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New comment by lapetitejort in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

lapetitejort — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:49:55 +0000

If you are wary of all the smart features in your next car purchase, consider buying a bicycle. We do not have to entertain the creeping invasion of our privacy

New comment by lapetitejort in "Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer"

lapetitejort — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:26:53 +0000

While all of this in happening, Metrolink, the rail service that connects LA, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties, is having their own budget crisis manifesting in "temporary" reductions in service. More info: https://calelectricrail.org/metrolink-is-facing-service-cuts...

New comment by lapetitejort in "U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets"

lapetitejort — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:09:20 +0000

> A member, officer, or employee of the __Senate__ shall not receive any compensation, nor shall he permit any compensation to accrue to his beneficial interest from any source, the receipt or accrual of which would occur by virtue of influence improperly exerted from his position as a member, officer, or employee.

Emphasis mine. This does not cover the judicial or executive branch

New comment by lapetitejort in "U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets"

lapetitejort — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:06:10 +0000

Would Martha Stewart be sentenced to prison for lying to federal investigators regarding her "prediction" of the release timing of her next cookbook?

New comment by lapetitejort in "Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more"

lapetitejort — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:12:38 +0000

We must eradicate mint plants. Over time the dilution of mint particles in the air will become so small that all diseases will go extinct

New comment by lapetitejort in "Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more"

lapetitejort — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:11:08 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillococcinum

> There is no compelling scientific evidence that Oscillococcinum has any effect beyond placebo.

Does not sound promising

New comment by lapetitejort in "Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more"

lapetitejort — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:51:58 +0000

Can you give an example of a well-known homeopathic and/or folk remedy that has been adopted into regular medicine, maybe in the last 20-50 years?

New comment by lapetitejort in "AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC"

lapetitejort — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:21:59 +0000

Some other historical street view websites:

https://yesterdays.maprva.org/#11.5/37.5438/-77.4392 (specific to Richmond, Virginia, however deployments for other areas are in work)

https://pastvu.com/

New comment by lapetitejort in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

lapetitejort — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:45:17 +0000

Before focusing on rats, who are too light to set off mines and live long pampered lives, I would focus on the 73 million pigs and 87 million cows in factory farms [0].

[0]: https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/us-factory-farming-estima...

New comment by lapetitejort in "Cambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat Magawa"

lapetitejort — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:33:41 +0000

Sounds like the obsession of reinventing trains and trees. Surely training a rat is cheaper than a portable real-time NMR device, right?

New comment by lapetitejort in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

lapetitejort — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:11:40 +0000

As a naive tourist, I did not know this. I drove up to Sequoia National Park in March 2011 hoping to camp. The roads were plowed, with eight feet tall snow on either side of the road. I drove up to a visitor center and asked where to camp. The park ranger said I could camp anywhere I wanted. Maybe he assumed I knew what I was doing. But I did not. After walking around the parking lot for a bit, with nowhere else to go, I drove out.

New comment by lapetitejort in "CERN levels up with new superconducting karts"

lapetitejort — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:29:02 +0000

The observer effect prevents Booson particles from traveling towards the observer

New comment by lapetitejort in "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?"

lapetitejort — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:39:24 +0000

Public transportation solved this before cars were commonplace. Implement ubiquitous and free public transportation in every urban center (where 80% of the American population lives [0]) and you'll save billions from not having to manufacture (and store!) cars.

0: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g...

New comment by lapetitejort in "Payphone Go"

lapetitejort — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:33:33 +0000

I just visited the closest one to me during lunch. There was just a single dot in the middle of a huge county building. I had to walk through security to get there. I asked if there was a payphone around and the guard said no. Luckily someone else knew. One out of two phones didn't work. The other did, so now my best clean original joke can be heard by anyone.

There are three other phones in my city, two in a hospital, one in potentially a corrections facility? I'll stop by on my way hope.

New comment by lapetitejort in "Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit"

lapetitejort — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:13:23 +0000

You might be interested in Poe's Law [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

New comment by lapetitejort in "Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win"

lapetitejort — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:48:29 +0000

When has a state AG successfully cancelled a merger? Did any state try to prevent Microsoft and Activision's merger?

New comment by lapetitejort in "AI makes you boring"

lapetitejort — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:47:54 +0000

Yesterday I had two hours to work on a side project I've been dreaming about for a week. I knew I had to build some libraries and that it would be a major pain. I started with AI first, which created a script to download, extract, and build what needed. Even with the script I indeed encountered problems. But I blitzed through each problem until the libraries were built and I could focus on my actual project, which was not building libraries! I actually reached a satisfying conclusion instead of half-way through compiling something I do not care about.

New comment by lapetitejort in "How did the Maya survive?"

lapetitejort — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:54:32 +0000

All of this without pack animals or the wheel.

New comment by lapetitejort in "Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)"

lapetitejort — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:54:50 +0000

Fort Pulaski in Savannah, Georgia also has cannonballs embedded in the brick walls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Pulaski_National_Monument

New comment by lapetitejort in "Old Insurance Maps – Georeferencing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on Modern Maps"

lapetitejort — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:10:46 +0000

> Have you thought about extending the public site scope beyond insurance maps?

The maintainer is generalizing outside of Sanborn maps [0].

[0]: https://www.ohmg.dev/