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There was a rather well-known French study.

[0] Python, Monty (1975), Monty Python and the Holy Grail


If the site happens to be a discussion site that starts with 'R', clearing cookies will let you through for a while. In Brave, there's a setting to do so when you leave the page.


Nah, it isn’t Reddit. I actually removed Reddit from my search results once they stopped allowing me to use the old interface.

It’s just some random job board that happens to be popular in my niche for whatever reason.


They still haven’t removed “old.reddit.com”. Replace “www” with “old” on any reddit URL and enjoy a relic from when the internet was less ruined.


The issue is that they just started forcing sign-ins on Old Reddit, allegedly because it's easier for bots to scrape. The ability to casually/anonymously peek at a post that answers your question is getting more rare.


Yes, but it now requires you to have an account.


And sometimes even to verify with Persona.


https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id644987363... Here is an iOS safari extension that helps mitigate their bs. Just putting this out there for people.



One nice thing is that the Polish church records are in Latin (with Latinized names), so I've been able to find and read birth/baptismal records for my wife's ancestors from the 1800s.


It's weird to see starlings listed as endangered. We seem to have no shortage of the darn things in the US.


"Starlings declined by 57% between 1995 and 2023 and they now feature on the Red List of birds of high conservation concern."

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/starling


"Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris has most recently been assessed for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2018. Sturnus vulgaris is listed as Least Concern."

https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22710886/137493608


All thanks to a Shakespeare fan, Eugene Schieffelin.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article...


Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Bernstein is an enjoyable read on this.


Got trapped in an Amway pitch in my teens and have been inoculated against such things ever since.


You are reminding me about a day decades ago when a guy I met and his wife were sitting in my living room with my gf and I. He wanted to talk science fiction, and his wife and my gf were going to talk about nursing. Seemed like a nice couple until they started talking about "something they were doing" in a mysterious way...

I remember saying, "sounds like scamway or something" and he actually had to say that it was in fact amway he was talking about. uncomfortable.

didn't go much further than that.

Looking backwards I realized how little friction we had getting to know these people, etc... sigh.


I wish Amway was bigger so more people would be exposed to it and be similarly inoculated.


At least amway has real product. You are expected to sell to make money in the early years. In 30 years of real work you get a passive income retirement plan - but you need to put in real work selling things to get there.

when you look at the real business model of those who have had success they are still selling the soap in retirement. It is not going to get you rich, but it isn't too bad a life.

well it was - the only people I know in amway are in their 80s and so it may be different.

amway deserves the hate. Truth is it isn't as easy as they tell you.


Well it was bigger. But the people who used to get swept by MLMs are now selling drop-shipping, affiliate websites or blockchain.


When the Internet was a quite new a guy who knew I was a programmer met with me to pitch an Internet business and it took me a while to figure out he was literally pitching Amway online.


Primerica were our local huge MLM. They were ruthless!


I haven't been in decades but there seemed to be the world's highest concentration of candle shops. Maybe people are looking for fancy candles.


Splashdown expected 8:07 EDT


If you go the old school "filter taped to box fan" route, be sure to add a shroud for the corners, as blade tip turbulence there actually causes reverse air flow. See the article by the 'R' of Corsi-Rosenthal.

https://www.texairfilters.com/how-to-improve-the-efficiency-...


I bet this moves more air per unit noise and/or power too.


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