I use them for after exercise, so it’s just sweat and dirt. I have been meaning to get a bidet, though.

They’re fine to use, just put them in the trash when you’re done.

Bernie Sanders is about as extreme as they come in the US- and he’s maybe center-left at his most extreme.

This is based on policies he pushes for, right? I always got the impression he would push as far left as possible, which with today’s democrats means “center left at best”.

I think most people just don’t like the time changes twice a year. Permanent standard time or summer time doesn’t matter as much to me, just pick one and stay with it.

I prefer root vegetables cooked medium (carrots) to well done (potatoes). Greens are excellent rare, though.

Sorting their account comments by oldest, you see some of that variation I was talking about. There’s about ten normal looking comments total, then two weeks ago they suddenly started with these long LLM looking comments, all about relatively serious topics. I don’t think it’s necessarily an actual bot, but maybe just someone using an LLM to expand or format their comments.

I had doubts, but scrolling through their comment history almost every comment is this length without much variation. Then I saw those were all just in the past eight hours. Seems pretty fishy to me.

Edit: I kept scrolling and wow, the sheer volume of comments this length is astounding. I would normally expect more variation in topics and comment length.

I have almost zero knowledge about Syria, historical, political, or otherwise, so please take this as the genuine question it is:

While HTC (I assume this is the current government?) is obviously not perfect, are they not still a clear improvement over Assad? I guess it’s possible that the new government would treat people similarly, but just has different “enemies”, which would explain why the new government freed people imprisoned by the Assad regime.

Hitler took 53 days.

I had never heard of this specific amount of time in reference to Hitler. Here’s an Atlantic article that goes in depth, but “Hitler 53 days” gave plenty of search results.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/

Edit: To call the article haunting is an understatement.

Arguably a false positive prison rate that is lower than the old innocent murder victim rate is still a net improvement. No system is perfect, and even inaction has an associated cost.

There’s never been a case of something having different behavior or health effects just because of a tiny chemical difference (trans fat) or size difference (micro plastics), what’s the worst that could happen?

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This blog post explains the situation well. KnowBe4 is an IT security company that briefly hired someone in North Korea.

https://blog.knowbe4.com/how-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker-tried-to-infiltrate-us

If you ate two pounds of cheese a day every day (about 3700 calories), it would take 66 years to get through all 22 metric tons.

The bot serves a very important purpose. It teaches users about the block function. I really tried to tolerate it, but it’s just like those pinned automod comments on reddit.

It’s good, but I didn’t think it was worth fighting wars over.

Good thing Biden isn’t running anymore.

So what I’m hearing is EVs have a 60-80% lower carbon cost?

I can’t imagine Ukraine letting Russia keep Crimea, but I also can’t imagine Putin letting it go.