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I’d argue it’s a superior mouse even with the drift, even though I agree that the drift is annoying and am amazed they have not been able to fix it all these years.


I still use it everyday, but it is definitely a love/hate relationship. I imagine I'll switch to an ergonomic keyboard with trackpoint someday soon.


Not sure I follow your reasoning behind his skin color and suicide being causally related


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Yeah absolutely this. People seem to be unable to recognise that Britain and the USA are radically different places with different histories and approaches to basically everything. The common language creates the impression that they’re basically the same place.


This is a load of racist twaddle.

Black British people know their own history and have their own lived experience in the UK. I won't speak for them, but I will say for certain only a handful of cretins in the UK, of any ethnicity, are stupid enough to larp as Yanks.

Learn a bit of UK history and current affairs before you mouth off.


I'm not sure I agree on the Black Brits part, but the general problem is real: too many US copycats, in situations where aping the US does not make a shred of sense.


The slaves in Jamaica had a radically different experience then the slaves of America?

The colour bar. Colored Alien Seaman's Order, Kelso Cochrane, Bristol Bus Boycott

Could go up to Brixton incidents or all the attacks on this professor.


>The slaves in Jamaica had a radically different experience then the slaves of America?

The descendants of the slaves in Jamaica had a radically different experience then the descendants of the slaves in America.


You can legally walk into someones home in your country if the door is not locked? Where is that?


Yes, you get pure fructose which is processed by your liver. With normal sugar you get a mix of fructose and sucrose, so less fructose.

Excessive consumption of fructose leads to fatty liver and is just generally bad for you.


This isn't true. Your body breaks sucrose into fructose and sucrose almost instantaneously; in fact, sucrose is so easy to break down that it happens in Coke bottles. Fructose is bad for you, but you're getting just as much of it from table sugar as you would from HFCS.


"breaks sucrose into fructose and glucose almost instantaneously" - I presume what you meant to write?

And that's absolutely true. I think it's easy to hate (more) on HFCS because it literally says "high fructose" in it, and thus easy to come to that conclusion.


Yeah sorry, so many -croses and -coses!


it is not "pure fructose" - they have different levels but usually it is 50% fructose syrups. Lots of fruits have similar ratios to that too, fructose isn't the problem so much as the quantity of it being ingested, but high quantities are glucose or other sugars are also bad when they come in liquid or otherwise highly digestible and fast absorbing foods. Also sucrose, which is table sugar, is indeed also 50% fructose.


HFCS is a mixture of fructose and ~~sucrose~~ glucose. If it was pure fructose it wouldn't be as an effective of cane sugar replacement.


Fructose mixed with glucose, not sucrose (the same typo is in several comments here). Sucrose is composed of glucose and fructose linked together.

When corn starch is processed, the produced syrup is nearly 100% glucose. Because fructose tastes sweeter, lots of corn syrup is further processed, converting much of the glucose into fructose, hence the name high fructose corn syrup.


Oof, yes, sorry, thanks for calling that out!


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I have been listening to a whole lot of AI music and it is often better than human generated. I foresee an immense unavoidable shift in the music industry due to this. It is already impossible to distinguish what is AI and and what is human generated music.


> I foresee an immense unavoidable shift in the music industry due to this.

If this happens then I'll take some solace in that at least we have a very large existing collection of older music guaranteed to be made by people, so I won't have to do without.


Can you share a playlist or something so we can see?


As much as I hate to say it, I agree.

I also foresee a huge shift in the music industry. Because a lot of music lovers are not like me, they don't care about the artist behind the music, just the music itself.

And there's nothing wrong with that.

But it is a scary future when a huge part of music produced will come from a computer.


Why do American corporate PR statements read like a teen drama novel nowadays?


Not sure if that is the case. An insane amount of bitcoin has been dumped into the market by whales.


that's the perfect time to buy


Because the whales are dumbasses?


Let's say if I had old-school BTC, mined personally or bought back in the day for very little fiat currency and today it's an enormously larger sum, I'd say it's time to not keep all my eggs in one basket and rebalance my portfolio.

For example, I'd say it's actually been time for a while now, ever since the crypto-tax wave start to hit, to convert into fiat currency and buy land, houses, assets that, IF the state doesn't collapse and they're chosen in reasonable areas, could still preserve significant value, allow you to flee to another country (houses purchased abroad) if necessary etc.

If someone had put 0.001% of their capital or even 0.01% into old-school BTC and today finds themselves with 50% of their capital in BTC, it's high time to give some thought to diversification.

Smart contracts will become the contracts of the future and NFTs will be digital identity is pretty obvious; we don't know WHO will be used by whom for these tasks, but it's clear that this is what they'll be because they're the most functional choice we have in the trend toward rules as code. The problem is that the market can stay irrational longer than we can stay solvent, so it's a gamble, but also a logical diversification in its own right as well.

The only highly uncertain element is the miners' ability to withstand long periods of loss.


You’re right. Let’s wait for it to pump 20% before we buy. Lol what?


I'm missing something. What is the point of this story?


The point is, things are not that scary as the seller would like you to believe. Europe has or can build everything it needs,


The US controls the oil monopoly, where as China controls battery minerals.

The US can’t compete in electric vehicles solely due to lack of control over the complete supply chain.


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