As far as I’m aware there’s not really a feasible path to miniaturization for most of the current medical scanning technologies. Physics and materials science are fundamental barriers.

Walgreens once gave me the wrong prescription, which I didn’t notice until after I already taken some. It was some weird drug for schizophrenics or something like that and it totally fucked me up to the point I had to take off work for the day. Instead of apologizing or trying to make the situation right the Walgreens pharmacist was a total asshole to me and tried to blame me for what happened, they acted like I had stolen someone else prescription instead of them fucking up and poisoning me.

Which country? Consumer fuel prices have been subsidized to artificially suppress them in a number of places, Brazil for example. The profits are still being made but the rise in prices is being shifted onto the public via govt. debt so it gets paid through future taxes instead of showing up immediately at the pump.

8 to 10 is ideal. Below 5 or 6 is not ripe. Above 10 is banana bread territory.

Do you consider the cartels to be corporations? They operate like corporations but exist without the sanction of governments.

Mostly no. If you are in a VHCOL area and have a lot of financial obligations, like a large family to support for example, it’s really not that much. Outside those circumstances its enough income to support a middle class lifestyle in any developed country on earth.

ARR is around 30b, valuation is over 800b.

It is unethical and potentially illegal.

I don’t think its been mentioned here yet but having a yubikey configured for your bitwarden account can be really handy.

If we could get resources from space without having to extract them on earth that seems inherently better even if the same MBA shitheads are running the space mines. It would make it a lot easier to prohibit harmful resource extraction methods if they can also be economically accomplished without having to destroy irreplaceable ecosystems, for example.

Demarchy. Random selection is good enough as long as the pool is big and fresh people get cycled in regularly. It sidesteps a whole host of problems, and the new problems it introduces are relatively minor in my view.

Extremely unprofessional. Acting like an asshole is only appropriate in certain contexts, and a rando calling about open positions is definitely not one of them.

Adults can do what they want, but that sounds like a bad idea and I question the judgment of both parties.

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 10. It’s easy to install if you ever want to step up from scrubland.

I almost never see any of them between my DNS filtering and ublock.

I tried a few years ago but couldn’t get over the absurd amount of advertising and dumb bullshit so I canceled my subscription. I would love to spend Sunday mornings drinking coffee and reading the paper like an old-timey person but the paper is at least 90% garbage. The 10% that isn’t garbage is poorly edited and often has typos. It felt like I was being insulted every time I opened it up.

Keep right except to pass. The passing lane is for passing.

It gives you more control over when and what Google can do on the device. If you run Google software with network access you have to assume they can track you, but having it sandboxed minimizes what it can do while running and gives you more control over what it does (e.g. you can deny it network access entirely whenever you want).

In a rational and just world where the system functions as intended, yes. That’s never been normal. The normal situation has been every President since Congress last tried to reclaim their authority with the War Powers Act in the 1970s has further expanded what the next one can get away with. Congress has never successfully responded to their abuses. The reality has been the President can and will start whatever wars they see fit and Congress normally doesn’t do anything much about it besides cheer.