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  • There was an early covid study from Japan? That said they tried ivermectin and it improved outcomes. A lot of different things were being tried to see if anything worked, not just ivermectin. Vitamin C and D were on the list of cures, too, I believe. After others tried to replicate it, they realized it didnt really improve anything, but it was too late. Word on the street was already out. The ivermectin supporters took this as a sign they were repressing a easy to obtain, over the counter drug in favor of a microchip vaccine. Really, it fed into all the conspiracy theories and got warped into becoming a cure all.

  • The rotring is super smooth, but its so heavy. I wanted it to be my favorite, but I ended up reaching for the kuro toga far more. Doesnt help that the tip of the rotring bent and dented out on the first drop. I bent it back and it still works, as long as I don't rotate it.

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  • Ok. I wanna make this happen on Android. I am a complete dummy and the only thing I ever got off github had like step by step written instructions somewhere. What do I do?

    Do I just download the freetube-0.23.2.13-Android.apk (latest release) from the releases site... Or do I need to build it first or something from the link you provided? Building it seems extremely daunting.

  • They wouldn't let me turn mine off. The first bank flat out said no, the credit union charged me $5 to draft $100 from my savings. If there wasnt $100 in the savings, they would charge me the $5 to take what was in my savings and the $25 overdraft to cover the rest. There were no other options.

  • You are automatically an Irish citizen if one of your parents was an Irish citizen who was born in Ireland. You can become an Irish citizen if one of your grandparents was born in Ireland, or you can become an Irish citizen if one of your parents was an Irish citizen at the time of your birth, but was not born in Ireland.

    https://www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/usa/our-services/citizenship/born-outside-ireland/foreign-births-registration-guide/

  • Haha jokes on the kid! My grandmother would buy all sorts of crap only use it once then give it to my mom. My mom has it piled away in a store room and when she goes, I'll add it to my hoard collection. (Were not super hoard-y and can still walk and use all my furnature, etc, we just cant bring ourselves to throw away things that work, in case we need or want them one day / possibly sell them as collectables, even though they're worth nothing now...) when I go, the kid will inherent 3 generations of crap. Sucker!

  • Where I grew up in rural texas: these are current times as I still go there regularly to visit.

    Convenience store: 10 km down a major highway

    Market: 20 km

    The nearest Walmart : 58 km <-- this used to be the only option until they built ... The nearest chain grocery: 21 km

    Train: 60 km (Amtrak)

    Park: 8km. Down a road with a 60 mph (96 km/h) speed limit. But definitely walkable.

    Bus stop: ??? There is no public transportation in the town of under 2000 people. Google maps won't even give me a suggestion so...I have no idea. Does a greyhound count?

    Library: 21 km

  • The only things I see that have a visa logo on it, are those prepaid cards. Out of all the cards I've ever had, bank or credit, I'm pretty sure only 1 has ever been visa, and that was like 15+ years ago, everything else is, or has been MasterCard.

  • Idk, ask the Texas Tribune, haha.

    I feel people have made the same mistake before, and confused crowdtangle, which is a disinformation tracker, and tangles, which is a "surveillance-for-hire outfit." Meta probably felt the need to clarify, at least once time before.

  • One point of contention. I dont think tangles is some defunct meta app. Texas has recently acquired a contract with a law enforcement surveillance tool called tangles.

    Tangles is a product offered by the cybersecurity company Cobwebs Technologies, which was founded in Israel in 2014 by three former members of Israeli military special units. The company has said their products, which are marketed as open source intelligence (OSINT) tools, have been used to combat terrorism, drug smuggling, and money laundering, but Meta has accused the company of operating as a surveillance-for-hire outfit. In 2023, Cobwebs Technologies was acquired by the Nebraska-based tech firm PenLink Ltd.

    This tool is out there, and still being used.

  • Per the article

    The resolution simply requires the hand counting of physical paper ballots at the precinct level to ensure it matches the total reported by the tabulators. This does not involve a hand-count tabulation of the vote totals but rather simply the total number of physical ballots cast at that particular precinct.

    So, because in Tennessee, a QR Code error created a mismatch between the number of physical ballots vs tabulated ones, and they found the same code error in 64 out of 66 counties in Georgia's tabulators, they are going to hand count the number of ballots to make sure it matches the number the tabulators counted. Especially, since they apparently found a bunch of additional ballots in some counties, as well...

    I mean, this seems reasonable on the surface. But, considering the situation, it seems like it could all go really sideways.

    Isn't there another way they could count just the number of paper ballots? Like, as they come in, instead of later on, by hand? I'm not sure of the way thier system / machines work, or of a way that would convince everyone of privacy, but...like a laser counter that counts every time its broken, or something...Idk, there just seems like there has to be a better way.

    Edit: so really, objectively speaking, this is an issue. One that wouldnt be caught unless they ordered a hand recount after the fact. I mean, obviously, this isnt an objective source, but, unless theyre just straight up making this up (which I suppose is a possibility), how is not having every ballot counted OK? Isnt there a better suggestion than breaking the seal immediately, counting everything by hand, and inviting all the issues that come with that? Something that could even be presented to the court or something as an alternative, that everybody could agree with. At least people could say they tried to solve the issue another way. If it gets rejected, then it would be plainly obvious there were ulterior motives. At this point, it sounds as if theres some plausible deniability behind the reasoning for hand counting.

  • Hoggies

  • Thats a street urchin. Strangely, this blog post was one of the first links that came up. It ponders how the name street urchin came to be.

    It says

    Looking in the OED, I see two possibly relevant definitions. 1c. A goblin or elf. (From the supposition that they occasionally assumed the form of a hedgehog.)... There is also 4a. A pert, mischievous, or roguish youngster; a brat.

    Edit: formatting is crazy

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    FarFarAway @lemmy.world

    Texas SCOPE act takes effect Sunday. How does Lemmy comply?

    "The SCOPE Act takes effect this Sunday, Sept. 1, and will require everyone to verify their age for social media."

    So how does this work with Lemmy? Is anyone in Texas just banned, is there some sort of third party ID service lined up...for every instance, lol.

    But seriously, how does Lemmy (or the fediverse as a whole) comply? Is there some way it just doesn't need to?

    No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    FarFarAway @lemmy.world

    how does my "neighbor" hear my private telephone conversations.

    This is completely strange, and very long. I've exhausted all my ideas, and need fresh ones.

    Some background.

    1. my neighbor is old, very very old. Also, they are not very mobile. So something like creeping up to the window and listening in is out of the question. Although, a very long time ago (decades) they did used to hang out near an air condition vent, listening to our in person conversations.
    2. when I say neighbor, I mean they live in a small house connected by a breezeway to my house. I do admit they are rather close. Yes I do have access to thier house.
    3. i have no real idea of thier level of technological expertise. They are pretty manipulative so even though I'm under the impression they're very limited on expertise, it's possible they know more than they let on. Let's just say at this point, they say they have difficulties placing calls to thier saved contacts on thier jitterbug flip phone, but when your not looking they're already on the line with someone, like five s