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I founded this miniature fog machine in a curled up old monkey's paw, stuffed it with tobacco and my wish to not get lung cancer was granted
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bringing vaping back to the old tech buble theme, phillip morris international and phillip morris america (altria) are looking at hooking up again they split in two back in the 00s because shareholders wanted separate exposure to the domestic and international markets, so their stocks were worth more separately than together now they are looking at merging, because phillip morris international is selling "heat not burn" cigarettes (vapes, but with tobacco) and phillip morris america is the parent company of "juul," the vape beloved by children. they want to have a single company with fully-hedged bets. you know it's good and healthy when big tobacco is selling it hard
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Aug 29, 2019 19:02
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Vaping smells better than smoking, so all smokers should switch to vaping so I don't have to smell it
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Sapozhnik posted:My main problem is that you have to zoom in to oh I don't know approximately 1:1 scale for it to tell me the name of the current loving street I have to say that Apple maps handles this really well when in navigation mode. Streets of note are highlighted with large flags bearing the street name:  which is much easier to quickly glance at than the google maps clownshow: 
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BMan posted:Vaping smells better than smoking, so all smokers should switch to vaping so I don't have to smell it
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Shifty Pony posted:I have to say that Apple maps handles this really well when in navigation mode. Streets of note are highlighted with large flags bearing the street name: that's cool. but i remember apple maps jsut being utterly loving horrendous, like telling you to turn on 1-way street (the wrong way), making left turns at places you can't make left-turns, and just a whole bunch of terribly-directed bullshit granted this was awhile ago so it's probably good now
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mystes posted:Not vaping smells even better.
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uber and lyft getting downright desperate to prevent the independent contractor scam from endingquote:SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Uber and Lyft, the two biggest rideshare companies, are telling their drivers they are willing to compromise with a proposal that includes a minimum wage of $21 per hour.
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Xaris posted:that's cool. but i remember apple maps jsut being utterly loving horrendous, like telling you to turn on 1-way street (the wrong way), making left turns at places you can't make left-turns, and just a whole bunch of terribly-directed bullshit shockingly good. I was recently on a trip to St Louis with a car equipped with CarPlay I was impressed, it gave plenty of warning about which lanes you needed to avoid or be in and didn't try to trick me into going into Illinois once! it did pronounce some street names absurdly but to be fair the locals do too. it is also much less aggressive than google maps about rerouting to avoid traffic.
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The_Franz posted:i wonder if there is an inverse bell curve of nicotine use among adolescents that hit a low sometime in the 00s and is on the rise again due to vaping this is true according to the stats self-reported cigarette use at least once per month by 12th grade students cratered from around 28% to barely 10% by 2010 and less than 5% between 1996 and 2018. we did it, nobody smoked anymore. self-reported vape use at least once per month between 2011 and 2017 by 12th graders rose from 4% to 27% and by 8th graders is over 10%. everyone vapes now! no wonder Big Tobacco loves the things
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one thing i'd like to see in the gps mapping apps is a least effort mode, where you can evaluate choices for transit based not just on time, but how the overall experience is. i'd far rather take a few more minutes and take two turns instead of twenty, or (depending on mood) take a bit more time for a scenic route. or it'd be nice to see an option for what the greenest choice is. time isn't the only consideration
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I'd like to see Google maps do a "leave by/arrive at" for multistop trips. I mean, you can tell me when to leave X at time t1 to arrive at Y at time t2, but you can't handle "X to Y, arrive Y, spend specified amount of time at Y, Y to Z". It seems like a conceptually simple thing to add? 
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Schadenboner posted:I'd like to see Google maps do a "leave by/arrive at" for multistop trips. that sounds like an incredibly niche use case and adding features for every incredibly niche use case leads to a bloated hard to use monstrosity
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Schadenboner posted:I'd like to see Google maps do a "leave by/arrive at" for multistop trips.
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BMan posted:Vaping smells better than smoking, so all smokers should switch to vaping so I don't have to smell it candy clouds from a fancy robot's penis
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Broken Machine posted:one thing i'd like to see in the gps mapping apps is a least effort mode, where you can evaluate choices for transit based not just on time, but how the overall experience is. i'd far rather take a few more minutes and take two turns instead of twenty, or (depending on mood) take a bit more time for a scenic route. or it'd be nice to see an option for what the greenest choice is. time isn't the only consideration however, "experience" is extremely subjective. for example, one of the routes i use to get to outer-east bay from berkeley is up over grizzley peak which is kinda in-the-know for local commuters, its extremely scenic and gorgeous but it's lots of tight-narrow turns on a windy mountain road very high up with steep drop-offs. you can take the turns pretty fast unless you have a semi and blow a 50 in a 35 most of the way. but there are also lots of bikers and stuf. so for some people, windy roads with no shoulders and bikers is a hair-raising experience. other time experience may be making a lot of unprotected left-turns onto v. busy streets which people hate. waze does have a slew of options, which includes "avoid difficult intersections" which will make it easier in that case, most people just want to get from point A to B as fast as possible, experience is just too niche and subjective that it's not worth even considering.
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it's great fun when google maps thinks you're on a bicycle, try changing htat option while driving
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Xaris posted:google maps shows you driving vs biking vs walking vs multiple transit options and, connections, etc. true; however, i think they could do something like it with either machine learning or analysis of a large number of trips. but yes, driver satisfaction would be difficult to measure without specifically gathering that data from users. they could analyse routes with a view to minimize risk, like how they avoid left turns when possible
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flakeloaf posted:it's great fun when google maps thinks you're on a bicycle, try changing htat option while driving i accidentally left map on pedestrian mode once while trying to drive out of a neighborhood of Lyon that is just a bunch of old, super narrow, sinuous one way streets on the side of a hill with extremely lovely visibility maps kept trying (and sometimes succeeding) to make me take streets the wrong way at every intersection would not recommend
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Broken Machine posted:one thing i'd like to see in the gps mapping apps is a least effort mode, where you can evaluate choices for transit based not just on time, but how the overall experience is. i'd far rather take a few more minutes and take two turns instead of twenty, or (depending on mood) take a bit more time for a scenic route. or it'd be nice to see an option for what the greenest choice is. time isn't the only consideration google maps will give you several options and then let you pick one that isn't the "fastest", but that's such a subjective analysis there's not really any good way to do it besides that the danger when you start including every single thing is you wind up with a bloated monstrosity like microsoft word that includes ten billion things so it's hard to find the correct one you need if you don't already know where it is (iirc all of the most requested features for word for a long time, perhaps still, were things already in word)
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some super gross stuff here from google's top lawyer https://medium.com/@jennifer.blakely/my-time-at-google-and-after-b0af688ec3ab https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/alphabet-chief-legal-officer-calls-himself-far-from-perfect https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/29/20837232/google-david-drummond-chief-legal-officer-cheating-wife-affair-policies quote:Once in the summer of 2014, David came over to visit our son and we got into an argument about his one-way terms for seeing him at my house at his convenience, especially when he had his own house(s) blocks away. He sat down at our kitchen table and, using my laptop, he pulled up a year-old article from the Daily Mail about Eric Schmidt’s philandering lifestyle. He then passed the computer over to me to read. I was so perplexed! I was well aware of Eric’s lifestyle, David was even more aware, but none of it was news, we’d talked about it for years. David explained to me how Eric’s “personal life” was, in essence, his privilege. The article was apparently a reminder to me of how things worked: David was (and is) a powerful executive. His “personal life” (which apparently didn’t include his son) was off limits and since I was no longer his “personal life” it was time for me to shut up, fall in line and stop bothering him with the nuisances or demands of raising a child. *not including all the severance money they keep paying to gross creeps to gently caress off forever
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quote:Saying employers violate the law when they misclassify employees as independent contractors would burden businesses by imposing liability when they get this difficult question wrong, the groups said im sowwy im just a dumb babby business pwease dont punish me mr. big government man if i dont understand what an empwoyee is
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quote:Telling workers that they are contractors does not imply they’ll be fired for exercising their NLRA rights or that it would be futile for them to do so, it said. you can't have rights if you're not an employee, so making people not employees means they don't have the right to not be made not an employee, so it doesn't imply they'll be fired for exercising their rights because they don't have any rights so if you're fired for it it's not because you exercised your rights 
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Shame Boy posted:you can't have rights if you're not an employee, so making people not employees means they don't have the right to not be made not an employee, so it doesn't imply they'll be fired for exercising their rights because they don't have any rights so if you're fired for it it's not because you exercised your rights its a jurisdictional thing, nlrb explicitly only covers employees
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and if suddenly nobody is an employee, then there's no reason for nlrb to exist! I'll take my payment in bitcoin
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I TRIED TO GLITCH THE SIMULATION AND ALL I GOT WAS A BOTTLE OF PEE https://theoutline.com/post/7881/i-became-a-randonaut-to-try-to-glitch-the-simulation-and-all-i-got-was-a-bottle-of-pee 
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Look forward to evilweasel carrying water for this by denying that no, this does not redefine employment in no way shape or form. Nope, it does not! (it does)
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I TRIED TO GLITCH THE SIMULATION AND ALL I GOT WAS A BOTTLE OF PEE but if it's a simulation, why should the numbers be presumed truly random? aren't they just going where the simulator wants them to go? this is 101 poo poo, cmon
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Krankenstyle posted:but if it's a simulation, why should the numbers be presumed truly random? aren't they just going where the simulator wants them to go?
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quote:According to the The Fatum Project, there’s hard science behind all this. Building on research conducted by Princeton University’s Engineering Anomalies Research Lab into whether human thought could influence real-world events, they hope that Randonauts will be able to leave their “reality tunnels” and discover new contexts, appreciate daily life in fresh ways, or even venture into parallel iterations of their own realities. lmao HARD SCIENCE like quote:PEAR's primary purpose was to engage in parapsychological exercises on topics such as psychokinesis (PK) and remote viewing.
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ok this subreddit sounds like a goldmine actually:quote:On Reddit, Randonauts have reported finding things like an upside-down airplane; a llama, standing totally still; three identical black cats; a family of horses in a public park; and a bird that also refused to move. holy poo poo reddit i went outside and there was a fuckin' bird! just like right there!!!
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