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I have a little pry tool keychain thing. It has a bottle opener and flat head on it. The pry bar bit can also act like a big flat head for things that have a coin slot meant to tighten or open it. It’s not meant for nails or opening wooden crates.

Really it’s useful for any poking of prying that you shouldn’t be using a knife for but have a strange urge to. Also a package opener if people around are nervous about knives. The utility knife thing with a bit of crowbar glued to it probably doesn’t comfort others as it looks like how someone would design a tactical box cutter.

Ideally we should find a replacement for that horseshoe crab blood or perhaps a way to raise them in captivity. Maybe someone could come up with something to give the crabs to offset the damage caused by taking the blood. The issue might not even be primarily due to the blood with everything else happening climate change wise.

There might be ways to improve things for the birds but animals with super specific niches just kinda run the risk of becoming extinct. I feel similar about Pandas and Koalas.

@crow Not really sure how someone faking it would expect things to work out. Someone could decide they could get a bunch of clout and followers by faking it. But at some point they get shown to be a fraud then they lose any following they had. Are the people who claim to have discovered something notable before this or could they just be riding a wave for a min for a quick buck? I guess there have been cases in more proper scientific circles of faked results.

Reporting on it is kinda whatever as that’s kinda just talking about what someone else claimed.

Another possibility is that some other mechanism is at work or there is a fault in the test setup. At that point the person making the claim could be wrong but not necessarily aware of it. Maybe due to a lack of knowledge.

@science @technology @dzen

To me it looks like an over estimation of the capabilities for the tech. Same kind of thinking that led to lawyers submitting fake cases as support in court. The current tech can be useful but has to be verified and generally tweaked a bit to be good enough. It certainly has room for improvement in quality and just not lying. Real world use has some copyright questions with what the training data was. Applying it to something creative is questionable and more or less feels like uninspired remixes.

Also the whole graphic is kinda suspect to me when “Blockchain engineers” is a job category and it’s produced by an org working on AI.

I have music or whatever it’s called now because I music and red together where the same price as just red. I still have it because I use YouTube more than streaming services like Netflix and don’t mind supporting creators I’m watching. I use some of the features of premium on the app on my phone and fire stick too which could be worked around but would be a hassle.

For a vast majority of people who mainly view YouTube as a free service I highly doubt they’d be willing to pay $7 a month let alone $14. A large portion of their viewer base is kids and they aren’t going to pay. Maybe if they add stickers or whatever TikTok is going nuts over as part of the monthly sub.

Medical issues are by fair the biggest risk, many of which is related to obesity and poor health choices on top of a lack of healthcare. Or it’s just cancer or covid. Suicide might make the top 10 which again relates to a lack of healthcare.

Accidents of any kind make the top 4 or 3 but violence or murder isn’t that high on the list. The subset of gun violence is even smaller. There has been a downward trend in violence for decades now. It doesn’t feel that way with the news but people are generally less likely to be murdered than they were in the past. For a lot of the social issues failures with the economic system and a lack of social programs is the root cause for a lot of things.

You’re the one randomly commenting to defend a government. Plenty of governments and orgs find problems with the policies and actions of the CCP not just the US.

One I have a problem with is how people in China can’t really criticize their government without risking being targeted by the government. If I said the Pooh Bear comment in China the CCP would be on my ass because WeChat reported me.

On the other hand criticize my government all the fucking time including leaders in particular. Watch. Fuck Biden I don’t like his gun policy and I don’t think he should run again, he is too fucking old. Here, I’ll do it again. Fuck Trump, he has tiny hands and I’m pretty sure he did those crimes he has been to going to court over. Also the DMV sucks and inflation is bad.

I could get into more important things the CCP is responsible for like the genocide but you probably think those are lies or want to get into whataboutisms.

How do you keep your breath so fresh? Does the pooh bear use mint flavored shoe shine or do you just pop in a mint after going to town?

If they have to use code words they’re not going to be getting care in their state, not legally anyway. That’s part of how they can even be charged with something.

Rank and file TSA doesn’t really know what’s up but there are options. If I traveled more I’d get a victorinox Jetsetter. And when I say they don’t know what’s up they might take stuff that’s fine or not really know many of the rules.

I have a Kershaw bottle opener pry tool thing that hasn’t been confiscated yet. People had to ask their boss about it and then look a bit flustered they didn’t need to take it. The main reason I have it so I’m not tempted to fuck up a knife prying on something.

They make swiss army “knives” that don’t have a blade. Some are even allowed on a plane.

The point of the community is to post items available at a discount. Should be more about actual deals than spam. The mods should probably have a rule about self promotion (more clearly an ad) and something about volume of posts to a particular website.

It’s a nice idea in theory but just results in FOMO and buying stuff you wouldn’t otherswise. Subscribing will likely not save anyone any money. Can be a nice resource to look at if you’re going to buy something anyway.

It’s more like watching them post about how bad a date went or hearing about how they got kicked out of Wendy’s.

I haven’t subbed to any reddit related magazines/communities here but they pop up on all. I do think it’s probably healthier for people and this platform to move on. I do get why people still want to hear about shenanigans.