I’ve seen people with old teeth fillings being rejected because the machine can pull it straight out of your mouth.

Yikes! So, like, what if an MRI is medically necessary for those people? Do they have to schedule a dental appointment first to remove/replace those fillings? Genuinely curious now that you’ve mentioned that because fillings were not something I ever thought about with regard to MRI safety.

I think it’s the same incident. This article is also referencing the April 2023 FDA report.

Some private practices or specialty clinics have MRI scanners but may not be equipped to deal with such damage as this.

There was a semi-recent incident at a diagnostic center where a police officer ignored a warning sign with predictable results.

Ah, okay. She attacked him after the incident. That changes things.

If it was during the attempting carjacking, she’d probably have been fine, legally speaking, since she was in danger at the time. After, once she was out of danger, yeah, that’s a whole different story. Not that the guy probably didn’t deserve it, but there’s no legal carve out for that.

I remember a bank near where I grew up had big chains instead of downspounts from their gutters. I always thought it was the coolest thing.

Not sure how they’d handle torrential rain, but they sure do look cool.

I run my own instance and have a long list of user agents I flat out block, and that includes all known AI scraper bots.

That only prevents them from scraping from my instance, though, and they can easily scrape my content from any other instance I’ve interacted with.

Basically I just accept it as one of the many, many things that sucks about the internet in 2024, yell “Serenity Now!” at the sky, and carry on with my day.

I do wish, though, that other instances would block these LLM scraping bots but I’m not going to avoid any that don’t.

I like coffee-flavored a lot of things, but hot chocolate definitely makes more sense.

Oh wow. I’ve always assumed/suspected that (b/c that’s basically how it works for me), but it’s nice to see someone presenting it with data.

https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/the-hidden-benefit-of-giving-back-to-open-source-software

Oh, I’m not saying the principle doesn’t work. I’m saying that i’m the “life finds a way” when it comes to spilling drinks. 😆

…designed to take advantage of centrifugal force to make it impossible to spill your coffee.

Challenge accepted.

What am I missing here? Did they put instant coffee in with their frosted wheats and are pouring hot water in the bowl?

One thing I would suggest is to stop playing the video as the page scrolls downwards. Probably you already had that planned:-).

It should already do that for all media, unless it’s just broken in the Loops component; I’ll take a look shortly. Any active media should return to a thumbnail when it’s out of the viewport for 2 seconds (the countdown disarms if you scroll it back into view). It used to stop the video and return it to a thumbnail immediately when the post left the viewport, but I added a 2 second delay because resizing the browser window would destroy the video if it went out of frame and that was annoying lol.

If it doesn’t do that (for any media), can you let me know what browser/device you’re using?

Thanks for the shout out. Definitely still a beta feature, but it seems to be working very well. Hopefully Loops doesn’t do something user-hostile and block non-browser traffic with Cloudflare or something because that would break this integration. At least I’m being considerate and caching the lookup responses lol.

Any testing/bug reporting is appreciated, but one area where it would be extra appreciated is on iOS. I no longer have an iPhone to test with, so that’s been a testing blind spot for several months now.

It took me longer than I care to admit before I realized that was “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”

Good news: The Loops embed feature has moved to beta.

https://tesseract.dubvee.org/c/loops@midwest.social

If anyone is willing/able to test through the hosted instance (linked above) and submit any bugs they may encounter, it would be greatly appreciated :)

On the array sort…that is clever but it doesn’t return those values to something you can use; it just sorts them on screen. I respect the cleverness, but yeah, not useful.

Kroger (grocery store) is doing the same thing this week. They’re doing a 20% off “holiday bonus” discount on a one per-customer basis (20% off your entire order). The catch? Every item in the store is at least 20% more expensive than it was last week.

“What a circus” say eligible voters who didn’t vote in the 2024 election:

And non-Republicans will sit out or protest vote for the same reason 🤦‍♂️

in the latest killing in an outbreak of political violence in the country

Everyone frothing at the mouth for more targeted violence after the UH guy was shot need to realize (or learn) that THIS is where that leads. And it’s not always going to be someone you dislike on the receiving end of it.

American Crime Story comes back for Season 4, but it’s only allowed to air on PornHub.