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Online travel agent allows customers to filter out Boeing 737 Max planes
Too bad if you're already booked and the airline company changes the plane on you...
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Online travel agent allows customers to filter out Boeing 737 Max planes
Too bad if you're already booked and the airline company changes the plane on you...
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We're not allowed to forget they exist.
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"It's giving [X]" -> it's giving [X] vibes -> it is giving the perception of [X]
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NYC-bound flight canceled when passenger notices missing bolts on plane wing
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It's called speed tape, and genuinely is a thing used in the industry.
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Not the hero we deserve, but the one we need.
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Fran is quite well known for her role in The Nanny, and a pertinent scene is one where she fights not to cross a picket (strike) line, and her employer forces her across.
So a lot of us who remember this scene are all having a little extra giggle about the whole deal.
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Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.
Nobara Project is another good Fedora based build for those wanting to try Linux that will work relatively smoothly for gaming.
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‘I’ve never seen heat this bad. It’s not normal’: Italy struggles as temperature tops 40C 104F (48C 120F predicted)
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At least here in Australia parents were using the kids at the playground to socialise (standing right up in each other's space, holding empty coffee cups to justify no mask), and so there were multiple vectors of infection. That and multigenerational households are more common in some parts of the world, so if the kid brings it home, whole family gets sick, hospital system overloads.
It wasn't specifically kids suffer so oldies don't die, but the continuation is that if the oldies are healthy, if anyone needs the hospital, there'll be staff to look after them.
TL;DR people are taking the piss and making the jobs of HCWs harder... Not like that's anything new 🙄
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Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
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You forget that in the States, they say "speed limit is X, so I go X+10", sometimes even 20. It's very common for comments to mention that the flow of traffic is literally 25% faster than the "limit" - it's like culturally so many USians treat the limit as a lower limit. 🫣
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Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only.
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And you're on one his weaker books! 🫣
https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html
This link has always been helpful for explaining his books.
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Are steam key sites legit/worth it?
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Stolen credit cards, buy legit keys, owner of card does chargeback, actual retailer is now out money and a key and can get penalised for the chargeback.
Might as well pirate it instead because the devs definitely don't get the money.
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Clinicians could be fooled by biased AI, despite explanations
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Don't worry, it won't ever get that far... Insurance AI would have denied the imaging request.
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does anyone have "smart glasses"? are there any that are discreet and cannot be heard by others near you?
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I have them. They aren't half bad, but it is possible at louder volumes for others to hear.
Perhaps OP should get bone conduction buds, but that may make it hard to wear the glasses.
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A gel injected into the scrotum could be the next male contraceptive
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Unfortunately there has to be almost no side effects for almost all users, as there are no (as yet) medical benefits to male contraception.
In women, not being pregnant can prevent death for some of them, regulate painful periods, etc. - it is considered the risk of the myriad side effects is worth it because at least it does some good.
For men, who do not become pregnant, not being able to get someone else pregnant is not a medical benefit for the man.
And unfortunately hormonal modification does cause problems. Lots of them.
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The hottest 14 days ever recorded are the last 2 weeks
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Acknowledging the truth means accepting that we're fucked, that even if we weren't individually responsible (maybe) we are still going to have to deal with the ramifications... And that's scary. It's far more comforting for there to be a secret cabal controlling everything and that really life is gonna be ok and you don't have to change anything at all.
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Best printers / printer brands?
It's Brother: https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine
We went with their black and white MFC which also does double sided ADF scanning... and I recently had a bit of FOMO when a colour MFC went on sale (ofc, for like three-four times the price, and at that price I might as well just print colour at a local print shop).
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Siri Open Lemmy
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The airpods looked ridiculous. Now they're a fashion statement. 🤷🏻♀️
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America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars: Whatever kind of EV you might want, chances are China has it.
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An e-civic would be phenomenal...
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Reddit's Traffic is Down 3.36% Month-Over-Month, According to SimilarWeb
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Alternatively, people with more time sign up and shitpost. I recall every summer break Redditors would complain. 🫣
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Mishaal Rahman and I have hands-on the Samsung Galaxy S24 series. Ask us anything!
Is that 5x actually better than the 10x in previous models? :/
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Tesla thinks a grabbing stick is a good replacement for right-hand drive in the UK.
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Just not making them at all anymore. The few countries that are RHD aren't big enough markets for them to bother making the S and X for them anymore. We here in AUS are stuck with just the 3 and Y now, and any existing S and X models.
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Reddit protest updates: news on the apps shutting down and Reddit’s fights with mods - The Verge
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But he GETS us, yknow??? vomit