doc_gunthrop

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by doc_gunthrop 3y ago
It suffers partially from contrived exposition. It seems whenever a Dune film is made, the filmmakers tend to try to include as much of the lore as tolerably possible. They could've just started off the first film with Paul entering a
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by doc_gunthrop 3y ago
Bioavailability of protein from vegetables is significantly less than from animals.
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by doc_gunthrop 3y ago
The broken satiety mechanism is a result of hormone imbalance caused by a poor nutritional diet. Highly processed foods, an overabundance of sugar, artificial sweeteners, salt, and refined vegetable/seed oils, a carb-heavy diet, defici
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by doc_gunthrop 3y ago
Not OP but there were some decent ones in the comparison box w/ the slider (such as Source Code Pro). Deja Vu Sans Mono is another good one.
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by doc_gunthrop 3y ago
Pareto principle in full effect
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by doc_gunthrop 3y ago
F-Droid apps do not require Google Play services (that's part of its raison d'être) and will work fine on Graphene OS. Aurora Store, on the other hand, depends on the app in question. If it's a paid app that requires Google P
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by doc_gunthrop 3y ago
I wouldn't say 12/12 counts as intermittent fasting, but it sounds like it's been working for you so keep on.
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by doc_gunthrop 3y ago
Just set the forwarding address as the recovery email.
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by doc_gunthrop 3y ago
Reminds me of how Carl Sagan wrote about his experiences with cannabis usage (under the pseudonym Mr. X, as to avoid the social stigma associated with it at the time).
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
> (Edit: you also require that users have Google Play or the App Store.) This is incorrect. You don't need Google Play to use Signal on Android. You can download the APK from https://signal.org/android/apk/
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
> In terms of privacy, Android is "compromised" by default, i.e. Google collects and stores a ton of private information about you. Apple also does the same. Also, this only applies if you're running an Android device &quo
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
Sounds like a miracle. Good for you
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
Would you be able to provide a reliable source for your statements? I've heard certain segments of the population make claims about "starvation mode" but none that have been substantiated with any scientific evidence or concl
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
It's not that complicated. Eating more leads to greater body mass, which requires higher caloric intake to sustain. Eating less leads to the opposite. If you gain 20 pounds, then you need to eat more relative to your previous weight in
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
Based on my own personal experience (and, to a lesser degree, some other sources I've read online), intermittent fasting (IF) leads to the opposite of obesity. With a smaller eating window (e.g. less than or equal to 8 hours in a day),
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
Many of the critical comments here seem to focus only on the high price for these devices, but what about the clunkiness factor? - These "shoes" weigh in at 4.2 lbs each, which IMO makes it prohibitively tedious to deal with. In c
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
The infamous Golden State Killer was found using a genealogy database as well. Veritasium made a YT video about it.
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
A YouTuber who goes by the handle kofuzi just released a video that goes into the fine details and analysis of his channel's metrics with full transparency. He's easily among the top 3 video content makers who focus on running, ru
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
But kids were being scammed by those 1-900 "call Santa" television commercials.
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
You mean televangelists. Kenneth Copeland and Joel Osteen are two well-known ones.
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
Counterpoints and counter-counterpoints mentioning all these "studies" and yet not a single concrete example is given. It's a shame when online discussion and debate devolves into "here's my point just take my word
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
Anyone who uses amazon.com can set the Internet Archive as their preferred charity and shop using smile.amazon.com. A percentage of your purchases amount will go to the IA.
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
The Simple Mobile Tools suite alone covers most of the useful day-to-day utility needs.
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
Nitter still works but Bibliogram is gone. For medium.com posts, there is scribe.rip.
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
You can use `scribe.rip` instead of `medium.com`. The former is just an anonymous frontend for the latter. All the info you need at https://scribe.rip/
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
Another case of Betteridge's law.
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
For audio there's also OGG Vorbis, which is open-source and royalty-free and superior to MP3 at comparable bitrates. EDIT: looks like opus is actually the successor to Vorbis.
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
Thanks for this. I hadn't considered googletagmanager.com but that appears to be the likely culprit as it is the common denominator between these sites.
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
Plenty of comments here talking about using uBlock [Origin], piHole, disabling JS, and so on, but it doesn't look like anybody has bothered to ask specifically how TikTok is actually doing the tracking. And TFA doesn't explain the
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by doc_gunthrop 4y ago
A person who shops on amazon can shop using smile.amazon.com and have a percentage of their purchase payments go towards charities or other organizations. The Internet Archive is one of them.

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