’s stupid but i...

riley0 ,

Dumbasses posting stupid shit don’t read sourced or reasoned comments. They just fling more poo. Walk away.

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