I am typically extremely skeptical of food-related studies generally, but Derek Lowe taking it seriously is enough to make me a bit concerned, too. Derek (not David as the other person said) indeed has a stellar reputation as you say.
Was doing some searches to look for where to stream the Super Bowl, and Arkansas's official website (AR.gov) came up with a ton of results. Looks like it may have been compromised? I haven't clicked on anything, as I don't have a VM.
Should be able to replicate by googling:
site:ar.gov super bowl
At least with traditional search results, there are some indicia of their trustworthiness: does the author/outlet have a history of deception, are their assertions well-sourced, etc. With a chatbot result, it's effectively a black box.
>There's about a million people making at or below minimum wage in the US. Not nobody.
I'm sure there are people who are working jobs with truly awful sub-minimum wage pay (under the table work, undocumented folks, etc) but I imagine the vast, vast majority of people working "below the minimum wage" are tipped workers who nominally make $2.13/hr but who simply do not report their tips.
Edit: based on the BLS tables that accounts for maybe 61% of those below minimum wage. But the data doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There are 63,000 workers in "management, professional, and related occupations" making less than minimum wage, and aside from CEOs taking $0 paychecks I can't imagine where those jobs are.
You can. In my very very limited experience you can sell it to collections for something like 80% of the value in a case where they have a perfected security interest. They will send a UCC letter to payors, who are legally obligated (from what my attorney tells me) to pay the creditor, absent some proof that they don't need to.
Same here - I've had my SyncMaster 226BW for roughly 15 years now and it's still a great monitor, but a few years back I had to replace one of the capacitors after the screen would turn "on" but had nothing on the display. Did the same thing with a Dell monitor a few months back that I use as a second display. I am guessing that bad caps are the single biggest point of failure on monitors.
There's also a YT video showing troubleshooting on an LCD TV down to a bad multilayer ceramic cap. Used a microohm-meter to identify the shorted cap without replacing all of them.
Yeah, I'm unpersuaded as to the definition of "modern" here. A lot of Aristophanes' work (c. 405-423 BC) still holds up today, if one understands the politics of the time.
You usually don't call the antique classicists modern, just after the resurrection of the antique in the renaissance and despisal of all unscientific myths, ghosts and religious rubbish you can call them so.
- You're in a desert, walking along when you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not with out your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
There are a ton of these shady 'testing' sites all over the country. Some of them will just take all of your information[1], presumably for purposes of identity theft. I was visiting Houston about a year ago and I saw what I thought was such a site in a parking lot nearby where I was staying, and it was absolutely packed with people for several days, because this site was listed as a free testing location by several local news outlets.
I looked up the owner of the business; they were quite young and their only previous work history was they were the CEO of a small escape room company or something along those lines. There were some other red flags as well (though I don't remember all of them).
If they were officially registered, I doubt they were doing it just for the data. They were probably able to file for payment for each test administered, real or fake. The data would just be icing.
I had this same experience in St. Louis. Visiting for work from international so needed a negative test before returning home. I went to a small place and it was an empty storefront with Covid test signs in the window. They took my data, promised PCR results in 48 hours (which were needed for international travel to my country at the time). They didn’t send anything until maybe a month later, much too late for my flight. Looked up the company and it was a Chicago company that fit a similar description to yours. Kind of sketchy and weird, ended up going to a national chain for one within the travel window.
