Did Heeb forget to jab a geeb?
Let me be the first to suggest https://udm14.com/
The longer explanation: https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/
I don't know what 1 means, and "fucking" is easier to remember than "udm=14".
There's not many problems that a Butlerian Jihad wouldn't make at least a little better.
I recently had "Gemeni" install itself on my android phone. I asked it how to uninstall and it told me it couldn't uninstall, but that I could avoid it by not using Google products.
Fucking Yahoo Mail is now foisting AI email summaries in front of the email. It's almost enough to make me disable my Yahoo account, but having to think through everything that I've used that address on is overwhelming.
No, you just add "-ai" to the end of your query. So don't type "what is the best cure for lungworm in sheep". Type "what is the best cure for lungworm in sheep -ai".
Just tried it and it works. It also removes the sponsored results.
(Further to 8: Actually I just went hunting and figured out how to disable it, so that's nice.)
I started feeding my sheep a lot of mint and it took care of the lungworm.
Ironically, recently, I had a Google AI summary pop up that was actually quite helpful. I was searching for some information on a specific aspect of reification--in the context of RDF graphs, not in metaphysics--and the AI summary was both helpful and correct.
But generally, it's a PITA.
13 saving the Ivermectin for yourself I take it. Wise
13: I have to start working this sentence into conversations.
It's a good one to learn in as many languages as you can. Sheep are farmed on every continent (except Antarctica) so wherever you end up, there will probably be someone who is a sheep farmer or knows a sheep farmer, and who will be grateful for this little homely bit of useful knowledge. "The feringhee does not know our language or our customs, but he is Sound on the Diseases of the Sheep", they will say to themselves. "Let us treat him kindly."
They should probably print it on the goolie chits they give to pilots.
The Washington Post reported this morning that RFK was recommending vitamin A for measles, with the helpful subhead that "some experts believe it may not be effective." Thanks, Jeff.
I just went back and checked my phone, and 18 is not an exact quote. I had donuts for breakfast in observance of Shrove Tuesday and my brain is cooked.
I read a story about vitamin A and measles a couple days ago that looked at some of the research and the conclusion seemed to be that there's evidence that vitamin A can help people who are not getting enough* vitamin A in their diets, but that there is little evidence it helps people who already have enough vitamin A in their diets. The story pointed out that most people in the US aren't lacking vitamin A. But at least the evidence doesn't suggest vitamin A will make things worse.
*Presumably according to some measure like the US recommended daily allowance.
Isn't vitamin A toxic at high doses?
Yeah, that's the problem with polar bear liver. One of the problems.
I think the article was more along the lines of "if you take a vitamin supplement in an amount that doesn't exceed recommendations" but maybe these days you have to warn about overdoing it while also talking about how it's unlikely to help.
21: it makes sense because in the late 20th century, people who got measles did so because they lacked access to the vaccine, and those people were also likely to lack access to adequate nutrition. So of course remediating their nutritional deficits was helpful to their health. But now people are just voluntarily depriving themselves of the vaccine. IOW we're the stupidest people ever to inhabit this idiot planet.
I would bet that the people voluntarily not getting the vaccine are also eating like shit.
27: otoh, I'm vaccinated and have eaten nothing but donuts and coffee all day.
I tried before and it did not work.
In what way did eating donuts not work?
21: ,i> But at least the evidence doesn't suggest vitamin A will make things worse.
Which would rank this advice very high in current government statements and EOs.
The way antivaxxers are likely to consume Vitamin A, it might well make things worse. Vitamin A toxicity is a thing.
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NMM the brake, for real?
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27: The CDC literally did a study on this: They found that people who get vaccinated for Covid have less mortality from causes other than Covid. (Of course, the other likely factor accounting for this is that a lot of people who died from Covid weren't counted as dying from Covid.)
Apparently the way to disable Los Angeles Times AI "Insights" feature is to see it generate text defending the KKK, get a bunch of criticism, and then turn it off, but only in that one instance. I feel like the LA Times could us a better class of idiot billionaire. I mean, at least try to destroy the global economy while you're destroying a newspaper, ok? Think bigger.
The leopards come for the Midwestern faces.
But autoworkers are notoriously thin-skinned.
The auto workers' union is delighted about the tariffs. https://thehill.com/business/5175952-uaw-trump-tariffs-china-mexico-canada/
As far as I can tell, the only news source that actually bothered to go and talk to some real auto workers rather than just recycling what their union said was that unflinching defender of free trade and free markets, the Fourth International, which correctly pointed out that it's not going to do much for their job security if tariffs drive up both the cost of imported parts and the cost of living.
"A Toledo Jeep worker said, "They threatened us with 1,200 layoffs already," referring to the recently rescinded threat by Stellantis to axe jobs at the plant. "Whatever caused the initial layoffs could still happen. On top of that you have these tariffs, sales are down anyway. If the prices are too high with these tariffs, ultimately the cost will be put on the consumer. I anticipate layoffs."
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/05/bumc-m05.html
Just seen what 36 refers to. What is the German for "we must become the great arsenal of democracy"?
And OP-relevant AI slop from google in response to the query "2km in 10 minutes in mph"
If you run 2km in 10 minutes, your speed is approximately 12 mph.
Explanation:
Convert km to miles: 2km is roughly equivalent to 1.24 miles (since 1km = 0.62 miles).
Calculate speed: To run 1.24 miles in 10 minutes, divide 1.24 by 10, which gives you 0.124 miles per minute.
Convert to mph: Multiply 0.124 miles per minute by 60 minutes per hour to get 7.44 mph, which rounds to 12 mph.
44: Man, the metric system is complicated.
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There should only be one headline from last night:
DJT to John Roberts on his way out:
"Thank you again. Thank you again. Won't forget."
https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social/post/3ljma42ek5227
Thought it was a joke when I first saw it.
I get why it is mostly buried in the news, but I predict it will be a thing history will remember from last night.
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47: The other headline was that he was relatively coherent by his standards.
Emblematically of the state of your union, I assumed that meant Roberts had just resigned.
In the good news/bad new category we have the Supreme not allowing USAID to not pay $2B in bills scraped by 5-4.
Dissent from Fox News dad Alito is framed in bilious outrage:
Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars? The answer to that question should be an emphatic "No," but a majority of this Court apparently thinks otherwise. I am stunned.
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Today, the Court makes a most unfortunate misstep that rewards an act of judicial hubris and imposes a $2 billion penalty on American taxpayers. The District Court has made plain its frustration with the Government, and respondents raise serious concerns about nonpayment for completed work. But the relief ordered is, quite simply, too extreme a response. A federal court has many tools to address a party's supposed nonfeasance. Self-aggrandizement of its jurisdiction is not one of them.
Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States
HEY NOW
1. Surely you want "who is Kim fucking Komando?" I should mention that for probably years when I heard "Kim Kardashian" I thought "the tech broadcaster?"
2. Heebie: you can read your Yahoo mail through any other mail reader you want, which will defeat any ads that the Yahoo mail app might add for you.
3. I feel like Trump saying, out loud, "Thank you, thank you" to Roberts might be one of the few things that keep Roberts from siding with him in a marginal case. He's not exactly pure, but he has a self-image.
22 et seq. They found a fossil of a proto-human somewhere in southern Africa which had bone growths which would have been agonising in life and extremely disabling. People who examined the fossil agreed:hypervitaminosis A, she had been eating carnivore livers. The interesting bit was that she hadn't died as soon as she might have. It was at the time, and may still be, the earliest evidence of people taking care of other people who couldn't take care of themselves.
I feel dumb for missing the significance of Trump thanking Roberts. The court openly totes water for Trump, so he glad hands Robert. Is the idea that there's something more nefarious?
54: The earliest evidence of someone starting a paleo diet and causing nothing but problems for everyone around them.
55: By thanking him, Trump makes it more open.
53.last: Yes, I'm sure Roberts hated the optics.
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55: Yes, both that in general, but the timing brings to mind the immunity case specifically, in which Roberts wrote the ludicrous opinion, and from reports took the lead in pushing it to an extreme. In many other very Trumpy cases (like this morning) he is in partial or full opposition.
That makes sense. Do people suspect something more specifically corrupt happened with that case?